S&P reaffirms rating despite political worry
Cambodia has retained its B credit rating despite ratings company Standard & Poor’s citing the country’s ongoing political standoff as a “major” constraint. S&P affirmed Cambodia’s B/B credit rating last week, labeling the country as having a strong and stable long-term and short-term outlook. Engagement of international ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sp-reaffirms-rating-despite-political-worry
Geopacific Resources outlines rights issue, funds to advance copper project in Cambodia
Cambodian-focused Geopacific Resources (ASX: GPR) has now released its 10 for 17 non-renounceable rights issue which will raise up to A$3.0 million at $0.05, and forms part of a larger funding package. In August GPR outlined a funding package which will include an equity placement of ...
Proactive Investors Australia News Styaff
http://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/companies/news/47714/geopacific-resources-outlines-rights-issue-funds-to-advance-copper-project-in-cambodia-47714.html
Clashes renewed at cordon
Frustrated Boeung Kak and Borei Keila community members flooded past a Daun Penh road barrier yesterday after attempting to lodge complaints with district authorities in connection with Sunday’s violence at Wat Phnom. On Sunday night, a brutal raid on a peaceful vigil of about 20 protesters ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/clashes-renewed-cordon
Boeung Kak awaits justice
More than 30 families in the capital’s Boeung Kak community are still waiting for official land titles six weeks after City Hall officials measured ground at the site of a years-long land dispute, villagers have said. The Phnom Penh Municipality began measuring land in villages 6, ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/boeung-kak-awaits-justice
Adhoc Workers Say They Were Targeted by Driver
A provincial coordinator for rights group Adhoc claimed Thursday that a representative of a company the group was investigating attempted to crash his car into him and two of his colleagues in Mondolkiri province. Sok Ratha said he had received a complaint in December about a ...
Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/adhoc-workers-say-they-were-targeted-by-driver-50407/
Authorities halt R’kiri thumbprint collection
Opposition supporters in Ratanakkiri yesterday said that local authorities aligned with the ruling Cambodian People’s Party have actively obstructed their efforts to circulate petitions ahead of Wednesday’s planned rally in Freedom Park. After collecting more than 100 thumbprints, local government and police officials in Bakeo district ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-halt-r%E2%80%99kiri-thumbprint-collection
Cambodia reports 21st bird flu case in 2013
An eight-year-old girl from Cambodia’s eastern Kampong Thom province has been confirmed for the H5N1 virus, bringing the number of the cases to 21 so far this year, a joint statement by the World Health Organization and the Cambodian Health Ministry said Tuesday. The little girl ...
Xinhunet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/health/2013-10/22/c_132820754.htm
Thai Political Tension Has Effects in Cambodia, Analysts Say
Political tensions that remain unresolved in both Cambodia and Thailand could lead to more violence in both countries, analysts warn. Thailand is going through another spate of democratic reform, following demonstrations that forced Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to step down and call for new elections. Those elections ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/thai-political-tensions-has-effects-in-cambodia-analysts-say/1844175.html
Water authority eyes new station for 2017
The Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) announced the construction of a fifth water treatment station yesterday, saying that without an additional plant, the capital could face a severe clean-water shortage as soon as 2017. Speaking at a press conference organised by the Japanese International Cooperation ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/water-authority-eyes-new-station-2017
Rehab Options Needed for Female Inmates
As International Women’s Day is marked around the world on Saturday, calls are being made for more rehabilitative opportunities to be made available to female prisoners in Cambodia and, separately, for cultural norms that rank women below men to be challenged and overcome. Local rights group ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rehab-options-needed-for-female-inmates-53733/
Cambodia’s workers falling behind in skills, jobs
With regional and international competition increasing, Cambodia’s workers could be falling behind. A new World Bank report says Cambodia’s labor force lacks the skills to advance the country’s economy, even as an increasing number of young people enter the labor market. Kem Lay, a sociology researcher, ...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodias-workers-falling-behind-in-skills-jobs/1940536.html
Governor Pledges to Help Evicted Families
Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheatvong on Friday visited evicted residents of the Borei Keila community, now living in a slum atop piles of garbage near their former homes, and promised, yet again, to build proper housing for the 150 families who refuse to move from ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/governor-pledges-to-help-evicted-families-50888/
Plot thickens for evictees
Scores of families in Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila community tore down a corrugated metal fence and took up temporary residence in developer Phan Imex’s unfinished Building 9 as anger over smaller-than-promised relocation plots boiled over yesterday morning. The occupation began after local and municipal authorities came ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/plot-thickens-evictees
Office space demand up slightly in Q4 2013
Demand for office space in Phnom Penh in the fourth quarter of 2013 grew by five per cent over the previous quarter, according to research by local property services provider VTrust Property Company. VTrust deputy director Chrek Soknim said that growth in Q4 of last year ...
Sum Manet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/office-space-demand-slightly-q4-2013
Japan calls for policy changes
Representatives of Japanese companies and investors on Wednesday submitted a list of policy recommendations to the government concerning 21 challenges to the Kingdom’s business climate. Japanese Ambassador to Cambodia Masahiro Mikami and leaders of the Japanese Business Association in Cambodia (JBAC), Japan International Cooperation Agency and ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/japan-calls-policy-changes
Halim in Cambodia RM2bil agriculture joint venture
PHNOM PENH: Malaysia expects to minimise its dependence on imports of animal feed and lessen the impact of the global food crisis by 2020 under the reciprocal investment policy, Agriculture and Agro-based Minister Datuk Seri Noh Omar said. One such initiative under the policy was the ...
http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/10/17/business/9710198&sec=business
Intellectual property and youth: innovation for a better future
On 23 February 2022, the Ministry of Commerce issued a notice on intellectual property and youth: innovation for a better future.The Department of Intellectual Property of the Ministry of Commerce would like to inform the public that the Ministry will organize a youth video competition ...
Ministry of Commerce
Kingdom records over 12M tourists in seven months
Cambodia received approximately 1.1 million tourists in July, which sums up to a total of over 12 million visitors recorded in the first seven months of the year, a press release of the Ministry of Information (MoI) said. ...
Nhean Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501339214/kingdom-records-over-12m-tourists-in-seven-months/
Cambodia prepares for the Global Conference on Assistance to Landmine Victims and Explosives and Disability Rights
Dr. Ly Thuch, Senior Minister and First Vice President of the Mine Authority, on September 21, at the office of the Mine Authority, chaired an inter-ministerial meeting to prepare for the 3rd Global Conference on Assistance to Mine Victims, Anti-Personnel and Explosive Remnsnrs of War, ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501364366/cambodia-prepares-for-the-global-conference-on-assistance-to-landmine-victims-and-explosives-and-disability-rights/
Cabinet predicts economic growth for 2023
Cambodian economic growth for 2023 is expected to be 6.6 per cent higher than the of the current gross domestic product of 32,291 million. GDP per capita is predicted to rise to $1,924, from the current figure of $1,785, according to the outcome of an ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cabinet-predicts-economic-growth-2023