Parallel imports in Cambodia
Parallel imports—that is, genuine, noncounterfeit products imported into a country without permission of the intellectual property owner—are a systemic problem in Cambodia. Imported from neighboring countries without the authorization of legitimate manufacturers, parallel imports are sold on the “grey market” at prices which can be ...
Tilleke & Gibbins
http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=817150f3-c0b7-4053-a49b-dbb1ec51354c
Financial literacy in schools
Financial literacy, for students to make effective and informed money management decisions, will now be in the general education curriculum due to joint efforts by the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS). ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27905/financial-literacy-in-schools/
Floods expected in southwest
The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology warned residents in six southwestern provinces to brace for possible floods during the final days of the Pchum Ben festival. According to an announcement posted on the ministry’s Facebook page yesterday, heavy rain from Saturday to Monday is expected ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30258/floods-expected-in-southwest/
Road delays in store
Phnom Penh Muni-cipal Hall has given notice of an expected 45 days of congestion from mid-September during construction at the intersection of Russian and Mao Tse-Tung boulevards in Tuol Kork district, asking for understanding from those affected. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/road-delays-store
Cambodia in two weeks
Infrastructure In Cambodia is not as well developed as In neighbourIng Thailand and Vietnam, and floods and poor roads make travel challengIng durIng the monsoon season, from May to October, but cheap frequent bus services, a good domestic airlIne and easygoIng locals make travellIng here ...
Myanmar Times News Staff
http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/lifestyle/travel/17871-cambodia-in-two-weeks.html
Deaths in childbirth plunge
The number of mothers who died in labour has nearly halved over the past four years, down from 182 fatalities in 2011 to 100 this year, the ministry’s research commission into maternal mortality revealed yesterday.The dramatically reduced death rate was largely due to improvements in ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/deaths-childbirth-plunge
Creature comforts in demand
In its latest audit of domestic appliance sales for seven countries In Southeast Asia, German-based market research firm GfK found that consumer spendIng on refrigerators, air conditionIng units and washIng machInes grew by 2 percent durIng the year endIng June 2016, while washIng machIne sales ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/creature-comforts-demand
Mine site in crosshairs
Officials in Ratanakkiri province are preparing to take action against an illegal mining site that is said to have been operating since at least 2006 as part of ongoing efforts to reform the sector.Hun Bunthan, director of the province’s Mines and Energy Department, said that ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mine-site-crosshairs
Sokha still in crosshairs
The National Assembly is preparing to discuss the “people’s proposal” to oust Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy leader Kem Sokha from his position as the assembly’s vice president, a ruling party lawmaker said yesterday.Cambodian People’s Party lawmaker and parliamentary spokesman Chheang Vun said that Monday’s ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sokha-still-crosshairs
Rice millers reined in
The Ministry of Agriculture has taken action to prevent millers from purchasing paddy rice at below market price from farmers, currently struggling to produce enough marketable rice crop to make ends meet. The ministry, in a statement issued on Monday, ordered all provincial agricultural departments to ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29694/rice-millers-reined-in/
Spike in workers deported
Immigration police say there has been a spike in the number of Cambodian migrant workers being deported from Thailand following a royal decree on the management of foreign workers. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39855/spike-in-workers-deported/
Deportees quizzed in detention
Cambodia has sent officials to interview refugees in the United States who are subject to deportation orders. interior Ministry spokesman General Khieu Sopheak said about 50 refugees had been interviewed but no decision had been made on their repatriation. ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5090148/deportees-quizzed-detention/
Working underground in Ratanakkiri
Both the miners and brokers at the mining site said the land on which the mining is conducted costs roughly $10,000 per hectare per year in a deal between the rubber plantation owner and a gemstone businessman who they referred to as the “boss”. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5098126/working-underground-ratanakkiri/
Rubber prices in decline
The price that Cambodian rubber latex fetches overseas dropped by 10 percent since the beginning of the year, a fall that officials attribute to an oversupply of the commodity in global markets and the sluggish growth of the international economy. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50110169/rubber-prices-decline/
Ghosts in the machine
Private firms say costs, delays and bureaucratic red tape have increased since an obscure private company took over the government’s work-permit application and issuance system in September. The Ministry of Labour announced in August that it had outsourced work permit application processing to E-Solutions (Cambodia) Co ...
Kali Kotoski and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ghosts-machine
Slowdown in services sector
A slow growth in tourism, and a slowdown in the logistics and real estate sectors could cumulatively have a knock-on effect that will threaten the overall growth of the country’s services sector, a report from the Ministry of Economy and Finance said yesterday. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34626/slowdown-in-services-sector/
Sand exports in limbo
Sand exports will remain suspended amid questions about a 56 million-ton discrepancy in deliveries to Singapore. Dith Tina, a secretary of state and spokesman for the Ministry of Mines and Energy, said yesterday that no date had been set for the exports to resume. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34708/sand-exports-in-limbo/
Dredging protest in Kandal
Over 200 people held a protest yesterday morning in Kandal province’s Sa’ang district, demanding that provincial authorities halt sand-dredging operations on the Bassac River. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dredging-protest-kandal
Officials in flu warning
The Health Ministry has called on citizens to be wary of influenza during the rainy season, even though there has not yet been a serious outbreak. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5078543/officials-flu-warning/