Aid and development
Japan Helps Cambodia Despite Difficulties
- 24 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economy and commerce / Japanese aid
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Japan on August 15th loaned Cambodia a package of US$ 53.3 million for the West Tonle Sap Irrigation and Drainage Improvement and a grant aid of US$ 0.7 million to improve education equipment of the Department of Geo-Resources and Geotechnical Engineering of the Institute of ...
China’s ‘No Strings’ Aid Increasingly Attractive
- 24 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Chinese aid / Economy and commerce / Non-DAC members
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The timing couldn’t have been better. After a week in which one NGO was suspended and others warned to “readjust their work,” and the World Bank was finally forced to reveal that it had stopped loaning to Cambodia, the government announced over the weekend that ...
NGO Forum Breaks Silence on 'Warning'
- 22 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Aid and development / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Infrastructure / Multilateral development assistance / Rail / Transport infrastructure and facilities
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NGO Forum confirmed yesterday it had received a “warning letter” from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs over its advocacy on behalf of communities affected by a railway rehabilitation project funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and AusAID. The warning to the umbrella group of 88 ...
Deals With China Inked
- 22 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Chinese aid / Economy and commerce / Energy / Energy policy and administration / Generation and distribution facilities / Infrastructure / Non-DAC members / Roads and bridges / Transport and shipping / Transport infrastructure and facilities
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Cambodia agreed to acquire Chinese-made Z-9 helicopters for US$195 million in one of 26 memorandums of understanding agreed by the two countries on Saturday. Cooperation was pledged in sectors such as energy, mining, agriculture and road construction, as well as defense spending and aid. The ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011082251177/Business/deals-with-china-inked.html
Cambodia and China Ink Aid, Trade Deals
- 22 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Chinese aid / Coal / Economy and commerce / Extractive Industries / Extractive industries policy and administration / Industrial mining / Minerals and mineral products / Mining / Non-DAC members
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Prime Minister Hun Sen and a visiting top Chinese official on Saturday presided over the signing of 29 letters and memoranda covering a broad range of business and military deals, including a $195.5 million loan for Cambodia to purchase Chinese-made military helicopters. A summary of ...
Senior CPC Official Highlights Inter-party Exchanges With Cambodia
- 21 August 2011
- Xinhua News
- Aid and development / Economy and commerce
- Cambodia / Chinese aid / Commission for Political and Legal Affairs / Communist Party of China / contributions / CPC Central Committee / Economic Development / exchange / friendship / Funcinpec Party / Heng Samrin / Keo Puth Rasmey / living standards / National Assembly / Phnom Penh / Political parties / social development / Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee / youth / Zhou Yongkang
PHNOM PENH A senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said here Saturday that the CPC is willing to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with Cambodian political parties to boost mutually beneficial cooperation between China and Cambodia. Zhou Yongkang, a member of the Standing ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-08/21/c_131064410.htm
South Korea Will Help Restore Ancient Khmer Temple
- 20 August 2011
- The Southeast Asia Weekly
- Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economy and commerce / Industries / Siem Reap / South Korean aid / Tourism
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South Korea plans to restore the ancient Khmer temple, Preah Pitou at western Baray and other temples in Siem Reap, home of a world-class tourism destination. The restoration project was announced after the meeting between Deputy Prime Minister Dr. Sok An, Minister in charge of ...
Japan Loans over $53 Million to Improve Agriculture and Education
- 20 August 2011
- The Southeast Asia Weekly
- Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economy and commerce / Education and training / Education policy and administration / Japanese aid / Social development
- Agricultural Production / Agro-business company / aid / Bantey Meanchey Province / Battambang Province / canal systems / Climate Change / concessional loans / Deputy Prime Minister / dikes / draught / education / Farmland / flooding / Foreign Ministry of Cambodia / Green Mekong Initiatives on Climate Change / Hor Namhong / Institute of Technology of Cambodia / irrigation / Japanese aid / Japanese Ambassador to Cambodia / JICA / Kandal Province / Kapot Province / Kratie Province / Lim Kean Hor / loans / Masafumi Kuroki / Mekong river / Mekong Summit / minerals / Minister of Foreign Affairs / Ministry of Water Resource and Metrology / natural disasters / Plantations / poverty / Preah Vihear Province / Prey Veng Province / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Pursat Province / resources / rice fields / Siem Reap Province / Stung Treng Province / Svay Rieng Province / Takeo Province / Tonle Sap / topology / water locks
Cambodia will receive a concessional loan package of $53.3 million US dollars from Japan to restore the irrigation canal system and another $700,000 dollars grant aid to enhance education materials for minerals resources and topology department of the Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC), the ...
Japanese Government To Loan $47M for Agro-Development
- 12 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Japanese aid
- Agriculture Development / Battambang Province / Chan Youttha / Climate Change / Farmland / Government / International Aid / irrigation / Japanese Ambassador to Cambodia / Kampong Chhnang Province / Kompong Chhnang Province / Kuroki Masafumi / Kuroki Masafumi the Japanese Ambassador to Cambodia / Lim Kean Hor / loans / Minister Lim Kean Hor / natural disasters / Pursat Province / Tonle Sap lake / Water resources
The Minister of Water Resource and Meteorology announced yesterday that the Japanese government’s international aid agency will provide his ministry with $47 million on loans for an agriculture development project near the Tonle Sap lake. During a donation ceremony for 144 Japanese-funded agricultural machines held ...
World Bank fund halt irks officials
- 10 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Aid and development / Economy and commerce / Multilateral development assistance / World Bank
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THE government expressed disappointment yesterday with the World Bank’s announcement that it had halted new country loans due to the ongoing land dispute at Boeung Kak lake in Phnom Penh and vowed to raise the issue with the bank’s executive board. “We are very dissatisfied ...
Defiance Greets World Bank's Funding Freeze
- 10 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Aid and development / Economy and commerce / Multilateral development assistance / World Bank
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Government officials yesterday dismissed the World Bank’s recently revealed decision to freeze funding for new projects in Cambodia to protest a Phnom Penh real estate project that has forced thousand of families out of their homes. A housing rights group closely following the evictions said ...
World Bank Halts Funds Over Evictions
- 9 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Aid and development / Economy and commerce / Multilateral development assistance / World Bank
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The World Bank has frozen funding to Cambodia, making good on its threat in March to reconsider aid levels to Cambodia in response to the ongoing eviction of thousands of Phnom Penh families from Boeng Kak lake, a Bank official confirmed yesterdaySome 3,000 families have ...
World Bank stops funds for Cambodia over evictions
- 9 August 2011
- Reuters
- Aid and development / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Multilateral development assistance / Phnom Penh / World Bank
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The World Bank said on Tuesday it had stopped providing loans to Cambodia and would not resume lending until the government did something to help hundreds of families facing eviction from land around a lake in the country’s capital, Phnom Penh. “The World Bank’s last ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/09/cambodia-worldbank-idUSL3E7J920D20110809
Rising Consumer Prices Draw Hunderds to Protest for Action
- 8 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Aid and development / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Labor / Multilateral development assistance
- Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Cambodia / Cambodian National Confederation for Laborers Protection / CNCLP / CNCLP President Sath Chheanghour / Economics / Export / factory workers / Finance Ministry / Food prices / fuel prices / Government / Hund Sen / Inflation / inflation rate / International Monetary Fund / livestock / National Institute of Statistics / oil / oil companies / Phnom Penh / prime minister / Prome Minister Hun Sen / rising costs / Sath Chheanghour / taxi drivers / World Bank
Some 200 factory workers and taxi drivers protested in Phnom Penh yesterday morning to demand that the government take action to curb the rising costs of food and fuel, and threatened larger demonstrations if it failed to actAccording to figures released by the National Institute ...
Erdos Group plans laid bare
- 3 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Chinese aid / Economy and commerce / Industries / Manufacturing / Non-DAC members / Real estate
- Boeung Kak Lake / Bridges Across Borders / Business and Human Rights Resource Center (BHRRC) / Cambodia International Investment Development Group / Cambodian Centre for Human Rights / Chinese aid / Chinese investment / Development and Reform Commission / Human Rights Task Force / Lao Meng Khin / Mongolia Erdos Hongjun Holding Group / NGOs / Ordos City / Ou Virak / Phnom Penh / Sia Phearum
Documents obtained by The Post have shed new light on the scale of Chinese investment connected with the controversial Boeung Kak lake real estate project. The US$98 million project in northern Phnom Penh is the smallest of Mongolia Erdos Hongjun Holding Group’s planned investments in ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011080350842/National-news/erdos-group-plans-laid-bare.html
Cambodia-China trade increases to $912 Million for first half of 2011
- 3 August 2011
- The Southeast Asia Weekly
- Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Chinese aid / Economy and commerce / Non-DAC members
- agricultural crop processing / agricultural crops / agricultural products / biggest donor / bilateral trade / bridge construction / builing roads / business / Cambodia / Chinese aid / Clothing / cosmetics / Development / Director of Statistics / Director of Statistics Department / donor / Economic growth / electrical appliance / Exports / fishery products / Food / furniture / harvesting / Hun Sen / hydropower / Infrastructure / Kong Putheara / Kong Putheara Director of Statistics Department for Ministry of Commerce / light industrial products / machinery / Medicine / Ministry of Commerce / national development priorities / prime minister / Prime Minister Hun Sen / products exported / raw materials / rubber / Taxes / Textiles / Trade / trade relations / trading partner / Wood
“Bilateral trade between Cambodia and China grew about 82 percent in the first half of 2011 if comparing with the same period for last year while the two countries are trying to boost the trade ties to achieve US $2.5 billion in 2012,” Ministry of ...
Tax-Free Trade Access Will Stay, Says EU
- 2 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / European Union aid / Human rights / Social development / Sugar
- Cambodia / Cecilia Wikstrom / Duty-Free / EBA / EU / European Commission / European Union aid / Everything But Arms program / Heng San / Human Rights / Koh Kong Province / Kompong Speu Province / land / Land evictions / Ly Yong Phat / Mao Thora / Ministry of Commerce / Oddor Meanchey Province / Rafael Dochao Moreno / Sugar Companies / Trade benefits
The European Union has said that it has no plans to suspend Cambodia’s duty-free trade access even though there have been concerns over land evictions as a result of economic land concessions. The EU is seeking that human rights are not the cost of trade ...
Potential for more Europe exports
- 2 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economy and commerce / European Union aid
- Cambodia / EBA / EU / Europe / European Commission / European Union aid / Everything But Arms / Japanese aid / Kasuga Tadashi / Rafael Dochao Moreno / Tiger Wing Company
Cambodian exporters ought to make further use of tariff-free entry to the European Union, particularly given loosened regulations governing rule of origin, EU officials said at a trade seminar yesterday. Least Developed Countries such as the Kingdom could export to the EU duty and quota ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011080250795/Business/potential-for-more-europe-exports.html
Power Grid Key to Development
- 1 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Aid and development / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Economy and commerce / Energy / Energy policy and administration / Environment and natural resources / Generation and distribution facilities / Multilateral development assistance
- ADB / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Burma / Cambodia / Chinese aid / Environmental Ministers / Environmental Programs / Greater Mekong Subregion / Infrastructure / Laos / Mekong river / Myanmar / Power Generation / power grid / rural / Thailand
According to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) the regional and national power grids are key to development, though plans for their development have come under criticism by a number of NGOs who believe that power generation should be decentralized. The ADB’s Greater Mekong Subregion program ...
Environment Minister Defends Concessions
- 29 July 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Aid and development / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Economic land concessions and plantations / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Multilateral development assistance / Protected areas / Protected forest
- ADB / agro-farm business / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Burma / Cambodia / Chinese aid / Environment Minister / Environmental Protection / Forests / Greater Mekong Subregion / Javed Hssain / Koh Kong Province / Laos / Mok Mareth / Thailand
Environment Minister Mok Mareth yesterday defended the recent surge of economic land concessions granted by his ministry inside the country’s enviornmental conservation areas, saying that they would do more to help the areas than hurt them. Mr Mareth’s comments came while responding to questions at ...
Cambodia on Long Road to Freedom From Corruption, Bank Says
- 21 July 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Aid and development / Anti-corruption / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Government / Multilateral development assistance
- ACU / ADB / Anti-Corruption Unit / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Cambodia / Chheang Vun / Corruption / CPP / Governance Risk Assessment Report and Risk Management Plan / Graft / Hun Sen / Keo Remy / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Yim Sovann
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has called corruption a “fundamental concern” for Cambodia even with the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) celebrating 10 months since its inauguration. The ADB’s Country Governance Risk Assessment Report and Risk Management Plan which is to be released soon calls for capacity ...
Bank’s Plan Greeted With Skepticism
A 10 year strategic plan designed to ensure financial stability in Cambodia has been released by the central bank to much skepticism. The $700,000 study sponsored by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is said to be short on details even though it calls for the ...
World Bank No Longer Funding State-Run Radio
The World Bank has ceased funding Radio National Kampuchea (RNK) as of last month due to a failure to comply to the bank’s Demand for Good Governance Project agreement. The funding ended on June 30. The World Bank granted RNK US $20 million with a ...
Bank Predicts 6.8% Economic Growth in 2012
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has released figures which show they believe that the Cambodian economy will grow between 6.8 and 7 percent in 2013 and 6.8 percent in 2012. Their reporting sites the growth in the Cambodian garment industry as a major factor. The ...