Ruling party lawmaker Chheang Vun yesterday said opposition parliamentarian Um sam An’s legal immunity could be suspended for criticising National Assembly President Heng samrin, but refused to specify what law, if any, the Cambodia National Rescue Party member had broken. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Holding her husband’s hand through prison bars yesterday, Tith Narin delivered the heartbreaking news – their eldest son was dead.Narin’s husband, Ouk Pich samnang, was one of 11 Cambodia National Rescue Party activists convicted on Tuesday for his alleged role in a protest that turned ss='cambodia-color'>...

A forest peoples’ network has appealed to tycoon Try Pheap to issue a written commitment to put a halt to his companies’ deforestation activities after he told the Post last week that his logging days are over. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The portfolio of Deputy Prime Minister Bin Chhin has grown again after he was handed a handful of new jobs on Tuesday, including advising the prime minister on anti-corruption efforts and overseeing the Council of Jurists and “one-window” service for foreign investors. ss='cambodia-color'>...

South Korea replaced the UK aS the largeSt inveStor in Cambodia laSt year, with about $287 million injected, 12.5 per cent of the total foreign direct inveStment, according to data from the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). ThiS repreSentS 33 per cent SS='cambodia-color'>...

Possible remains of three missing U.s. soldiers recovered in Cambodia was repatriated to Hawaii on Wednesday for testing, officials said. During a ceremony at Phnom Penh International Airport, American soldiers carried three white coffins draped with U.s. flags onto a C-17 military cargo plane. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dam-building and gold mining in southern Laos are ruining water quality downstream on the sekong River in Cambodia, where villagers are no longer able to drink or use the water, according to an environmental group. The activities undertaken by Lao and Vietnamese companies on the sekong’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prices for Vietnamese goods are increasing driving up demand for lower cost Cambodian goods. Exports to Cambodia’s neighbor have increased by more than 84 percent for the beginning of 2011, totaling some $247 million according to the Vietnam Trade Office. Inflation is rising in Vietnam ss='cambodia-color'>...

Puma, the sportswear company, has said that it is taking the outbreak of fainting spells at its suppliers “very seriously.” The company is taking measures after a report by the Fair Labour Association found that breaches in labour laws had contributed to some 300 workers ss='cambodia-color'>...

It was the grimmest of homecomings yesterday for the family of Ouk sakan as the body of the 40-year-old domestic worker was repatriated from Malaysia, ending a bleak vigil that began with her death more than four months ago. Na Rith said his cousin had worked ss='cambodia-color'>...

Construction approvals granted by government authorities have increased 93 percent in the first six months of the year, compared to the same period last year, figures show. some 1,079 potential projects worth Us$637.7 million were given the go-ahead in the January to June period, compared with ss='cambodia-color'>...

Tokyo: The International Monetary Fund has upgraded its outlook on Cambodian GDP growth in 2011 from 6.5 per cent to 6.7 per cent just days after government officials announced a full percentage-point reduction in economic expectations. stabilisation in the real estate sector, as well as strong increases ss='cambodia-color'>...

The long awaited first security listing on the Cambodian securities Exchange became a reality on February 23 with the security Exchange Commission of Cambodia’s “in principle” approval of Phnom Penh Water supply Authority’s (PPWsA) “disclosure document for public issuance of equity securities”. This is effectively a ss='cambodia-color'>...

The family of a Cambodian maid that officials suspect was tortured to death in Malaysia will fly there shortly to file a complaint against her employers, a government spokesperson said yesterday. Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Koy Kuong said the family of Mey sichan, 22, from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Construction of a much-awaited seaport in the coastal province of Kampot began yesterday, with insiders saying the upcoming harbour will boost maritime transportation with Vietnam and Thailand and bolster the local tourism industry and the national economy. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is facing the double burden of infectious and noncommunicable diseases, experts say, but the country can still prevent the problem from becoming “catastrophic” by implementing adequate measures and funnelling appropriate funding to tackle chronic illnesses. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ratanakkiri provincial prosecutor on Monday filed a complaint with the Appeal Court against a decision made by the province’s investigating judge, san Bunthoeun, to release a Vietnamese timber trader, a court spokesman said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Beng Per Wildlife sanctuary is symbolic of the country’s poor forestry management. Around 2,000 square kilometres (sq km) – around three times the size of singapore – is lost to illegal logging in Cambodia every year where wildlife sanctuaries – despite their name – ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) recent Us$60 million loan to Cambodia is set to boost the skills and competitiveness of its growing labour force as the country’s economy undergoes a key transition. Driven by garment exports and tourism, Cambodia’s economy grew by an average of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Royal Academy of Cambodia scholar sok Touch said Wednesday that his border research team has started inspecting markers planted along the 1,228-km frontier with Vietnam, visiting six colonial-era posts since last week as part of a process that he says will take two years. ss='cambodia-color'>...