The Cambodian government expects U.s. oil major Chevron Corp. CVX +0.77% to begin developing the country’s first offshore oil field early next year, and hopes the nation will become a regional hot spot for oil and gas investment, a government official said Wednesday. Cambodia has vast untapped oil and gas resources ss='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has just added two new features​ of Veal Ou Kdey and Phnom Raing community forestry to Community forestry​ profile page, thereby expanding the profile page to contain a total of 339 community forests in Cambodia. Published with comprehensive documentation, the profile ss='cambodia-color'>...

Decentralization and deconcentration are seen as “internally driven” reforms1, where the national government gradually delegates power, involving either administration or finance, to local governments to administer in their locality.27-year-old sun sovath supports his family by raising chickens, in Kampong Thom, Cambodia. Photo by World Bank Photo ss='cambodia-color'>...

DUBAI — The Founding Committee of Rice Dubai 2011 is led by a businessman in Dubai, Dr Faisal Ali Mousa who will lead a core delegation to Cambodia in the first week of september to explore the possibilities of the Royal Government of Cambodia entering ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite the hype surrounding the advent of fourth-generation mobile services, the bulk of growth and profits in Cambodian telecom remains in 3G networks, experts say. A recent study by London-based research firm Ovum notes that emerging markets such as Cambodia will see rapid growth in 3G ss='cambodia-color'>...

Revenues from Cambodian corn exports fell by 52 per cent last year as farmers scrapped the crop for the more lucrative, but less stable, cassava plant. The Kingdom exported 35,381 tonnes of corn, worth Us$2.2 million, in 2011, down from 86,533 tonnes worth $4.57 million the ss='cambodia-color'>...

When Reaksmey (not his real name) was in high school two years ago, he and his classmates were urged to attend the supplementary classes taught by their teachers before and after regular school hours. For an hour before school and two to three hours after each ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following a three-hour debate at the National Assembly, lawmakers passed a draft law approving the $2.5 billion the government spent in 2010. During the debate, CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap presented a 10-page document that he said justified the $2.5 billion in spending, which was 25 percent ss='cambodia-color'>...

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Cambodia is planning talks with the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) to purchase 300MW of power, Ministry of Mines and Energy official Victor Jona said on Tuesday. Jona, the director-general of the ministry’s General Department of Energy, told The Post that the talks could ss='cambodia-color'>...

Minister of Public Works and Transport sun Chanthol on Tuesday called on China’s Hunan province to promote bilateral trade, cooperation and investment, and seize opportunities in many potential sectors. He was speaking at the Hunan Investment Promotion and Machinery Expo in Phnom Penh on Tuesday to ss='cambodia-color'>...

US preSident Donald Trump haS expreSSed the US&rSquo; commitment to reSpecting Cambodia&rSquo;S Sovereignty and invited Prime MiniSter Hun Sen to attend the US-ASean Summit in the US next year. Trump made the pledge and invitation in two Separate letterS addreSSed to Hun Sen early thiS SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Apsara National Authority expressed concern over illegally built structures along siem Reap’s Angkor resort area. Apsara National Authority spokesman Long Kosal told The Post on Monday that many residents of the Angkor resort area, who had requested building permits from the Apsara National Authority, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ninety-five out of the 317 families who were locked in a long-running land dispute with Oknha Ly Yong Phat’s sugar company since 2006 accepted the solution to end the dispute under a compromise negotiated by the Koh Kong provincial authority. Provincial deputy governor sok sothy, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia and Korea have joined hands to study the legislation of occupational health and safety regulations for employees at factories and business enterprises. The project was initiated on Thursday at the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training when Minister Ith sam Heng met with Choi Heaeun, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and sport Hang Chuon Naron said on Monday that with the government’s long-standing partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP) and many other partners, Cambodia is now preparing its school feeding implementation to be fully homegrown.​ speaking on the sidelines of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Heng Hak wore a blank expression yesterday, her hair recently dyed a shade of blonde. Though her appearance suggested composure, a lift of her pant leg revealed the manifestation of the trauma she tried to escape last year. In March 2011, Hak jumped from the third ss='cambodia-color'>...

Christmas shoppers stand to be taken by surprise this month as campaigners take action in shopping centers around Europe to raise awareness of poverty wages of Cambodian garment workers. With these ‘fashion mobs’, they pressure H&M, Inditex (Zara), Levi’s and Gap to introduce a living ss='cambodia-color'>...

One of Cambodia’s true rags-to-riches success stories is that of Din somethearith, co-founder and executive director of Frangipani Villa Hotels. Frangipani, named for the blossoming tree, is a chain of boutique hotels, one of which is located just off street 178 at number 43, down a ss='cambodia-color'>...