Third time’s lucky for a new paper (9)
Government officials are finally letting Ros sokhet publish his newspaper, and he only had to change the name – twice. The Khmer Nation, called Revelation-Corruption News in a former life, and Anti-Corruption News in the life before that one, is supposed to hit newsstands today in ss='cambodia-color'>...
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&rSquo;S naScent bourSe. Ho HongSik, director of SBI Royal SS='cambodia-color'>...
Land activists welcome Hun Sen’s position on outsiders
About 60 land activists including children marched to the Peace Palace Monday to welcome Prime Minister Hun sen’s position on outside involvement in land disputes. The residents of two property development sites and Thmor Kol community near Phnom Penh International Airport also presented a list of ss='cambodia-color'>...
World Bank Ups Cambodia’s Ranking Over Better Logistics
Cambodia has moved up 27 places on a biennial World Bank list that ranks the ease of importing, exporting and transporting goods in different countries. Cambodia was ranked 101 out of the 155 countries included in the World Bank’s report titled Trade Logistics in the Global ss='cambodia-color'>...
Critics dismiss Hun Sen’s pledge as empty promises
Prime Minister Hun sen made a bold pledge to the hundreds of thousands of Cambodian villagers fighting companies for their homes yesterday, ordering that in every economic land concession across the country, space must be provided for those they would displace. But last month’s royal book ss='cambodia-color'>...
Paths to Parliament Cleared for CPP’s Powerful Sons
Despite failing to win enough votes in the July 28 election to become lawmakers, at least three sons of some of the ruling CPP’s most high-ranking members will still take up seats in Parliament when the next government is formed, senior CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap ss='cambodia-color'>...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/paths-to-parliament-cleared-for-cpps-powerful-sons-38716/
Too many players vie in Kingdom’s ISP industry
Like the telecommunications industry in Cambodia, the market for internet service providers (IsP), too, is overcrowded, leading industry experts to say that the situation is preventing new investment. Data from the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications showed that at the end of 2012, Cambodia had ss='cambodia-color'>...
IMF Says Cambodia’s Economic ‘Takeoff’ Not Yet Sustainable
Government action will be needed to ensure that nearly two decades of impressive economic growth continues in Cambodia, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a report published Wednesday. In its 2013 World Economic Outlook, the IMF put Cambodia’s gross do­mestic product (GDP) growth for 2012 ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/imf-says-cambodias-economic-takeoff-not-yet-sustainable-18880/
Kingdom’s rubber exports rise, but prices stay flat
Rubber exports from Cambodia were up over 17 per cent in the first quarter of 2013, but the revenue from rubber stayed steady as prices decline worldwide, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce. The data showed that in the first quarter of this year, ss='cambodia-color'>...
FAO Predicts Rice Crop to Match Last Year’s
The U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) predicts that Cambodia’s rice crop this year will equal but not exceed last year’s record yield. In its July rice market monitor report, issued quarterly, the FAO said that weather conditions meant this year’s rice crop would not reach ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/fao-predicts-rice-crop-to-match-last-years-38297/
CNRP, Comfrel Call for Investigation Into NEC’s Independence
The CNRP and the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) on Monday called for a full investigation into the National Election Committee’s (NEC) independence as well as its possible role in the irregularities the opposition says occurred during the national election on ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Daily
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-comfrel-call-for-investigation-into-necs-independence-38403/
High Risk Seen in Kingdom’s Business Environment: Report
Corruption, a weak judicial system and the potential for complicity with human and labour rights abuses are key risks for firms looking to invest in Cambodia, a new report [by Maplecroft, a UK-based global risk and strategic consulting firm] analysing investment risk in the Kingdom ss='cambodia-color'>...
S. Korea's Booyoung to build new town in Cambodia
Booyoung Co., a mid-sized south Korean conglomerate, said Tuesday that it broke ground for one of the largest housing projects in Cambodia, a project Cambodia hopes to spur foreign investments. Booyoung said it will build 40 apartments and seven residential and commercial complexes on 2.7 square ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/business/2013/05/07/45/0501000000AEN20130507006500320F.HTML
Sam Rainsy’s Last-Minute Efforts to Run Rebuffed
Both the National Assembly and the Constitutional Council of Cambodia, the highest legal authority in the land, convened closed-door meetings Thursday during which they decided not to reinstate opposition leader sam Rainsy as a voter and parliamentary candidate for sunday’s national election. According to a copy ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/sam-rainsys-last-minute-efforts-to-run-rebuffed-36763/
Cambodia’s Top Court Orders Release of Ballot Records
Cambodia’s highest court on Friday ordered the country’s electoral body to release secured ballot information from more than a dozen polling stations to investigate claims by the opposition of irregularities in last month’s disputed elections. Constitutional Council of Cambodia President Ek sam Ol issued an urgent ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://english.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/ballot-08232013162229.html
Fresh Faces on CPP’s Shortened List of Lawmakers
When the ruling CPP takes its seats in the new National Assembly, its members of Parliament will include a few new faces, and significantly less old ones, according to ratified election results announced by the National Election Committee (NEC) on sunday. The CPP’s poor showing in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/fresh-faces-on-cpps-shortened-list-of-lawmakers-41902/
Cambodia’s Carbon Credit Scheme Still Not Making Gains
Cambodia’s only U.N.-backed carbon trading scheme is still nowhere near making any money for communities and logging in the area continues to threaten the very forests supposed to generate tens of millions of dollars over the next 30 years, community representatives and officials in charge ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodias-carbon-credit-scheme-still-not-making-gains-43865/
Factory’s contracts seen as ‘test case’ for brands
A garment factory’s alleged efforts to wipe workers’ contract histories clean could be a “test case” for how much international buyers tolerate factories negotiating outside of legal requirements, a labour-rights advocate has said. After effectively being bought out of their contracts, about 300 employees of UsA ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shane Worrell and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/factory%E2%80%99s-contracts-seen-%E2%80%98test-case%E2%80%99-brands
After Sam Rainsy’s Call, No Answer From CPP
At about 10 a.m. Thursday morning, during a press conference at the CNRP’s Phnom Penh headquarters, opposition leader sam Rainsy dialed the phone number of CPP Interior Minister sar Kheng and told a few dozen reporters in attendance that he would broadcast their conversation over ss='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/after-sam-rainsys-call-no-answer-from-cpp-46444/
National Bank Governor’s Daughter Named New Director-General
Chea Serey, the daughter of National Bank Governor Chea Chanto, haS been promoted to director-general of the central bank, She confirmed thiS week. MS. Serey will replace Nguon Sokha, who Said that She left the National Bank about a month ago after being appointed aS a SS='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/national-bank-governors-daughter-named-new-director-general-48069/