Railway Family Payouts Could Be Increased
The government and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will start drafting a new resettlement plan this month that could improve the compensation on offer for some of the roughly 200 Phnom Penh families losing their homes because of rehabilitation of the country’s railway network in ...
Rice Exporters Eye Cartel to Boost Prices
Southeast Asia’s rice-exporting nations are in talks to create a formal alliance aimed at boosting prices and increasing export revenues, a move that could cause tensions with rice-importing nations. But any bid by the five countries to drive up prices will be a challenge, given previous ...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB30000872396390444812704577606962232854218.html
Anti-Eviction Protesters Appeal to Obama
As Barack Obama was declared president of the United States for a second term yesterday, about 50 anti-eviction protesters for the Boeng Kak and Borei Keila communities camped out in front of the U.S. Embassy and appealed for the president’s help in addressing land rights ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/anti-eviction-protesters-appeal-to-obama-5315/
Forest Allegedly Cleared By Company
Local authorities and Ratanakkiri provincial forestry officials yesterday visited an area in O’Yadav district where community leaders say a Vietnamese company known as “Company 72” has razed an estimated 1,000 hectares of protected forest since 2011. “The villagers complained to the authorities many times, but ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013042965293/National/forest-allegedly-cleared-by-company.html
Bulldozers will not move us, families insist
More than 100 families living in Koh Kong’s Kiri Sakor and Botum Sakor districts are on the clock, with an official government decree demanding they vacate their land in less than two months or face the bulldozers of the Chinese firm slated to build a ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bulldozers-will-not-move-us-families-insist
Cambodia Wants Sinopec to Build Oil Refinery by 2018
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday urged China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, or Sinopec Corp, the Asia’s largest oil refining and petrochemical enterprise, to expedite its process to build an oil refinery in Cambodia by 2018, Xinhua reported on October 15, citing a spokesman. ...
Oil and Gas Industry Latest News Staff
http://www.oilandgaseurasia.com/en/news/cambodia-wants-sinopec-build-oil-refinery-2018
KOICA chief agrees with Cambodian leader to widen development assistance
The chief of South Korea’s official development assistance (ODA) body agreed with the Cambodian prime minister on Tuesday to further widen grant aid programs to the Southeast Asian country. The grant aid programs were discussed in a meeting between Prime Minister Hun Sen and the Korea ...
Park Bo-ram
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2013/10/22/8/0301000000AEN20131022011600315F.html
Index Shows Little Progress on Gender Equality
Cambodia has made little progress on gender equality and is the lowest-ranked country in the region, according to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2013 Gender Gap Index released Friday, slipping a place from last year to rank 104 out of 136 countries. The index examines the ...
Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/index-shows-little-progress-on-gender-equality-46004/
Californian Winery Enters Cambodian Market
California-based winery E. & J. Gallo has entered Cambodia and is offering four of its more economically priced brands in an effort to introduce locals to wine without breaking their budget, company representatives said Monday. “Cambodia, as well as other markets in Asia, is perfect for ...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/californian-winery-enters-cambodian-market-46863/
Cargo shipments at Cambodia's two largest ports see remarkable rise in 11 months
The Sihanoukville Autonomous Port, Cambodia’s largest shipping facility, on Tuesday reported a 12 percent rise in cargo shipments in the first eleven months of 2013. The state-owned sea port had received 2.73 million tonnes of goods during the January-November period this year, up from 2.43 million ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/131210/cargo-shipments-at-cambodias-two-largest-ports-see-remarkabl
Cambodian opposition leader appeals for talks with Hun Sen
Cambodia opposition leader Sam Rainsy appealed Saturday to Prime Minister Hun Sen, who heads the ruling party, to agree to talks in order to find a way out of the country’s current political crisis. He [Sam Rainsy] said that, starting from Wednesday, the first day ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/kyodo-news-international/131228/cambodian-opposition-leader-appeals-talks-hun-sen
Social accountability East Asia and Pacific congratulates ACU
Social accountability East Asia and Pacific, a regional non-profit organization devoted to improving governance and social accountability, congratulated the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) of Cambodia for requiring government institutions to set a standard public service fee for items such as; certificates and ID cards. The ACU ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=ZGI2NDM1ODEwZTU
New Tuol Kok Mall to Add to District’s Growth
A new open-air mall sporting high-end luxury shops and restaurants in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kok district is the latest expansion of the suburban neighborhood, though widespread commercialization of the area could still take years, property executives said Monday. The mall, called TK Avenue, opened Friday at ...
Joshua Wilwohl and Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/new-tuol-kok-mall-to-add-to-districts-growth-49777/
Logging ‘crackdown’ falls flat with villagers
Hundreds of villagers in Preav Vihear’s Kulen district cut down a palm tree on Monday and used it to block provincial officials attempting to confiscate tonnes of luxury timber from their village, their representative said yesterday. Ri Sothun, a spokesman for more than 400 families in ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/logging-%E2%80%98crackdown%E2%80%99-falls-flat-villagers
Wedding business a winning proposal
It’s no secret. Weddings in Cambodia are big, colourful and extravagant affairs. Guests drink and eat to their heart’s content, music draws revellers onto the dance floor and the party lasts for hours. But guests aren’t the only people having fun. Rising affluence paired with a ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/wedding-business-winning-proposal
Opposition declares negotiations at ‘standstill’
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Tuesday that political negotiations with the ruling party have hit an impasse. The ruling Cambodian People’s Party “refuses to discuss any changes to the composition of the electoral commission,” he wrote in an open letter to the diplomatic community. The National Election ...
Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/opposition-declares-negotiations-at-standstill/1868912.html
Improved economic conditions boost land prices in Battambang city, province
Battambang land prices have increased this year, according to a local real estate firm. Sorn Seap, general manager of Key Real Estate, said land prices in Battambang city, capital of the province of the same name, have increased by around 12 per cent this year compared ...
Interview: CICA summit in Shanghai vital to building regional peace, security, stability--Cambodian experts
he upcoming 4th Summit of Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Shanghai, China is crucial to building trust, peace, security and stability in Asia, Cambodian experts said. “The conference is vital to building mutual confidence and closer partnerships among countries in ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-05/20/c_133348417.htm
Cambodia vows to contribute to China's "One Belt, One Road" initiatives
Cambodia, along with other ASEAN members, will make joint efforts to create an upgraded China-ASEAN Free Trade Area and contribute to the building of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, said a senior Cambodian official at the First ASEAN ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-12/13/c_133852295.htm
Energy conservation and cost-cutting measures
As the majority of the population opts to stay home during the pandemic, the domestic demand for energy has been running high. Data from the Mines and Energy Ministry stated as of last year, around 2.68 million households, or approximately 75 percent of the country’s ...
Som Kanika
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50722001/energy-conservation-and-cost-cutting-measures/