Areng community office forced to relocate
<p>The Chumnoab commune authority in Koh Kong province’s Thmar Baing district yesterday ordered Areng Valley residents to move their community office to a new location to make way for its new office. According to a letter released yesterday by Chumnoab commune, commune officials asked Areng residents ...p>
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50115265/areng-community-office-forced-to-relocate/
CEDAC sours on honey prices
<p>CEDAC, a domestic agriculture development organisation and the Kingdom’s largest distributor of natural honey, will shrink its purchases of the commodity in the face of rising prices, the company’s president says. Yang Saing Koma said the group would not reach its goal of buying 7,000 ...p>
Sieam Bunthy, P. 8
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cedac-sours-honey-prices
Japan provides emergency aid to Cambodia’s flood victims
<p>in response to the flood disaster in Cambodia, the Government of Japan on Monday decided to provide emergency relief goods such as generator, water purifiers etc worth 32 million yen (approximately 320,000 US dollars) to the Kingdom of Cambodia through the Japan International Cooperation Agency ...p>
The Southeast Asia Weekly News Staff
http://www.thesoutheastasiaweekly.com/?p=7988
Joint statement on proposed amendments on internal regulations of the National Assembly (NA) of the Kingdom of Cambodia
<p>Cambodian Civil Society Organizations (CSO’s) and independent experts believe that the July 22 political leader’s agreement between the Cambodian people’s party (Cpp) and the Cambodian National Rescue party (CNRp) provides a framework for basic principles to ensure the effectiveness and transparency of the parliamentary process in accordance ...p>
Cambodian Center for Human Rights
Casualties from UXO accelerate
<p>Casualties from mines and unexploded ordnance are on track to outpace last year’s count, according to new government data. In the first five months of this year, 89 people were either killed or injured by the deadly remnants of war, Cambodian Mine Action Centre director-general ...p>
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/casualties-uxo-accelerate
Notification on the flood condition of Mekong River
<p>Ministry of Water Resource and Meteorology would like to inform the public that after observing of weather conditions and Mekong River situations, it is understood that the influence of the first storm namely Rama San (as Ministry of Water Resource and Meteorology has informed on ...p>
Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology
Joint statement abuse of the court to suit political agenda must cease and charges against CNRP members dropped
<p>We, the undersigned organizations, condemn the flagrant abuse of the Cambodian legal system and the trumped up charges that have been used to manipulate the outcome of political negotiations between the Cambodia National Rescue party (CNRp) and the Cambodian people’s party (Cpp), following the latest ...p>
Joint Civil Society Organizations
Gov’t must probe ‘enforced’ disappearance: UN
<p>The UN and human rights groups called on the government Friday to honor its obligations as a party to the International Convention for the protection of All persons from Enforced Disappearance and thoroughly investigate the disappearance of 16-year-old Khem Sopath, who was last seen lying ...p>
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-must-probe-enforced-disappearance-un-67315/
Organizing a press conference on the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Cambodian and Australian governments on the resettlement of refugees in Cambodia
<p>The Ministry of Interior of the Kingdom of Cambodia has a great honor to inform the local and international media about the press conference which will be conducted on 29 September 2009 at 9:30 a.m. aiming to discuss about the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Cambodian and Australian ...p>
Ministry of Interior
AU tightens Cambodia relation with $40m aid and bilateral agreement on refugees
<p>Foreign minister Julie Bishop announced that an additional $40 million in development assistance was given to Cambodia. The amount shall boost Cambodia’s effort to provide humanitarian aid to those who are in need of protection as part of the Refugees Convention and a member of ...p>
Athena Yenko
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/567991/20140929/cambodia-refugees-kingdom-australia-memorandum-agreement.htm#.VCoK8PmSxqU
USAID and NASA announce enhanced use of technology for development in the Lower Mekong
<p>Today, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced a five-year project that will promote the use of satellite imagery to help Asia’s Lower Mekong region better predict and cope with floods and other natural disasters ...p>
U.S. Embassy
Genes of carcinogenic liver fluke revealed
<p>The tiny liver fluke, Opisthorchis viverrini causes damage out of all proportion to its size. Consumed as cysts within raw fish by people in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, it causes the tropical disease, Opisthorciasis, putting its victims at risk of cancer. Despite affecting millions of ...p>
Medical X Press News Staff
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-02-genes-carcinogenic-liver-fluke-revealed.html
National Audit Authority moves after land swap
<p>The National Audit Authority (NAA), located on prime real estate on phnom penh’s Street 240, is in the midst of moving to a new location in Sen Sok district after a property swap with a company owned by a military general, according to officials at ...p>
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/national-audit-authority-moves-after-land-swap-67586/
Six labor unions to hold public forum on minimum wage this weekend
<p>At least six labor unions to be led by pav Sina, president of the Collective Union of Movement of Workers, will hold public forum at the Freedom park on October 12 to discuss minimum wage demand for footwear and garment workers.
A plan to hold the ...p>
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/six-labor-unions-to-hold-public-forum-on-minimum-wage-this-weekend-7464
Time to revisit an ASEAN-EU FTA?
<p>On May 19, 2015, the European Union (EU) adopted a Joint Communication: The EU and ASEAN: a partnership with a strategic purpose. The communication calls for taking “trade relations with ASEAN to a different level and working towards an ambitious region-to-region free trade agreement (FTA) ...p>
Ji Xianbai
http://bit.ly/1AP2O8P
Vietnam tops auction to supply rice to NFA
<p>Vietnam offered Friday the lower price for the additional rice supply that the philippines will import to increase its buffer stock for the lean season, the National Food Authority said.
NFA earlier invited Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam to supply an additional 250,000 metric tons of rice ...p>
Anna Leah E. Gonzales
http://bit.ly/1QgImol
Schedule for discussions on 2016 minimum wages
<p>The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training informs workers, employees, employers, technical organizations, and national and international organizations that discussions on the minimum wages for 2016, whereby tripartite (representatives of workers/employees, employers and the government) comes together, will begin from July 2015 while January 01, ...p>
Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training
Property boom, not bubble
<p>phnom penh is changing at a blinding pace, with major new residential and commercial projects set to transform the capital’s skyline within the next five years. Chrek Soknim, CEO of Century 21 Mekong Realty, one of nearly two dozen Century 21 Cambodia affiliates, sees oversupply ...p>
Igor Kossov
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12684/property-boom--not-bubble/
Campaign begins for improved child health
<p>Unicef and the Cambodian government have launched a campaign to promote better health for children and newborns. Cambodia has made some progress improving the health of women and children, but a high rate of death for children remains a major concern.
It saw its newborn mortality ...p>
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/campaign-begins-for-improved-child-health/2841753.html
On Facebook, a potential venue for women’s rights
<p>When police arrested real estate tycoon Sok Bun earlier this month, it seemed to be in response to an outcry on social media, which showed closed-circuit footage of him beating a famous TV actress at a restaurant in the capital. It was a rare arrest, ...p>
Oum Sonita
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/on-facebook-a-potential-venue-for-women-rights/2881566.html
