Cambodia’s Jasmine Rice Awarded World Best Rice for 2012
Cambodia’s aromatic variety of jasmine rice was awarded top prize at the Rice Trader World Rice Conference in Bali, Indonesia, last month Cambodia is now seeking to expand its exports of its jasmine rice and other varieties. Ung Chhengsear, a representative of Cambodian rice export company Lor <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-jasmine-rice-awarded-world-best-rice-for-2012/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
More regional flights to be available in Cambodia
Regional flights to Cambodia will rise next year with the news that Philippines airlines is eyeing flights to the Kingdom and Singapore’s Silkair announced it would increase the frequency of flights to Siem Reap. The regional wing of Singapore airlines, Silkair, announced on Tuesday an increase <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/more-regional-flights-to-be-available-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Toll Royal Railways Yet to Spend Pledged Funds
Toll Royal Railways, the company holding the 30-year concession to operate Cambodia’s rail network, has so far only spent a tiny fraction of the millions of dollars of investment it promised upon winning the deal, documents of the firm’s expenditure show. The operation of the railways <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/toll-riyal-railways-yet-to-spend-pledged-funds/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Bicycle tours take people off the beaten path around Cambodia
Cycling is becoming increasingly popular in Cambodia, and bicycle tours are being seen as an active and exciting way for tourists to see the less noticed parts of the kingdom, said adam Platt-Hepworth, the regional manager of Grasshopper adventures, a bike tour company. Grasshopper adventures, at <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bicycle-tours-take-people-off-the-beaten-path-around-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
S'ville Port Likely to Miss Bourse Registration Date
An officiAl At the SihAnoukville Autonomous Port yesterdAy sAid the stAte-owned firm would miss its tArget of registering with the Securities And ExchAnge Commission of CAmbodiA (SECC) next month, A key step before listing on the country’s nAscent bourse. Ho Hongsik, director of SBI RoyAl <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/sville-port-likely-to-miss-bourse-registrAtion-dAte/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Cambodian Workers Get Passports Back, Return Home
Fifty-eight Cambodian migrant workers, 40 of whom who were reportedly arrested and beaten by the police in Thailand’s Songkla province last month, returned to their home provinces on Saturday after their employer gave back their passports, said a worker representative yesterday. “We don’t know yet if <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-workers-get-passports-back-return-home/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Central Bank Halts New Licenses - For Now
Despite receiving applications from banks looking to enter Cambodia’s market, the central bank has said it will offer no more commercial banking licenses as the market already has enough players. The decision appears to follow advice offered by the International Monetary Fund earlier this year that <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/central-bank-halts-new-licenses-for-now/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Beeline Appoints Second Boss in Three Months
Mobile operator Beeline announced Friday the appointment of the company’s second new general-director in less than three months. Said abbadi, who formerly worked as CEO of Newroz Telecom in Kurdistan, started as Beeline Cambodia’s new boss on July 17, the company said in a statement. The <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/beeline-appoints-second-boss-in-three-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Cambodia to enhance laws on intellectual property
Francis Gurry, director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), on Monday pledged to continue helping Cambodia in formalizing and strengthening laws on intellectual property Meanwhile, Hun Sen highly appreciated the WIPO for its assisting Cambodia in the sector, saying that since Cambodia became a member <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-to-enhance-laws-on-intellectual-property/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Laos makes moves on building Mekong dams
Even as its controversial Xayaburi Dam project is still drawing protest from Mekong river downstream countries such as Cambodia, Laos has inked a deal with South Korean firms to build and operate another large hydropower plant on the Mekong River network. according to the Phnom Penh <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/laos-makes-moves-on-building-mekong-dams/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Top Hotels Fully Booked Ahead of East Asia, Asean Summits
Visitors hoping to stay in Phnom Penh’s top hotels in the coming days will have to seek shelter elsewhere, as the city’s most sought after rooms are booked solid for the East asia and asean summits, hoteliers said yesterday. “We are completely full during the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/top-hotels-fully-booked-ahead-of-east-asia-asean-summits/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Cambodia greets 2.86 mln foreign visitors in 10 months
Cambodia attracted approximately 2.86 million international tourists in the first ten months of this year, up 24 percent over the same period last year, a report of the tourism ministry showed Wednesday. The report said Vietnam remains the largest source of foreign visitors to Cambodia <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-greets-2-86-mln-foreign-visitors-in-10-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/travel/2012-11/28/c_132004445.htm
Demand for satellite cities low: report
Phnom Penh, which currently has six satellite cities under development, may be jumping the gun in terms of the demand for them, according to a new report from global real estate firm CBRE. In its latest MarketView report, CBRE says bluntly that currently “demand for satellite <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/demand-for-satellite-cities-low-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/Real-Estate/demand-for-satellite-cities-low-report.html
UN,Cambodia jointly hold workshop on Sustainable Energy for All
The United Nations Development Program and Cambodian Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy on Thursday jointly held a workshop on Sustainable Energy for all ( SE4all) in order to discuss the future of sustainable energy in Cambodia. The workshop, opened by Suy Sem, Minister of Industry, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/uncambodia-jointly-hold-workshop-on-sustainable-energy-for-all/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-12/13/c_132038593.htm
Cambodia opens first largest sugar cane factory with $150 million investment from local company
Cambodia today opened first largest sugar factory in Kampong Speu province, western part of city of Phnom Penh with $ 150 million investment from a local company which employs 2 554 workers. Ly Yong Phat, owner of Sugar factory ( Phnom Penh sugar company) said: his <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-opens-first-largest-sugar-cane-factory-with-150-million-investment-from-local-company/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Government promotes clean cities in Cambodia
Tourism officials have launched a new initiative called the Eco-Club designed to promote environmental awareness and improve the image of Cambodian cities through better management and disposal of plastic bags. The program aims to recruit Cambodian youth to spread the word and educate the broader community <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-promotes-clean-cities-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/Business/government-promotes-clean-cities-in-cambodia.html
Firm Ordered to Temporarily Stop Clearing in Prey Long Forest
Authorities in Kompong Thom province hAve ordered the owners of A VietnAmese rubber compAny to temporArily ceAse the cleAring of pArt of Prey Long forest After locAl fArmers Alleged thAt the firm wAs encroAching on villAgers’ lAnd. About 300 members of the Prey Long People’s Network <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/firm-ordered-to-temporArily-stop-cleAring-in-prey-long-forest/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Maruhan bank opens Laos office in Vientiane
Cambodian-Japanese bank Maruhan Japan opened an office in Vientiane, the capital of Laos, on Saturday, making it the second Cambodian bank and the first Japanese bank to come to that country. Maruhan’s presence in Laos would boost economic and investment ties between the two aSEaN member <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/maruhan-bank-opens-laos-office-in-vientiane/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013021861422/Business/maruhan-bank-opens-laos-office-in-vientiane.html
Cambodia launches $200 mln irrigation project in eastern provinces
The government launched Thursday a $200 million project to divert water from the Mekong River to irrigate 300,000 hectares of rice fields in Prey Veng, Svay Rieng and Kampong Cham provinces. Under the first phase, estimated to cost $100 million, canals will be restored between <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-launches-200-mln-irrigation-project-in-eastern-provinces/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=MzIxZTMyNDAzMjV
ICT growth continues
The expansion of Cambodia’s information and communications technology sector was highlighted at the ICT Expo on Diamond Island yesterday, as the sector’s bellwether companies continue to eye the Kingdom. Sony Corp, which took part in the eighth annual expo for the first time this year, set <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ict-growth-continues/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012050455965/Business/ict-growth-continues.html