The National Election Committee (NEC) decided today to establish a joint committee to investigate the alleged irregularities of sunday’s election, an official said saturday. “We decided to create a joint committee which will consists of representatives from the NEC, the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 300 ethnic Jarai families from Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district in longstanding land disputes with two Vietnamese land concessionaires submitted a petition to UN human rights officers yesterday asking for help. Village representative Romas Chvat said locals were participating in an NGO-led workshop on protest ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s National Assembly is lacking, compared to other countries’ parliaments, in the oversight it exercises over new loans taken out by the government from international financial institutions, according to a new report. The study, published Tuesday by Geneva-based Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the World Bank, found ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of angry tuk-tuk drivers gathered outside the Khmer Economic Development Party’s Phnom Penh headquarters yesterday, after the party pulled out of an ambitious two-day rolling rally at the last minute. The president of the seven-month-old party, Huon Reach Chamroeun, entered into an agreement with about ss='cambodia-color'>...

A combined group of protesters from the capital’s Boeung Kak lake community yesterday ended their blockade of Monivong Boulevard with some disappointment after Cambodia National Rescue Party president sam Rainsy broke a promise to meet them at City Hall. Protesters have been blocking the road outside ss='cambodia-color'>...

Months ago, Chinese engineers were posting markers for a hydropower dam opposed by villagers in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley. This week, in marked contrast, monks draped trees in iconic saffron sashes as they blessed the very forest the dam would destroy. The saffron robes ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two sisters from Preah Vihear’s Kulen district hired to work in Malaysia as maids by Mey Yorn services have not been heard from in more than two years, their mother said yesterday. sok Noun, 45, hasn’t spoken to her daughters Bien Phok, 17, and Bien Phoun, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian manufacturers are at risk of being blocked from exporting to the United states for using pirated software, IT industry bodies warned yesterday. speaking at a seminar that was held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh, Michael Mudd, the secretary general of the Asia-Pacific Open ss='cambodia-color'>...

The conservation NGO WWF today slammed developers of the Don sahong Hydropower project for providing “flawed” and scientifically unsound impact assessments. In an analysis released today, WWF criticised the hydropower project’s Environmental Impact Assessment and social Impact Assessment, finding both “riddled with problems such as inappropriate ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s garment sector has the highest rate of unionization of any industry in Asia, Cambodia Federation of Employers and Business Associations Van sou Leng said Tuesday. “Major efforts are needed to improve the quality of workplace relations,” Van said in a statement posted on the Camfeba ss='cambodia-color'>...

Food vendors at Phnom Penh’s O’Russey Market have fought and won a battle against eviction. On Friday, about 80 vendors, including some who have sold food at the market since 1997, were told to clear out of what has become a heavily congested parking lot outside ss='cambodia-color'>...

With some people eating lunch off a tablecloth on the ground as children played in the distance, the scene in a small village in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district yesterday afternoon looked somewhat like a picnic. But villagers had gathered there, a few metres from a ss='cambodia-color'>...

A team of international researchers have discovered a unique species of wolf snake in south East Asia. some magnificent creatures still lay hidden in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains, waiting to be found, analysed and categorised by researchers working in the area. since 2000 scientists working for Fauna and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Residents in the vicinity of Kab Ko market in Phnom Penh’s Chamkarmon district found themselves fumbling in the dark yet again yesterday on the second consecutive day of hours-long power outages. According to locals, electricity to the street failed around noon on Wednesday and was restored ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Khmer Krom association threatened this week to protest against the Vietnamese government after an official said that the former Kampuchea Krom provinces belonged to Vietnam long before France’s official transfer of the land in 1949. The threats from the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Association for Human ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) released a report yesterday showing that only $356 million was spent on the restoration of infrastructure destroyed by last year’s floods – far below the $500 million in damage estimated beforehand. Nhim Vanda, vice chairman of the NCDM, said ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MoEF) will scrap customs fees for rice exporters from May 1 in an effort to reduce production costs and boost Cambodia’s competitiveness in the sector, according to a letter obtained by the Post. “[The ministry] has agreed to eliminate charges ss='cambodia-color'>...

A deputy district governor and a land tycoon are allegedly attempting to seize land deemed sacred by about 700 monks and residents who gathered yesterday in protest outside the unfinished Wat Kohbodhivong in Phnom Penh’s sen sok district. Banner-wielding participants said that tycoon Chheang Paksour and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fourteen families evicted from Boeung Kak were left disappointed again yesterday when Phnom Penh’s governor ignored their calls to increase the size of land plots authorities had offered them. During a three-hour meeting, Governor Pa socheatvong held firm on a 2011 decision that the families would ss='cambodia-color'>...

Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have never been higher, but Association of southeast Asian Nations member countries are still failing to curb emissions created by heavy deforestation, according to a new report. Forest land in AsEAN countries declined by more than 6 per cent ss='cambodia-color'>...