Social development
Trafficked numbers rising
- 22 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Human rights / Human trafficking / Informal migration for labor / Labor / Labor policy and administration / Local workers abroad / Marine and coastal areas / Offshore recruitment and employment / Siem Reap / Social development / Water resources
- abused workers / Africa / African coast / anti-trafficking / Anti-trafficking NGOs / Anti-Trafficking project / Argentina / Association of Cambodian Recruitment Agencies / Bosnia-Herzegovina / child labor / child labour / CLEC / Community Legal Education Centre / Environmental Justice Foundation / exploitative employment sectors / Fishermen / Fishing / fishing boat / forced labor / forced labour / Giant Ocean / Giant Ocean International Fishery / grievance mechanism / Hong Kong / Human trafficking / Indonesia / International Labour Organization’s Maritime Labour Convention / International Organization for Migration / IOM / Juliette Williams / Legal Support for Children and Women / Lin Yu Shin / LSCW / Malaysian aid / Mauritius / Ministry of Labour / MLC / Mom Sokchar / Phiev Khay / Philippines / recruitment agency / repatriation / SehaYatim / Shelley Thio / Siem Reap / Singapore / Singapore market / Singapore Ministry of Manpower / Singapore’s Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority / Step Up Marine Enterprise / Taiwan / Thailand / trafficking / trafficking complaint / Transient Workers Count Too / TWC2 / Victor Lim / Work in Fishing Convention
Their stories have become all too familiar – Cambodian fishermen enslaved on fishing boats after being promised lucrative jobs overseas. They’re also becoming increasingly common. Anti-trafficking NGOs told the Post this week that they have noticed an exponential increase in the number of trafficking complaints from ...
Danson Cheong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052265773/National/trafficked-numbers-rising.html
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
Troubled Village Embroiled In New Land Disputes
- 20 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Rubber / Social development / Social land concessions
- agro-industry companies / Appeal Court / Beehive Radio / Beehive radio owner Mam Sonando / broma / Broma village / Casotim / Cham / Chan Kong / community forest / Court of Appeal / Disputed Land / ELCs / ethnic Cham minorities / Farmland / forced evictions / forest clearing / Heng Chantha / kratie / Kratie district governor / Kratie district governor Sam Sarith / Kratie Province / Kratie provincial government department of land management / Mam Sonando / Phnom Penh Municipal Court / Pro Ma / Pro Mar / rubber / Rubber plantation / Sam Sarith / social land concessions
A year after a massive military raid here that left a 14-year old girl dead and hundreds of families evicted, there remains little sign of the original land dispute that turned this rural village into a hotbed of agitation. But a new firm and a government-issued ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/troubled-village-embroiled-in-new-land-disputes-25184/
Ethnic villagers, firm battle over Ratanakkiri plot
- 20 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Investment / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
- Adhoc / Bakeo district / Chhay Thy / ethnic minority / Keh Chung commune / Keh Chung commune chief / land conflict / Land dispute / land title / Land-grabbing / lawsuit / Ly Sokkim Co Ltd / Ministry of Commerce / Par Or Adhoc provincial co-ordinator Chhay Thy / ratanak kiri / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri court / Rocham Lai / Tompuon / warrant
A local official and four ethnic minority Tompuon villagers appeared in a Ratanakkiri court on Friday to face accusations of land-grabbing and protesting against a private company that purchased their land in 2007, authorities said yesterday. Rocham Pheun, an assistant to the chief of Keh Chung ...
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/
Court takes another crack at Bandith case
- 20 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Gender / Unions / Women in development
- Ath Thorn / Bavet / Bavet factory shooting incident / Bavet shooting / Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith / Cambodia Defenders Project / Cambodian Confederation of Unions / Cambodian Labour Confederation / Chhouk Bandith / CLC president Ath Thorn / court / Court of Appeal / Garment Factory / garment workers / impunity / Sok Sam Oeun / Svay Rieng Province / unintentional injury / Worker unions / workers
Unions representing more than 15,000 members have called for justice for three women ahead of round two of legal action against their alleged shooter, deposed Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith. Bandith, who is accused of shooting the three workers during a protest at a factory in ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052065718/National/court-takes-another-crack-at-bandith-case.html
Malaysian couple jailed for starving maid to death
- 17 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Gender / Judiciary and courts / Law and judiciary / Marine and coastal areas / Water resources / Women in development
- AFP / Agence France Press / Cambodian domestic workers / Cambodian maids / domestic worker abuse / domestic workers / government moratorium / Human Rights / maids / Malaysian aid / Malaysian court / Malaysian employers / Malaysian justice system / Minister of Women’s Affairs Mu Sochua / Ministry of Labor / Ministry of labor deputy director general Hou Vudthy / Ministry of Women's Affairs / moratorium on sending workers to Malaysia / Penag / working conditions
A Malaysian Court yesterday sentenced a couple to 24 years in jail for culpable homicide after their Cambodian maid starved to death while working for them in their home on the northwest coast of Penag, Agence France Press (AFP) reported. Cambodian opposition lawmaker and former ...
Jarai Man Exiled After He Opposes Land Deal
- 17 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forests and forestry / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Social development
- Adhoc / Adhoc provincial co-ordinator / Chhay Thy / community forest / Disputed Land / ethnic Jarai / ethnic Jarai minority / ethnic Jarai villagers / ethnic minorities / Forest / indigenous people / O’Yadav district / Ratanakiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Rocham Vin / Romas Svang / Ten Village / villagers / Ya Tung Commune / Ya Tung Commune Chief
Commune authorities in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadav district have allegedly banished a local resident for persisting with a lawsuit that accuses them of selling 500 hectares of community forest to two Cambodian developers for $300,000. Romas Svang, who is a member of the ethnic Jarai minority, filed ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051765682/National/jarai-man-exiled-after-he-opposes-land-deal.html
Think Tank Says Cambodia Isn't Managing Its Resources
- 16 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Economy and commerce / Energy / Extractive Industries / Extractive industries policy and administration / Generation and distribution facilities / Industrial mining / Mining / Non-renewable energy production / Off-shore oil and gas exploration and extraction / Oil and gas resources / Social development
- 2013 Resource Governance Index / Cambodians for Revenue Resource Transparency / Chevron Corp / Corruption / exploration blocks / exploration licenses / extraction licences / extractive industries / Gulf of Thailand / Hydrocarbons / mining / mining exploration licenses / mining extraction licences / mining licences / New York / oil / oil extraction / oil revenue / Revenue Watch / Revenue Watch Institute / Revenue Watch Institute 2013 Resource Governance Index / transparency
With the potential for vast state revenues from oil extraction and mining in coming years, Cambodia is currently failing to manage its nascent extractive industries according to a think tank. New York-based Revenue Watch Institute yesterday launched its 2013 Resource Governance Index, which included Cambodia for ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/think-tank-says-cambodia-isnt-managing-its-resources-24530/
Two Held For Razing Huts In Land Dispute
- 15 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Environment and natural resources / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
- Cassava / cassava plantation / CRC Company / CRD Chief of Staff Ngvieng Hong Fou / CRD company / CRD rubber company / Deputy District Police Chief Phan Chanthon / destruction / Disputed Land / evictions / forced eviction / Global Witness / HAGL / Hoang Anh Gia Lai / Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) / Hoang Anh Ratanakkiri / land disputes / luxury timber / Meas Pov Bora / Ngvieng Hong Fou / O'Chum district / Phan Chanthon / Plantation Destructions / Provincial Minor Crimes Office / Provincial Minor Crimes Office Chief / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / rubber / Rubber plantation / rubber trees / timber / Vietnamese company / Vietnamese Firm Hoang Anh Gia Lai / Vietnamese rubber company / Vietnamese Rubber Group / villagers / Watchdog Group
Ratanakkiri provincial police on Monday arrested the chief of staff of a Vietnamese rubber concessionaire and his Cambodian translator who are believed to have burned down more than $5,000 worth of property related to a land dispute in O’Chum district, police said. Meas Pov Bora, chief ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051565632/National/two-held-for-razing-huts-in-land-dispute.html
Arrests Threatened In Ratanakkiri
- 15 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crime and law enforcement / Economic land concessions and plantations / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Public land lease / Social development
- Adhoc / Adhoc Senior Investigator Chan Saveth / Company 72 / deforestation / ELCs / ethnic Jarai / ethnic Jarai villagers / ethnic minorities / evictions / Farm Land / forced evictions / Forest / forest clearing / Forestry Administration / Land rights / Lom village’s Forestry Protection Committee Leader / Lom Villagers / Men Sarun Co Ltd / O’Yadav district / O’Yadav District Governor Dork Sar / Paknhai commune / protected area / protected forest / protests / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Sav Finh / Vietnamese company / Vietnamese Company 72 / villagers
Provincial authorities in Ratanakkiri have warned ethnic Jarai villagers that they will be arrested if they continue to stop bulldozers belonging to a Vietnamese company from clearing forest in O’Yadav district’s Paknhai commune, community leaders said yesterday. Sav Finh, leader of Lom village’s forestry protection committee, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051565625/National/arrests-threatened-in-ratanakkiri.html
Vietnam rubber tycoon rejects land grabbing accusations
- 14 May 2013
- Thanh Nien News
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Rubber / Social development / The poor
- Cambodian Government / company shares / corporate environmental responsibility / corporate social responsibility / deforestation / Deutsche Bank / Doan Nguyen Duc / environmental responsibility / forced evictions / forest protection / Global Witness / Global Witnesses / HAGL / HAGL Group / HAGL Group chairman Doan Nguyen Duc / HAGL shares / Hoang Anh Gia Lai / Hoang Anh Gia Lai chairman Doan Nguyen Duc / Hoang Anh Gia Lai company / IFC / illegal logging / job creation / Kien Thuc news / land acquisitions / Laos / Laos government / Radio Australia / Royal Government of Cambodia / rubber / Rubber Barons / Rubber Barons report / Rubber Companies / rubber plantations / stock market / Taxes / VRG / World Bank
A Vietnamese rubber tycoon has rejected accusations by Global Witness, a group that campaigns on resource issues, that it was involved in a land grabbing crisis in Southeast Asia. Doan Nguyen Duc, the chairman of Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) Group, told Vietnamese media the information ...
The canes of wrath
- 10 May 2013
- Southeast Asia Globe
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Exports / Human rights / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Public land lease / Social development / Sugar / Trade
- Agro-Business / agro-business firms / American Sugar Refinery Company / assault / Boycott Blood Sugar campaign / child labor / child labour / compensation / CPP / CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat / criminal activity / Dr Nirun Pitakwatchara / Dr Pung Chhiv Kek / EBA / economic land concession / education / ELC / ELC scheme / EU / EU in Cambodia ambassador Jean-Francois Cautain / Europe / European Parliament / European Union aid / Everything But Arms / Everything But Arms Agreement / Everything But Arms scheme / Everything But Arms Treaty / Exports / farming / forced evictions / Human Rights / human rights violations / illegal possession of land / ILO / International Labor Organisation / International Labour Organisation / Jean-Francois Cautain / Jones Day / Jones Day law firm / Kampong Speu / Kampong Speu Province / Khon Kaen Sugar Industry Public Company Limited / KKP / KKS / KKS industry / Koh Kong / Koh Kong Province / Koh Kong Sugar Industry / Koh Kong Sugar Plantation / KSL / labor / labour / land / Land grabs / Land rights / Land titles / Lawsuits / LICADHO / Licadho president Pung Chhiv Kek / livestock / London / Ly Yong Phat / National Human Rights Commission of Thailand / NGO Equitable Cambodia / NHRC / NHRC commissioner Dr Nirun Pitakwatchara / Nirun Pitakwatchara / Oddar Meanchey / Oddar Meanchey Province / OECD / Omlaing / Omlaing commune / Omlaing sugar plantation / Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development / Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises / PC Law Firm / Phnom Penh Sugar Company / Phnom Penh Sugar director Seng Nhak / Phnom Penh Sugar’s Omlaing plantation / plantation workers / Plantations / preferential trade scheme / protests / Pung Chhiv Kek / razed crops / Rees Broome law firm / Seng Nhak / shootings / subsistence farming / sugar / sugar exports / sugar industry / sugarcane / sugarcane plantations / Taiwan / Tate & Lyle / Tate & Lyle Sugars / Thailand / Thpong district / UK / UK’s High Court of Justice / UN / United Nations / United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights / US / US National Contact Point / Ve Wong Corporation / wages
Satiating the demands of the global sugar industry is big business for Cambodia’s sugarcane plantations. Yet accusations of human rights abuses and land grabs in the Kingdom have left a bitter aftertaste for many on the ground as companies vie for a larger slice of ...
Wage Hike Leads To Rent Fears
- 10 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Education and training / Education policy and administration / Exports / Imports / Investment / Social development / Trade / Unions
- Cambodian Confederation of Unions / Cambodian Confederation of Unions president Rong Chhun / CLEC / Community Legal Education Center / Export / garment / Garment factories / garment sector / Garment worker / Garment Workers Accommodation / Kampong Speu / Kandal / Meanchey District / minimum garment wage / minimum wage / Moeun Tola / PCCS Garment Factory / Phnom Penh / Rent Rooms for Garment Wokers / Rong Chhun / Room Rent Cost / Royal Government / Sen Sok district / Transport of Garment Wokers / wage hike / Wokers
Cambodian Confederation of Unions president Rong Chhun yesterday appealed to landlords with properties close to garment factories not to take advantage of the industry’s minimum wage increase by raising rent prices. The minimum monthly salary in the garment sector – Cambodia’s biggest export industry – officially ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051065555/National/wage-hike-leads-to-rent-fears.html
New Kompong Thom Governor Vows to Give Land to Evictees
- 10 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Social development / The poor
- Adhoc / Displacement / ELCs / forced evictions / Kompong Thom / Kompong Thom Province / Kompong Thom provincial governor Uth Sam On / relocation site / rubber / rubber plantations / Tan Bien-Kompong Thom Rubber Development Company
The newly appointed Kompong Thom provincial governor on Tuesday promised more than 500 families who were forcefully evicted by a Vietnamese rubber plantation more than three years ago that they would be given replacement land to farm on early next month. Security forces evicted villagers from ...
Private property, public greed in Cambodia
- 9 May 2013
- The Politico
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Exports / Human rights / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Public land lease / Social development / Sugar / Trade
- American Sugar Refining / Cambodia Daily newspaper / Cambodian Center for Human Rights / Cambodian Center for Human Rights president Ou Virak / CCHR / Chinese aid / Chum Bun Rong / Deputy Director Chum Bun Rong / Displacement / Disputed Land / Domino Sugar / ELCs / forced evictions / Khmer Rouge / Koh Kong / Koh Kong Provice / land compensation / Land Law 2001 / Land-grabbing / Laos / Myanmar / National Land Authority / New York / Ou Virak / Phnom Penh / Prime Minister Hun Sen / sugar / sugar cane / Tate & Lyle / Tate & Lyle sugar / Thailand / The State Department annual Human Rights Report / TTY rubber company / United Nations / United States aid / Vietnam War
Mark Moorstein knew little about Cambodia before he got involved in a lawsuit on behalf of land owners there. But as it’s turning out, the suit could end up affecting most every country in Asia. Moorstein is a land-use lawyer in Northern Virginia who, like many ...
Cambodia’s Economic Opportunity
- 9 May 2013
- The Diplomat
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Energy / Exports / Generation and distribution facilities / Rice / Sihanoukville / Social development / The poor / Trade
- agricultural sector / Agriculture & Agri-business / AusAid / bilateral trade / bilateral trade agreements / Cambodia Agricultural Value Chain / CAVAC / Dr. Hang Chuon Naron / electricity prices / EU markets / Exports / GDP / Gross Domestic Product / Infrastructure / Kampong Thom / Kampong Thom Province / Kampot / Kampot Province / Laos / loan portfolio for agriculture / loan portfolios / Milled Rice / Minister of Economy and Finance Secretary of State Dr. Hang Chuon Naron / Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fishery / Ministry of Commerce / Ministry of Economy and Finance / Ministry of Water Resources Management / paddy rice / paddy rice production / Policy Paper on Paddy Production and Rice Export / Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen / RGC / rice / rice export / rice export sector / rice export target / Rice Farming / Rice Policy / rice sector / Royal Government of Cambodia / Sihanoukville Port / Takeo / Takeo Province / Thailand / The Philippines / transport
While significant obstacles remain, the success of the rice sector is a potentially crucial driver in Cambodia’s prosperous and equitable development. Cambodia announced two major bilateral trade agreements recently, with the Philippines and Thailand, that are expected to further expand the country’s rice export sector. ...
http://thediplomat.com/2013/05/09/cambodias-economic-opportunity/
Qatar’s maid claims amiss: gov’t
- 9 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Gender / Women in development
- deputy director Hou Vudthy / domestic workers / Fawaz al-Rayis / Gulf Times newspaper / Hou Vudthy / Labour Ministry Recruitment Department / Labour Ministry Recruitment Department director Fawaz al-Rayis / maids / Ministry of Labor / Ministry of Labour / news website Emirates 24/7 / Qatar / Saudi Arabia / Singapore / wages / worker migration
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
Work Begins on Controversial Cambodian Dam
- 7 May 2013
- Voice of America (VOA)
- Energy / Environment and natural resources / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Generation and distribution facilities / Hydropower dams / Land / Marine and coastal areas / Renewable energy production / Rivers and lakes / Social development / Water resources
- "The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" / Ame Trandem / Australian aid / Dams / Eric Baran / Farmland / Fish / fisheries / food security / German aid / hydropower / hydropower projects / inland fisheries / International Rivers Southeast Asia Program Director Ame Trandem / livestock sector / Lower Se San 2 Dam / Lower Sesan 2 dam / marine sector / Mekong river / national election / Relocation / relocation sites / Reservoirs / Se San River / sediment / Sesan river / Sre Pok River / Srekor village / Srepok River / U.S. / US / WorldFish
As work begins on Cambodia’s biggest dam, those advocating against its construction have warned that the region’s rush for hydropower will have a disastrous effect on millions of people who rely on the Mekong River to survive. Last month, workers began preparing an area in northeastern ...
http://www.voanews.com/content/work-begins-on-controversial-hydropower-dam/1656035.html
Agriculture Contributes To Helping Cambodia’s Economic Growth: PM Hun Sen
- 4 May 2013
- The Southeast Asia Weekly
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Exports / Rice / Social development / The poor / Trade
- agricultural land / Agriculture Ministry / agriculture sector / Chan Sarun / Climate Change / domestic food security / Economic growth / Floods / GDP / Gross Domestic Product / Hun Sen / Industrialization / migration / Minister of Agriculture H.E Chan Sarun / Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries / natural disaster / poverty rate / poverty reduction / Prime Minister Hun Sen / rice / rice export / rice export sector / rice production / Royal Government / rubber / socio-economic development / Tax Household Agricultural Land
“The agriculture sector today is still playing significant role in promoting local production growth, job creation, and contributing to the poverty reduction of the people. At the same time, the agriculture sector will continue the basic role for economic growth and socio-economic development in Cambodia in ...
Cambodia Must Up its Game in Rice Exports
- 2 May 2013
- The Asia Foundation
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Rice / Social development / The poor
- agricultural sector / AusAid / Cambodia Agricultural Value Chain / CAVAC / Commercial banks / Dr. Hang Chuon Naron / EU markets / fertilizers / GDP / insecticides / irrigation canals / Kampong Thom / Kampot / Laos / loan portfolios / Milled Rice / Ministriy of Agriculture / Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fishery / Ministry of Commerce / Ministry of Economy and Finance / Ministry of Economy and Finance Dr. Hang Chuon Naron / Ministry of Water Resources Management / paddy rice / paddy rice production / petroleum products / Policy Paper on Paddy Production and Rice Export / rice export sector / Rice Policy / Sihanoukville Port / Takeo / Thailand / The Asia Foundation / The Philippines / transportation infrastructure
Cambodia announced two major bilateral trade agreements last month, with the Philippines and Thailand, that are expected to further expand the country’s rice export sector. Over the last few years, Cambodia has emerged as a major rice exporter in the region, due in large part ...
http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/2013/05/01/cambodia-must-up-its-game-in-rice-exports/
High Risk Seen in Kingdom’s Business Environment: Report
- 2 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Human rights / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
- ADB / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Asian Development Bank Deputy Director Peter Brimble / Brittan / Cambodia Country Risk Report / Climate Change / Constrains to Investment / Economic Governance / economic land concession / Economic Land Concession Scheme / forced eviction / H&M / Indonesia / Investment Analysis / Investment Concern / investment law / Investment Risk / Investor Protection / Japanese aid / labor rights / labor standards / labour standards / Maplecroft / Myanmar / National Arbitration Centre / Peter Brimble / Philippines / Puma / Tate and Lyle / Thailand / trade facilitation / UK / United Kingdom
Corruption, a weak judicial system and the potential for complicity with human and labour rights abuses are key risks for firms looking to invest in Cambodia, a new report [by Maplecroft, a UK-based global risk and strategic consulting firm] analysing investment risk in the Kingdom ...
Tourism: More Info Needed
- 2 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Industries / Marine and coastal areas / Siem Reap / Social development / Tourism / Water resources
- CAA / CAA Chairman Tek Reth Samrath / Cambodian Angkor Air / Council of Ministers / cultural tourism / Eco-tourism / Eco-tourism expansion / eco-tourism sector / Ho Vandy / Intercontinental Hotel / Kampong Kdei Bridge / Kampot / Kampot Province / Kep / Kep City / Khao Ke Temple / Koh Ke Temple / Koh Ker Temple / kratie / Ministry of Tourism / Mondulkiri / Mondulkiri Province / Phnom Kulen / Phnom Penh / Preah Vihear / Preah Vihear Province / Preah Vihear Temple / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Ratanakkirri / Ratanakkirri Province / Revenue From Tourism / Roluos / Roluos Temples / Siem Reap / Siem Reap Province / Stung Treng / Stung Treng Province / Tek Reth Samrath
In diversifing its holiday attractions, Cambodia’s tourism industry should focus on three key areas – the country’s northeastern region, the coasts and the vicinity around Siem Reap – but efforts to promote these destinations are still lacking, an industry leader says. Statistics from the Ministry ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050265365/Business/tourism-more-info-needed.html
Tales of intimidation
- 1 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Environment and natural resources / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Human rights / Land / Logging and timber / Social development
- Adhoc / Adhoc’s land section / Chan Soveth / Community Peace Network / Council of Ministers / Declaration on Human Rights Defenders / Forestry Administration / illegal logging / Khmer Rouge / Kong Kimny / kratie / Kratie Provincial Governor / Mom Sakin / Phay Siphan / Pursat / Snuol district / Sorn Siyan / Thun Saray / Universal Declaration of Human Rights
When activists Mom Sakin and Sorn Siyan took a stand against illegal logging in Kratie province last month, they were allegedly threatened with violence and lawsuits from officials. “Powerful people who wanted to intimidate us shot their guns into the air to prevent us from going ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050165357/National/tales-of-intimidation.html