Aid and development

French agency to offer loans for solar panels

The French Development Agency (AFD) confirmed Wednesday that it will sign $6 million worth of loan agreements with three microfinance institutions (MFIs) to help rural households purchase solar panels and electricity. ...

Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/french-agency-to-offer-loans-for-solar-panels-71345/

Poor electricity and labor force hurting economy, report says

The World Bank and Asian Development Bank issued a report on Tuesday, urging Cambodia to improve its electricity supply and workforce in order to be competitive. Intermittent electricity, informal payments and a low-skill labor force are all major constraints to doing business in Cambodia, the ...

Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/poor-electricity-and-labor-force-hurting-economy-report-says/2499227.html

Open economy needs new strategy for regional integration

Cambodia must do more than open its borders for trade and investment if it hopes to benefit from regional economic integration and reduce the glaring economic inequality wrought by entrenched patronage networks and corrupt institutions, according to a new report by the Asian Development Bank ...

George Styllis and Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/open-economy-needs-new-strategy-for-regional-integration-71127/

ADB provides nearly 99 mln USD to Cambodia for 3 projects

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Monday signed to provide grant and loan agreements worth nearly 99 million U.S. dollars to Cambodia for three development projects, the bank said in a press statement.​ The agreements cover a rural roads improvement project, a technical and vocational ...

Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-10/27/c_133746073.htm

Cambodia turns to International Migration body to resettle refugees

Cambodia has reached out to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for help with resettling refugees it has agreed to take from Australia under a controversial deal signed last month, according to an IOM spokesman. ...

Holly Robertson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-turns-to-international-migration-body-to-resettle-refugees-70967/

'No Decision' made yet on Cambodia loans: World Bank

The World Bank has not yet reached a decision on whether to lift a ban on loans to Cambodia, a Bank official has said, contradicting local media reports that the international financing institution would resume loans suspended three years ago over allegations of violent land ...

Richard Finney
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/loans-10222014170636.html

ADB bidding in K Cham canceled as row erupts

Officials delayed the bidding process for three projects funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday after heated arguments between bidders broke out in Kompong Cham province’s Choeung Prey district, local officials said on Thursday. ...

Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/70849-70849/

Japanese follow-up team arrives in Cambodia

A group of Japanese experts arrived in Cambodia Tuesday for a two-day visit as a follow-up team regarding the needs survey implemented last May for electoral reform assistance to Cambodia. The team was led by Mr. Tadayuki MIYASHITA, Director, Country Assistance Planning Division I, International ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/japanese-follow-up-team-arrives-in-cambodia-7516

Railway communities dissapointed with ADB's same response

People living along the railroads in Phnom Penh city has made another demonstration in front of ADB’s office in Cambodia for the third time. However, there was not any better response from ADB than the previous times. People affected by the railroad development project which ...

Ngem Sophal
http://www.khmer.rfi.fr/residents-in-rail-road-community-are-disappointed-with-adb-20-10-2014

ADB to help find answers for railway families

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Monday promised to help pry answers out of the government for residents of Phnom Penh who fear losing all or some of their land to a bank-funded project to rehabilitate the country’s railway network. ...

Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/adb-to-help-find-answers-for-railway-families-70398/

UNESCO chief condemns killing of Cambodian journalist

Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova has denounced the killing of journalist Taing Try in Cambodia on Oct. 12 and urged the authorities to ensure that those responsible are punished for their crime. Taing Try, 49, a freelance journalist for several local newspapers and a member ...

Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141020/unesco-chief-condemns-killing-cambodian-journalist

Cambodians rated as ‘hungry’ drop in new Global index

Cambodians have experienced one of the largest drops in the rate of hunger in the world over the past quarter century, though the situation in the country still remains “serious,” according to a new report by three international NGOs. Cambodia cut its score in the ...

Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodians-rated-as-hungry-drop-in-new-global-index-70160/

Pilot project to boost nutrition for Cambodian garment workers

A study by the International Labor Organization, the U.N.’s labor body, shows most Cambodian garment workers do not eat enough nutritious food and that, as a result, many are anemic and even underweight. Now, a pilot project will feed workers at five factories a free ...

Robert Carmichael
http://www.voanews.com/content/pilot-project-to-boost-nutrition-for-cambodian-garment-workers/2483260.html

Road safety funding to end

A major funder of road safety programs in Cambodia will not be renewing its grant for the country, sparking concerns that traffic deaths in the Kingdom will continue unabated. Bloomberg Philanthropies, run by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, is launching the second part of its Global Road Safety ...

Charles Rollet and Sen David
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/road-safety-funding-end

World Bank in spotlight

As the World Bank considers supplying fresh loans to Cambodia, a new study uses the country as exhibit A for how the financier effectively sponsors corporate land grabs at the expense of the rural poor it purportedly helps. Three years ago, the bank’s own inspectors found ...

Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/world-bank-spotlight

Cambodia's economic growth forecast to reach 7.2% in 2014, 7.5% next year – World Bank

Cambodia’s economic growth is forecasted to reach 7.2 percent in 2014, and 7.5 percent next year according to a report by World Bank on Monday. The report said Cambodia’s garments continue to be the key engine of growth, followed by construction. The poverty rate continued to ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodias-economic-forecasted-to-reach-72-pct-in-2014-75-pct-next-year:-world-bank-7444

Cambodia's elderly receive inadequate support

For 70-year-old Chan Shay, the choice between working through old age and a retirement in poverty is an obvious one. Shay, a cyclo taxi driver in Phnom Penh, said that while he dreams of retiring to his home in Takeo province, in reality he can see ...

Alice Cuddy and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.ucanews.com/news/cambodias-elderly-receive-inadequate-support/72092

Ministry rolls out new strategy to revitalize arts

The Ministry of Culture on Tuesday introduced the country’s first strategic cultural policy, an ambitious plan that includes setting up provincial cultural centers, launching arts education in schools, holding annual cultural events and promoting individual artists. Speaking to an audience that included representatives from the leading ...

Kuch Naren and Michelle Vachon
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-rolls-out-new-strategy-to-revitalize-arts-68720/

UN address focuses less on Cambodia than international issues

Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong addressed the UN’s General Assembly on Monday, in a speech that focused more on the threat of the Islamic State and international conflicts than it did on Cambodian issues. Hor Namhong told the Assembly that Cambodia supports joint international efforts to ...

Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/un-address-focuses-less-on-cambodia-than-international-issues/2467446.html

Cambodia will take in Australia's refugees on voluntary basis: PM

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Monday that the country will take in refugees from Australia on a voluntary basis, stressing that accepting asylum seekers is part of an international obligation for Cambodia. Hun Sen said a Cambodian working group will interview those refugees ...

Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-09/29/c_133681664.htm

Cambodia should not accept refugees from Australia: Sam Rainsy

Opposition party leader Sam Rainsy said that Cambodia should not have signed a deal with Australia to accept refugees to live in Cambodia. Cambodia should not have accepted the refugees from Australia because they are not goods for being exported or imported by any country, Sam ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=ODE5MjAzZTY3Yjh

Vocational training to get $30M ADB boost

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced last week a $30 million loan aimed at overhauling Cambodia’s technical and vocational education system (TVET). According to a September 26 statement issued by the ADB, the new funding will go towards launching a “competency-based” assessment and certification process, and ...

Eddie Morton
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/vocational-training-get-30m-adb-boost

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