A group of Phnom Penh families from a flood-prone community living along the city’s abandoned railroad tracks managed to secure the last $2,250 they need to build their own drainage system after protesting outside the Russei Keo district governor’s office Wednesday. lass='cambodia-color'>...

A leading Indian conservationist and tiger expert is warning that a multimillion-dollar scheme to reintroduce the big cat to Cambodia will be a “tragic failure” that could cost lives, and that its advocates will come to rue the attempt.    lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s national parks (or ‘natural parks’) and wildlife preserves were established under the 1993 Royal Decree on the Protection of Natural Areas. Although other areas have been added subsequently, there is currently no officially available list of all protected areas and their boundaries. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Thirty-five per cent of Cambodians are still living in poverty, with the rural population making up the majority, according to estimates from the 2018 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative lass='cambodia-color'>...

Amid strict reforms to guard against rampant cheating on the high-stakes national exam, education officials yesterday showed surprising leniency towards underperforming grade 12 students. In a notice released yesterday, the Ministry of Education instructed upper secondary schools to hold re-examinations for grade 12 students who failed lass='cambodia-color'>...

A senior official at the Ministry of labour said that as of June, 2024, there were approximately 1.3 million Cambodian migrant workers living abroad, with most of them located in Thailand and South Korea. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia needs $9 billion to be invested into 850 kilometres of roadways by 2020, according to a study by Henan Provincial Communications Planning Survey and Design Institute. From the Chinese province of Henan, officials from the state-owned engineering institute went to great lengths yesterday to explain lass='cambodia-color'>...

The government will raise the monthly wage for contracted government employees by just over 8 per cent next year, according to a sub-decree signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday, seen by The Post on Wednesday. lass='cambodia-color'>...

On 22 August 2023, the General Secretariat of the National Assembly issued a press release on the result of the first session of the 7th legislature under the high presidency of Samdech Akka Moha Ponhea Chakrei Heng Smarin, Senator of the National Assembly, and 123 lass='cambodia-color'>...

The intervention of Prime Minister Hun Sen has been requested by 31 families living in the Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary in Pursat province. Authorities said while they had settled in the area illegally, meetings were being held to resolve the issue. “We, the 31 families, lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has lost a 100,000-tonne Filipino rice bid to Vietnam, on account of a higher costs as compared to regional competitors, marking the fourth time the Kingdom has failed to win a rice tender issued by the Philippines. The Philippines National Food Authority last week awarded lass='cambodia-color'>...

Ms. Chea Serey, Director General of the National Bank of Cambodia, has highlighted  the importance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that have contributed significantly to supporting the national economic growth and helping the livelihood of people living in rural areas. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Thach Ry, a 64-year-old Khmer Krom man, fled Vietnam in 2008 after authorities there tried to arrest him for protesting the government’s treatment of his community. Arriving in Cambodia with his wife and daughter, authorities here tried to arrest him, too, he said, so like many lass='cambodia-color'>...

Law and order in Cambodia this year has been a strange mix of the brutaL and the bizarre. From horrific murders to the poLice’s decision to deLiver crystaL meth to phony hostage-takers during a bank heist, crime has continuaLLy made headLines in a year when the Lass='cambodia-coLor'>...

Despite being hemmed in by construction on all sides as NagaWorld expands its casino empire in Phnom Penh, the Buddhist Institute will not be sold off or rented out, Cults and Religion Minister Min Khin told a National Assembly commission on Thursday. In May, the institute’s lass='cambodia-color'>...

About 90 Siem Reap families have rejected what they say is a preliminary move by the provincial authority to have them moved off land declared part of Kulen Mountain National Park in 2002. The families, in Banteay Srei district’s Tbeng commune, said yesterday they had rejected lass='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh’s growing population is driving demand for residential property, with approvals soaring in the first seven months of this year, according to lao Tip Seiha, director of the construction department at the Ministry of land Management, Urban Planning and Construction. A total of 227 lass='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly will likely approve a casino-management bill before the end of the year, which is aimed at doubling gambling revenues and bringing the industry on par with international standards, said a senior official from the Ministry of Economy and Finance. Ros Phearun, deputy director lass='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Sen and opposition leader Sam Rainsy have clashed over the issue of Cambodians living overseas being able to vote in elections. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Estimates suggest that 0.38 percent of Cambodians have contracted TB, an alarming statistic for a country still recovering from decades of conflict. This rate shows an improvement from the early 2000s, when up to 1.5 percent of Cambodians had the disease. Even so, villagers who live far lass='cambodia-color'>...