India to ease visa norms to lure visitors
India is looking to ease its visa regime for ASEAN nations in a bid to increase Buddhist tourist arrivals – travellers looking to visit Buddhist heritage sites – to the country, India’s vice president said. ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/india-ease-visa-norms-lure-visitors
133-story twin towers get initial approval
The government is reviewing a mammoth $1-billion proposal by the Thai Boon Roong Group to build twin commercial skyscrapers in Phnom Penh which, if constructed, would be among the world’s tallest buildings. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/133_story_towers_approved-108645/
Cop denies graft claim after ACU clears him
In the wake of the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) clearing him of any wrongdoing, a Phnom Penh commune police chief yesterday refuted allegations that he had accepted protection pay-offs from neighbourhood drug dealers. ...
Niem Chheng and Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cop-denies-graft-claim-after-acu-clears-him
Cambodia, China talk business
China’s Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng, who has been on an official visit to Cambodia, will discuss roads, railways, airport construction, agriculture and other projects with senior government officials in the next few days. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27926/cambodia--china-talk-business/
NGOs urge UN action on human rights
Twelve NGOs have issued an open letter to the UN Human Rights Council urging it to adopt a strong resolution on what they term the grave deterioration of the human rights situation in Cambodia. ...
Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-urge-un-action-human-rights
Key to cracking Thai consumer market: unique products
Cambodia should seek to enlarge its market share of the Thai consumer market by focusing on the export of unique items, a visiting Thai trade promoter said during a workshop in Phnom Penh yesterday. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/key-cracking-thai-consumer-market-unique-products
China doubles Cambodian rice quota
The Chinese government will import 200,000 tons of rice from Cambodia from next year – double the current amount – and will also help in the restoration of Preah Vihear temple, it was announced yesterday. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29566/china-doubles-cambodian-rice-quota/
CNRP pegs 424 voter names as ‘suspicious’
The Cambodia National Rescue Party plans to ask the National Election Committee to investigate the citizenship status of more than 400 people who have recently logged their names in the new digital voter lists. ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-pegs-424-voter-names-suspicious
Tears, anger greet City Hall’s resolution for Borei Keila evictees
Borei Keila residents reacted with outrage yesterday when City Hall announced only 34 of 154 displaced families will get on-site housing in the community, following a reassessment of the land dispute victims’ claims. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/tears-anger-greet-city-halls-resolution-borei-keila-evictees
Unions propose new body to monitor social fund, pensions
Trade unions are proposing a new committee to monitor the country’s social fund for injured workers, pension program for civil servants and health care for the poor in a bid to improve and expand coverage. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unions-propose-new-body-to-monitor-social-fund-pensions-101163/
Fifth refugee from Australia’s Nauru camps enters Cambodia
Officials with the Interior Ministry and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Thursday that a fifth person from Australia’s refugee camps on Nauru had arrived in Cambodia, but declined to provide any details. ...
Aun Pheap and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fifth%E2%80%88refugee-from-australias-nauru-camps-enters-cambodia-101376/
Price wars to subvert gains made by SMEs
Cambodian entrepreneurs and business leaders on Saturday stressed the challenges for firms in the hospitality and retail sectors that adopt an aggressive pricing policy, suggesting a more value-added approach instead. ...
Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/price-wars-subvert-gains-made-smes
Thousands rally for labor day, demand wage increase
Thousands of workers and unions gathered yesterday to celebrate the 130th International Labor Day, once again demanding the government raise the minimum wage in the garment and footwear industries to $207 a month. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24440/thousands-rally-for-labor-day--demand-wage-increase/
New visas aim to increase arrivals
In a bid to increase visitor numbers, the government has agreed to issue three-year multiple-entry visas to Chinese, South Korean and Japanese tourists later this year, Tourism Minister Thong Khon said yesterday. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24524/new-visas-aim-to-increase-arrivals/
Logistics committee to be established
To help improve the logistics sector, the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation has announced it will set up the Logistics Committee, which will work to improve the flow of goods in the Kingdom. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24801/logistics-committee-to-be-established/
Kandal drinking water contaminated with fecal matter, study says
A study of drinking water sources in Kandal province found widespread contamination from human excrement, posing a health risk to residents that likely mirrors the situation across Cambodia, the authors say. ...
Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kandal-drinking-water-contaminated-with-fecal-matter-study-115337/
Securities companies to provide market liquidity
A new initiative aimed at encouraging more trading on Cambodia’s persistently quiet stock exchange will allow securities underwriters and dealers to become liquidity providers who can hold and trade shares in listed companies. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://bit.ly/2ak6Xdl
VietJet set to resume flights to Siem Reap
Vietnamese budget airline VietJet will re-launch flights to Cambodia at the end of October following a six-month halt in the service due to unspecified market issues, an aviation official said yesterday. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/vietjet-set-resume-flights-siem-reap
Alleged bride brokers busted
Anti-human trafficking police yesterday arrested six suspected traffickers who were in the process of arranging for three Cambodian women to be flown to China to marry local men, a court official said yesterday. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/alleged-bride-brokers-busted
Cambodia to pass on Philippines’ rice tender
State-owned agriculture company Green Trade said yesterday that it will not participate in the latest Philippine government’s rice auction as Cambodia’s rice cannot compete on price with neighbouring Thailand and Vietnam. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-pass-philippines-rice-tender