IFC Ombudsman to help settle Phnom Penh airport land dispute
Representatives for the hundreds of families facing eviction from homes around Phnom Penh International Airport have agreed to let the compliance ombudsman of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private investment arm of the World Bank, mediate a solution to the land dispute with the ...
Aun Pheap and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ifc-ombudsman-to-help-settle-phnom-penh-airport-land-dispute-53146/
RUPP Vietnamese Language Department to offer 3 courses
Minister of Education, Youth and Sports Hang Chuon Naron issued a proclamation on November 22, 2021, to establish the Institute of International Studies and Public Policy of RUPP where students can study in the Vietnamese Language Department and obtain a bachelor’s in Vietnamese studies, Vietnamese ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501133204/rupp-vietnamese-language-department-to-offer-3-courses/
Businesswoman calls on government to return land
High-profile Phnom Penh businesswoman Chhin Sokountheary has called on Prime Minister Hun Sen to return 33 hectares of prime land in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district to her company, which lost the rights to it when the government claimed the land in July. Sokountheary said she ...
Commerce minister, US Ambassador swap praise after trade trip
U.S. Ambassador William Todd and Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol praised each other for their dedication to the development of the Cambodian economy at a press conference in Phnom Penh on Monday, following a joint trade mission last month to the U.S. Mr. Todd and Mr. Chanthol, ...
Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/commerce-minister-us-ambassador-swap-praise-after-trade-trip-63458/
Arsenic in Kandal rice may be leaking into Phnom Penh markets
Once thought to be a problem that affected only rural areas, arsenic poisoning from tainted food could affect Cambodian cities such as Phnom Penh as well, according to research into rice and fish cultivated in Kandal province. ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16767/arsenic-in-kandal-rice-may-be-leaking-into-phnom-penh-markets/
Minister urges ties with Asian nations
Cambodia must further integrate with its East Asian neighbours for future economic development, said Minister of Economy and Finance Keat Chhon. The financial crisis highlighted the need to diversify production, and Asia’s markets are ripe for increased Cambodian exports, he said. Speaking at the 7th ...
Students protest over inability to sit exams
Nearly 200 midwives and nursing students at the International University in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district protested yesterday after reportedly being denied the necessary documents required to sit the Ministry of Health’s state civil servant exam this summer. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/students-protest-over-inability-sit-exams
Chinese universities jointly hold education exhibition in Cambodian capital
Twenty-two Chinese higher education institutions jointly held a one-day education exhibition here on Thursday with an aim to boost education cooperation between China and Cambodia and to attract more Cambodian students to study in China. The 2nd edition of China Higher Education Exhibition is held at ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=219804
New flight route
Cambodia will be more connected to mainland China next week with an additional direct flight route to the populous southern province of Hainan, to be operated by a Chinese airline. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27262/new-flight-route/
VietJet set to resume flights to Siem Reap
Vietnamese budget airline VietJet will re-launch flights to Cambodia at the end of October following a six-month halt in the service due to unspecified market issues, an aviation official said yesterday. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/vietjet-set-resume-flights-siem-reap
Direct flights from Japan to start
Direct flights between Cambodia and Japan will start soon after representatives of both countries exchanged Air Service Agreement notes yesterday. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25466/direct-flights-from-japan-to-start/
US Senators call on UN to pass resolution on Cambodia’s political crackdown
A group of US Senators has sent a letter to Nikki Haley, the country’s ambassador to the United Nations, urging her to work with other members of the UN Human Rights Council to pass a resolution on Cambodia’s political situation. ...
Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-senators-call-un-pass-resolution-cambodias-political-crackdown
Corruption Continues To Stymie Development, Transparency Advocate Says
Corruption remains a major impediment to Cambodia’s development, but the systemic practices associated with it can be curbed if the government takes serious action, a transparency advocate says. Preap Kol, executive director of Transparency International Cambodia, told VOA Khmer in a studio interview recently that Cambodia ...
Families say eviction forced
Hundreds of families in Ratanakkiri province have asked rights group Adhoc to intervene, saying local authorities in Bakeo district’s Laminh commune are illegally forcing them from their homes. Village representative, Ek Orm, 52, said that authorities were forcing villagers to relocate to make way for a ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013011460762/National/families-say-eviction-forced.html
Undercover underused: NGO
Cambodia hopes to legalise undercover investigative techniques – like covert surveillance and officers posing as criminals, which until now have fallen into a murky legal grey area – by next year. At a workshop in the capital yesterday, law enforcement officials and representatives of human rights ...
Laignee Barron and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/undercover-underused-ngo
US criticises SE Asia on rights
Lawmakers reviewed the “troubling” state of human rights in Southeast Asia Wednesday and criticised Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. But they reserved some of their toughest words for Myanmar, demanding an end to United states concessions to its quasi-civilian government. While no lawmakers mentioned Wednesday’s presidential ...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/world/419849/us-lawmakers-criticise-vietnam-cambodia-myanmar
Work starts to bridge Thailand – Cambodia missing link
A ground-breaking ceremony at Poipet in Cambodia on July 25 marked the start of work to reinstate the cross-border railway to Thailand. The ceremony was attended by Cambodia’s Deputy Minister for Public Works & Transport Guang Sun and Thailand’s Permanent Secretary for Transport Soithip Traisuth. ...
Railway Gazette International News Staff
http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/single-view/view/work-starts-to-bridge-thailand-cambodia-missing-link.html
Cambodia sees 16 pct rise in garment, footwear exports in 6 months
Garment and footwear industry, Cambodia’s largest income earner, saw a 16 percent increase in exports in the first six months of 2014, according to a commerce ministry’s report on Sunday. The country exported apparel and footwear products worth 2.92 billion U.S. dollars during the January-June period ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2014-07/20/c_133497592.htm
US turns to Cambodia rice market
Cambodia’s rice exporters are eager to sell more of their goods in the United States and tap into the world’s largest economy. Speaking at the International Export Market Research for Cambodian Rice seminar in Phnom Penh yesterday, Song Saran, CEO of Amru Rice Cambodia, one of ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/us-turns-cambodia-rice-market
Cambodia rejects US report on human rights abuse
Cambodia rejected a report of the US State Department, which attacked the government of Prime Minister Hen Sen for widespread abuse against human rights. The 31-page report highlighted a flawed and poorly managed electoral process in July’s general election process. The report raised a number of ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=ZmQ5NGRjZWRmMDI