PM Hun Sen lavishes praise on China
In his first public speech following this week’s ASEAN summit, Prime Minister Hun Sen offered lavish praise for China’s financial largesse and congratulations for its newly appointed Communist Party heads.
Speaking to thousands of villagers during a ceremony to inaugurate National Road 8 in Prey
Corruption? Not on foreign projects: PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen lashed out at unnamed critics yesterday, saying there was no corruption in large-scale development projects backed by foreign aid.
“[For example] as for the Neak Leung bridge or Kizuna bridge Japan runs its bids in Tokyo. Therefore, only Japanese companies have the
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Businesses Told to Close for 8 Days for King Father's Funeral
Business owners in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district yesterday said they will not follow a government directive to close their businesses for eight days in observance of the second mourning period for the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk.
The order, which was distributed on Sunday to
Cambodia's exports to U.S. down 1 pct in 11 months last year
Cambodia exported products in equivalent to 2.49 billion U.S. dollars to the United States in the first eleven months of 2012, down 1 percent from 2.52 billion U.S. dollars it exported at the same period a year earlier, the report of the U.S. Department of
Local brokers still manipulate prices: farmers
Farmers have expressed concern over local brokers’ manipulation of the market during harvest season, reducing buying prices for farmers who have no access to actual market rates.
While some farmers have already completed their harvests, others have left their fields barren, fearing brokers will reduce
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More workers rally at ongoing Naga strike
bout 100 chefs and kitchen staff walked off the job at the capital’s NagaWorld casino yesterday as a workers’ strike at the luxury entertainment venue entered its fifth day.
More than 1,000 protesters — the majority of the casino’s workers — rallied outside the front entrance
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Cambodian Government Agrees In Principle to Risda Opening Rubber Estates
The Cambodian Government has agreed in principle with Rubber Industry Smallholders’ Development Authority (RISDA) to open 20,000 hectares of rubber estates in that country on a joint venture basis, its Chairman Tan Abdul Tamby said.
The former Melka chief minister said the Federal Government through the
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Villagers getting ready for DM Group hearing
The Ratanakkiri Provincial Court has issued letters to 11 ethnic Tampuon villagers from the province’s Lumphat district, instructing them to prepare for a hearing over
accusations of using violence on the property of rubber company DM Group.
DM Group first began setting up rubber plantations in
Laos, Cambodia aim to address illegal border issues
Illegal border movements, illegal logging, drug trafficking, illegal fishing and unofficial cross border trade are among the issues being confronted by Laos and Cambodia along their shared border at the moment.
The report was made during a meeting held between Champassak provincial authorities from Laos and
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Abused women’s support services to expand
Helping women find better employment opportunities is key to ensuring they feel able to report rape and sexual abuse, government and civil society representatives said yesterday.
Although Cambodian courts are prosecuting an increasing number of cases involving violence against women, economic concerns stop many from reporting
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Renewable energy course powers up
Instructors at the Royal University of Phnom Penh have just finished the first academic year of a landmark physics course.
Launched in the fall of 2012, “Renewable Energy and Applications” aims to train students so they can seek internships and jobs in one of Cambodia’s fastest-growing
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Cambodia’s garment exports grow 17.5% in Jan-March’13
The exports of garments and textiles from Cambodia have grown by 17.5 percent year-on-year to reach US$ 1.34 billion during the first three months of the current year, data released by the Ministry of Commerce shows.
Last year, Cambodia exported apparels worth US$ 4.61 billion,
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Nike calls for probe on Cambodian police clash with garment workers
Nike expressed “deep concerns” over the May 27 incident at the Sabrina Cambodia Garment Manufacturing plant outside Phnom Penh, in a letters to Cambodia’s commerce and labour ministers released late Friday in the United States.
Following the violence, eight workers and trade union members were
Pailin gets $4m feed processing warehouse
Chea Kea, owner of the Daimond Crown casino on the border with Thailand in Pailin province, is investing in a $4 million feed processing warehouse that will also be used to store commodities and house farm animals.
Construction on the warehouse, which is expected to
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China currency deals surge
As trade activity between Cambodia and China intensifies, banks are seeing an increase in deals transacted in yuan, the Chinese currency.
Operating in Cambodia since 2010, Bank of China’s Phnom Penh Branch has been trying to promote business transactions in yuan, and has seen a significant
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Cambodian buses in Saigon to be strictly controlled
In the petition to the National Road Administration, Deputy Director of the HCM City Department of Transportation – Mr. Duong Hong Thanh, reported that at the time the Vietnam-Cambodia agreement on land transportation took effect, only 40 cars of each country were allowed to cross
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Families Say Land Was Taken
Nearly 90 representatives of 137 families in Battambang province, some of whom include former Khmer Rouge cadres, protested for a second day in Phnom Penh yesterday, claiming authorities had seized land they had held since the late 1990s.
Ul Yan who was among protesters at Butom
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In carbon, gains for agriculture
Paying Cambodian farmers to capture carbon by not removing mulch during planting and harvesting would help support climate change mitigation, reduce soil deterioration and return higher yields in the long term, say leading agriculture experts.
Speaking at a conference in Phnom Penh last Friday, Professor Rattan
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Show Licences or ship out, sand dredgers told
Phnom Penh municipal officials have ordered owners of eight sand-dredging companies that continued work despite a mandated moratorium to halt operations and show proof of their licences or shut down for good.
On Saturday, the municipality informed the owners, whose names they declined to release, that
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Cambodians traveling abroad increased by 11.9 percent
There were 509,050 Cambodians traveling abroad in the first seven months of 2013, an increase of 11.9 percent compared to the 455,017 travelers over the same period last year, according to a report by the Ministry of Tourism.
Most of them visited Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
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