Despite a wave of international concern over the shutdown of independent media Voice of Democracy (VOD), Prime Minister Hun sen said that the outlet’s license will not be restored and offered VOD reporters government jobs instead in a Facebook post Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A joint-party task force that the National Election Committee (NEC) on saturday announced would be set up to investigate alleged irregularities during the July 28 national election was abruptly abandoned sunday, with NEC President Im sousdey announcing that his organization will instead push ahead with ss='cambodia-color'>...

The relations between People’s Republic of China and Cambodia have become closer in the way of culture, in which China is the most important strategic development partner in improving Cambodia’s economic growth through both financial and technical grant aids,” Mr. Eang sophalet, assistant to samdech ss='cambodia-color'>...

A mid [sic] global economic fragility, foreign direct investment (FDI) in Cambodia grew a whopping 73 per cent in 2012 from the year before, a huge increase helping to fuel a record-setting amount of money pouring into least developed countries, according to the United Nations ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the week before the National Election Committee was formed in December 1997, Chheng Phon predicted he had a tough road ahead. “If you ask me personally, I must say I do not want this job,” the inaugural boss told the Post from the banks of a canal ss='cambodia-color'>...

The governments of Australia and France have congratulated Prime Minister Hun sen on his election victory, becoming the first key Western donors to do so since the official election results were released on september 8. UN secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also offered his congratulations to Hun sen ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thailand’s second-largest cement company has suspended a cement-plant project valued at about $200 million in Kampot province because of political uncertainty and better investment opportunities in Myanmar, according to a senior executive. Philippe Arto, the managing director of siam City Cement Public Company Limited (sCCC), said ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 10 percent of children in the country aged between 5 and 17 work as laborers, with more than 5 percent engaged in “hazardous labor,” a situation that must be addressed by the government, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said in a report released ss='cambodia-color'>...

The momentum toward large-scale dams on the Mekong River may be unstoppable, but governments must work fast to mitigate their effects on fisheries and biodiversity or risk long-term food insecurity for millions of people whose lives depend on the river and its tributaries, leading academics ss='cambodia-color'>...

A man apprehended by participants at a rally in Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on sunday after he was spotted carrying a concealed pistol, signed himself into Calmette Hospital by listing his occupation as “samdech Bodyguard,” in apparent reference to one of the three leaders of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The privately-operated International Ship RegiStry of Cambodia (ISROC), a South Korea-baSed company that ownS the rightS to regiSter foreign veSSelS under the Cambodian flag, told Ship ownerS laSt year that it waS not monitoring their obServance of international maritime lawS, and that it waS their SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s economy is expected to maintain the robust growth of over 7 percent this year even though the country is still trapped in political dispute and recovering from the aftermath of recent floods, senior officials and bankers said. But some analysts predicted that political trouble, coupled ss='cambodia-color'>...

Since her huSband waS arreSted in June and thrown in provincial priSon to await trial, Soam Chantha, 32, haS given birth to a baby boy. At the Same time the men have been locked up, police have failed to arreSt former Bavet governor Chhouk Bandith, SS='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy has asked the Asian Development Bank to suspend funding to Cambodia, whose government he says was not formed legally following the July elections. In a letter to ADB President Takehiko Nakao, sam Rainsy, president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, said the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Government officials have ordered the immediate demolition of two buildings located within blocks of the Royal Palace because the structures are taller than the allowed limit for buildings surrounding the palace, officials said Wednesday. One building, owned by Vat­tanac Properties, is located a block from the ss='cambodia-color'>...

An increasing number of Cambodians see themselves faring worse, a Gallup polls suggests. In a global survey released earlier this month, the Us-based firm ranked Cambodia near the very bottom in terms of life satisfaction, and it found that 34 percent of surveyed Cambodians consider themselves ss='cambodia-color'>...

SA&rSquo;ANG DISTRICT, Kandal province &ndaSh; A little over a month after SupporterS of Prime MiniSter Hun Sen forced the cancellation of an oppoSition party rally here, CNRP leaderS Sam RainSy and Kem Sokha returned to addreSS followerS and promiSe that the change that Swept away SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday sentenced three men of six suspects to prison terms for their role in the september 15 clashes on Monivong Bridge between police and stone throwing youths, during which a man was killed and several were wounded by police ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has for the first time admitted to major flaws in its efforts to protect the roughly 4,000 families losing land to a $143 million project it is funding to rehabilitate Cambodia’s dilapidated railway system. On Friday, the ADB said it would ss='cambodia-color'>...

Recent arrests by Thai authorities of groups of suspected Uighur refugees along the Cambodian border have experts convinced that Cambodia has once again become a transit hub for members of the minority group fleeing religious and political persecution in China. Last week, 14 Uighurs were reportedly ss='cambodia-color'>...