Archive for November, 2008
Tourism workers need better training
VietNamNet Bridge – The tourism industry, expected to be one of the spearheads of Viet Nam’s economic growth in the future, hopes to have 80 per cent of its workers professionally trained by 2015, the tourism authority has said.
Only 30 per cent of the industry workforce are trained, the Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism [...]
Global Witness targets graft in Cambodia’s oil and mining industries
The London-based group says foreign donors have not done enough to hold the government to account for failing to fight corruption
ENVIRONMENTAL watchdog Global Witness has released a scathing attack on what it says is rampant asset-stripping and graft in the country’s mining and oil sectors, saying that foreign donors needed to get tough on [...]
President praises Cambodian Party
HA NOI — The ongoing official friendship visit to Viet Nam by Samdec Chea Sim, Chairman of the Cambodian People’s Party and President of the Senate would help develop solidarity, traditional friendship and co-operation between the two countries, said President Nguyen Minh Triet.
While receiving Samdec Chea Sim yesterday, Triet expressed his delight at the development [...]
Bangkok cut off from world as second airport seized
BANGKOK (AFP) — Thai anti-government protesters shut down Bangkok’s second airport on Thursday, further crippling the kingdom as tourists scrambled to leave and fears grew the crisis was deepening.
Supporters of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) have blockaded the old Don Mueang airport in an attempt to prevent ministers from flying to Chiang Mai in [...]
Three-nation summit discusses development
VIENTIANE — Measures to promote the Viet Nam-Laos-Cambodia development triangle were high on the agenda at the fifth triangular summit, which opened in Vientiane yesterday.
At the summit, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his Lao and Cambodian counterparts, Bouasone Bouphavanh and Hun Sen agreed to boost economic, commercial and investment co-operation in the development [...]
Thailand insists it is ready to host ASEAN summit
BANGKOK, Thailand: Thailand insisted Thursday that it will be able to host a regional summit in December, even after three neighboring countries raised concerns that ongoing political turmoil in the Thai capital could force the meeting’s cancellation.
In recent days, protesters demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat have stormed Thailand’s two main international airports, forcing [...]
CAMBODIA: More Khmer Rouge Leaders May Stand Trial
PHNOM PENH, Nov 27 (IPS) - With its first trial delayed until early 2009, the Khmer Rouge tribunal is facing another challenge: how to balance its mandate to try only former leaders deemed most senior against pressure to prove its independence by ordering further arrests.
The question of who to prosecute is a complex matter for [...]
Cambodia, EC to meet on ban of Siem Reap Airways
PHNOM PENH, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) – Experts from the European Community (EC) will meet in February with the Cambodian civil aviation officials over the EC ban of the Siem Reap Airways’ flights to its market, an official said here on Thursday.
EC banned all flights of the Siem Reap Airways to its countries, [...]
Passengers Scramble as Flights Canceled
Hundreds of passengers were left looking for alternate travel plans in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap Wednesday, after protests in Bangkok closed an international airport.
Flights for Bangkok Airways, Thai Airways and Asia Air were canceled Wednesday morning, and passengers were given the chance for refunds to purchase other tickets out or were allowed to change [...]
Youth Offered EdC Job After Brother’s Death
The older brother of a young boy killed in a construction accident on a work site of Electricite du Cambodge last week has been promised a job by the company and the family compensated with $1,500.
Men Chanpong, 13, was buried alive Friday night by an EdC bulldozer in Lor Kambor village, Svay Pak commune, Russei [...]
