Cambodian transgender activist Sou Sotheavy wins 2014 David Kato Vision & Voice Award
The David Kato Vision & Voice Award has announced that the 2014 award will go to Cambodian transgender activist Sou Sotheavy. Now 75 years old, she has spent the last two decades working to establish a national network of organizations to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, ...
LGBT Weekly News Staff
http://lgbtweekly.com/2014/02/12/cambodian-transgender-activist-sou-sotheavy-wins-2014-david-kato-vision-voice-award/
Trade/Human Rights: Commission decides to partially withdraw Cambodia's preferential access to the EU market
On 12 February 2020, The European Commission in Brussels has decided to withdraw part of the tariff preferences granted to Cambodia under the European Union’s Everything But Arms’ (EBA) trade scheme due to the serious and systematic violations of the human rights principles enshrined in ...
European Union (EU)
Cable shows cartel’s reach
A sex-trafficking network that included “high-ranking” government officials and had infiltrated Cambodian law enforcement agencies and NGOs for years worked to cover up Vietnamese sex rings and collect payoffs from illegal prostitution establishments in Phnom Penh. However, four years after a court finally convicted the police ...
Daniel Pye, Taing Vida and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cable-shows-cartels-reach
Mini-grants for bachelor research support opportunity
In building research capacity for students and supporting their thesis writing and under the collaboration between Open Development Cambodia (ODC) and Department of Natural Resource Management and Development (NRMD) of the Royal University of Phnom Penh, Open Development Cambodia will provide financial support for students ...
Open Development Cambodia
Boeung Kak women kept away from NGO, reporters
Imprisoned Boeung Kak lake villagers, some crying, motioned to human rights representatives and Post reporters through a chain-link fence at Prey Sar prison on Tuesday. Their efforts to talk to the visitors were futile, however, as two guards stopped anyone from approaching the 13 women sentenced ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012053056483/National-news/silent-treatment-at-prey-sar.html
Open Development Cambodia updates a profile page on "Foreign investment in Cambodia"
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updates a profile page on “Foreign investment in Cambodia”. This bilingual profile page gives a quick overview of foreign investment in Cambodia, together with related content, such as the definition of foreign investment, the reasons investors invest in Cambodia, priority sectors, ...
Foreign investment in Cambodia
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updates a profile page on “Foreign investment in Cambodia”. This bilingual profile page gives a quick overview of foreign investment in Cambodia, together with related content, such as the definition of foreign investment, the reasons investors invest in Cambodia, priority sectors, ...
Press release on the dissemination forum on "Procedures for annually financial statements submission via online system (E-filing)" for enterprises and Not-for-profit entities 2024on 16th July
On 16 July 2024, the Accounting and Auditing Regulator issued a press release regarding the dissemination forum on “Procedures for annually financial statements submission via online system (E-filing)” for enterprises and Not-for-profit entities on 16th July 2024 on their official social media site. According to ...
Accounting and Auditing Regulator
SDG 8 Decent work and economic growth
SDG 8 – “Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all” – has 10 general targets and 2 means of implementation targets.1 There are 17 indicators. Some of these targets are more relevant for Cambodia than others. For ...
Youth lead tribal push for development
The move toward modernity and development is often represented in numbers: growth in GDP, wellness indicators and many other kinds of statistics. ...
Ros Chanveasna and Raquel Bacay
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17771/youth-lead-tribal-push-for-development/
Cambodia backs Timor-Leste ASEAN membership
Prime Minister Hun Sen announced that Cambodia supported Timor-Leste’s bid to become the 11th member of Asean. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25747/cambodia-backs-timor-leste-asean-membership/
Typhoid a ‘burden’ near Tonle Sap: study
A new study has found that there is a “substantial burden” of pediatric typhoid fever in rural communes in Cambodia. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/typhoid-burden-near-tonle-sap-study
Wildscan app to help fight animal trafficking
A Khmer version of a smartphone app to help law enforcement deal with the illegal wildlife trade was launched yesterday. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wildscan-app-help-fight-animal-trafficking
Endangered gibbon born at Angkor Wat
A second pair of endangered pileated gibbons released into the forest near Angkor Wat last year have had a baby. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Donna M Airoldi
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/endangered-gibbon-born-angkor-wat
Mekong bridge construction gets underway
A bridge being constructed over the Mekong River will connect the provinces of Kampong Cham and Tboung Khmum once completed. ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/mekong-bridge-construction-gets-underway
Mizuho opens Phnom Penh branch
Mizuho Bank, one of largest banks in Japan, has started operations in Cambodia with its first branch in Phnom Penh. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38837/mizuho-opens-phnom-penh-branch/
Hundreds caught at illegal border crossings
Banteay Meanchey provincial police intercepted hundreds of Cambodian laborers as they tried to cross illegally to Thailand over the weekend. ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37684/hundreds-caught-at-illegal-border-crossings/
Human Rights group: Cambodia’s press freedom becomes worse
The freedom of the press and expression in Cambodia becomes worse this year, according the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC). ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=MzBhOGNkZGJiMzE
Cambodian King flies to Japan for World Buddhist Summit
Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni left here on Monday for Japan to attend the opening ceremony of the 6th World Buddhist Summit. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-12/08/c_133839828.htm
Sam Rainsy, Hor Namhong meet for the first time
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy met Tuesday with Deputy Prime Minister Hor Namhong, Foreign Minister, at Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaher