Cambodian Scholar Suggests Pernicious Effects of Aid Dependence
For political economist Sophal Ear, this view is more nuanced. In his book ‘Aid Dependence in Cambodia: How Foreign Assistance Undermined Democracy‘, published by the Columbia University Press (2012), years of dependency are not showing positive results in the rehabilitation of Cambodia, its democracy and war ...
http://asiancorrespondent.com/90669/cambodian-scholar-suggests-pernicious-effects-of-aid-dependence/
Government acknowledges critical IRI public opinion poll
The government of Prime Minister Hun Sen has accepted the results of a recent public opinion poll carried out by the International Republican Institute (IRI), which found that fewer people support the direction the country is headed, the organization said Thursday. The annual survey found that ...
LAUREN CROTHERS
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-acknowledges-critical-iri-public-opinion-poll-51639/
Cambodian opposition said to be seeking compromise with PM
Cambodia’s opposition has been in talks with Prime Minister Hun Sen to find a deal to end the political crisis caused by last year’s disputed general election and a compromise may be near, two analysts briefed on the matter said. Opposition leader Sam Rainsy and his ...
Prak Chan Thul
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/01/15/uk-cambodia-election-idUKBREA0E0H420140115
Garment industry stokes Cambodia’s political growth
Under dazzling white strip-lights, a production line of young Cambodians stitch, iron and fold their way to the day’s target of 820 two-piece children’s pajamas. These garments are destined for the shelves of Los Angeles, shop price $9.97. The workers, mostly women, start at 7:30 ...
ADB sees strong growth for developing Asia in 2015 and 2016
Developing Asia will maintain its strong economic growth in 2015 and 2016 supported by soft commodity prices and recovery in the major industrial economies, says a new Asian Development Bank (ADB) report. ADB’s flagship annual economic publication, Asian Development Outlook 2015 (ADO), released today, forecasts developing ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1DWutVM
Press release: Thai Appeal Court set to rule on Southeast Asia’s first transboundary class action into human rights abuses on Friday, 31 July, 2020
On 30 July 2020, the Equitable Cambodia Organization issued a press release informing that on Friday 31 July 2020, the Bangkok South Civil Court will deliver a landmark decision on an appeal for class action status in the case of Hoy Mai & Others vs. ...
Equitable Cambodia Organization
Deadline extended for comment on new urban planning rules
The Ministry of Land Management is giving a brief reprieve to non-government groups and donor partners who missed yesterday’s deadline to comment on a draft sub-decree aiming to guide and regulate the country’s urban development. After making the Sub-Decree on Urban Planning and Town Areas public ...
Hun sen scolds media during forum session
Prime Minister Hun Sen used a news conference at Thursday’s World Economic Forum on Asean in Phnom Penh to warn that two foreign-owned news outlets, including The Cambodia Daily, were “against” the government and that journalists who did not report “properly” would be seen as ...
Matt Surrusco
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-hijacks-forum-session-to-scold-media-129604/
Dam developers hit back
Hydropower developers in southern Laos have fired back at the World Wildlife Fund after the conservation group issued two disparaging reports in as many weeks on the Don Sahong dam project. WWF released a brief on February 19 alleging that construction of the 260-megawatt damcould result ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dam-developers-hit-back
Cambodia must make union draft law public: rights group
Cambodia’s government should make public a proposed law aimed at regulating the country’s labor movement, a rights group said Thursday, amid concerns that it includes provisions for the suspension of unions and for severely restricting their right to freedom of association. Requests from civil society to ...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/unions-04172014170804.html
After factory ignores ruling, garment workers to march
Employees of the Ocean Garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Pur Senchey district continued to protest Monday against management’s decision to ignore an Arbitration Council ruling on owed wages. Cheng Chhorn, secretary general of the Collective Union of Movement of Workers, said the workers will march to ...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-factory-ignores-ruling-garment-workers-to-march-64074/
Thailand and Cambodia step up to address migrant worker problem
Thailand’s Director-General of Department of Employment Sumet Mahosot and Cambodian Director-General of the Labor Department Seng Sakada today briefed the press about the controversial migrant worker issue. The discussion comprised 4 topics. First, there is the requirement of proof of nationality, so Cambodia will arrange for ...
Thailand National News Bureau News Staff
http://thainews.prd.go.th/centerweb/newsen/NewsDetail?NT01_NewsID=WNPOL5708180010011
Vietnam asks Laos to review impacts of hydropower dam
Viet Nam has urged Laos to continue its research on the environmental impacts of the planned Xayaburi Dam on the Mekong River. Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Luong Thanh Nghi made the statement at a regular press briefing in Ha Noi yesterday when answering a question ...
The promise of pork
While the Kingdom’s biggest industrial pig farming company is seeing steady growth as the nation’s population and hunger for pork grows, small pig farmers are having a hard time of it in the face of fluctuating prices and lower cost imports from Thailand, according to experts and insiders who came to a recent ...
US calls for review of election ‘irregularities’
The US Department of State on Monday called on Cambodian authorities to carry out a full investigation into “all credible reports” of election malfeasance, saying that it was “concerned” by various issues taking place both on, and leading up to, last Sunday’s vote. At a press ...
The Phnom Penh Post
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-calls-review-election-%E2%80%98irregularities%E2%80%99
China pledges $548 million in aid to ally Cambodia
China has pledged another $548 million in aid to Cambodia for infrastructure and irrigation systems, extending assistance that some critics say has bought it Cambodia’s diplomatic support. Agreements covering $500 million in soft loans and $48 million in grants were signed when Prime Minister Hun ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/10/us-cambodia-china-idUSBRE93909D20130410
Investor Decries Export Tax on Cambodian Seafood
A major Hong Kong investor in Cambodia has claimed that a government duty on seafood exports is stunting the country’s fish processing industry. Hong Kong-based Sunwah Group began operating a shrimp-processing factory in Sihanoukville in 1994, and its plans in the country now include building a ...
Fear ‘making bloggers, reporters self-censor’
Cambodian bloggers and journalists often self-censor out of fear that they could face legal or physical threats, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights said in a report on freedom of expression released yesterday. The policy brief, a summary of six roundtable discussions held over the past ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fear-%E2%80%98making-bloggers-reporters-self-censor%E2%80%99
Battambang’s per capita income rises to $1,760 in five years
Battambang province, located in the northwest of the country, has developed a lot in the last five years. The province today has mines and economic zones with large factories and enterprises, according to a brief report on the Battambang Provincial Administration’s success in the past ...
Sok Sithika
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501226407/battambangs-per-capita-income-rises-to-1760-in-five-years/
Cambodia to Miss 2013 Copyright Deadline
Cambodia will not meet the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) deadline to enforce copyright laws by 2013 and will likely ask for an extension, an official at the Ministry of Commerce said yesterday. The deadline was already extended once by the WTO in 2005 after it ...