Election monitors say a test of election ink that found it easily washable, and therefore a concern for fraudulent voting, was made in the spirit of transparency, and not to create “turmoil” ahead of sunday’s polls. The election watchdog Comfrel on Friday tested the ink, provided ss='cambodia-color'>...

“These are the best quality stones,” Lat Yun says with a grin. Nestled in his outstretched hand are three unassuming rocks. “I don’t know what they’re called, I just know they’re the best.” The gemstones of Ratanakkiri are a mineral called zircon, but in Cambodia, they ss='cambodia-color'>...

Law and order in Cambodia this year has been a strange mix of the brutal and the bizarre. From horrific murders to the police’s decision to deliver crystal meth to phony hostage-takers during a bank heist, crime has continually made headlines in a year when the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government reforested 80,693 hectares of land between 2008 and 2012 as part of its efforts to combat deforestation, a recent agriculture ministry report says, but these seemingly impressive statistics were reached by counting rubber trees and other agricultural crops as adequate replacements for forests. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

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During his second day under questioning on charges of inciting violence and property damage at a January 2 protest, union leader Vorn Pao was presented with photographs showing his tuk-tuk packed with rocks, and a video of him calling on low-ranking police to turn their ss='cambodia-color'>...

While protesters demonstrated outside, urging land and human-rights reform, members of the donor community met with the government yesterday at the Council for the Development of Cambodia in Phnom Penh to sign off on a series of development targets that bore only a faint resemblance to those ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has met 70 per cent of the basic requirements needed to join the AsEAN Economic Community (AEC), Prime Minister Hun sen said yesterday, referring to a recently updated report issued by the economic block. The Kingdom ranked third in preparedness among the 10 AsEAN member ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 160 villagers from Kratie province’s Meanchey village cancelled plans to block National Road 7 yesterday after provincial authorities and a Vietnamese rubber company agreed to their requests regarding an ongoing land dispute, but some expressed skepticism that the agreement would last. Village representative saren ss='cambodia-color'>...

Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith is the man who gunned down three unarmed women at a protest last week, Interior Minister sar Kheng alleged yesterday, saying an official complaint had been filed against him. Outside an unrelated conference, the minister told reporters the governor would ss='cambodia-color'>...

PHNOM PENH: The 8th Asia Economic Forum kicked off here on saturday, focusing on reviewing the AsEAN achievements in the past 45 years and looking at opportunities and challenges toward the realization of an AsEAN community by 2015. The 2-day forum has been attending by some ss='cambodia-color'>...

Vietnamese rice exporters will face tough competition from foreign countries looking to exploit advantages that Cambodia presents as a beneficiary of the the EBA (Everything But Arms) initiative, says an Econet report. Under the EBA, Cambodia, as a least-developed-country, enjoys zero tariffs and no quotas ss='cambodia-color'>...

England promised to invest in Cambodian around Us$ 2.22 billion make total investment projects in country during 7 month of the year increased up to Us$ 5.5 billion, Council for Development of Cambodia (CDC)’s reported to the media. According to the report, in the first ss='cambodia-color'>...

Chinese President Hu Jintao and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen agreed here saturday to advance the comprehensive relations of strategic cooperation and partnership between their two countries. In a meeting, the two leaders pledged to expand mutually beneficial cooperation in all fields and to double the ss='cambodia-color'>...

As Europe continues to navigate its way through a two-year debt crisis, EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht yesterday sought to put Europe at the center of southeast Asia’s future at the EU-Asean Business summit in Phnom Penh, and urged EU investors to take advantage ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has instructed the Minister of Justice to work with prosecutors to release on bail under court supervision those activists who had supported sam Rainsy’s plan to return and overthrow the government. speaking at the inauguration of a cement factory in Kampot ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thai firm B Grimm Power Pcl has invested in a 30MW solar project in Cambodia, Ministry of Mines and Energy spokesman Victor Jona said on Wednesday. Jona, who is the director-general of the ministry’s General Department of Energy, told The Post that he welcomed the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A remote jail opened more than five years ago to lessen chronic overcrowding in the prison system is also operating as a farming business, where free labour is seemingly used to yield big profits for senior staff.When Correctional Centre 4 (CC4) opened its gates in ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Environment has announced that it will collaborate with Hungary to implement a pilot project to solve sewage system issues in towns in some provinces. A representative for the Hungarian Embassy in Cambodia, Zoltan Gyorgy Horvath, met with the ministry’s secretary of state, sao ss='cambodia-color'>...

The provincial administration and the Department of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction in Mondulkiri province planted 53 stone markers around the Doh Kramom mountain area to protect it from any further encroachments. But the indigenous community claimed that the planting of markers, which was ss='cambodia-color'>...