World Bank approves additional $35 mln credit to Cambodia for improving climate-resilient roads
The World Bank has approved an additional 35 million U.s. dollars credit to Cambodia for improving climate-resilient rural roads in three provinces, its press release said on saturday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501457100/world-bank-approves-additional-35-mln-credit-to-cambodia-for-improving-climate-resilient-roads/
Khmer riel introduced at Tokyo airport
The Khmer riel (KHR) is now available at Japan’s Tokyo Haneda Airport, meaning Japanese tourists visiting Cambodia can access the local currency, with the aim of strengthening tourism flow into the country. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Yatt Malai
https://kiripost.com/stories/khmer-riel-introduced-at-tokyo-airport
NGOs: Crocodile protection crucial
World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) and Fauna & Flora International (FFI) are stepping up breeding activities in Cambodia’s siamese crocodile sanctuaries. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Sokny
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-crocodile-protection-crucial
Covid-19 cash assistance of $1.2B helped labour market
Cambodia’s largest social assistance programme – the Covid-19 cash transfer programme – has played a crucial role in boosting the economy, said the World Bank in its latest report. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Rachel David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501478392/covid-19-cash-assistance-of-1-2b-helped-labour-market/
Sectoral consultation workshop on the enhancement of dataset and the profile page on Foreign Investment in Cambodia
On 01 August 2022, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) conducted a sectoral Consultation Workshop on the Enhancement of Dataset and the Profile Page on Foreign Investment in Cambodia at sunway Hotel Phnom Penh. Thirty-two participants (11 females), including civil societies, researchers, indigenous NGOs, and university students ss='cambodia-color'>...
BarCamp Sihanoukville 2013 Recap
On December 7th and 8th, a small team from ODC jumped in a bus and traveled to Kampong som to participate in BarCamp sihanoukville. The conference was held at Build Bright University. The day-and-a-half-long event featured presentations from specialists of many fields and interests, including ss='cambodia-color'>...
Japanese aid
Japanese military members observe as Cambodian sailors attach a neck brace to a patient during a Pacific Partnership knowledge exchange in sihanoukville, Cambodia. Photo by U.s. Pacific Fleet, taken on 21 June 2014. Licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0Japan, through its official development branch called Japan ss='cambodia-color'>...
Relocated and living on the edge
Years after their eviction from central Phnom Penh, families continue to trickle back into the city from their relocation sites on the city’s outskirts. They search for cheap rental rooms instead of houses like the ones they were driven out of, in some cases, by ss='cambodia-color'>...
MPs Urge Child Labor Action
A group of opposition lawmakers have written to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen urging action against a sugar factory owned by a ruling party official accused of exploiting child labor and grabbing land from villagers. six sam Rainsy Party (sRP) parliamentarians sent a letter dated Jan. ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/children-01292013174957.html
Boeung Kak Evictees Ask City Hall For Better Compensation
About 100 women forcibly evicted from Phnom Penh’s Boeung Kak neighbourhood protested outside City Hall yesterday asking for upgrades to the compensation they accepted under duress to give up their homes. The women said they were representing 739 of the more than 3,000 families forced out ss='cambodia-color'>...
British Businessman Arrested over Alleged Land Fraud
The British chairman of an embattled agricultural investment firm was arrested saturday by Cambodian authorities over charges of forging documents and using them in an attempt to illegally purchase thousands of hectares of land, a court prosecutor said. Greg Fryett, the main shareholder of sustainable Agro ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/british-businessman-arrested-over-alleged-land-fraud-15882/
Promotions few in financial sector
In late 2009, two months after graduating with a degree in economics, Heng Piseth found a job as a credit officer with a microfinance institution in Kampong Thom province. The story reflects a larger trend confronting young Cambodians entering the financial sector’s job market. While ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/promotions-few-financial-sector
Government Mulls Issuing Sovereign Bonds
Cambodia is considering offering sovereign bonds to raise more revenue for the national budget and move away from its dependence on overseas aid, a senior central bank official said sunday. National Bank of Cambodia director-general Nguon sokha said the Ministry of Economy and Finance was currently ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/government-mulls-issuing-sovereign-bonds-21989/
Scepticism over government statistics
Getting reliable statistical data remains a challenge for Cambodia’s government, as a lack of cooporation among the ministries and corruption still distort what is reality. Industry insiders say this is a problem, especially as reliable data are the base of reference when the Association of southeast ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052165728/Business/scepticism-over-government-statistics.html
Mekong Communities Tell of Hardship From Hydropower Dams
About 200 people from Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia affected by hydropower dam projects on the Mekong River and its tributaries gathered in Phnom Penh yesterday to share their experiences of how their lives have been adversely affected since the dams were constructed. speaking at the ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mekong-communities-tell-of-hardship-from-hydropower-dams-28793/
Collapses raise concerns over emergency training
When a bridge and kiosk collapsed into a pond at a Phnom Penh garment factory last month, injuring more than 20 workers, the Prime Minister’s Bodyguard Unit and police rushed to scour the murky water for survivors. some hours later, those forces remained unsure whether any ss='cambodia-color'>...
Strikers descend on ministry
Shouting their demandS and trying to force their way through the gate, thouSandS of Striking garment workerS rallied in front of the MiniStry of Social AffairS to no avail yeSterday. The StrikeS came the morning after management poSted a notice Saying Some 6,000 Striking workerS SS='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strikers-descend-ministry
Photo tourism turns profits
Nathan Horton’s business model is straightforward. A professional photographer, Horton helps amateur photographers take pictures abroad. Photo tourism is an increasingly lucrative trade in Cambodia. Horton, who runs half-day jaunts in Phnom Penh and longer journeys into the provinces, is one of the practitioners capitalising on ss='cambodia-color'>...
Laura Ma
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/photo-tourism-turns-profits
Increase in Customs Taxes Raises Retail Prices in Cambodia
Customs officers along Cambodia’s border have been instructed to increase their efforts to properly inspect and tax products coming into the country, which has increased the cost of imports and led to a rise in retail prices for a host of goods, government officials, businessmen ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/increase-in-customs-taxes-raises-retail-prices-in-cambodia-48461/
ACU Partners With Coca-Cola in Anti-Graft Agreement
During a four-hour pop concert in Phnom Penh to mark International Anti-Corruption Day on Monday, the Coca-Cola Company and the government’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) signed an agreement that commits the international soft drinks company to avoid committing bribery in Cambodia. “Corruption is the barrier to development ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/acu-partners-with-coca-cola-in-anti-graft-agreement-48957/