The Ministry of Interior has said it will not allow any demonstrations in front of the supreme Court during a hearing on Thursday to decide if the opposition CNRP will be dissolved, while the Koh Kong provincial governor’s office warned it will prevent residents from ss='cambodia-color'>...

While Cambodia remains a largely cash-based society, the market for financial technology has begun to expand through online payment services and mobile e-wallets like Pi Pay. The Post’s Robin spiess sat down with Pi Pay CEO Tomas Pokorny to discuss the future of economic digitisation in the Kingdom. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new market will open on the Cambodia-Vietnam border over the next year, according to commerce ministry officials. The general goods market, launched during a groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday in Tbong Khmum province, is being built following the conclusion of demarcation of the border in Memot ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 1,700 beggars and homeless people were removed from the streets of Phnom Penh and sent to social affairs centres last year. According to City Hall’s annual report, which was released yesterday, authorities rounded up 1,727 beggars and homeless people from all city districts over ss='cambodia-color'>...

The tower in the provincial capital of SiSophon will provide &ndaSh; for the firSt time in the province &ndaSh; free national public programming Such aS local and national newS broadcaStS, according to Sek Sokhum, the province&rSquo;S information department director. PreviouSly, thoSe hoping to watch TV SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Appeal Court yesterday dismissed a bail request for Tep Vanny, the prominent Boeung Kak land activist charged with intentional violence related to a protest outside Prime Minister Hun sen’s house in 2013, a case reactivated after she was arrested during a Black Monday protest ss='cambodia-color'>...

The public has been warned not to eat pork from Vietnam after an outbreak of a serious disease in pig farms across the border. The Agriculture Ministry’s department of animal health and production is enforcing additional precautionary measures to ensure contaminated pork from Vietnam does not ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sihanoukville AutonomouS Port (SAP) iS edging cloSer to be liSted on Cambodia&rSquo;S burgeoning Stock exchange after five yearS of delayS.&nbSp;The State-owned enterpriSe will Start a formal proceSS of Studying inveStor demand by April, to decide how much ShareS will coSt when the company makeS itS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Sathapana Bank Plc haS received a hefty $50 million bilateral loan from the Bangkok branch of Mizuho Bank, a SubSidiary of one of Japan&rSquo;S largeSt financial inStitutionS, in a move that banking inSiderS Say will help the newly conSolidated bank expand itS lending portfolio aS SS='cambodia-color'>...

This year’s early rains and a swift response to drought-like conditions in two provinces will spare Cambodia the searing droughts that plagued it in 2015 and 2016, the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) said yesterday, though one development partner cautioned that lasting drought preparedness ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Health Ministry has warned all Cambodians to drink lots of water and keep cool, as hot season temperatures near 40 0C. The ministry’s Communicable Disease Control department also advised the public to avoid alcohol and drink only boiled or filtered water to prevent food poisoning ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thai soldiers on Thursday detained four Cambodian men, three women and a one-month old baby after they crossed the border to find work. The Cambodian Consulate in Thailand’s sa Keao province said it quickly secured the release of the group, who were from sout Nikom ss='cambodia-color'>...

A boy of 11 was seriously injured when a bomb he was playing with exploded on saturday in Battambang province’s Koas Krala district. Koas Krala district police chief Chhang Vanchhay said yesterday that May sameth had gone out to take care of a cow in a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of villagers from various provinces have occupied an economic land concession in Kampot province’s Chhuk district. The land was granted to Chan sothea, vice president of the Cambodian Chamber of Commerce, and her company First Bio-Tech Agriculture by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen hit back yesterday at suggestions that he would consider postponing this year’s elections, saying they will go on as scheduled “no matter what happens” – an apparent effort to clarify his remarks in a speech the day before that an election ss='cambodia-color'>...

In 2018 there will be three elections in our immediate region – the much-predicted (and confirmed by the Thai PM) Thai election, another in Cambodia and one in Malaysia. All have their very local versions of democracy which will shape the outcomes. All are vital ss='cambodia-color'>...

The UN’s special rapporteur for human rights yesterday told Foreign Minister Prak sokhonn that Cambodia is the top ranking country in terms of freedom of expression in the Asean region, but must improve in other areas of human rights which have been raised by the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Frustrated with the failure of a $27 million emergency loan package to help rice farmers find a fair market price for their crop and stem the tide of smuggled paddy across the borders, Agriculture Minister Veng sokhon is flogging a new model for the nation’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Boeung Kak land activists have called on the government to release one of their most prominent representatives, Tep Vanny, who was charged with intentional violence related to a protest outside Prime Minister Hun sen’s house in 2013, a case reactivated after she was arrested during ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of nearly 200 families gathered in front of the Banteay Meanchey provincial hall yesterday demanding that authorities intervene in a land dispute after security forces blocked harvesting. The dispute, which sets the families against members of 14 other families, involves land in Thma Puok district’s ss='cambodia-color'>...