• Accident at H&M garment factory in Cambodia injures 23

  A shelter collapsed injuring 23 workers on Monday at a Cambodian factory producing garments for H&M, police said, the latest incident to raise concerns about regional industrial safety. The concrete and metal structure, where workers were resting during their lunch break, fell down in the compound of the Hong Kong-owned Top World factory located in Phnom Penh, said local police [...]

  

• Danish Representative office in Cambodia will close permanently

  The Danish Representative office in Cambodia will close permanently from May 31. Questions or requests on business can be directed at the Danish Embassy in Bangkok. Contact information at  www.um.dk. Consular affairs will be at the Danish Embassy in Bangkok or through one of the following EU-Embassies in Cambodia: France, Germany, Great Britain and Sweden. Danes in distress are to [...]

  

• Danish parliament ready to support double citizenship

  Danes abroad rejoice as a political majority now seems to be in place to permit them to hold dual  citizenship. A change in the law will make it possible for Danes outside of Denmark to adopt the nationality of their new home country without having to cancel their Danish citizenship. The political party “Venstre” announced on Saturday, that they were [...]

  

• Sweden awards grant to Civil Society Organizations in Cambodia

  The Swedish Embassy in Phnom Penh announces the award of $ 1.5 million to support the Community Based Adaptation Program. An extension agreement between Sweden and UNDP was signed on 10 May, 2013 in Phnom Penh by Anne Höglund, the Swedish Ambassador to Cambodia at the Embassy of Sweden and Setsuko Yamazaki, the country director of UNDP. Sweden will, through [...]

  

• Norwegian pianist to perform with Khmer singer in Cambodia

  Norwegian pianist and composer Ingolv Haaland will perform at Meta House Sunday 26th May 6.30 p.m., featuring Khmer singer Ouch Savy and Tro player Yun Theara. The music is a mix of lounge, ambient and improvisation with Khmer lyrics By Savy and melodic themes by Theara. An upcoming record release will contain the new musical material presented in this concert. [...]

  

• Norwegian found dead in Siem Reap hotel

  A young male Norwegian tourist has reportedly been found dead in his room on the 3rd floor of the Thunborey Hotel, Siem Reap in Cambodia. A police official identified the dead foreigner as ‘Kristoffer Gulliksen”, a 22 year old Norwegian male, holding passport #28242067. The deceased had entered Siem Reap Town on the 18th of April, 2013, arriving in Cambodia through [...]

  

• Cambodian hotel employees set for exchange programme in Norway

  Two Khmer employees from Soria Moria Boutique Hotel will relocate to Norway for a year in September, as part of an innovative new job swap scheme orchestrated by hotel founder Kristin Holdo Hansen, the Phnom Penh Post reported. Hansen conceived the employee exchange program as part of preparations for the eventual handover of Soria Moria to Khmer staff. “We’re in [...]

  

• Damco expands operations in Cambodia

  Alongside growing Cambodian exports, Danish logistics company Damco opened a second CFS warehouse facility in Phnom Penh on April 5. According to the Phnompenh Post, the 10,500-square-metre facility, on National Road 4, brings the company’s total warehousing capacity in Cambodia to 16,500 square metres. “We have seen many new factories set up, especially in the garment sector, and Damco also [...]

  

• Embassy of Finland in Thailand supports development projects

  The Embassy of Finland is supporting selected small-scale development projects in the lower Mekong Region through Fund for Local Cooperation (FLC), budgeted at around 120.000 euro annually. The fund is an instrument of the Finnish government to complement its development cooperation efforts and usually available from Finnish embassies to local Civil Society in eligible countries. Following the objectives of Finland’s [...]

  

• New Finnish ambassador to Bangkok

  Finland will have a new ambassador to Thailand by September 1. Sirpa Mäenpää is currently Finland’s Ambassador to Bangkok, with responsibility for Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos but will be transferring to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as from 1 September 2013. She has worked at the diplomatic missions of Finland previously, serving at the Embassy of Finland in Nairobi and as the Chargé d’Affaires ad [...]

  

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Accident at H&M garment factory in Cambodia injures 23

A shelter collapsed injuring 23 workers on Monday at a Cambodian factory producing garments for H&M, police said, the latest incident to raise concerns about regional industrial safety. The concrete and metal structure, where workers were resting during their lunch break, fell down in the compound of the Hong Kong-owned Top World factory located in Phnom Penh, said local police [...]

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by Anders Holm Nielsen / on May 21, 2013 at 12:46 /

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Danish Representative office in Cambodia will close permanently

The Danish Representative office in Cambodia will close permanently from May 31. Questions or requests on business can be directed at the Danish Embassy in Bangkok. Contact information at  www.um.dk. Consular affairs will be at the Danish Embassy in Bangkok or through one of the following EU-Embassies in Cambodia: France, Germany, Great Britain and Sweden. Danes in distress are to [...]

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by Anders Holm Nielsen / on May 20, 2013 at 13:07 /

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Danish parliament ready to support double citizenship

Danes abroad rejoice as a political majority now seems to be in place to permit them to hold dual  citizenship. A change in the law will make it possible for Danes outside of Denmark to adopt the nationality of their new home country without having to cancel their Danish citizenship. The political party “Venstre” announced on Saturday, that they were [...]

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by Gregers Møller / on May 19, 2013 at 19:29 /

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Sweden awards grant to Civil Society Organizations in Cambodia

The Swedish Embassy in Phnom Penh announces the award of $ 1.5 million to support the Community Based Adaptation Program. An extension agreement between Sweden and UNDP was signed on 10 May, 2013 in Phnom Penh by Anne Höglund, the Swedish Ambassador to Cambodia at the Embassy of Sweden and Setsuko Yamazaki, the country director of UNDP. Sweden will, through [...]

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by Anders Holm Nielsen / on May 15, 2013 at 16:41 /

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Norwegian pianist to perform with Khmer singer in Cambodia

Norwegian pianist and composer Ingolv Haaland will perform at Meta House Sunday 26th May 6.30 p.m., featuring Khmer singer Ouch Savy and Tro player Yun Theara. The music is a mix of lounge, ambient and improvisation with Khmer lyrics By Savy and melodic themes by Theara. An upcoming record release will contain the new musical material presented in this concert. [...]

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by Anders Holm Nielsen / on May 14, 2013 at 17:25 /

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Norwegian found dead in Siem Reap hotel

A young male Norwegian tourist has reportedly been found dead in his room on the 3rd floor of the Thunborey Hotel, Siem Reap in Cambodia. A police official identified the dead foreigner as ‘Kristoffer Gulliksen”, a 22 year old Norwegian male, holding passport #28242067. The deceased had entered Siem Reap Town on the 18th of April, 2013, arriving in Cambodia through [...]

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by Gregers Møller / on April 20, 2013 at 11:30 /

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Cambodian hotel employees set for exchange programme in Norway

Two Khmer employees from Soria Moria Boutique Hotel will relocate to Norway for a year in September, as part of an innovative new job swap scheme orchestrated by hotel founder Kristin Holdo Hansen, the Phnom Penh Post reported. Hansen conceived the employee exchange program as part of preparations for the eventual handover of Soria Moria to Khmer staff. “We’re in [...]

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by Sippachai Kunnuwong / on April 10, 2013 at 14:49 /

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Damco expands operations in Cambodia

Alongside growing Cambodian exports, Danish logistics company Damco opened a second CFS warehouse facility in Phnom Penh on April 5. According to the Phnompenh Post, the 10,500-square-metre facility, on National Road 4, brings the company’s total warehousing capacity in Cambodia to 16,500 square metres. “We have seen many new factories set up, especially in the garment sector, and Damco also [...]

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by Sippachai Kunnuwong / on April 10, 2013 at 13:54 /

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Embassy of Finland in Thailand supports development projects

The Embassy of Finland is supporting selected small-scale development projects in the lower Mekong Region through Fund for Local Cooperation (FLC), budgeted at around 120.000 euro annually. The fund is an instrument of the Finnish government to complement its development cooperation efforts and usually available from Finnish embassies to local Civil Society in eligible countries. Following the objectives of Finland’s [...]

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by Anders Holm Nielsen / on March 21, 2013 at 15:40 /

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New Finnish ambassador to Bangkok

Finland will have a new ambassador to Thailand by September 1. Sirpa Mäenpää is currently Finland’s Ambassador to Bangkok, with responsibility for Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos but will be transferring to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as from 1 September 2013. She has worked at the diplomatic missions of Finland previously, serving at the Embassy of Finland in Nairobi and as the Chargé d’Affaires ad [...]

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by Anders Holm Nielsen / on March 15, 2013 at 17:03 /