Aggrieved villagers come to Phnom Penh for protest
About 100 residents of Preah Vihear province’s Choam Ksan district gathered at Phnom Penh’s restive Samakki Raingsey pagoda on Wednesday ahead of a planned march calling for justice in their long-running land dispute. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/aggrieved-villagers-come-to-phnom-penh-for-protest-103757/
Germany gives $45m grant for development
Germany has given a grant to Cambodia worth $45.7 million to promote economic and social development in three ways. Three agreements were signed yesterday by Keat Chhon, first vice-chairman of the Council for the Development of Cambodia, and Joachim Baron von Marschall, the ambassador of the ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22537/germany-gives--45m-grant-for-development/
NagaCity Walk gives capital a taste of duty-free shopping
The NagaCity Walk, a $94 million subterranean shopping centre in Phnom Penh aimed at high-rolling tourists visiting the adjacent NagaWorld casino and hotel complex, held its soft opening yesterday, with duty-free luxury goods ranging from affordable tobacco, perfumes and designer watches to a $3,400 bottle ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nagacity-walk-gives-capital-taste-duty-free-shopping
Royal turtles get new home
More than 200 critically endangered royal turtles will be moved to a new center in Koh Kong’s Mondol Seima district today with 13 Siamese crocodiles also being relocated. Eng Mengey, communications officer for the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), said royal turtles were now facing threats to ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29655/royal-turtles-get-new-home/
Four more Nauru refugees may be on the way
The Interior Ministry will send a delegation to Nauru Island this month to interview another four asylum seekers who are considering resettling in Cambodia, a spokesman for the ministry said yesterday. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16353/four-more-nauru-refugees-may-be-on-the-way/
Ratanakkiri court rejects petition over dispute
More than 200 people living on a contested plot of land in Ratanakkiri province on Thursday lodged a petition with the provincial court calling for the release of three community leaders who were convicted and jailed on Wednesday over a dispute with a wealthy businessman, ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ratanakkiri-court-rejects-petition-over-dispute-102009/
Thai financial major Krungsri buys out Cambodian micro-lender HKL
Bank of Ayudhya Pcl (Krungsri), Thailand’s fifth largest financial group and a subsidiary of Japan’s leading financial group Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, has acquired a 100-per-cent stake of Hattha Kaksekar Limited (HKL), one of the leading microfinance institutions in Cambodia, for an undisclosed amount. ...
Chalida Ekvitthayavechnukul
http://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/krungsri-acquires-cambodian-micro-financial-group-hkl-28704/
Thai princess to visit Kingdom next week
Thai Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn will travel to Cambodia for a three-day official visit next week, where she will meet with King Norodom Sihamoni, Prime Minister Hun Sen and attend multiple groundbreaking ceremonies at schools in Kampong Speu and Kampong Thom provinces, according to a ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21417/thai-princess-to-visit-kingdom-next-week/
Rain and storms coming, says committee
More than 1,200 houses and buildings were affected and more than 70 people died or were injured by rainstorms and lightning in the first four months of 2016, according to Keo Vy, Cabinet director and a spokesman for the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM). ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24486/rain-and-storms-coming--says-committee/
Cargo projections fall short at capital port
Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP), which operates the capital’s river port, reported a decline in container traffic during the first quarter of the year, raising questions about the newly listed company’s ability to meet its double-digit revenue and earnings projections – though analysts say it ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cargo-projections-fall-short-capital-port
Export cassava to Thailand, says ministry
Cambodia’s cassava growers have been asked to target Thailand as an export market due to the high demand for the starch-tuber in the neighboring country to produce ethanol, animal feed and flour, while little is done at home to stabilize prices and provide assistance to ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26425/export-cassava-to-thailand--says-ministry/
IMF sees rapid credit growth as main risk to economy
Cambodia’s economy continues to perform strongly, but rapid credit growth must be contained to reduce the risk of economic and financial instability, and to ensure a “soft landing” of the credit cycle, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a statement issued yesterday at the ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/imf-sees-rapid-credit-growth-main-risk-economy
CRF wants to track rice loans
The Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) has submitted a proposal to the government for the setting up of a joint executive financial committee to ensure that the $27 million emergency loan to rice millers to purchase paddy rice from farmers, in a bid to prevent rice ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30381/crf-wants-to-track-rice-loans/
Cambodian villagers ask for missing compensation for confiscated land
Eighteen Cambodian families whose land was confiscated for the construction of a Chinese hydropower dam in a northwestern province on Thursday requested that the local government and Chinese operator of the facility pay them compensation they are owed, said a local resident and an official ...
Morm Moniroth
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/villagers-ask-for-missing-compensation-for-confiscated-land-09172015152530.html
Dumpsite at Samlot still awaits green light
Doubts have been cast on long-standing plans for a 34-hectare dumpsite in Pailin’s Samlot Protected Forest following an inspection by the environment minister on Saturday. Ministry spokesman Sao Sopheap yesterday said that following the inspection, the minister has called for further research before the project ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dumpsite-samlot-still-awaits-green-light
Mass fainting hits Cerie garment factory again
A mass fainting incident occurred again yesterday at a Chinese-owned garment factory that supplies nighties, bras and children’s clothing to North American retail chain Hudson Bay, with more than 60 workers collapsing at the factory in Kampong Speu’s Samrong Tong district, after about 40 collapsed ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18487/mass-fainting-hits-cerie-garment-factory-again/
ACU chief slams global fund over bribe case
Cambodia’s corruption czar was again on the defensive on Tuesday about the government’s controversial decision not to prosecute the former head of the National Malaria Center over revelations that he took hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to secure million-dollar mosquito net contracts for ...
Zsombor Peter and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/acu-chief-slams-global-fund-over-bribe-case-102456/
Drawdown of troops at Preah Vihear
Cambodia is quietly reducing troop numbers on the contentious shared border with Thailand in Preah Vihear province.Citing the current good relations with the Kingdom’s western neighbour, Ministry of Defence spokesman Chhum Socheath yesterday said members of three units had been ordered to leave the border ...
Vong Sokheng and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/drawdown-troops-preah-vihear
Cambodia ready for aviation audit
Cambodia’s State Secretary of Civil Aviation (SSCA) says it is ready to comply with an audit from the United Nations’ International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) after having fared poorly during the last two inspections in 2007 and 2009. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18956/---cambodia-ready-for-aviation-audit---/
City hall to add 600 security cameras throughout the capital
Despite a slew of global investment banks slashing their oil price forecasts this week, KrisEnergy —the Singaporean oil and gas firm with a controlling stake in Cambodia’s most promising offshore oil reserve, Block A—remains committed to helping Cambodia produce its first drop of oil, a ...
Tej Parikh
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/krisenergy-committed-to-cambodias-block-a-105341/