Monday, 28 June 2010

The Phnom Penh Post News in Brief


via Khmer NZ News Media

Clearing begins for sugar plantation

Monday, 28 June 2010 15:00 May kunmakara

VIETNAM-based firm Indian-NK Venture has begun to clear the land slated for its 1,200-hectare sugarcane plantation in Svay Rieng’s Romeas Hek district, provincial governor Chieng Am said late last week. The concession’s owners predicted a yield of 60 to 70 tonnes per hectare within three years, he said, and added that a tonne of unprocessed sugarcane would generate approximately US $35. The project would create an estimated 500 jobs once land clearance wraps up. Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries secretary of state Chan Thong Yves called for a further increase in sugar production. “We have plenty of land with potential,” he said.

Skyscraper expo on diamond island

Monday, 28 June 2010 15:00 Soeun Say

CAMBODIA’S first international skyscraper expo, CamBuild 2010, will take place later this year, it was announced Sunday. The show will be an international trade show open for architects, civil and building constructors, building consultants and designers, engineers, government departments, interior designers and distributors. It will take place on Phnom Penh’s Diamond Island in October. Organiser Richard Yew, who is Vice President of AMB Events SDN, said Sunday that more than 200 exhibitors are expected at the event including pavilions from Singapore, China, Taiwan, the European Union and the US.

Rights Visit: UN envoy ‘apologises’ to Hun Sen

Monday, 28 June 2010 15:02 Sam Rith

Rights Visit

The government has claimed that Surya Subedi, the UN’s special rapporteur for human rights, wrote to Prime Minister Hun Sen to “apologise” for statements he made earlier this month. At the end of his third mission to the country, Subedi told a news conference he was “disappointed” that a meeting with Hun Sen scheduled for June 17 had been cancelled because of the premier’s ill health. The next week, Hun Sen criticised him in a speech, saying Subedi conveyed disrespect with his choice of words. Foreign Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong confirmed that Subedi sent a letter to Hun Sen this week that contained an apology to the prime minister. “The meaning was firstly to apologise to Samdech [Hun Sen], secondly to wish that Samdech recovers soon, has good health and a long life, and the third point was about the positive aspects of his third visit to Cambodia,” he said. But Christophe Peschoux, country director of the UN human rights agency, said the letter did not contain an apology, and instead touched on issues Subedi would have addressed in his meeting with the premier.

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