A teachers’ union has accused education officials in Oddar Meanchey province’s Anlong Veng district of stealing 21 million riel, or about $5,200, that had been slated as overtime payments for primary school teachers. In a letter sent to the Education Ministry on Monday, the Cambodia Independent ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia vehemently denied that it has supported Japan‘s plan to enhance its military role, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday. “The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation wishes to strongly reject the recent publications of Kyodo ss='cambodia-color'>...

Taking a markedly different approach from Monday’s violent breakup of a peaceful demonstration at Freedom Park, authorities yesterday stood back as about 100 activists marched around central Phnom Penh, delivering a petition to embassies and the United Nations. District security guards and riot police initially seemed ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sinohydro Corporation haS taken over the conceSSion to build the Stung Cheay Areng dam in Koh Kong province and iS preparing for the early StageS of conStruction, according to a company repreSentative and government officialS. Ith Prang, Secretary of State at the MiniStry of MineS and SS='cambodia-color'>...

Thousands of workers at the Wing star shoes factory demonstrated Tuesday for the second day in a row outside the factory in Kom­pong speu province after a meeting between union and company officials failed to reach an agreement that would end an ongoing strike, worker ss='cambodia-color'>...

Preah Vihear provincial governor Oum Mara has sent a letter to inform Interior Minister sar Kheng that he is ordering an NGO to close its local offices, on the grounds that the organization is inciting villagers to destroy sugarcane farmed by a Chinese company. In the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dozens of representatives from at least 100 recently evicted families accused of illegally occupying state land in Kratie province traveled to Phnom Penh on Monday morning to petition Prime Minister Hun sen for his help getting their land back. The families say local authorities have been ss='cambodia-color'>...

A deputy commune chief in Battambang City filed a complaint Monday with the provincial election committee (PEC), accusing the CNRP of failing to inform him when they publicly screened a political video in his commune on May 6 and 7. “I have received this complaint,” said ss='cambodia-color'>...

In yet another case of Cambodian women facing abuse in China, a 19-year-old told the Post yesterday that she has taken to living on the streets after the consulate in shanghai refused to pay for her repatriation. Kim sophea*, who claims she has been forced into marriage in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two NGOs on Monday launched an online campaign to galvanize public support for providing students with free textbooks after a survey found that 85 percent of high-school pupils lack the necessary books for their studies. The Khmer Institute for National Development (KIND) and the Affiliated Network ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Koh Kong Provincial Court has temporarily suspended the business of two-star major general Tun Dieth and ordered him to dig out the soil with which he had filled in a canal in Khemarak Phoumin city’s smach Meanchey commune after he was accused of land ss='cambodia-color'>...

With incidents of costly human-caused forest fires continuing to occur every year, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has issued an instruction outlining that those responsible for such blazes face three to 10 years in prison. signed by Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three of five land dispute victims, representing 150 families in Banteay Meanchey province’s slakram commune, on Tuesday sued provincial governor Um Reatrey and five others for manslaughter, and the use of intentional violence against them while they were detained for protesting outside the provincial hall ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sub-national officialS and communitieS in the province are concerned about the impact of LaoS&rSquo; Don Sahong hydropower dam on the endangered Irrawaddy dolphin population in the downStream Mekong River. According to ReuterS, the dam began operationS and connected itS power grid to the Kingdom earlier SS='cambodia-color'>...

Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng sakhon on Wednesday stressed the importance of forest resources and the need to protect them to boost the economy and livelihoods of forest communities while maintaining a sustainable environment. At the Forestry Administration’s annual review meeting, attended by ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 200 markers planted illegally in Mondulkiri’s O’Raing district have been removed, with provincial authorities now on the lookout for those responsible for the crime. O’Raing district governor siek Mony told The Post on saturday that some 10 police officers went to sen Monorom ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Women’s Media Centre of Cambodia (WMC) has launched an information verification website named ‘Crosscheck WMC’ to combat the spread of misinformation on social media. It will enable the public to verify information from a number of sources to identify whether the information is true ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen said the EU’s possible suspension of its Everything But Arms (EBA) agreement amounted to a destruction of its achievements in the Kingdom and the demise of the opposition group. Hun sen made the remarks while addressing more than 6,700 students during ss='cambodia-color'>...

Registrations for trademarks rose slightly in the first 11 months of last year compared to the same period in 2018, the Ministry of Commerce’s Results Review and Implementation Plan for 2020 report stated. The report showed that trademark registrations rose by 2.13 per cent to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom’s rubber exports saw a 24 per cent increase over the first 11 months of last year compared to the same period in 2018, data from the General Directorate of Rubber obtained by The Post on Tuesday showed. Pol sopha, the director-general of the ss='cambodia-color'>...