Women’s health gets $14m boost
Taking strides to curb Cambodia’s high maternal and child mortality rates, health officials yesterday launched a $14 million initiative to improve women’s limited access to reproductive health care. During the three-year Partnering to Save Lives campaign, funded by AusAid, NGOs Care Cambodia, Marie Stopes and Save ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/women%E2%80%99s-health-gets-14m-boost
Vattanac Capital preparing for eventful 2014
Phnom Penh’s growing importance as a business destination has brought with it many opportunities and infused the market with a growing sense of ambition. Few developments embody this new ambition better than Vattanac Capital Tower, which will throw open its doors this spring. “Cambodia’s seen nothing ...
Nalin Viboonchart
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/vattanac-capital-preparing-eventful-2014
UK, US pledge ASEAN support
The United States has expressed its commitment to the success of next week’s 19th ASEAN Regional Forum, which will be held in Phnom Penh, while British Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne said on the same day that the United Kingdom plans to strengthen its relationship ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012070557222/Business/uk-us-pledge-asean-support.html
AEON tenants target Cambodia’s middle class
An ice-skating rink, bowling alley, seven-screen cinema and a proverbial catwalk of high-end European and US labels will start vying for a slice of Cambodia’s rising middle class inside the soon-to-open AEON Mall, management with the firm overseeing it confirmed on Saturday. The Japanese-owned shopping centre’s ...
Hor Kimsay and Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/aeon-tenants-target-cambodia%E2%80%99s-middle-class
New Tuol Kok Mall to Add to District’s Growth
A new open-air mall sporting high-end luxury shops and restaurants in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kok district is the latest expansion of the suburban neighborhood, though widespread commercialization of the area could still take years, property executives said Monday. The mall, called TK Avenue, opened Friday at ...
Joshua Wilwohl and Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/new-tuol-kok-mall-to-add-to-districts-growth-49777/
Brown rice standards are being promoted
Cambodian officials have begun to raise awareness on the forthcoming government issued standards for Cambodian milled brown rice, in an effort to guage reactions ahead of the official approval by the National Standards Board, according to officials. The official approval, aimed at promoting brown rice in ...
Barriers block streets, customers
Security barricades and razor-wire installations set up around Phnom Penh yesterday were supposed to maintain order as the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party kicked off what it promised to be three days of mass protests. But the show of force and control had more of an ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/barriers-block-streets-customers
UK foreign office minister in Cambodia delivers message of assurance despite EU troubles
Jeremy Browne, UK foreign office minister, told officials in Cambodia during a two-day visit that despite the current problems the European Union is having with its currency union and economies, ASEAN should not be discouraged from pursuing closer economic and even political coordination within the 1.0-member bloc. Speaking at the Council of Ministers in Phnom ...
Brown Coffee Chain Expands With Third Store
What do three Cambodian teenage girls, a French T-shirt designer, a Japanese doctoral student and a Cambodian businessman have in common? On Thursday afternoon, they were all captured by the appeal of BRow Coffee and Bakery on street 214. The value of this crowd of ...
US retailers express support for Cambodian living wage
As a new round of Cambodian wage negotiations approaches this month, major U.S. and European retailers who source from the country say they will be watching the talks carefully and want to see fair pay for workers. Representatives of the brands like Gap, Levi Strauss, and ...
Kimseng Men
http://www.voanews.com/content/us-retailers-express-support-for-cambodian-living-wage/2470747.html
New Cafe to Enter Growing Cambodian Market
Caffe Bene, South Korea’s second-largest coffee chain, on Tuesday announced plans to open in Cambodia, according to a Korean media report. But while its entrance adds one more competitor to the more than half-a-dozen coffee chains already in the country, local franchises said the market is ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/new-cafe-to-enter-growing-cambodian-market-36434/
Local brands standing firm
Inside a shop in a restored building on the corner of Sothearos Boulevard and Street 266, nearly 10 Cambodians wearing the same uniform are walking around and cleaning tables. By the end of this year, Brown Coffee will have a total of eight branches in ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/local-brands-standing-firm
Cambodia, U.S. pledge to further enhance mutually beneficial cooperation
SokChendaSophea, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, engaged here on Dec. 14 in a friendly discussion with H.E. Ms. Melissa A. Brown, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, during the latter’s working visit to the ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501407468/cambodia-u-s-pledge-to-further-enhance-mutually-beneficial-cooperation/
Muddy Waters Have Authorities Singing the Blues
Authorities in Kratie and Stung Treng provinces on Thursday said that they were investigating an unusual change of color in the Mekong River to a muddy, dark brown that was unnatural for this time of the year and was worrying residents. Since the beginning of this ...
Ben Sokhean and Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/muddy-waters-have-authorities-singing-the-blues-50792/
JS Global (Cambodia) Brings in Korean Rice Milling Machines
JS Global (Cambodia), a Phnom Penh-based organization that aims to promote trade between Cambodia and other countries, is importing rice milling machines, manufactured by Dong Yang Industries. Dong Yang Industries, a Korean company established in 1955, has developed its own technology since 1990 to manufacture ...
Vultures return to sanctuary after five-year absence
Brown and white-rumped vultures have returned to nests in Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary in Mondulkiri province after an absence of more than five years due to poisoning from human activity, a joint statement from the Ministry of Environment and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vultures-return-sanctuary-after-five-year-absence
Taking Count of Cambodia’s Flying Fox Bats
At around 6 p.m. in Phnom Penh each evening, about 5,000 large brown bats, having spent the day dangling upside down from a tree at Wat Phnom, spread their huge wings and fly out to begin their nightly search for fruit. And as useful and ...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/taking-count-of-cambodias-flying-fox-bats-45421/
U.S. imports large volume of organic rice
An unusual report shows that organic rice buyers in the U.S. are getting a large percentage of their rice from Cambodia. The Cambodian Center for Study and Development in Agriculture (CEDAC) exported 114 tonnes of organic jasmine rice to the U.S. in the first quarter of ...
http://www.agprofessional.com/news/US-imports-large-volume-of-organic-rice-201976661.html
Short on Water in the Tonle Sap
Residents of a village in the middle of Cambodia’s Tonle Sap “Great Lake” live surrounded by water, but don’t have enough access to clean water for drinking, cooking, and washing. The Tonle Sap, a combined lake and river system that swells in the rainy season to ...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/water-03202013141227.html
First certified organic rice heads for Europe
Five metric tonnes of certified organic rice — the first such shipment from Cambodia — will depart for the European Union this Friday. The shipment, exported from Cambodia by an entity called Green Trade, comprises three tonnes of brown rice and two tonnes of white jasmine ...