Cambodian PM Hun Sen meets senior Chinese official on bilateral ties
Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen met with Chinese State Councilor and Defense Minister Wei Fenghe on Monday. Viewing China as a good and true friend, Hun Sen said the friendship between Cambodia and China has not only withstood the test of time but ...
Liangyu
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/18/c_137263198.htm
Parties set to make history
Some 270,000 supporters of competing political parties will participate in rallies in Phnom Penh on Friday when campaigning ends – the largest such gathering in the Kingdom’s history. It will be the final push as the 20 parties taking part in the July 29 national ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/parties-set-make-history
Official preliminary results show higher voter turnout
The National Election Committee (NEC) on Saturday announced the official preliminary results of the sixth Cambodian national elections. The revised figures show voter turnout on July 29 was in fact 83.02 per cent – higher than the 82.89 per cent revealed in unofficial results shortly ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/official-preliminary-results-show-higher-voter-turnout
Dry spell prompts pumping measures
The Agricultural Minister on Saturday instructed provincial authorities to find a solution for persisting drought problems in Banteay Meanchey province. Agriculture Minister Veng Sakhon said during his visit to Phnom Srok district that while other villagers in the province are facing floods, major parts of ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50526757/dry-spell-prompts-pumping-measures/
Poll criticism a ‘serious insult’, PM tells the UN
Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Friday, Hun Sen defended July’s national elections and hit out at criticism from certain unnamed countries, calling them a “serious insult” to the will of the Cambodian people that showed “the ambition to interfere” in the ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poll-criticism-serious-insult-pm-tells-un
Ratanakkiri timber traders busted
Military Police in Ratanakkiri province on Wednesday confiscated 70 pieces of luxury timber that traders hid behind villagers’ homes in Pak Thom village, Pak Nhai commune, in O’Yadav district. Forestry Administration officers are set to confiscate the wood, which was intended for export to Vietnam ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ratanakkiri-timber-traders-busted
Cambodia denies rights violations
Ahead of a mission to the Kingdom by UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Cambodia, a spokesman for the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) yesterday said Cambodia has never been sanctioned by the UN for violating human rights, noting that the rapporteur and other rights ...
Khmer Times
https://www.manilatimes.net/cambodia-denies-rights-violations/459237/
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
Civil society condemns violence against Cambodian opposition MPs
ADHOC, CCHR, CCIM, CLEC, STT and LICADHO strongly condemn yesterday’s violence outside the National Assembly, and at the house of an opposition leader that left two opposition CNRP MPs injured and bloodied, and call for an immediate independent and transparent investigation into the orchestrated violence. ...
Joint Organizations
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/