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Skills key to gender goals

 A Millennium Development Goal Acceleration Framework action plan presented yesterday by the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) seeks to address Panha’s and other women’s lagging economic opportunities in Cambodia. The plan will help Cambodia achieve targeted Millenium Development Goals by 2015. Though no date of ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012092058826/National-news/education-integral-to-gender-goals.html

Koomkin bank takes Camko City to court

The foreign commercial arbitration case between South Korean Kookmin Bank and World City Asset Management and World City, two real-estate development firms, has been received by the Cambodian Court of Appeals. World City Asset Management received a loan from Kookmin bank in Korea in 2007 to ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012092058819/Business/kookmin-bank-takes-camko-city-to-court.html

Train supply agreement signed

Toll Royal Railway signed an agreement yesterday afternoon with companies that will supply locomotives and parts for Cambodia’s railway network. As a result of the agreement, international tenders will be called in the coming months for the procurement of up to four new 2,000-horsepower locomotives and ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012092058822/Business/train-supply-agreement-signed.html

Thousands of Families Evacuated Due to Floods

More than 3,100 families have now been evacuated from their homes as flooding spreads in Banteay Meanchey province, the deputy head of the National Committee for Disaster Managment (NCDM) said yesterday. About 3,000 of those families have been evacuated from Poipet City alone, and another 148 ...

ADB presents progress on its flood rehabilitation project

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is pushing forward with the US$67 million flood reconstruction project aimed at rebuilding roads,bridges and irrigation systems hit by the devastating high waters of 2011, improving the nation’s infrastructure and providing livelihoods to people in six severely affected provinces, according ...

http://etmcambodia.com

Vietnamese Arrested With Illegal Wood Off Coast

Four Vietnamese nationals were arrested off the coast of Preah Sihanouk province Tuesday for allegedly smuggling illegally cut wood from the neighboring province of Koh Kong, officials said yesterday. Sak Sovann, crime unit chief for the Interior Ministry’s maritime border police department, said the four men ...

'Threats' follow Prey Lang patrol

The Prey Lang community patrol network faced threats from illegal loggers after reporting the loggers’ names to authorities, along with the discovery of more than 120 cubic metres of illegally felled timber and seven chainsaws, a patrol representative said yesterday. Chheang Vuthy, a community representative from Kampong ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012092058818/National-news/illegal-loggers-threaten-prey-lang-patrol.html

Anti-Eviction Activists Ask EU, World Bank for Help

Residents of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak and Borei Keila communities delivered petitions to the offices of the European Union and World Bank yesterday in their ongoing attempts to enlist Cambodia’s aid donors in their efforts to have jailed anti-eviction activists released from Prey Sar prison. ...

Experts say ASEAN connectivity needs private sector involvemnt

While the planned launch of the ASEAN Economic Community is fast approaching, establishing good connectivity between member states to ensure a free flow of goods and services is a real challenge and needs more involvement from the private sector. That was the message delivered by Cambodian Foreign ...

http://etmcambodia.com

B Kak duo's reins loosened

Sao Sareoun and Ly Chanary, the two land-rights activists arrested outside the three-hour trial of 13 women from Boeung Kak lake in May, hope an easing of bail conditions is a sign authorities are planning to drop charges against them. The Court of Appeal yesterday ruled ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012092058824/National-news/court-eases-bail-conditions-for-b-kak-duo.html

Prey Long Forest Patrol Ends With Huge Illegal Wood Haul

The Prey Long People’s Network yesterday said it found 121 cubic meters of cut wood and seven chainsaws belonging to illegal loggers after a coordinated patrol across four provinces that was prematurely aborted due to heavy rains. In a statement, the community group said it discovered ...

Flooding claims three lives

Three people have drowned and more than 3,000 have been evacuated since flash flooding struck a trio of provinces late last week. Yesterday, the Cambodian Red Cross said it was mobilising aid and planned to have packages of rice, canned fish, noodles and other materials in ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012092058817/National-news/three-lives-swept-away-by-flash-flood.html

Trial may shed light on Wutty's death

The man accused of shooting the man who shot environmental activist Chut Wutty last April had been summoned to the Koh Kong Provincial Court to stand trial next month on charges of unintentional homicide, a court official said yesterday. According to deputy prosecutor Srey Mak Ny, ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012092058829/National-news/trial-held-for-environmental-activist-killers-killer.html

Floods Force Evacuations in Northeast

Hundreds of families in Banteay Meanchey province were evacuated from their homes yesterday due to severe flooding, with authorities warning that more than 1,000 additional families may have to be rescued if torrential rains continue as expected over the course of next week. The rains that ...

Bad weather affects border trade, seafood prices

Thailand’s border trade at Chanthaburi has dropped by half due to the heavy rain in many eastern provinces, while erratic changes of weather in the southern provinces has caused the increased price of seafood. Thai-Cambodian Business and Tourism Association vice chairman Sombat Juengtrakul said that ...

http://www.pattayamail.com/business/bad-weather-affects-border-trade-seafood-prices-16869

Heineken nears Tiger beer deal after truce with rival

Dutch brewer Heineken NV took a major step towards winning control of the Tiger beer brand and an Asian brewing network on Wednesday after a Thai rival accepted the deal When F&N’s board accepted Heineken’s improved offer of S$53 per APB share, the deal included a ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/19/asiapacificbreweries-offer-heineken-idUSL4E8KI5D320120919

Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam cooperate in developing tourism

Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam, which form the Mekong Sub-Region agreed last week in Ho Chi Minh City to implement a single visa among themselves. Thailand could even join the scheme At a conference aimed at promoting tourism in the region, ministers of tourism from Cambodia, ...

http://www.traveldailynews.asia/news/article/50439/cambodia-laos-myanmar-and-vietnam

FRANCE 24 now on DTT in Cambodia

FRANCE 24 has concluded a new distribution agreement in Cambodia and launched on ONE TV’s Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) offer. FRANCE 24, French version, is now available 24/7 on channel 19 of the ONE TV basic offer, for 3 dollars per month (2,29 Euros). FRANCE 24 is ...

http://www.mediamughals.com/News/1/1/Article/10692/FRANCE_24_now_on_DTT_in_Cambodia.htm

Watch TV while you drive

A new marketing strategy has reached Phnom Penh’s streets, enabling companies to introduce their products on a moving TV screen. New Color Communications, a company started by Kim Seong Bomb, instals TV screens on the back of tuk-tuks that show a series of one-minute advertisement clips. ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012091958784/Business/tuk-tuk-tv-to-get-commercials.html

Garment worker missing for nine days

On September 10, Thol Vin, 18, left for her job at a garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district, just like any other day. She had been working there for more than two years until she disappeared unexpectedly during her lunch break. On Friday, Thol and ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012091958791/National-news/garment-worker-missing-for-nine-days.html

Chinese Delegates Visit Environment Minister, Officials

A Chinese parliamentary delegation arrived in Phnom Penh yesterday to hold talks with various Cambodian officials including the environment minister, Chinese state media reported. The delegation from the National People’s Congress is headed by Huang Xianzhong, vice chairman of the Environment Protection and Resource Conservation Committee and a ...

Journalist and forestry officer released in deal

A local journalist and a forestry officer who were arrested by military police forces in Kratie province last week for beating a man and firing a gun into the air were released on Monday as part of a compromise between the victim and his attackers. Srey ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012091958792/National-news/journalist-and-forestry-officer-released-in-deal.html

Luxury Hotel Resort Threatens Bokor Mountain's Biodiversity

An ongoing project to build hotels, luxury villas and a casino on Kampot province’s Bokor Mountain is a threat to the area’s unique animal and plant species, according to two new studies. Local conglomerate Sokimex Group has been granted property development rights on the entire mountain, ...

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