Cambodia's debt a concern
An International Monetary Fund and World Bank report has questioned Cambodia’s ability to deal with future financial crises if government borrowing increases.
While the report indicated that Cambodia was at low risk for severe debt problems, it highlighted the need for effective management of new debt
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Cambodia May Lure Up to 10 IPOs a Year, Korea Bourse Says
Cambodia’s stock market, which is set to open next week after several delays, may be able to lure five-to-10 initial public offerings a year, according to Korea Exchange Inc., the Cambodian government’s partner in the bourse.
State-owned Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) will start trading
PM ends a land dispute with a gift
While meeting locals and officials in Preah Vihear province yesterday, Prime Minister Hun Sen decided to allocate more than 80 hectares of airport land in Preah Vihear town’s Palhal commune to 127 families. In a meeting with officials and armed forces that was announced on Mr. Hun Sen’s official
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28989/pm-ends-a-land-dispute-with-a-gift/
Cambodia: a generation gap divides a struggling nation
Surveys are rare in Cambodia and opinion polls indicating which way the electorate intends to vote are even rarer. That partially explains why so many other commentators failed to predict the hefty swing against Prime Minister Hun Sen at the last national poll.
Luke Hunt
http://thediplomat.com/2015/12/cambodia-a-generation-gap-divides-a-struggling-nation/
Rubber up $100 a tonne in a week
The price of rubber jumped to $2,500 per tonne last week after months of the commodity steadily dropping, industry analysts reported.
The jump of $100 a tonne, or 4.2 per cent, comes after the price for rubber dropped in June from above $3,000 per tonne, according
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Cambodian workers on £10 a week making Olympics 'fanwear’
Adidas, the sportswear company, is facing an investigation over claims that Cambodian workers are being paid £10 a week in basic wages to make official merchandise for the London Olympics.
It is one of the 2012 Games’ largest sponsors, believed to have invested £100 million, and
Cambodia Post sees a 10 pct rise in revenue
National mail service provider Cambodia Post reported a 10 per cent increase in 2014 revenues yesterday, as increasing consumer confidence boosted use of the once-fledgling service.
The service provider, which was privatised in 2011, collected $5.19 million in revenue last year, up 14 per cent from
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-post-sees-10-pct-rise-revenue
Villagers Block Road to Stop Threat of Evictions
A simmering land dispute in Kratie province’s Snuol Wildlife Sanctuary flared up Friday as hundreds of desperate villagers blocked National Road 76A for four hours in an effort to prevent the clearing of their homes and farms by a rubber company, villagers and human rights
Government Says New Jet Was Leased From Chinese Airline
The Council of Ministers has revealed that its new Airbus A320, meant for shuttling Prime Minister Hun Sen and a select few others around the world, is being leased from China Southern Airlines but refrained from disclosing how much the deal was worth.
Last month, CPP
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-says-new-jet-was-leased-from-chinese-airline-12328/
Cambodian documentary makes Sundance Film Festival
Until the arrival of large-scale development around her home in the northeastern province of Ratanakkiri, Sav Samourn, a member of the ethnic Jarai minority, was frightened of wild animals and ghosts.
But as trees disappeared and industrial machinery razed the forestland, the old fears fell away.
Kingdom’s crafts can be hit in Korea
Cambodian handicrafts and home decor products could take off with South Korean buyers if certain obstacles – conceptual design, development techniques, and slow delivery services – are overcome, business owners and merchants said yesterday.
Speaking at a seminar on Korean Market Access for Cambodia’s textiles at
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A raft of complications
Riun Pau ran out of food last week.
For the 13-year-old and her family, that moment was the culmination of weeks of distress caused by flooding that had already ravaged their Battambang home and farmland.
Pau’s neighbours are experiencing similar problems. In Battambang, 67.3 per cent
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/raft-complications
A nation pays respects
They came from down the road and from across the country, trailing flags and portraits in their wake. They paused to pin thin black ribbons and coarse patches of cloth onto blazing white shirts.
And, one by one, starting early yesterday morning, Cambodian mourners lined the
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A protest economy emerges
By 10am, Siv Lin, the owner of a mobile food stall facing Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park, had prepared all the rice, pork, eggs and vegetables needed to serve yesterday’s regular lunch crowd.
It was a normal day. But on September 7, when thousands of opposition Cambodia
Hor Kimsay and Anne Renzenbrink
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/protest-economy-emerges
Mfone workers paid, a little
After months of protests, more than 1,000 former Mfone employees yesterday received just 10 per cent of the $4.4 million they were demanding in compensation after the telecom company filed for bankruptcy in January.
Court-appointed administrator Ouk Ry, entrusted with the sale of Mfone’s assets,
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mfone-workers-paid-little
A man’s world
Straining under the weight of bricks, buckets and metal bars, a faceless army carry their loads from trucks to a massive building site on Penh Penh’s Diamond Island. Hidden beneath wide-brimmed hats and kramas masking their faces from dust and the sun, the battalion of
Frédéric Janssens
http://sea-globe.com/female-construction-workers-cambodia/
Fishermen catch a rough deal
Fish yields have supposedly dropped by 20 to 30 percent according to fisherman, as a result of the destruction of natural marine environments such as mangroves and the increase in the number of people fishing. Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries estimated the total number
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011070850280/National-news/fishermen-catch-a-rough-deal.html
Bunong families petition PM
Four villagers representing more than 1,800 Bunong ethnic families who are embroiled in a territorial spat in Mondulkiri province petitioned two ministries and Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday.They want the authorities to push the local authority to revoke the private ownership of a portion
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bunong-families-petition-pm
A dreaded homecoming
With the deadline looming for hundreds of Montagnard asylum seekers in Cambodia to return “voluntarily” to the site of their alleged persecution or be forced back across the border, a group who have spent months living in the shadows this week spoke out about their
Alice Cuddy and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dreaded-homecoming
A budding friendship
A more than hour-long meeting between Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, making his first-ever visit to Cambodia, and Prime Minister Hun Sen ended yesterday afternoon with an aide to the premier offering reporters the typical avowals of “cooperation”. But while the state visit – which included
Jack Davies and Touch Sokha
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