New MFI To Launch Operations
A new microfinance institution (MFI), ORO Financecorp Plc, is set to open in Cambodia, according to the director-general of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC). Cambodia already has 35 registered MFIs, according to a recent report by the Cambodia Microfinance Association (CMA). Last week, the ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050765436/Business/new-mfi-to-launch-operations.html
Two years after offer, US yet to clean up war-era chemicals
Government officials on Thursday said they are still waiting for the U.s. Embassy to make good on a 2012 offer to clean up several barrels of the riot control agent Cs that were dropped on Cambodia during the U.s.’ war with Vietnam and which the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter and Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-years-after-offer-us-yet-to-clean-up-war-era-chemicals-64930/
Australian FM hails Cambodia for rapid growth, political stability
Visiting Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr on Monday praised Cambodia for its rapid economic growth in recent years and political stability. Bob Carr said that Australian Development Assistance Program has allocated 77 million U.s. dollars to Cambodia in 2011-2012, focusing on agriculture development, health, services, infrastructure ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-03/26/c_131490522.htm
Thais will sit out NGO meet
Civil society groups from Thailand will boycott a meeting between NGOs and regional government representatives at this week’s AsEAN summit because their country’s delegate “does not represent Thai civil society”, a spokeswoman said yesterday. Premrudee Daoroung, a representative of Thai civil society groups, said her country’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012040255373/National-news/thais-will-sit-out-ngo-meet.html
Omlaing villagers set to attend court
About 100 residents of Kampong speu’s Omlaing commune will accompany five fellow villagers to the provincial court today after receiving summonses last week. ss='cambodia-color'>...
RCAF seeks Chinese language aid
RCAF deputy commander General Ith Sarath haS requeSted the ChineSe military help teach the ChineSe language to military officialS.&nbSp;Gen Sarath on Monday met with Brigadier General Xu Wenhua, deputy director of the Royal Academy of Artillery and Air Defence of the ChineSe People&rSquo;S Liberation Army SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50622468/rcaf-seeks-chinese-language-aid/
What lies ahead for Cambodia after its next election?
Cambodia’s upcoming general election on 29 July looks set to be its most controversial since its first national election in 1993. In late 2017, the main opposition party, the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), was dissolved and 118 of its senior members were banned from ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chheang Vannarith
http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2018/07/20/what-lies-ahead-for-cambodia-after-its-next-election/
UN body takes issue with stance on disabled rights
A UN spokesperson has rejected a government reading of a UN convention used to justify banning people with disabilities from performing in the streets. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-body-takes-issue-stance-disabled-rights
Japan to help children cope with disabilities
The Japanese Embassy granted $256,317 in development aid to Cambodia on Monday, to be used by the Association for Aid and Relief, Japan (AAR Japan) to promote the educational inclusion of children with disabilities. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26895/japan-to-help-children-cope-with-disabilities/
CNRP pledges marches; PM says party ‘absolutely will not be allowed’
The Cambodia National Rescue Party yesterday declared its intention to move forward with nationwide demonstrations in response to what it calls a campaign of state-backed legal harassment, prompting a swift reply from Prime Minister Hun sen, who warned security forces had been advised to crack ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sengkong and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-pledges-marches-pm-says-party-absolutely-will-not-be-allowed
Garment Exports Grow 15% in First Quarter
Garment and footwear exports from Cambodia increased 15.29 percent to $1.29 billion in the first three months of the year compared to the same period in 2011, according to figures released yesterday by the Ministry of Commerce. While exports to the European Union rose 46.76 percent to $376.14 million in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Coca-Cola, Smart Mobile again team up for top-ups
Coca-cola and Smart Mobile have teamed up in a joint promotion to give away $1 million worth of prizeS, including top-up minuteS and 25 SamSung Galaxy S3 SmartphoneS uSing numberS printed under bottle capS of Coca-Cola, Fanta and Sprite. The promotion Started on November 1 SS='cambodia-color'>...
Guesthouses rebut calls for fair prices
Hotel and guesthouse operators have pushed back against government calls to avoid price increases during holidays, claiming group booking, as well as supply and demand, dictated the price of accommodation. Government officials, including Prime Minister Hun sen, have recently tried to dissuade operators from raising the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Unpaid Factory Workers Ask US Embassy for Help
More than 100 workers from Kingsland Garment Cambodia factory, which was a supplier to U.s. retail giant Wal-Mart, demonstrated outside the U.s. Embassy in Phnom Penh yesterday, appealing for help in getting their severance payments. In December, workers found out the company had declared bankruptcy ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia's trade with U.S. up 2% in first half of 2013
Bilateral trade between Cambodia and the United StateS haS amounted to 1.44 billion U.S. dollarS in the firSt Six monthS of the year, up 2 percent compared with 1.41 billion U.S. dollarS over the Same period laSt year, the figureS of the U.S. Department of SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-08/07/c_132610051.htm
Teenage Pregnancy Rate Stays Constant Over Past Decade
Teenage pregnancies are hindering Cambodia’s development as young mothers are unlikely to finish school and therefore lack job opportunities, government and U.N. officials said at the launch of a global report on adolescent pregnancies on Wednesday. “The Ministry of Women’s Affairs acknowledges that adolescent pregnancies have ss='cambodia-color'>...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/teenage-pregnancy-rate-stays-constant-over-past-decade-46402/
US Government Clothes Producer Denies Abuses
A representative of the Zongtex Garment Manufacturing company in Phnom Penh on Tuesday denied employing workers as young as 15 to make U.s. government clothing, following an exposé by The New York Times on poor standards in factories producing U.s. government attire. On sunday, The Times ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/us-government-clothes-producer-denies-abuses-49654/
Cambodia, Britain sign MOU to fight crimes
Cambodia and Britain signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to fight against cross-border crimes. “The MOU focused on cooperation between the General Commissariat of National Police and Britain’s National Crime Agency to fight against crimes and related violations,” said Kirt Chantharith, national police spokesman. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=ZTRmODY4NWYxOGZ
Cambodia asks for help in oil and gas industry
Cambodia has invited resource-rich Azerbaijan to help develop Cambodia’s prospective oil and gas industry, Commerce Minister sun Chanthol announced during a high-level visit to the Caucasian country on Tuesday, according to Azerbaijani media reports. Mr. Chanthol laid out a goal to achieve an overall trade ss='cambodia-color'>...
Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/cambodia-asks-for-help-in-oil-and-gas-industry-57237/
CNRP holds a citywide rolling rally
Days after authorities repeatedly cracked down on demonstrations, opposition party supporters staged a rolling rally across Phnom Penh yesterday, filling up roads for hours and blocking major intersections. About 500 people with tuk-tuks and motorbikes gathered at the Cambodia National Rescue Party headquarters in the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-holds-citywide-rolling-rally