ACLEDA Bank Plc. Extends Mobile Financial Services to New Segments with Mobiliti Reach from Fiserv
A leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, today announced that ACLEDA Bank Plc. (ACLEDA), the largest bank in Cambodia, has extended its ACLEDA Unity mobile banking and payments service to new, untapped consumer segments using Mobiliti Reach™ from Fiserv. The bank, which has href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/acleda-bank-plc-extends-mobile-financial-services-to-new-segments-with-mobiliti-reach-from-fiserv/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/10/28/acleda-bank-plc-extends-mobile-financial-services-/
Potential seen for National Road 4
Land prices along National Road 4 still have the potential to rise, despite the relocation of a number of factories to National Road 3, property experts say. The price of land goes from $100 to $300 per square metre from Chaom Chao cycle to the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/potential-seen-for-national-road-4/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/Real-Estate/potential-seen-for-national-road-4.html
Cambodia attracts 2.05 bln USD investment projects in 11 months last year
Cambodia had issued licenses to 146 domestic and foreign investment projects with the total investment of 2.05 billion U.S. dollars in the first eleven months last year, showed a report of the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) released Tuesday. During the period, the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-attracts-2-05-bln-usd-investment-projects-in-11-months-last-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2013-01/23/c_132123007.htm
Hun Sen Calls on G-8 to Stabilize Food Prices
Going back on an earlier promise not to make any more public speeches before next month’s commune elections, Prime Minister Hun Sen gave the opening address at a two-day conference on food security and nutrition in Phnom Penh yesterday. At the event, organized by the Council href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-calls-on-g-8-to-stabilize-food-prices/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
After Threats to Cut Pay, Garment Workers Strike
Nearly 2,000 workers at the Gawon Apparel Co. garment factory in Kandal province’s Takhmao City protested in front of the factory yesterday after they were informed that they would lose pay for any days missed during the commune election, which takes place Sunday, union representatives href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/after-threats-to-cut-pay-garment-workers-strike/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Millions Threatened by Dam in Stung Treng
More studies should be conducted on the controversial Lower Sesan 2 dam in Stung Treng province in order to understand its potential social and environmental effects, Conservation International (C.I.) said in a statement. The Lower Sesan 2-as well as other dams planned for the Sesan, Srepok href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/millions-threatened-by-dam-in-stung-treng/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
China seen as potential market for Cambodia’s exports
The Commerce Minister said yesterday that China is a potential market for Cambodia’s garment exports and some other agricultural products while the traditional big markets of Europe and the United States are experiencing an economic slowdown. Cham Prasidh said at the sidelines of the Cambodia-China Trade href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-seen-as-potential-market-for-cambodias-exports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia to face mass return of nationals working in Thailand
Thai and Cambodian labour officials will facilitate the re-employment in Thailand of more than 160,000 Cambodian workers who will possibly be deported to their home country after the nationality verification process ends next Friday, a senior Thai official said today. The process involves 222,430 Cambodian href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-to-face-mass-return-of-nationals-working-in-thailand/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.pattayamail.com/news/cambodia-to-face-mass-return-of-nationals-working-in-thailand-19104
Hun Sen Appeals for Kep's Vines to Be Tamed
Prime Minister Hun Sen appealed yesterday for developers and landowners in Kep City to build fences around their neglected properties to prevent vines from creeping onto the street of the coastal resort. Since much of the land in Kep City is owned by investors who live href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-appeals-for-keps-vines-to-be-tamed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
World Bank Tight-Lipped on Resumption of Financial Assistance
The World Bank has declined to say whether it will resume providing financial assistance to Cambodia, despite a bank official allegedly telling anti-eviction protesters last week that the organization planned to do so next year. In August 2011, World Bank country director for Southeast Asia Annette href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/world-bank-tight-lipped-on-resumption-of-financial-assistance/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Nearly 100,000 tourists visit Cambodia's Preah Vihear temple in 2012
Cambodia’s world heritage Preah Vihear temple greeted some 99,490 domestic and foreign tourists in 2012, up 79 percent from 55,580 visitors in 2011, statistics from the Preah Vihear provincial tourism department showed Wednesday. The Hindu temple had been a flashpoint of deadly armed clashes between Cambodian href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nearly-100000-tourists-visit-cambodias-preah-vihear-temple-in-2012/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/culture/2013-01/02/c_132076419.htm
Real Estate Market Showing Signs of Recovery
Land prices in Cambodia continued to recover in the last half of 2012, especially in urban areas, following a collapse of the market in 2008, real estate investors say. Keuk Narin, vice president of Asia Real Estate Cambodia, told VOA Khmer that commercial land prices href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/real-estate-market-showing-signs-of-recovery/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/real-estate-market-showing-signs-of-recovery/1580588.html
Villagers Hit as Pond Dries Up
Hundreds of residents in five villages in southern Cambodia have been deprived of their sole source of water as a massive pond in their area has dried up, villagers said. The affected villagers of Sre Ronnong commune in Takeo Province’s Tram Kork district have been buying href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-hit-as-pond-dries-up/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/water-02012013195339.html
More SIM cards sold, providers to shrink
Sales of SIM cards reached 19.7 million last year, a 21 per cent rise from the 16.2 million sold in 2011, data from the Ministry of Post and Telecommunication (MPTC) shows. In contrast to the use of SIM cards, the number of telco operators decreased. In href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/more-sim-cards-sold-providers-to-shrink/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013031861984/Business/more-sim-cards-sold-providers-to-shrink.html
Cambodia launches National Council on Green Growth
Cambodia on Tuesday officially inaugurated the National Council on Green Growth, aiming at developing a sustainable economic society with natural resource and environment sustainability. Cambodia has adopted several legal instruments for the green growth implementation. Those included the roadmap for green growth, the memorandum of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-launches-national-council-on-green-growth/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-03/19/c_132246075.htm
Cambodian PM to visit China to advance bilateral ties
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday that he will pay an official visit to China early next month to meet with new Chinese leaders for talks on further enhancing bilateral relations. “I hope that new Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-pm-to-visit-china-to-advance-bilateral-ties/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-03/25/c_132260956.htm
Workers to get back pay before election
Social Affairs Ministry officials yesterday promised that about 750 workers from the shuttered Pine Great garment factory will receive their overdue salaries before the election. Yesterday Touch Somuth, a member of the Social Affairs Ministry committee formed to resolve the issue, said the committee was href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/workers-to-get-back-pay-before-election/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-get-back-pay-election
Cambodia's rubber exports up 29 pct in 5 months
Cambodia reported a 29 percent rise in dry rubber exports in the first five months of 2013, but revenues from the exports rose only 4 percent due to price decline in international markets. Currently, the country has about 300,000 hectares of rubber trees, according to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-rubber-exports-up-29-pct-in-5-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2013-07/19/c_132556398.htm#
Insuring for higher education
Canada-based life insurance company Manulife has launched a product intended to provide parents with security for their children’s education, and officials at the firm say they are optimistic about its prospects. Manulife’s research found that even families who were financially struggling would take advantage of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/insuring-for-higher-education/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013042365160/Business/insuring-for-higher-education.html
Jarai Villagers Ask UN for Help in Land Fight
More than 300 ethnic Jarai families from Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district in longstanding land disputes with two Vietnamese land concessionaires submitted a petition to UN human rights officers yesterday asking for help. Village representative Romas Chvat said locals were participating in an NGO-led workshop on protest href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/jarai-villagers-ask-un-for-help-in-land-fight/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...