Outspoken land activist Kuch Veng will regain his freedom in 15 days after the Pursat provincial court yesterday handed down a guilty verdict with a one-year sentence, then suspended nearly three quarters of that term. Veng has been in prison since May 19 on charges of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Historic O’Russey Market will not be the location of a planned Chinatown development, according to Cambodia’s Tourism Minister. Tourism Minister Thong Khon said the government was looking for another site for the tourism-focused development and that O’Russey Market was not under consideration, as had recently been ss='cambodia-color'>...

A team of 12 Chinese military experts on Thursday started offering a six-week mine clearance course to 52 Cambodian peacekeeping force. The training is being held at the Institute for Peacekeeping Forces, Mine and Explosive Remnants of War Clearance. According to the Cambodian Mine Action Authority, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Though most of the opposition complaints reviewed by the Constitutional Council have been dismissed so far, one has been deemed credible and appropriate, a council spokesman said. According to spokesman Uth Chhorn, one complaint regarding a campaign-period clash between supporters of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue ss='cambodia-color'>...

King Norodom Sihamoni on Monday appointed Hun Sen aS the Prime MiniSter for the fifth mandate of the inaugural SeSSion of parliament. Immediately after the broadcaSt of the appointment letter by the King, Hun Sen expreSSed hiS Strong commitment to fulfill hiS dutieS aS Prime MiniSter. “To SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s first Vietnamese wholesale market is being constructed in Phnom Penh, a Vietnamese trade officer told the Post yesterday. Tran Tu, trade attaché of the Vietnam Trade Office in Cambodia, said the new wholesale market seeks to enhance Vietnamese produce in Cambodia. The wholesale market, will be located ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government’s Disability Action Council (DAC) on Monday announced that it would be including speech therapy in its strategic plan for the next four years to address the problem of speech and swallowing disorders. DAC secretary-General Em Chan Makara said the decision comes after research, conducted ss='cambodia-color'>...

Lawyers and human rights workers were prevented from entering Kompong Cham province’s Correctional Center 3 (CC3) prison on Thursday when they attempted to meet with some of the 23 protesters, union leaders and garment workers detained last week after protests were lethally suppressed by government ss='cambodia-color'>...

Construction on a four-year, $150 million commercial and residential development that will transform 70,000 square metres of land on Koh Pich into Parisian-style apartments with a replica of the Arc de Triomphe at the centre is reportedly scheduled to commence in the coming months. The Élysée, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three NGOs on Wednesday called on ANZ Royal Bank to help the hundreds of families who have lost farmland to a sugar plantation that the bank helped to finance in Kompong speu province. The NGOs also made public a 2013 social and environmental impact assessment of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The CPP government has established a 10-member inter-ministerial electoral reform commission headed by CPP Interior Minister sar Kheng, according to a sub-decree obtained Wednesday. The opposition CNRP and rights organizations have been calling for electoral reform since July’s national election was marred by widespread allegations of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The first meeting of a joint election-reform committee that was agreed to last week by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party and the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party will meet for the first time on Thursday, officials from both sides said yesterday. Each side has appointed six ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday heard the case of a woman charged with defaming mining magnate and RCAF Lieutenant General Nim Meng in relation to a land dispute in Preah sihanouk province. Presiding Judge Kim Dany said that sok Neang Gek was being charged ss='cambodia-color'>...

As Thailand sells its rice reserves and reforms in Myanmar are rewarded with more access to markets abroad, Cambodia’s total exports of milled rice are on the decline, falling more than 10 per cent in the first quarter of this year compared with the same ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ruling party members continued to meet at the National Assembly on Wednesday, discussing a draft law on roadways despite a boycott by the opposition. The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party has refused to participate in the new government, following 2013 elections it says were marred by ss='cambodia-color'>...

Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith has pledged to meet with Daun Penh District Governor sok sambath to discuss the targeting of journalists by hired district security guards, said UNEsCO country representative Anne Lemaistre, who met with the minister on Friday. The minister is also keen on ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 1,000 workers held a demonstration in front of Ocean Garment factory in the capital yesterday, burning tyres and blocking the road in protest against the management’s refusal to abide by a ruling that workers be paid in full for a one-month closure. On May ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy left for Europe yesterday evening to attend a UN Human Rights Council review on Cambodia in Geneva and to lobby European Union officials to take a stronger stance against the government, he said before departure. Rainsy plans on attending the Universal Periodic ss='cambodia-color'>...

Beehive Radio director Mam Sonando will not be granted a digital TV licence becauSe up to 80 channelS have been allocated to a ChineSe State televiSion network. Khieu Kanharith, the miniSter of information, Said in an interview on TVK on TueSday night that the allocation of SS='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of youth activists have deployed to the provinces to collect signatures for a petition calling for an amendment to the election law that would allow direct elections for district, city and provincial councillors. The current system sees the Kingdom’s more than 11,000 sitting commune councillors ss='cambodia-color'>...