A senior official with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport was questioned as a witness in the $200 million Brilliant City World land investment…
While Cambodia’s economy is on the road to post-Covid-19 recovery, rising inflation continues to disproportionately impact Cambodia’s poorest families and should be alleviated through expanding the direct cash transfer assistance program initiated in the pandemic, a new World Bank report stated.
Some 200 unions and federations have accused two prominent independent labor organizations of inciting its members to leave and establish a new union. The claim was denied by one of organizations, which said it has never trained members of any of the signatories — many of whom are affiliated with the government or ruling Cambodian People’s Party.
Cambodia-registered Vanny Bio Research, whose owner and five employees, alongside two Cambodian officials, were accused by U.S. authorities of smuggling wild-caught monkeys in Cambodia to the U.S., has denied any wrongdoing in its business operations, according to a company statement.
Prime Minister Hun Sen tested positive for Covid-19 after arriving in Indonesia for G20 summit meetings this week, following meetings with more than a dozen world leaders in Phnom Penh in the past week during the Asean summit.
Cambodia’s civic space should be expanded and human rights defenders protected, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in Phnom Penh on Saturday, adding that “everybody has failed” to solve the Myanmar conflict, but he trusts Indonesia to make progress next year as Asean chair.
Cambodian state secondary schools will offer Chinese language classes in a pilot program announced as one of 18 bilateral agreements signed Wednesday between Prime Minister Hun Sen and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Phnom Penh on the eve of the Asean summit.
Indigenous villages signed deals with European firm Socfin in hopes of securing communal land titles within Socfin’s rubber concessions. But after ceding most of their claims, the Bunong fear company promises won’t be kept, and land tenure remains uncertain.
Some 900 activists, informal workers and others gathered in Phnom Penh on Thursday in a public forum that organizers said was intended to send a message to Cambodian and Asean leaders ahead of a regional summit in the capital next week.
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