Cambodia’s floating villages have adapted to the ebb and flow of Southeast Asia’s largest lake for generations, but modernisation and a scarcity of fish are now threatening their traditional way of life. Houses, schools, hairdressers and even dentists — entire communities bob around on the Tonle ...

Officials said twO peOple were killed On Tuesday by separate lightning strikes in Pailin and KOmpOng Cham prOvinces as the Ministry Of Water ResOurces and MeteOrOlOgy issued a warning abOut seasOnal stOrms spreading acrOss the cOuntry. Searing temperatures and the apprOach Of wet seasOn ignited the ...

A villager involved in a dispute over 684 hectares of land with Pailin provincial governor Y Chhien claimed Thursday that in 1999 Mr. Chhien and a senior military officer distributed axes and farm tools to the families now on the land. Pailin Provincial Court on Wednesday ...

There is an island in Cambodia that, unlike others in Southeast Asia, is not the object of an ownership dispute. But it is equally clear whom its current owners would like to land there: Chinese property buyers. If all goes according to plan, Koh Pich — ...

Twenty-five unionists, garment workers and bystanders were found guilty by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday for their involvement in three separate garment protest-related cases, but were handed down suspended sentences. The 22 men who had not been bailed ahead of trial were ordered ...

A call for the Cambodian government to lift its controversial ban on public assembly is among 34 such recommendations it has chosen to defer in the wake of last week’s second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of its human rights situation. The UN on Saturday released a ...

Phnom Penh’s Panha Chiet University has informed the local NGo Silaka that it cannot hold a meeting on women’s rights planned for today because the event might deal with political issues. Silaka had rented a conference room at the university for the meeting, intended to mark ...

Facing public pressure from major garment brands and labor unions, the Ministry of Labor and the International Labor organization (ILo) will cooperate in the coming months to reform the current system of setting the minimum wage in the garment sector. The reform process will begin with ...

A number of provincial and district councilors aligned with the opposition have not been paid in the past two months following a Ministry of Interior directive in March calling for their salaries to be halted and positions revoked, according to the secretary-general of the sam ...

Two months ago, Sok Sathya spent less than a dollar for a kilogram of oranges to sell from his sidewalk stall across from a row of garment factories in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district. Now the Same oranges cost Mr. Sathya, 39, more than 6,000 riel, or ...

Auditors from the Coca-Cola Company visited oddar Meanchey province on Friday to investigate allegations of land grabbing against sugar plantations that supply the global drinks giant, but called off a community meeting because of a heavy police presence, an NGo said Sunday. Chun Bora of the ...

The locally owned Cambodia International Investment and Development Group (CIIDG) and China Huadian Hong Kong Co Ltd (CHDHK) are partnering to build two coal-fired power plants in Preah Sihanouk province. With capital investment of around $1 billion, the facilities will be able to produce some ...

The General Department of Customs and Excise at the Ministry of Economy and Finance vowed to take legal action against those using vehicles with unpaid tax and unapproved modifications after relevant authorities had advised them through educational announcements. General Department of Customs and Excise director-general ...

The Banteay Meanchey provincial administration appealed to residents not to be cheated into grabbing land in the Tapen 2 Forest Restoration and Broadcast Station at Svay Chek district’s Slakram commune. Governor Um Reatrey told The Post on Tuesday that a provincial administration investigation found that ...

On 25 February 2020, mOre than 100 grOups and cOmmunities released a jOint statement saying that they were Outraged and appalled at the restrictiOns placed On hundreds Of cOmmunity members, mOnks and envirOnmental activists whO were prevented by authOrities frOm entering parts Of Prey Lang ...

On 19 February 2020, the Fauna & FlOra InternatiOnal annOunced that the hatching Of ten baby Siamese crOcOdiles were spOtted by cOnservatiOnists in late January at the sanctuary, a prOtected part Of the Stung KnOng river, in Veal Veng district, Pursat prOvince. The statement said ...

Most mornings, garment worker Vicheka buys food from the street vendors outside her factory in Kampong Chhnang province. The beef and pork dishes, she says, have a tendency to give workers a stomach ache – a reputation forged long before Vicheka and her co-workers at ...

For the fourth year in a row, Transparency International (TI) has rated Cambodia the country perceived as ASEAN’s most corrupt, and just ahead of North Korea and Afghanistan for the entire Asia-Pacific region.The 2016 Corruption Perceptions Index, which scores and ranks 176 countries and territories ...

On 23 June 2020, His Excellency Deputy Prime Minister PRAK SOkhOnn and His Excellency Wang Wentian, AmbassadOr Of the PeOple&rsquO;s Republic Of China tO the KingdOm Of CambOdia, will sign the Agreement On the COOperatiOn PrOjects Of the MekOng-Lancang COOperatiOn Special Fund 2020 On 23 ...

On 01 July 2021, the Ministry Of POst and TelecOmmunicatiOn issued a press release On COvid-19 Rapid Antigen Test Kits.TO prevent the spread Of COVID-19 in a timely manner, the Ministry Of POst and TelecOmmunicatiOn will impOrt the COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test Kits frOm ...