Airport welcomes two mlllionth passenger
Phnom Penh International Airport last Thursday hit the two-million-passenger mark in a year for the first time. The figure included all International and domestic passengers arriving at, and departing from, Phnom Penh International Airport since the beginning of this year, a press release said. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2012122460428/Business/airport-welcomes-two-mlllionth-passenger.html
School resources for disabled scarce
Kimseang spent much of his childhood enduring harassment and verbal abuse, with teachers and other children dismissing him because of a visual and physical impairment. While the kingdom has seen overall access to education improve from a 69 per cent net enrollment rate in 1991 ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/school-resources-disabled-scarce
Cambodia sees 45 percent rise in rubber exports in 8 months
Cambodia has reported a 45 percent increase in dry rubber exports in the first eight months of the year, the figures of the Ministry of Commerce showed Saturday. From January to August this year, the country had exported 45, 530 tons of dry rubber, up 45 ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/814624.shtml#.UkjU7dKBmN8
Cambodia launches one-month intercensal economic survey
Cambodia on Saturday began a one-month intercensal economic survey, aiming to update basic statistics on establishments and enterprises in the country. Planning Minister Chhay Than announced the survey launching and called for cooperation among the public, particularly enterprise owners and local authorities in order to lead ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=203965
ILO launches fifth round of radio competition
The International Labor Organisation launched Friday the fifth round of a radio competition to promote understanding of the Cambodian labor law among garment workers. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=ZmFlZmE0MjIwMDQ
City working to keep experimental bus route running
An experiment in public busing sponsored by the Japanese government ends tomorrow, but Phnom Penh officials say they want the service to continue. The service will be handed over to the city and a Chinese company, so that 10 bus lines will keep running, but officials ...
Suy Heimkhemra
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/city-working-to-keep-experimental-bus-route-running/1863224.html
Smartphone software to help rice farmers
An international agriculture NGO is preparing to roll out a nationwide project in partnership with computer-chip maker Intel whereby more than 25,000 farmers will be able to receive real-time advice on farming methods via a smartphone app. The international Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) piloted the ...
Kang Sothear and George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/smartphone-software-to-help-rice-farmers-67162/
Pilot project to boost nutrition for Cambodian garment workers
A study by the International Labor Organization, the U.N.’s labor body, shows most Cambodian garment workers do not eat enough nutritious food and that, as a result, many are anemic and even underweight. Now, a pilot project will feed workers at five factories a free ...
Robert Carmichael
http://www.voanews.com/content/pilot-project-to-boost-nutrition-for-cambodian-garment-workers/2483260.html
Lor Peang farmers reject assembly’s land swap
After promising in early September to settle a land dispute between farmers in Kompong Chhnang province and a company owned by the wife of a government minister within a week, the National Assembly’s human rights commission has yet to find common ground between the two ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lor-peang-farmers-reject-assemblys-land-swap-70267/
CITS to open Cambodia's first non-airport duty-free shop
China International Travel Service Group (CITS) will open a duty-free shop (DFS) in Cambodia next month, the first non-airport DFS in the country, it announced on Sunday. ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=252924
NA commission member visits K Chhnang KDC site
After promising in September to quickly resolve a years-long land dispute involving villagers and the politically connected development company KDC International, a member of the National Assembly’s human rights commission visited affected families in Kampong Chhnang province yesterday. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/na-commission-member-visits-k-chhnang-kdc-site
IOM willing to help with refugee plan
The International Organisation for Migration has told the Cambodian government it is willing to take part in the resettlement of refugees from Nauru if a number of conditions are met. ...
Kevin Ponniah and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/iom-willing-help-refugee-plan
Pen Sovann plans ICC complaint against Vietnam
Former Cambodian Prime Minister Pen Sovann, who was installed by the Vietnamese after they toppled the Khmer Rouge, but was later removed and imprisoned in Vietnam, has announced a plan to file a complaint against Cambodia’s eastern neighbor at the International Criminal Court. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pen-sovann-plans-icc-complaint-against-vietnam-75802/
Experts say let bird fly
Wildlife experts fear for the health of a migratory vulture from Central Asia after it was captured by villagers in Kampot province’s Teuk Chhou district and taken to a notorious private zoo. The Himalayan vulture, also known as the Himalayan griffon, which rarely visits Cambodia, was ...
Mom Kunthear and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/experts-say-let-bird-fly
Cleaners at airport to get salary bump
A monday walk-out by cleaners at Phnom Penh International Airport has resulted in the company the airport enlists for sanitary services agreeing to hike employees’ monthly salaries by $20 yesterday. More than 30 employees at HCC Co, the airport’s cleaning service, walked off the job, demanding ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cleaners-airport-get-salary-bump
Refugees on Nauru slam Cambodia resettlement plan
Refugees who met with Cambodian immigration officials last week on the Pacific island of Nauru were told they would be given permanent visas and travel documents but would have to pay for English-language education and would lose all but emergency financial support after a year, ...
UCA News Staff
http://www.ucanews.com/news/refugees-on-nauru-slam-cambodia-resettlement-plan/73274
IFC gives Acleda a $110M loan boost
The International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank, and the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) announced Thursday that they will provide Acleda Bank with a $110 million loan to finance rural and micro-businesses, especially agricultural enterprises. ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ifc-gives-acleda-110m-loan-boost
Care lacking for victims: study
While mental health services are crucial to the recovery process for the Kingdom’s victims of human trafficking, stigma and limited resources remain a barrier in the provision of and access to those services, according to a new study published yesterday. The research, published in the International ...
Rebecca Moss
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/care-lacking-victims-study
Cambodia arrival of the first Australia's unwanted refugees imminent
Four refugees detained in the tiny Pacific island of Nauru are set to arrive in Cambodia as part of a controversial agreement that has so far cost Australian taxpayers $55.5 million. ...
Lindsay Murdoch
http://bit.ly/1GjMn6N
Asylum seekers land in Cambodia under secret deal
Four asylum seekers arrived in Cambodia on Wednesday. They are the first asylum seekers from an Australian-operated camp on the Pacific island of Nauru. The refugees are an Iranian man and his wife, a second man, also from Iran, and an ethnic Rohingya man from ...
Robert Carmichael
http://bit.ly/1FJQiTV