At a Wednesday meeting of the signatories to the Mekong Memorandum of Understanding on Drug Control, National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD) secretary-general Meas Virith requested participating countries and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to seek a solution for the region’s burgeoning ss='cambodia-color'>...

Charges against outspoken Adhoc head of monitoring Chan soveth are baseless, politically motivated and threaten to undermine human rights work in Cambodia, a coalition of NGOs said yesterday. soveth, who has been summonsed to court on August 24 over the vague charge of assisting “specific perpetrators”, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has given the green light to five new investment projects with a total investment capital of $65.6 million. According to the council’s press releases issued recently, the new projects approved are expected to create nearly 5,000 jobs for ss='cambodia-color'>...

The owner of a labor firm repeatedly accused of human trafficking, who is also the sister of one of the country’s top police officials, has been appointed head of the Association of Cambodian Recruitment Agencies (ACRA). Grave concerns have been expressed by rights groups over the appointment of Ung seang ss='cambodia-color'>...

The United StateS Agency for International Development yeSterday announced the proviSion of an additional grant worth $100,000 to SanSom Mlup Prey OrganiSation, through the Greening Prey Lang Project. The grant SeekS to Stimulate conServation effortS which include the promotion of wildlife-friendly farming in communitieS living SS='cambodia-color'>...

Newly appointed Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Chea Vandeth urged two Chinese telecom giants – China Communication Construction Co Ltd (CCCC) and Huawei Technologies Co Ltd – to further invest in the Kingdom’s telecommunications infrastructure in a move to bring Cambodia into the full realm ss='cambodia-color'>...

Since Sunday, Military Police and provincial police officialS have been&nbSp;Stopping outSiderS from entering&nbSp;SeSan diStrict&rSquo;S Srekor and Kbal Romea villageS aS 200 people &ndaSh; moStly ethnic minoritieS from all over Cambodia &ndaSh; continued to gather in defiance of the blockade for a SerieS of eventS, including SS='cambodia-color'>...

The lacklustre performance of Cambodia’s stock exchange, which has attracted only four companies since it launched in 2011 and whose stocks see days without a single trade, is expected to turn a corner soon, capital markets experts said during a panel discussion yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodians at home and abroad yesterday mourned the passing of peacekeeper Im sam, who was shot to death during a guerrilla ambush in Central African Republic. He was the Kingdom’s first peacekeeper to ever be killed in combat, officials said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee (NEC) and all political parties should urge citizens – including those overseas – to register to vote, Prime Minister Hun sen said yesterday, even as a prominent opposition lawmaker accused the government of offering “nothing” to enfranchise Cambodia’s thousands of migrant workers. ss='cambodia-color'>...

With the Kingdom’s main rice harvesting season wrapping up, just a fraction of a government emergency loan package that aimed at giving millers the liquidity they needed to purchase rice paddy duringthe harvest cycle has been disbursed, leaving the government and private sector divided on ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Planning has identified 20,000 more poor families in the country, bringing the total to over 580,000, while over 420,000 of them have received the government’s cash assistance. In the meantime, many social security cards from families not deemed to be poor have ss='cambodia-color'>...

Amid the outbreak of the coronavirus the government plans to trim the 2021 state budget to around $4 billion, accounting for about a 50 percent drop from this year’s state budget, including an 11.3 percent drop for social affairs and 6.4 percent for general administration. ss='cambodia-color'>...

BirdLife International Cambodia is testing a new buffalo breeding project by giving farmers female buffalo to breed as an alternative to hunting. The project aims to put an end to hunting in the Boeung Prek Lpov Protected Landscape in Takeo province’s Koh Andet and Borei Cholsar ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than enough vacant plots exist within Boeung Kak lake’s 12.44-hectare concession area to house those denied land permits, a new NGO report says. sahmakum Teang Tnaut claims to have found “a viable and practical” solution for households excluded from the unmarked land the prime minister ss='cambodia-color'>...

International market- research company TNs has announced the opening of the company’s first office in Cambodia, and has joined forces with MsD, a Cambodian market and social research firm that is a “long-standing partner”, an official company statement said. Ralf Matthaes has been appointed regional managing ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Commerce’s General Department of Consumer Protection, Competition and Fraud Repression will send a case involving the parents of 24 infants who were allegedly affected by consuming the milk powder products of Nutrilatt Master LM Co, Ltd to court on November 14. ss='cambodia-color'>...

At this week’s 2020 Global Blockchain Policy Forum,  Assistant Governor and Director-General of Central Banking, National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) Chea serey stressed the need for building public trust in financial institutions and how the new Bakong payment system and infrastructure, built on blockchain technology, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Stung Treng provincial authoritieS will work with integrated food-diStribution company Hun Ty Co Ltd to exploit the province&rSquo;S potential for crop cultivation and potentially Set up a proceSSing plant for export down the line, provincial adminiStration SpokeSman Men Kung told The PoSt on November 26. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The UAE Tuesday sent an aid plane carrying 5 metric tonnes of medical supplies and testing kits to Cambodia to bolster the country’s efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19. This aid will assist approximately 5,000 medical professionals as they work to contain the virus. ss='cambodia-color'>...