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The News Lens International
March 27, 2018
Since April 2017, the editor of the site has been Liam Gammon, assisted by associate editor Mish Khan. Since its inception the site has devoted its attention to the politics and societies of Southeast Asia, and especially Thailand and Myanmar. Increasingly its focus stretches to Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos,Ãâà...
Asian Correspondent
March 27, 2018
IT'S never easy to uproot and leave home to start over in a foreign place, especially if you're expected to work in a new environment, make new friends, adjust to culture shock or pick up a new language. All while struggling to feel at home. No matter how many times you've visited the place prior, actuallyÃâà...
The Weather Channel
March 27, 2018
On a trip to visit his wife, Robert Gotzfried saw something he'd never seen in his home city of Munich, Germany: street barbers. He was in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, when he noticed how barbers did their work outdoors. “These places were simply visually appealing to me, so I decided to make itÃâà...
The Diplomat
March 27, 2018
As I have noted before in these pages, Vietnam and Cambodia share an important defense relationship as part of their wider diplomatic ties. Most notably, Vietnam provides the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) with military equipment, infrastructure, and training, while both countries have alsoÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
March 27, 2018
On Monday, CNRP working group member Kong Meas—who is currently based in Thailand amid a crackdown on the opposition, media and civil society ahead of Cambodia's general election in July—told RFA's Khmer Service the deal was intended to prevent members of his party from regrouping,Ãâà...
The Phnom Penh Post
March 27, 2018
According to a policy paper released by the Center for Global Development, Cambodia will likely see a significant rise in debt to China as a result of the Belt and Road Initiative. At the end of 2016, Cambodia's total public and publicly guaranteed debt was $6.5 billion, a relatively low percent of the country'sÃâà...
The Phnom Penh Post
March 27, 2018
Cambodia has become more autocratic and its government's claim of stable economic development rests on uncertain basis, according to a comprehensive new report. The Bertelsmann Stiftung's Transformation Index (BTI), published on Thursday, claims that the quality of Cambodia's democracy, marketÃâà...
The Phnom Penh Post
March 27, 2018
Indeed, at a time of growing inequality, how do we ensure a positive, meaningful impact from fintech on the people of Cambodia and Asia? The unmet need for basic banking services is significant across much of Southeast Asia. Only 27 percent of the region's 600 million inhabitants had a bank account inÃâà...
The Business Times
March 26, 2018
HLH Group Limited said it has entered into a sales and purchase agreement to sell its 98-room hotel in its D'Seaview project in Sihanoukville, Cambodia for S$15.7 million. D'Seaview is HLH group's first freehold mixed-use development venture in Cambodia, comprising 737 residential units and 67Ãâà...
The Sydney Morning Herald
March 26, 2018
Phnom Penh: Cambodian singer Kak Channthy, the lead singer and songwriter of the Cambodian Space Project, died last week in Phnom Penh. She was 38. Dubbed the Cambodian Amy Winehouse, Channthy was killed when the tuk-tuk she was travelling in was struck by a car. "She was a CambodianÃâà...
Newsweek
March 7, 2018
Cambodia's last breeding population of leopards are rapidly declining. In just a five-year period, the number of Indochinese leopards there has dropped by 72 percent, according to a new study published in early February in Royal Society Open Science. A team of researchers led by Oxford University'sÃâà...
The Phnom Penh Post
March 7, 2018
BEIJING (China Daily/ANN) - Spring Airlines, China's first and largest budget carrier, plans to further consolidate and expand its flight network in the countries and regions involved in the Belt and Road Initiative, including Cambodia, as it is seeing increasing traveling demand to those destinations. “We planÃâà...
The Phnom Penh Post
March 7, 2018
Investment in Cambodia nearly doubled to $6.3 billion last year, up from $3.6 billion in 2016, an official at The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) said today. The remarks came at a Cambodia-China Business Forum in Phnom Penh, organised by the UN's Industrial Development Organization,Ãâà...
The Phnom Penh Post
March 7, 2018
Shrinking political and civic space in the Kingdom is highlighted in a new report from the United Nations' human rights commissioner and secretary-general ahead of a UN Human Rights Council discussion this month on Cambodia. The report, signed on February 2 and published on Monday, covers aÃâà...
Cointelegraph (Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain News)
March 6, 2018
Following last month's launch of the Venezuelan government-backed Petro coin, Cambodia is considering launching its own crypto project named Entapay, a press release for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Blockchain Summit reported March 2. The Blockchain Summit, which will beÃâà...
The Phnom Penh Post
March 6, 2018
The US sent its first shipment of food-grade soybeans to Cambodia last week, exporting a total of 14 tonnes to both Cambodia and Myanmar to be processed in the receiving countries, according to US media reports. The shipments were sent to soy milk and tofu companies in the Kingdom, potentiallyÃâà...
The Phnom Penh Post
March 6, 2018
Yet again, the Kingdom this year burns brighter than its neighbours, with fires in Cambodia being detected from space at a much higher rate than any other country in the region, according to a NASA report published last week. It's likely a product of both naturally occurring blazes and also those caused byÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 6, 2018
Cambodia is considering the development of its own national cryptocurrency after being inspired by the launch of the Venezuelan Petro in February. The Cambodian crypto project would be named Entapay, and is expected to be proposed at a blockchain summit of Southeast Asian nations in its capital,Ãâà...
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