Not going without a fight
Teng Khorn’s living room is under a tree, his bedroom in a boat hauled up on a slipway for caulking beside the mangroves that lead to his source of income: the sea. His choice of abode is also his act of defiance against the monolithic Chinese ...
May Titthara and David Boyle
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/not-going-without-fight
Hun Sen Says More Die on Roads Than in War
Road traffic accidents are killing more Cambodians per year than those who died annually as a result of war during their country’s more than two decades of armed conflict, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday. Speaking in Battambang province’s Bavel district at the inauguration of the ...
Khy Sovuthy and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-says-more-die-on-roads-than-in-war-53853/
Press release of the Embassy of Japan on the Japanese government's grants provision to improve irrigation systems, maternal and child health and WASH, and youth capacity building
On 25 February 2020, the Embassy of Japan has issued a press release on the Japanese government’s grant for the construction of irrigation systems, improve maternal and child health and WASH, and capacity building of youth. The Government of Japan has agreed to provide US$890,471 ...
Embassy of Japan in the Kingdom of Cambodia
Reopening of tourism vocational education and training institutions, tourism vocational training schools and assessment centers under the Ministry of Tourism of Capital-Provinces with low risk of COVID-19 outbreak
On 14 October 2021, the Department of Tourism Vocational Training issued a notification on the reopening of tourism vocational education and training institutions, tourism vocational training schools and assessment centers under the Ministry of Tourism of Capital-Provinces with low risk of COVID-19 outbreak.Tourism Vocational Training ...
Department of Tourism Vocational Training
Recruitment of candidates who are working in the spa industry in hotels and spa businesses to attend training courses on upskill spa professionals in Cambodia
On 25 October 2021, the Ministry of Tourism issued a notification on the recruitment of candidates who are working in the spa industry in hotels and spa businesses to attend training courses on upskill spa professionals in Cambodia. To contribute to the implementation of the ...
Ministry of Tourism
Like father like son, Hun Manet appears to model Hun Sen’s political rhetoric
Since being endorsed by the Cambodian People’s Party in December as the ruling party’s only prime minister candidate, Hun Manet is increasingly appearing in public, taking his father’s place at events ranging from the inauguration of military buildings to road openings. ...
Sorn Sarath
https://cambojanews.com/like-father-like-son-hun-manet-appears-to-model-hun-sens-political-rhetoric/
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “Special economic zone in Cambodia”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “Special economic zone in Cambodia” by adding 2 new map feature of Royal Group Kandal SEZ in Kandal province and KLPT SEZ in Kampong Chhnang. This dataset describes the information of special economic zone (SEZ) in ...
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Giant development in Cambodia hinges on Chinese buyers
There is an island in Cambodia that, unlike others in Southeast Asia, is not the object of an ownership dispute. But it is equally clear whom its current owners would like to land there: Chinese property buyers. If all goes according to plan, Koh Pich — ...
Chris Horton
http://www.property-report.com/cambodias-mega-development-lures-chinese-investors-34672
Judiciary and courts
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The judiciary is one of the three powers, together with the executive (the Government) and legislative (the National Assembly and the Senate), that constitute the state. 1 Its role is to monitor the application of the law and punish its violation. This power is vested ...
Primary and secondary education
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Article 68 of Cambodia’s Constitution states that the Government shall provide free primary and secondary education for all citizens and each individual shall pursue basic education for at least 9 years. Education is a fundamental engine of social and economic development for a country, especially ...
Pig production priority
Thailand’s reported move to ban exports of live pigs highlights the need to develop a larger Cambodian pig industry, insiders say. The Bangkok Post reported yesterday that Thailand’s Acting Commerce Minister Porntiva Nakasai had banned the exports in order to bring down its own prices, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011070150113/Business/pig-production-priority.html
Villagers Block Road to Stop Threat of Evictions
A simmering land dispute in Kratie province’s Snuol Wildlife Sanctuary flared up Friday as hundreds of desperate villagers blocked National Road 76A for four hours in an effort to prevent the clearing of their homes and farms by a rubber company, villagers and human rights ...
Ongpin’s Atok buys Hong Kong company
Atok-Big Wedge Co. Inc., a listed company owned by the group of former Trade minister Roberto Ongpin, acquired Tidemark Holdings Ltd., a Hong Kong company that owns 25.9 percent of Forum Energy Plc, an oil and gas firm controlled by Philex Mining Corp. Atok-Big Wedge said ...
World Bank cuts growth outlook to 6%
Devastating floods as well as the economic slowdown in Europe and the US have prompted the World Bank to lower its outlook for Cambodia’s economic growth this year to 6 percent, down from a previous projection of 6.8 percent. In its economic update for the region ...
Gov't, NGOs Discuss Child Labor in Fisheries
Thousands of children are toiling in the country’s fisheries sector, living in conditions that are often hazardous to their health and depriving them of an education, government officials and UN representatives said yesterday at a workshop in Phnom Penh. Seventy-five percent of the 1.5 million ...
Good ties boost investment, trade, tourism between Cambodia, China
The bilateral relations between Cambodia and China in terms of investment, trade and tourism have become stronger in the past year thanks to the two countries’ good relations, said officials Friday. Cambodia attracted China’s investments of 1.19 billion U.S. dollars in 2011, up 71 percent from ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-02/17/c_131416641.htm
Asean NGO Coalition Claims Members’ Rights Violated
Members of the Asean People’s Forum, a coalition of NGOs that convened in Phnom Penh last week, declared yesterday that their rights had been violated after four workshops on sensitive issues were canceled by the venue where they met. In a statement representing more than 1,200 ...
Kingdom of Cambodia elected as a member of the ECOSOC
On 13 June 2018, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation released a press release to inform the public that the Kingdom of Cambodia was elected as a member of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) for one year term 2019. In ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Press release on identifying land owners in land disputes
On 18 May 2018 Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction set up a working group cooperated with Koh Kong province authority in order to identify the land owners and land plots related with land disputes from 21 May 2018. The land disputes happened ...
Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction