The Phnom Penh Post

Authorities allowing logging, activists say

Villagers and NGOs have accused local authorities, including forestry and environmental officials, of accepting bribes from illegal loggers in exchange for unfettered logging expeditions in Preah Vihear province’s Preah Roka protected forest. ...

Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-allowing-logging-activists-say

‘Completely forsaken’: Sokha and NGOs ask France and Indonesia to help save Paris Peace Accords

Jailed opposition leader Kem Sokha, exiled former opposition leader Sam Rainsy and more than 50 human rights NGOs called on France and Indonesia to reconvene the signatories to the Paris Peace Accords yesterday amid fears that the historic treaty is in danger of being “completely ...

Leonie Kijewski, Ben Sokhean and Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/completely-forsaken-sokha-and-ngos-ask-france-and-indonesia-help-save-paris-peace-accords

China to fund restoration of Angkor Thom site

China will fund a restoration project, slated to start in mid-2018, at an ancient royal palace complex within the Angkor Thom archaeological site in Siem Reap province, officials said yesterday. Long Kosal, spokesman for the Apsara Authority, said the palace is centuries old, and while ...

Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/china-fund-restoration-angkor-thom-site

CMAC lashes out at US comments

Government demining bodies have reacted to a United States Embassy statement on US-made chemical weapons uncovered in Svay Rieng, accusing the embassy of distorting facts and evading responsibility for its wartime legacy. ...

Phak Seangly and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-lashes-out-us-comments

Last Sesan holdouts sit tight

Villagers from Kbal Romeas, which will soon be completely inundated by the Lower Sesan II Dam, yesterday said they are still resolved not to leave their homes, contradicting accounts of an official who said the majority of the 58 families had already relocated last week. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/last-sesan-holdouts-sit-tight

Kris says oil field tapped by 2020

Singapore’s KrisEnergy, the operator of Cambodia’s offshore Block A in the Gulf of Thailand, announced on Friday that in 24 months the Kingdom will be an oil producing nation after the firm made its final investment decision that day for extraction in the Apsara oil ...

Kali Kotoski and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kris-says-oil-field-tapped-2020

Ministry asks Japan to help map out forests

The Ministry of Environment is asking Japan for help mapping Cambodia’s forests using satellite imagery, one week after it vehemently refuted a report of such imagery showing accelerating forest loss in the Kingdom. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-asks-japan-help-map-out-forests

Sweden worried over CNRP’s dissolution

A Swedish diplomat yesterday warned that the potential dissolution of the Cambodia National Rescue Party could lead the Scandinavian country to rethink its relationship with the Kingdom, though she didn’t detail which actions were on the table. ...

Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sweden-worried-over-cnrps-dissolution

Fatalities from traffic accidents up: report

National Police statistics yesterday showed an 11 percent increase in road traffic deaths in the first nine months of the year but a small decrease in injuries. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fatalities-traffic-accidents-report

Vietnam nationals arrested in Kratie timber bust

Six Vietnamese nationals were arrested on Wednesday afternoon in a Military Police raid that saw 30 officers confiscating at least 100 illegally felled trees and 10 logging vehicles from an economic land concession in Kratie province’s Snuol district near the border with Vietnam. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vietnam-nationals-arrested-kratie-timber-bust

NGO accused of plotting revolution

A senior Ministry of Defence official yesterday claimed that housing rights group Sahmakum Teang Tnaut (STT) had received close to half a million dollars a year from the United States to foment “colour revolution” among the land dispute groups it worked with – a claim ...

Niem Chheng and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-accused-plotting-revolution

Factory workers protest against contract offers

Workers from the Pou Yuen Cambodia garment factory in Sen Sok district yesterday protested outside the premises after the management decided to offer them only three-month contract extensions. ...

Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/factory-workers-protest-against-contract-offers

PM pledges new health centre over US bombs

In a speech to some 15,000 garment workers in Phnom Penh yesterday, Prime Minister Hun Sen returned to the topic of the United States’ war legacy in Cambodia, pledging to build a health centre for people purportedly suffering the after-effects of American chemical weapons in Svay ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-pledges-new-health-centre-over-us-bombs

CPP plans to reallocate legislative, local council seats get assembly nod

With the fate of the CNRP still in the Supreme Court’s hands, the National Assembly yesterday paved the way for all of the main opposition party’s seats to be handed over to a smattering of smaller parties and, at the local level, to the ruling ...

Mech Dara and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-plans-reallocate-legislative-local-council-seats-get-assembly-nod

Bracing for protests, authorities to prevent citizens from entering capital for Sokha trial

Anticipating popular unrest surrounding the “treason” trial of opposition leader Kem Sokha, Minister of Interior Sar Kheng on Friday instructed provincial governors, police chiefs and officers to block people from travelling to the capital and to prevent any attempts at demonstrations. ...

Mech Dara and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bracing-protests-authorities-prevent-citizens-entering-capital-sokha-trial

India health sector aims to bring in Cambodian patients

Indian companies in the pharmaceutical and health care sector are seeking to enhance their footprint in the Kingdom by extending beyond pharmaceutical trade through state financing that could establish a direct link to bring Cambodian medical tourists to the subcontinent. ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/india-health-sector-aims-bring-cambodian-patients

As CNRP’s dissolution looms, small parties look set to enter a big stage

The seemingly impending demise of Cambodia’s main opposition, and the snap draft laws put in motion to replace them in parliament, threatens to throw a handful of obscure parties into the political arena at the highest level. ...

Ben Sokhean and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrps-dissolution-looms-small-parties-look-set-enter-big-stage

Assembly gives thumbs up to anti-dumping measures

The National Assembly yesterday passed a trade remedy law that aims to protect and help local and foreign businesses by introducing anti-dumping measures that prevent the “dishonest” import of goods and produce from neighbouring countries, according to a press release. ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/assembly-gives-thumbs-anti-dumping-measures

Hun Sen spins demise of CNRP into boon for democracy

“They talk about the multi-party problem, but I want to confirm that when the one party is dissolved, there will be five parties that will replace it. That means that it will go from two parties to six parties in the National Assembly,” Hun Sen ...

Andrew Nachemson and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-spins-demise-cnrp-boon-democracy

Ministry disputes forests data

The Ministry of Environment released a statement late Tuesday night vehemently refuting University of Maryland data that showed a 30 percent spike in forest cover loss in 2016 over the year before, pointing instead to its own data showing only minimal deforestation over the same ...

Phak Seangly and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-disputes-forests-data

Vietnam asks ‘migrants’ rights be respected

The Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded on Tuesday to reports that Cambodia plans to revoke documents from thousands of ethnic Vietnamese, urging the Kingdom to respect legal rights during the process. ...

Andrew Nachemson and Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vietnam-asks-migrants-rights-be-respected

Soaring VAT collection boosts tax revenue

The General Department of Taxation collected $1.54 billion in tax revenue during the first nine months of the year, a 29 percent increase compared to the same period last year, it said in a press release yesterday. ...

Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/soaring-vat-collection-boosts-tax-revenue

Government studying migrant issues

Interior Minister Sar Kheng yesterday announced he has formed an assessment group – with representation from the ministry’s identification and immigration departments as well as the Ministry of Labour – to study the issues affecting Cambodian migrant workers and provide recommendations to fix them. ...

Kong Meta and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-studying-migrant-issues

CPP rewriting rules again, with amendments planned to political laws to redistribute CNRP seats

The Cambodian People’s Party is rewriting the nation’s political laws yet again, this time to allow the Cambodia National Rescue Party’s 55 parliamentary seats to be dished out to minor parties – with royalist Funcinpec the main beneficiary in the sweep – in the event ...

Niem Chheng, Ananth Baliga and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-rewriting-rules-again-amendments-planned-political-laws-redistribute-cnrp-seats

Contact us

Contact us

Do you have questions on the content published by Open Development Cambodia (ODC)? We will gladly help you.

Have you found a technical problem or issue on the Open Development Cambodia (ODC) website?

Tell us how we're doing.

Do you have resources that could help expand the Open Development Cambodia (ODC) website? We will review any map data, laws, articles, and documents that we do not yet have and see if we can implement them into our site. Please make sure the resources are in the public domain or fall under a Creative Commons license.

File was deleted
ERROR!

Disclaimer: Open Development Cambodia (ODC) will thoroughly review all submitted resources for integrity and relevancy before the resources are hosted. All hosted resources will be in the public domain, or licensed under Creative Commons. We thank you for your support.

LSYzE
* The idea box couldn't be blank! Something's gone wrong, Please Resubmit the form! Please add the code correctly​ first.

Thank you for taking the time to get in contact!