Sisowath Thomico arrived Jan. 22 for a two-month tour of the US, where he will mostly tour the states and explain the Rescue Party’s strategy to supporters.
“The forest in Cambodia is gradually declining because the government gives the economic concession license to private companies,” Ouch Leng told “Hello VOA” Tuesday.
The environmental watchdog Global Witness has issued a new report, naming Cambodian business tycoon Try Pheap as a leading force behind the destruction of the country’s forests.
Asean is working toward economic integration and a free flow of goods and services across the region by the end of this year.
The panel was organized by the Voice of America and USAID, in an effort to advance health policy worldwide.
The party’s honorary president, Heng Samrin, told party members CPP reforms are “unavoidable” if the party is to stay in power.
Speaking at the end of a trip to Cambodia, US Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Russel said investors need confidence that contracts will be enforced and that the rule of law will protect them.
The party wants free and fair elections, which it says requires major changes, something analysts say the ruling Cambodian People’s Party may not fully cooperate with.
The Jan. 20 appointments come from amendments to the internal rules of the Assembly and were widely welcomed by many political observers.
About 100 activists from various communities in Phnom Penh took part in Wednesday’s march, gathering near the US Embassy and planning to walk to Freedom Park.
Funcinpec, once the most popular party in the country, has fallen into deep decline, winning no seats in the last parliamentary election.
Japan is the largest donor to the court, having provided $82 million, about 36 percent of funding, so far.
Michael Vannak Khem Misiewicz has maintained a “not guilty” plea, despite his being named by the contractor in a wide-reaching bribery scandal.
Aside from a major Human Rights Watch report outlining human rights abuses under Prime Minister Hun Sen in the past decade, other observers say Cambodia suffered in other ways—and there is little hope it will change in the near term.
Some 1,000 people have lost their land to the development of the plantations since 2010.
A US federal court has indicted Michael Vannak Khem Misiewicz, a Cambodian-American US naval officer, on seven more counts of bribery.
Vannarith Chheang told “Hello VOA” recently that poor countries like Cambodia need to work harder to reform laws, institutions, leadership and human resources to prepare for integration.
A tribunal spokesman said the Supreme Court will determine whether Thet Sambath will testify or not, based on the law.
As part of political negotiations, the opposition party will be allowed a minority leader in parliament—a system analysts say could strengthen the checks and balances in the government.
The government this week called on its various offices and agencies, including the military, to declared their assets to the Anti-Corruption Unit in January.
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