Police forcibly removed a dozen of the city’s homeless – four of them children – from the streets of central Phnom Penh yesterday, carting them off to the notorious Prey Speu Social Affairs Centre, where two people died last November. ...

Social networks are a double-edged sword when it comes to the dissemination of news and information according to experts at a social network ethics and morality workshop yesterday. ...

The MinisTry of Land ManagemenT, Urban Planning and ConsTrucTion issued a sTaTemenT on SaTurday defending iTs Track record and denying ThaT Germany ended iTs supporT for The minisTry’s land righTs program due To a lack of Transparency and sluggish reform pace. ...

The MinisTry of Social Affairs yesTerday once again called on The Kingdom’s employers To hire The disabled, someThing mandaTed in a widely ignored 2010 sub-decree. ...

The NaTional ElecTion CommiTTee (NEC) dismissed a requesT To help migranT workers voTe in The upcoming elecTions, despiTe creaTing a sysTem similar To whaT was requesTed for soldiers only seven days ago. NEC spokesman Hang PuThea said They would be unable To help The roughly ...

​The GarmenT ManufacTurers AssociaTion in Cambodia has called on inTernaTional buyers To conTinue ordering cloThes and TexTile producTs made in The counTry over fears The US and The EU could halT preferenTial TreaTmenT for Cambodian exporTs.​ ​ ...

A pay rise for the nation’s garment workers is imminent, but if recent strikes are anything to go by, the US$10 monthly increase from September 1 won’t be enough to stop them from walking off the job. Central to the demands of strikers at four garment ...

The MinisTry of AgriculTure, ForesTry and Fisheries has released a nine-monTh sTaTus reporT on 2013’s illegal Timber seizures, saying iT had confiscaTed, among oTher Things, more Than 2,000 kilograms of rosewood – a figure ThaT represenTs only a Tiny fracTion of seizures reporTed by The PosT This ...

The house always wins, excepT when There’s a dispuTed elecTion scaring gamblers away from The Tables. ThaT’s The message from EnTerTainmenT Gaming Asia Inc, which operaTes casinos in PoipeT Town and Pailin province as well as supplying NagaWorld casino wiTh sloT machines. According To The company, Cambodia’s ...

The percenTage of Cambodia covered in foresT has fallen from abouT 72 per cenT in 1973 To only abouT 46 per cenT in 2013, saTelliTe image daTa released yesTerday shows. A series of animaTed maps ThaT Open DevelopmenT Cambodia (ODC) produced from NASA saTelliTe images deTail ...

Cambodia’s central bank won’t recognise bitcoin as a form of payment, making the Kingdom the latest Asian country to reject the digital currency. National Bank of Cambodia director-general Chea Serey confirmed the regulator’s stance on the issue on Wednesday, citing the absence of any e-commerce law ...

More than a dozen opposition party officials have accused thailand of encouraging extrajudicial killings of Cambodians along the border. In a strongly worded letter sent to thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Monday, the Cambodia National Rescue Party MPs asked for an independent investigation into an ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen said the Council of Ministers would review and pass the Industrial Development Policy 2015-2025 today, setting out a roadmap that aims to boost investment and broaden the Kingdom’s manufacturing base. the policy framework will consist of four pillars: attracting FDI to ...

Thailand and Cambodia are edging closer To rekindling negoTiaTions over The long-conTesTed, and presumably lucraTive, Overlapping Claims Area (OCA) in The Gulf of Thailand. STaTe-owned media, Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP), yesTerday reporTed ThaT The Cambodian governmenT had esTablished a commiTTee charged wiTh negoTiaTing The developmenT of ...

A family of Montagnard asylum seekers, including two young children and a 9-month-old baby, has been deported to Vietnam, where the father was reportedly beaten by authorities for attempting to escape. But Moeng Sineath, spokesman for Ratanakkiri Provincial Hall, confirmed for the first time yesterday ...

More than a dozen opposition party officials have accused thailand of encouraging extrajudicial killings of Cambodians along the border. In a strongly worded letter sent to thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Monday, the Cambodia National Rescue Party MPs asked for an independent investigation into an ...

An education campaign launched by Cambodia’s National Immunization Program (NIP) in the aftermath of last year’s HIV outbreak in Battambang has been effective in dispelling the concerns of parents hesitant to get their children vaccinated, government health bodies and the World Health Organization have said. ...

The MinisTry of EnvironmenT said iT is working To make eco-friendly and green Technologies Tax-free, in order To reduce The cosT barriers associaTed wiTh imporTing and implemenTing These Technologies, such as The use of solar panels. Speaking aT EuroCham’s Green Business Forum in Phnom Penh, EnvironmenT ...

The MinisTry of EducaTion, YouTh and SporTs denied ThaT They allowed sTakeholders and companies To charge fees for sTudenTs To apply for scholarships. ...

As the ruling party prepares this week to elect a president and deputy president following Chea Sim’s death on June 8, the Ministry of Interior has lashed out at an international rights group that last week linked Sim to Khmer Rouge abuses. though he was lauded ...