Aid and development
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Investment by China Doubles In First Half
- 7 September 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Chinese aid / Economy and commerce / Non-DAC members
- bridges / Cambodian Economic Association / Cambodian Investment Board / Chan Sophal / Chinese aid / Dams / Emerging Markets Investments / Erdos Hong Jun Investment Co / highways / Joshua Morris / Laos / manufacturing / Phnom Penh / Shukaku Inc / South Korean aid / US
Cambodia approved $1.2 billion in investments from China in the first six months of the year, a 104 percent increase in the amount of Chinese money set to flood into the economy compared to the same period last year, the Cambodian Investment Board said. The ...
China's investment in Cambodia reaches 8.8 bln USD
- 6 September 2011
- Xinhua News
- Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Chinese aid / Economy and commerce / Industries / Non-DAC members / Tourism
- Agro-business company / banking / Cambodia / CDC / CDC’s Secretary General / Chinese aid / Council for the Development of Cambodia / Europe / finance / Garment Industry / hydro-power dams / Infrastructure development / Investment / Japanese aid / Malaysian aid / Mineral Resources / Sok Chenda Sophea / South Korean aid / Taiwan / Tourism / United States aid
PHNOM PENH– Cambodia has received 8.8 billion U.S. dollars of investments from China from 1994 to July 2011, making China the leading country in the investments in the country, according to the reports from the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) on Tuesday. The ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-09/06/c_131104903.htm
Land rights acrimony in AusAID Asian project
- 6 September 2011
- The Australian
- Aid and development / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Australian aid / Bilateral development assistance / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economy and commerce / Infrastructure / Land / Multilateral development assistance / Rail / Transport infrastructure and facilities
- Asian Development Bank (ADB) / AusAid / Bridges Across Borders Cambodia / Cambodian Government / concessional loans / Department of Foreign Affairs / development project / Ee Sarom / Land rights / NGO Forum / rail system / Resettlement / Richard Moore / rights organizations / Sahmakum Teang Tnaut / STT / STT Program Co-ordinator
A TAXPAYER-FUNDED development project is mired in controversy after the Cambodian government launched a crackdown against land rights organisations critical of the compulsory resettlement of families. The Cambodian government has cautioned a small group of foreign organisations against stirring up unrest among those being forced off ...
Donors Asked to Freeze Aid Over NGO Law
- 27 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Human rights / Japanese aid / Law and judiciary / Social development
- Bridges Acrosss Borders Cambodia / Cambodia / Council of Ministers / EU / Financial reports / Flynn Fuller / Foreign Ministers / Freedom House / George Boden / Global Witness / Government / Human Rights Watch / Interior Ministry / Japanese aid / NGO Forum / NGO law / Nuth Sa An / Phay Sophan / Phil Robertson / Sean McIntosh / STT / US / US Agency for International Development / US Embassy
Ten international organizations including Freedom House, Human Rights Watch, and Global Witness have urged dozens of foreign ministers to consider freezing aid to Cambodia if the government passes the current draft of its proposed NGO law. In a letter sent Wednesday to 36 foreign ministers ...
Chasing China’s rice import potential
- 25 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Chinese aid / Economy and commerce / Non-DAC members
- Agricultural Development International Country Manager Tim Purcell / Agriculture Development International / Angkor Rice / assistant chief executive Soma Group / Baitong Rice Export Company / CEDAC / CEDAC president Yang Saing / Centre d'Etude et de Développement Agricole Cambodgien / Chan Sarun / China National Cereal Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation / Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Jian / COFCO / Khem Chenda / Kith Chankrisna / Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries / Ministry of Commerce / Phou Puy / president of the Federation of Rice Millers Associations / rice / Sinograin / TTY Group / Yunnan Provincial Overseas Investment Company
China National Cereal, Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO) is the latest mainland Chinese company to sign a deal to export Cambodian rice. COFCO is one of a number of Chinese companies that have signed similar deals with their Cambodian counterparts, but direct rice exports to China ...
China Inks Agreement to Buy One Million Ton of Cassava Product from Cambodia
- 25 August 2011
- The Southeast Asia Weekly
- Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Biofuel crops / Chinese aid / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Non-DAC members / Rubber
- Agro-business company / bilateral cooperation / Cai Yong Feng / Cambodia / Cambodian Government / Cassava / CEO of Le Ye Rubber / China National Food Industry (Group) / Chinese aid / Development / Economic growth / ethanol factory / Exports / Farmers / foreign investment / Gao Hong Zhi / GDP / inspection / Kandal Province / Kit Seng / Le Ye Rubber / Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries / MOU / President of China National Food Industry Group / processing / rice / South Korean aid / storage / surplus / Thailand / Transportation
The China National Food Industry (Group) and Cambodia’s Le Ye Rubber on August 13th signed a Memorandum of Understanding on a cooperation agreement to acquire one million cassava product exports from Cambodia to China Cai Yong Feng [President of China National Food Industry Group] said: ...
China, Cambodia Ink 29 Agreements for Economic and Trade Ties
- 25 August 2011
- The Southeast Asia Weekly
- Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Chinese aid / Economy and commerce / Non-DAC members
- Agro-business company / bilateral trade / Cambodia / Cambodian Government / CamGSM / Chan Carun / Chen Jian / Chen Rui / China National Development Bank / China Road and Bridge Company / China Yunna Provincial Oversees Investment / Chinese aid / Chinese Communist Party / CIDG / COFCO Limited / concessional loans / construction / consultant contracts / Development / Donation Equipment for the Royal Gendarmerie of Cambodia / Donation of Goods for Police / Eang Sophalet / Economic growth / Electric Power Projects / Export-Import Bank of China / Exports / Framwork Agreement / grant aids / Guangdong Wan An Consultant Company / Huawei Technologies / Imports / industry / Infrastructure / Inner Mongolia Erdos Hongjun Investment / interest-free loans / International Investment Development Group / irrigation system / joint venture contracts / Keat Chhon / Kith Ment / Lau Mingkan / Li Ruogu / loans / Minister of Agriculture Forestry and Fishery / Ministry of Public Works and Transport / Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology / MOU / National Road No. 76 / One-China Policy / Prek Kdam Bridge / Prek Tamak Bridge / President of Exim Bank / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Restoration and Conservation Project of Takeo Temple of Cambodia / rice / Rice Processing Plant Project / Rice Trade Cooperation / road restoration / Sao Sokha / Satallite Project / Sekong Bridge / Sok Puthyvuth / SOMA group / trade volume / Vaico Irrigation Development Project / Vice Minister of Commerce / Wang Linzxiang / water resource / Z-9 helicopters / Zhou Kang
The relations between People’s Republic of China and Cambodia have become closer in the way of culture, in which China is the most important strategic development partner in improving Cambodia’s economic growth through both financial and technical grant aids,” Mr. Eang Sophalet, assistant to Samdech ...
Exports Increase 45.9% in First Six Months
- 24 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economy and commerce / European Union aid
- Duty-Free / European Union aid / Exports / Garment factories / garments / Imports / Japanese aid / Kandal Province / Malaysian aid / manufacturers / Ministry of Commerce / Oil prices / production costs / Profits / regional trade partners / shoes / Singapore / South Korean aid / Sung Mang / Thailand / United States aid / Winner Knitting Garment Factory
Cambodian exports increased 45.9 percent to $2.15 billion in the first six months of the year compared to the same period in 2010, according to figures released by the Ministry of Commerce yesterday. Of the total value of exports, 80 percent, or $1.74 billion, were ...
Japan Helps Cambodia Despite Difficulties
- 24 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economy and commerce / Japanese aid
- agriculture sector / aid / Cambodia / Chinese aid / construction / Department of Geo-Resources and Geotechnical Engineering of the Institute of Technology of Cambodia / Deputy Prime Minister / Economic Development / education equipment / Farmer Water User Communities / Farmer Water User Groups / Farmers / fertilizers / flooding / Foreign Affairs Minister / foreign companies / heavy equipment / Hor Namhong / human resources / industry / irrigation / Japanese aid / Japanese Ambassador / Japanese Embassy / Japanese Government / Kompong Cham / Kuroki Masafumi / Kuwait / Lim Kean Hor / loans / mining / Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation / Minister of Water Resource and Meteorology / Ministry of Water Resource / oil / Preah Vihear / Prey Veng / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Production / rice cultivation / rice exports / Rice Policy / rice production / soft loan / Stung Sen Dam and Irrigation Project / Svay Rieng / tourism zones / Waiko River Irrigation Project / Water Expansion Policy / West Tonle Sap / West Tonle Sap Irrigation and Drainage Improvement
Japan on August 15th loaned Cambodia a package of US$ 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
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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 ...
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
- agricultural industry / agricultural produce / Agro-business company / aid / Beijing / Boeung Kak Lake / Cambodia / Cambodian resources / CamGSM / Chen Jian / Chinese companies / Chinese National Development and Reform Commission / Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce / construction / defense / Development / Eang Sophalleth / energy / environmental destruction / Erdo Hongjun Investment Company / exportation / Huawei / Hun Sen’s spokesman / Investment / investment groups / investments / irrigation / Keat Chhon / Kith Meng / Lao Meng Khin / Lao Mong Hay / Leopard Capital / memorandums / mining / Mining projects / Ministry of Economy and Finance / MOU / oil-rich territory / One-China Policy / Phnom Penh / Politburo Standing Committee / power plant projects / Prime Minister Hun Sen / regional trade / regulation / rice exports / roads / Royal Group / Satellite / Scott Lewis / South China Sea / Taiwan / telecommunications / Z-9 helicopters / Zhou Yongkang
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
- agriculture laboratory / bauxite mines / business deals / Cam GSM / Cambodia / Cambodia International Investment Development Group / Cambodian Government / Chhum Sucheat / China’s Political Bureau / Chinese aid / Chinese Communist Party / coal / Defense Ministry / Defense Ministry spokesman / foreign investors / Huawei Technologies / Inner Mongolia Erdo Hongjun / Kith Meng / loans / military assistance / military deals / military helicopters / Ministry of Finance / mobile telecommunications / mondolkiri / Phnom Penh / power plant / Prime Minister Hun Sen / RCAF / rice mills / road renovations / Royal Group / satellites / UI Navy / US Embassy / wikileaks / Z-9s / Zhou Yongkang
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 ...
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
- aid / Cambodian Government / Council of Ministers / Deputy Prime Minister / Ek Tha / Heritage Promotion Bureau / International Coordination Committee / International Documentation Center / international organizations / Korean Language / Korean Tourism / Mr. Park Yung Keun / Office of the Council of Ministers / Preah Pitou Temple / researchers / restoration projects / roads / Siem Reap / Sok An / South Korean aid / UNESCO / World Heritage Committee / World Heritage Site
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 ...
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
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“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
Japanese firm plans Cambodian fund for later this year
- 6 July 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economy and commerce / Japanese aid
- Asset Design / Cambodia / Chinam Sumitomo Trust and Banking / CSX / Equities fund / Fund / Initial Public Offerings / IPOs / Japanese aid / Max Takahashi / Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority / Regulations / Sihanoukville Autonomous Port / Stock Exchange / Telecom Cambodia
Japanese fund manager Asset Design plans to launch a Cambodian equities fund in late 2011. The fund would target large returns after the Kingdom opened its stock exchange this month, an Asset Design executive said yesterday. Asset Design expected the scale of the fund to ...
Bank Says No Railway Evictee To Be Left Behind
- 5 July 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Aid and development / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Australian aid / Bilateral development assistance / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economy and commerce / Infrastructure / Multilateral development assistance / Rail / Transport infrastructure and facilities
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The Asian Development Bank announced yesterday that the organizations behind the rehabilitation of Cambodia’s railways, including the government and the Australian development agency, have jointly pledged to address the complaints of people facing eviction from dwellings across the rail lines. The Australian government provided ...