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 ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Justice is moving ahead with plans to expand the Appeal Court system around the country as part of inter-ministerial talks that began on Monday on the subject of judicial reform. The talks, which are expected to wrap up today, focus on a long-awaited ss='cambodia-color'>...

Video footage of Daun Penh district deputy governor sok Penh Vuth bashing a defenceless man with a bullhorn on Monday has sparked outrage and demands for his ouster, but his boss told the Post yesterday that people shouldn’t be too hasty to judge, suggesting the footage may ss='cambodia-color'>...

Five Kompong Chhnang villagers locked in a land dispute with a company owned by the wife of Mines and Energy Minister suy sem, who had repeatedly tried—and failed—to file a complaint with their provincial court, were summoned for questioning at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than five years after the close of the 2008 fiscal year, the National Audit Authority (NAA) on Thursday released its audit into the government’s financial management in 2008. The 38-page report is only the third such audit carried out since the department opened in 2000 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Taking the stand for the first time since his arrest at a garment worker protest that turned violent in early January, union leader Vorn Pao told the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday that he went to the protest only to make peace and was ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly three years after it was shut down for supposed renovations, Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon Referral Hospital is still not operational and former staff say they have been left out in the cold about what will happen to the site. Commune, district, municipal and national health ss='cambodia-color'>...

A fleet of 10 municipal buses was set to roll out early this morning, commencing a one-month public bus service trial along a single route on Monivong Boulevard. If successful, the bus route will mark the first step in establishing a long-overdue public transit system to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Vietnam and China lead the pack of foreign companies granted economic land concessions in Cambodia for agro-industrial development by a wide margin, new data released by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries show. According to the ministry’s annual report, released last month, since 1993 the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Seven pre-Angkorian templeS have been diScovered on two land conceSSionS in Preah Vihear province, but while an Environment MiniStry official Said TueSday that the miniStry had no knowledge of the templeS when they granted the conceSSionS, the Culture MiniStry Said their exiStence had long been SS='cambodia-color'>...

Chea Mony, president of the opposition-aligned Free Trade Union (FTU), said Tuesday that his union, one of the largest in the country, will not be joining other labor groups planning to rally on International Workers’ Day because he has been sick and traveling in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sand-dredging waS SuSpended in Siem Reap province&rSquo;S Banteay Srei diStrict on Monday after it waS found that unlicenSed operationS had polluted creekS, leaving fiSh dead and impacting reSidentS. Banteay Srei diStrict governor Khim Finan told The PoSt on TueSday that it had been found that SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom has welcomed 13 newborn Irrawaddy dolphins in Kratie and stung Treng provinces so far this year, according to the World Wildlife Fund. WWF yesterday said in a report its research team spotted the latest calf during an expedition to the Kampi dolphin pool ss='cambodia-color'>...

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 ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Bunong ethnic community in Mondulkiri province’s Me Pai village, Pou Chrei commune, in Pech Chreada district alleged that an estimated 100ha of protected forest at the foot of the Phnom Preah mountain had been illegally logged with help from local authorities. sreunh sinuon, a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Uncle Elephant, a short film that depicts Cambodia’s efforts to conserve Asian elephants and the rich resources in the Prey Lang area, will be showcased at the World Wildlife Film Festival on March 3 in New York, Us. Wild Earth Allies (Cambodia) country director Tuy serey ss='cambodia-color'>...

On a farm in Kampong Speu province, Erm Rim iS talking to a Small crowd of conSumerS and journaliStS, explaining the proceSS of growing vegetableS uSing only natural reSourceS. Rim talkS on the SidelineS of a conSumer field trip organiSed by the Cambodian Center for SS='cambodia-color'>...

Close to 2,000 people, including monks, NGO workers and citizens, marched peacefully to the Ministry of Justice yesterday morning, defying City Hall’s ban on the Human Rights Day protest.Demonstrators from 16 different provinces marched from three separate locations – the senate, Chenla Cinema and Wat ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ruon Thol plans to harvest his rice crop early next month. The farmer spent more than 6 million riel (about $1,500) this wet season to cultivate his four hectares of farmland in Battambang province’s Banan district. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge on Wednesday rejected the prosecution’s request that former Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) president Kem sokha be rearrested for allegedly violating his bail conditions. ss='cambodia-color'>...