Bilateral development assistance

Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members

Japan funds training for care workers

Japan has spent about $3 million building a centre to train Cambodian nurses how to take care of the elderly before they are sent to Japan. The centre will open in April.Kondo Yoshio, director of Procast Co Ltd, said after meeting with Labour Minister Ith ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50103184/japan-funds-training-for-care-workers/

Japan to donate 140 buses

Japan will donate more than 100 buses to the Cambodian government over the next two years, according to City Hall. City Hall spokesman Met Measpheakdey said the Japanese government was donating 140 buses, the first 80 of which would arrive in April. He said the ...

Mom Kunthea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50101012/japan-donate-140-buses/

CMAC, Golden West renew cooperation agreement

Heng Ratana, president of the Cambodian Mine Action Centre, announced on Tuesday the renewal of a partnership with the Golden West Humanitarian Foundation, which is supported by the US State Department. ...

Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-golden-west-renew-cooperation-agreement

WWF gets EU funds for conservation in Mondulkiri

The European Union will be funding conservation efforts in Mondulkiri’s Srepok and Phnom Prich wildlife sanctuaries to the tune of $3.3 million over the next five years, according to a press release yesterday. The project, Advancing CSOs Capacity to Ensure Sustainability Solutions (ACCESS), will be ...

Yon Sineat
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wwf-gets-eu-funds-conservation-mondulkiri

Japan grants cash for teacher schools

Japan has granted about $28 million in aid for the construction of teacher education colleges in the kingdom. The signing ceremony took place yesterday at the Foreign Affairs Ministry. ...

Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5097270/japan-grants-cash-teacher-schools/

Hun Sen brushes off end of EU election support

The EU’s decision came in response to the government’s crackdown on the Kingdom’s largest opposition party – the Cambodia National Rescue Party – which was summarily dissolved last month, a development that the EU said rendered credible elections impossible. But in a speech to garment workers ...

Ben Sokhean and Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/hun-sen-brushes-end-eu-election-support

NEC claims EU move to pull funding unfair

The National Election Committee’s newly minted press reaction team responded late on Wednesday to the European Union’s decision to cut funding for the 2018 election, claiming it was unfair to judge the elections before they took place. ...

Andrew Nachemson and Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/nec-claims-eu-move-pull-funding-unfair

Temple restoration gets US cash

The United States has provided $350,000 to the World Monuments Fund for the fifth phase of the conservation of Phnom Bakheng temple in Siem Reap province’s Angkor Archaeological Park. ...

Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5095896/temple-restoration-gets-us-cash/

EU pulls NEC support, saying elections ‘cannot be seen as legitimate’ after CNRP dissolution

The European Union announced yesterday that it is suspending all support for Cambodia’s National Election Committee, calling credible elections impossible in light of the government’s dissolution of the ruling party’s only legitimate competitor. ...

Leonie Kijewski and Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/eu-pulls-nec-support-saying-elections-cannot-be-seen-legitimate-after-cnrp

Japan to fund road, three hospitals

Japan has provided more than $300,000 to aid the government in its construction of a road and three hospitals in four provinces. The $329,736 grant was signed at the Japanese embassy yesterday by the Japanese ambassador, the director of the Preah Vihear provincial department of public ...

Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5094166/japan-fund-road-three-hospitals/

Sweden stops new aid

Sweden said yesterday it was stopping new aid for Cambodia, except in education and research, and would no longer support a reform programme after the CNRP was dissolved last week. ...

Cheang Sokha
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5091718/sweden-stops-new-aid/

Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen challenges US to cut all aid to his country

The United States announced on Friday it was ending funding for the election, and promised more “concrete steps”, after the Supreme Court dissolved the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) at the request of the government, on the grounds it was plotting to seize power. ...

ABC News staff
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-19/cambodia-tells-us-to-cut-all-aid/9166672

Hun Sen brushes aside looming US cuts to aid

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday brushed aside any potential concern over the US cutting funding to the country over the recent dissolution of the opposition CNRP prior to next year’s general election. ...

Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5091088/hun-sen-brushes-aside-looming-us-cuts-aid/

US cuts funding to CMAC amid government’s war of words with superpower

The United States has cut funding next year for the Cambodian Mine Action Centre following months of criticism from Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government of America’s war legacy in the Kingdom. ...

Ananth Baliga and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-cuts-funding-cmac-amid-governments-war-words-superpower

Japan gives $3.2 million for school breakfasts

The Japanese government on Friday granted $3.2 million to Cambodia through the World Food Programme to provide meals to students in vulnerable communities. ...

Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5088219/japan-gives-3-2-million-school-breakfasts/

Japan promises to support 2018 polls

Japan has pledged to continue providing aid to Cambodia, including support to prepare for the general election next year. Foreign Affairs Minister Prak Sokhonn yesterday met with Iwao Horii, the Japanese vice-minister of foreign affairs. ...

Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5088011/japan-promises-support-2018-polls/

US funds foes: Top official

A senior Defence Ministry official said yesterday that the United States had provided financial assistance to its own organisations and to NGOs to carry out anti-Cambodian government activities. ...

Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5086991/us-funds-foes-top-official/

Japan builds bridges

Cambodia will today receive about $35 million in aid from the Japanese government to fund the reconstruction of seven bridges in flood-prone areas. ...

Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5084255/japan-builds-bridges/

Japan to aid Institute of Technology

The Japan International Cooperation Agency has signed an agreement with the Institute of Technology of Cambodia to strengthen engineering education and research for industrial development. ...

Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5083803/japan-aid-institute-technology/

New container terminal okayed

The construction of a new container terminal as part of an expansion project of the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAS) will start by early 2019 after Japan signed an agreement to provide a low-interest loan of about $209 million. ...

Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5079196/new-container-terminal-okayed/

Japan donates another US$120,000 to promote child and mother health in Kampong Cham

Government of Japan has donated an additional amount of US$120,000 to promote mother and child health in vulnerable areas of Kampong Cham province. ...

Mom Chandara Soleil
http://www.akp.gov.kh/?p=108246

Japanese expert to study possible airport skytrain routes

Japanese officials will begin studying possible routes for a skytrain connecting Central Market to Phnom Penh International Airport, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Monday after securing a loan agreement with Japan last week. ...

Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/japanese-expert-to-study-possible-airport-skytrain-routes-133624/

Japan Provides US$1.22 Million to ECCC

The Government of Japan has recently disbursed an amount of US$1,221,818 as its 2017 Fiscal Year contribution to the United Nations component of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). ...

Khan Sophirom
http://www.akp.gov.kh/?p=106960

Telecom cable to run from coast to Kampong Cham

State-owned Telecom Cambodia yesterday inaugurated its Greater Mekong Telecom Backbone Network Project, which includes the installation of a 467-kilometre fibre-optic cable connection between Sihanoukville and Kampong Cham, the Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia said in a news release. ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/telecom-cable-run-coast-kampong-cham

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