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Six Cambodian women to be returned from China
Six Cambodian women trafficked to China to become brides and seven Cambodian victims of labor exploitation in Saudi Arabia will be repatriated by the end of the month, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Monday. ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/six-cambodian-women-to-be-returned-from-china-68087/
Cambodian PM, businessmen head to Nanning for 11th ASEAN-China Expo
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, accompanied by businesspeople and senior officials, flew to Nanning City of southwest China’s Guangxi province on Monday to attend the 11th ASEAN-China Expo. Senior officials accompanying the prime minister included Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol, Governor of the National Bank of Cambodia Chea ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-09/15/c_133643051.htm
Cambodia arrests 11 in China dam protest
Authorities in western Cambodia have detained 11 activists after they tried to stop further studies for a planned Chinese-built dam. About 30 local villagers and environmental activists in the Areng Valley went to the area Monday to protect barricades they had erected earlier this year to ...
Kimseng Men
http://www.voanews.com/content/cambodia-arrests-11-in-china-dam-protest/2450828.html
Shangdong Air expands to Cambodia
China’s Shandong Airlines is planning to launch direct flights between Shandong province and Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodia’s State Secretariat for Civil Aviation spokesman, Sin Chansereyvutha, told local media that the flights are pending approval from the SSCA. If approval is granted in time, the airline will link ...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2014/09/shangdong-air-expands-to-cambodia/
China to deliver 200 ambulances to Cambodia for health sector development
The Chinese government provided 200 sets of ambulances to the Cambodian Ministry of Health on Friday to contribute to the development of health sector. Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo signed to deliver the ambulances to Cambodian Minister of Health Mam Bunheng. ...
People's Daily Online News Staff
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/n/2014/0912/c90883-8782114.html
Cambodia receives 2.54 mln foreign tourists in 7 months, up 4.5 pct
Cambodia had attracted some 2. 54 million international visitors in the first seven months of 2014, up 4.5 percent compared to the same period last year, the latest tourism report showed Friday. Kong Sopheareak, chief of the Tourism Ministry’s Statistics and Planning Department, said Vietnam, China, ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=240762
China dam discharges in Mekong
A large-scale hydropower dam in China began releasing a deluge of water from its overfilling reservoir on Friday, leaving downstream neighbours to fear imminent inundation. ...
Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/china-dam-discharges-mekong
Chinese human resources vice-minister visits Cambodia to strengthen ties
Xin Changxing, vice minister of the Chinese Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, met here Monday with Ith Samheng, Cambodian minister of labor and vocational training, to discuss ways to further enhance relations and cooperation in labor sector between the two countries. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-09/08/c_133628311.htm
Cambodian deputy PM says strategic partnership with China creates more opportunities for businesses
The Comprehensive Strategic Partnership of Cooperation between Cambodia and China has been providing “more favourable conditions” for economic, trade and investment ties between the two countries, Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Cabinet Minister Sok An said on Sunday. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-09/07/c_126962873.htm
Cambodia hails China's active role in its peace, development
China had played an active role in seeking peace for Cambodia in the past and has greatly contributed to the country’s socio-economic development at the present, a senior Cambodian official said Saturday. “In the past, when Cambodia had chronic wars, China had actively contributed to seeking ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-09/06/c_133625898.htm
Cambodia exports 233,859 tons of rice in january-august 2014; down about 1% from last year
Cambodia exported about 233,859 tons of rice in January-August 2014, down about 1.2% from about 236,728 tons rice exported in the same period last year, according to data from the Secretariat of One Window Service for Rice Export Formality (SOWS-REF). Cambodia exported about 379,856 tons rice in all ...
Oryza News Staff
http://www.oryza.com/news/rice-news/cambodia-exports-233859-tons-rice-january-august-2014-down-about-1-last-year
China provides forestry equipment to Cambodia
The Chinese government has provided forestry equipment in equivalent to 4.1 million yuan (667, 200 U.S. dollars) to Cambodia for protecting and developing forest sector, officials said. ...
ASEAN-China Center News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2014-09/03/c_133617815.htm
More China brides aided
Two more Cambodian women who were trafficked to China as brides are being assisted by officials at the Kingdom’s embassy in Beijing and will soon be repatriated, the government said yesterday. ...
Sen David
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/more-china-brides-aided
Stranded migrants on their way home
To get his teenage daughter and niece on a plane yesterday after 10 months of alleged abuse and forced marriages in China, Kim Vicheat* said he had to bury his family in debt because the Cambodian consulate refused to fund their repatriation. The two 19-year-olds told The ...
Laignee Barron and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/stranded-migrants-their-way-home
In China, nowhere to run
In yet another case of Cambodian women facing abuse in China, a 19-year-old told the Post yesterday that she has taken to living on the streets after the consulate in Shanghai refused to pay for her repatriation. Kim Sophea*, who claims she has been forced into marriage in ...
Sen David and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/china-nowhere-run
Quality control to lift exports
China will work with Cambodian officials to broaden the range of agricultural products that the Asian economic giant allows to be imported from the Kingdom, government officials said yesterday. Ken Ratha, spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce, confirmed that China’s General Administration, Quality Supervision, Inspection and ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/quality-control-lift-exports
New Mekong bridges slated for Phnom Penh
The Council of Ministers this week announced two new spans across the Mekong River in the vicinity of the capital, one connecting the Chroy Changvar peninsula to Kandal’s Khsach Kandal district and another connecting Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district with Kandal’s Lvea Em. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-mekong-bridges-slated-phnom-penh
Cambodia's rice export down 1.6 pct in 7 months
Cambodia exported 204,000 tons of milled rice in the first seven months of 2014, down 1.6 percent from 207,370 tons over the same period of last year, according to official data released on Tuesday. Sixty-four companies have brokered Cambodian rice for 54 countries and regions around ...
ASEAN-China Center News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2014-08/14/c_133556101.htm
Confusion surrounds ministry’s kidney program
The Ministry of Defense’s account that an alleged kidney trafficking ring at its Preah Ket Mealea military hospital was in fact a fully legal training program in partnership with China’s Defense Ministry was met with questions and confusion Tuesday. A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in ...
Khy Sovuthy and Alex Consiglio
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/confusion-surrounds-ministrys-kidney-program-66345/
Vietnam to train commercial pilots for Cambodia's national airline
The Viet Flight Training Joint Stock Company (VFT) signed an agreement on Tuesday to help train Cambodians in Vietnam as commercial pilots for kingdom’s national flag carrier Cambodia Angkor Air (CAA). CAA’s President Tek Rethsamrach said the deal would greatly contribute to developing human resources in ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140812/vietnam-train-commercial-pilots-cambodias-national-airline
Infrastructure in place for GMS economic corridors: ADB
Most of the infrastructure required for enhanced connectivity in the Greater Mekong Subregion has been put in place, particularly the transport links that form the base of the envisaged economic corridors, Bindu Lohani, vice president of the Asian Development Bank, said yesterday. He made the remark ...
The Nation News Staff
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Infrastructure-in-place-for-GMS-economic-corridors-30240591.html
Representatives to meet over factory fire
Representatives for the employees and owners of a Phnom Penh garment factory gutted by a fire last month will meet at the Ministry of Labor today to try and hammer out a pay package for the workers, though a factory official said they would not ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/representatives-to-meet-over-factory-fire-65988/
Cambodian PM expresses deep sympathy over earthquake tragedy in China
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has expressed his deepest sympathy to the victims and members of the bereaved families in a massive earthquake in China’s southwestern Yunnan Province. “I feel extremely saddened to learn about the loss of hundreds of lives, many injuries and colossal damages ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-08/05
Cambodia Urges China Visa Restrictions
Cambodia says it has asked China to restrict the number of visas it issues to single Cambodian women, to prevent the brokering of marriages to Chinese men. The appeal comes as an increasing number of Cambodian women are finding their way into Chinese marriages and becoming ...
Thida Win
http://www.voanews.com/content/cambodia-urges-china-visa-restrictions/1971535.html