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/
Rice exports to Thailand dive
Rice exports to Thailand plummeted in the first four months of the year as a result of that country’s surplus, which reached record levels at the end of 2013. Between January and April, Cambodia exported just 1,550 tonnes of rice to Thailand, down 89 per cent ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-exports-thailand-dive
Cambodia tightens aviation security after Malaysian flight vanishes
Cambodia would further tighten security on passengers’ identities following the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines plane with two passengers boarding with stolen passports, a senior official at the Security and Safety Department at the Civil Aviation said Monday. “In fact, our security at all airports is ...
Asean-China Centre News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2014-03/11/c_133177136.htm
New deadlock but old tactics, analysts say
Ahead of today’s hearing on Cambodia’s record at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, opposition figures and analysts said the ruling Cambodian People’s Party has reverted to familiar tactics of post-election suppression. Analysts yesterday said that the breaking up of Cambodia National Rescue Party-led protests ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-deadlock-old-tactics-analysts-say
‘Price Dumping’ in Telecoms Market Still Persists
The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications implemented a law preventing mobile phone service providers from selling at less than cost over a year and a half ago, though the companies are still lowering their tariffs in an effort to remain competitive in the highly saturated ...
Poachers destroy wildlife cams
At least 107 cameras deployed for tracking endangered wildlife in the northeast provinces of Cambodia were dismantled or destroyed by poachers, according to a provincial environment official on Thursday. Mondulkiri Provincial Environment Department director Keo Sopheak told The Post thAt the dismantling of the cameras ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poachers-destroy-wildlife-cams
Thousands affected by flooding, strong winds in first half of August
Almost 8,000 families and some 8,000ha of agricultural land in eight provinces have been affected by flooding and strong winds in August, National Committee for Disaster Management spokesman Keo Vy said on Thursday. Speaking at a press conference at the Council of Ministers, he said ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thousands-affected-flooding-strong-winds-first-half-august
Cambodia, Laos to sign 2,400-MW power deal
Cambodia and Laos will sign a power deal next week during the state visit of the Laotian prime minister. Through next week’s agreement, the Kingdom will buy 2,400 megawatts from neighbouring Laos. Next week’s deal will be discussed at the Council of Ministers tomorrow, according ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50641688/cambodia-laos-to-sign-2400-mw-power-deal/
Experts stress efforts to up food standards
Cambodian experts on Tuesday urged entrepreneurs, traders, producers and suppliers to pay more attention to food safety standards to ensure the welfare of consumers. The appeal was made at the Food Safety Forum held at the Mekong Institute under cooperation with Institute of Standards of ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/experts-stress-efforts-food-standards
Hun Sen leaves Kingdom for Belt and Road Forum in Beijing
Prime Minister Hun Sen and his delegation left the Kingdom yesterday to attend the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing where a number of assistance agreements are expected to be signed. Sry Thamrong, minister attached to the Prime Minister, said at Phnom Penh International Airport that ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50598349/hun-sen-leaves-kingdom-for-belt-and-road-forum-in-beijing/
Government reveals new budget reform strategy
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday announced the government’s new strategy for budget reform aimed at enhancing the sound management of public funds. Dubbed ‘Budget system reform programme for 2018-2025’, the new blueprint for the country’s budgetary policy was presented to the public during the ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50303602/government-reveals-new-budget-reform-strategy/
Top cop to officers: ‘behave’
Cambodian police officers need to step up their game, the Kingdom’s top cop told his department hierarchy this week.Speaking at a ceremony to promote two senior officers on Monday, National Police chief Neth Savoeun said staff who want to be promoted or rewarded needed to ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/top-cop-officers-behave
Boost for seafood exports
The Institute of Standards of Cambodia (ISC) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) will team up to boost the export of four seafood products that adhere to international standards. Speaking at a workshop at the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft yesterday, ISC director-general Chan ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30243/boost-for-seafood-exports/
Doctor gets 25 years for HIV outbreak
An unlicensed doctor was sentenced to 25 years in prison yesterday after being found guilty by Battambang Provincial Court of “torture with aggravating circumstances” for infecting hundreds of people with HIV.Yem Chroeum, 56, stared at the ground as presiding judge Yich Chheanavy read out the ...
Phak Seangly and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/doctor-gets-25-years-hiv-outbreak
Two Cambodian merchants denied bail in Thai court
The two Cambodian merchants arrested at Rong Kluea Market during a Thai Department of Special Investigation (DSI) raid that turned violent earlier this month were denied bail on Friday by the Thai Court of Appeals, according to a statement released by the Cambodian Foreign Affairs ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21374/two-cambodian-merchants-denied-bail-in-thai-court/
China okays Cambodia rice
Cambodian milled rice has passed quality and food hygiene tests for export to China. A delegation of Chinese experts inspected the quality and safety at 27 rice mills during a week-long visit, said Hean Vanhan, director-general of the agriculture department at the Agriculture Ministry. The result of ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32940/china-okays-cambodia-rice/
Sokha: CNRP will win elections
Kem Sokha has claimed official and unofficial opinion polls show the opposition CNRP is on track to win a majority at the commune elections in June.Addressing supporters at a fundraising drive in Auckland, New Zealand last week, the opposition leader said his party was making ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37388/sokha--cnrp-will-win-elections/
Strikes break out in wake of wage policy
Two strikes have broken out at large processing companies in the past week as employers respond to the government’s minimum wage policy with what workers say are cutbacks in conditions. Almost all the 800 Cambodian workers who staged industrial action at a seafood company in Songkhla ...
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/288647/strikes-break-out-in-wake-of-wage-policy
Renewed MAI flights touch down in Cambodia
Myanmar Airways International (MAI) has resumed flights between Yangon and Phnom Penh after a four-month suspension due to low demand. The MAI flight landed at Phnom Penh International Airport at 7:15pm on Saturday. MAI country manager Ye Jhan told a press conference to cover the flight’s arrival ...
Koreans aim for medical tourists from Kingdom
The 24,000 Cambodians who visited South Korea during 2011 included about 100 people going for medical services, most of them high-ranking Cambodian government officials, according to Charm Lee, President of the Korea Tourism Organization. at a Korean Medical Tourism conference on Saturday at Sofitel in Phnom ...