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Demining Mali goal for troops
The Ministry of Defence will dispatch more than 300 members of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) to Mali as part of a United Nations peacekeeping mission, a senior government official said yesterday. ... ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/demining-mali-goal-troops
Another Military Official Accuses Opposition Party of Causing Chaos
General Neang Phat has become the second senior military official to wade into the current political impasse between Prime Minister Hun Sen’s CPP government and the CNRP, accusing the opposition party of trying to destabilize the country, according to a local media report. Gen. Phat, who ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/another-military-official-accuses-opposition-party-of-causing-chaos-51101/
Spending on Defense and Security up 17% in 2014
The country’s draft $3.4 billion national budget for 2014 proposes yet another $920 million in new debt to make ends meet, the same amount taken on this year, according to a copy of the spending bill obtained Thursday. The draft budget calls for nearly $400 million—or ...
Kuch Naren and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/spending-on-defense-and-security-up-17-in-2014-46747/
Illegal Logging Threatens UN’s Carbon Trading Project
The military’s ongoing clearing of community forests in Oddar Meanchey province risks derailing Cambodia’s first forest-based carbon trading scheme backed by the U.N., according to the latest assessment of the project. Community forest groups, who stand to earn millions from the project, said on Wednesday that ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/illegal-logging-threatens-uns-carbon-trading-project-21395/
Embattled villagers fight on
First, agricultural company DM group displaced them, now a recently arrived commercial farmer has threatened their lives and chased them off their new land, said representatives of 12 families engaged in a long-standing land dispute in Ratanakkiri province. On Wednesday, the 12 Tampuon ethnic minority families ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013011160746/National/embattled-villagers-fight-on.html
Cambodian, Vietnamese militaries ink deals for quarry, rubber development projects
Cambodian and Vietnamese Defense Ministries on Friday signed two documents relevant to a joint venture for establishing a quarry and a rubber plantation project in Cambodia. According to a document briefed to reporters at the signing ceremony, the two deals included a quarry site establishment in ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-11/30/c_132011035.htm
Fair facilitates economic ties with Cambodia
A trade fair to boost ties between Viet Nam and Cambodia opened in Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh yesterday.. Themed ‘Friendship, Cooperation and Development', the 2012 Viet Nam-Cambodia International Trade Fair is co-organised by the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The six-day ...
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/Economy/230445/fair-facilitates-economic-ties-with-cambodia.html
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