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World Bank Halts Funds Over Evictions

ជំនួយ និងការអភិវឌ្ឍ / សេដ្ឋកិច្ច និងពាណិជ្ជកម្ម / ជំនួយអភិវឌ្ឍន៍ពហុភាគី / ធនាគារពិភពលោក
aid / Annette Dixon / Annette Dixon World Bank Country Director / Boeng Kak Lake / Boeng Kak Lake residents

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 ...

July sub-decree lists Preah Vihear grants

More than 45,000 hectares of land in Preah Vihear province were granted to five companies for rubber plantations on July 6 after the government reclassified the land from state public to state private land on the same day, according to the five sub-decrees signed by ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011111552764/National-news/july-sub-decrees-list-preah-vihear-grants.html

Factory Suspends Operations After Complaints Over Fumes

British American Tobacco (Cambodia) Co. (BAT), which produces the cigarette brand ARA, suspended operations at its re-drying plant in Kandal province’s Takhmao commune yesterday, in order to allow time to redesign its air filtration system following repeated complaints about fumes that were allegedly spewing from ...

Journalist Murdered in Ratanakkiri

A Cambodian journalist, who reported on forest crimes in Ratanakkiri province for a little-known newspaper, was found murdered in the trunk of his car yesterday, police said. Hang Serei Odom, 42, a journalist at the Khmer-language Virakchun Khmer Daily, had been missing since Sunday, when he ...

Window closing on AHRD: NGOs

Time is running out to rid the proposed ASEAN Human Rights Declaration of clauses that would restrict peoples’ rights rather than protect and enhance them, civil society groups said yesterday. Nay Vanda, deputy head of the monitoring section of rights group Adhoc, said civil society groups needed more ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012102259330/National-news/window-closing-on-asean-human-rights-declaration.html

Over 600% Growth in UAE Re-Exports to Cambodia in 2011:

The UAE’s non-oil exports to Cambodia have risen by 639 percent from 2010 to 2011, with total Emirati exports to the Asian country going up by 271 percent during which the UAE achieved a surplus in trade between the two countries of around USD 2.3 ...

http://www.wam.org.ae/servlet/Satellite?c=WamLocEnews&cid=1290001004928&p=1135099400124&pagename=WAM%2FWamLocEnews%2FW-T-LEN-FullNews

Organizations Highlight Plight of Child Laborers

One and a half million children still toil as laborers in Cambodia’s fisheries, brick factories, agricultural plantations and construction sites, government officials said yesterday at an event held at Phnom Penh’s Wat Botum ahead of World Day Against Child Labor on Tuesday. The government has set ...

Wage Hike Leads To Rent Fears

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

King to Convene Parliament After Beijing Trip

ការបោះឆ្នោត

King Norodom Sihamoni flew to Beijing on Monday, accompanied by Queen Mother Norodom Monineath for a routine medical checkup, but will return to Cambodia to preside over the opening session of the fifth mandate of the National Assembly, according to a statement released by the ...

 The Cambodia Daily
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/king-to-convene-parliament-after-beijing-trip-39273/

Sar Kheng alleges split within CNRP

ការបោះឆ្នោត / រដ្ឋាភិបាល

Interior Minister Sar Kheng, the ruling party’s chief negotiator with the opposition, has released a statement accusing the Cambodia National Rescue Party of an internal split over what concessions could induce its 55 lawmakers to take their seats at the National Assembly. A statement released on ...

 Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-alleges-split-within-cnrp