Financing Cambodia's Muslims
Islamic finance could help to boost trade between Cambodia and the Middle East, as well as attract investment from Muslim-majority countries, experts said on Saturday. Knowledge of Islamic finance and banking, which bars interest lending and discourages unfair trade advantages, is almost nonexistent among Cambodia’s Muslims, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012031254976/Business/financing-cambodias-muslims.html
Kampot dredging escalates
Dredging in Kampot has escalated in the face of community concerns, with more boats now mining sand right in front of the provincial capital and dumping vast amounts of it directly outside the provincial land management authority. The Post counted a total of 17 boats ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012030554851/National-news/kampot-dredging-only-grows.html
Preah Vihear villagers protest soldiers' SLC
Villagers who allege authorities and armed forces in Preah Vihear province have been burning their houses and clearing farmland of 400 families, to create a social land concession, protested yesterday, calling on intervention from Prime Minister Hun Sen. The 5,557-hectare SLC in Kulen district’s Srayang village ...
Grasslands present dilemma
A week after British researchers released a study warning that the nation’s grasslands would soon be lost if drastic action was not taken to protect them, some agricultural experts have called for moderation, noting that the intensive rice cultivation blamed for the grasslands’ destruction is ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032664676/National/grasslands-present-dilemma.html
Despite Law, Minority Rights Receive Very Few Protections
The government does little to protect the rights and livelihoods of the country’s many ethnic minorities who are under constant threat from rapid development, representatives of indigenous groups said yesterday. “We have polices laws and guidelines to protect indigenous people, but we see that it doesn’t ...
High Risk Seen in Kingdom’s Business Environment: Report
Corruption, a weak judicial system and the potential for complicity with human and labour rights abuses are key risks for firms looking to invest in Cambodia, a new report [by Maplecroft, a UK-based global risk and strategic consulting firm] analysing investment risk in the Kingdom ...
Police Investigation Into Robbery-Shootings Yields No Suspects
Police have yet to identify any suspects in a pair of vicious robbery-shootings in Phnom Penh late last month that left an American expatriate and a Japanese tourist hospitalized with gunshot wounds, police said Monday. At about 7 p.m. on September 27, American construction consultant Maurice ...
Saing Soenthrith and Ben Woods
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-investigation-into-robbery-shootings-yields-no-suspects-44576/
Cambodian ruling, opposition parties fail to reach agreement on independent poll probe committee
Cambodia’s ruling and main opposition parties failed to reach agreement on Tuesday after the second round of negotiation on the establishment of an independent committee to look into alleged irregularities during the July 28 election. The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) negotiators were led by Prum ...
Xinhuanet News
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-08/20/c_132647778.htm
Buildings Up for Demolition Broke Agreement, Not Restrictions
Phnom Penh’s governor on Thursday refused to confirm whether two buildings close to the Royal Palace will be pulled down after local district and commune officials said Wednesday that their demolition due to height violations was imminent. Governor Pa Socheatvong declined to comment on the reports ...
Simon Henderson and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/buildings-up-for-demolition-broke-agreement-not-restrictions-45425/
ADB maps Kingdom's needs
The private sector and industry professionals were engaged yesterday in the first consultation with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the government in an effort to understand the factors affecting Cambodia’s economy, and ultimately determined that human capital, infrastructure, innovation and regulatory issues as the key areas ...
Growth to be focus of ASEAN Economic Summit
Prime Minister Hun Sen will be opening the 44th ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting and related meetings will kick off August 27 in Siem Reap, the centre of Khmer culture and civilization in Cambodia, and will run to September 1, according to the Ministry of Commerce. The meeting ...
Joint statement: Lack of a rigorous transboundary impact study of Sanakham put Mekong River at risk
On 24 November 2020, Eleven Non-Governmental Organizations in Cambodia issued a joint statement on the proposed Sanakham hydropower project on the Mekong mainstream in Laos concerning the transboundary impact on lower countries. This joint statement was issued in parallel with MRC who has been organizing ...
NGO Forum on Cambodia
Cooperation between the General Secretariat of the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Asian Vision Institute
On 13 October 2021, the Asian Vision Institute issued a press release on cooperation between the General Secretariat of the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Asian Vision Institute.The signing of the MoU between the two institutions aims to establish and enhance ...
Asian Vision Institute
Press release on enhancing connectivity towards ASEAN Community Post 2025 Vision
On 03 October 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on enhancing connectivity towards ASEAN Community Post 2025 Vision.With the theme of Enhancing Connectivity Towards an Inclusive, Sustainable and Resilient ASEAN Community Post 2025 Vision, the Symposium engaged distinguished ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Mr. Norbert KLEIN
Mr. Norbert KLEIN, also one of ODC’s original advisory board members, is a patriarch of the Internet community in Cambodia, having been instrumental in setting up Cambodia’s Internet system in the 1990s. Norbert was also a founder and long-term head of the Internet Society of ...
Year's crime ranged from brutal to bizarre
Law and order in Cambodia this year has been a strange mix of the brutal and the bizarre. From horrific murders to the police’s decision to deliver crystal meth to phony hostage-takers during a bank heist, crime has continually made headlines in a year when the ...
Shane Worrell and Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/years-crime-ranged-brutal-bizarre
Credit Bureau Begins Operations in Cambodia
The long-awaited Cambodian Credit Bureau (CBC) launched yesterday, a move that is expected to increase the amount of information banks retain on the history of borrowers in the banking system. Despite loan disbursals in the banking sector growing by 25 percent last year, banks have so ...
Save the Mekong statement on the collapse of the Xe Pian - Xe Nam Noy hydropower project
Save the Mekong, a coalition of non-government organizations, community-based groups and concerned citizens within the Mekong region, wish to express our shock and concern at the recent collapse of the Xe Pian - Xe Nam Noy hydropower project in Laos, and our deep condolences to communities affected by ...
Save the Mekong
China trade talks unrelated to EBA uncertainties, government says
A Commerce Ministry official said on Thursday that initiation of talks with China for a free trade agreement were not linked to a potential suspension of the ‘Everything But Arms’ trade scheme. The Chinese Embassy in Phnom Penh announced last week that the two countries ...
Aun Chhengpor
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/china-trade-talks-unrelated-to-eba-uncertainties-government-says/5175305.html