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The Anti-Corruption Unit yesterday started registering volunteer observers for the Grade 12 National Exam to monitor the process and guard against cheating. The ACU said it needed between 4,500 and 5,000 volunteer observers for the August 20 exam. ...

Tourism officials and industry insiders say the upcoming election is not affecting the flow on tourists into the Kingdom. Kong Sophearak, director of the Statistics Department of the Ministry of Tourism, told Khmer Times that despite this month’s election and the ongoing political rallies throughout ...

The government has officially launched its new strategy for the cassava industry, which aims to position Cambodia as a reliable supplier of cassava-based products to the global market, according to a high-ranking government official. ...

Opposition party and civil society leaders spoke out on Tuesday against a move by the National Election Committee (NEC) that prohibits supporters of any party from attacking or criticising the platform of another. Several opposition politicians called it an act against democracy, while the NEC’s ...

Activists in the northern provinces of Cambodia claimed on Tuesday that while police forces are busy providing security for the July 29 national elections, they are witnessing a worrying spike in forest crimes. Prey Lang Community Network activist Phok Hong told The Post that forest ...

About 1,000 Cambodians allegedly working illegally in Thailand were arrested and deported after the Thai government declared an end to a grace period for labourers, a member of the official receiving committee at the border in Poipet said Monday. ...

The campaign season is now underway in the Kingdom and at least three political parties have included in their platform promises to release the “political prisoners” of the court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) should they win the July 29 polls. ...

A new laboratory for testing local products and issue quality certificates will open in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district by the end of 2019, the Ministry of Handicraft recently announced. ...

South Korea has pledged to help Cambodia tackle some of the main issues affecting the agriculture sector. The pledge was made during talks last week between Veng Sakhon, Minister of Agriculture and Oh Nak-young, South Korean Ambassador to Cambodia. ...

Cambodia and Thailand on Friday concluded negotiations on the transport of goods and people by train across their shared border, with an official agreement expected to be signed in upcoming months. ...

The ruling CPP held its first rally for the national election here on Saturday with the aim of drumming up enough support to reclaim the two seats that it lost to the former opposition in 2013. The rally was led by Deputy Prime Minister Men ...

Telecom Cambodia aims to enhance access to the internet for students across the nation with a recently launched programme that seeks to equip high schools in the provinces with modern equipment, including free Wi-Fi. ...

At least 107 cameras deployed for tracking endangered wildlife in the northeast provinces of Cambodia were dismantled or destroyed by poachers, according to a provincial environment official on Thursday. Mondulkiri Provincial Environment Department director Keo Sopheak told The Post that the dismantling of the cameras ...

Cambodia on Wednesday (July 4) reopened the final stretch of a railway running from the capital, Phnom Penh, to the border with neighbouring Thailand, the first time the line has been operational in 45 years. ...

​China’s environment deputy minister, Zhao Yingmin, is due to pay a visit to Cambodia to sign a number of agreements focusing on clean water production, according to the Ministry of Environment. ...

In less than four weeks, millions of Cambodians will head to the polling stations to exercise their democratic right to shape their country’s future. It will be the country’s biggest festival of democracy as 20 political parties are taking part despite a call for a ...

National Election Committee (NEC) spokesperson Hang Puthea said on Wednesday that it should not come as a surprise that the committee has rented two helicopters for three days during the election period. This, he said, was because the NEC had done so consistently for every ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday reiterated his promise to willingly hand over power to a new leader should he lose the July 29 national elections. However, he was quick to point out that he expects to maintain his position as there isn’t any other ...

Three ministries have jointly warned the public that as of Thursday, they will act against social media users and websites found spreading “fake news disturbing social security and causing chaos, confusion and a loss of trust in the upcoming [July 29 national] elections”. Fake news ...

In addition to the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) rally on Saturday, which its spokesman says would see some 100,000 supporters attending, two other parties announced plans for events that day to kick off their parties’ campaign period. ...

The Cambodian tourism sector is set for more spectacular growth in the next few years, thanks to industry promotion and networking through the Cambodia Tourism Federation (CTF) and support from the Ministry of Tourism. ...

The Ministry of Interior on Tuesday ordered village and commune chiefs across Cambodia to not abuse their position, and the resources that come with it, by campaigning ahead of the Kingdom’s July 29 national elections. ...

The Environment and Education ministries have unveiled the official textbook on climate change for upper secondary schools. Under-secretary of state of the Environment Ministry Khut Chandara said at the official launch of the book on Monday that education played an important role in social, economic ...

Prince Sisowath Thomico, a cousin of King Norodom Sihamoni, strenuously denied a Fresh News report that he was the mastermind behind a group of opposition activists planning to disrupt the July 29 national elections. The report on Monday said that on a recent evening, a ...