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Cambodia, S. Korea to sign loan agreement
- 5 July 2013
- The Cambodia Herald
- Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Environment and natural resources / Rivers and lakes / South Korean aid / Water resources
- Battambang / Battambang Province / dam constrution / Dams / development assistance / Infrastructure / Infrastructure projects / Kim Han Soo / loans / Ministry of Foreign Affairs / National Roads / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Pursat / Pursat Province / Road construction / roads / South Korean aid
South Korea will soon give a four year loan package worth $200 million for dam and road projects, according to Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday. The loan will be utilized to repair three national road lines as well as rural roads in nine ...
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=MTUzZGE4MTQxOWF
International Donors Call for Redesign of Sesan 2 Hydro Dam
- 4 July 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Australian aid / Bilateral development assistance / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Energy / European Union aid / Fishing, fisheries and aquaculture / Generation and distribution facilities / Hydropower dams / Renewable energy production
- Ame Trandem / Australian aid / Cambodia-Laos border / Cambodian border / construction / Dams / Don Sahong dam / donors / Electricity / energy / Energy policy and administration / environmental impact assessment / EU / European Union aid / Fish / fish migration / fish stock / fisheries / foreign aid / hydropower / hydropower dam / Infrastructure / International Donors / International Rivers / Laos / Lower Sesan 2 dam / Mekong river / Mekong river basin / Mekong River Commission / Mekong River tributaries / MRC / Renewable Energy / reservoir / Resettlement / Royal Government of Cambodia / sediment flow / Sesan district / Sesan river / Stung Treng / Stung Treng Province / Thailand / US / World Bank / Xayaburi dam
International donors, including the U.S., Australia, the European Union and the World Bank, have urged the Cambodian government to redesign a massive hydropower project in Stung Treng province that environmentalists say will deplete fisheries and submit it to the Mekong River Commission (MRC) for consultation. In ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/international-donors-call-for-redesign-of-sesan-2-hydro-dam-33311/
EU Draft Memo Defended Voter List Margin of Error
- 2 July 2013
- Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / European Union aid
- Comfrel / Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia / Constitution and rights / election observers / election process / Elections / EU / European Union aid / Foreign Ministry / internal migration / Koul Panha / Laura Thornton / migration / National Election Committee / National Democratic Institute / national elections / national identity cards / NDI country director Laura Thornton / NDI) / NEC / Phnom Penh / Pok Poun / voter lists / voter registration / voter rights / VRA
Audits of the voter list which claimed that up to 1 million people could lose their right to vote in the July 28 national election were attributed to an “unavoidable margin of error” due to many citizens not having national identity cards or a permanent ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/eu-draft-memo-defended-voter-list-margin-of-error-32909/
Hun Sen Mocks Opposition Request for Donors to Freeze Aid
- 24 June 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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Prime Minister Hun Sen on Saturday rebuked the opposition for urging foreign donors to refrain from signing any new agreements with the government until after the election and boasted of a new $26 million handed over last week by the European Union (E.U.) E.U. Ambassador ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-mocks-opposition-request-for-donors-to-freeze-aid-31547/
Cambodia eyes to become region's prominent gems, jewelry market
- 13 June 2013
- Xinhuanet News
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- 5th international gems and jewelry fair / Cham Prasidh / Cheng Hak Gems and Diamonds Co / Chinese aid / Christelle Limited / conflict diamonds / diamond cutting factory / Diamond Island Exhibition Center / diamonds / Exports / gem and jewelry laboratory / gem and jewelry market supplier / gem stones / gems / Gems and jewelry industry / Hong Kong / Imports / Intertek Company / Investment / jewelry / jewelry industry / jewelry products / Kimberley Process / KP / LDCs / least developed countries / Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh / precious stone industry / precious stones / reduced tariffs on imports / Singapore / tax free treatments / tax preferential treatments / Taxes / Thailand / Trade / United States aid / US / Washington DC
Cambodia has eyed to become a precious stone and jewelry hub in Southeast Asia region in the near future, Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh said Thursday. Speaking at the opening of the 5th international gems and jewelry fair here, the minister said that with the fast ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-06/13/c_132452793.htm
Japan provides 36 mln USD grant aid to Cambodia for clean water, education
- 5 June 2013
- Xinhuanet News
- Education policy and administration / Energy / Japanese aid
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The government of Japan on Wednesday signed to provide a grant aid of 36 million U.S. dollars to Cambodia for a clean water project and a human resource development project. According to a press statement, the amount of 33.4 million U.S. dollars goes for the ...
Xinhuanet Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-06/05/c_132432490.htm
Families Left Worse off After Railway Project
- 5 June 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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Phnom Penh families being pushed to the city’s outskirts to make way for a $142.6 million railway renovation project funded by Australia and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are falling into debt and finding it harder to earn money and access healthcare according to a ...
Cambodian PM inaugurates 90 mln USD water treatment plant in capital
- 4 June 2013
- Xinhuanet News
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Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday inaugurated a new water treatment plant in eastern part of capital Phnom Penh, saying that the plant would meet the rising demand of clean water in the city. The 90 million U.S. dollar plant was invested by the listed ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-06/04/c_132430033.htm
As Foreign Aid Increases, Questions About Conditions
- 21 May 2013
- VOA Khmer
- Aid and development / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Australian aid / Bilateral development assistance / Chinese aid / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economy and commerce / Infrastructure / Japanese aid / Multilateral development assistance / Non-DAC members / Public health / Roads and bridges / Social development / Transport and shipping / Transport infrastructure and facilities
- ADB / Agriculture & Agri-business / Agriculture aid / aid / Aid Dependence in Cambodia / aid packages / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Australian aid / Cambodia National Rescue Party / Cambodia National Rescue Party spokesman Yim Sovann / CDC / Chinese aid / Chinese aid / Chou Heng / construction / Cooperation Committee for Cambodia / Cooperation Committee for Cambodia executive director Soeung Saroeun / Corruption / Council for the Development of Cambodia / Council for the Development of Cambodia senior policy expert Chou Heng / donors / Ear Sophal / foreign aid / foreign loans / government expenditures / government revenue / health sector / information / Infrastructure / Infrastructure aid / interest rates / International Aid / international aid patterns / Japanese aid / loans / poverty reduction / Road construction / Soeung Saroeun / tax collection / tax revenue / Taxes / technical assistance / Tourism / transparency / UN / United Nations / urban planning / US / Yim Sovann
Cambodia has seen huge growth of foreign aid and loans over the past two decades, but experts are beginning to question its worth—and what conditions might be attached. Total aid from 1993 to 2012 amounts to around $10 billion, with the percentage of aid coming as ...
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/as-foreign-aid-increases-questions-about-conditions/1664821.html
Trade Deal Threat Still On Table
- 20 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Crop products and commodities / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / European Union aid / Exports / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Sugar / Trade
- Cambodian Trade Minister Cham Prasidh / Cham Prasidh / Convention Concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment / Disputed Land / Eang Vuthy / EBA / economic land concession / Economic Land Concessions (ELCs) / ELC / ELCs / Equitable Cambodia / European Commission / European Commission Member / European Commission Vice President / European Parliament / European Union aid / Everything But Arms / International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights / Jean-Francois Cautain / Kampong Speu / Karel De Gucht / Katherine Ashton / Land rights / Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh / NGOs / no-tariff agreement / sugar / sugar industry / Trade / trade deals
The European union’s executive arm has responded to its parliamentarians’ concerns over rights abuses stemming from Cambodia’s economic land concessions, maintaining that, should the need arise, it “will be ready” to withdraw from its preferential trade agreements with the Kingdom. In a joint letter to concerned ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052065716/National/trade-deal-threat-still-on-table.html
EU Won’t Investigate Land Concessions—for Now
- 20 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Crop products and commodities / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / European Union aid / Exports / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development / Sugar / Trade
- Cambodian Government / Catherine Ashton / duty free goods / duty-free access / EBA / Economics / ELCs / EU / EU duty free access / EU foreign affairs representative / EU high representative for foreign affairs Catherine Ashton / EU high representative for security policy / EU high representative for security policy Catherine Ashton / EU trade commissioner / European Commission / European Council / European Council President Herman van Rompuy / European Parliament / European Union aid / European Union foreign affairs representative / European Union trade commissioner / Everything but Arms trade agreement / Everything but arms trade scheme / Everything But Arms Treaty / Exports / garment sector / garments / garments industry / Generalized System of Preferences / GSP / Herman Van Rompuy / Human Rights / Hun Sen / Karel De Gucht / Koh Kong / Koh Kong Province / Land titles / London / Prime Minister Hun Sen / RGC / Royal Government of Cambodia / sugar / sugar plantations / Surya Subedi / Tate & Lyle / Trade EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht / trade partners / U.N.’s special rapporteur on human rights to Cambodia Surya Subedi / UK / UN special rapporteur on human rights / UN special rapporteur on human rights to Cambodia / UN special rapporteur on human rights to Cambodia Surya Subedi / United Kingdom
The trade commissioner and foreign affairs representative of the European Union (E.U.) have turned down a request from 13 members of the European Parliament that they immediately investigate Cambodia’s much criticized economic land concessions, but said they were monitoring the issue closely. In a March letter ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eu-wont-investigate-land-concessions-for-now-25194/
Australia Ups Aid Funding
- 17 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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Australia announced yesterday that it will increase the amount of aid it provides Cambodia by about US$13 million (A$13.2 million) in the coming year, putting the country’s official development assistance at $96.1 million. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051765681/National/australia-ups-aid-funding.html
Engineers Hold Labor Day Protest Against Paying Income Tax
- 3 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economy and commerce / Japanese aid / Labor
- Choice Taxi Company / civil servants / donor aid / Garment factories / garment workers / General Taxation Department / General Taxation Department chief of legislative department Om Chhon / gross domestic product growth / International Monetary Fund / Kandal / Kandal Province / Loeuk Dek district / Ministry of Finance / Neak Loueng Bridge / Om Chhon / Sumitomo Mitsui Construction Co. Ltd. / tax revenue / Taxes
More than 50 engineers employed by Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Construction Co. Ltd. to work on a new Neak Loueng Bridge in Kandal province protested on Wednesday over paying income tax of 10 percent and are threatening to go on strike again if their employer dose ...
Japan lends Cambodia 90 mln USD for road improvement project
- 30 April 2013
- Xinhuanet News
- Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Japanese aid
- Banteay Meanchey / Banteay Meanchey Province / Battambang / Battambang Province / Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong / Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen / Hor Namhong / Hun Sen / Japanese aid / Japanese ambassador to Cambodia Yuji Kumamaru / Japanese Embassy to Cambodia / National road No. 5 / Phnom Penh / road networks / Sri Sophorn town / Thailand / Tourism / Yuji Kumamaru
Japan agreed Tuesday to provide a loan package of 90 million U.S. dollars to Cambodia for the improvement of a stretch of the national road No. 5 and two bypasses in northwestern provinces, according to a statement from Japanese Embassy to Cambodia. The statement said ...
http://search.news.cn/language/search.jspa?id=en&t=1&t1=0&ss=&ct=&n1=cambodia&x=-495&y=-54
New Kampot Salt Farm Has Big Ambitions
- 29 April 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Australian aid / Bilateral development assistance / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Exports / Food processing / Industries / Manufacturing / Marine and coastal areas / Salt / Trade / Water resources
- Asia Salt (Cambodia) Co Ltd / Asia Salt chairman Sang Yoo-gi / Asia Salt project / AusAid / Australian government / British government / coastline protection / deputy Kampot Governor Kang Sao Thorn / EEE Korea company / InfraCo Asia / InfraCo Asia Development Pte. Ltd. / Kampot / Kampot Province / Kang Sao Thorn / Kep / Kep province / Kep-Kampot Salt Producers Community / Kep-Kampot Salt Producers Community secretary Um Chhun / Private Infrastructure Development Group / Salt / salt industry / salt packaging factory / Sihanoukville Port / Singaporean Ambassador Premjith Sadasivan / South Korean aid / South Korean Embassy / Swiss government / Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs / Thailand / Toek Chhou district / U.K's Departmrnt for International Development / Um Chhun
TOEK CHHOU DISTRICT, Kampot province – A donor-backed project launched here on Saturday aims to produce Cambodia’s first export-quality sea salt and invigorate the struggling local salt industry. In a ceremony among Kampot’s vast fields of coastal saltpans and low levees, company representatives from Asia Salt ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/new-kampot-salt-farm-has-big-ambitions-20505/
China pledges $548 million in aid to ally Cambodia
- 10 April 2013
- Reuters
- Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Chinese aid / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economy and commerce / Non-DAC members / United States aid
- aid / ASEAN / Association of Southeast Asian Nations / bridges / Cambodia Investment Board / Cham Prasidh / Chinese aid / Chinese investment / Grants / Hun Sen / Infrastructure / Irrigation Systems / Kith Meng / One-China Policy / Premier Li Keqiang / Prime Minister Hun Sen / roads / Royal Group of Companies / soft loans / South China Sea / Taiwan / United States aid / Wen Jiabao
China has pledged another $548 million in aid to Cambodia for infrastructure and irrigation systems, extending assistance that some critics say has bought it Cambodia’s diplomatic support. Agreements covering $500 million in soft loans and $48 million in grants were signed when Prime Minister Hun ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/10/us-cambodia-china-idUSBRE93909D20130410
Duty-Free Sugar Exports to EU Hit $13 Million
- 10 April 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Biofuel crops / Crop products and commodities / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economy and commerce / European Union aid / Exports / Sugar / Trade
- Botum Sakor District / Cambodian sugar / CLEC / Community Legal Education Center / duty free goods / duty free sugar / EBA / EU / European Parliament / European Union aid / Everything But Arms / Everything but arms trade scheme / Khon Kaen Sugar / Koh Kong / Koh Kong Sugar / Ly Yong Phat / Sre Ambel district / sugar plantations / Tate & Lyle Company / Thailand / Thailand's National Human Rights Commission
The European Union (E.U.) last year continued to import millions of dollars worth of duty-free sugar from Cambodian plantations that have forced hundreds of families off their land despite calls from European lawmakers for the trade benefits to end, according to the latest E.U. data. Thailand’s ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/duty-free-sugar-exports-to-eu-hit-13-million-18114/
FAO Raises Paddy Production Outlook
- 1 April 2013
- Cambodian Business Review
- Agricultural commodities, processing and products / Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Crop products and commodities / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economy and commerce / Exports / Rice / Rice / Trade / United States aid
- Agro-business company / Amru rice (Cambodia) Co / Baitang (Kampuchea) Plc / Bangladesh / Brazil / Burma / Cambodia / Cavifoods / Cavifoods and Loran Group / Chinese aid / Dr. Yang Saing Koma / Egypt / FAO All Rice Price Index / Golden Rice Co Ltd / Guinea / Hean Vanhorn / Indian aid / Indonesia / Korea / Madagascar / Magsaysay Award / Magsaysay Award Winner Dr. Yang Saing Koma / Mali / milled rice exports / Ministry of Agriculture Forest and Fisheries Deputy Director-General / Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries / Myanmar / Nepal / Nigeria / Rep. of Korea / Republic of Korea / rice production / Russian Federation / Senegal / Sierra Leone / South America / Sri Lanka / Tanzania / Thailand / Turkey / United States aid / United States Department of Agriculture / Uruguay / US / USA / USDA / Venezuela / Viet Nam / Yang Saing Koma
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has raised its forecast of global paddy production in 2012 by about 1.5 million tonnes to 730 million tonnes (487 million tonnes, milled). The scaling up of production mainly concerned Asian countries, in particular Cambodia, ...
Japanese grants set to aid local farmers
- 28 March 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Biofuel crops / Crop products and commodities / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economy and commerce / Japanese aid
- Battambang / Battambang Province / Cassava / cassava cultivation / Cassava propagation / cassava trees / drainage system / Japanese ambassador Kumamaru Yuji / Japanese Government / kratie / Kratie Province / Preah Vihear / Sambo district / University of Battambang
The Japanese government has provided $118,996 for constructing a cassava propagation and distribution centre in Battambang province. The fund comes in response to the recent challenges facing farmers in the province who are facing a shortage of cassava trees to plant. Kumamaru Yuji, Japanese ambassador to ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032864733/Business/japanese-grants-set-to-aid-local-farmers.html
Rice trade zone to be set up in East
- 25 March 2013
- Bangkok Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Crop products and commodities / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economy and commerce / European Union aid / Exports / Imports / Rice / Trade
- Bangladesh / Cambodian rice / Chachoengsao / Chanthaburi / Chanthaburi Province / Chukiat Opaswong / Department of Foreign Trade / Dhaka / EU Generalised System of Preferences / European Union aid / Generalised System of Preferences / illegal imported rice / rice / rice trade zone / Sa Kaeo / Sa Kaeo province / Thai Rice Exporters Association / Thailand / Tikhumporn Natvaratat / Trat / Trat Province
The Department of Foreign Trade plans to set up a “rice trade zone” project in the East to process Cambodian rice for export to other countries. Tikhumporn Natvaratat, deputy director-general of the department, said his organisation plans to implement the project in Chanthaburi, Trat, Sa Kaeo ...
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/342199/rice-trade-zone-to-be-set-up-in-east
Kingdom, Japan to ink $33.9m grant today
- 21 March 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Energy / Generation and distribution facilities / Hydropower dams / Japanese aid / Renewable energy production
- Chinese aid / Foreign Minister Hor Namhong / Foreign Ministry / hydropower dam project / hydropower plant / Institute of Technology of Cambodia / Japanese aid / Japanese Ambassador to Cambodia / Japanese Government / Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Preah Sihanouk Province / Preah Sihanouk Referral Hospital / Ratanakkiri / Yuji Kumamaru
Cambodia will sign a $33.9 million grant aid today from the Japanese government to support various small hydropower dam projects, improve a hospital and update resources of a university, according to a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032164548/Business/kingdom-japan-to-ink-33-9m-grant-today.html
ADB Smothers Report On Families Hit by Rail Project
- 19 March 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Aid and development / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Australian aid / Bilateral development assistance / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economy and commerce / Infrastructure / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Multilateral development assistance / Rail / Transport infrastructure and facilities
- ADB / ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda / ADB report / ADB spokeswoman Ann Quon / ADB’s Public Disclosure Advisory Committee / Ann Quon / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / AusAid / Australia Government / Australian aid / Cambodian Government / Equitable Cambodia / evictions / Haruhiko Kuroda / IDI / Inclusive Development International / Inter-Ministerial Resettlement Committee / Micheal Cernea / Phnom Penh / railway project / Resettlement / Royal Cambodian Government / Sahmakum Teang Tnaut / sihanoukville / World Bank
The Asian Development Bank has refused to release a critical study on the impacts its $141.6 million railway project is having on thousands of Cambodian families because disclosure of the report could hurt its relationship with the government, an ADB spokeswoman said. Raising concerns about the ...
Japan to provide Cambodia with nearly 34 mln USD grant aid
- 18 March 2013
- People's Daily Online
- Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Education and training / Education policy and administration / Energy / Generation and distribution facilities / Hydropower dams / Japanese aid / Public health / Renewable energy production / Social development
- foreign aid / Foreign Ministry / Hor Namhong / Hydropower dams / Institute of Technology of Cambodia / Japanese aid / Japanese aid / Japanese ambassador to Cambodia Yuji Kumamaru / Preah Sihanouk Province Referral Hospital / Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong / Rattanakiri province / Yuji Kumamaru
Cambodia will sign to receive 33.9 million U.S. dollars in grant aid from Japan for three projects in small hydropower dams, healthcare and education, according to a news release from Cambodia’s foreign ministry on Monday. ...
EU fund of over $4.5 mln in Cambodia
- 11 March 2013
- The Cambodia Herald
- Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / European Union aid / Human rights / Social development
- Adhoc / Advocacy and Policy Institute / Ambassador Jean-François Cautain / Banteay Meanchey / CCFD / Comité Catholique Contre la Faim et pour le Développement / EU / European Union aid / IBJ / International Bridges to Justice / Jean-Francois Cautain / Kampong Chhnang / Kampong Speu / Kampong Thom / kratie / Land rights / legal aids / Oxfam GB / poverty rate / RGC / Rights & Development Association / Royal Government of Cambodia
The European Union in efforts to reduce the poverty rate and secure a free society has awarded $4.5 mln to four projects. These projects will work to improve justice, natural resources, land rights, and build the capabilities of local authorities. Four projects were selected among ...
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=ODhhZmVjNmU1OTd