Cambodia closed 2011 with 2.88 million international tourists, a substantial increase of 14.9% over 2010. During 2011, neighboring Vietnam was the top contributor with 614,090 trips up 19.4% compared to 2010. Thailand ranked at eighth supplied 116,758 tourists down 21%. By region and market share, Asia Pacific supplied as much as 73.1% or 2,106,601 trips [...]
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9 Feb
Cambodia: Urge to improve working conditions and raise salaries in garment industry.
Cambodia garments “tribunal” turns up heat on big brands. A panel of international and local judges on Wednesday called on garment factories in Cambodia to urgently increase employees’ salaries and pressed big international clothing brands to do more to improve working conditions. The call was issued by a “People’s Tribunal” of judges representing the Asian [...]
7 Feb
Phnom Penh: No more grilling cows in front of eateries?
Capital rotisserie ban has heads spinning. The familiar sight of cow torsos slowly turning on rotisseries in front of Phnom Penh’s restaurants and beer gardens will soon be a distant memory if government officials have their way. As of yesterday, however, owners of outdoor dining establishments in the capital were continuing to grill cows in [...]
3 Feb
Cambodia’s Debt by Year, Country and Organization.
Cambodia‘s overall debt from 1993 till end of 2011 amounts to 4,405,853,139 USD. These are the main creditors of Cambodia since 1993: Worldbank (WB): 704 million US $ ADB (Asian Development Bank): 1,162 billion US $ OPEC: 60 million US $ IFAD: 46 million US $ China: 1,59 billion US $ Malaysia: 18 million US [...]
1 Feb
Cambodia: No oil drilling in 2012!
Oil production delayed. The Kingdom’s much-hyped deadline of tapping its first oil reserves by December 12, 2012 – or 12-12-12 – will not be met. Chevron Overseas Petroleum (Cambodia) Ltd, which is now exploring the Kingdom’s offshore Block A in the Gulf of Thailand, has notified the Cambodian government that no oil extraction would take [...]
31 Jan
ECCC: Final Judgement of Appeals in Case 001 –
Related articles Cambodia: Delaying Tactics by Defense at ECCC. (livinginpp.wordpress.com) Cambodia: ECCC in financial crisis. (alfredmeier.me) Cambodia rebuffs U.N. on new judge for Khmer Rouge trial (khamerlogue.wordpress.com)
28 Jan
Cambodia: Institutions Fact Sheet – The Senate.
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) today releases the first “fact sheet” in its “Institution” series for 2012. In the run up to the Senate elections due to be held on 29 January 2012, this fact sheet aims to provide an overview of the Senate, assess its effectiveness and suggest ways in which it [...]
27 Jan
Cmbodia: Siem Reap to Cebu Flights from April 2012.
Cebu Pacific to use air rights to Cambodia starting April 19. Budget carrier Cebu Pacific will be mounting flights to Siem Reap, Cambodia by April 19. This makes it the first to do so after local airlines were granted rights to shuttle passengers into the Southeast Asian neighbor Cambodia. Read more: http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=Corporate&title=Cebu-Pacific-to-use-air-rights-to-Cambodia-starting-April&id=45726 http://alfredmeier.me/2011/12/28/cambodia-cheap-flights-to-the-philippines/
10 Jan
Cambodia: Khmer rouge Tribunal (KRT aka ECCC) in new disorder.
The international and Cambodian investigating judges found themselves in a new controversy at the beleaguered Khmer Rouge tribunal Monday. The newly appointed UN judge, Swiss International Reserve Co-Investigating Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet, issued a statement decrying his counterpart’s refusal (Cambodian Judge You Bunleng) to publicly release information pertaining to two controversial cases. International Reserve Co-Investigating Judge Laurent [...]
