$20 million rice mill for Oddong
When London-based real estate investor Sanjay Dhir heard about Cambodia from his Indian partner Manoj Varma, he took a trip here in October 2010 and stopped by the roadside to meet the operators of a portable rice mill. He knew then that Cambodia was ready for ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012071757449/Business/20-million-rice-mill-for-oddong.html
China to help conserve Cambodia's Angkor World Heritage Site
Cambodia’s Apsara Authority and China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the project of sustainable management of the existing resources for conservation and sustainable development in Angkor World Heritage Site and Siem Reap region. The deal was inked between ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-06/27/c_132492881.htm
Factory’s owner in crosshairs
Some 400 garment workers yesterday gathered outside the Ministry of Social Affairs to plead for government intervention against a factory owner who fled without paying them overdue wages three months ago. Khem Chamnan, a Free Trade Union representative from the Pine Great (Cambodia) factory in Phnom ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013070266604/National/factory-s-owner-in-crosshairs.html
Egat wants coal plants in Cambodia, Myanmar, Krabi
Energy Minister Pongsak Ruktapongpisal has given the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) the green light to proceed with a plan to build coal-powered plants in Myanmar and Cambodia – providing Thailand with 10,000 megawatts of electricity. Egat has also been instructed to negotiate the ...
Mizuho bank links up with Maybank and Canadia
Japan-based Mizuho Bank (MHBK) has signed an agreement with two well-established banks in Cambodia that is designed to help Mizuho leverage a wider range of financial services when dealing with Japanese clients. The memorandum of understanding was inked on Friday in Phnom Penh between Mizuho’s president ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mizuho-bank-links-maybank-and-canadia
Indochine raises A$5.5m, sells 85% of Cambodia gold assets
ASX-listed Indochine Mining has completed the first part of a A$26.3-million capital raising, and has signed a deal with fellow-listed Capital Mining to dispose of an 85% shareholding in its wholly owned subsidiary, which owns gold assets in Cambodia. Earlier this month, the precious metals developer ...
Esmarie Swanepoel
http://www.miningweekly.com/article/indochine-raises-a55m-sells-85-of-cambodia-gold-assets-2013-10-08
Thai protesters rally against Xayaburi dam construction
Protests over construction of the controversial Xayaburi hydro dam project in northern Laos could spread from Thailand to Cambodia as communities along the Mekong River begin to feel its negative effects, an International Rivers programme director said yesterday. About 70 Thai villagers who rely on the ...
Minister urges fast-track on study for S Reap expressway
The transport minister on February 15 requested a fast-track on a feasibility study of a new expressway connecting Phnom Penh to Siem Reap, to sign a deal for the project by the end of the third quarter. Minister of Public Works and Transport Sun Chanthol ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/minister-urges-fast-track-study-s-reap-expressway
Cambodia bets big on renewable energy projects
Last month, the government has approved five renewable energy projects totalling 520 MW to increase power supply to the national grid. The latest to hit the energy circuit is Royal Group of Companies that sealed the deal with Panna Energy, Samaiden Energy and Management Venture ...
Adur Pradeep
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501282026/cambodia-bets-big-on-renewable-energy-projects/
Malaysian FM chairs coordination virtual meeting with Ambassador in Cambodia, other nations, to deal with job scam syndicates
Malaysian Foreign minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Abdullah on Tuesday chaired a coordination meeting with government agencies to refine, frame, monitor and implement action concerning job scam syndicate cases involving Malaysian citizens abroad. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501160065/malaysian-fm-chairs-coordination-virtual-meeting-with-ambassador-in-cambodia-other-nations-to-deal-with-job-scam-syndicates/
Announcement on the 2018 YSEALI regional workshop: protecting the Mekong delta environment
The U.S. Mission to Vietnam and the Resource Center for Community Development (RCCD), An Giang University seek candidates for the 2018 YSEALI Regional Workshop: Protecting The Mekong Delta Environment which will be being held from June 4-9, 2018.ASEAN citizens between the ages of 18 and ...
US Embassy
Cyber bill raises concerns
Cambodia’s highly secretive draft law on cybercrime, which has never been released publicly, seeks to criminalise online content that “slanders or undermines” government agencies, ministries or officials or affects “political cohesiveness”, a copy obtained by the Post reveals. The law, which was first announced in May ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cyber-bill-raises-concerns
Announcement on the change of travelling conditions entering into Cambodia, implementation of health and quarantine measures
On 11 November 2020, the Ministry of Health has posted an anNouncement regarding the change of travelling conditions entering into Cambodia, implementation of health and quarantine measures. This change aims to facilitate travel into Cambodia include investors, company staff, experts, insured technicians or general foreign ...
Ministry of Health
More predictions for CSX start date
The Cambodia Securities Exchange may launch as soon as March or April, according to an official at the Korea Exchange, the Kingdom’s partner in launching its stock market. Final preparations for the CSX’s initial public offerings should be complete at that time, Pat Gil-soo, senior vice-president ...
Students get exam results
As many as 75,059 students or 66.21 per cent passed this year’s high school examinations. The figure is 2.37 per cent higher than last year, a Ministry of Education announcement said on Sunday. The ministry said this year, the number students who received either an ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/students-get-exam-results
Untrained & unlicensed: a look at Cambodia’s public health system
When the Cambodia National Assembly passed the 2016 national budget last December Cambodia’s public health system was not high on the list for additional resources, receiving a meager 8 per cent increase from the year prior, or $275 million. Admirably education received a boost of ...
Governor pledges sanctuary action
The Kampong Chhnang provincial governor has vowed to ramp up action to protect the Phnom oral Wildlife Sanctuary in Kampong Chhnang province, which he said is rife with illegal logging and kilns.“We are stopping people from getting into the sanctuary and cutting down trees with ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33515/governor-pledges-sanctuary-action/
Electronics market in Cambodia booms
The burgeoning demand for high-end electronic devices in Cambodia, driven by a more affluent and growing middle class, has doubled or even tripled sales revenues in the country, industry leaders say. “The market demand is shifting to the premium segment – from normal phones to smart ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013012460963/Business/electronics-market-in-cambodia-booms.html
New rules for proctors
In its continuing campaign to clean up the grade 12 national exam, the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) has warned that anyone caught leaking copies of the test or selling answers could find themselves imprisoned. Punishments for misbehaving exam observers are spelled out in an ACU statement released ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-rules-proctors
Referral hospitals to give free Covid jabs indefinitely
Ministry of Health spokeswoman Or Vandine has advised the governOrs of the capital and provinces to continue vaccinations fOr children and all unvaccinated people ages 6 and up at designated referral hospitals Or health centres despite the first round of the official vaccination campaigns having ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/referral-hospitals-give-free-covid-jabs-indefinitely