Monday-Saturday (August 13-18, 2007)Brief Report

Brief Report

 “ODA News and Donors’ Activities in Cambodia” Monday- Saturday (August 13 – 18, 2007)

Newspapers Appearing on the Newsstand:
Monday, 13 August 2007

 

Newspapers Appearing on the Newsstand:
Tuesday, 14 August 2007

 

Rasmei Kampuchea, Vol.15, #4362, 14.8.2007

Cambodia Interested in Toilet Revolution Initiated by South Korea [Sim Jae-Duck, who was born in a toilet, has made South Korea a country which initiated a toilet revolution in order to reduce diseases and the death rate due to a shortage of toilets]

 

Newspapers Appearing on the Newsstand:
Wednesday, 15 August 200

 

Khmer Mchas Srok, Vol.1, #3, 15.8.2007

World Bank Provides Cambodia US$70 Million [grant] to Test Prime Minister’s Position [over action against corruption]

 

Koh Santepheap, Vol.40, #6118, 15.8.2007

[South] Korea Wants Cambodia to Create Toilet Associations Countrywide [see yesterday’s Mirror headlines for more information]

 

Rasmei Kampuchea, Vol.15, #4363, 15.8.2007

 Germany Helps Strengthen Working Capacity of [Cambodian] Parliament

 World Bank Provides US$70 Million Grant Aid [to Cambodia]

 

Newspapers Appearing on the Newsstand:
Thursday, 16 August 2007

 

Kampuchea Thmey, Vol.6, #1419, 16.8.2007

— Mr. Hor Namhong [Minister of Foreign Affairs]: Germany Promised to Provide Aid to Cambodia until 2009

— Samdech Hun Sen Welcomes Decision of Company [Sayam International] from South Korea to Enter Cambodia

 

Newspapers Appearing on the Newsstand:
Friday, 17 August 2007

 

Rasmei Kampuchea, Vol.15, #4365, 17.8.2007

— Chinese Company [name not mentioned] Will Start Construction of Hydroelectric Plant Costing Nearly $50 Million in Kirirom in September

 

Newspapers Appearing on the Newsstand:
Saturday, 18 August 2007

Kampuchea Thmey, Vol.6, #1421, 18.8.2007

—Thais Plan to Invest More Than $500 Million in Construction of Electric Sky Train Lines in Phnom Penh

 

 

“ODA News and Donors’ Activities in Cambodia” Monday- Saturday (August 13 – 18, 2007)

Brief Report: (From Internet)

 

August 14, 2007

 

—Thailand working to contain malaria at Cambodian-Thai border

The Royal Thai Army is cooperating with the Department of Disease Control to prevent and contain malaria along the Cambodian-Thai border.

(Source: http://ki-media.blogspot.com)

 

—World Bank Grants $70M in Cambodia Aid [to import electricity from Laos and Vietnam]

The World Bank said Tuesday it will give US$70 million (euro51.3 million) to Cambodia to help reduce its widespread poverty in a package that includes a plan to import cheap electricity from the country's neighbors.

(Source: http://ki-media.blogspot.com)

 

—S'pore NGO helps improve sanitary conditions in Cambodian village

Providing slum dwellers in Cambodia with proper sanitation - that was the task a Singapore Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) set out to do, to help improve the lives of poor villagers.(Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/)

—Hearts Without Border will bring a group of US doctors to Children's Hospital for Angkor for free children healthcare

The US-based Hearts Without Border organization plans to bring a group of 20 doctors to provide healthcare for children in the province of Siem Reap in the near future.

(Source: http://ki-media.blogspot.com)

 

August 15, 2007

 

—Vietnam, Cambodia look to build on the future

A memorandum of understanding was signed in Phnom Penh on August 14 by Vietnamese Minister of Construction Nguyen Hong Quan and Senior Cambodian Minister of Land Management, Urbanisation and Construction Im Chun Lim.

(Source: http://ki-media.blogspot.com)

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