Housing loans up in Cambodia but down in Singapore
Two of the biggest real estate lenders in Cambodia and Singapore this week reported big movements in housing loans in their respective domestic markets. Cambodia’s Acleda Bank saw housing loans jump by 22 percent in the first quarter, year-on-year, and attributed this handsome growth to better ...
Property Report News Staff
http://www.property-report.com/housing-loans-up-in-cambodia-but-down-in-singapore-36957
Just eight percent left to be vaccinated against COVID-19 among targeted 10 millon in Cambodia
Cambodia has crossed the 91 percent mark in its drive to vaccinate 10 million people above the age of 18 with a total of 9,175,478 being vaccinated with at least one dose of the vaccine. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50926289/just-eight-percent-left-to-be-vaccinated-against-covid-19-among-targeted-10-millon-in-cambodia/
Government Awards Land Reform Organizations
Representatives from German, Finnish and Canadian development agencies were awarded honorary medals by Minister of Land Management Im Chhun Lim on Wednesday for their work in the country’s land sector. The awards ceremony comes just weeks after it emerged that the World Bank had frozen ...
In Cambodia, Cyber Casinos Fall Into a Legal Gray Area
In 2010, the Ha Tien Vegas EntertaInment Resort, a casIno Investment on Kampot provInce’s border with Vietnam that Included luxury karaoke rooms and suites, launched with high hopes of attractIng Vietnamese gamblers. At the end of December, Ha Tien Vegas closed down. To the north, In ...
Digital voter registry hits snags
Pilot tests for Cambodia’s new computerised voter registration system are off to a rough start after one commune refused yesterday to participate in the trials. The $17 million system, which uses computers to record voters’ thumbprints and photos, and issues voter card printouts, was slated to ...
Sarah Taguiam and Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/digital-voter-registry-hits-snags
Cambodia’s investment policy preserves existing investments while fostering new ones; peace and stability are crucial, PM says
Prime Minister Hun Manet stated that the investment policy of the Royal Government of Cambodia is to preserve existing investments while also fostering new ones. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501479676/cambodias-investment-policy-preserves-existing-investments-while-fostering-new-ones-peace-and-stability-are-crucial-pm-says/
Mekong yields first giant catfish of year
One of the largest and rarest freshwater fish in the world was netted by local fishermen near Phnom Penh earlier this month.A two-metre Mekong giant catfish, weighing an estimated 90 to 114 kilos, One of only a handful left of a species that faces extinction, ...
Jamie Elliott
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mekong-yields-first-giant-catfish-year
Burning Homes in the Name of Conservation: NGO Wildlife Alliance Cracks Down on the Poor
The farmers of Knong Riel run when they see white faces. A white face, for many farmers, means staff from Wildlife Alliance, one of Cambodia’s leading conservation NGOs, have entered the northern edge of the Cardamom National Park where dozens of families grow cassava, corn ...
Tour operator accused of flouting gov’t order
Nearly 250 residents and boat drivers living in one of Siem Reap’s popular tourist attractions petitioned local authorities to intervene with what they say is one company’s illegal ticket-selling ventures, which has taken money out of the pockets of village residents and fattened those of ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tour-operator-accused-flouting-govt-order
Cambodian court jails 4 more activists
The Cambodia’s Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday convicted four additional protesters of obstructing public officials and sentenced each of them to one year in prison, a rights group said. The four convicts were arrested on Tuesday while joining a protest in front of the ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-11/12/c_133785374.htm
Responsible business in Cambodia
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Given that most business models are profit-driven, the need for accountable and responsible businesses plays a significant role in minimizing its adverse effects on the environment and society contributing to sustainable development. Based on this basis, the concept of conducting business responsibly goes beyond profit ...
Third Mekong River dolphin found dead in a single week
The Global Fund for Nature and World Wide Fund for Nature Cambodia (WWF) have called on authorities to step up night and day patrols of dolphin conservation areas and prevent illegal fishing, as a third Mekong Irrawaddy dolphin carcass was discovered in the span of ...
Chea Sokny
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/third-mekong-river-dolphin-found-dead-single-week
Worker registration centres open on border
Three border provinces with Cambodia opened offices to document Cambodian workers entering Thailand on Thursday, to combat human trafficking and illegal labour, with a fourth to open on Monday. Three new one-stop centres were opened at the border in Sa Kaeo, Chanthaburi and Trat provinces, to issue temporary ...
Wassana Nanuam and Nopparat Kingkaew
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/417526/registration-centres-for-cambodians-open-at-border
Jobs: ICT in Education Project Officer
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is the leading open data platform in Cambodia and envisions a sustainable, democratic and participatory development for the country. The mission of ODC is to ensure access to information and improve the data ecosystem by making up-to-date and reliable content on ...
Alleged hotel ‘ransacking’ probed
Four former workers at the Angkor Villa Hotel and Resort appeared in the Appeal Court yesterday for questioning in relation to allegations that they ransacked the hotel during a strike last year. Korng Kimlean, union president of the Cambodian Tourism and Service Workers’ Federation and the ...
The environmental web tool
Cambodia suffers from one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world, with an average of one percent of the country’s forest lost each year. But in an initiative funded by USAID Supporting Forests and Biodiversity (SFB), Winrock international hopes to help solve the problem ...
Safiya Charles
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26177/the-environmental-web-tool/
SL garment strike resumes after pact disavowed
Employees hurled stones at one of two SL garment factories in Phnom Penh yesterday as they returned to picket lines after management refused to recognise that a document signed on Friday that had enticed them back to work was a formal agreement. Female worker Rith Sineourn, ...
Vietnam, Cambodia solidify defence cooperation
Vietnamese Minister of National Defence Phan Van Giang and his Cambodian counterpart Tea Banh have agreed to enhance bilateral defence-security ties in the principle of not allowing any hostile force to use one’s territory to sabotage security of the other. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50993641/vietnam-cambodia-solidify-defence-cooperation/