Payment card gains traction
MasterCard, the plastic payment-card brand of global financial services firm MasterCard Worldwide, has been present in the Kingdom since 2001, but until recently it was relatively unknown to most Cambodians. However, there are signs its signature debit and credit cards are poised for robust growth ...
Cam McGrath and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/payment-card-gains-traction
Water bodies
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It is the vector polygon data of Cambodian water bodies, which include lakes and major rivers. Its attributes include river and lake names in Khmer and English, waterway, landuse and natural. ...
CNRP pledges marches; PM says party ‘absolutely will not be allowed’
The Cambodia National Rescue Party yesterday declared its intention to move forward with nationwide demonstrations in response to what it calls a campaign of state-backed legal harassment, prompting a swift reply from Prime Minister Hun Sen, who warned security forces had been advised to crack ...
Sengkong and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-pledges-marches-pm-says-party-absolutely-will-not-be-allowed
Coastal airport project gets nod
The Chinese developer behind a massive $3.8 billion tourism project being built in Koh Kong province has confirmed that it is ready to begin construction on a new international airport to serve the coastal resort and company’s related developments, though declined to reveal the investment ...
Kali Kotoski and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/coastal-airport-project-gets-nod
Innovation for a fruitful harvest
The integration of technology into Cambodia’s agricultural sector is vital to increase the competitiveness and overall performance of the Kingdom’s harvest, but efforts to push for widespread adoption of innovative solutions has been slow to take off, industry experts and stakeholders said at a forum ...
Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/innovation-fruitful-harvest
Consul’s trial concludes
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday concluded the trial of a former consular official with the Foreign Ministry accused of falsifying government documents to facilitate the sale of millions of dollars’ worth of luxury timber to Vietnam when he was stationed in Ho Chi Minh ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/consuls-trial-concludes
Cambodia’s opposition leaders call on Japan to deescalate tensions with ruling party
Leaders of Cambodia’s opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) on Tuesday called on aid donor Japan to deescalate tensions with the ruling Cambodian People’s Party following a brutal attack on two of their lawmakers outside of parliament in the capital Phnom Penh late last month. ...
Khe Sonorng, Prach Chev, Thai Tha
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/japan-11102015183847.html
Auto show delayed by timing difficulties
The Kingdom’s flagship automobile exhibition, scheduled to open on Thursday, has been postponed until early next year, its organisers confirmed yesterday.The Phnom Penh International Auto Show, also known as CAMAUTO, is the largest annual industry event for authorised automobile distributors, parts suppliers and service providers ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/auto-show-delayed-timing-difficulties
Cambodia denies Sam Rainsy arrest warrant was politically motivated
Cambodia’s Foreign Minister Hor Namhong on Thursday dismissed claims that a court decision to issue an arrest warrant for Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) President Sam Rainsy was politically motivated and said his lawyer had acted alone in pursuing a defamation case against the opposition ...
Thai Tha
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/warrant-11192015170611.html
Apsara announces Angkor restoration plans
Angkor Wat is to receive significant new restorations in 2017, according to the Apsara Authority, which manages the historic temple complex.The announcement came following yesterday’s 24th session of the International Coordinating Committee for Angkor (ICC-Angkor) at which conservation, restoration, sustainable development and tourism were discussed. ...
Thik Kaliyann
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/apsara-announces-angkor-restoration-plans
Drug center will not pursue 18 still free after mass escape
After more than 40 men broke out of a Phnom Penh drug rehabilitation center on Friday, officials said this week that they have called off efforts to arrest 18 escapees who remain at large, instead asking for their families to return them voluntarily. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/drug-center-will-not-pursue-18-still-free-after-mass-escape-108129/
Chroy Changvar residents file petition over satellite city
Nearly 100 residents from six communities within Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar district filed a petition to City Hall, the Canadian Embassy and the World Bank yesterday demanding intervention in a land dispute with the Overseas Cambodian Investment Corporation (OCIC), which is responsible for constructing a ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21918/chroy-changvar-residents-file-petition-over-satellite-city/
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 ...
Zsombor Peter and Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/math-behind-pms-canceled-elcs-claim-still-a-mystery-110340/
Rainsy says french investigating grenade attack
Speaking via video-link at a ceremony on Wednesday marking the 19th anniversary of the 1997 grenade attack in Phnom Penh, self-exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy announced that a French court had re-opened an investigation into the deadly attack he has long blamed on Prime Minister ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rainsy-says-french-investigating-grenade-110637/
PPSEZ IPO fully subscribed
After an unexpected surge in Thai investor interest, Phnom Penh SEZ Plc has secured sufficient commitments to fully cover the strategic and bookbuild share allocations of its initial public offering (IPO), and has determined an issue price for shares to be listed on the Cambodian ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ppsez-ipo-fully-subscribed
Push to promote local products
Supermarket owners are to be called for a meeting with the Commerce Ministry in response to complaints from small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) that local products are not displayed or sold on their shelves, the commerce minister said yesterday at the launch of a ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25274/push-to-promote-local-products/
ING project prompts request for land titles
Ten people representing 380 families who fear they will be affected by an ING Holdings project in the south of Phnom Penh yesterday submitted a letter to the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Development and Construction requesting that the villagers’ land be cut out of ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ing-project-prompts-request-land-titles
Hun Sen slaps analyst with $500K lawsuit
Political commentator Kim Sok’s worldly possessions—two iPhones, an iPad and $200 in savings—may soon become Prime Minister Hun Sen’s property after the premier filed a $500,000 lawsuit against the commentator for allegedly claiming that the CPP killed Kem Ley. ...
Kuch Naren and Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-slaps-analyst-with-500k-lawsuit-125114/
A few hurdles still block path to joining global value chains
The government needs to urgently amend its industrial development policy to spur the inclusive growth of small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) and develop a national logistics platform to cut onerous shipping costs if Cambodia is to find a place in global value chains, panellists at ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/few-hurdles-still-block-path-joining-global-value-chains
PM confirms sky is the limit for twin towers
At the official inauguration of the Hun Sen Boulevard on Monday, the prime minister proudly and publicly acknowledged the go-ahead for the Thai Boon Roong Twin Trade Center – the 133-storey twin skyscrapers that, when announced in February last year, was largely doubted by industry ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/pm-confirms-sky-limit-twin-towers