Deputy Phnom Penh governor Khuong Sreng on Tuesday reversed course on a City Hall announcement that it was investigating Wat Samakki Raingsey over alleged anti-government behavior and secessionist designs, comments that sparked fears among its monks that the independent-minded pagoda would be shut down. During a ...

An increasing number of Cambodians are dissatisfied with the direction the country is moving toward, according to results from a nationwide survey by the Asia Foundation. The foundation interviewed 1,000 people face to face in May and June of this year—prior to a political deal struck ...

In conjunction with World Wildlife Day which fell on Tuesday, the Ministry of Environment has called on the people to stop eating wildlife meat and take part in the preservation and conservation of wildlife and natural resources. ...

The independent Phnom Penh-based think tank Asian Vision Institute on Monday called on the five inland ASEAN countries to consider setting up a regional rice-producing association to maintain food security in the region amid Covid-19. ...

Royal Group of Companies Ltd chairman Kith Meng has announced that the development of 70km of concrete roads on Koh Rong Island is about 30 per cent complete, with construction having begun in mid-July and proceeding on schedule since then. ...

Kampot, Cambodia’s leading salt producing province, is expected to yield less of the commodity than reported last year on adverse weather conditions, provincial Department of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation director Sok Kim Choeun told The Post on March 8. ...

On​ 11​ April​ 2021.​ the​ Ministry​ of​ Culture​ and​ Fine​ Arts​ release​ an​ announcement​ On​ the​ photographs​ of​ the​ victims​ at​ the​ former​ Khmer​ Rouge​ prisOn​ S-21​ to​ be​ colorized​ and​ edited​ in​ part​ from​ the​ actual​ situatiOn​ while​ the​ victims​ were​ threatened​ by​ the​ ...

The Kep Provincial Administration is set to break ground on the long-awaited $1.95 million Ses Sar quay, or “White Horse Port”, on September 15 in the northwestern reaches of the coastal province, in a bid to prop up the local transportation and tourism sectors. ...

The Cambodia Kantha Bopha Foundation announced on March 14 that in February, it received donations of 411,549,800 riel and $155,846 from 20,249 people. The foundation thanked all of the donors and continued to call on people to support the treatment and recovery of Cambodian children. ...

On 24 March 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and InternatiOnal CooperatiOn issued a press release On the outcomes of the meeting between H.E. Deputy Prime Minister PRAK SokhOnn, Minister of Foreign Affairs and InternatiOnal CooperatiOn, and Mr. Lin Baifeng, Huawei Group Senior Vice President ...

The Government has plans to develop the Veal Bek Chan Airport in Battambang city to a 4C category. Soy Sokhan, Secretary of State of the Secretariat of Civil Aviation, and Sok Lou, Battambang Provincial Governor, chaired a working group meeting on the possibility of restoration ...

On 26 April 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and InternatiOnal CooperatiOn issued a press release On the outcomes of the meeting between His Excellency Deputy Prime Minister PRAK SokhOnn, Minister of Foreign Affairs and InternatiOnal CooperatiOn, and His Excellency Lieutenant General John SandersOn, Former ...

The disaster has brought into focus the ambitious agenda of Laos, one of the region’s poorest countries, to turn itself into “the battery of Southeast Asia” by building dozens of hydroelectric dams on the Mekong River and its tributaries and selling power to neighboring countries. ...

Vamco, one of the most disastrous storms in the last five years, has battered the city, brought traffic to a standstill and flooded countless homes and businesses. Tropical Storm Vamco formed in the South China Sea on 13 September 2015 and went ashore to Vietnam, before ...

Lao farmers have planted rice on less than half the country’s cultivable land this year because of a persistent drought in the Mekong River region that has seen severely reduced water levels and the delay of seasonal monsoon rains, which have yet to begin. Growers have ...

Authorities in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has ordered Trung Nguyen Corporation, one of Vietnam’s largest coffee producers, to speed up construction work on four long-delayed tourism projects, local media reported on 10 March. Trung Nguyen will lose its licenses to develop the projects ...

On Friday 5 February, Cambodian forest activist Ouch Leng, a Goldman EnvirOnmental Prize recipient, was arrested alOng with four others. They had been putting up ‘No Chainsaw’ signs and wrapping trees with blessed saffrOn robes in a sectiOn of the vast Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary ...

The Mekong Delta, one of the most vulnerable deltas in the world in regard to climate change, must begin to take urgent measures to deal with the continuing consequences of changing weather patterns, experts at a seminar held on 27 October in Can Tho urged. The seminar ...

Vietnam and Cambodia vowed to further tighten the traditional friendship and comprehensive co-operation between the two nations in response to the wishes and aspirations of the governments and people of the two nations. Pham Binh Minh, Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, and his Cambodian ...

There is increasing concern that Myanmar is at risk of a serious environmental crisis, as the generals who seized power in a coup on February 1 focus on cementing their control and shoring up their position by stepping up lucrative but devastating policies of exploiting ...