Security to beef up for 8th Congress on AIPA next week
More than 5,000 competent forces will deploy for security and public order during the 8thCongress on the ASEAN Inter-parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) that will be held in Phnom Penh next Monday. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/security-to-beef-up-for-8th-congress-on-aipa-next-week-9091
A concession company returns back its license
A local investment company, Norkor Korkthlok company, owned by Oknha Sieng Nam, recently decided to stop investment on Preah Chey Varaman-Norodom National Park in Kulen Mountain and voluntarily return back to the government. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/a-concession-company-returns-back-its-license-9114
Geopacific’s mine purchase terms amended
An Australian mining firm exploring a significant copper and gold deposit in northern Cambodia has reached an agreement with the tenement’s former owner to amend the terms of its 2013 acquisition of the project, it said this week. ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/geopacifics-mine-purchase-terms-amended
Cambodia still controls ‘three rocks’: scholar
An academic tasked with researching the country’s border with Vietnam visited the latest flashpoint of political tension—the “Three Rocks” village in Takeo province—on Wednesday and determined that the boulders were still under Cambodian control. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-still-controls-three-rocks-scholar-108123/
Insurance industry sees double-digit premium growth
Total premiums for general insurance rose 16.4 percent last year to about $61.6 million, from $53 million in 2014, with property, fire, vehicle and medical insurance leading the way, the insurance Association of Cambodia said yesterday. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21463/insurance-industry-sees-double-digit-premium-growth/
Deforestation taskforce files complaint against five companies
The National Anti-Deforestation Committee (NADC) filed complaints to provincial courts against five companies that obtained economic land concessions (ELCs) from the government after discovering irregularities in the companies’ timber stocks after a three-day inspection early this week. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22549/deforestation-taskforce-files-complaint-against-five-companies/
Central bank pushes use of national currency on anniversary
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) marked the 36th anniversary of its reintroduction of the national currency on Sunday, using the event to continue its calls to boost use of the riel in a highly dollarized economy. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/central-bank-pushes-use-of-national-currency-on-anniversary-110161/
Attacked Prey Lang activist vows to keep up the fight
Sleeping in a hammock strung between two tall trees, deep inside Prey Lang forest, environmental activist Phorn Sopheak was startled awake at 1:30 a.m. on Sunday morning when her parked motorbike toppled over onto her body. ...
George Wright and Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/attacked-prey-lang-activist-vows-to-keep-up-the-fight-110769/
Cambodia key to China’s silk road revival
Cambodia is a major player in ASEAN for realizing China’s Belt and Road Initiative, which Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed last year to connect China to neighboring countries and the world, Chinese officials said. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24477/cambodia-key-to-china---s-silk-road-revival/
Vietnam, Cambodia beef up defense ties
Vietnam and Cambodia have agreed to fully and effectively actualize protocols on defense cooperation in order to enhance mutual understanding and trust, ensure a peaceful and stable environment for their economic development and foil plots to weaken their relations. ...
The Jakarta Post's Team
http://www.thejakartapost.com/seasia/2016/06/06/vietnam-cambodia-beef-up-defense-ties.html
Telecom backbone now extends over 26,000km
Three telecom operators provide a total of more than 26,000 kilometres of backbone fixed-line infrastructure as of June, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications announced yesterday in a report posted on its Facebook page. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/telecom-backbone-now-extends-over-26000km
Gas One aims to pipe into demand for LPG
A new Japanese company, Gas One (Cambodia) Co Ltd, aims to tap into the surge of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) usage in the Kingdom by providing engineering and supply solutions to large-scale developments, its chief executive said yesterday. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gas-one-aims-pipe-demand-lpg
Call to revise rubber tax
As the price of natural rubber tumbles due to a slowdown in the global economy and falling demand for the commodity, the Kingdom’s hard hit rubber industry investors are now calling on the government to revise export taxes. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28028/call-to-revise-rubber-tax/
Activist brothers plan return to Cambodia
Twin brothers who were granted temporary asylum in Thailand by the U.N. last month said on Thursday that they planned to return to Cambodia, citing a cooler political climate and a desire to continue their environmental activism. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/second2/activist-brothers-plan-return-cambodia-116887/
Lawmaker asks minister to intervene over Kampot arrests
The chairman of the National Assembly’s human rights commission on Thursday requested that Land Management Minister Im Chhun Lim intervene on behalf of two villagers who were arrested upon returning to Kampot province on Tuesday after protesting in Phnom Penh. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lawmaker-asks-minister-to-intervene-over-kampot-arrests-93945/
Cambodian forest caretakers confess to illegal logging
Members of a community-based organization in Cambodia responsible for protecting local forest resources have confessed to illegally cutting down trees to sell to local businessmen, prompting the group’s leader to threaten to resign. ...
Ratha Visal
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/logging-09172015144036.html
Gov’t, factories, Unions to vote on minimum wage today
Government, factory and union representatives tasked with proposing a new monthly minimum wage for the garment sector will vote Wednesday to find a figure after once again failing to reach a consensus during negotiations in Phnom Penh on Tuesday. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-factories-unions-to-vote-on-minimum-wage-today-96684/
Provincial officials to investigate burned CNRP sign
Oddar Meanchey provincial police chief Men Ly said yesterday he will launch an investigation into the burning of an opposition CNRP sign during a protest in Samraong City on Friday led by a defector to the ruling CPP. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/provincial-officials-to-investigate-burned-cnrp-sign-97498/
Chinese auto group plans factory here
Guangzhou Automobile Group it awaiting approval from the Cambodian government to set up a manufacturing facility in Cambodia that could be a springboard for exports to ASEAN, a senior executive of the group told Cambodian journalists visiting the province last week. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17372/chinese-auto-group-plans-factory-here/
Disabled khmers struggle for voting rights
Despite having enough members to make a significant difference in the next elections, disability rights groups are struggling to get the National Election Committee (NEC) to take their needs seriously ahead of the 2017 commune elections and the 2018 national elections. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17877/disabled-khmers-struggle-for-voting-rights/