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
More Than 160 Now Infected With HIV in Battambang
An official said Wednesday that more than 160 villagers have now tested positive for HIV in Battambang province’s Roka commune in an outbreak that has baffled health officials and international experts, who are now conducting a survey to determine how the virus was spread. Soeum Chhom, ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-than-160-now-infected-with-hiv-in-battambang-74832/
UK is donating 415,000 AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines to Cambodia through a bilateral agreement
On 29 July 2021, British Embassy in Cambodia issued a press release on UK is donating 415,000 AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines to Cambodia through a bilateral agreement.The UK will this week begin delivering nine million COVID-19 vaccines around the world, including to Cambodia, to help tackle ...
British Embassy in Cambodia
Jobs: ICT in Education Project Officer
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is the leading open data platform in Cambodia and envisions a sustainable, democratic and participatory development for the country. The mission of ODC is to ensure access to information and improve the data ecosystem by making up-to-date and reliable content on ...
HENG Huy Eng
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IT and Website AdvisorHuy Eng graduated with a double major in Computer Science from Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), and International Study from Institute of Foreign Language (IFL). She has been working for ODC since it was firstly established in 2011. With several years ...
Government Goes to China in Search of New Loans
Prime Minister Hun Sen will travel to China on Saturday to meet with the rising superpower’s new leadership, in a trip the government expects to yield nearly $2 billion in loans and aid. Most significantly, the Government is hoping to secure Chinese funding for a 1.67 ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-goes-to-china-in-search-of-loans-17314/
Firm Given Rights to All ELC Timber in Ratanakkiri
The Ministry of Agriculture has signed a deal with Try Pheap Import Export to give the firm the right to purchase all timber felled in economic land concessions (ELCs) in Ratanakkiri province, according to a letter sent from the Agriculture Ministry to the Forestry Administration ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/firm-given-rights-to-all-elc-timber-in-ratanakkiri-22788/
Private Ship Registry Did Not Monitor Compliance
The privately-operated International Ship Registry of Cambodia (ISROC), a South Korea-based company that owns the rights to register foreign vessels under the Cambodian flag, told ship owners last year that it was not monitoring their observance of international maritime laws, and that it was their ...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/private-ship-registry-did-not-monitor-compliance-48532/
CNRP Touts Success on Second Day of Demonstrations
As leaders from the CPP and CNRP sat down for a round of top-level negotiations aimed at breaking the country’s prolonged political impasse on Monday, opposition supporters once again poured into Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park for the second day of demonstrations against alleged fraud in ...
Aun Pheap and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-touts-success-on-second-day-of-demonstrations-42529/
Cambodia Upgrades Diplomatic Relations With Japan
Prime Minister Hun Sen agreed to upgrade Cambodia’s diplomatic relations with Japan to a “strategic level” during talks in Tokyo on Sunday, but also thanked his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe, for making efforts to mend relations with neighbor China, according to media reports. During a state ...
Phorn Bopha and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-upgrades-diplomatic-relations-with-japan-49386/
Gov’t suspends freedom of association for unions
Following a complaint from the Free Trade Union (FTU) over the Ministry of Labor’s refusal to register 10 local branches of its organization, a ministry official said Wednesday that the constitutional right to freedom of association has been suspended until a new trade union law ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-suspends-freedom-of-association-for-unions-53271/
ADB Admits Fault in Rail Project, Pledges Compensation
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has for the first time admitted to major flaws in its efforts to protect the roughly 4,000 families losing land to a $143 million project it is funding to rehabilitate Cambodia’s dilapidated railway system. On Friday, the ADB said it would ...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/adb-admits-fault-in-rail-project-pledges-compensation-51210/
His Excellency PRAK Sokhonn, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Kingdom of Cambodia, will participate in the Friends of the Mekong Ministerial Meetings (FoM MM)
On 03 August 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on His Excellency PRAK Sokhonn, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Kingdom of Cambodia, will participate in the Friends of the Mekong Ministerial ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
His Excellency PRAK Sokhonn, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, will virtually participate in the ASEAN-U.S. Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
On 22 September 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on His Excellency PRAK Sokhonn, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, will virtually participate in the ASEAN-U.S. Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on 23 September 2021. The ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Congressional Hearing in US Pushes Cut to Cambodian Aid
At a congressional hearing in Washington on Tuesday that scathingly rebuked Prime Minister Hun Sen and his ruling CPP, a U.S. lawmaker called for legislation to cut American aid to Cambodia following the national election on July 28. Representative Steve Chabot, who chaired the House Subcommittee ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/congressional-hearing-in-us-pushes-cut-to-cambodian-aid-34389/
Development policies and administration
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Products from Vietnam arrive at the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port in Kandal province. Photo by World Bank Photo Collection, taken on 23 February 2013. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0The Comprehensive Cambodian Peace Agreement, commonly referred to as the Paris Agreement, is seen as the beginning ...
Welfare plan full of goals, short on details
Cash transfers to the poor and public works programs for the unemployed are spelled out in a new five-year plan the government launched yesterday in a bid to expand the country’s threadbare social welfare programs. Though full of ambitious targets and budgets, the ‘National Social Protection ...
Cambodia’s trade with Hong Kong jumps 22%
Bilateral trade between Cambodia and Hong Kong rose more than 22 per cent year-on-year in 2011, according to data from the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, whose regional base is in Hanoi. Total trade was US$741 million, compared with $607 million in 2010. Cambodia’s exports to Hong ...
Garment factories: Minimum wage raise scrutinised
The presidents of three unions have appealed to the Garment Manufacturing Association of Cambodia to improve the “miserable” living conditions of its workers by providing higher wages and better benefits, a letter received by the Post yesterday shows. The letter is dated March 2 and signed ...
Telecom Cambodia Revenues Drop by $1 Million in 2011
Telecom Cambodia, one of three state-owned enterprises with plans to list on Cambodia’s stock exchange, saw revenues decline by 3 percent to $31 million last year, an official at the company said yesterday. Lao Saroeun, director general of Telecom Cambodia, said that revenues at the company ...