Cambodia’s new casino bill faces likely delay: report
A bill to regulate the management of Cambodia’s casino industry could be approved by the country’s National Assembly (pictured) in the first quarter of 2016, reported the Khmer Times newspaper, quoting an official from the Ministry of Economy and Finance. ss='cambodia-color'>...
GGRAsia News Staff
http://www.ggrasia.com/cambodias-new-casino-bill-faces-likely-delay-report/
Cambodia’s energy rising with new hydro plant: officials
The $540 million Tatay River hydropower plant was inaugurated yesterday in Koh Kong, making it the second hydropower plant in the province after the Russei Chrum Krom River plant opened earlier this year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19053/cambodia---s-energy-rising-with-new-hydro-plant--officials/
CPP touts Hun Sen’s attendance at US summit
Sitting in a meeting with U.S. PreSident Barack Obama and fellow ASean leaderS in California on TueSday, Prime MiniSter Hun Sen Seemed to have hiS mind on what CambodianS would think of hiS participation in thiS week&rSquo;S U.S.-ASean Summit. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Anthony Jensen and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-touts-hun-sens-attendance-at-us-summit-108697/
Cambodia’s oil imports up 64 pct in 2015
Cambodia imported 2.55 million tons of petroleum in 2015, up 64 percent from 1.55 million tons in the year before, according to the data of the Ministry of Commerce. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hellenic Shipping News Team
http://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/cambodias-oil-imports-up-64-pct-in-2015/
Siem Reap still one of world’s best destinations
Siem Reap, the home of UNESCO-liSted ancient templeS, waS placed fifth among the world&rSquo;S top 25 travel deStinationS in 2015, dropping from Second place in the previouS year&rSquo;S ranking by TripAdviSor, a popular online Site for travelerS and one truSted by touriStS chooSing deStinationS to SS='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23123/siem-reap-still-one-of-world---s-best-destinations/
Acleda’s first-quarter profits up 21 per cent
ACLEDA Bank announced its first-quarter results for 2016 on Friday, reporting $30.19 million in profit for the quarter, up almost 21 per cent compared to the same period last year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/acledas-first-quarter-profits-21-cent
Asian responses to Sino-US rivalry: Cambodia’s perspective
The Asian strategic environment is being overturned by a radical shift in the distribution of wealth and power between the major powers and the corresponding shift in their strategic expectations as well as by responses from smaller powers to those shifts. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheunboran Chanborey
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24971/asian-responses-to-sino-us--rivalry--cambodia---s-perspective/
Gov’t failing to protect nation’s forests: activist
The government is failing to protect Cambodia’s forests, activists, civil society groups and students said during yesterday’s World Environment Day celebration in Phnom Penh. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-failing-protect-nations-forests-activist
Talks over garment factory’s closure bear no fruit
The Ministry of Labour met with Malaysian-owned Global Apparels Limited factory representatives, union officials and workers yesterday, to negotiate an agreement for compensation as the company closes down. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/talks-over-garment-factorys-closure-bear-no-fruit
Poor local showing at Phnom Penh’s agro fair
Cambodia’s biggest agriculture industry event of the year received a cool response on its first day as turnout from local agro-businesses was low and overseas suppliers struggled to find potential buyers for the latest agricultural products. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/poor-local-showing-phnom-penhs-agro-fair
TPP puts Cambodia’s trade, investment in the spotlight
The conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement has industry insiders in Cambodia split over whether or not the new pact will limit the Kingdom’s trade growth potential in the Us market and see future investments diverted to Vietnam.Ending a long-drawn negotiation process that lasted five ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tpp-puts-cambodias-trade-investment-spotlight
Socio-economic survey shows Cambodia’s balanced sex ratio
The Cambodia Socio-Economic Survey 2014 haS revealed the balanced Sex ratio in the country, according to the State newS agency-AKP. SS='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/socio-economic-survey-shows-cambodia%E2%80%99s-balanced-sex-ratio-9023
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. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fifth%E2%80%88refugee-from-australias-nauru-camps-enters-cambodia-101376/
Capital’s airport soars to 3 million passenger mark
Phnom Penh International Airport set a new record for passenger traffic yesterday afternoon, breaking the 3 million mark in one year for the first time since it reopened after the fall of the Khmer Rouge, according to a press release from Cambodia Airports, the French-owned ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19099/capital---s-airport-soars-to-3-million-passenger-mark/
Kingdom’s road infrastructure pressured by increased car sales
Rising incomes are driving the growth of new and used car sales in the Kingdom, putting pressure on the Kingdom’s limited road infrastructure, an industry specialist said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-road-infrastructure-pressured-increased-car-sales
Kingdom’s airlines adjusting course due to slower tourism
Tighter competition and a slowdown in international tourism growth has prompted airlines registered in Cambodia to scale back their fleet expansion plans and shift focus to serving the more promising Chinese tourist market, new research shows. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cam McGrath and Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-airlines-adjusting-course-due-slower-tourism
With job cuts on horizon, factory’s staff walks
Roughly 2,000 workers from the Malaysian-owned Global Apparels Limited garment factory in Phnom Penh went on strike yesterday after the factory announced it would be reducing staff numbers by 500 over the coming months, union representatives said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/job-cuts-horizon-factorys-staff-walks
Capital’s airport starts adding more space next week
An extension of the terminal at Phnom Penh International Airport will be officially opened late next week, a senior official from the state secretary of Civil Aviation (ssCA) told Khmer Times yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22474/capital---s-airport-starts-adding-more-space-next-week/
Tea Banh’s sons given top gov’t jobs
As the government fends off continued accusations of nepotism within its institutions, a royal decree issued in early March revealed the appointment of four official assistants to four-star general and deputy prime minister Tea Banh, two of whom are the general’s own sons. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24491/tea-banh---s-sons-given-top-gov---t-jobs/
Research may alter accepted history of Angkor’s end
Research released on Monday in the Journal of Archaeological science may lead to whole chapters of Cambodia’s history being rewritten. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Michelle Vachon
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/research-may-alter-accepted-history-of-angkors-end-113999/