Cambodia’s insurance premium up 38 pct in Q1
The insurance industry in Cambodia reported a 38-percent increase in gross premium in the first quarter of 2016 over the same period last year, the Insurance Association of Cambodia (IAC) said on sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24711/cambodia---s-insurance-premium-up-38-pct-in-q1/
Prime Minister Hun Sen accepts Indian vice president’s invitation
Prime Minister Hun sen has accepted the invitation to visit India, according to the state News Agency-AKP. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/prime-minister-hun-sen-accepts-indian-vice-president%E2%80%99s-invitation-8962
Despite PM’s attack, Rainsy pushes plan to seize land
Opposition leader sam Rainsy over the weekend again raised the prospect that a future CNRP government may oversee forced redistributions of land from the rich to the poor in order to correct cases of land-grabbing under Prime Minister Hun sen’s reign.Mr. Hun sen last week ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/despite-pms-attack-rainsy-pushes-plan-to-seize-land-95600/
Hundreds of minority villagers seek M’kiri governor’s ouster
A group of 900 Bunong villagers are seeking the removal of the governor of Mondolkiri, complaining in a petition that was submitted to the government Monday that he does not respect the rights of ethnic minorities in the province. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hundreds-of-minority-villagers-seek-mkiri-governors-ouster-96510/
Government’s plan to develop public housing takes on shape
Phnom Penh’s public housing policy, aimed to provide affordable housing for the middle income class and low income class, is expected to boost the construction sector in Cambodia as an increased population and rapid urbanisation is expected to create a demand of more than a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/governments-plan-develop-public-housing-takes-shape
Acleda’s third quarter profit sits at $27.06M
Cambodia’s largest bank Acleda Bank yesterday announced its third quarter results for 2015, reporting $27.06 million in profit for the quarter, up almost 50 per cent as compared to the same period last year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/acledas-third-quarter-profit-sits-2706m
ADB supports Cambodia’s push to develop new environmental plan
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is supporting the government of Cambodia to develop a National Environmental strategy and Action Plan (NEsAP) to help the country achieve its sustainable development goals. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The FINANCIAL News Staff
http://www.finchannel.com/index.php/business/item/51340-adb-supports-cambodia-s-push-to-develop-new-environmental-plan
Share price set for port’s $5.2M IPO
Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP), the state enterprise that operates Cambodia’s second-largest port, priced its shares at 5,120 riel ($1.26) following a bookbuild to institutional investors as it looks to raise $5.2 million in an initial public offering, according to disclosure documents released yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/share-price-set-ports-52m-ipo
Cambodia’s opposition seeking support for free and fair elections
Cambodia’s opposition leaders are visiting Japan this week, calling on support for improved democracy in Cambodia through free and fair elections.The visit of sam Rainsy, the president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, and Kem sokha, the party’s vice president, coincides with the long-awaited election ss='cambodia-color'>...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-opposition-seeking-support-for-free-and-fair-elections/3051740.html
Kingdom’s three airports to see passenger traffic take off
Passenger traffic at all three of Cambodia’s international airports is expected to grow this year despite the economic slowdown in Asia’s biggest economy, which could see many Chinese tourists tightening their belt. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-three-airports-see-passenger-traffic-take
Thai company’s return to sugar group challenged by NGOs
Three local NGOs have filed a com­plaint with international sug­ar industry group Bonsucro for re­admitting Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol even though thousands of fam­ilies forced off the company’s for­mer plantations in Oddar Mean­chey province have yet to be fully compensated. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thai-companys-return-to-sugar-group-challenged-by-ngos-107852/
Trade officials aim for bigger bite of China’s market
Cambodian trade officials are urging their Chinese counterparts to boost imports of Cambodian rubber, cassava, sugar and pepper to narrow the trade imbalance between the two countries, officials said after a meeting last week. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21100/trade-officials-aim-for-bigger-bite-of-china---s-market/
Math behind PM’s canceled ELCs claim still a mystery
On Friday, it will have been a month since Prime Minister Hun sen took the stage during the opening of the Environment Ministry’s palatial new headquarters in Phnom Penh to announce that 1 million hectares had been confiscated from wayward landholders and would be doled ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter and Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/math-behind-pms-canceled-elcs-claim-still-a-mystery-110340/
Failure to enforce jobs quota law shortchanges Cambodia’s disabled
If there is to be an end to the cycle of poverty that afflicts many Cambodians with disabilities, then most experts agree that stable employment will be one of the prerequisites. ss='cambodia-color'>...
David Hutt
http://sea-globe.com/lack-enforcement-cambodia-disabled-law/
Low marks for Cambodia’s efforts to combat illicit trade
Cambodia ranked third-worst for illicit trade out of 17 countries in the Asia-Pacific region in a recently released index by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) that analysed governments’ abilities to combat illegal trade operations. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/low-marks-cambodias-efforts-combat-illicit-trade
Environment ministry now controls 40 percent of Cambodia’s land
Prime Minister Hun sen on Wednesday signed a sub-decree to create “biodiversity conservation corridors”—patches of land connecting Cambodia’s protected areas—putting an additional 1.4 million hectares under the management of the Environment Ministry.This brings Cambodia’s protected areas overseen by the ministry to more than 40 percent ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aisha Down
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/environment-ministry-now-controls-40-percent-of-cambodias-land-124066/
Sok An’s top job filled, but many still vacant
Though some of that control had slipped away in recent years, there are still plenty of state bodies, official roles and chairmanships up for grabs after sok An died on Wednesday at the age of 66. The most high-profile of those positions, minister in charge ss='cambodia-color'>...
George Wright and Van Roeun
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/second/sok-ans-top-job-filled-many-still-vacant-126697/
Palm sugar’s GI status could soon get EU protection
The European Union is expected to enter Kampong speu palm sugar into its registry of protected geographical indicators (GI) by July following a push by the Cambodian government to protect the specialty food product in one of its biggest markets, a Ministry of Commerce official ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/palm-sugars-gi-status-could-soon-get-eu-protection
U.S. To give $6 million to genocide research group
In a statement on sunday, the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) said the $6 million in additional funding from the U.s. Agency for International Development (UsAID) would be paid into an endowment fund that would accrue interest over the next 20 years, eventually bringing in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sun Narin
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/us-to-give-6-million-to-genocide-research-group/3794401.html
China’s ‘Belt and Road’ policy benefits Cambodia, analysts say
The multi-trillion-dollar scheme proposed by Chinese premier Xi Jinping in 2013 aims to promote economic integration across Eurasia by investing in a “silk Road Economic Belt” and “Maritime silk Road”, comprising transnational economic corridors and new trade arrangements. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hean Socheata
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/china-belt-and-road-policy-benefits-cambodia-analysts-say/3859343.html