Vattanac in damage denial
A top executive from Cambodian company Vattanac yesterday denied the firm had damaged colonial-era buildings along the capital’s riverfront, as one local business owner sought a new home. Construction at a Vattanac building site – situated on Phnom Penh’s Sisowath Quay – has been at ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011080350834/National-news/vattanac-in-damage-denial.html
USAID Report Offers New Way to Protect Prey Long Forest
The government should abandon its current management of Prey Long forest and shift to a plan that conserves the forst while also optimizing its economic uses, such as agriculture, carbon credits and controlled timber exploitation, according to a recent report by the US Agency for ...
Arbitration council orders an end to strike
The Arbitration Council has ordered more than 700 workers at the Wei Xin garment factory to end a week-long strike they have staged in protest against a spate of issues they have with the company over contracts and payment. A decision handed down on Saturday by ...
China’s dam plans don’t hold water with panelists
China’s dam-building ambitions and alleged lack of transparency were front and centre yesterday during a roundtable discussion on Mekong River development held in the capital. Representatives from the Chinese embassy defended their country’s record, claiming that China was “eager to participate” in regional cooperation mechanisms. “We aren’t ...
New UN flood numbers grim
The latest United Nations assessment shows that the damage from flooding is far worse than previously thought, according to a report received by the Post late yesterday. Drawing on data from three ministries as well as the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM), the assessment raises ...
S&P downgrades national sovereign debt rating
Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s yesterday lowered Cambodia’s long-term sovereign credit rating by one notch to B due to the country’s continued inability to diversify its economy and increase government spending. The decision by Standard & Poor’s comes after the agency said in September that constraints ...
Ban on Filipino migrant workers suspended
The Philippine government on October 28 issued a ban on its country’s citizens working in Cambodia only to suspend the ban a week later after Filipinos employed here complained, Philippine Ambassador Noe Wong said yesterday. Cambodia was listed by the Philippines Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) as ...
Man guarding land crushed by bulldozer
A 54-year-old man in Kratie province’s Snuol district was crushed to death under trees felled on Tuesday morning by bulldozers belonging to Vietnamese rubber company Dy Nam, an official said. District governor Iv Saphum said that Khem Kan, a representative of 77 families involved in a ...
Sciaroni in US to Attract American Investment
Brett Sciaroni, the storied founder of Sciaroni and Associates in Phnom Penh, is in Washington for a two-day State Department business conference where he will urge US companies to invest in Cambodia, the firm said in a statement. Mr. Sciaroni will be representing Cambodia as president ...
Myanmar’s man on a mission
Cambodia, as ASEAN chair, could play a vital role in strengthening the international community’s perception that Myanmar has reformed and sanctions need to be lifted, independent observers told the Post yesterday. As Prime Minister Hun Sen described yesterday’s arrival of Myanmar president Thein Sein in Phnom ...
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Passports in hand, strikers eye return
More than half of the 800 Cambodian workers who accused police of threatening them with guns and firing into the air during a protest at Phatthana Seafood Co in Thailand on Monday were preparing to return home yesterday, a strike representative said. Sok Sorng said employees ...
O’Touk area development ‘a concern’
Civil society organisations monitoring land disputes in Preah Sihanouk province continue to voice concerns over the environmental impact of developing public land after permission was granted to reclaim a site in the O’Touk area to build a boat terminal. Sok Sokhom, the director of the ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/otouk-area-development-concern
Chroy Changvar bridge is reopened
The Cambodia-Japan Friendship Bridge – also known as Chroy Changvar Bridge I – was reopened at a cost of $30 million on Wednesday morning, after being closed for more than a year for repairs and renovations. The reopening ceremony was held on Wednesday and presided ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chroy-changvar-bridge-reopened
Hun Sen defends lower minimum wage hike
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called on garment factory workers to understand why the hike in the minimum wage next year is not as high as previous raises. The government has increased the wage for next year by $8, a decrease of $4 when compared to ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50647373/hun-sen-defends-lower-minimum-wage-hike/
Germany to provide Cambodia $66M in loans, grants for infrastructure, poverty reduction
The German government announced on Tuesday that following negotiations with Cambodian officials it has decided to approve a package of $34 million in loans and $32 million in grants to develop rural infrastructure and reduce poverty. A press release by the German Embassy urged Cambodia, ...
Kann Vicheika
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/germany-to-provide-cambodia-66m-in-loans-grants-for-infrastructure-poverty-reduction/4920662.html
Senators approve 2019-2023 development plan, power projects
Senators yesterday unanimously agreed to pass the National Strategic Development Plan of 2019-2023 worth $57.7 billion in capital. In order for the budget plan to be finalised, it will need to be reviewed by the Constitutional Council and approved by the King. The vote was held ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50623286/senators-approve-2019-2023-development-plan-power-projects/
PM: Border treaties set to ensure peace, development
Prime Minister Hun Sen hailed the agreements signed in Hanoi on Saturday as further steps towards ending conflicts and ensuring peace and development along the Cambodian-Vietnamese border for generations to come. Hun Sen led a Cambodian delegation on a state visit to Vietnam from Friday ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/pm-border-treaties-set-ensure-peace-development
Czechs vow support over EBA
The Czech government on Monday pledged to support the Kingdom’s efforts to retain its Everything-but-arms trade status during Prime Minister Hun Sen’s visit to the republic. Mr Hun Sen is on a five-day official visit to Eastern Europe which started on Sunday. He met Czech Prime ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50651403/czechs-vow-support-over-eba/
Kingdom to import 200MW from Lao hydropower plant
Cambodia plans to import 200MW of electricity from Laos’ Don Sahong hydropower plant early next year to curb power shortages this coming dry season, with the transmission line network scheduled for completion later this year, Ministry of Mines and Energy spokesman Victor Jona said. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-import-200mw-lao-hydropower-plant
Cambodian exports to Japan up 8.4 per cent year-on-year
Cambodia exported more than $1.2 billion of products to the Japanese market in the first nine months of this year, up 8.4 per cent on the same period last year, data from the Japan External Trade Organisation (Jetro) shows. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodian-exports-japan-84-cent-year-year