ជំនួយអភិវឌ្ឍន៍ទ្វេភាគី
សមាជិកគណៈកម្មាធិការជំនួយអភិវឌ្ឍន៍ ឌីអេស៊ី (DAC)
Cambodian, U.S. senior officials meet to promote bilateral ties
Cambodian and U.S. senior officials met here on Monday to further promote bilateral ties and cooperation. The meeting was made between Ouch Borith, secretary of state at the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Scot Marciel, visiting principal deputy assistant to the United States Secretary of ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-11/04/c_132858319.htm
Database will assist farmers
Rural farmers will soon be able to access farming information via experts under an initiative of the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD). The project, with Bangladesh-based Grameen-Intel, encourages local entrepreneurs to first reach out to small farmers and collect data about crops. This is then ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/database-will-assist-farmers
US envoy calls for party talks
Peaceful and constructive dialogue will enable the ruling and opposition parties to “overcome the current impasse”, US ambassador to Cambodia William Todd has said. In a frank column in local media on Sunday, linked to from the US embassy in Phnom Penh’s website, Todd said the ...
Meas Sokchea and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-envoy-calls-party-talks
Japan auto parts firm seeks plant in PPSEZ
Auto parts manufacturer Denso Cambodia, which has rented space in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ) since July, will expand operations by building its own factory, according to a company representative. Administrative manager Seng Chanthy said yesterday that the factory will cover 10 hectares and ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/japan-auto-parts-firm-seeks-plant-ppsez
Park's own Cleveland clinic
As two volunteers guided a man unsteady on his feet into a medical tent on the second day of a three-day pro-opposition demonstration at Freedom Park yesterday, Chan Bun Han instructed another to get the patient a bottle of water after they laid him on ...
Sean Teehan, P.6
http://www.phnompenhpost.com
Cambodian flood damage estimates top $1 bil.
The vice president of Cambodia’s National Committee for Disaster Management said Thursday damage from monsoon-season flooding is now estimated to have topped $1 billion. Nhim Vanda, who received $320,000 in flood-relief assistance from Japan on Wednesday, said the estimate for this year’s floods affecting more than ...
ជប៉ុនផ្ដល់ជំនួយ ៩ លានដុល្លាអាមេរិកសម្រាប់ការបោសសម្អាតគ្រាប់មីននៅខេត្តបាត់ដំបង
យោងតាមមន្ត្រីរដ្ឋាភិបាល កាលពីថ្ងៃពុធ បានឱ្យដឹងថា រដ្ឋាភិបាលជប៉ុននឹងផ្ដល់ជំនួយជាទឹកប្រាក់ប្រហែល ៩,១៣ លានដុល្លាអាមេរិក ទៅមជ្ឈមណ្ឌលសកម្មភាពកំចាត់មីនកម្ពុជា (ស៊ីម៉ាក់) ដើម្បីបន្តការបោសសម្អាតមីននៅក្នុងស្រុកបវែ ...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/japan-pledges-9m-to-demining-in-battambang-45798/
De Castle Royal construction moves ahead at a princely pace
Even as political instability led to a drop in Phnom Penh’s housing market over the last few months, construction and sales of De Castle Royal steamed ahead in the third quarter. Now fully over the fallout from the 2008 global financial crisis, a recent $28 million ...
Hin Pisei
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/de-castle-royal-construction-moves-ahead-princely-pace
Petition for Investigation Into Sugar Trade Gains Support
More than 55,000 people have joined an online petition set up by a pair of French nongovernment groups urging the European Union (E.U.) to immediately launch an investigation into local sugar plantations accused of illegally evicting hundreds of Cambodian families. At the center of the dispute ...
Zsombor Peter and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/petition-for-investigation-into-sugar-trade-gains-support-45704/
Thailand, Japan Donate to Flood Relief Efforts
The governments of Japan and Thailand as well as the Thai community in Cambodia have decided to donate goods and cash totaling about $520,000 to flood relief in Cambodia, officials said Tuesday. The Japanese government will donate about $400,000 in an official ceremony this morning at ...
Denise Hruby and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thailand-japan-donate-to-flood-relief-efforts-45714/
KOICA chief agrees with Cambodian leader to widen development assistance
The chief of South Korea’s official development assistance (ODA) body agreed with the Cambodian prime minister on Tuesday to further widen grant aid programs to the Southeast Asian country. The grant aid programs were discussed in a meeting between Prime Minister Hun Sen and the Korea ...
Park Bo-ram
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2013/10/22/8/0301000000AEN20131022011600315F.html
US Senator Calls for Suspension of Military Aid to Cambodia
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham last week submitted a resolution to the U.S. Committee on Foreign Relations requesting the suspension of U.S. military assistance to Cambodia until an independent investigation into July’s national election is conducted. The resolution was submitted on Wednesday to express “the sense of ...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/us-senator-calls-for-suspension-of-military-aid-to-cambodia-45672/
US senator wants military aid tied to election probe
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has scored a late political victory in his whirlwind two-week tour to Europe and the United States to try and ramp up international pressure on the newly formed Cambodian government ahead of his return Tuesday. Last Wednesday, a prominent Republican Party senator, ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-senator-wants-military-aid-tied-election-probe
Japan provides emergency aid to Cambodia’s flood victims
in response to the flood disaster in Cambodia, the Government of Japan on Monday decided to provide emergency relief goods such as generator, water purifiers etc worth 32 million yen (approximately 320,000 US dollars) to the Kingdom of Cambodia through the Japan International Cooperation Agency ...
The Southeast Asia Weekly News Staff
http://www.thesoutheastasiaweekly.com/?p=7988
Land-titling process ‘urgent’, Oxfam says
Accelerating the mapping and titling of rural farmland should be an “urgent” priority of the government and civil society, particularly when it comes to protecting indigenous peoples’ and women’s rights, Oxfam representatives said yesterday. The remarks followed the release of an EU-funded survey of rural communities’ ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-titling-process-%E2%80%98urgent%E2%80%99-oxfam-says
International Support Growing for Cambodian Polls Probe: Sam Rainsy
growing behind his party’s call for an independent probe into claims of fraud and other irregularities in the country’s recent elections. Speaking in Washington following his visit to Europe, Sam Rainsy said that governments and parliamentarians in the European Union, the United States and several other ...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/probe-10172013183118.html
France, Australia Congratulate Hun Sen on Win
France and Australia have congratulated Prime Minister Hun Sen on his official re-election in July’s contested vote, with their endorsement coming as opposition leader Sam Rainsy visits Europe urging donors to suspend ties with the new government. While many other countries—mostly in Asia—were quick to congratulate ...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/france-australia-congratulate-hun-sen-on-win-45001/
Key donors endorse election
The governments of Australia and France have congratulated Prime Minister Hun Sen on his election victory, becoming the first key Western donors to do so since the official election results were released on September 8. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also offered his congratulations to Hun Sen ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/key-donors-endorse-election
Cambodia to establish first civil aviation school
Cambodia planned to set up the first ever Civil Aviation Training Center with South Korean assistance in order to boost development of air transport industry and tourism, a spokesman said Saturday. “South Korea agreed to provide 10.1 million U.S. dollars in grant aid to Cambodia for ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-10/12/c_132793377.htm
Cambodia’s Manufacturers Shift to Higher-Value Clothing
Cambodia’s factories are moving away from producing the most basic clothing items and diversifying to manufacture more intricate products for international buyers. As the garment sector has grown over the past decade, most garment factories have stuck to producing items such as T-shirts and jeans due ...
Dene-Hern Chen
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/cambodias-manufacturers-shift-to-higher-value-clothing-44792/
Rainsy’s reasoning questioned
While the opposition party steps up its efforts to persuade the international community to cut ties with a government it says was formed by a “constitutional coup”, lawyers and analysts yesterday questioned whether the party’s reasoning has any legal basis. In a letter sent to the ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy%E2%80%99s-reasoning-questioned
CPP Readies for One-Party Vote On Assembly Committees
Senior CPP members selected nominees for the National Assembly’s nine permanent committees behind closed doors on Tuesday, while the opposition CNRP, which has continued to boycott the Assembly over July’s disputed election, urged some of Cambodia’s foreign donors to immediately sever ties with the government ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cpp-readies-for-one-party-vote-on-assembly-committees-44695/
Hun Sen leaves for ASEAN Summits in Brunei
Prime Minister Hun Sen left Monday to attend the 23rd ASEAN summit as well as other related meetings in Brunei, said Srey Thamrong, a minister attached to Hun Sen. The summits held from October 9-10 will include the 23rd ASEAN Summit, 16th ASEAN-Japan Summit, 16th ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NWZjNjg3OWRkNDA
Sam Rainsy To Ask Western Nations Not to Recognize Current Government
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy says he is preparing for a trip to the United States and Europe, to urge Western countries not to recognize the newly formed government led by Prime Minister Hun Sen. Sam Rainsy registered to vote on Monday, making him eligible to vote ...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/sam-rainsy-to-ask-western-nations-not-to-recognize-current-cambodian-government/1764857.html