Cambodia’s largest hydropower plant to date, the stung Russey Chrum, is operational. The 338-megawatt dam, located in Koh Kong’s Mondul sima district forest, produced and transmitted electricity to Phnom Penh last month, according to its developer, China Huadian Corporation. “It is the biggest and best dam we ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Anti-Corruption Unit on Monday ordered the arrest and imprisonment of a former Preah Vihear province tax official who was convicted in absentia in December and sentenced to three years in prison for exploiting his position for personal gain. According to the ACU’s announcement, former provincial ss='cambodia-color'>...

Four Vietnamese rubber firms are responsible for destroying an estimated 1,000 hectares of community forest, including an indigenous graveyard, in Ratanakkiri’s Andong Meas district, a group of NGOs have claimed. The land dispute involving 196 families living in Talav commune dates back to 2011, Chhay Thy, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh will host one of Asia’s biggest technology conferences later this month. FossAsia, a conference on open source and free software, will be held in the capital Feb. 28 to March 2—a free event open to students, developers and entrepreneurs. Technologies discussed at the conference will ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mass faintings in Cambodia’s garment factories do not occur as a result of long hours and arduous working conditions, but from workers’ failure to care for their own health, according to the National social security Fund (NssF) director. During an annual meeting, which mainly focused on ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party will hold a seminar this morning on election reform to “seek input” from civil society and election monitors ahead of the second meeting of a bipartisan election reform committee on Monday. According to an invitation issued on Tuesday, the CNRP ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is providing financial and material support to the beleaguered Funcinpec Party to cover its rent, electricity, transportation and general administration expenses, as well as offering political training to its younger members, senior leaders of the royalist party said Wednesday. Funcinpec was ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Education Ministry will reconfigure how it ranks high school graduates seeking placement at state universities as part of its campaign to promote accountability in the school system, Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron announced on Friday. Delivering closing remarks at the Education Ministry’s annual meeting, Mr. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A 26-year-old woman who allegedly disfigured her husband’s face and body in an acid attack Tuesday has been charged and sent to pre-trial detention in Banteay Meanchey province, police said Thursday. Tor Rachany is accused of pouring half a liter of strong acid over her husband, ss='cambodia-color'>...

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'>...