Korean government recovers $8m of illegal assets
Investigators from South Korea’s state-run deposit insurer have announced their largest overseas illegal assets haul ever after they tracked down and recovered large land holdings owned by a Korean fraudster near Phnom Penh.The haul, worth some $8 million, sheds light on the use of the ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/korean-government-recovers-8m-illegal-assets
Sea festival nets $15M for Kampot economy
This year’s Sea Festival, held for the first time in Kampot last weekend, attracted over 300,000 visitors and generated more than $15 million in revenue for the local community, tourism minister Thong Khon said yesterday. ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sea-festival-nets-15m-kampot-economy
IFC provides $50m to Amret micro-lender
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) will provide a $50 million financing package to Amret Co to help the Cambodian microfinance institution increase lending to smaller businesses, particularly those in the agriculture sector and rural areas, it said in a press release. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ifc-provides-50m-amret-micro-lender
US to provide $125M for Acleda financing
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the US government’s development financial institution, signed a commitment letter for $125 million direct loan to Acleda Bank to support all sectors through microenterprises and small- and medium-size enterprises (SmEs), Acleda Bank said in a press release yesterday. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/us-provide-125m-acleda-financing
Backup M’kiri bridge ready after Monday collapse
Authorities in Mondolkiri province on Wednesday finished installing an eMergency bridge over the O’Phly river near the site of the existing bridge, which was daMaged by an overloaded truck on Monday night. ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/backup-mkiri-bridge-ready-after-monday-collapse-103759/
Nearly $4M spent on national exam: Minister
Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron said yesterday that about $4 Million was being spent on the upcoMing national exaM and that strict rules will ensure a fair contest. “Each candidate costs an estiMated 140,000 riel [$35] that the Ministry will spend for whole process of the ...
San Bunsim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28046/nearly--4m-spent-on-national-exam--minister/
Mekong dams’ annual impact put at $450M
A 30-month study by Vietnamese researchers on the impact of 11 proposed hydroelectric dams in the Lower mekong Basin (LmB) has found that the economic damage to Cambodia alone will be worth some $450 million per year. ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mekong-dams-annual-impact-put-450m
Some 7.87M registered to vote: NEC
Just under 7.9 million Cambodians enrolled to vote in next year’s commune elections during the registration period that closed on Wednesday, results released yesterday show, with the figure well short of the goal of 9.6 million people older than 18. ...
Alex Willemyns
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/some-787m-registered-vote-nec
France loans €30M for water plant expansion
The French Agency for Development has granted a 30 million euro, or $31.1 million, loan for the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) to expand one of its four water plants and increase its water distribution in the capital. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/france-loans-eu30m-water-plant-expansion
Tax Department collects $760M in first quarter
The Cambodian government collected more than $760 million dollars in tax revenue during the first quarter of this year, an increase of more than 90 percent compared to the same period last year, according to a report released yesterday by General Department of Taxation (GDT). ...
The Phnom Penh Post staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tax-department-collects-760m-first-quarter
Global Fund donates $98m despite graft investigation
Global Fund will provide $98 million to fight malaria, tuberculosis and AIDs from 2018 to 2020, an official said on Thursday, with the donor seemingly banking on improved oversight to prevent alleged government fraud and nepotism it described as recently as march. ...
Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/global-fund-donates-98m-despite-graft-investigation-132750/
ADB signs $180M in loans to Cambodia
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) yesterday signed a $180 million package of loans and grants to Cambodia that are meant to improve the country’s roads, water supply and small-scale farms. One $70 million loan will go towards improving 147-kilometres’ worth of flood-prone stretches of National Road ...
Hor Kimsay and Brendan O’Byrne
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/adb-signs-180m-loans-cambodia
Sathapana Bank secures $50M to scale up
Sathapana Bank Plc has received a hefty $50 million bilateral loan from the Bangkok branch of mizuho Bank, a subsidiary of one of Japan’s largest financial institutions, in a move that banking insiders say will help the newly consolidated bank expand its lending portfolio as ...
Kali Kotoski and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sathapana-bank-secures-50m-scale
RDB loans $30M to boost rice purchases
The government has provided $30 million in loans to rice millers since September to facilitate the purchase of paddy rice, with the head of a state-run bank saying more money was available if necessary. The loans were issued to 38 rice millers by the state-owned ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rdb-loans-30m-boost-rice-purchases
Poor households given $51m in energy subsidies
The government subsidised $51 million worth of electricity across the country in 2017 in a bid to bring down the price of electricity for low-income households, according to the minister of mines and Energy. Speaking at the annual conference of the Electricity Authority Cambodia yesterday, Suy ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50104181/poor-households-given-51m-in-energy-subsidies/
Swiss aid gives $4.6M for farmers
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) yesterday pledged $4.6 million over three years for phase two of an agriculture assistance program that is intended to help small-scale Cambodian farmers in four northern provinces. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/swiss-aid-gives-46m-farmers
ADB offers $70M loan to improve transportation
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $70 million loan to develop the Kingdom’s transportation infrastructure with the majority of the funding going towards improvements of national roads in Prey Veng, Siem Reap and Svay Rieng provinces. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/adb-offers-70m-loan-improve-transportation
Development council approves three projects worth $8M
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) approved three new investment projects with a combined investment capital of nearly $8 million, according to a release. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/development-council-approves-three-projects-worth-8m
$55m grant to fight HIV and TB
The government and the Global Fund have signed a grant agreement worth more than $55 million to implement anti-AIDS and tuberculosis programmes in Cambodia from 2018 to 2020. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5097032/55m-grant-fight-hiv-tb/
Prasac borrows $1.5m from German company
Assets of Cambodian microfinance Institution Prasac reached US$210 million with the combination of newly borrowed $15 million from Germany’s Deg-Deutsche Investitions Und Entwicklungsellschaft mbh (DEG), officials said during the signing ceremony. The seven-year agreement at an annual interest rate of 5.5 per cent would help Prasac ...