CDC to post project decisions on Facebook
<p>The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC), the government body in charge of approving large-scale investments, has taken to Facebook to officially announce its decisions on investment projects, a move that a government official claimed yesterday will provide more transparent access for investors and ...p>
Hor Kimsay and Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cdc-post-project-decisions-facebook
Former local CNRP officials who defected to CPP met with distrust
<p>Kry Lay lined up in early June to vote for the party he wanted to run Kampong Cham province’s Srak commune in the eastern part of the country. A former Sam Rainsy party commune, the locale’s electorate delivered what Lay, a local farmer, wanted – ...p>
Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/former-local-cnrp-officials-who-defected-cpp-met-distrust
Government creates logistics council to help sector stay competitive in the region
<p>The Cambodian government recently laid out the framework for the creation of a National Council of Logistics, a specialised interministerial team designed to tackle the high costs of the Kingdom’s logistics sector to promote the efficient flow of exports, according to a royal decree issued ...p>
External funds driving policy: report
<p>A new study has found that external donors wield outsize influence in determining national health care policies in Cambodia. The research was published earlier this month in the journal of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The study focused on Cambodia and pakistan, ...p>
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/external-funds-driving-policy-report
As deadline passes, Borei Keila residents reject final offer
<p>A deadline for a group of Borei Keila residents to accept compensation or leave their homes with nothing passed on Friday, with none of the residents agreeing to move to a resettlement site, and authorities saying they have no right to remain, but with no ...p>
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/deadline-passes-borei-keila-residents-reject-final-offer
City governor tackles illegal medication sales
<p>The phnom penh governor said he would crack down on pharmacies who do not follow the laws of the Health Ministry. Governor Khuong Sreng vowed to ban practices such as the selling of medication without a license and the dissemination of illegal medications, and to search ...p>
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5098125/city-governor-tackles-illegal-medication-sales/
Prey Lang ceremony due next month
<p>Nearly 400 members of the prey Lang Community Network will hold the annual prey Lang ceremony in late March to commemorate and preserve indigenous identities and promote the forest’s potential. Meanwhile, prey Lang activists have claimed illegal logging still exists in the area, even though the ...p>
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50108639/prey-lang-ceremony-due-next-month/
Judges, prosecutors ‘disciplined’
<p>Twelve judges and five prosecutors were verbally “disciplined” yesterday during a meeting of the Supreme Council of Magistracy presided over by King Norodom Sihamoni. Sam prachea Manith, spokesman for the council, declined to name the people singled out. “This is for a small mistake that they forgot ...p>
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/judges-prosecutors-disciplined
China gifts medical equipment to state-run military hospital
<p>China’s Ministry of Defence yesterday provided 24 kinds of medical equipment to the state-run preah Ket Mealea military hospital to support heart and blood treatments. During a ceremony in phnom penh, Lieutenant General Ly Sovan, director of preah Ket Mealea Hospital, said the hospital has often ...p>
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50110602/china-gifts-medical-equipment-state-run-military-hospital/
Government defers logging permits
<p>The Council of Ministers has ordered a temporary suspension to permits for clearing and transporting timber from the reservoir area of the Lower Sesan II Dam until after the upcoming elections in July, with a government official yesterday saying illegal logging was “out of control”, ...p>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-defers-logging-permits
Few women in upper ranks
<p>Cambodian women make up less than 3 percent of the military’s upper echelons, the ministries of defence and women’s affairs confirmed yesterday. Just 88 women hold ranks of one-star general and above, with one solitary woman ranked a four-star general and a deputy commander-in-chief of ...p>
Erin Handley and Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/few-women-upper-ranks
‘Like-minded friends forever’: Golden Dragon, Cambodia’s 17-day military exercise with China, kicks off
<p>On Saturday morning, hundreds of Cambodian and Chinese soldiers in full combat gear stood in formation in front of a backdrop of tanks, armoured trucks, machine gun-mounted helicopters, and artillery weapons. Generals from both sides spoke warmly of the deepening relationship between the two countries, ...p>
Nearly 6,000 vehicles with unpaid tax
<p>Tax on nearly 6,000 vehicles across the country has not been paid on time as required, according to an inspection by the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s General Department of Taxation. A press release by the GDT signed on March 16 and released yesterday said the ...p>
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50114699/nearly-6000-vehicles-with-unpaid-tax/
Museum at Preah Vihear Temple to open soon
<p>prime Minister Hun Sen and the United Nation’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation will officially inaugurate a museum at the preah Vihear World Heritage Site on March 20. Nov Sokuna, the director of the provincial culture and fine arts department, said the museum has been named ...p>
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50114700/museum-at-preah-vihear-temple-to-open-soon/
Improving agricultural production and profits in the Mekong Region
<p>Improvements in agriculture practices in the Mekong region and lessons for policy will be discussed at a conference in phnom penh this week. The conference, ‘A policy Dialogue on Rice Futures: Rice-based Farming Systems Research in the Mekong Region’ was opened today by Australia’s Ambassador ...p>
Australian Embassy
Chinese-funded agricultural park inaugurated in Cambodia
<p>A Chinese-funded agricultural park has been inaugurated in Banteay Meanchey province in northwestern Cambodia.
Banteay Meanchey provincial governor Kousom Saroeuth and Xiao Yi, head of international relations office of the Department of Agriculture of China’s Yunnan province,jointly unveiled the Friendship park of Agricultural Science and Techniques ...p>
People's Daily Online News Staff
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/business/n/2014/0522/c90778-8730855.html
TI Cambodia holds Corporate Integrity Seminar for SMEs
<p>Transparency International Cambodia (TI Cambodia) is holding a seminar on “Corporate Integrity for Cambodian Entrepreneurs” tomorrow, 26 August 2014. The seminar is targeted to Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) and seeks to increase awareness of anti-bribery policies and help those organizations develop anti-corruption strategies that ...p>
Transparency International Cambodia
“Cambodia needs more and better teachers”, says a CDRI working paper released today
<p>“The shortage of trained teachers at all levels of education but particularly at the primary level is the single most important constraint on narrowing the country’s skill gap”, argues a Working paper entitled “Cambodia’s Skill Gap: An Anatomy of Issues and policy Options”, published by ...p>
Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI)
Cambodian PM warns to fire opposition's deputy leader from post in parliament
<p>Cambodian prime Minister Hun Sen warned to dismiss opposition’s deputy leader Kem Sokha from his current post of the first vice-president of the National Assembly after the latter repeatedly told his supporters that he was seeking ways to depose the prime minister and ministers. ...p>
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-09/09/c_133630916.htm
LOLC Group acquires 60 pct stake in Cambodian Microfinance Company for USD 20.3 Mn
<p>Sri Lanka’s Lanka Orix Leasing Company acquired a 60 percent stake in Thaneakea phum Cambodia (TpC) a microfinance company in Cambodia, for 20.3 million US dollars, identifying the immense potential in emerging economies of the South East Asian region the company said in a media ...p>
Lanka Business Online News Staff
http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/news/lolc-group-acquires-60-pct-stake-in-cambodian-microfinance-company-for-usd-20.3-mn/1806143502
