About 700 villagers in Kratie province’s Kampong Damrei commune will continue their protests today to persuade provincial authorities to release one of their representatives, villagers said yesterday. Representative Bun sithet said the villagers, who are involved in a land dispute with Kasotim company, would protest outside ss='cambodia-color'>...

NGO Nicfec on Wednesday joined fellow election watchdog Comfrel in deciding not to register poll observers with the National Election Committee (NEC) for July’s national elections, citing a lack of volunteers resulting from, they say, fear of being accused of being part of a colour ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fifty metres of riverbank in Chroy Changvar district collapsed on saturday amid rising water levels in the Mekong and Tonle sap rivers which have caused the capital’s riverside regions to flood. According to Klang Huot, the district governor, traffic has been impacted by the collapse ss='cambodia-color'>...

A hual of rosewood timber was confiscated in Pursat province’s Krakor district yesterday, said a military police officer involved in the crackdown. The bust, resulting in the seizure of hundreds of timber pieces and a car that transported them, was carried out by the Pursat ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Germany’s international development organisation, the Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The MOU serves to implement the second phase of a multinational project aimed at improving the sustainability of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Interior released a 14-page dossier of purported evidence against self-exiled political dissident sam serey on Wednesday, and government mouthpiece Fresh News leaked audio recordings of alleged associates seeking to buttress Prime Minister Hun sen’s accusation that serey was plotting a Khmer New ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia and Vietnam are seeking better cooperation to combat the illicit timber and wildlife trades, following a meeting between the two countries’ forestry administrations last week. The Agriculture Ministry’s forestry administration deputy director Chan Ponika said a number of officials, including him, participated in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Preah Sihanouk provincial police have releaSed all Six people involved in ThurSday&rSquo;S claSh with police during a proteSt to Stop authoritieS from meaSuring land in Prey Nob diStrict. Four of them had been taken into cuStody immediately after the claSh, while two otherS who were SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has signed a double taxation agreement with Vietnam that protects each country’s nationals from dual taxation, according to a news release from the General Department of Taxation released on Tuesday. The agreement was signed on saturday on the sidelines of the Greater Mekong subregion ss='cambodia-color'>...

The committee on the new Phnom Penh international airport project development said on Thursday that it will temporarily suspend land business in sensitive areas that could hinder the new airport’s development project. Real estate sector insiders said the move will help solve the issues easily ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dozens of families in Preah sihanouk province are concerned they will lose their land after hearing that a tycoon is seeking the local authority’s approval to transfer ownership of over 500ha to him, while the families claim the actual area of land he owns is ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee yesterday said 19 national institutions will participate in monitoring sunday’s municipal, provincial and district council elections. NEC spokesman Dim sovannarom said all-in-all, the 19 institutions consist of 1,010 observers from groups such as the Union of Youth Federations in Cambodia and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Thai government is set to provide free education for children of Cambodian migrant workers, according to officials. sompong sravaen, founder and director of Thailand’s Labour Rights Network Foundation, on Monday said that a new government policy in Thailand will provide free education to children ss='cambodia-color'>...

A total of 13 out of 14 families locked in a land dispute with the Union Development Group in Koh Kong province on Tuesday accepted a compensation offer over crops destroyed by the company in January. Negotiations are also under way with the one family ss='cambodia-color'>...

A joint-ministerial working group and Koh Kong provincial authorities on Tuesday denied claims that officials have demanded money from people who want to be identified as true land owners in a dispute between villagers and the Union Development Group in the province’s Botum sakor and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Labour Confederation yesterday said that it will propose $211.94 to be the new minimum wage for garment workers during this month’s negotiations. CLC made the announcement after a meeting between various unions which touched upon criteria that included cost of living, inflation, productivity, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Around 100 national and international landmine experts gathered in siem Reap this week for the Asean Regional Mine Action Center’s (Armac) inaugural regional workshop. Diverse topics were discussed, including new and innovative clearance techniques and strategies to enhance the assistance provided to survivors of explosive ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 20 families from Thma Puok district’s Phoum Thmey commune in Banteay Meanchey province have expressed their objection to a request made by a local drinking water company to pump water from a drying communal pond. They alleged that the firm had failed to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two men were wounded in separate unexploded ordnance blasts on saturday in Oddar Meanchey and Pailin provinces. CMAC director-general Heng Ratana told The Post on sunday that the first incident occurred in Trapaing Prasat district’s Bak Anloung commune in Oddar Meanchey province at 9:55am on ss='cambodia-color'>...

ADHOC, CCHR, CCIM, CLEC, STT and LICADHO Strongly condemn yeSterday&rSquo;S violence outSide the National ASSembly, and at the houSe of an oppoSition leader that left two oppoSition CNRP MPS injured and bloodied, and call for an immediate independent and tranSparent inveStigation into the orcheStrated violence. SS='cambodia-color'>...