At least 22 families living in the capital’s Chamkarmon district say they are being forced to sell their land at below market value to thailand’s Bun Roong Company in order to make way for a housing development. Village representative Chhim Veasna said on Wednesday that the ...

A survey by Cambodian microfinancers showed debtors were better off in several respects than those who didn’t borrow from the institutions, MFI officials claimed. Responding to recent concerns over the role of microfinance institutions in creating poverty and loss of property in the Kingdom, the Cambodia ...

Investment in Cambodian rubber plantations increased by 255 per cent in 2011 on rising global demand for the commodity. there were 20 new projects worth US$675 million in the Kingdom last year, according to data from the Council for the Development of Cambodia. there were nine ...

The Trip To The hills of easTern Cambodia had all The makings of a luxurious geTaway: delicious fresh fruiT fed by hand, a dip in a refreshingly cold waTering hole and a relaxing massage. AT The Mondulkiri ProjecT, iT’s noT The people who call The ...

An additional 200 armed police officers have moved into a village in Mondolkiri province where families locked in a land dispute with a Vietnamese-owned rubber plantation have been given until Friday to clear out, police and villagers said yesterday. Police had already moved about 100 officers ...

As Cambodia prepares to host a series of top-level meetings in Phnom Penh next week, questions remain over how it will approach major issues such as the South China Sea. Analysts now say next week’s meeting will be a test of whether Cambodia will continue ...

Cambodia’s highly dollarized economy could benefit from a rush of foreign capital into Asia unleashed by the U.S. Federal Reserve’s latest economic stimulus, unlike some of its Asian neighbors, as it lifts demand for real estate and garment exports in the developing country, a senior ...

More than 100 mobile phone vendors protested yesterday outside the Phnom Penh headquarters of bankrupt mobile operator Mfone over their stocks of phone credit recharge cards that are now worthless, as the defunct company has transferred its subscribers to Mobitel, which does not recognize the ...

Amid concerns of legal violations on the part of their employer, about 400 workers at the USA Fully Field garment factory in the capital’s Meanchey district accepted payouts for their factory closing – even though it hasn’t. Workers protested last week in fear that the factory ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen approved the creation of three new districts for Phnom Penh on Wednesday. Four existing districts are being divided to create the new areas, dubbed Chbar Ampov, Prek Pnov and Chroy Changva. Phnom Penh City Hall spokesman Long Dimanche told the Post last ...

Teachers across Cambodia are insisTing pay raises aren’T jusT an elecTion year issue. More Than 30 represenTaTive Teachers gaThered for The sTarT of a Three-day seminar in Phnom Penh yesTerday To conTinue demanding living wages. The Teacher are asking for 250$ per monTh, according To seminar ...

The NaTional ElecTion CommiTTee (NEC) yesTerday removed a ban by Phnom Penh auThoriTy which didn’T allow poliTical parTies To parade and campaign aT public places during council elecTion campaign. In a leTTer yesTerday, The NEC called on The ciTy and provincial auThoriTies To mainTain securiTy ...

Villagers in Koh Kong’s Botum Sakor district said Friday that Union Development Group (UDG) used military forces to prevent villagers from planting paddy rice on land that is locked in a longstanding dispute, a claim the military denied. Khun thala, a 40-year-old villager, said Friday that ...

U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi met with representatives of the country’s businesses and employers thursday for talks that focused on the protection of workers’ rights and measures that can be taken to ensure that strained industrial relations do not once again erupt into violence. In ...

Over the past six months, 19 “vulture restaurants” have led to a slight rise in the number of the birds spotted in Cambodia, according to a recent Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries report. Contrary to the name’s sound, the vultures aren’t the dish being served ...

The deaTh Toll from recenT floods has reached six people, while inundaTions have caused more Than 4,400 families across four provinces To be evacuaTed from Their homes, according To The NaTional CommiTTee for DisasTer ManagemenT. “The full exTenT of The damage is noT known yeT,” said ...

Social worker Nong Socheat is well-acquainted with the ugly scope of child abuse. As a counsellor for First Step Cambodia (FSC), a local NGO that focuses on supporting male survivors of sexual assault, she regularly provides support for boys dealing with the aftermath of molestation. ...

Cambodia’s National Police chief Neth Savoeun has told foreign embassies that it won’t tolerate “foreign mafia” in the Kingdom, in what appears to be a thinly veiled message to Russia concerning recent conflict between Russian nationals in Sihanoukville. According to the statement, Savoeun has been ...

After almost a month, the Ministry of Mines and Energy has officially announced the four companies that have been granted sand dredging licenses this past tuesday. When the ministry notified the companies who won the bidding for one of four available licenses, it also gave them ...

The general manager of Cambodian mobile operaTor Beeline has lefT The company, following brand-owner Vimpelcom’s selloff of VieTnamese asseTs and a more Than US$500 million over-valuaTion of iTs Cambodia and VieTnam markeTs. General manager Gael Campan’s deparTure raised quesTions abouT AmsTerdam-based Vimpelcom’s fuTure in The Kingdom, ...