Cambodia approves Lower Sesan 2 hydroelectric dam
Cambodia’s government has approved a controversial hydroelectric dam on a tributary of the Mekong River. The joint venture involves Cambodian, Chinese and Vietnamese investment of $781m (£488m) and is due to be completed within five years. The project in northern Stung Treng province is known as Lower ...
Germany, Cambodia cement stronger investment, and tourism relations
Hermann Otto Solms, vice president of the German Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, Monday pledged to encourage German investors and tourists to Cambodia in order to cement the bi-lateral ties. Hermann made his remarks during a meeting with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen at the ...
Land activists welcome Hun Sen’s position on outsiders
About 60 land activists including children marched to the Peace Palace Monday to welcome Prime Minister Hun Sen’s position on outside involvement in land disputes. The residents of two property development sites and Thmor Kol community near Phnom Penh International Airport also presented a list of ...
Meeting puts temple villagers in spotlight
Restoration of the Angkor temples won’t be the only thing talked about at a meeting in Siem Reap today – the living conditions of more than 100,000 villagers residing at the heritage site is also on the agenda. “The villagers should live harmoniously with the temples,” ...
Germany's finance firm lends 10 mln USD to Cambodian microfinance institution
German Investment and Development Corporation (DEG) on Thursday signed to lend 10 million U.S. dollars to a leading Cambodian microfinance institution Hattha Kaksekar. The loan deal was inked here between Herbert Jaeger, Vice President of DEG Representative office in Bangkok, and Hout Ieng Tong, President and ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2014-01/09/c_133032485.htm
As forests fall, carbon credit plan faces collapse
Community forest chiefs and rights groups in Oddar Meanchey province say logging is now so rampant they have finally given up hope that a U.N.-backed scheme to generate millions of dollars worth of carbon credits for the area and the country will ever get off ...
Kuch Naren and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/as-forests-fall-carbon-credit-plan-faces-collapse-59938/
ACU arrests reporters and construction worker
The government’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Friday arrested two reporters and a construction worker in Kampot City for their alleged role in extorting a deputy provincial governor, officials and a colleague of one of the suspects said Sunday. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/acu-arrests-reporters-and-construction-worker-67990/
Evictees sign payout deal they can’t read
Some of the families in a protracted land dispute with a pair of Thai-owned sugar plantations in Koh Kong province say they were pressured over the weekend into signing compensation deals with the firms they could not read, because they were written in Thai, and ...
Aun Pheap and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/evictees-sign-payout-deal-they-cant-read-without-lawyers-70997/
Cambodian PM meets opposition leader to discuss issues after dispute ends
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, vice-president of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), met with Sam Rainsy, president of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), on Friday to find solutions to the remaining issues after the two leaders agreed in July to end their ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=255416
In Mondolkiri, police return to raze remaining shelters
After overseeing the destruction of all but six of 172 temporary shelters that had been erected on farmland claimed by an ethnic Bunong community in Mondolkiri province on Tuesday, authorities returned to destroy the remaining structures Wednesday, again on the grounds that the land belonged ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-mondolkiri-police-return-to-raze-remaining-shelters-81241/
Journalists, alleged illegal loggers clash
A pair of journalists attempting to photograph a pickup truck transporting luxury wood in Preah Vihear City on Sunday evening said they were chased by the drivers and four other men wielding clubs before police intervened, but the provincial police chief denied the reporters’ claims ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/journalists-alleged-illegal-loggers-clash-69976/
Patient death blamed on doctors’ holiday leave
The parents of a man who died at the Svay Rieng provincial referral hospital of wounds sustained in a motorbike crash say their son might have survived if doctors had not been absent from work celebrating Chinese New Year, and are planning to file a ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/patient-death-blamed-on-doctors-holiday-leave-78498/
Cambodia, Iran hold 1st political consultation
Cambodia and Iran on Wednesday held the first political consultation with an aim of enhancing bilateral ties and cooperation. The meeting was co-chaired by Cambodia’s Foreign Secretary of State Long Visalo and Iran’s visiting Deputy Foreign Minister Ebrahim Rahimpour. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/150318/cambodia-iran-hold-1st-political-consultation
Labour shortages leave Thailand's growth stuck in the starting gate
A growing labour undersupply has been of the factors behind Thailand’s sub-par economic growth. A nationwide survey of companies in six key sectors by SCB Economic Intelligence Center last year found that at least half had trouble filling vacancies within a three-month search. ...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://bit.ly/1F3JvK4
Cambodian activists square off with Vietnamese soldiers in border row
Around 200 activists from northeastern Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province led by opposition lawmakers confronted dozens of soldiers and villagers from Vietnam Monday in a standoff over the digging of irrigation ponds in a non-demarcated area along the border shared by the two nations. ...
Ratha Visal
http://bit.ly/1drRRzd
NGOs call for a chance to comment on regulations
With the approval last week of a draft NGO law by Cambodia’s Council of Ministers, many pro-democracy and rights advocates say they should now have a chance to add their comments on the bill, before it goes to the National Assembly for debate. ...
Sok Khemara
http://bit.ly/1Gciimj
Cambodia deports 700 illegal immigrants, nabs Vietnamese spies in border row
Cambodia has deported 700 illegal immigrants in the past six months, the ministry of interior said on Thursday, as the detention of Vietnamese border guards who disguised themselves as local police to spy on a meeting underscored Phnom Penh’s difficulty in controlling its borders. ...
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://bit.ly/1MNwvsl
Hun Sen to take CPP presidency after Friday ceremony
Prime Minister Hun Sen is set to take over the presidency of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, following the death of party leader Chea Sim last week. The move will shore up solidarity in the party, which has become increasingly united, party members say. ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/hun-sen-to-take-cpp-presidency-after-weekend-ceremony/2826046.html
India, Vietnam push CLMV for brighter future and deeper integration in upcoming summit
Eyeing closer regional economic integration that would contribute to strengthening India’s ties with Southeast Asia as part of its Act East Policy, seventh edition of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) Summit will be held in Nay Pyi Taw (Myanmarese capital) on June 22-23. ...
Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury
http://bit.ly/1ItvIJ0
Pizzeria manager charged over forcing teen to work, have sex
The Moldovan manager of an Italian pizzeria and wine shop in Phnom Penh was on Monday charged with the “unlawful removal” of a 19-year-old girl from her home country whom she allegedly forced to work without pay and subjected to sexual exploitation, according to officials ...
Saing Soenthrith and Alex Consiglio
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pizzeria-manager-charged-over-forcing-teen-to-work-have-sex-86206/