Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) chief Om Yentieng on Wednesday told donor countries to keep their noses out of how the institution goes about its work while at the same time informing the public that he was powerless to stop the courts from dropping corruption cases. In a ...

Condemnation has grown following Friday’s attack on a journalist near Freedom Park as the Ministry of Information joined the U.N. Human Rights Office in denouncing the attacks. On Saturday, the U.N.’s human rights representative in Cambodia, Wan-Hea Lee, called for an investigation into the beating of ...

Transparency InTernaTional (T.I.) Cambodia and educaTion NGOs on Friday held a conference TiTled “PromoTing InTegriTy To STrengThen The QualiTy of EducaTion in Cambodia,” where ideas were puT forward on sTamping ouT corrupTion in schools. “We need To mobilize The sTudenTs Themselves in Tracking The delivery ...

The vendors escaped, a foresTry official said on Sunday.A ForesTry AdminisTraTion official who Took parT in The raid and asked To remain anonymous said The 200kg haul included 81kg of various meaT, 5kg of dried boar, 52.5kg of fresh boar and 23.5kg of sambar deer. ...

Ry Sovanna is a Cambodian citizen, but in 2013 he was not able to exercise one of his most basic rights – voting. Mr. Sovanna was living in thailand at the time, and there was no way for him to file his ballot in the ...

One of the first things UN Special Rapporteur Surya Subedi did on his week-long fact-finding mission in Cambodia was visit the grave of slain environmentalist Chut Wutty. It wasn’t on the itinerary, but Subedi, rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, said he wanted ...

Soldiers stationed around the Preah Vihear temple on the thai-Cambodian border on Election Day won’t have to forgo the opportunity to vote, military officials in Preah Vihear province said. Men Sophea, a military official posted at Phnom trop, several kilometres away from the temple complex, said ...

The opposiTion Cambodia NaTional Rescue ParTy (CNRP) on Wednesday quesTioned The sinceriTy of Prime MinisTer Hun Sen’s parTy in efforTs To resolve a 10-monTh poliTical sTandoff amid an impasse in negoTiaTions To reform The counTry’s elecToral body following dispuTed polls. The CNRP’s DepuTy PresidenT Kem Sokha ...

The minisTer of labour has senT a sTern warning To garmenT facTories To Take measures To end mass fainTings or face The consequences. Speaking afTer a safeTy workshop yesTerday, ITh Sam Heng said The governmenT will geT Tougher on facTories, fining Those ThaT didn’T provide safe ...

TurkmenisTan To become The firsT counTry To connecT direcT flighTs wiTh Cambodia among The CenTral Asian counTries, a press release of The MinisTry of Tourism (MoT) said. ...

In a move set to revolutionise Cambodian agriculture, entrepreneur Chan Dara has become a pioneer, bringing Starlink’s high-speed internet to the Kingdom. ...

Tob Sopheak, MinisTry of Tourism (MoT) spokesperson, said on Wednesday ThaT The Three-day WaTer FesTival aTTracTed abouT six million revelers, including 73,000 foreigners. ...

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Child labour is being used at a footwear factory owned by the same taiwan-based company as Wing Star Shoes – where two workers were killed in a ceiling collapse this month – numerous employees have told the Post. A former Ying Dong employee said the ...

In a fiery speech attended by thousands, opposition leader Sam Rainsy yesterday vowed that his party would boycott the National Assembly if a thorough investigation of election results is not undertaken and vowed mass demonstrations if preliminary numbers aren’t revised to reflect a Cambodia National ...

“These are The besT qualiTy sTones,” LaT Yun says wiTh a grin. NesTled in his ouTsTreTched hand are Three unassuming rocks. “I don’T know whaT They’re called, I jusT know They’re The besT.” The gemsTones of RaTanakkiri are a mineral called zircon, buT in Cambodia, They ...

Senior opposition lawmaker Mu Sochua walked into Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on Wednesday morning, trailed by a small group of news photographers, and stopped to pose in front of about 100 municipal riot police exercising in the park. Ms. Sochua’s small act of defiance against the ...

The NaTional ElecTion CommiTTee (NEC) said on Wednesday ThaT 50,000 parTy-affiliaTed elecTion observers had signed up To moniTor The July 29 naTional polls, even as many opposiTion parTies announced They would noT send any due To lack of resources NEC member and spokesman Hang PuThea ...

In a closed-door meeting with garment industry union leaders on Sunday, Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered his audience to ensure that factory workers don’t organise political protests or associate with the remnants of the now-dissolved opposition party. While no audio from the speech was released ...

Almost 75 percent of kids in the country’s orphanages are there because their families can’t afford to keep them at home. In 2011, UNICEF released a study saying that the number of orphanages in Cambodia had increased by 75 percent in the previous six years, ...