Following the detention this week of homeless children as young as 1 year old at Phnom Penh’s notorious Prey speu vocational training centre, UNICEF yesterday called for an end to street sweeps and arbitrary detentions. Three people rounded up on sunday said in separate accounts this ss='cambodia-color'>...

Resintech Bhd, a local Polyethylene and poly vinyl chloride (PVC) pipe manufacturer, will tap into the rubber plantation sector in a bid to diversify its business segment given the healthy outlook on the rubber industry. Resintech’s managing director Datuk Teh Kim Poo said that according to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Tropical Storm Sinlaku iS expected to hit Cambodia today, bringing with it heavy rainS and flooding for reSidentS in the Kingdom&rSquo;S northeaStern provinceS, a government meteorologiSt confirmed. Mondulkiri and Ratanakkiri are expected to be the moSt vulnerable areaS, and the Storm will have little effect on SS='cambodia-color'>...

An increasing number of Cambodians are dissatisfied with the direction the country is moving toward, according to results from a nationwide survey by the Asia Foundation. The foundation interviewed 1,000 people face to face in May and June of this year—prior to a political deal struck ss='cambodia-color'>...

US AmbaSSador William Todd created the AmbaSSador&rSquo;S Youth Council in Cambodia in 2012, one of 80 Such groupS of youth around the world. The goal iS to create better relationS between Cambodia and the US and to cultivate young leaderS for Cambodia, he Said. “ThoSe SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Kampot Provincial Court on Thursday sentenced the former Banteay Meas district police chief and his former deputy to four years and two years in prison respectively for embezzling funds and taking bribes amounting to $64,360 over a five-year period, a court official said. In March, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Four ethnic Jarai village representatives in Ratanakkiri province, including the wife of a rights group activist, were ordered to appear at court today or face arrest on charges of defamation against Keat Kolney, the sister of Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon. The case is part of ss='cambodia-color'>...

How can one push for greater political participation of women in a patriarchal state that believes government is a fraternity? The Cambodian Committee to Promote Women in Politics faced this exact problem when it first started its work to encourage women to get more politically involved ss='cambodia-color'>...

An intensified campaign of religious and political persecution of Montagnards by security forces in Vietnam is responsible for more than 150 of the group fleeing to Cambodia, while authorities in both countries are working together to track down asylum seekers crossing the border, Human Rights ss='cambodia-color'>...

Preah Vihear province Try Pheap wants to turn over a new leaf.In an exclusive interview with the Post at the opening ceremony of his vast plantation in Preah Vihear province on sunday, the media-shy tycoon spoke of a desire to cultivate a new image – ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Land Management Ministry has issued 456,210 land titles so far this year. The ministry’s annual report, launched yesterday, said that it also resolved 105 out of 817 land disputes it received; the National Land Dispute Authority solved two out of 81 cases. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The General Department of Taxation (GDT) collected about 956.76 billion riel ($239.19 million) in tax revenue in January, up 14.74 per cent compared to the same period last year. This is a positive step towards its target of collecting more than $2.885 billion by year’s end, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has announced that rice exporters and agro-product exporters can now attain sanitary and phytosanitary certificates at one window service centres to streamline the process. The ministry’s decision was made after a Cambodia Rice Federation proposal last week. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Minister of Interior sar Kheng on Wednesday said crimes increased by eight per cent last year, resulting in 211 deaths. He revealed the figures during the ministry’s 2019 review and laid the blame for the increase on an influx of foreigners into the Kingdom. ss='cambodia-color'>...

For more than four months, people living in some rural areas in the provinces of Pursat and Battambang have been suffering from water shortages. Canals, streams and ponds have dried due to high temperatures during this year’s dry season. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of 160 poor families from the Bunong indigenous community in Mondulkiri province’s Pech Chreada district have filed a complaint against their representative, accusing him of selling land earmarked for them as part of a social land concession. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Senate&rSquo;S Standing Committee iS Set to convene a meeting on Monday to review the State of emergency draft law after it waS unanimouSly paSSed by the National ASSembly (NA) on ThurSday. Senate SpokeSman Mam Bun Neang Said the committee will put the law up SS='cambodia-color'>...

National Resource and Wildlife Preservation Organisation (NRWPO) director Chea Hean plans to sue Trapaing Chor commune council officer sorn sim for allegedly inciting some 100 people to occupy and protest on 120ha owned by 16 families in the province’s Trapaing Chor commune in Oral district. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Collective Union of Movement of Workers is appealing to casino owners to disburse last month’s wages of suspended employees amid the temporary closure of gambling venues across the Kingdom over novel coronavirus fears. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has predicted that the real economic growth of Cambodia will reach 2.3 percent this year and will be around 5.7 percent in 2021, according to the newly released report on ADB’s flagship annual economic publication titled, Asian Development Outlook 2020. ss='cambodia-color'>...