Government Pushes Ahead With NGO Law
After nearly two years of silence on its draft NGO Law, the Ministry of Interior on Sunday said it was aiming to have the highly contentious piece of legislation ready for the Council of Ministers early next year and voted on by July. Meas Sarim, deputy ...
Phorn Bopha and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-pushes-ahead-with-ngo-law-48245/
Cambodia Opposition Party To Demand Re-Election
The Cambodia NaTional Rescue ParTy (CNRP) will push for a re-elecTion if Prime MinisTer Hun Sen’s governmenT conTinues To refuse calls for an independenT probe inTo widespread irregulariTies in The July polls, The opposiTion parTy’s depuTy presidenT, Kem Sokha, said Tuesday. He warned ThaT The ...
Radio Free Asia
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/cnrp-11262013192513.html
Government agrees to review of railway evictees
The governmenT has agreed To review iTs reseTTlemenT agreemenT wiTh families relocaTed from railways as parT of an Asian DevelopmenT Bank (ADB)-funded rehabiliTaTion projecT, buT has refused a recommendaTion To seT up a debT-relief scheme for The evicTees, according To an acTion plan released by ...
Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-agrees-to-review-of-railway-evictees-57745/
More than 100 workers faint at Shenzhou garment factory
More than 100 workers of Shenzhou garment factory in Phnom Penh fainted thursday, one day after a similar mass fainting at the same factory. the first workers fainted at about 8 a.m., setting off a chain reaction that sent the entire workforce running from the factory ...
Matt Blomberg and Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-than-100-workers-faint-at-shenzhou-garment-factory-55766/
Development body's concern for refugees resettled in Cambodia
Refugees who are resettled in Cambodia by the Australian government will be unlikely to gain employment rights, get an education or be given permanent residency, according to a peak international development body. the Australian Council for International Development said Australia had entered “uncharted territory” by resettling ...
Factories still skimping: ILO
Cambodia’s garment exports exceeded US$1 billion during the first quarter of 2012, yet many factories are failing to pay workers proper maternity leave benefits or address issues of fainting, a labour report says. the International Labour Organization-Better Factories Cambodia’s twenty Eighth Synthesis Report on Working Conditions ...
His Excellency PRAK Sokhonn and His Excellency WANG Wentian will sign the Agreement on the Cooperation Projects of the Mekong-Lancang Cooperation Special Fund 2022
On 11 June 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on His Excellency PRAK Sokhonn and His Excellency WANG Wentian signing the Agreement on the Cooperation Projects of the Mekong-Lancang Cooperation Special Fund 2022.On 13 June 2022, His Excellency ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Red Cross
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The Cambodia Red Cross (CRC) is The principal humaniTarian socieTy in Cambodia. The governmenT has designaTed iT as an auxiliary To public bodies offering humaniTarian assisTance. In addiTion To The naTional headquarTers, The CRC has 25 branches.1 CRC was founded in 1955 and has worked ...
Making Digital Maps Using Free and Simple Mapping Applications
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“There may be Times when you wanT To explain Things Through maps, buT you don’T know how To creaTe The maps. WiTh The currenTly available Technology, creaTing map has become relaTively easy. You no longer need To be an experT To develop maps, provided ThaT ...
Cooking fuel
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Firewood and charcoal are the main sources of energy for households and many small and medium enterprises, such as brick and tile industries. the cooking fuels used in Cambodia have changed greatly in the last decade. the National Census 2008 showed that 91 percent of ...
Brighton Mining Group to acquire Cambodian gold mining assets
Brighton Mining Group (ASX: BtN) has completed negotiations for the acquisition of a major interest in gold mining assets held directly or indirectly by Brighton Mining Limited (BML), boosting its concession holdings in Cambodia. these include the interest of BML in the Cambodian concessions held by ...
Rats Good Business for Cambodians, Food for Vietnamese
Koh Thom disTricT, Kandal province – On a quieT sTreTch of road in This sleepy border Town, There are some TellTale signs of an unusual Trade: A Trail of discarded dead raTs, some upTurned wiTh Their paws sTiff in The air, oThers covered wiTh a ...
CPP Says ‘Too Late’ for Joint Investigation Into Election
CPP lawmaker and de facto party spokesman Cheam Yeap said yesterday it was now “too late” to form an independent committee to investigate alleged irregularities during last month’s national election and that the opposition CNRP needs to be “more flexible” in its relationship with the ...
Khy Sovuthy and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cpp-says-too-late-for-joint-investigation-into-election-41033/
Daun Penh Authorities Deny Involvement in Wat Phnom Attack
Some 50 members of the Boeng Kak and Borei Keila communities—many still bearing welts and bruises—walked to Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district offices tuesday and blamed officials there for a violent attack that broke out at Wat Phnom on Sunday night as they were peacefully ...
Mech Dara and Ben Woods
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/daun-penh-authorities-deny-involvement-in-wat-phnom-attack-43143/
Ministers Told to Prepare for Public Scrutiny
During an epic speech on Wednesday that lasted for more than six-and-a-half hours, Prime Minister Hun Sen told his newly approved Cabinet that they would be subject to increased public scrutiny as part of a series of reforms to be undertaken by the CPP over ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/ministers-told-to-prepare-for-public-scrutiny-43405/
Compensation for Falsely Jailed Men Unlikely in Cambodia
After spending 2,073 days in prison, Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun were exonerated on Wednesday by the Supreme Court of having killed popular union leader Chea Vichea in 2004. Legal expert Sok Sam Oeun of the Cambodian Defenders Project said that although the two ...
Denise Hruby and Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/compensation-for-falsely-jailed-men-unlikely-in-cambodia-43684/
In Siem Reap, Rainsy Again Calls for Hun Sen to Step Down
SIEM REAP CITY – OpposiTion leader Sam Rainsy was greeTed Tuesday by 15,000 supporTers and a small dusT sTorm aT The CNRP’s firsT posT-elecTion rally in Siem Reap, where he once again called on Prime MinisTer Hun Sen To sTand down. Arriving on a scheduled flighT ...
Alex Willemyns and Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-siem-reap-rainsy-again-calls-for-hun-sen-to-step-down-49065/
Ethnic Minorities File Illegal Logging Complaint
A group of 12 ethnic minority villagers in Ratanakkiri province have filed a complaint with the provincial court over what they claim is collusion between other villagers and local authorities to illegally log luxury timber from 193 hectares of land inside a community forest. the Prov ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ethnic-minorities-file-illegal-logging-complaint-42145/
Debts rise along with water level
With pant legs rolled up to his knees, Hoeuy Mon trudges through a brown and green patchwork of rice fields. His four hectares are in tkov village, Prey Veng province, about 300 metres from his home. On most of the journey, walkways enclosing each square plot ...
Hor Kimsay and Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/debts-rise-along-water-level
Court Releases Four Arrested During Clashes
The Phnom Penh Municipal CourT on Thursday released four of The six men who were charged wiTh assaulT following violenT clashes beTween securiTy forces, proTesTers and angry commuTers in Phnom Penh lasT monTh, and inTends To release The remaining Two men Today, a righTs worker ...
Saing Soenthrith and Ben Woods
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-releases-four-arrested-during-clashes-44890/