Street vendors told to move
Daun Penh district authorities have ordered a group of Kandal market vendors to move in the hopes of reopening a street that has blocked vehicular traffic for many years. ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5098331/street-vendors-told-move/
Eight timber trucks seized
A team of Pursat provincial and national military police seized eight trucks loaded with timber on National Road 55 in Kravanh district’s Samraong commune on Monday and yesterday. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5099637/eight-timber-trucks-seized/
Factory for Nissan cars, parts proposed
A Malaysian automotive company has requested approval to establish a factory in Cambodia to assemble Nissan automobiles and manufacture spare parts for the vehicles, a government official said yesterday. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/factory-nissan-cars-parts-proposed
Villagers call on government amid water shortage
Villagers living in two drought-afflicted Banteay Meanchey districts appealed to authorities to distribute water yesterday, though officials claim the situation is not yet severe enough to warrant it. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-call-government-amid-water-shortage
Pension scheme set for launch
A pension scheme for people working in the private sector will be launched later this year, according to an official from the National Social Security Fund. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36750/pension-scheme-set-for-launch/
Power to the provinces
People in Svay Rieng, Prey Veng and Kandal provinces are to benefit from stable electricity supplies after a $75 million project to expand the national grid went online yesterday. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37612/power-to-the-provinces/
Election monitor: Sample-based observation most effective
Transparency International has pledged a rapid assessment of potential irregularities in Sunday’s commune elections by sending 1,100 observers across Cambodia—including, if needed, by boat and helicopter. ...
Hannah Hawkins
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/election-monitor-sample-based-observation-most-effective-130668/
City buses to expand to new routes
Phnom Penh’s city bus municipal public transit system will be adding five bus routes to its existing network in mid-July, City Hall spokesman Met Measpheakdey said yesterday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/city-buses-expand-new-routes
$55m grant to fight HIV and TB
The government and the Global Fund have signed a grant agreement worth more than $55 million to implement anti-AIDS and tuberculosis programmes in Cambodia from 2018 to 2020. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5097032/55m-grant-fight-hiv-tb/
Decree reviewed for loopholes
The Interior Ministry yesterday created a working group to review possible loopholes in a royal decree establishing a social security healthcare fund for public officials, civil servants and veterans. ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50101665/decree-reviewed-loopholes/
Takeo governor seeks end to Vietnamese renting farmland
Takeo provincial governor Lay Vannak yesterday requested his Vietnamese counterpart in An Giang province to stop their farmers from renting land from Cambodians along the border between both provinces. ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50113875/takeo-governor-seeks-end-to-vietnamese-renting-farmland/
Cambodian, Chinese firms sign co-op MOUs
PHNOM PENH – Cambodian and Chinese firms on Friday signed a number of memorandums of understanding (MOUs) on business cooperation in the fields of agriculture, mineral resources, food, garment, and electronic products. ...
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2012-05/19/content_15337371.htm
MFIs as one commercial bank
PhillipCapital, a Singapore-based integrated financial services provider and a majority stakeholder in three of Cambodia’s micro-finance institutions (MFIs), plans to consolidate the three into a commercial bank. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2012122560462/Business/mfis-as-one-commercial-bank.html
Geopacific extends its copper zone
Geopacific Resources, an Australian mineral exploration company, said it has extended the zone of copper found in Preah Vihear province’s Kou Sa district to 18 kilometres, the company announced yesterday. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052965899/Business/geopacific-extends-its-copper-zone.html
Embassies abroad get reminder about graft
Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called on all embassies and consulates to accelerate visa application procedures and cease charging “unofficial” fees, in an apparent bid to stamp out corruption abroad. ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/embassies-abroad-get-reminder-about-graft
PPSEZ to get clinic
A private clinic aiming to provide medical care to factory workers in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (SEZ) will open this month, the health centre’s managing director said yesterday. ...
Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ppsez-get-clinic
S. Iswaran leading Singapore team to Cambodia to strengthen business ties
Mr S Iswaran Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office and Second Minister for Home Affairs and Trade and Industry will be making an official visit to Cambodia on 21 July 2014. ...
The Straits Times News Staff
http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/more-singapore-stories/story/mr-iswaran-leading-singapore-team-cambodia-strenghten-bu
Timber seized during bust
Mixed security forces led by Kratie province’s court prosecutor yesterday arrested six people in a huge illegal logging bust, confiscating more than 100 cubic metres of protected luxury-grade timber. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/timber-seized-during-bust
Food fight: Vendors and security feud over parking
Security guards from Derm Kor market in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kork district destroyed produce from nearly 100 vegetable vendors yesterday morning after ordering sellers to vacate the premises for parking. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/food-fight-vendors-and-security-feud-over-parking
Municipal court concludes trial of six Vietnamese brothel staff
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday concluded the trial of six Vietnamese nationals accused of selling 20 girls and women for sex out of two establishments in the city center. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/municipal-court-concludes-trial-of-six-vietnamese-brothel-staff-7026