Coalition of Cambodian NGOs calls for help with climate change
As the latest UN climate change conference begins today in Doha, Qatar, a coalition of Cambodian NGOs is joining calls for developed countries to bear more of the burden of combating climate change.
Cambodia and other poor countries are unprepared to deal with rapid climate change
Melco’s unit disposes of Cambodia assets
Nasdaq-listed Entertainment Gaming Asia Inc, a company linked to Macau casino operator Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd, is selling its assets in Cambodia.
The sale includes all assets of Dreamworld Leisure with the exception of all electronic gaming machines, and prohibits any use of the Dreamworld
GGRAsia News Staff
http://www.ggrasia.com/melcos-unit-disposes-of-cambodia-assets/
SMEs look to regional buyers
Cambodia’s ASEAN Economic Minister yesterday urged small and medium-size enterprises to focus on countries in Southeast Asia, rather than Europe and the United States, for export destinations.
Cham Prasidh, also the minister of commerce, said yesterday that regional markets have traditionally held a second place to
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012053056469/Business/smes-look-to-regional-buyers.html
Beeline officials mum on sales buzz
Questions remained yesterday about the fate of mobile operator Beeline Cambodia following the sale of parent company Vimpelcom’s Vietnamese assets earlier in the week.
Despite a report on Tuesday in the Russian newspaper Kommersant that sources close to Vimpelcom’s shareholders had said the sale of Cambodian operations was under consideration, company officials
Improvements for banks after budget
Improvements to Cambodia’s banking and finance sector are expected to come about as a result of the 2013 national budget, a Council of Ministers spokesman said.
“We will dedicate resources to ensuring macro-economic stability,” spokesman for the Council of Ministers, Phay Siphan said.
These measures, in conjunction
Tourism not hurt by outbreak
Cambodia’s tourism sector has emerged from a “mystery disease” scare unscathed, industry insiders said yesterday, although some regional health authorities noted what the World Health Organisation called an outbreak of Enterovirus-71 (EV-71), which has killed at least 52 children in the Kingdom.
“The disease has only
Railway evictees seek ADB aid
Families forced to move by the rehabilitation of the Phnom Penh stretch of the national railway petitioned the Asian Development Bank yesterday for help with their livelihoods.
About 50 people gathered outside the ADB’s office to submit a petition representing more than 160 families relocated to
New year ringing in myriad concessions
The government has granted private companies the right to develop about 65,000 hectares of land in wildlife sanctuaries, national parks and on public reserves since January 1, data from a human rights group reveals.
Ouch Leng, land reform project coordinator for the Cambodian Center for Human
When trees are cut down, Angkor’s temples begin to crumble
The temples of Angkor in Cambodia are known for their lost-world feel, thanks in part to trees and vegetation that have colonized the structures. While giant roots and trunks pouring over ancient blocks and carvings look cool, the trees are actually a destructive force acting on
Rachel Nuwer
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-trees-are-cut-down-angkors-temples-begin-crumble-180951798/?no-ist
Maids to Saudi Arabia denied
Both the government and the Association of Cambodian Recruitment Agencies yesterday denied media reports that Cambodia and Vietnam will provide domestic workers to Saudi Arabia.
Citing Saudi Arabian newspapers, the news website Emirates 24/7 reported yesterday that Cambodia and Vietnam had agreed to send maids to
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012061356764/National-news/maids-to-saudi-arabia-denied.html
Wild lobster stocks replenished
Seven million young lobsters had been released into Cambodia’s rivers and Tonle Sap Lake this year in an effort to build the nation’s fish and shellfish stocks, officials said yesterday.
Nao Thouk, general director of the Fisheries Administration at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said, about
Abuses prevalent for Cambodia's transgender women: study
An overwhelming majority of transgender women on Cambodia’s city streets are subject to “shocking” harassment and abuse, according to a new report from the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR). The report, released yesterday, also shines a light on a disturbing new practice that has allegedly
Erin Handley and Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/abuses-prevalent-cambodias-transgender-women-study
About 871,000 Cambodians travel abroad in 2013, up 10 pct
The number of Cambodia’s outbound travelers increased by 10 percent year-on-year to 871,000 last year, a report of the Ministry of Tourism showed Tuesday.
Ang Kim Eang, president of Cambodia Association of Travel Agents, which represents about 220 tour and travel companies, said most of Cambodian
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-02/18/c_133124854.htm
Cambodia receives 3.6 mln overseas tourists in 10 months
Cambodia welcomed 3.6 million overseas tourists in the first 10 months of 2014, up 6 percent compared to the same period last year, a tourism official said on Wednesday.
Kong Sopheareak, chief of the statistics and planning department at the Ministry of Tourism, said the top
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-12/10/c_133845725.htm
Border crime in Interpol’s sights
An ASEAN-first Interpol database tracking transnational crime between Cambodia and Vietnam was launched in Phnom Penh yesterday.
Keo Vannthan, head of Cambodia’s Interpol Bureau at the Ministry of Interior, said the European Union had pledged almost US$800,000 to the pilot EU-ASEAN Migration Border Management Program project
Nike seeks investigation of mass fainting incidents
Global sportswear giant Nike has asked the International Labour Organisation’s industry monitoring body to investigate the two mass fainting incidents at its supplier Sabrina (Cambodia) Manufacturing last week and report its finding to it, Nike said yesterday.
“Nike has requested ILO Better [Factories] Cambodia, the industry
Growing pains, as capital keeps expanding
Phnom Penh is one of the fastest-growing cities in Southeast Asia. It added nearly 500,000 people between 2000 and 2010, for a total of 1.4 million. That has meant a lot of changes in a short period: more congestion, more markets, more housing. And, newcomers
Phorn Bopha,
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/growing-pains-as-capital-keeps-expanding/2630483.html
Cambodian officer killed environment activist then took own life, army says
The Cambodian military has concluded that one of its own police officers killed a prominent environmentalist then took his own life in an incident in a forest rife with illegal logging.
Chut Wutty had been taking photographs on Wednesday in a forest where a Chinese company
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/27/cambodian-soldier-environment-activist-army?INTCMP=SRCH
Activists see freedom of expression on wane
Threats, intimidation and, in extreme cases, even murder were endangering freedom of expression in Cambodia and leaving human rights at the crossroads, activists and NGO representatives said during a round-table meeting yesterday.
The slaying of environmental activist Chut Wutty, the arrest of Beehive radio director Mam
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