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, ...

Cambodia and Vietnam’s border shuffle in Kampong Cham won’t involve ceding the two previously discussed villages to Vietnam, a government official said yesterday, but it will include farmland meant to compensate Vietnam for the ethnic Khmer villages on what is believed to be the Vietnamese ...

Fifty-eight Cambodian migrant workers, 40 of whom who were reportedly arrested and beaten by the police in thailand’s Songkla province last month, returned to their home provinces on Saturday after their employer gave back their passports, said a worker representative yesterday. “We don’t know yet if ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday blasted local officials for not working hard enough to curb illegal fishing in and around the tonle Sap lake, where fisheries crimes are still rampant despite 90,000 hectares of protected areas. “Don’t do illegal fishing, use illegal equipment to fish, or ...

Union leaders asked garment workers to go on strike and demand the $100/month wage because the factory owners were not budging from their $75 stance. Rong Chhun, President of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions, said “this was the last meeting and we couldn’t ...

Arrest, detention and even an upcoming trial can’t sway 68 Khmer Krom families faced with eviction to give up a bitter land dispute over a bird sanctuary in takeo province. After being charged in April with illegally occupying state land, three representatives from Sangkum Meanchey village ...

Education officials yesterday shifted the onus of pirated and illegally sold state textbooks onto students, faulting the teenage pupils for fuelling demand. “If there are no buyers, there will be no sellers,” Lim Sotharith, director of the Education Ministry’s textbook department, said during a forum on ...

A growing number of red-headed Sarus cranes are reportedly flocking west from Vietnam to a protected sanctuary in Kampot province’s Kampong trach district, and conservationists observing the trend aren’t sure why. the tuoitrenews website reported on Saturday that unusually large numbers of the birds, which are classified as ...