Archive for My Thoughts

Real estate boom v. land grabbing in Cambodia: A typical example

Just a typical example of how real estate boom is affecting the impoverished and disadvantaged in Cambodia.

Legitimacy of Cambodia-Thailand maps by Sean Pengse

Which map should Cambodia and Thailand use for border demarcation? Opinion of Sean Pengse, president of Cambodia’s Border Committee. Join the discussions if you’re interested!

Impact of foreign aid in Cambodia

The video report by Aljazeera covers how effectively aid is managed in Cambodia and what could be done to improve, interviewing three main persons that have been involved very closely with the work.

A defect in Cambodia’s election law?

Article 120 of the Law on the Election of the Members of the National Assembly states in part that members of the National Assembly shall lose their membership if they lose their membership from their political party.

Is this a wrong impression of Cambodia?

On the afternoon of Jul 7 after spending a bit of time in the Central Library thinking over the outline for my master’s thesis report, I came out and found a friend of mine who I usually met on Mondays…

First 3 months of 08 marks Cambodia’s rise in traffic accidents

130 deaths and 551 injuries have been caused by traffic accidents alone in Cambodia during the first three months of 2008, according to a report Handicap International Belgium released last week

How Arbitration Council decides whether a labor dispute is individual or collective

For your background information, the Arbitration Council (AC) is a tripartite body that arbitrate labor disputes in Cambodia. It was established in May 2003 in accordance with the 1997 Labor Law (Art. 310-17). Although Cambodia is in the process of establishing an arbitration body for commercial disputes, the AC is now the only body doing [...]

US woman jailed for “modern-day slavery”

“Modern-day slavery” of two Indonesian housekeepers has brought a sentence of 11 years in jail upon a wealthy New York woman, according to BBC news today.  Her husband was to be sentenced later and expected to get a shorter term.
Additionally, she was fined US$25,000.
Reading the news, I think the conclusion of the court was based [...]

Infrastructure, raw materials important for Cambodia’s textile

High-tech manufacturing equipment and ability to produce its own raw materials are essential to make Cambodia a more competitive garment producer in the world market, according to a $395 report by Research And Market.
The excerpt from the “Prospects for the Textile and Garment Industry in Cambodia” mentioned that the country’s garment Industry has evolved to [...]

185 girls raped in 4 months in Cambodia

Non-government Organization officials stated that within the period of four months from January to April 2008, 185 girls and women were raped, Kampuchea Thmey, one of the most leading Khmer language newspaper in Cambodia, reported today.
The figure is similar to that for the same period in 2007. Of the 185 rape victims, 13 were under [...]

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