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  • The warrantless arrest of opposition leader Kem Sokha featured prominently in the US State Department’s review of human rights violations in Cambodia in 2017. AFP US government calls out Cambodian rights abuses

    The US State Department has published its annual report on human rights across the globe, describing a year of shrinking freedoms and rights violations in Cambodia, as well as seemingly chronic problems of prison overcrowding and anti-Vietnamese sentiment.

  • Villagers from Kratie's Memot Rubber Plantation submitted a petition to the prime minister's cabinet Monday afternoon. Khan Sokummono/Voice of America Khmer Kratie rubber plantation villagers petition Hun Sen over land dispute

    Around 300 villagers in a struggle with Kratie province’s Memot Rubber Plantation, where security forces fired on protesters last month, have petitioned Prime Minister Hun Sen for a solution to an ongoing land dispute, but were quickly corralled by loca

Prime Minister Hun Sen said in a speech on Monday that the government will “take back” land on roughly 30 islands from private companies that have not made progress on planned developments

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National

May Day demonstrators march near the National Assembly in Phnom Penh in 2017. The Cambodian Labour Confederation has asked City Hall for permission to conduct a May Day march from near Wat Phnom to the National Assembly this year.

Labour group appeals for Workers’ Day march

The Cambodian Labour Confederation has submitted a request for its members to conduct a march on International Workers’ Day next week in the capital, starting from the Council for...

Business

Businesses and residences are seen along Phnom Penh’s riverside in 2013. Post staff

Land on capital’s riverfront is opened up for investment

The government has signed off on a proposal to designate more than 9 hectares of land along Phnom Penh’s riverfront as state-private land, opening it up for private investment or...

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Special Reports

Places & spaces: An exclusive oasis in Siem Reap

Hidden within its own private tropical garden, Villa Ni Say is a small but stunning estate in Siem Reap that offers guests luxury accommodation and an air of exclusivity.

Lifestyle

Bringing Khmer dance down to earth

How a new incubator program is helping classical dancers with the practical side of their craft

Sport

Deputy Prime Minister Ke Kim Yan is to formally open the Olympic Solidarity/Olympic Council of Asia Regional Forum on May 6.

Deputy PM Ke Kim Yan to open Olympic Solidarity/Olympic Council of Asia Regional Forum

Deputy Prime Minister Ke Kim Yan will formally open the Olympic Solidarity/Olympic Council of Asia Regional Forum involving close to 100 delegates from 35 Central, Southeast and...

International

President Donald Trump and President Emmanuel Macron of France, trailed by first Lady Melania Trump and Brigitte Macron, walk to a tree planting on the South Lawn at the White House, in Washington, April 23, 2018. The tree, a gift from The Macrons, is a European Sessile Oak that comes from Belleau Woods, where more than 9,000 American Marines died in battle in June 1918 during World War I. Doug Mills/The New York Times

Macron to press Trump to keep Iran nuclear deal

by Peter Baker and Julie Hirschfeld Davis WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will come under increasing pressure from visiting French and German leaders this week not to scrap...

Opinion

Cambodian children and their parents sitting at Kantha Bopha children’s hospital in Phnom Penh in July 2012. Khem Sovannara/AFP

Ensuring health care for all people in Cambodia

by Dr Yunguo Liu

If you or a member of your family had a heart attack, was badly injured in a traffic collision, or was diagnosed with diabetes, would you be able to get the health care you need?

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    The Phnom Penh Post

    The Phnom Penh Post is an independent media company in Cambodia and is seeking a fulltime qualified candidate to fill a position as follows:  Web Assistant: 1 position  Duties and responsibilities

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    Vacancy Announcement UNOPS supports the successful implementation of its partners’ peace building, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our mission is to serve people in need by

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    FHI 360 is recruiting several creative, enthusiastic and innovative candidates to fill the following position: Provincial Technical Officer, LINKAGES - Phnom Penh   Linkages Across the Continuum of

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    UNDP partners with people at all levels of society to help build nations that can withstand crisis, and drive and sustain the kind of growth that improves the quality of life for everyone. On the

Police blotter

Faulty wiring strikes yet again as help too late

The race to fight a Kandal province fire was, unfortunately, chalked up as a loss when a blaze took out two houses and a car in Ang Snuol district on Monday.