Over 150 poor urban families were forcibly evicted from central Phnom Penh in Cambodia at the weekend. The vast majority of them have been left homeless.
Cambodian security forces and demolition workers carried out the evictions of 152 families from Dey Kraham community in the early hours of Saturday. At around 3am, an estimated 250 police, [...]
Hundreds left homeless in Cambodia after forced eviction
Cambodia’s small and medium enterprises struggle to secure funding
Expanding or modernising a small enterprise is made at a cost that few Cambodian entrepreneurs can afford, often deprived from any access to the funds that would allow them to launch various projects. Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) annually provide nearly a third of Cambodia’s gross domestic product but are still seen as the poor [...]
Oknha Mong Reththy: introducing Cambodian pork meat in Cambodia
The small scale of pig farms, high pig-food prices, the often steep fees charged by slaughterhouses, smuggling of pigs from Vietnam undermining competition or the prices of pork meat, volatile and unpredictable as a consequence. Reasons for the weakness in the Cambodian pig industry are aplenty, as the country currently has to import the majority [...]
One arrested in Cambodian bomb plot
PHNOM PENH, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) — One of the two suspects wanted in connection with Friday’s foiled bomb plot in downtown Phnom Penh has been arrested, English-language daily newspaper the PhnomPenh Post on Thursday quoted a minister as saying.
The police detained the suspect following a detailed probe, said government spokesman and Information Minister Khieu Kanharith, [...]
Cambodia faces problems enforced new sex trafficking law
PHNOM PENH (AFP) — Chantha said there was nothing else she could do in Cambodia but become a prostitute.
“If you don’t even have a dollar in your pocket to buy rice, how can you bear looking at your starving relatives?” she said.
“You do whatever to survive, until you start to realize the consequence of your [...]
Cost of Helmet a Small Price: Expert
As many as 90 percent of fatalities in road accidents are caused by head injuries, highlighting the importance of helmets, a safety expert said Thursday.
A helmet might cost $10, but it is worth it, said Sann Socheata, manager of the road safety program for Handicap International Belgium.
“There should be thorough thinking, that is it $10 [...]
Cambodian survives H5N1 bird flu virus: official
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – A 19-year old Cambodian man has survived the H5N1 bird flu virus which has killed seven other people in the poor Southeast Asian nation since 2005, a health ministry official said on Sunday.
The youth, who became infected after eating dead poultry, was discharged from a Phnom Penh hospital on Saturday after [...]
Borei Keila: Cambodia’s Social Housing Project Five Years On
The Borei Keila social land concession: the Government’s commitment to housing Phnom Penh’s urban poor – new apartments for families in exchange for land given to commercial developers. Borei Keila was the first of four social land concessions in Phnom Penh and was meant to be the model alternative to the eviction and off-site relocation [...]
Number of Vietnamese Visitors Jumps
The number of Vietnamese tourists visiting Cambodia jumped nearly 75 percent in the first ten months of 2008, coming in at No. 2 for the first time in 15 years, officials said Tuesday.
The 176,600 Vietnamese visitors, up from 102,577 in the same period last year, was second only to the number of Korean visitors, 234,880, [...]
Bird flu threatens poultry sales in Cambodia at New Year
PHNOM PENH, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) — Cambodian poultry vendors feared the latest case of bird flu would once again hit demand for chickens and ducks, just weeks before the Chinese New Year when they traditionally make their biggest sales, national media reported Tuesday.
Vendors in Phnom Penh told the Cambodia Daily that [...]