Cambodia News: Phnom Penh Post

MANCHESTER United squandered the chance to win their Champions League group on Wednesday after a lacklustre display got what it deserved in a 2-1 ...

TWO-TIME Grand Slam mixed doubles champion Justin Gimelstob pleaded not guilty to a felony battery charge in a Los Angeles court on Wednesday.

Irrepressible, linguistically adept, and astonishingly well-connected – the second Canadian being investigated for allegedly harming Chinese state security is a ...

Pakistan on Monday reaffirmed its commitment to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) by pledging to complete it as a national priority.

Donald Trump's former lawyer apologised on Wednesday for covering up the “dirty deeds” of his ex-boss as he was sentenced to three years for multiple crimes ...

WITH cat-like humans, soldiers infiltrating an art gallery and brainwashed cadets, dystopian Ten Years Thailand is the latest in a pan-Asian film series aiming to ...

BLOODIED but not yet beaten, Prime Minister Theresa May comes to Brussels for the second time in three days on Thursday, battling to save her Brexit deal and ...

While growth is set to ease next year, Vietnam will still be among the top 10 fastest-growing economies globally, according to the Economic Insight: South-East ...

Thailand will play a leading role in implementing the smart-city network covering 26 cities in the 10 Asean countries as it takes over as the bloc's chair next year, ...

Vietnam is expected to remain one of the top 10 remittance receivers this year, according to the latest edition of the World Bank's Migration and Development ...

Phillip Capital which commenced its business in Cambodia almost a decade ago has grown by leaps and bounds, and offers a bouquet of financial services ...

The peer-to-peer (P2P) lending model could possibly transform micro-financing and add to Cambodia's digital financial ecosystem, which is fast gaining ...

At least once a year people go for their health check-up to make sure their health condition is good. But many people don't do their financial health check,” ...

The 10-day US Foods Week, which demonstrated the rising demand for American food among Cambodians and chefs, ended on Wednesday in style with an ...

PhillipCapital, headquartered in Singapore, operates in financial hubs of over 15 countries, including Australia, Cambodia, China, France, Hong Kong, India, ...

Ministers of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) expressed their commitment to increase regional cooperation in digital connection and adopt a Cross-Border ...

Cambodian and Thai mine authorities have agreed to step up cooperation in demining activities along the two countries' frontier, the former's top official said on ...

Speaking at the opening of the 7th Sea Festival in Koh Kong province on Thursday, Tourism Minister Thong Khon projected that coastal provinces will receive ...

A Cambodian IT student has turned his back on the world of computers and set his sights on something far more unusual and creative – designing traditional ...

A policeman will attend the provincial court in Kampong Thom on December 14 on drugs charges, after he was detained by anti-drug police on Wednesday in ...

An alleged documentary film producer was sent to court on Thursday after being extradited to Cambodia from Thailand, a court official said. “The court will ...

Ayear ago, on the 11th of December 2017, just one day after the celebration of Human Rights Day, Christmas came early for the advocates of child rights when ...

A Joint task force, which included the Svay Rieng provincial department of labour and vocational training, has fined over 1000 Chinese nationals who live and ...

Fourteen homemade guns were handed in to Bakeo district police on Wednesday by Jarai minority villagers from Ratanakkiri province's Kak commune.

Youth for Road Safety, a network of students from four universities in Phnom Penh, is set to launch an awareness-raising campaign in an attempt to reduce the ...

Bilateral trade between Cambodia and Vietnam reached record highs this year with trade volume amounting to $3.06 billion during the first 10 months of 2018, ...

On a tropical sweaty late morning, hundreds of black and white cattle are being kept cool by wind blowing from giant fans. Holstein-Friesian cows are a rare sight ...

The Ministry of Public Works and Transport launched a phone app on Thursday which allows the people to report problems with the country's roads directly to ...

Chan Rotha is no ordinary man. He is leading a team of more than 4000 people. In a nutshell, he is a successful self-made corporate figure. Thirty eight-year old ...

What a year 2018 has been for Pi Pay. More users, more merchants, more financial partners, and many more exciting ways that we are changing the cashless ...

One hundred and fifty-seven new species of flora and fauna were discovered in the Greater Mekong region in 2017 – eight in Cambodia – according to a new ...

The Hydropower Lower Sesan II power plant, which will be launched next week, is set to add another 20 per cent to the Kingdom's current total electricity ...

Phnom Penh, Cambodia- December 11, 2018- DaraPay, one of the newestmobile payment solution providers in Cambodia,held a private gathering to celebrate ...

US embassy spokesman Arend C Zwartjes confirmed on Thursday that 46 Cambodians will be deported from the US to Cambodia later this month, even as ...

A former adviser to the Supreme Court- dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) announced on Thursday his intention to return to politics, the same ...

Messages of solidarity poured in on Wednesday from around the world on the one-year anniversary of the arrest of two Myanmar Reuters journalists who ...

A large haul of timber believed to have been illegally logged from the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary in Kampong Thom province has been impounded after being ...

There's drama behind the scenes at the ongoing 2018 Miss Universe Pageant in Thailand this year. A viral video making the rounds on social media seemingly ...

Affordable guesthouses are readily available in Preah Sihanouk province, but tourists are unaware of them, Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Wednesday.

Two people who lodged a complaint against the head of the Tuol Kork district tax office called on the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) to investigate the defendant's ...

Senior Cambodian police officials on Wednesday said Thai police would soon hand over the alleged producer of a documentary on sex trafficking judged to ...

A damning report into US gymnastics' sex abuse scandal lambasted the United States Olympic Committee on Monday, saying the body had helped create the ...

Church bells seized from the Philippines by US troops as war trophies over a century ago were returned on Tuesday, in a bid to turn the page on a difficult ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has denied and expressed regret over accusations made by the Cambodia Daily that it was ...

Local clothing manufacturers are encountering ongoing hurdles to survive and thrive, according to the Association of the Lao Garment Industry.

The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) signed a cooperation agreement with the Federation of Greek Industries and the Athens Chamber of ...

THAILAND'S junta on Tuesday lifted a ban on political campaigning ahead of the 2019 elections, more than four years after the restriction was imposed following ...

Unions have asked the government to set the minimum wage for the construction and *service* sectors and to solve the five other major problems facing them, ...

The Secretary General of the Disability Action Council announced on Monday that about 10000 disabled people are currently benefiting from the implementation ...

Pimelo farmers in Kratie province's Koh Trong island have expanded their cultivation after the fruit was awarded Geographical Indication (GI) status, said the Koh ...

Pursat provincial authorities have summoned representatives of protestors from four villages in Phnom Kravanh district's Samrong commune to appear on ...

Representatives of villagers locked in a land dispute for more than a decade said they have handed petitions to the EU, US and Chinese embassies and the ...

Four suspects were detained temporarily by Kratie provincial court after they were arrested on Saturday by Snuol district military police forces and rangers of Keo ...

The president of the Khmer National Liberation Front (KNLF), Sam Serey, said he expected the “procedure” to receive a royal pardon to begin soon. He had ...

Battambang Military Police arrested six suspects on Monday who is accused of felling a luxury timber tree in O'Samril commune's O'Romchek Krom village in ...

IN A a dimly lit corner of a bustling market in Mexico City, vendors of amulets, voodoo dolls and other mystical objects sell tiny, taxidermied hummingbirds as ...

The US and Saudi Arabia rank last when it comes to curbing climate change among the 56 nations accounting for 90 per cent of planet-warming greenhouse ...

The truce on US-China trade disputes at the G20 Summit in Buenos Aires has only temporarily put aside the underlying tension and differences of views across ...

The fourth industrial revolution is dramatically affecting labour markets around the world, including in Vietnam, creating new kinds of jobs for which there will be ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk openly derided the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in an interview aired on Sunday.

China summoned the US ambassador on Sunday to protest the arrest of a top executive from telecom giant Huawei in Canada, as Washington's top trade ...

THE recent massacre of civilian workers by separatist rebels in Indonesia's restive Papua province has cast a spotlight on one of the world's longest-running ...

Svay Rieng Deputy Governor Hem Piseth held a press conference on Monday ordering Chea Sokha, the Prasot market owner who illegally filled a lake in Svay ...

A senior official at the Ministry of Interior on Monday said that opposition leader Sam Rainsy would not be eligible for a reinstatement of his political rights if a ...

On Monday, police reported the discovery of nearly 30 cubic metres of timber in O'Pot Sanctuary, a forest located in Mondulkiri province's Pech Chreada district.

Committee members of the Kiri Sdachkong pagoda have agreed to the government's request to move the stone tablets bearing inscriptions dated to the year 633 ...

The Kratie provincial court on Saturday put a woman in pre-trial detention on a human trafficking charge after she was arrested for illegally sending migrant ...

The Phnom Penh Post's chief sports writer Hirisave Srikantaiah “HS” Manjunath passed away on Monday morning following complications after hurting himself ...

The public ferry operating on Tonle Sap and Tonle Bassac rivers between Phnom Penh and Takhmao town will continue to be a free *service* until the end of ...

The governor of Preah Sihanouk province on Monday refuted claims by Khmer Rise Party (KRP) president Sok Sovann Vathana Sabung that he had colluded ...

Five men appeared at Preah Sihanouk provincial court on Monday charged with posing as monks in a scam designed to collect money for alcohol and drugs.

On Human Rights Day on Monday, Prime Minister Hun Sen expressed pride that since the end of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in 1979, Cambodian ...

The famous Jet's Container Night Market in central Phnom Penh has shut down due to the high cost of the land rental, company representatives claim.

Senior officials at the Ministry of National Defence have confirmed that the government's decision to recruit 209 new personnel for the bodyguard unit (BGU) is ...

Cambodian Human Rights Committee president Keo Remy said the human rights situation in the Kingdom is good compared to neighbouring countries, as well ...

Speculation that Cambodia had ceded military control of a port in Koh Kong province reached a fever pitch in the weeks following Prime Minister Hun Sen's ...

Ever since she was a child, eating out was one of life's great pleasures for 29-year-old Elite Sethavrath, co-owner of Boat Noodles Restaurant in Phnom Penh.

The government has spent about $5.7 million in maternity pay for more than 58000 workers so far this year, said a National Social Security Fund report obtained ...

An environmental activist and former employee of Mother Nature Cambodia has claimed that the Preah Sihanouk provincial administration lacks proper control ...

Kratie provincial court granted Military Police permission to bring two suspects involved with operating an illegal charcoal kiln back to a provincial military police ...

Phnom Penh authorities have banned a planned march as local NGOs and workers' unions gear up to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the signing of the ...

The Cambodian Embassy in Bangkok last week said they could not accept the extradition request of Vietnamese inmates who asked to be moved from ...

The ministries of Justice and Interior have begun a joint initiative to expedite legal procedures aimed at addressing Cambodia's growing problem of ...

After having formed a “government in exile” in 2016, the Khmer National Liberation Front of Sam Serey said it will register as a legitimate political party on ...

Cambodian People's Party (CPP) spokesman Sok Eysan accused human rights groups on Sunday of practising “double standards” for failing to criticise the ...

Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday heard the case of six trade union leaders who were sued by the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia ...

THE Immigration Department of the Ministry of Interior on Thursday deported 235 Chinese nationals, 35 of whom were female, via the Phnom Penh International ...

A GOVERNMENT spokesman on Thursday accused an official from the Khmer People's National Liberation Front (KNLF) – a group claiming to be Cambodia's ...

The value of volunteering work is underestimated by Cambodia's youth, according to Sean Borat, secretary of state at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport ...

An international Labour Organisation (ILO) report released on Tuesday shows that Cambodia continues to make steady progress in the welfare of garment and ...

Two people were killed and two others injured in two separate fires in Phnom Penh on Tuesday and Wednesday. Municipal fire department director Prom Yorn ...

The US has urged Cambodia to restore the independence of the media, drop charges against Kem Sokha and other political prisoners, and end the prohibition ...

Cambodia as a country, we are told, has gone completely haywire and needs to be rescued immediately at any cost because its very survival is at stake.

Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC), which is developing the Chaom Chao roundabout overpass and subway, said the company began clearing ...

The International Coordinating Committee for the Safeguarding and Development of the Historic Site of Angkor (ICC-Angkor) kicked off its two-day plenary ...

In his message on celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation, known by its French acronym FUNSK, Prime Minister ...

A Chinese national was charged at the Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court with murder on Monday, after he stabbed a man to death on Sunday. Li Ruming, 24 ...

A Chinese national was sent to Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Sunday after he allegedly slashed a police official and an old woman with a meat cleaver the ...

The government on Thursday rejected a request by the leader of the Khmer National Liberation Front (KNLF), Sam Serey, to be allowed to form a legitimate ...

UK HAI Seila, the director of investigations at the Ministry of Interior's General Department of Immigration, told The Post on Tuesday that 235 Chinese nationals ...