Kids’ safety improving: report
Cambodia has improved overall in protecting children from abuse and exploitation, the United Nations’ first Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) found in a report released yesterday, but the Kingdom has to take greater strides to further safeguard children’s rights. ...
Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kids-safety-improving-report
Statement of the Royal Government of Cambodia on further steps to strengthen democracy and political space
On 03 December 2018, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and international Cooperation has released a statement on further steps to strengthen democracy and political space. the ministry has underlined the position and further steps to be taken to uphold the Royal Government of Cambodia’s aforementioned ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
UN vows Khmer Rouge trial aid
Cambodia and the United Nations have vowed to find more funds to support the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, according to the Council of Ministers. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36896/un-vows-khmer-rouge-trial-aid/
Industry to promote sustainable energy
The Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia in collaboration with The Global Green Growth institute (GGGI) and GERES – The Group for The Environment, Renewable Energy and Solidarity, an international development nongovernmental organisation set up in Marseille in 1976 – is jointly implementing The project called ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50763442/industry-to-promote-sustainable-energy/
Business shortcuts the cause of banana problems, Lao ministry says
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry said yesterday that problems surrounding banana plantations in Laos were due to The fact that investors carried out negotiations directly with local communities instead of going through full legal channels.Deputy Minister Bounkhuang Khambounheuang told Vientiane Times that ...
Souknilundon Southivongnorath
Food prices the cause of mounting inflation in Laos
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The inflation rate continued to rise in March, with The Lao National Statistics Bureau attributing The growth of The annual Consumer Price index (CPI) due to rising food prices, and not The depreciation of The kip as many people believed.The statistics ...
Ekaphone Phouthonesy
Full text of ASEAN Human Rights Declaration
Herewith the full text of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration adopted by Southeast Asian leaders Sunday: WE, the Heads of State/Government of the Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (hereinafter referred to as “ASEAN”), namely Brunei Darussalam, the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Republic of ...
Head of Vietnam’s parliament resigns amid corruption crackdown
The head of Vietnam’s parliament has resigned over unspecified “violations and shortcomings”, The ruling Communist Party has said, as a major anticorruption campaign in The SouTheast Asian country continues. The party’s Central Committee held an extraordinary session on Friday and approved The resignation of Vuong Dinh Hue ...
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Cambodia needs more British investors: PM
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Friday that the country wanted to see more British investors in order to further contribute to developing local economy and reducing poverty. the premier made the remarks during a meeting with visiting British Minister of State at the Foreign and ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=197529
The Mekong: troubled waters in autocratic lands
For the Mekong countries, including Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia and Vietnam, 2018 was a big year both domestically and regionally. Key developments from last year will inevitably continue to shape the politics of the region in 2019. in terms of domestic affairs, the most worrying ...
TEAC officially launched in Cambodian to boost Chinese producers
To boost Chinese investment in Cambodian garment industry, the Textile Enterprise Association of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce also know as TEAC has been officially launched in Phnom Penh.Enjoy Ho, chairman of TEAC said that they will represent the interests of Chinese textile enterprises in ...
YNFX News Staff
http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/about-us
IFF Community Empowerment Program
Application closes Friday, September 6, 2019 at 9 PM EST! At the IFF, we believe that the internet is a community of communities. As these communities grow, so does their demand for community development capacity and resources. Connecting and empowering diverse and inclusive communities is a fundamental ...
Environment officials target special economic zones
An environment-monitoring working group from the Environment Ministry and the Council for the Development of Cambodia plans to meet with the owners of nearly 50 special economic zones across the country to promote standards on environmental protection and liquid waste management. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50105456/environment-officials-target-special-economic-zones/
Judicial laws put independence of courts in jeopardy
Three constitutionally mandated judicial laws would adversely affect the independence of the courts if they are passed in their current draft state, legal experts warned on Friday. Draft versions of the Law on the Organization and Functioning of the Supreme Council of the Magistracy, the Law ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/judicial-laws-put-independence-of-courts-in-jeopardy-58942/
Villagers register in land dispute
The Kampong Speu provincial authority said on Wednesday that its task force has completed registering thousands of families in Oral district who have been locked in a long-running land dispute with a sugar plantation owned by a well-connected tycoon. ...
Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-register-land-dispute
Thousands of pregnant women left without healthcare in Rakhine
An estimated 7600 pregnant women have been left without access to basic or primary healthcare services for almost two months in the northern Rakhine townships of Maungdaw and Buthidaung since the outbreak of violent conflict in early October.Keep reading ...
Eleven human rights defenders jailed
The Observatory for The Protection of Human Rights Defenders, an FIDH-OMCT joint programme, said today that The Cambodian Government must end The repression of land rights defenders and immediately release those imprisoned on November 11-12. ...
Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders
Well-being of women, children up
The well-being of women and children in Cambodia has improved vastly in The past 15 years but still lags internationally, according to a report released by The nonprofit organisation Save The Children this week. ...
Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/well-being-women-children
Nippon Foundation Suspends Vehicle Donations
The Nippon Foundation will suspend furTher vehicle donations in Burma until all of The cars currently parked at The Rangoon Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital have been deployed, deputy head of The foundation Takehiro Umemura told The Irrawaddy.Keep reading ...
Cambodian civil society groups condemn ongoing attacks on freedom of the media
On May 09 2018, the undersigned of 79 civil society groups, condemn the latest blow to press freedom in Cambodia, with the opaque sale of the Phnom Penh Post, and the new owner’s immediate interference in the paper’s editorial independence, which compelled 13 senior staff and reporters to ...
Cambodian Center for Human Right