Amru bags rice deals worth almost $10M
Amru Rice Group, one of Cambodia’s largest rice exporters, on Thursday signed a contract purchase agreement with 4,000 organic rice farmers in Preah Vihear province. The agreement effectively means that the company will reserve nearly $10 million to purchase around 30,000 tonnes of organic paddy ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/amru-bags-rice-deals-worth-almost-10m
Ordnance found in K Chhnang
Explosives experts from the Cambodian Mine Action Centre have unearthed nearly 1,000 pieces of unexploded ordnance (UXO) after being called to a military base in Kampong Chhnang province. CMAC discovered 894 items of explosive material after soldiers at Cholkiri district’s Tuol Chek base came across ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ordnance-found-k-chhnang
Europe to discuss Kem Sokha’s detention
The European Parliament is set to hold urgent debates on selected human rights, democracy and rule of law topics on Thursday in Strasbourg, France, a briefing released by the body said last week. Discussion on Cambodia will centre on the imprisonment of court-dissolved Cambodia National ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/europe-discuss-kem-sokhas-detention
Stung Meanchey residents being relocated
City Hall yesterday began to distribute plots of land to 153 families being relocated during a project to restore Stung Meanchey canal. In August last year, Phnom Penh Municipal Governor Khuong Sreng said that authorities would measure the land and distribute titles for a total ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50497922/stung-meanchey-residents-being-relocated/
UN fights malnutrition with snack
The production of Nutrix, a new fish-based wafer snack, was launched in Phnom Penh on Monday to assist in the fight against “severe acute child malnutrition” in Cambodia. The Nutrix facility is the first of its kind in the Kingdom and only the second in ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-fights-malnutrition-snack
CPP Congress sets key policies
The 41st Congress of the Central Committee of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), headed by its president and Prime Minister Hun Sen has laid out key policies and far-reaching reforms across all sectors in order to win provincial, municipal, district and national elections, party spokesman ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-congress-sets-key-policies
Firm requests permission to restore riverbanks
Try Pheap Engineering & Construction Co Ltd has requested permission from Prime Minister Hun Sen to pump and restore the banks of the Mekong river, according to a Council of Ministers’ letter. The restoration area in question stretches from the Kaam Samnor Cambodia-Vietnam border checkpoint ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/firm-requests-permission-restore-riverbanks
Cambodia organizes Culture Week in Vietnam
The Cambodia Culture Week 2015 will take place in Ho Chi Minh City and Soc Trang Province from November 8th – 14th. The event will be co-organised by the Viet Nam Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Cambodia Ministry of Culture and Fine ...
Ozgur Tore
http://ftnnews.com/mice/28866-cambodia-organizes-culture-week-in-vietnam.html
Japanese luxury chain to open hotel in capital
Japanese-owned Hotel Okura Co. Ltd. on Monday reached an agreement with TEHO Development Cambodia Pte. Ltd. – a subsidiary of Singapore-listed TEHO International – to develop and manage a luxury hotel in Phnom Penh as the company as part of its expansion in ASEAN, a ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21155/japanese-luxury-chain-to-open-hotel-in-capital/
Used car market fails to scare Isuzu
Despite used car sellers dominating the Kingdom’s automobile market, Tri Petch Isuzu Sales Co. Ltd, the sole distributor of Isuzu vehicles in the region, is confident in the sales of its new D-Max Blue Power high utility vehicles in Cambodia due to the country’s fast ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26273/used-car-market-fails-to-scare-isuzu/
Environment officials deny forest crimes
A letter sent to authorities in Siem Reap province on Monday by nine park rangers accusing two senior environment officials of involvement in illegally cutting down six trees for profit was dismissed as a lie by one of the accused yesterday, who instead insisted it ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28636/environment-officials-deny-forest-crimes/
Effigy disaster averted: Sar Kheng
A plan to burn an effigy of Prime Minister Hun Sen at a Cambodia National Rescue Party rally in the capital two years ago would have led to the deployment of heavily armed security forces had ex-US ambassador William Todd not intervened to stop the ...
Meas Sokchea and Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/effigy-disaster-averted-sar-kheng
Agriculture ministry to end ELC assessment in October
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) will finalize its assessment over the companies which have been granted economic land concessions (ELCs), in October, as the ministry has announced to reduce the period of ELC investment to 50 years from 70-99 years, said a ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.akp.gov.kh/?p=69494
Cambodia needs ‘genuine’ dialogue to avert crisis: Opposition spokeswoman
Cambodia needs a genuine “culture of dialogue” between its political parties to avert a descent into crisis, Monovithya Kem, the daughter of deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha and a spokeswoman for the country’s opposition party, told The Diplomat Tuesday in an exclusive interview in Washington ...
Prashanth Parameswaran
http://thediplomat.com/2015/11/cambodia-needs-genuine-dialogue-to-avert-crisis-opposition-spokeswoman/
Quach restructures, sets course for likely IPO
Mengly J. Quach Holdings (MJH), an umbrella for companies engaged in education, health care, food, media and financial services, is undergoing a restructuring and audit, and plans to spin off of its core educational arm ahead of a possible listing on the Cambodian stock exchange, ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/quach-restructures-sets-course-likely-ipo
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/
Newly titled communities hope to protect more than just traditions
After three years of processing, two Phnong villages in northern Kratie province finally received community land titles on Saturday, the first to do so in Kratie province. Currently, there are two more villages with community land titles in Ratanakiri, and seven in Mondulkiri, making eleven ...
Aisha Down
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19402/newly-titled-communities-hope-to-protect-more-than-just-traditions/
Gov’t: China, Vietnam helping in timber fight
Environment Minister Say Samal, known for his outlandish and at times false claims about illegal logging and deforestation in the Kingdom, said yesterday that his ministry was collaborating with officials in Vietnam and China – two of the largest buyers of precious Cambodian wood – ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30518/gov---t--china--vietnam-helping-in-timber-fight/
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/
European bank adds Cambodia to network
France’s BRED Bank, one of the largest lenders in Europe, plans to open its first branch in Cambodia by the end of the year as it expands its network in ASEAN, its CEO said, adding that it aims to assist small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19971/european-bank-adds-cambodia-to-network/