Cambodia, Thailand to Partner on Border Zone
In an effort to bolster bilateral trade, Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh and his Thai counterpart, Boonsong Teriyapirom, agreed in Bangkok on Sunday to establish a special economic border zone, Thai media reported yesterday. Though it remained unclear when or where the zone would be set up, ...
Cambodian state-owned telecom firm sees 5% revenue drop in H1
The state-owned Telecom Cambodia reported a 5 percent decline in revenues in the first half of this year due to tough competition in the country’s telecommunication industry, company director general Lao Saroeun said Friday. During the January-June period this year, the firm earned a gross revenue ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2012-08/17/c_131792460.htm
IMF: Cambodia’s economy expected to grow 7 pct in 2012
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted Tuesday that Cambodia’s economy could grow as high as 7 percent this year, 0.8 percentage points higher than its April’s forecast of 6.2 percent. Speaking in a meeting with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sok An, IMF’s Chief of Mission to ...
http://www.nzweek.com/world/imf-cambodias-economy-expected-to-grow-7-pct-in-2012-8368/
Siem Reap International Airport records 340,000 passengers in January, South Korea stands first row
PHNOM PENH: the Siem reap international airport announced today that it gained 340,000 passengers for January and the South Korean passengers stand first class. “This is first time in its history, [sic] the statement said. It adds: barely a month after crossing the 2-millionth passenger milestone, ...
Workers Pledge to Continue Strike Action in Phnom Penh
Garment factory workers on Saturday blocked Street 371 in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district for the second day and said they will continue their strike today unless factory managers give in to their demands. During Saturday’s strike action, more than 3,000 workers from the S.L. Garment Factory ...
Cambodia's inflation slightly up to 3.8% in June
Cambodia’s consumer price index (CPI) increased by 0.1 percent to 3.8 percent in June from 3.7 percent in May this year, according to the latest statistics of the National Institute of Statistics (NIS) on Wednesday. From May to June 2012, price for food increased by 0.9 ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2012-07/25/c_131737766.htm
Royal Group to Import BMWs Into Cambodia
Cambodian conglomerate Royal Group will be the first authorized importer and dealer of BMW automobiles in the country, and has begun construction on a showroom and service center in Phnom Penh. Premium Auto Import Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of Royal Group, aims to import roughly 200 ...
Protests Over Mondulkiri Electricity Prices Resume
About 100 residents of Mondulkirri province’s Sen Monorom City have protested yesterday for the third time in the past 2 weeks in front of the provincial office of state electricity provider Eletricite du Cambodge (Edc), demanding that their electricity be decreased. Vann Neang, who ...
Cambodia reports 60 pct rise in internet users last year
Cambodia recorded about 2.7 million internet users as of December last year, a 60 percent rise year-on-year, a senior official said Thursday. Meanwhile, he said the country has 6 mobile phone operators. As of last year, those operators had sold out 19.1 million SIM cards, ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sci/2013-03/14/c_132234173.htm
Hun Sen Tells Landowners in Kep to Obey Tax Law
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday told landowners in the coastal province of Kep to pay their taxes on unused land and increase the amount of investment in the area to attract more visitors. According to the law, unused land is subject to a 2 percent ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/hun-sen-tells-landowners-in-kep-to-obey-tax-law-26172/
Cambodia sees 22 pct rise in garment exports in 9 months
Garment industry, Cambodia’s largest income earner, reported a 22-percent increase in exports in the first nine months of 2013, showed the data of the Ministry of Commerce released on Tuesday. During the January-September period this year, the country had exported garment products in equivalent to $4.2 ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/819443.shtml#.UmaRFflgd8E
Budget to share the wealth: official
The amount of money to be allocated to commune-, district- and province-level governments is slated to rise next year in accordance with the government’s long-gestating attempts at decentralising its power. Provincial- and capital-level funding will rise to about 640.8 billion riel, with 237.2 billion riel ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/budget-share-wealth-official
Police given $50k for keeping order post-election
Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong and municipal police chief Chuon Sovann hosted a ceremony at Olympic Stadium on Wednesday to award about $25 to each of the city’s police for keeping order in the year following last July’s disputed national election. About 2,000 police officers filed ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-given-50k-for-keeping-order-post-election-65403/
Mobile users top 20 million, internet usage still rising
The number of mobile subscribers in Cambodia topped 20 million last year, surpassing the country’s population by about 5 million. Internet users also jumped, according to a report released Wednesday by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. The report fails to say how many Cambodians own ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/mobile-users-top-20-million-internet-usage-still-rising-55024/
Chinese universities jointly hold education exhibition in Cambodian capital
Twenty-two Chinese higher education institutions jointly held a one-day education exhibition here on Thursday with an aim to boost education cooperation between China and Cambodia and to attract more Cambodian students to study in China. The 2nd edition of China Higher Education Exhibition is held at ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=219804
Road fatalities in Cambodia rise to 1,170 in six months
The number of road fatalities in Cambodia has risen to 1,170 so far this year, up 11 percent compared to the same period last year, according to a latest report by the Interior Ministry’s Public Order Department on Wednesday. Some 2,600 cases of road accidents have ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140625/road-fatalities-cambodia-rise-1170-six-months
Press release on the result of the Council of Ministers’ plenary session held on August 15, 2014
On August 15, 2014 at 8:30 AM a plenary session of the Council of Ministers was held at the Peace Palace under the patronage of Samdech Akeak Moha Senapedei Deikcho Hun Sen, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia in the fifth mandate to ...
Office of the Council of Ministers
Tourist rushed to Bangkok after falling from Siem Reap temple
A Chinese tourist visiting Angkor Wat was rushed to a Bangkok hospital on Saturday after falling off a staircase at the temple complex in Siem Reap City while taking photos of the iconic monument, officials said Monday. Chau Sun Kerya, spokeswoman for the Apsara Authority—the government ...
Sihanoukville construction sites scaled back
Preah Sihanouk provincial governor Chhit Sokhon ordered three construction sites near Sihanoukville’s O’Tres Beach to scale back their projects on Friday after the owners overstepped building limitations, officials said Sunday. Mr. Sokhon ordered three construction sites along the O’Tres stream, an inlet that stretches about 2 ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sihanoukville-construction-sites-scaled-back-67371/
Audi opens dealership in capital
Automotive Asia (Cambodia), the only authorised dealer of Audi vehicles in Cambodia, opened its first showroom in Phnom Penh yesterday. The 2,000-square-metre showroom on Monivong Boulevard currently holds just two of the German carmaker’s models, the Q7 and the A8L, with prices ranging between $135,000 and ...
Hor Kimsay
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/audi-opens-dealership-capital