Archive for My Thoughts

Number of people evicted in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

As usual, i started my day today with news reading.  The first piece i went trough today is The Cambodian Press Review by Multimedia Consulting & Development (MCD) which i receive daily.  One of the headlines goes, “UN concnerned over forced eviction.”  Two newspapers were reviewed: Khmer-language Khmer Sthapana and The Phnom Penh Post. They [...]

Commercial arbitration in Cambodia is hatching

National Arbitration Center (NAC) for commercial dispute resolution in Cambodia will soon come into reality after long months of effort. See Commercial arbitration council expected to launch by The Phnom Penh Post, Sept 24, 2008.
Hope the two Houses will enact this law first thing upon its new mandate.
It is obviously, at least [...]

Family Footsteps - Cambodia (A Khmaussie’s Story)

This is a story of a Chinese-Cambodian-Australian guy called Kevin who wishes to get a hands-on experience his parents and grandparents went through in Cambodia before fleeing the country for Australia.
I’m glad he finally found his passion of the culture he was born into yet didn’t grow up in. Enjoy!
Well, before you [...]

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 [...]