Rescues of trafficked migrant workers surge
More than 500 trafficked Cambodian migrant workers were rescued abroad and sent home in 2015, a huge increase compared to 2014 numbers, though largely attributable to a handful of mass repatriations from Indonesia.According to a report by the Foreign Ministry, 573 workers were returned home ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rescues-trafficked-migrant-workers-surge
Microfinance deal applauded
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and a microfinance industry insider applauded one of Cambodia’s top 10 MFIs Sathapana Limited, for changing the majority shareholder to a commercial bank. They said it proves a positive and strong funding source is essential for MFIs to peruse their ...
500 hectares of sanctuary granted to rubber company
Five hundred hectares of Mondolkiri land inside a protected wildlife sanctuary have been granted to a rubber company, sparking concerns among indigenous minorities who rely on the forest. According to a sub-decree dated August 31 and signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen, the government approved an ...
Cambodia marks World Food Day, focusing on social protection, agriculture
Cambodia celebrated World Food Day here on Friday, stressing the importance of social protection and agriculture in eradicating hunger and poverty, according to a joint press statement. Gianpietro Bordignon, WFP Representative to Cambodia, said Cambodia has achieved an impressive economic development in the past decades, ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-10/16/c_134721086.htm
Villagers claim torture by Thai soldiers after their release
Three Cambodian men arrested in Thailand last week were returned to Preah Vihear province on Monday and claim they were tortured by the Thai military before being released, according to a military colonel in the area who provided a video of the men’s accounts. According ...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-claim-torture-by-thai-soldiers-after-their-release-71194/
General implicated in Prey Lang logging
Newly declared protected areas in Prey Lang forest are being illegally logged by companies belonging to a three-star general and his sister, according to Goldman Environmental Prize-winning conservationist Ouch Leng and NGOs with which he is working. Leng, along with 15 NGO officers, patrollers and ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/general-implicated-prey-lang-logging
Cambodian, Vietnamese militaries ink deals for quarry, rubber development projects
Cambodian and Vietnamese Defense Ministries on Friday signed two documents relevant to a joint venture for establishing a quarry and a rubber plantation project in Cambodia. According to a document briefed to reporters at the signing ceremony, the two deals included a quarry site establishment in ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-11/30/c_132011035.htm
China, Cambodia agree to further advance ties
China and Cambodia agreed on Thursday to further advance their comprehensive relations of strategic cooperation and partnership in accordance with the will of late Cambodian King-Father Norodom Sihanouk. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen told visiting Chinese State Councillor Dai Bingguo on Thursday morning that Cambodia “will ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-10/18/c_131915190.htm
Dam ‘dire for dolphins’
Construction of the Don Sahong hydropower project in southern Laos is likely to decimate an already dwindling population of critically endangered Mekong dolphins, according to a World Wildlife Fund science brief published today. About 85 dolphins inhabit a deep-water pool restricted to a stretch of the ...
Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dam-%E2%80%98dire-dolphins%E2%80%99
Cambodia on verge of transitioning from low-income to middle-income country: ADB chief
Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Takehiko Nakao said here Tuesday that Cambodia is on the verge of transforming from a low-income to a middle-income country. The middle-income nation is defined by the GDP (gross domestic product) per capita between 1,045 U.S. dollars and 12,746 U.S. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1Eal4qY
World Bank praises jab, booster campaigns
The rapid pace of Cambodia’s coronavirus vaccination campaigns and subsequent booster shot drives will be key to a faster economic reopening, according to a senior World Bank official on September 13. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/world-bank-praises-jab-booster-campaigns
Government Bank Gives Loan for Rice Milling
The government-backed Rural Development Bank has handed a $4.5 million loan to a company planning to invest in Cambodia’s efforts to export more milled rice. Rural Development Bank chairman Son Kuon Thor said yesterday that the bank was giving the loan to a new company ...
Toyota to Open Second Phnom Penh Outlet
Japanese automobile giant Toyota is set to increase its presence in Cambodia with a second sales showroom, according to a company manager. The move follows fellow Japanese automaker Mazda, which opened a new showroom in May. According to a report from newswire Bloomberg, Toyota executive vice president ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/toyota-to-open-second-phnom-penh-outlet-33328/
6 break out of Ratanakkiri prison
Six inmates busted out of Ratanakkiri Provincial Prison in the wee hours of yesterday morning, police said, adding another incident to a string of embarrassing escapes at the facility over the past two years. According to a post on the National Police’s website, authorities in Ratanakkiri’s ...
Chhay Channyda
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/6-break-out-ratanakkiri-prison
Calls for Kingdom to join transparency group
A new US commitment to oil and mining transparency may push the Kingdom closer to a similar agreement, Cambodian experts have said. US President Barack Obama announced earlier this week that the US would join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative as an implementing country, according to ...
Factory for named brands slammed for faintings
Low wages and a lack of occupational health and safety measures led to a mass fainting on Tuesday at a Phnom Penh garment factory that produces clothes for well-known brands Wal-Mart, Target and Reebok, according to a statement released by the Community Legal Education Center ...
CDC approves $600m in investments
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) last week approved 11 projects worth nearly $600 million. According to a post on CDC’s Facebook page yesterday, 11 projects were greenlighted on June 5-7, amounting to a total investment of $597 million. CDC estimates the projects will generate ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50612918/cdc-approves-600m-in-investments/
Hun Manith new head of military intelligence
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s middle son, Hun Manith, has been appointed as director of the Defense Ministry’s military intelligence unit, according to a sub-decree issued by his father last month, making him the second of the premier’s sons to ascend to the upper echelons of ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-manith-new-head-of-military-intelligence-98055/
USAID Report Offers New Way to Protect Prey Long Forest
The government should abandon its current management of Prey Long forest and shift to a plan that conserves the forst while also optimizing its economic uses, such as agriculture, carbon credits and controlled timber exploitation, according to a recent report by the US Agency for ...
Cambodia greets 333,900 Chinese tourists in 2012, up 35 pct
Cambodia attracted 333,900 Chinese tourists last year, a 35 percent rise compared with 247, 200 Chinese visitors in a year earlier, according to a report of the Ministry of Tourism on Tuesday. “We see a steady rise of Chinese tourists to Cambodia from year to ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/travel/2013-02/12/c_132165732.htm