Donors and funding
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Indonesian businesses look for local partners
Some 80 businessmen from Cambodia and indonesia gathered at a trade fair in Phnom Penh on Wednesday to forge partnerships and explore ways to boost bilateral trade. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/indonesian-businesses-look-local-partners
China-donated surveillance cameras go live
Five months after plainclothes Chinese police officers began installing more than 200 surveillance cameras at intersections in Phnom Penh, interior Ministry officials on Tuesday switched them on. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/china-donated-surveillance-cameras-go-live-103625/
Overseas Cambodian workers send home over 1 bln USD per year
Cambodia’s Labor Minister Ith Samheng said Wednesday that overseas Cambodian workers had remitted more than 1 billion U.S. dollars to their families in Cambodia a year. ...
hanyang
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-02/17/c_135106074.htm
Rights worker alleges threat amid inquiry
A rights group official said he was threatened for looking into a December homicide case in Pursat province that left one woman dead and her brother injured. ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rights-worker-alleges-threat-amid-inquiry
Thais eye Keo Romeat mangoes
A Thai company has expressed an interest in exporting Kampong Speu’s Keo Romeat mangoes to Europe, America and Australia, according to a senior Agriculture Ministry official. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39681/thais-eye-keo-romeat-mangoes/
Schools upgrade to benefit disabled pupils
A Japanese NGO yesterday signed a deal worth nearly $300,000 to assist four Kandal province primary schools in providing access to education for children with disabilities. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39852/schools-upgrade-to-benefit-disabled-pupils/
Database to curb corrupt promotions
National Police Commissioner Neth Savoeun yesterday issued an order to have all police officials’ starting dates and ranks recorded in a computer database to avoid corrupt promotions. ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/40163/database-to-curb-corrupt-promotions/
KOICA aid program under way
After a kickoff ceremony last Wednesday, a five-year development project in 30 villages, funded and supervised by South Korea’s international Cooperation Agency (KOICA) begins work this week. ...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/koica-aid-program-under-way
Police thwart gang fight during round-up
After receiving numerous complaints about violence and robberies outside a nightclub in Battambang City, police Thursday rounded up 25 suspected criminals, claiming to have prevented an imminent gang brawl. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-thwart-gang-fight-during-round-up-87806/
ILO Cambodia launching new garment newsletter
The International Labour Organization (ILO) on Thursday will launch a news bulletIn focusIng on Cambodia’s garment and shoe sector, aimed at providIng data for Cambodian policymakers durIng annual mInimum wage talks. ILO officials Intend on releasIng The newsletter four times per year, an ILO chief technical ...
NEC set to update new voter registration list
The National Election Committee (NEC) is to update its new voter registration list and include more than 40,0000 new voters. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-set-update-new-voter-registration-list
Chinese warships visit Cambodia
Two Chinese guided-missile frigates docked at the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port on Monday for a five-day goodwill visit to Cambodia. ...
Xinhua Team
http://en.chinagate.cn/2016-02/22/content_37846059.htm
Cambodia’s salt output down 15% this season
Climate change was named as the reason for Cambodian salt production this year declining about 15 per cent, experts said yesterday. ...
Rann Reuy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia%E2%80%99s-salt-output-down-15-season
Unions urge contract action
Unions will urge the Labour Advisory Committee (LAC) to crack down on employers using fixed-term contracts to threaten workers, they said yesterday. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012071757462/National-news/unions-urge-contract-action.html
Cambodia, Thailand defense officials meet to strengthen border cooperation
Cambodian and Thai defense officials met here on Tuesday to discuss ways to strengthen and expand cooperation along the border, both sides said. ...
Cihan News Agency Staff
http://en.cihan.com.tr/news/Cambodia-Thailand-defense-officials-meet-to-strengthen-border-cooperatio_3488-CHMTYxMzQ4OC80
Assembly president won’t postpone border demarcation
National Assembly President Heng Samrin has refused a request from opposition lawmakers to suspend border demarcation through the 2018 national elections. ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/assembly-president-wont-postpone-border-demarcation/2862812.html
Solar tuk-tuks rolling out soon
Star 8 Asia will launch its electric-powered tuk-tuk showroom on August 28, hoping for robust demand from the city’s drivers. ...
Igor Kossov and Va Sonyka
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14288/solar-tuk-tuks-rolling-out-soon/
Anco Bros pays out promoters
Eight former “promotion girls” for Budweiser were compensated by the Anco Brothers Company yesterday after being laid off without any severance. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anco-bros-pays-out-promoters
PRASAC takes $2m loan from Dutch firm
PRASAC Microfinance institution, Cambodia’s biggest MFI by outstanding loans, has received a US$2 million loan from the Netherlands Development Finance Company ...