Montagnards elect to return to Vietnam, despite quest for asylum in Cambodia
Two dozen ethnic Montagnard Christians who fled Vietnam earlier this year to seek refuge in Cambodia from alleged persecution have volunteered to return home, frustrated with long waits and the dim prospects of being granted asylum, a police official and rights activist in northeastern Cambodia ...
Ratha Visal and Samean Yun
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/montagnards-elect-to-return-to-vietnam-despite-quest-for-asylum-in-cambodia-10072015142002.html
Huawei opens ICT training centre in Cambodia
China’s Huawei and Cambodia’s National Institute of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Communication Technology (NIPTICT) have opened a Huawei Authorized Information and Network Academy (HAINA) in the country. Huawei has now extended its HAINA program to more than 130 universities worldwide. ...
Cellular News Staff
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/Technology/68360.php
When it comes to Chinese Aid Cambodia should be cautious
Unlike that of the United States and other western donors, Chinese aid is primarily allocated directly to the Cambodian government and usually does not carry requirements to report development results. Unsurprisingly, it has been argued that Chinese aid is not transparent and there is no ...
East Asia Forum
http://aecnewstoday.com/2016/when-it-comes-to-chinese-aid-cambodia-should-be-cautious/
NEC says soldiers registered for vote in wrong commune
A spokesman for the country’s election authority said officials in Preah Vihear province were wrong to have registered a group of soldiers who neither lived nor worked there regularly, but added that they might get a pass because the soldiers could end up monitoring polling ...
Khuon Narim and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nec-says-soldiers-registered-vote-wrong-commune-118798/
Priest’s aid effort provide eduction in rural Cambodia
A Japanese nonprofit organization committed to helping disadvantaged Cambodian children receive an education celebrated the completion of its 19th school there in February.AMATAK, which means “eternity” in Khmer, has been building schools for children in rural Cambodia since 1995. ...
Masaaki Kameda
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/03/national/priests-aid-effort-provide-eduction-rural-cambodia/#.VmE9ur_-SB0
58 workers arrested, freed over protests at Bavet SEZs
Fifty-eight protesting workers from the Tai Seng special economic zone (SEZ) in Bavet City were arrested on Monday morning and released in the evening after agreeing not to use violence or damage property in the future, authorities said, the latest development in a bout of ...
Matt Blomberg and Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/58-workers-arrested-freed-over-protests-at-bavet-sezs-103568/
Cambodia, Laos & Myanmar – 2016 foreign investment outlook
Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar are amongst ASEAN’s smaller economies, yet all different and facing different issues. Taken as a trio, their collective GDP performance is still less than that as China’s Yunnan Province, which lies to the north of Cambodia and Laos, and is borders with ...
Asia Briefing Team
http://www.asiabriefing.com/news/2016/04/cambodia-laos-myanmar-2016-foreign-investment-outlook/
Cambodian investment by fund with $1 billion ambition to increase sustainability-focused banking
Sustainability Finance Real Economies SICAV – SIF (SFRE, pronounced Sapphire) has made an investment totalling USD 4 million in PRASAC (Cambodia) a microfinance institution, in line with its strategy of advancing social, environmental and economic development by providing capital to banks. ...
Officials helping migrants in Thailand
Cambodian embassy officials in Thailand are now assisting migrant workers in Thai prisons by providing lawyers for them. Embassy officials also announced they are looking for relatives of a Cambodian man who died in Thailand late last month to take his body, which is being ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28418/officials-helping-migrants-in-thailand/
Big ambitions for model school program in Cambodia
On a leafy campus near Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh, a group of 50 schoolchildren are benefiting from a bold educational experiment with a dual aim: to turn out youngsters who can improve the country, and to develop a model program that can be replicated internationally. ...
Robert Carmichael
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/big-ambitions-for-model-school-program-in-cambodia/2991893.html
India may send tigers to Cambodia
There will be discussions on whether some tigers can be relocated from India to Cambodia, at the third Asia Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation. No evidence of tigers have been found in Cambodia since 2007 and the World Wide Fund for Nature recently declared tigers ...
Jayashree Nandi
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/flora-fauna/India-may-send-tigers-to-Cambodia/articleshow/51786692.cms
Everything ‘OK’ on border, government says as Laos army base proceeds
The Stung Treng provincial government will once again allow trucks to transport building materials across the border into Laos, where a military base is under construction by Laotian authorities against the wishes of Phnom Penh and despite the area not being properly demarcated, officials said ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/everything-ok-on-border-government-says-as-laos-army-base-proceeds-111471/
Cambodia and World Bank expand development engagement to reduce poverty and share prosperity
The government of Cambodia and the World Bank today signed agreements for four projects to improve road surfaces, manage fisheries, improve livelihoods from agriculture in targeted rural communities, and increase access to health care, with funding from the International Development Association, or IDA, the World ...
Bou Saroeun
http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2016/06/09/cambodia-and-world-bank-expand-development-engagement
Fire destroys 33 recycling collectors’ houses
The cause of a fire that destroyed more than 30 houses on Tuesday in a small slum inhabited by recycling collectors, in an area surrounded by new housing developments in southern Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district, will likely be determined today, according to officials. ...
Buth Kimsay and Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fire-destroys-33-recycling-collectors-houses-114770/
Payment card gains traction
MasterCard, the plastic payment-card brand of global financial services firm MasterCard Worldwide, has been present in the Kingdom since 2001, but until recently it was relatively unknown to most Cambodians. However, there are signs its signature debit and credit cards are poised for robust growth ...
Cam McGrath and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/payment-card-gains-traction
Apsara announces Angkor restoration plans
Angkor Wat is to receive significant new restorations in 2017, according to the Apsara Authority, which manages the historic temple complex.The announcement came following yesterday’s 24th session of the International Coordinating Committee for Angkor (ICC-Angkor) at which conservation, restoration, sustainable development and tourism were discussed. ...
Thik Kaliyann
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/apsara-announces-angkor-restoration-plans
‘Legend island’ draws $1 billion tourism project
About $1 billion will be invested to transform Koh Tang – “Legend Island” – into a luxury destination for domestic and international tourists, with resorts, hotels, a theme park, golf course and airport, executives said at the signing ceremony for a memorandum of understand (MoU) ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20484/---legend-island----draws--1-billion-tourism-project/
Kerry presses for reform in talks with PM
US Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday pushed Prime Minister Hun Sen and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong on the need for greater political freedom in Cambodia during meetings in Phnom Penh but also praised the Kingdom’s “extraordinary” development since his first visit as a senator ...
Mech Dara, Vong Sokheng and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kerry-presses-reform-talks-pm
NEC to accept some expert recommendations, dismiss others
In the process of drafting regulations for new voter lists to be used in the upcoming commune and national elections, the National Election Committee has accepted some suggestions from the European Union and Japanese experts while dismissing others, according to a report released by the ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20720/nec-to-accept-some-expert-recommendations--dismiss-others/
Cambodia and UNICEF reinvest in country’s future
In an effort to identify and address “key barriers that impede the realization of children’s rights in Cambodia,” the Cambodian government and UNICEF Cambodia officially signed a new Country Program Action Plan yesterday, entering a three-year partnership that will cost an estimated $65 million, according ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21234/cambodia-and-unicef-reinvest-in-country---s-future/