Throngs of protesters gathered at the Olympic stadium yesterday, at times straining against a mix of police force barriers and riot shields in their effort to show support for jailed Beehive Radio director Mam sonando, whose trial was beginning just down the street at Phnom ss='cambodia-color'>...

The successful hosting of the 21st summit of the Association of southeast Asian Nations (AsEAN) and its related summits here in November was definitely the biggest achievement of Cambodia in 2012 despite some sad events such as the death of the venerated former King Norodom ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Venerable Sann Leang, executive director of NGO Environmental More than 500 villagerS held a march in eaStern Cambodia Friday to proteSt a controverSial dam project on the Mekong River in LaoS they Say iS undergoing conStruction deSpite a pledge to halt progreSS while officialS SS='cambodia-color'>...

A national energy efficiency policy is currently in development, officials told the Post last week. Experts at the Ministry of Industry, Mines, and Energy (MIME) and the multi-donor fund EU Energy Initiative Partnership Dialogue Facility (EUEI PDF) are in discussions about details of the policy, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The rehabilitation of Cambodia’s dilapidated railway network has encountered delays due to poor construction work and inappropriate surveying methods when making plans to lay down tracks, according to a draft review of the ongoing $140 million project conducted by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ss='cambodia-color'>...

SoldierS Should not have been deployed in Support of a warrant to arreSt land diSpute proteSterS in Kratie province in May&mdaSh;an operation that led to the killing of a 14-year-old girl by armed forceS, a JapaneSe human rightS group Said in a new report. The report SS='cambodia-color'>...

The homes of nearly 200 families living in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district were demolished yesterday and Monday after officials accused the residents of being involved in a secessionist plot, local officials and villagers said. District governor Chhe Chhiv said that authorities had demolished 191 homes ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s trade deficit in the first half of the year grew 34.31 percent compared with the same period in 2011, reaching $1.36 billion, according to data released by the Ministry of Commerce. Though revenues earned from exports grew 12.13 percent to about $2.50 billion, a growing ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite growing exports, freight companies say profits are being hit because most firms still use old, inefficient trucks and are often forced to pay custom officials informal fees at border checkpoints and ports. Transportation costs in Cambodia are already some of the highest in the region, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The UN’s assessment suggests that Cambodia is one of the top five countries that have made significant progress toward meeting its MDGs by 2015. The poverty rate has dropped dramatically from 47.50 percent in 1993 to 34.70 percent in 2004 and 23 percent in 2011, ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 120 families in Phnom Penh’s Dangkao district sent a letter on Monday to the district governor asking for his help in addressing the flooding problem that has seen some of their homes collapse and has forced many to seek temporary accommodation elsewhere, villagers ss='cambodia-color'>...

An Australia-based firm that announced a plan to explore for gold in Ratanakkiri province insisted Monday that its Cambodian venture is still on track, despite allegations made in an Australian newspaper that it has garnered investment based on false information. Astra Resources, which has companies incorporated ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom’s tax revenue increased 27.85 per cent in the first two months compared to a year earlier, a figure the opposition party said is low due to corruption and tax cheats. According to the data from the General Department of Taxation (GDT), total tax revenue ss='cambodia-color'>...

SA&rSquo;ANG DISTRICT, Kandal province &ndaSh; Liv Yang Bin, 66, haS voted four timeS, but on Sunday he could not make it a fifth. Three timeS on Sunday, Mr. Yang Bin went to hiS local polling Station at a School here in Kandal province, but each time SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has lost almost a quarter of its forests in the past 40 years due to rapid development and China’s demand for timber, according to a new report released yesterday by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) on the Greater Mekong Region. Looking at five countries in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian lawmakers have passed a new law on agriculture, but critics say the law does not go far enough to protect the country’s farmers. The law passed on Thursday evening, but not before debate at the National Assembly. During the debate opposition representatives called on the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Production of Cambodian organic rice is rising rapidly as international demand for the product increases, experts said at a forum for growers and other in­dustry members held Tuesday at the Phnom Penh headquarters of agricultural NGO Cedac. “In the first six months of this year we’ve ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has seen a sharp rise in the exports of milled rice in the first six months of this year thanks to increasing demand on international markets, an official said Wednesday. The figures, from the single window secretariat for facilitating milled rice exports, showed that the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives from more than 90 Cambodian businesses gathered yesterday at the Council of Ministers building in Phnom Penh to hear about a new initiative that aims to encourage private sector investment in agriculture. The $55.6 million project is an extension of the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) ss='cambodia-color'>...

The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) has denounced a recording posted on Facebook of Prime Minister Hun sen saying that his CPP had lost in last month’s fifth parliamentary election. someone had edited and re-recorded a speech he had performed a few weeks ago, said authorities. The ss='cambodia-color'>...