SRP Commune Told to Stop Talking to Media about Dam
Officials from the Stung Treng provincial forestry administration have warned a local SRP commune chief against speaking to the media about the clearing of trees from a 36,000-hectare site to become the reservoir of a giant hydropower dam in the area, the commune chief said ...
Despite Law, Minority Rights Receive Very Few Protections
The government does little to protect the rights and livelihoods of the country’s many ethnic minorities who are under constant threat from rapid development, representatives of indigenous groups said yesterday. “We have polices laws and guidelines to protect indigenous people, but we see that it doesn’t ...
Mekong Dams Could Be a Threat to Cambodia’s Food Security
The construction of two hydroelectric dams proposed for the Mekong River would lead to steep declines in the availability of fish-an essential source of protein for Cambodians- potentially threatening food security, according to a new report by the fisheries administration. The study by the administration’s Inland Fisheries ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mekong-dams-could-be-threat-to-cambodias-food-security-32202/
Development pushes poor from land as Cambodia dams its rivers
“From my view, I don’t want to have it, but it is development, we can’t stop them,” says Srekor’s village chief, Leang Saroeurn. Cambodia’s impressive yearly GDP growth rates of 7 percent for the last decade have come, in part, through a ravenous consumption of the countries ...
Daniel Quinlan
http://asiancorrespondent.com/120212/development-drives-displacement-as-cambodia-dams-its-rivers/
Cambodia: The Rural Poor are Receiving Free Heath Care in Preah Vihear
Siv Mao, 25, just had a caesarian operation. She feels some discomfort but is smiling. Her newborn baby is sleeping fitfully beside her and she says: “They saved our lives and I’m happy.” Ms. Mao encountered complications in her pregnancy and doctors knew she could not ...
Government Probes 2,000 Hectare Land Grab
Government officials in Kompong Thom province said yesterday that they are investigating the ownership of more than 2,000 hectares of land currently being held by an unknown number of individuals who are suspected of illegal land grabbing. An Agriculture Ministry official pointed the finger of ...
Nearly $2 billion invested in four projects
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) on Thursday announced it has approved four projects so far in June, amounting to $1.9 billion. CDC posted in its Facebook page that since the beginning of the month it has issued final registration certificates for four ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50501766/nearly-2-billion-invested-in-four-projects/
General Department of Taxation collects $2B
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) collected more than $2 billion in revenue during the first 11 months of the year, an increase of 12.48 per cent compared to the same period last year, a Tuesday departmental report said. ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/general-department-taxation-collects-2b
Firms put out Q2 financial reports
Two of Cambodia’s four publicly listed companies released their financial reports for the second quarter of 2016 yesterday, with both showing moderately healthy profits. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/firms-put-out-q2-financial-reports
Demonstrators beat up 2 Cambodian opposition lawmakers
Two members of Cambodia’s opposition party were beaten up Monday outside the National Assembly by protesters who were demanding that the deputy opposition leader step down as parliamentary vice president. The opposition party issued a statement appealing to authorities to immediately arrest and prosecute the ...
Associated Press News Staff
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/demonstrators-beat-up-2-cambodian-opposition-lawmakers/2015/10/26/b316f224-7bcb-11e5-bfb6-65300a5ff562_story.html
Gov't extends 2 poverty alleviation projects
Two government-run emergency food assistance projects will be extended after evaluations found that they had significant impacts on reducing poverty in 200 communes in eight provinces, although the projects – which received financial support from developmental partners – have been completed, an official said yesterday. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19098/gov-t-extends-2-poverty-alleviation-projects/
Railway families still smarting after 2 years
Efforts by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to restore the living standards of families evicted by its railway rehabilitation project continue to fall far short of expectations, and urgent action is needed if the bank is to comply with its own safeguard policies, according to ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/railway-families-still-smarting-2-years-116519/
China gives $2 billion for roads, bridge
The visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping last week resulted in loan agreements worth almost $2 billion for road infrastructure development in Cambodia, the Ministry of Public Works and Transport said on Friday. According to Transport Minister Sun Chanthol, the money will be used to ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30849/china-gives--2-billion-for-roads--bridge/
Corruption targeted by $2.5 million program
Transparency International Cambodia is set to step up its presence in the Kingdom with the launch of a $2.5 million three-year program to monitor and record corruption. On a scale of zero (highly corrupt) to 10 (very clean), Cambodia ranks 2.1, according to the organisation, ...
Inflation slows to only 2% says NIS
Cambodia’s inflation rose by 2.2 per cent in August compared to the same month last year, according to the monthly data from the National Institute of Statistics. The increase was due to the rise in food and the fluctuation of gasoline prices. Government officials and economists said the ...
Inflation Rate at 4.2% to October
Cambodia’s inflation rate increased by 4.2 percent in the 12-month period to October, with food prices accounting for more than half of the rate, according to data released Monday by the National Institute of Statistics. The monthly inflation rate grew from 3.4 percent in August to ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/inflation-rate-at-4-2-to-october-48977/
PPWSA’s profit down in 2Q
The Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) saw its profit after tax drop for the second quarter this year, when compared to the same period last year, according to its quarterly statement published on the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) on Wednesday. ...
Xueying Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ppwsas-profit-down-2q
ASEAN Chairman’s Statement on the Situation in Myanmar
On 02 February 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has published a statement of the ASEAN chairman on the Situation in Myanmar on their official Facebook site. According to the statement, ASEAN chairman is deeply concerned over the Myanmar crisis and urge ...
Ministry of Foreign Affair and International Cooperation