The Phnong ethnic minority in Mondulkiri province have heard the promises of development before. With increasing investment and the selling off of the region’s forests will come new roads and schools, they are told. But people in this ancient community, tired of seeing their sacred forests handed ss='cambodia-color'>...

The amount of land used to grow longans has doubled in the past two years, but a lack of supply-chain infrastructure is hampering farmers’ ability to get top dollar for their product, the fruit’s body says. sreng sreang, deputy director of the Pailin Longan Farmers’ Community ss='cambodia-color'>...

The newly-formed Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF), a body that aims to unite the rice sector under one representative body in the country, just elected its first chairman and he happens to be the son of Cambodia’s deputy prime minister. He is also the CEO of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some 400 StudentS, monkS and activiStS were Stopped from a peaceful march for Environmental Day on ThurSday, aS they Sought to deliver petitionS to the MiniStry of Environment and other inStitutionS calling for an end to deforeStation. Cambodia&rSquo;S foreStS provide many ServiceS to the rural poor, SS='cambodia-color'>...

Work on the 6th Cambodia-China Friendship Mekong-stung Treng Bridge here in northern Cambodia is nearing completion after a 25-month construction, officials said sunday. Tram Iv Tek, Cambodian Minister of Public Works and Transport, said the 1,731-meter bridge, being built by the shanghai Construction (Group) General Company, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Anti-Corruption Unit revealed Monday that the director of Kompong Cham provincial Treasury Department Kol Thearin and officials under her are being investigated for allegedly embezzling money from local development projects and extorting bribes from developers, according to a statement from the ACU. ACU chairman Om ss='cambodia-color'>...

Human rights workers say the Us and other countries should censure Thailand over fisheries practices that mean near-slavery for many Cambodians and others. An investigative report by the UK-based Guardian newspaper exposed serious abuses in the Thai fishing trade, where workers are cheated of pay, kept ss='cambodia-color'>...

An opposition lawmaker-elect pledged yesterday to visit an undemarcated section of the border in svay Rieng province to investigate allegations that Cambodian farmers have been blocked by Vietnamese soldiers from using land they previously farmed for years without problem. svay Rieng lawmaker-elect Real Camerin said that ss='cambodia-color'>...

The families of four people from Pailin province’s Krinh village who have been incarcerated since March for allegedly living on state land are calling for their release. Fifty-year-old Nheb Nharn said that he and his wife, Om som Ath, had lived on the land in stung ss='cambodia-color'>...

Six monthS ago today, Security forceS opened fire on garment workerS proteSting for a doubling of their minimum wage on Phnom Penh&rSquo;S factory-lined Veng Sreng Boulevard. At leaSt five people were killed in what rightS groupS called the worSt State violence againSt citizenS in 15 SS='cambodia-color'>...

Corn farmers and dealers in the country’s northwestern provinces fear a decline in sales this season as local storage facilities become increasingly scarce and demand from Thai importers declines. Khun Thorn, president of Ta sdar samky Farmer Community in Battambang province, told the Post yesterday that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh City Hall will in September eStabliSh two new municipal buS lineS after 40 Secondhand buSeS purchaSed from South Korea arrived at the port in Sihanoukville laSt week, a city official Said. A fledgling public buS SyStem iS already in place in the city, but SS='cambodia-color'>...

Finance Minister Aun Porn Moniroth has sent the National Bank of Cambodia an order to freeze the bank accounts of four business tycoons for allegedly failing to make good on a number of deals with the state, according to a ministry official and local media. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called on all embassies and consulates to accelerate visa application procedures and end all “unofficial” fees. Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong said the government would crackdown on corruption related to the issue of visas. According to a Phnom Penh Post ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia rejected a report of the US State Department, which attacked the government of Prime MiniSter Hen Sen for wideSpread abuSe againSt human rightS. The 31-page report highlighted a flawed and poorly managed electoral proceSS in July&rSquo;S general election proceSS. The report raiSed a number of SS='cambodia-color'>...

RMA Cambodia confirmed yesterday it had taken over from rival firm Envotech as the Kingdom’s only authorised dealer of Land Rover and Jaguar vehicles. Envotech will have held the authorised dealer rights for two years when it closes its Phnom Penh dealership on March 26. RMA, whic ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of 54 local and international non-government groups said sunday that the state may be behind the disappearance of a 16-year-old boy last seen bleeding from a bullet wound at a garment worker protest in January, and urged the government to investigate. Five garment workers ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia continues to shoulder a disproportionate percentage of the world’s tuberculosis victims, with a higher prevalence rate of the extremely contagious respiratory disease than anywhere outside of south Africa, according to the World Health Organization. With the assistance of free screenings and free treatment, the Kingdom ss='cambodia-color'>...

When is a strike not a strike? That’s a question being asked after union leaders yesterday announced they will inform garment factory owners that their members want to use annual leave days to wage their stay-at-home strike the week after Khmer New Year. The leaders of eight ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following a scathing report from its internal watchdog about the resettlement of thousands of Cambodian families affected by a national railway rehabilitation project that it is funding, the Asian Development Bank has agreed with the government on an action plan for further compensation, it said ss='cambodia-color'>...