The Asian University for Women readies students for leadership roles
Nobel Peace laureate and education activist Malala Yousafzai was barely of school age in 2001 when Kamal Ahmad came up with the idea of establishing a tertiary institution for women in Asia. The university hosts about 600 students from 15 countries, compared with 120 in ...
Linda Yeung
http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/family-education/article/1724988/asian-university-women-readies-students-leadership-roles
Lawmaker orders photos, video of event erased
Villagers in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley, the site of a proposed hydropower dam opposed by most of the local ethnic minority Chong, say police deleted their photos and video of a visit by CPP lawmaker Ay Khorn on Friday to promote the project’s potential ...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lawmaker-orders-photos-video-of-event-erased-79296/
Keeping women out of the work force is economic nonsense
Gender equality is “humanity’s biggest project,” Lakshmi Puri told the U.N. this past week. Puri, the deputy executive director of U.N. Women, wants to achieve “Planet 50-50” by 2030. When it comes to the workplace, equal employment opportunities aren’t just a benefit to women. Several new ...
Thomas K. Grose
http://n.pr/1CfvrKL
One child still in hospital due to tainted sandwiches
Only one child remained hospitalized Wednesday after a group of about 800 people fell ill from food poisoning caused by tainted sandwiches served at a World Vision event in Siem Reap province on Saturday, a spokesman for the NGO said. ...
Maria Paula Brito
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/one-child-still-in-hospital-due-to-tainted-sandwiches-81243/
Tourism delegates fall sick after seafood meal
Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz, three state exco members and 30 senior tourism officials from Asean countries attending a meeting here suffered severe food poisoning after a seafood meal at a fishing village in Umbai. Besides Malaysia, the meeting was attended by delegates ...
R.S.N. Murali
http://bit.ly/19QXCEG
Debt still plagues ADB effort to fix railway woes
In its first annual review of efforts by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to make amends for the thousands of Cambodian families hurt by a railway project the lender is funding, the bank’s Compliance Review Panel said it was making progress on five of six ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/debt-still-plagues-adb-effort-to-fix-railway-woes-81713/
Foreigners, tourists to pay more for entry visas
Foreigners will have to pay additional costs to enter Cambodia following a government announcement earlier this week that visa fees will increase by $10 starting in October. Tourists will have to pay $30 for a one-month entry visa and business visitors $35, up from the $20 ...
Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/foreigners-tourists-to-pay-more-for-entry-visas-66668/
Cambodia imports construction materials worth 229 mln USD in first 6 months
Cambodia had spent about 229 million U.S. dollars buying construction materials from foreign countries in the first six months of 2014, up 3 percent from 223 million U.S. dollars over the same period last year, a report of the Ministry of Commerce said Tuesday. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140909/cambodia-imports-construction-materials-worth-229-mln-usd-fi
Cambodia receives 2.54 mln foreign tourists in 7 months, up 4.5 pct
Cambodia had attracted some 2. 54 million international visitors in the first seven months of 2014, up 4.5 percent compared to the same period last year, the latest tourism report showed Friday. Kong Sopheareak, chief of the Tourism Ministry’s Statistics and Planning Department, said Vietnam, China, ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=240762
Commerce claims that donations not political
The Ministry of Commerce has defended its solicitation of donations from private organisations as voluntary, legal and a form of corporate social responsibility. The ministry’s response comes after Post Weekend revealed on Saturday, through leaked documents, that the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) made a ...
Eddie Morton
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/commerce-claims-donations-not-political
China's loans vital to building SE Asian connectivity: Cambodia
The large loans China offered at the 9th East Asia Summit are vital to regional countries in their connectivity construction, a senior Cambodian official said on Thursday. Kao Kim Hourn, minister attached to Prime Minister Hun Sen, made the remarks at a press conference at ...
Ecns.cn News Staff
http://www.ecns.cn/voices/2014/11-14/142580.shtml
UN seeks to intervene in case of Christian Montagnards
Two ethnic Jarai Montagnards claiming to have fled religious persecution in Vietnam may have been arrested by local police in Ratanakkiri province, a rights worker has said. The UN is seeking to intervene in the case and has requested government cooperation while several more Christian Montagnards ...
Union of Catholic Asian News (UCAN)
http://www.ucanews.com/news/un-seeks-to-intervene-in-case-of-christian-montagnards/72511
EU funding to the Kingdom rises threefold
The European Union’s delegation to Cambodia will almost triple its funding to the Kingdom over the next five years because the bloc’s aid policy has shifted its focus to least developed countries. Jean-François Cautain, ambassador for the European Union’s delegation to Cambodia, announced the EU would ...
Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eu-funding-kingdom-rises-threefold
Evictees prevented from screening video to mark anniversary
About 100 former members of the Dey Krahorm community returned to the site of their brutal eviction in central Phnom Penh on Saturday afternoon to mark six years since they were forced off their land, but were prevented by authorities from screening a video of ...
Cambodia expects more Chinese tourists during the Spring Festival
Cambodia is expected to welcome hundreds of Chinese tourists during the Chinese New Year which starts late next week, Cambodian Tourism Minister Thong Khon said. According to the minister, Cambodia received some 560,000 Chinese tourists in the whole year of 2014, up 20 percent year-on- ...
english.eastday.com News Staff
http://english.eastday.com/auto/eastday/world/u1ai8476571.html
New malaria strain raises problems, fears
Physicians are scrambling to update treatments to combat the growing threat caused by a new strain of malaria that is unique to Cambodia and resistant to the drug that dictates whether patients are ultimately cured. ...
Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/new-malaria-strain-raises-problems-fears
Three men arrested, one shot by Thai forces
A Cambodian national was shot and two others arrested in Thailand last week while allegedly smuggling drugs across the border, officials said yesterday. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/three-men-arrested-one-shot-thai-forces
Minister says minorities should rely less on forests
Environment Minister Say Sam Al on Friday pledged to protect the culture of Cambodia’s indigenous minorities, before going on to say that those groups need to learn to survive without relying on the forests they have depended on for centuries. ...
Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/minister-says-minorities-should-rely-less-on-forests-80498/
Two women arrested for trafficking five to China
The Kompong Cham Provincial Court on Wednesday charged two women with human trafficking for allegedly luring five other women to China with promises of jobs, only to force them into marriage. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-women-arrested-for-trafficking-five-to-china-81249/
Interior ministry publicizes official price list to combat bribery
The ministers of interior and finance last month signed off on a document announcing official prices for basic government services such as the production of ID cards and passports in order to combat irregular fee collection, according to a copy of the document released Saturday. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/interior-ministry-publicizes-official-price-list-to-combat-bribery-81443/