The U.N.’s human rights envoy to Cambodia on sunday promised villagers in stung Treng province who are set to be displaced by the construction of the Lower sesan 2 hydropower dam that she would raise their plight with the government, a village representative said.    ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of kilograms of dead fish have washed up on the shores of the Mekong in stung Treng’s Thala Barivat district in the past month, and while environmental activists blame construction of the controversial Don sahong dam upstream, officials yesterday said the fish are being ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials at the Prey speu social Affairs Center in Phnom Penh’s Por senchey district are scrambling to deflect criticism after reports surfaced that a young boy and a man were beaten and injured there, with the director of the center saying the boy injured himself ss='cambodia-color'>...

Twenty families lost their homes when a riverbank collapsed into the Mekong yesterday in Kandal’s Loeuk Dek district, according to local authorities. Nov samnang, Loeuk Dek district governor, said yesterday that three houses were partially submerged in the river, while 17 others were intentionally dismantled ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Ministry of Defence has demanded an apology from Thai media outlets for reports linking Defence Minister Tea Banh to a recent case of alleged cross-border arms smuggling by a Thai air force officer, one which has also ensnared an official from Cambodia’s Interior Ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...

A proposal for a massive warehouse and silo that has attracted two Chinese investors aims to fill the Kingdom’s conspicuous gap in paddy rice storage capacity, which still falls 60 percent short of the level needed for the country to achieve its goal of 1 ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee said it will aim to register around 1.4 million of the nearly 2 million eligible voters it was unable to get on voter rolls last year, though the body’s chairman, sik Bun Hok, refused to address yesterday whether the process would ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday called on garment factory owners to reduce the use of short-term employment contracts. speaking to more than 15,000 workers and employers representing 10 factories in Phnom Penh’s Por senchey district, Mr Hun sen said short-term contracts threaten the health of employees. ss='cambodia-color'>...

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'>...