Affordable public housing needed: official
A senior official at the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction appealed yesterday to institutions, private companies and related parties to help increase public housing for low and middle income families. In the first annual national forum on housing yesterday, Chhan Saphan, a secretary ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31108/affordable-public-housing-needed--official/
NBC issues prakas for riel loans
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) issued a prakas, or directive, last week instructing commercial banks and microfinance institutions to make out more riel loans to their customers, in a bid to promote the use of the national currency. The prakas, which took effect on Thursday, ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32828/nbc-issues-prakas-for-riel-loans/
Commune vote pits CPP roots against CNRP momentum
As the country enters its first campaign period since the CNRP nearly upset the ruling party in 2013, the opposition party believes momentum is on its side. The researchers found that in the three communes they visited, the ruling party was deeply intertwined with the ...
Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/commune-vote-pits-cpp-roots-against-cnrp-momentum-129968/
Cambodia and Indonesia discuss direct air connection
Cambodia and Indonesia agreed to cooperate to boost their tourism markets, particularly by enhancing air connectivity and by jointly managing their most iconic tourism sites.During an official visit to Indonesia last week, Prak Sokhonn, the Cambodian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, suggested both ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106687/cambodia-indonesia-discuss-direct-air-connection/`
Peace Palace petitions sent to Prime Minister
Eight representatives of Phnom Penh communities involved in land disputes were allowed to present their petitions to the Council of Ministers yesterday after authorities blocked about 200 of their fellow petitioners from gathering in front of the Peace Palace. During a meeting with the representatives, Bun ...
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 ...
Cambodia's national carrier adds new aircraft, targeting Singapore, China
The national flag carrier, Cambodia Angkor Air (CAA), added a new passenger plane on Sunday in order to expand new flight destinations to countries in the region, said a senior government official. “The new Airbus 321 plane is leased from an Airbus manufacturer in France,” Tek ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-01/06/c_132083762.htm
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 ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013021861422/Business/maruhan-bank-opens-laos-office-in-vientiane.html
Migrant abuse trending up
Human rights group Adhoc released a report on the state of Cambodian migrant workers yesterday, saying that tales of abuse from migrant workers and their families have increased five-fold compared to the same period last year. Seventy per cent of this year’s 141 complaints concerned domestic ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012061556814/National-news/migrant-abuse-trending-up.html
PM calls for ASEAN investors
Prime Minister Hun Sen, in his capacity as the 2012 ASEAN chair, has called for investors within the ASEAN member states as well as around the globe to invest in Cambodia in various sectors, particularly agriculture, food processing and manufacturing. The premier made the appeal on ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012111959806/Business/pm-calls-for-asean-investors.html
Bangchak plans petrol stations in Cambodia
Bangchak Petroleum, a majority state-owned oil refiner and retailer in Thailand, said it wants to open five petrol stations in Cambodia, with the first station opening in 2014, the Bangkok Post reported last week. Tui Rutten, president of the Thai Business Council of Cambodia did not ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013020161112/Business/bangchak-plans-petrol-stations-in-cambodia.html
Thai border SEZs set for discussion next month
In an effort to boost trade activity between Thailand and Cambodia, both countries will discuss plans for two special economic zones along the Thai-Cambodian border next month, according to the secretary of state at the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday. “It will provide us ...
Hor Kimsay and Anne Renzenbrink
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052965902/Business/thai-border-sezs-set-for-discussion-next-month.html
Minimum wage panel sets a meet
A joint committee designed to bring about wage increases in the garment sector will meet for the first time on Friday, a Ministry of Social Affairs letter obtained yesterday states. Ath Thorn, president of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union, said he believed ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minimum-wage-panel-sets-meet
PM news articles surprise, vanish
In an apparent departure from the usual diet of colourless press releases and updates on the travel plans of officials, the Council of Ministers’ Press and Quick Reaction Unit website yesterday posted two articles critical of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government. The articles – Reuters’ coverage ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-news-articles-surprise-vanish
Sok An’s son joins government ranks
Sok Sokan, son of Deputy Prime Minister Sok An, has been officially named deputy secretary general within the Council of Ministers – a rank equal to secretary of state – according to November’s Royal Affairs publication released last month. Ek Tha, a spokesman for the Council ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sok-%E2%80%99s-son-joins-government-ranks
AFD loan ‘will bring power to rural areas’
The French Agency for Development (AFD) announced yesterday that it will provide $24 million to finance privately owned water and power providers to supply rural areas that state-run utilities cannot reach. During a ceremony held at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the AFD and the ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/afd-loan-%E2%80%98will-bring-power-rural-areas%E2%80%99
Without lawyer, Krom villagers face court trial
Arrest, detention and even an upcoming trial can’t sway 68 Khmer Krom families faced with eviction to give up a bitter land dispute over a bird sanctuary in Takeo province. After being charged in April with illegally occupying state land, three representatives from Sangkum Meanchey village ...
Laignee Barron and Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/without-lawyer-krom-villagers-face-court-trial
Apple to officially sell iPhones in Cambodia
Apple Inc. on Friday will officially launch the iPhone in Cambodia through its authorized reseller, iOne, giving customers—long used to gray market iPhones—access to Apple’s warranty. “The sales launch will be July 18. iOne, which has the monopoly right to import Apple’s products to Cambodia’s market ...
Hul Reaksmey and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/apple-to-officially-sell-iphones-in-cambodia-64448/
Migrants in ‘hurry’ to get back to work
A survey of 10 Cambodian provinces is studying the whereabouts and plans of migrant workers who were recently repatriated from Thailand, fearing crackdowns on foreign workers there after the coup. During a workshop hosted by Coordination of Action Research on AIDS and Mobility (CARAM) yesterday, Ministry ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/migrants-%E2%80%98hurry%E2%80%99-get-back-work
Cambodia intends to sign asylum deal
A Senior Cambodian official has said his country has tentatively agreed to accept asylum-seekers who had been seeking to settle in Australia. Foreign Ministry Secretary of State Ouch Borith told reporters there was an agreement in principle to take the asylum-seekers, who are being held in ...
The Australian News Staff
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/policy/cambodia-intends-to-sign-asylum-deal/story-fn9hm1gu-1226900446176