With all 11 senators from the opposition boycotting their seats, the senate on Thursday passed three controversial judiciary laws which critics say will tighten government control of the courts. The ruling CPP’s 44 senators passed the laws without change, said CPP senator and senate spokesman Mam ss='cambodia-color'>...

After years of ever-brisker sales, the smartphone market may be plateauing. Cambodians spent more than $300 million on smartphones last year, a 38 per cent increase from 2012’s figure of about $220 million, according to data from singapore-based research firm GfK. some 907,000 smartphones were sold in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Four “one-stop” offices to process documentation for Cambodians seeking legal work in Thailand will open on Tuesday after the Ministry of Labor issued a directive last week outlining how the migration process will operate, according to the head of the Ministry of Interior’s passport department. Mao ss='cambodia-color'>...

CNRP leader Sam RainSy Said WedneSday that a higher minimum wage for garment workerS and civil ServantS would be the oppoSition&rSquo;S top legiSlative priority&mdaSh;after reconStituting the National Election Committee (NEC)&mdaSh;when it takeS the 55 National ASSembly SeatS it haS been boycotting for the paSt year. The SS='cambodia-color'>...

Rights groups have called on the government to increase tax rates for logging companies amid the latest domestic revenue figures. According to the Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, timber exports produced $9.4 million in government tax revenue during the first half of the year, up ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in Mondolkiri province prevented hundreds of ethnic minority members from marching through sen Monorom City to mark International Day of the World’s Indigenous People on saturday, claiming it would confuse tourists. Marches elsewhere were allowed to go ahead. Doung Pen said sunday that he was ss='cambodia-color'>...

After months of claiming that Phnom Penh’s notorious Prey speu social Affairs Centre had all but shut down, officials yesterday told the Post that the facility would be used in its latest efforts to rid the streets of “undesirables”. City Hall spokesman Long Dimanche said that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia National Rescue Party president sam Rainsy yesterday said that, contrary to his speech before the National Assembly last week, the Kingdom’s political crisis would not be resolved as long as opposition activists were still being harassed by the courts. If there are still CNRP members ss='cambodia-color'>...

China will work with Cambodian officials to broaden the range of agricultural products that the Asian economic giant allows to be imported from the Kingdom, government officials said yesterday. Ken Ratha, spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce, confirmed that China’s General Administration, Quality supervision, Inspection and ss='cambodia-color'>...

A lack of innovation has contributed to Cambodia dropping seven spots on the World Economic Forum’s 2014-15 Global Competitiveness Report (GCR), which was released on Wednesday. The Kingdom ranked 95th out of 144 countries, down from 88th in the previous report, according to the GCR. Apart ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ol Sok Hour, a keen and promiSing Student, had hiS life turned upSide down two yearS ago when hiS parentS died of AIDS. YeSterday, the NGO celebrated the launch of itS Graduation HouSe, a facility that will offer accommodation and Support for orphaned tertiary StudentS. SS='cambodia-color'>...

NagaCorp Ltd, the operator of the NagaWorld casino resort (pictured) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, says it has commissioned “an independent professional party to review the internal controls of the company and its subsidiarieswith a focus on anti-money laundering”. The firm gives the information in its interim ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 200 ethnic Phnong villagers gathered in Mondulkiri province’s Bousraa commune yesterday to protest against several companies that hold economic land concessions in the area, which they say are destroying their traditional livelihoods. The villagers from Pech Chreada district accused the Kau su Dak Lak Company ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ath Thorn, the head of the country’s largest independent union, was placed yesterday under judicial supervision by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court a day after he joined demonstrations calling for a $177 monthly minimum wage for garment workers. Mr. Thorn, president of the Coalition of Cambodian ss='cambodia-color'>...

The total amount of loans in Cambodia’s banking sector could rise to $30 billion by 2020, according to a report released today by Mekong strategic Partners, a new investment and advisory fund. Amid such growth, banks will be challenged to drastically expand their operations and will ss='cambodia-color'>...

A luxury twin-condo with 35 floors and 256 units is set to appear just to the southeast of the Olympic stadium by the end of 2017. sky Villa is a large project developed by the Crystal Orange Construction, with a hefty $100 million of capital ss='cambodia-color'>...

Less than a week away from the start of the new school year, the government is short on teachers. Every year, the government struggles to recruit enough instructors to keep pace with enrollment rates and replace those who have retired, left teaching or passed away. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

A campaign organised by Cambodians has led the country’s first vice-president of the National Assembly to urge Australia to back down from its bid to resettle refugees there. Kem sokha said in a letter to the Australian Ambassador to Cambodia, Alison Burrows, that the deal to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite the Cambodian stock Exchange (CsX) getting off to a sluggish start over the past three years, local university students are seemingly already on the way to becoming good stock-pickers. The winners, two students from Zaman University who went by the team name of Dark ss='cambodia-color'>...

Many types of Vietnamese goods have faced strong competition of imported products from nations in the southeast Asian region, while local businesses have met difficulties in broadening the presence of their products in these markets. For the last ten years, many businesses in Ho Chi Minh ss='cambodia-color'>...