UN envoy meets with Sesan villagers to discuss dam site
The U.N.’s human rights envoy to Cambodia on Sunday promised villagers in Stung Treng province who are set to be displaced by the construction of the Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam that she would raise their plight with the government, a village representative said. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-envoy-meets-with-sesan-villagers-to-discuss-dam-site-110475/
Hun Sen visits Laos dam site, again promises cheap power
Prime Minister Hun Sen joined his Laotian counterpart Thongloun Sisoulith for a visit to the site of the controversial Don Sahong Dam just across the border on Tuesday, remarking that the trip was a reminder of Laos’ commitment to improving the livelihoods of Cambodians. ...
Van Roeun
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-visits-laos-dam-site-again-promises-cheap-power-123248/
More foreigners visit Cambodia's two world heritage sites in 2013
Cambodia’s two world heritage sites, the Angkor Wat temple and Preah Vihear temple, continued to see growth in the number of foreign tourists in 2013, tourism officials said on Sunday. The Angkor Wat temple welcomed about 2.23 million international visitors in the year, up 8 percent ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-01/12/c_133038342.htm
UN visits evictees, site of $3.8B tourism project
About 50 families gathered under a timber roof here Sunday among muddy fields granted to them as compensation after China’s Union Development Group (UDG) began to turn their coastal homeland into a $3.8-billion tourist mecca. The families, who now live in timber houses dotting the barren ...
Mech Dara and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-visits-evictees-site-of-3-8b-tourism-project-62081/
Gov’t to examine Vietnamese grave site on Bokor mountain
In the coming weeks, a task force composed of officials from the ministries of tourism, religion, culture and education will lead an expedition to a remote patch of forest on Kampot province’s Bokor Mountain where Vietnamese tourists pray, the education minister said Monday. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-to-examine-vietnamese-grave-site-on-bokor-mountain-79352/
Senior gov’t official pays official visit to UDG site
The senior government official in charge of land dispute resolution visited more than 300 Koh Kong province families who are threatened with eviction by China’s Union Development Group to compile a report on the issue for Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/senior-govt-official-pays-official-visit-udg-site
Key joins Asian free trade talks
Prime Minister John Key has joined a launch of Asian free trade talks – but made it clear he favours a US-backed deal. The East Asian Summit wrapped up in Phnom Penh yesterday with Asian leaders formally announcing a start to negotiations towards a Regional Comprehensive ...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/7978019/Key-joins-Asian-free-trade-talks
Gillard talks trade in Cambodia
PRIME Minister Julia Gillard is aiming for an ambitious trade agreement that not only covers ASEAN and its neighbours but leaves the door open for other entrants. Ms Gillard arrived in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh on Monday for the East Asia Summit, which is set ...
$2.4 million bag and shoe factory gets CDC’s nod
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has approved a new garment factory in Kandal province. Auspicious Bag and Shoes Accessories Co Ltd is investing $2.4 million in the project at Kraing Makak in Ang Snuol district. ...
Michael Firn
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50920851/2-4-million-bag-and-shoe-factory-gets-cdcs-nod/
S’ville port reports revenue up 16% in Q2, profits drop
Cambodia Stock Exchange- (CSX-) listed Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAS) saw a 16.55 per cent year-on-year increase in revenue during the second quarter of this year, according to an unaudited report filed on the exchange. In the second quarter of this year, the port earned $20.42 ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sville-port-reports-revenue-16-q2-profits-drop
Investment In Cambodia's Construction Sector Up 5 Per Cent In Q1
Cambodia’s construction sector attracted a total investment of US$342 million in the first three months of 2012, a 5-percent increase from US$324 million from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction. ...
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v6/newsworld.php?id=666207
Cambodia sees 87 pct drop in dengue fever cases in Q1
Cambodia had recorded 179 dengue fever cases in the first three months of this year, a 87 percent decrease from 1,393 cases over the same period last year, a health official said Friday. ...
ASEAN - China Center News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2014-04/05/c_133240824.htm
Malaysia Fails to Guarantee Cambodian Maids’ Human Rights
The Ministry of Labor hopes that a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will see Cambodia resume sending domestic workers to Malaysia by February, but negotiations on the document have stalled after Malaysia recently rejected 90 percent of proposed provisions to protect workers’ rights. Most strikingly, Malaysia ...
Matt Blomberg and Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/malaysia-fails-to-guarantee-cambodian-maids-human-rights-49629/
Ministry defends pro-CPP speech at university
The Education Ministry on Monday defended a pro-CPP speech delivered to some 1,500 students at a university in Phnom Penh on Sunday, reasoning that the school did not breach the ministry’s new directive against political activity at academic institutions because classes had finished for the ...
Aun Chhengpor
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-defends-pro-cpp-speech-at-university-93048/
Forest Allegedly Cleared By Company
Local authorities and Ratanakkiri provincial forestry officials yesterday visited an area in o’Yadav district where community leaders say a Vietnamese company known as “Company 72” has razed an estimated 1,000 hectares of protected forest since 2011. “The villagers complained to the authorities many times, but ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013042965293/National/forest-allegedly-cleared-by-company.html
Fishing policy and administration
Young man fishing with a cast net on Siem Reap river, Cambodia. Photo by Brian Hoffman, taken on 12 January 2015. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.Fisheries management in Cambodia is divided between central and local governments. At the central level, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry ...
Hun Sen promises modern satellite city at Angkor evictions relocation site
Prime Minister Hun Sen handed out gifts and promised metal sheeting as building materials to families who have agreed to vacate their homes that fall within Siem Reap’s Angkor park, saying the relocation site in Run Ta Ek commune will be turned into a modern ...
Phin Rathana
https://vodenglish.news/hun-sen-promises-modern-satellite-city-at-angkor-evictions-relocation-site/
Protected forest ‘is finished’
In the latest government backed appropriation of protected land, nearly 20,000 hectares of the Boeung Per wildlife sanctuary have been reclassified as state private land for agro-industrial development. Two sub-decrees, obtained by The Post this week and initialed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on July ...
Cambodia’s democracy, economy at risk: report
Cambodia has become more autocratic and its government’s claim of stable economic development rests on uncertain basis, according to a comprehensive new report. The Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Transformation Index (BTI), published on Thursday, claims that the quality of Cambodia’s democracy, market economy and governance performance has ...
Leonie Kijewski
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodias-democracy-economy-risk-report
CMAA signs MoU with US demining NGO
Cambodia Mine Action and Victims Assistance Authority (CMAA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a US-based NGo to broaden partnership and cooperation on landmine clearance. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501049599/cmaa-signs-mou-with-us-demining-ngo/