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Fresh News to launch Chinese-language site
13 February 2018
Government mouthpiece Fresh News will launch a Chinese version of its website on Monday, CEO Lim Cheavutha said today. Cheavutha said he expected support from Chinese investors and “Chinese people who want to follow the political situation in Cambodia”.
“We will publish in Chinese because we have seen that in the market in Cambodia, there are many Chinese investors who come to invest in our country,” he said.

Indeed, Chinese investment in Cambodia has steadily increased, and political ties between the two countries have tightened as Prime Minister HE increasingly pivots towards Beijing and away from traditional Western development partners. China has been perhaps the only country to publicly support the ruling party’s crackdown on the opposition, amid near-universal international condemnation.

Fresh News itself played a role in the crackdown, posting unsubstantiated conspiracy theories from pro-government Facebook pages accusing the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party of conspiring with foreign agents to topple the government. The accusations were used as justification for dissolving the party in November.

Pa Nguon Teang, independent media observer, said that the plan might be both economically and politically motivated.

“First, Fresh News may think that there are more Chinese [people and investors] in Cambodia and . . . second, as Fresh News is the Cambodian government’s mouthpiece, it may want to promote the government’s image and relationship to the Chinese government and people.”

He added, however, that “when the Cambodian government moves closer to China, there are increasingly negative impacts on freedoms of press and speech in Cambodia”.

Cheavutha, meanwhile, rejected the notion the site was specifically aimed at advancing the government’s interests, saying he had been planning to create a Chinese version for years.
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April 27, 2018
Sihanoukville in focus
A Chinese official yesterday said that the Chinese government recognises the importance of the seaport in Preah Sihanouk province as an economic hub of cooperation between China and Cambodia.

On the sidelines of a lecture to students at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, Zhou Hanmin, a standing member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference National Committee, said that “Cambodia is an important country located in the ‘21st century maritime Silk Road’, a significant project between the two governments”.

Mr Hanmin said leaders of both nations were optimistic over the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone.

“Currently, the economic contribution rate of the SSEZ’s industrial output value to Sihanoukville has exceeded 50 percent,” Mr Hanmin said. “Sihanoukville is Cambodia’s strongest economic province and Prime Minister HE has dubbed the province as the ‘dragon’s head’ of Cambodia’s economic lifeline.”

According to a statement by the Council for the Development of Cambodia on Tuesday, increasing Chinese investment and capital reflected the confidence and trust of investors in Cambodia.

From 2013 to 2017, China was the biggest investor and biggest resource of investment capital in Cambodia. Chinese investors put $5.3 billion in key sectors of the Cambodian economy, including the banking and industrial sectors as well as infrastructure.

In 2017, Cambodia registered 183 investment projects with $6.3 billion of investment capital which increased 75 percent compared with 2016.

For the first three month of this year, the CDC decided to allow Chinese firms to implement 63 new projects and expand three existing projects with $400 million of capital.
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Macau, Cambodia sign tourism pact
7 May 2018 8:08 pm
Cambodia and Macau signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation for the promotion of friendship, Xinhua reports.

The deal was inked Phnom Penh between Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn and Chui Sai On, Chief Executive of Macau.

"This MoU aims at promoting exchange and cooperation in tourism, culture, study and training, trade, youth and business exchanges," Cambodian Foreign Ministry Undersecretary of State Eat Sophea told reporters.
Xinhua

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willyhilly wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 5:36 am Is there any cash left over for building hospitals or schools? Or training for teachers or health care workers?

Troll!

Of course there will be. The training will consist of conferences for teachers, and identical ones for health care workers. All will be the same. Some ministry high up will encourage each group to be more professional and to rise and overcome the challenges of being paid less and working more.

And meanwhile more luxury SUVs will hit the streets and more luxury villas will be built.