SDG 14 Life below water
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SuStainable Development Goal 14 iS primarily about the interactionS of humanS with the oceanS. Specifically, it aimS to conServe and manage the uSe of oceanS, SeaS and marine reSourceS for SuStainable development.1 A UN General ASSembly call for action haS been uSed to clearly articulate SS='cambodia-color'>...
China, Cambodia Ink 29 Agreements for Economic and Trade Ties
The relations between People’s Republic of China and Cambodia have become closer in the way of culture, in which China is the most important strategic development partner in improving Cambodia’s economic growth through both financial and technical grant aids,” Mr. Eang sophalet, assistant to samdech ss='cambodia-color'>...
Foreign investment rises 73 pct
A mid [sic] global economic fragility, foreign direct investment (FDI) in Cambodia grew a whopping 73 per cent in 2012 from the year before, a huge increase helping to fuel a record-setting amount of money pouring into least developed countries, according to the United Nations ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013070166579/Business/foreign-investment-rises-73-pct.html
Blueprint for a reformed NEC
In the week before the National Election Committee was formed in December 1997, Chheng Phon predicted he had a tough road ahead. “If you ask me personally, I must say I do not want this job,” the inaugural boss told the Post from the banks of a canal ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shane Worrell and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/blueprint-reformed-nec
Key donors endorse election
The governments of Australia and France have congratulated Prime Minister Hun sen on his election victory, becoming the first key Western donors to do so since the official election results were released on september 8. UN secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also offered his congratulations to Hun sen ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/key-donors-endorse-election
Thai company shelves Kampot cement project
Thailand’s second-largest cement company has suspended a cement-plant project valued at about $200 million in Kampot province because of political uncertainty and better investment opportunities in Myanmar, according to a senior executive. Philippe Arto, the managing director of siam City Cement Public Company Limited (sCCC), said ss='cambodia-color'>...
Rann Reuy and May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/thai-company-shelves-kampot-cement-project
Report Says More Than 10 Percent of Children Are ‘Laborers’
More than 10 percent of children in the country aged between 5 and 17 work as laborers, with more than 5 percent engaged in “hazardous labor,” a situation that must be addressed by the government, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said in a report released ss='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/report-says-more-than-10-percent-of-children-are-laborers-48198/
Mekong Dams a Long-Term Risk to Food Security
The momentum toward large-scale dams on the Mekong River may be unstoppable, but governments must work fast to mitigate their effects on fisheries and biodiversity or risk long-term food insecurity for millions of people whose lives depend on the river and its tributaries, leading academics ss='cambodia-color'>...
Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mekong-dams-a-long-term%E2%80%88risk-to-food-security-48415/
Armed Man at Rally Claimed to Be ‘Samdech Bodyguard’
A man apprehended by participants at a rally in Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on sunday after he was spotted carrying a concealed pistol, signed himself into Calmette Hospital by listing his occupation as “samdech Bodyguard,” in apparent reference to one of the three leaders of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/armed-man-at-rally-claimed-to-be-samdech-bodyguard-45091/
Private Ship Registry Did Not Monitor Compliance
The privately-operated International Ship RegiStry of Cambodia (ISROC), a South Korea-baSed company that ownS the rightS to regiSter foreign veSSelS under the Cambodian flag, told Ship ownerS laSt year that it waS not monitoring their obServance of international maritime lawS, and that it waS their SS='cambodia-color'>...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/private-ship-registry-did-not-monitor-compliance-48532/
Yearender: Cambodia's economy remains strong in 2013 despite political row, flood havoc: officials
Cambodia’s economy is expected to maintain the robust growth of over 7 percent this year even though the country is still trapped in political dispute and recovering from the aftermath of recent floods, senior officials and bankers said. But some analysts predicted that political trouble, coupled ss='cambodia-color'>...
Nguon Sovan and Wang Qibing
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-12/19/c_132979125.htm
Unionists' jailing compared with Bandith
Since her huSband waS arreSted in June and thrown in provincial priSon to await trial, Soam Chantha, 32, haS given birth to a baby boy. At the Same time the men have been locked up, police have failed to arreSt former Bavet governor Chhouk Bandith, SS='cambodia-color'>...
Shane Worrell and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unionists-jailing-compared-bandith
Opposition Asks ADB To Suspend Funding to Cambodia
Opposition leader sam Rainsy has asked the Asian Development Bank to suspend funding to Cambodia, whose government he says was not formed legally following the July elections. In a letter to ADB President Takehiko Nakao, sam Rainsy, president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, said the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/opposition-asks-adb-to-suspend-funding-to-cambodia/1766436.html
Demolition Order for 2 Buildings Near Royal Palace
Government officials have ordered the immediate demolition of two buildings located within blocks of the Royal Palace because the structures are taller than the allowed limit for buildings surrounding the palace, officials said Wednesday. One building, owned by Vat­tanac Properties, is located a block from the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/demolition-order-for-2-buildings-near-royal-palace-45306/
Increasingly, Cambodians Say They are ‘Suffering’: Poll
An increasing number of Cambodians see themselves faring worse, a Gallup polls suggests. In a global survey released earlier this month, the Us-based firm ranked Cambodia near the very bottom in terms of life satisfaction, and it found that 34 percent of surveyed Cambodians consider themselves ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vannarin Neou
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/increasingly-cambodians-say-they-are-suffering/1819008.html
Rainsy tells supporters to heed fall of Yanukovich
SA&rSquo;ANG DISTRICT, Kandal province &ndaSh; A little over a month after SupporterS of Prime MiniSter Hun Sen forced the cancellation of an oppoSition party rally here, CNRP leaderS Sam RainSy and Kem Sokha returned to addreSS followerS and promiSe that the change that Swept away SS='cambodia-color'>...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rainsy-tells-supporters-to-heed-fall-of-yanukovich-53273/
Three convicted over clash with police on Monivong Bridge
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday sentenced three men of six suspects to prison terms for their role in the september 15 clashes on Monivong Bridge between police and stone throwing youths, during which a man was killed and several were wounded by police ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-convicted-over-clash-with-police-on-monivong-bridge-53388/
ADB Admits Fault in Rail Project, Pledges Compensation
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has for the first time admitted to major flaws in its efforts to protect the roughly 4,000 families losing land to a $143 million project it is funding to rehabilitate Cambodia’s dilapidated railway system. On Friday, the ADB said it would ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/adb-admits-fault-in-rail-project-pledges-compensation-51210/
Cambodia route reopens for Uighur refugees
Recent arrests by Thai authorities of groups of suspected Uighur refugees along the Cambodian border have experts convinced that Cambodia has once again become a transit hub for members of the minority group fleeing religious and political persecution in China. Last week, 14 Uighurs were reportedly ss='cambodia-color'>...
Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-route-reopens-for-uighur-refugees-57340/
Joint press announcement: the signing on Cambodia-Germany Technical Cooperation Agreement 2019
On 09 June 2020, the Council for the Development of Cambodia issued a joint press announcement on the signing on Cambodia-Germany Technical Cooperation Agreement 2019. The signed Agreement on Technical Cooperation provided a total amount of 13.5 million EUR, equivalent to 14.6 million UsD, in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Council for the Development of Cambodia