The Phnom Penh Municipal Hall is assessing a pavement improvement project along Mao Tse Toung Boulevard meant to provide ease of travel for disabled persons and pedestrians, Phnom Penh Municipal Hall spokesman Met Meas Pheakdey told The Post on Wednesday. Meas Pheakdey said: “The cost ss='cambodia-color'>...

A photography exhibit chronicling the lives of forest rangers working toward the environmental protection of the jungles in Koh Kong province will be displayed on saturday at the capital’s 5 Drunk Men sky bar. The photos are to be sold to, with the profits going to ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 100 villagers from Pailin province travelled to Phnom Penh yesterday to ask Prime Minister Hun sen to intervene in their 70-hectare land dispute with the provincial governor, a village representative said. Dem Deam, 40, a resident of Pailin’s stung Trang commune in sala Krao district, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Claims in the Kingdom’s six insurance companies declined dramatically last year, while the total premium revenue sharply increased by more than 20 per cent year-on-year, official data from the General Insurance Association of Cambodia (GIAC) show. GIAC data shows total claims reached $4.8 million, down from ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a bizarre twist at the Appeal Court hearing of radio station owner Man sonando, the prosecution yesterday asked that judges drop the charge against Mr. sonando of inciting antigovernment violence, but then asked the court to uphold another charge leading to an insurrection. Mr. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Loan disbursals in Cambodia’s banking sector increased by 33 percent to more than $4 billion last year, as credit to the housing market and agricultural sector saw the largest amount of growth, the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) said in its annual report, released yesterday. While ss='cambodia-color'>...

Large payouts last year by local insurance companies to two garment factory owners and regional natural catastrophes have resulted in a huge hike in the cost of fire insurance for commercial premises in Cambodia, brokers said. Cambodia’s insurance industry paid out some $24 million in fire ss='cambodia-color'>...

After a 60- minute debate, the Senate on Friday voted in favour of a payment guarantee for the private companieS conStructing the controverSial Lower SeSan 2 dam in Stung Treng province. At the Senate SeSSion, 43 out of 48 SenatorS voted to approve the deal which SS='cambodia-color'>...

The World Bank has warned that the rapid growth of lending by Cambodia’s Banks is still a concern, despite a recent slow-down in credit disbursals. “Credit growth, which has been driven largely by wholesale and retail financing, and starting in 2011 agriculture financing, has eased to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh, a city once fabled for its stately colonial buildings and boulevards, and its serene riverside setting, is becoming a city of glaring contrasts. An economy left in ruins by the years of war and violent revolution in the 1970s and 80s grew at a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Farmers in Kompong Chhnang province locked in a land dispute with a local businesswoman are waiting for the government to make a decision on who owns the property after student volunteers measured the area earlier this month as part of Prime Minister Hun sen’s nationwide ss='cambodia-color'>...

Although currently there are a lot of development projects for resorts and guesthouses on various islands off Cambodia’s coast, experts say it is not the right time for such developments. Po Eavkong, managing director of Asia Real Estate Cambodia, said the development activities on islands in ss='cambodia-color'>...

AKEO Province – In Takeo province, three political parties are vying for votes in the July 28 election. In interviews with VOA Khmer, villagers in Rovieng district say they are listening to the campaign promises, but many remain skeptical that they will be fulfilled once ss='cambodia-color'>...

The largest complex of sugarcane, ethanol and thermal power plants in Cambodia was inaugurated in Okrieng commune, sombour district, Kratie province on May 26. Addressing the ceremony, Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister Yim Chay Ly emphasized that the complex inauguration in Kratie was the outcome of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Court of Appeal will hear the case of former Bavet City governor Chhouk Bundith, who was convicted for shooting and injuring three garment workers but remains at large, at the end of this month, a court official said Wednesday. Although the svay Rieng Pro­vincial Court ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Stung Treng province diStrict official on Sunday contradicted claimS that logging in the area deSignated for the SeSan 2 dam had ceaSed a month ago, Saying that it had only Stopped laSt week after direct orderS from the government to do So. On ThurSday, MiniStry SS='cambodia-color'>...

A month after a company owned by tycoon Kith Meng was ordered to suspend logging the reservoir area of the controversial Lower sesan II dam, the government yesterday threatened legal action against it if its orders aren’t followed. In a letter obtained by the Post yesterday, the Council ss='cambodia-color'>...

If Information Minister Khieu Kanharith is any indication, even the government is tiring of state television. Mr. Kanharith announced on Facebook on Wednesday that he had personally ordered the state-run TVK channel to stop broadcasting the comings and goings of state officials on foreign excursions. Mr. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Civil servants including police officers in a supervisory role who cut into their subordinates’ salaries will face consequences including criminal charges, Interior Minister sar Kheng announced last week. In an order obtained by the Post yesterday, Kheng urged civil servants who handle payroll to immediately report to the ss='cambodia-color'>...

As opposition party leaders sam Rainsy and Kem sokha returned from separate overseas trips yesterday, the party said it had more than enough cash to finance continuous mass demonstrations, with the bulk of funds coming from Cambodians living abroad. Today’s demonstrations in Phnom Penh and siem ss='cambodia-color'>...