The Education Ministry on Monday defended a pro-CPP speech delivered to some 1,500 students at a university in Phnom Penh on Sunday, reasoning that the school did not breach the ministry’s new directive against political activity at academic institutions because classes had finished for the ...

Amid struggles by the Cambodian Veterans Association to live up to its pension obligations, Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered the minister of social affairs and the minister of finance to provide roughly $1.5 million to alleviate the issue ahead of the Pchum Ben holiday. ...

More than 1,000 people marched in Sihanoukville yesterday to raise awareness of the exploitation of child labour, said rights workers. Kong Socheat, child rights advocacy co-ordinator for Licadho, said the province had been chosen for its high rate of child labour, especially in the fishing sector ...

Vietnam Airlines has added another six flights per week to bring its current four per week to 10. Vietnam Airlines first flight to Phnom Penh was on January 1 this year. ...

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) free trade agreement, which took effect on Jan. 1, has affirmed the resurgence of multilateralism, Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn said. ...

Cambodia exports to the United States surged by 53.3 percent to $1,717.5 million in the first two months of this year, according to the figures from the US Census Bureau. ...

Landfilling is underway off the shore of Kampot as the government has transferred 600 hectares to a private company to develop a $1.7-billion port. ...

Cambodia is expected to attract 4 million international tourists in 2023, including 1million Chinese tourists. ...

The Royal Government of Cambodia yesterday unveiled a comprehensive five-year public debt management strategy for 2024 to 2028 which will reflect in the allocation of resources to various public infrastructure projects. ...

The Cambodian Royal School of Administration and Pudong Executive Leadership Academy of China signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enhance bilateral cooperation in the education sector. ...

The Covid-19 pandemic brought widespread economic disruption across the globe, and Cambodia was no exception. ...

Telekomunikasi Indonesia’s majority stake purchase of Cambodian mobile operator CamGSM is nearing the end of negotiations that have lasted almost a year Telkom’s planned purchase of CamGSM was part of a 1 trillion rupiah (US$116 million) acquisition strategy for 2012, the Indonesian newspaper Kontan reported yesterday ...

Hundreds of rosewood trees will be planted in Siem Reap province as a natural tourist site and to preserve the rare trees in Cambodia. The provincial information department said on Wednesday that the government planned to plant 500 rosewood trees on 1,888 hectares in Banteay ...

CMAC director-general Heng Ratana told The Post on Sunday that Japan has offered $3,536,680 for mine clearance throughout the Kingdom and another $300,000 for CMAC operations in Battambang province, which also involves supporting mine victims for 12 months starting from January 1 to December 31. ...

Yesterday was hailed as a “good day for pangolins” after a meeting of signatories to the CITES wildlife protection treaty decided to move the Asian species of “scaly anteater” to the agreement’s Appendix 1 category, which bans all commercial trade in the small mammals in ...

About 1,000 activists are planning to gather at the former Dey Krahorm neighborhood in central Phnom Penh this morning before marching to the Ministry of Land Management in protest of land and housing evictions, according to those involved, who dismissed City Hall’s ban of the ...

Political hopeful and self-exiled dissident Sourn Serey Ratha said Monday that he will make his return to Cambodia after spending years abroad on October 1, in time to mark the anniversary of the Paris Peace Agreement with a trip to the country’s contentious border with ...

The Stung Treng Provincial Court on Monday charged a goldsmith, three security guards and the manager of a market in Stung Treng City for negligence that contributed to the outbreak of a fire that gutted the market on Thursday, causing an estimated $1 million in ...

More than 1,000 families in Siem Reap province are facing clean water shortages as the water level at Baray Teuk Thla reservoir has fallen for the first time in several years due to the especially harsh drought conditions confronting the Kingdom in recent months.   ...

The Kompong Chhnang provincial government is in the process of evicting about 1,000 mostly Vietnamese families who live in the floating villages on the Tonle Sap river near the provincial capital, moving them up the river as part of a five-year plan to beautify the ...