Int'l Rights Group Says Abuses 'Systematic' in Cambodia
An international rights group yesterday said the situation of human rights in Cambodia was continuing to worsen and accused the government of being “at war” with its own citizens over access to land. In its briefing paper, the Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) also said that Cambodia was ...
UN Says Cambodia 'Food Secure' Thanks to Gov't Policies
While the global economic crisis weakened the ability of Cambodian households to purchase food, the government’s focus on agricultural production and other policies have since helped alleviate food insecurity in the country, the U.n. Conference on Trade and Development said in a new report. Between June ...
Government Pushes Ahead With NGO Law
After nearly two years of silence on its draft nGO Law, the Ministry of Interior on Sunday said it was aiming to have the highly contentious piece of legislation ready for the Council of Ministers early next year and voted on by July. Meas Sarim, deputy ...
Phorn Bopha and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-pushes-ahead-with-ngo-law-48245/
Officials to Map Bunong Land for Communal Titles This Month
Efforts to map the ancestral land of five ethnic Bunong communities that have long sought collective property titles in Mondolkiri province’s Pech Chreada district will finally begin later this month, with funding for the project coming from the U.n., officials said yesterday. “We are working in ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/officials-to-map-bunong-land-for-communal-titles-this-month-9644/
Satellite Shots to Help Settle Deforestation Claims
New satellite images of Oddar MeaNchey proviNce promise to help settle wildly coNflictiNg deforestatioN estimates iNside a 64,000-hectare area, which is set to aNchor the couNtry’s first forest-based carboN tradiNg scheme. With the project poteNtially ready to sell carboN credits to foreigN firms iN a matter ...
Illegal Logging a Challenge for Carbon Trading
A Ministry of Agriculture official said yesterday he was aware of allegations of illegal logging by Royal Cambodian Armed Forces soldiers within protected community forests in Oddar Meanchey province and was looking into it. “I am following this case, but I haven’t received their petition yet,” ...
Council of Ministers Approves Draft Report on Human Rights
The Council of Ministers on Friday approved a draft report on political rights in Cambodia, which made outline efforts being made by the government to reduce poverty and secure land titles for millions across the country, a measure that Cambodia must complete as a signatory ...
(English) Controversial domestic abuse law under government review
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Sonia Kohlbacher
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/controversial-domestic-abuse-law-government-review-117232/
Cambodia Sees Massive Foreign Investment Growth in 2012
Investment in Cambodia from overseas surged by at least 44 percent last year, according to an estimate from the central bank, despite figures suggesting a reduction in the overall flow of foreign currency into Southeast Asian economies. nguon Sokha, director-general of the national Bank of Cambodia, ...
Prey Veng Boy Confirmed as 14th Bird Flu Case This Year
A 3-year-old boy from Prey Veng province’s Kompong Trabek district has contracted avian influenza, a deadly disease that has killed seven children and two men so far this year in the largest outbreak the country has seen, the Ministry of Health said in a statement ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prey-veng-boy-confirmed-as-14th-bird-flu-case-this-year-34758/
(English) New report says garment sector fails to meet UN standards
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Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-report-says-garment-sector-fails-to-meet-un-standards-54191/
(English) New guidelines aim to protect women, children
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Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-guidelines-aim-to-protect-women-children-61320/
UN Secretary General will visit Cambodia in November
UN Secretary-GeNeral BaN Ki-mooN will visit Cambodia iN November to atteNd the 21st ASEAN Summit aNd East Asia Summit, a seNior UN official said here Thursday. NoeleeN Heyzer, UN UNder Secretary-GeNeral aNd Executive Secretary of the EcoNomic aNd Social CommissioN for Asia aNd the Pacific (ESCAP), ...
Rice Harvest to Yield Growth, Official Says
As Cambodia’s rice harvest gets into full swing, the government said yesterday that it expects this year’s crop to exceed last year’s, despite fears that drought would limit the yield. Minister of Agriculture Chan Sarun said that farmers had already harvested more than 3 million tons ...
UN Monitors in Cambodia to Inspect Prisons for Use of Torture
Interior Minister Sar Kheng has ordered all prison, detention and rehabilitation center chiefs to accommodate and give full access to delegates from the U.n.’s Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture (SPT), whose five-day mission to assess the use of torture, cruelty and other inhumane treatment ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-monitors-in-cambodia-to-inspect-prisons-for-use-of-torture-48963/
(English) Grappling with avian flu, Cambodians wait for compensation
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Global Times News Staff
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Cambodia and N-Korea Update Trade Ties
Ouch Borith, Secretary of State for Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and Ri Myong San, Trade Vice-Minister of DPRK, signed an agreement where Cambodia and north Korea agreed to expand bilateral trade, technology, agriculture, industry, investment and the health sector on July ...
Birds and eggs banned from entering Thailand from Cambodia; vehicles sprayed at border points
Top officials from the Livestock Development Department inspected the work of the animal quarantine center in Sa Kaew province, located on the shared border with Cambodia. Officials at the quarantine center, situated at Ban Khlong Luek permanent border point, now implements such measures as spraying ...
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Cambodia, N Korea Look to Forge Trade Ties
North Korea aNd Cambodia have attemptiNg to iNcrease trade betweeN the two NatioNs with Cambodia exportiNg rice aNd North Korea exportiNg kNowledge. North Korea is set to share its kNowledge of small scale hydropower aNd miNiNg expertise iN exchaNge for rice, beaNs aNd corN imports. ...
Cambodia Inaugurates China-funded Road in N Provinces
Cambodia on Wednesday inaugurated a 128-kilometer China-funded national road no. 62 in an effort to boost social and economic development in northern provinces. The road, from Kampong Thom province’s Kampong Svay district to the provincial town of Preah Vihear province, cost about 52 million U.S. dollars ...