Pheng Pong-Rasy of DC-Cam’s genocide education project, said the new website will launch next week and is intended to be a free resource that Cambodians will be able to access from their smartphones to learn about their collective past.
Cambodia has requested the roughly $300 million debt be canceled on numerous occasions over the past decades.
Srey Vanthon, country director of ADD International, said information provided about the SDGs was not adequate or widely disseminated.
Sam Rainsy wrote on Facebook on Thursday that he thought the case was politically motivated and carried out by a “puppet court”.
About 20 percent of eligible voters have yet to register, many of whom are believed to be migrant workers.
In late August a committee set up to discuss the issue decided to draft a letter to France asking the former colonial power to assist in resolving the dispute.
Hang Puthea, National Election Committee (NEC) spokesman, said there had been a lack of cooperation between the authorities and campaigners.
In a statement on Thursday, the CNRP announced that Sovann’s body would be taken on Sunday to Wat Than pagoda on the capital’s outskirts for the cremation.
Daniel Russel, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, on Thursday met officials from the government and opposition as well as civil society leaders, expressing hopes for “free and fair” elections in 2018.
The United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) was created as part of the agreements and tasked with disarming all factions, repatriating 35,000 refugees, and organizing a national election in 1993.
At a meeting with former Khmer Rouge fighters in Pailin province, a stronghold of the group until the mid-1990s, Hun Sen said the policy had had a greater effect on creating a peaceful settlement than the Paris Peace Agreement of 1991 or the UNTAC elections of 1993.
In addition to the aid and debt relief, Xi signed a military aid agreement worth almost $15 million and a number of economic accords.
China has distributed about $15 billion in loans to Cambodia in the past two decades. It has already pledged $600 million this year.
Cambodia’s increasing reliance on China, he said, had diversified its support base, making the country less reliant on aid from western nations.
Minister of Agriculture Veng Sakhon has issued an order in an attempt to stabilize plummeting prices of agricultural products.
Writing on Facebook from self-imposed exile in France, Sam Rainsy said banks and micro-finance institutions should pass on profits to customers.
The two sides met to discuss a plan of action to address disputes over alleged encroachment on Cambodian territory by Vietnamese interests.
Since 2011, Cambodia has sent more than 20 diplomatic letters to Vietnam to protest what it calls encroachment by the Vietnamese on its territory.
China is Cambodia's biggest donor and source of loans, with an estimated $15 billion in aid and loans distributed to Cambodia over the past 20 years.
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