China ASEN Expo starts on Friday
Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh and 100 Cambodian companies are set to represent the Kingdom at the 9th China-ASEAN Expo in Nanning, China, which starts tomorrow, according to officials. The expo will include representatives from all 10 ASEAN countries and China itself. Cambodian officials will seek ...
NGOs Discuss Reforms Ahead of Donor Meeting
At a meeting in Phnom enh to prepare for today’s high-level donor Government-Development Partner Coordinating Committee (GDCC) forum, dozens of mostly local NGOs agreed on their own list of broad reform suggestions for the government. But land disputes took center stage. Today’s GDCC meeting, which the ...
Ethnic groups becoming media-savvy
One hot day in June, 2009, Ven Samin, a member of the ethnic Suoy minority in Kampong Speu province, grabbed her digital camera and headed out of the house. The 44-year-old arrived at a collection of damaged rice paddies in oral district and began taking photos. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013011860869/National/ethnic-groups-becoming-media-savvy.html
Government Says New Jet Was Leased From Chinese Airline
The Council of Ministers has revealed that its new Airbus A320, meant for shuttling Prime Minister Hun Sen and a select few others around the world, is being leased from China Southern Airlines but refrained from disclosing how much the deal was worth. Last month, CPP ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-says-new-jet-was-leased-from-chinese-airline-12328/
Land Grab Claims Matched by Slander and Incitement Case
The Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court questioned four villagers among 12 summoned for questioning over a land dispute in Samakki Meanchey district, which has pitted some 80 local families against the owner of a private company they accuse of taking their land. While the dispute stems from alleged land grabbing, ...
Beaches to drive tourism
The Ministry of Tourism and the French TV channel TF1 have signed a deal on a “2013 action plan” that will promote Cambodia’s beach tourism. The agreement was inked yesterday by Tourism Minister Thong Khon and Franck Firmin Guion, the president of Adventure Line Product-ions (ALP). The plan ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013031962003/Business/beaches-to-drive-tourism.html
Qatar’s maid claims amiss: gov’t
The Cambodian government has denied any agreement was signed to send women to Qatar to work as domestic workers, an official from the Labour Ministry said this week. The denial comes after a report late last month by Qatari newspaper Gulf Times – which said an ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050965504/National/qatar-s-maid-claims-amiss-gov-t.html
CNRP’s wish list for NEC narrows
The opposition is eyeing two leading civil society figures and deputy party leader Kem Sokha’s daughter to fill the three remaining slots the party holds on the nine-member National Election Committee, according to a high-level party source. Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmaker-elect Kuoy Bunroeun has already ...
Meas Sokchea, Kevin Ponniah and David Boyle
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp%E2%80%99s-wish-list-nec-narrows
$50 million emergency fund for small and medium enterprises
The government yesterday launched a $50million special fund for small and medium Enterprise (SMEs) to boost competitiveness, productivity and daily business operations amid the impact of the pandemic Covid-19 and a 20 percent withdrawal of zero tariffs under the EU’s Everything but Arms (EBA) trade ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50702354/50-million-emergency-fund-for-small-and-medium-enterprises/
Officials Seize 100 Cubic Meters of Luxury Wood
Forestry officials in Ratanakkiri province, along with provincial officials, have carried out several operations in three districts this month that netted about 100 cubic meters of various types of luxury wood, but no suspects were arrested, officials said yesterday. ...
Cambodia’s stateless Vietnamese
Up to 750,000 Vietnamese people are believed to be living in Cambodia, about 5 percent of the country’s population, but no one knows for sure. They are almost universally stateless. Few qualify for Cambodian citizenship. ...
Michele Penna
http://www.asiasentinel.com/society/cambodia-stateless-vietnamese/
Rumor of crackdown on illegal workers in Thailand false: police
There was no crackdown on undocumented Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand during the New Year despite reports that more than 400 were deported to Cambodia during the four-day period, a report by the National Police said. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23973/rumor-of-crackdown-on-illegal-workers-in-thailand-false--police/
Regulators keeping a close eye on derivatives market
Cambodia’s capital market regulator held a forum yesterday on regulations and safeguards for the derivatives market, laying out the inherent risk and reward of the poorly understood financial instrument that has until recently operated with no oversight. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/regulators-keeping-close-eye-derivatives-market
Thai police say murder suspect fled to Cambodia
Thai police believe that an Australian murder suspect is in Cambodia after fleeing arrest in Thailand, according to Australian and Thai media reports, although Cambodian authorities contacted on Thursday said they had no knowledge of the fugitive. ...
Taylor O'Connell and Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thai-police-say-murder-suspect-fled-to-cambodia-102027/
UN wants independent Ley investigation
A group of United Nations human rights experts have condemned the murder of Cambodian political analyst and social activist Kem Ley and called for an impartial investigation by an independent body with no ties to the government. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27281/un-wants-independent-ley-investigation/
Prison denies radio access to inmates
Inmates at Prey Sar prison in Phnom Penh will no longer be able to listen to the radio, according to a social media post by a jailed opposition member, which is an apparent violation of the law. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35818/prison-denies-radio-access-to-inmates/
Rainsy says China aid to blame for rights abuses
Days after signing a statement welcoming Chinese President Xi Jinping to Cambodia, opposition leader Sam Rainsy took to Radio Free Asia to slam China for enabling human rights abuses in the Kingdom with no-strings-attached loans. ...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-says-china-aid-blame-rights-abuses
Mines Ministry issues new dredging licences
The Ministry of Mines and Energy has announced that it will grant two sand dredging licences around Phnom Penh Port, just days after declaring that no new licences would be issued until economic impact assessments had been carried out. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mines-ministry-issues-new-dredging-licences
Biogas to power rural areas
Commercial biogas plants will be installed across the Kingdom to provide electricity to rural areas that are off the national grid, as government and development agencies look to reach the 38 per cent of villages with no power supply. ...
Ananth Baliga and Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/biogas-power-rural-areas
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 ...