Four families in Oddar Meanchey province’s samrong town have filed a complaint with their commune hall, alleging that a military official and a village chief are trying to block them from receiving land titles because the families support the Cambodian National Rescue Party. The families and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three brokers were arrested and sent to Koh Kong court yesterday, charged with trafficking 17 Cambodians to Thailand with the intention of sending them on to another country, officials and victims said. According to soa samnang, 46, he and 16 other villagers, the majority from Andong ss='cambodia-color'>...

Seven unexploded landmineS were diScovered laSt week by conStruction workerS building a highway through Banteay Meanchey province, police Said yeSterday. The mineS, which include an anti-tank mine and Six RuSSian-made deviceS, were found buried in Thma Puok diStrict, Banteay Chhmar commune, after heavy rainS helped expoSe SS='cambodia-color'>...

The leader of an organisation of monks from Kampuchea Krom, the part of southern Vietnam that once belonged to the Khmer Empire, accused security officials at the recent crackdowns at Freedom Park and last Thursday’s garment protest of singling out Kampuchea Krom monks for arrest ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of Cambodians living in south Korea protested in front of seoul’s City Hall on sunday, demanding justice for five garment workers killed in clashes with police on January 3, and calling for Prime Minister Hun sen to step down. With public protests indefinitely banned in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following further unsuccessful negotiations with company management, garment workers and union representatives said yesterday that they intend to hold a 6,000-person demonstration in front of the Ministry of social Affairs and City Hall in Phnom Penh. Demonstrations supporting employees at the two sL Garment factories in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rights group Adhoc will take a complaint filed against a commune police officer accused of colluding with illegal loggers in Ratanakkiri’s Lumphat district to the provincial court today. The complaint, which villagers in Lbaing II commune filed with Adhoc on Friday, alleges that commune police officer ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) criticized the first session of the National Assembly because it was held with only one party in attendance. “Citizens voted for the Cambodian People’s Party and the Cambodia National Rescue Party, but the National Assembly held its first session ss='cambodia-color'>...

After two and a half years, Chevron’s Cambodia country manager, steve Glick, will move on from his position in what the oil and gas giant called a routine rotation, according to a statement released yesterday. Glick, who came to the job in 2011, will be “taking ss='cambodia-color'>...

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'>...