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UN Injects $5 million to Improve Cambodian Food Security for 2010- 2012
Tuesday, 08 June 2010 09:16 DAP-NEWS/ Ek Madra
CAMBODIA, PHNOM PENH, June 8, 2010– The United Nations announced on Tuesday to launch three-year joint program of $5 million designed to improve food security and reduce under-nutrition among children, pregnant women, and lactating mothers.
The program will be piloted in two provinces of Svay Rieng and Kampong Speu, considered by the World Food Program to be ‘chronically food-insecure’, said the UNDP press release.
The joint program, to be implemented between 2010 and 2012, was developed in close consultation between government ministries, UN agencies and other relevant stakeholders.
UN Resident Coordinator Douglas Broderick said in the release: "the joint program provides a unique opportunity to strengthen the government’s response to food insecurity and malnutrition in Cambodia. It is also a significant step forward for the UN in Cambodia to deliver as one.”
Levels of maternal and child under-nutrition are considerably high in Cambodia, said the release.
Poverty, food insecurity, inadequate knowledge and poor nutrition and feeding practices are the main causes of malnutrition among women and children in the country, it said.
The Cambodia anthropometrics survey in 2008 showed that 39.5 percent of children below the age of five were chronically malnourished, 28.8 percent were underweight and 8.9 percent were acutely malnourished, it said.
French Deputy Commerce Minister to visit Cambodia to Boost Bilateral Trade
Tuesday, 08 June 2010 11:07 DAP-NEWS/ Ek Madra
CAMBODIA, PHNOM PENH, June 8, 2010 – A French deputy commerce minister Anne-Marie Idrac is to visit Cambodia from 9- 11 March aims to improve bilateral trade of the two countries, according to the embassy release on Tuesday.
“Anne-Marie Idrac will hold talk (with Cambodian officials) on the perspective of improving the economic exchange between France and Cambodia,” said the release.
Idrac, who will be accompanied by a number of French businessmen, will meet with Cambodian finance minister Keat Chhon, who is also deputy prime minister.
She will also hold meeting with another deputy prime minister Sok An, who is minister in charge of the office of the council of minister, on June 10.
Sok An is to accompany Idrac to inaugurate the Golden Rice mill in Oudong of Kampong Speu province. The French investor and the French Development Assistance financed the $7 million-rice milling, said the release.
Idrac has planned to visit a construction site of Sofitel hotel, which is a second hotel invested by French investment group, Accor, in Cambodia.
Idrac will fly to Siem Reap, the home of Angkor which is the Cambodian biggest tourist destination, where she will meet with French investors.
Thai Troops Opened Fire on the Cambodian Border Military Patrol
Tuesday, 08 June 2010 07:42 DAP-NEWS/ Tep Piseth
CAMBODIA, ODOR MEANCHEY, June 8, 2010-“The Thai troops opened fire on the Cambodian border military patrol at about 9 O’ clock and 50 minutes on Tuesday morning of June 08, 2010 at Ochambak point near Chhukrun region in Trapangprasat district, Odar Meanchey province,” according to the sources told DAP News center.
“The exchange of gunfire occurred while the Thai troops ran into 15 Cambodian soldiers patrolling the Cambodian border. Soon after that, The Thai troops at first opened fire on the Cambodian soldiers by using both M16 guns and M79 guns. In response to the Thai invading enemies, The Cambodian soldiers decided to return fire by using PKM guns,” Deputy Military Commander-in-Chief of the Cambodian Royal Armed Forces Chea Dara told the DAP News Center.
“It was believed that the Thai troops were killed and injured during the exchange of gunfire, but the Cambodian soldiers did not suffer any heavy casualties,” according to the sources.
Edited by Mr. Rasmey (Mr. Go For It)
Cambodia Elects a Member for National Anti-Corruption Commission
Tuesday, 08 June 2010 03:45 DAP-NEWS/ Ek Madra
CAMBODIA, PHNOM PENH, June 8, 2010 – Cambodia on Tuesday elected a former Member of the Constitutional Council to work for the National Anti-corruption Commission, said the President of the National Assembly Heng Samrin.
An 83 MPs out of 106, who turned up on Tuesday, voted in favor of Top Sam, a former member of the Constitutional Council of Cambodia, to work for work for the National Anti-corruption Commission.
The country’s legislative body approved in March the anti-corruption law enabled the country to establish the mechanism of national anti-corruption commission and the anti-corruption unit.
Officials said the government will employ 11 members in total to work for the national anti-corruption commission. They represent the government institutions, legislative body as well as the royal palace.
“Top Sam is now elected as a member, represents the National Assembly, to work for the National Anti-corruption Commission,” Heng Samrin told the floor after voting.
The 123-seat National Assembly’s move on Tuesday showed the government’s commitment to fight graft, which has been concerned by donors who injected Cambodia last week almost $1.1 billion for this impoverished nation’s development for 2010.
Opposition party sought for a clear definition of the corruption term and called for an independence of national anti-corruption commission and the anti-corruption unit—given the fact that members, of the anti-corruption institution, are to be appointed and financed by the government.
U.S. ambassador Carol A. Rodley said in 2009 that corruption has been a problem that affected every single person in Cambodia.
“According to various studies, corruption costs Cambodia up to $500 million per year in terms of forgone state revenue that could otherwise be spent on public services in education and health care and jobs for Cambodian youth,” said Rodley.
She said that $500 million is equivalent to the cost of constructing 20,000 six-room school buildings or the ability to pay every civil servant in Cambodia an additional $260 per month.
Cambodian officials rejected Rodley’s comment as unsubstantiated.
The Berlin-based Transparency International (TI), the global coalition against corruption which surveyed nearly 200 countries, has said in its Corruption Index (CPI) ranked Cambodia as one of the worst corrupt country in the world.
The Cambodian Solders Standing at Tamon Temple Found an Ancient Inscription Being a Meter in Height
Monday, 07 June 2010 15:41 DAP-NEWS/
Cambodia,Phnom Penh, June 07, 2010-The Cambodian Royal Armed Forces standing at Takrabey temple bordering Thailand found an ancient inscription which is a meter in height, 48 centimeters in width and about 8-centimeter thickness.
The Cambodian soldiers found an ancient inscription on Friday of June 04,2010, which is in a distance of 200 meters in the Eastern part of Takrabey temple in Kokmon village, Kokmon commune, Banteay Ampil district, Oddarmeanchey province.
“”On the surface of the inscription, The Cambodian soldiers found a Sanskrit language,which means that there is a king whose name is Posotta, who ordered Tamorn, a supreme military commander Taprakod pranuttong, and Taprum called tatisommayya, a Buddhist lay preacher to a small tamon temple and a big tamon temple to defend the territory of the temples.
“The Sanskrit language said that this supreme military commander is very skillful at warfare and war strategy. He always rides a buffalo when he goes to war-Unfortunately, when his buffalo died, the people have called him Takrobey until the present”, Mr. Nak Vongsa confirmed.
“The inscription has so far been kept at Tamon temple’s military headquarters, and we are now waiting for the order from our military officers,” he added.
Edited by Mr.Rasmey (Go For It)
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