Demining Rats Get All Clear to Begin Testing
The battle against landmines could soon have an unlikely new weapon after a pioneering Belgian NGO signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the government on Monday to begin testing teams of sharp-sniffing rodents in Cambodia, with the goal of pitching them into the ongoing ss='cambodia-color'>...
Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/demining-rats-get-all-clear-to-begin-testing-47951/
Impoverished Cambodians for sale
Many Cambodian women arrive in South Korea or China for marriage, only to find themSelveS being choSen aS miStreSSeS, Say labour rightS activiStS. While young Cambodian men, who travel to Thailand to work on fiShing boatS, often fall prey to drug abuSe. LoSS of land, debt, SS='cambodia-color'>...
Michelle Tolson
http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/01/impoverished-cambodians-sale/
Bailed Garment Workers Speak of Injustice Ahead of March
In the weeks that 17-year-old garment worker Yon Chea languished in prison, he spent hours staring out of the window at a concrete wall, certain that he would never see his home or his family again. The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday morning granted ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara and Alice Cuddy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/bailed-garment-workers-speak-of-injustice-ahead-of-march-51759/
Stability, growth require job creation
Cambodia is entering a new phase of economic growth in which the development of a skilled workforce will be critical to social stability and regional competitiveness, government officials and economists said Thursday at the 2014 Cambodia Outlook Conference. Delivering the keynote speech at the conference, Prime ss='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/stability-growth-require-job-creation-53317/
Government Hopes for Chevron Offshore Oil Deal This Year
The Cambodian government expects U.s. oil major Chevron Corp. CVX +0.77% to begin developing the country’s first offshore oil field early next year, and hopes the nation will become a regional hot spot for oil and gas investment, a government official said Wednesday. Cambodia has vast untapped oil and gas resources ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443507204578020023711640726.html
Open Development Cambodia has added two new features of Veal Ou Kdey and Phnom Raing community forestry to Community forestry profile page
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has just added two new features of Veal Ou Kdey and Phnom Raing community forestry to Community forestry profile page, thereby expanding the profile page to contain a total of 339 community forests in Cambodia. Published with comprehensive documentation, the profile ss='cambodia-color'>...
Australia supports Cambodia's economic recovery through the Mekong-Australia Partnership
On 18 August 2021, Australian Embassy in Cambodia issued a media release on the support of Australia towards Cambodia’s economic recovery through the Mekong-Australia Partnership. COVID-19 has caused major disruptions for Cambodia’s economic development, meaning Cambodia will need to find new sources for sustainable and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Australian Embassy in Cambodia
ODC participated in BarCamp ASEAN 2018
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Barcamp ASEAN 2018 took place on October 20-21, at InStitute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC), Phnom Penh, Cambodia. ThiS BarCamp ASEAN 2018 broke the world&rSquo;S largeSt BarCamp record having over 8,000 participantS, 60 exhibitorS, over 95 SpeakerS on 85 topicS and 1,000 companieS and organizationS. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Adaptation
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UN’s Bali Climate Change Conference. Photo by Oxfam International, taken on 4 December 2007. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Climate change is a continuing problem. In southeast Asia, Cambodia is one of the countries that is most affected and underprepared. As it is a developing country, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Government
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Cambodia is set up as a multi-party democracy under a constitutional monarchy. The King serves as the head of state and the Prime Minister is the head of the Royal Government of Cambodia. Norodom sihamoni,27 the King, was crowned in 2004 after the abdication of ss='cambodia-color'>...
‘Rice Dubai 2011’ Sees Dubai as Thriving Re-export Market
DUBAI — The Founding Committee of Rice Dubai 2011 is led by a businessman in Dubai, Dr Faisal Ali Mousa who will lead a core delegation to Cambodia in the first week of september to explore the possibilities of the Royal Government of Cambodia entering ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia telco growth in 3G
Despite the hype surrounding the advent of fourth-generation mobile services, the bulk of growth and profits in Cambodian telecom remains in 3G networks, experts say. A recent study by London-based research firm Ovum notes that emerging markets such as Cambodia will see rapid growth in 3G ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012022954766/Business/kingdom-telco-growth-in-3g.html
Corn sales fall, profits sought in cassava
Revenues from Cambodian corn exports fell by 52 per cent last year as farmers scrapped the crop for the more lucrative, but less stable, cassava plant. The Kingdom exported 35,381 tonnes of corn, worth Us$2.2 million, in 2011, down from 86,533 tonnes worth $4.57 million the ss='cambodia-color'>...
A hard lesson in arithmetic
When Reaksmey (not his real name) was in high school two years ago, he and his classmates were urged to attend the supplementary classes taught by their teachers before and after regular school hours. For an hour before school and two to three hours after each ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012031455021/National-news/a-hard-lesson-in-arithmetic.html
National Census Identifies Half-Million Businesses
Cambodia has a total of 505,134 businesses supported by a workforce of 1,676,263, just 11.56 percent of the total population, according to a nationwide economic census released yesterday by the Ministry of Planning. Of the total number of people employed in the country, 1,026,084, or 61.2 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey and Philip Heijmans, P.1
Cambodia-Linked Investors Sentenced in Seoul
The chief executives of the firms behind two large-scale real-estate projects in Cambodia have been sentenced to jail in seoul for obtaining illegal loans and using the money to finance fictitious companies abroad, according to a south Korean court official. The two executives were among a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Assembly Approves 2010 Gov’t Spending
Following a three-hour debate at the National Assembly, lawmakers passed a draft law approving the $2.5 billion the government spent in 2010. During the debate, CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap presented a 10-page document that he said justified the $2.5 billion in spending, which was 25 percent ss='cambodia-color'>...
Save the Mekong statement on the collapse of the Xe Pian - Xe Nam Noy hydropower project
Save the Mekong, a coalition of non-government organizationS, community-baSed groupS and&nbSp;concerned citizenS within the Mekong region, wiSh to expreSS our Shock and concern at the recent&nbSp;collapSe of the Xe Pian - Xe Nam Noy hydropower project in LaoS, and our deep condolenceS to&nbSp;communitieS affected by SS='cambodia-color'>...
Save the Mekong
Power trade talks with Thailand are planned
Cambodia is planning talks with the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) to purchase 300MW of power, Ministry of Mines and Energy official Victor Jona said on Tuesday. Jona, the director-general of the ministry’s General Department of Energy, told The Post that the talks could ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/power-trade-talks-thailand-are-planned