As temperatures drop during the cool season, children, infants and the elderly should take extra measures to ward off common seasonal illnesses, officials from the Ministry of Health said on Wednesday. In a press release issued by the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some 4.5 million Cambodian children aged between 9 monthS and 15 yearS, have received new meaSleS and rubella vaccineS during the biggeSt nationwide immunization campaign, Starting from October to December. AddreSSing in a joint preSS conference on the SucceSS of meaSleS-rubella vaccine Supplementary immunization activity campaign SS='cambodia-color'>...

ScoreS of people in Preah Sihanouk province&rSquo;S Kompong Seila diStrict have aSked the provincial court to delay proceedingS in a caSe filed againSt them by three local buSineSSpeople in September. The 88 people received SummonSeS in September, but yeSterday aSked the court to poStpone a hearing SS='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheatvong Said that authoritieS will not uSe forceS to crack down on proteSterS. The governor met with Phnom Penh officialS to clarify the government&rSquo;S poSition on how to deal with proteStS led by Cambodia National ReScue Party (CNRP). Pa Socheatvong added the SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday donated 50 laptops and 100 cellphones in equivalent to 70, 000 U.s. dollars to its Cambodian counterpart to increase task efficiency. speaking while handing over the supplies to Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong, Chinese Ambassador to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s General Department of Taxation has laid out a series of reforms it says are needed as the 2015 deadline looms for the Asean Economic Community, a single market for trade and development. strengthening tax collection to increase revenue while nurturing an attractive investment climate is ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers embroiled in a longstanding land dispute with a Chinese rubber company in Ratanakkiri’s O’Chum district received an official eviction notice last week from local authorities who failed to promise compensation, community representatives told the Post yesterday. More than 100 families will have to move so swift Rubber ss='cambodia-color'>...

Taking part in daily demonstrations outside the shuttered factory where she once worked is beginning to weigh on Bou Narith and her co-workers. Government officials this morning will sit down with representatives of employees and a representative from UsA Fully Field (Cambodia) Garment factory, which, ss='cambodia-color'>...

China’s humanitarian assistance has helped relieve difficulties of flood- hit families, HIV/AIDs victims, elderly, disabled and poor people in Cambodia, beneficiaries said Friday. The Chinese government donated one million U.s. dollars to Cambodia in October for people who have faced hardships due to severe flooding last ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia had dispatched some 22, 300 laborers overseas in 2013, down 36 percent from 34,800 a year earlier, figures from the Ministry of Labor showed Monday. The country sent 13,170 workers to Thailand last year, down 50 percent year-on-year; 8,820 to south Korea, up 8 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Lawmakers-elect from the Cambodia National Rescue Party are scheduled today to visit families in Koh Kong province affected by a long-running land dispute with Union Development Group, just weeks after the company destroyed dozens of homes there. Rights groups say that Chinese-owned Union Development has burned ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender citizens have seen significant progress in securing legal protections in recent years, activists said yesterday, though the fight for full equality remains an ongoing battle. During a forum in the capital yesterday, participants said that codifying equality under the law ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hydropower developers in southern Laos have fired back at the World Wildlife Fund after the conservation group issued two disparaging reports in as many weeks on the Don sahong dam project. WWF released a brief on February 19 alleging that construction of the 260-megawatt damcould result ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition CNRP met with civil society groups and NGOs on Friday and asked for recommendations ahead of resuming electoral reform talks with the ruling CPP on Monday. “We wanted to ask civil society for their ideas,” CNRP President sam Rainsy said after the meeting. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

Judges are now required to write a reasoned explanation when placing citizens in pre-trial detention, instead of simply checking a box as was previously practiced, Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana said Tuesday. But the Ministry of Justice is also considering amending the criminal procedure code to ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Cambodian national was fatally shot near the Thailand-Cambodia border on Wednesday in the latest of a string of deadly incidents along the border this month, officials said yesterday. Theng sokla, 27, a native of Pailin province’s sala Krao district, was hunting for animals on a ss='cambodia-color'>...

European mega-brands are not doing enough to ensure that the Cambodian workers who make their products receive a basic living wage, according to a report released today. Tailored Wages, an analysis of 50 of Europe’s biggest clothing brands, found that many major high-street chains are doing ss='cambodia-color'>...

The leader of Cambodia’s largest independent garment union may soon be in jail, with the group fearing it will not be able to afford the $25,000 bail a judge has ordered be paid by April 25, its vice president said yesterday. Ath Thorn, president of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Laos plans to establish consulate general in siem Reap province to boost bilateral cooperation with Cambodia through tourism and trade, a senior official from Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday. “Tourism from Laos is increasing annually, so Lao PDR will establish a general consulate based ss='cambodia-color'>...

The head of the Post and Telecommunications Ministry’s inspection department was arrested Friday and questioned at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on saturday for allegedly having stolen about $100,000 from the ministry over several years, according to Minister Prak sokhon. He said Chem sangva was reported ss='cambodia-color'>...