Provincial officials delay UN search for Montagnards
Provincial authorities in Ratanakkiri province on the Vietnam border have yet to allow a team of UN workers to actively seek out a group of Montagnards potentially seeking asylum. UN refugee workers met with provincial officials for more than an hour on Wednesday, but no permission ...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/provincial-officials-delay-un-search-for-montagnards/2562662.html
Majority want booze regulations: survey
An overwhelming 96 per cent of Cambodians want the government to take measures to reduce alcohol consumption, a Royal University of Phnom Penh survey has found. The survey released yesterday of 2,104 adults in four provinces also found 93 per cent want the government to ban ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/majority-want-booze-regulations-survey
Banh says military shows bias toward the gov’t
Defense Minister Tea Banh joked Tuesday that the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) are “biased to the right people” in protecting the government from destabilizing political agitators. Speaking at the annual review of the military’s activities at the Defense Ministry, General Banh said the armed forces ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/banh-says-military-shows-bias-toward-the-govt-79059/
Government considering national oil company
The Ministry of Mines and Energy is in the early stages of developing a national oil company, a ministry spokesman said Wednesday. Meng Saktheara, who is also a secretary of state, said his ministry had been working with the Finance Ministry to assess the risks of ...
Kang Sothear and Chris Mueller
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-considering-national-oil-company-79538/
P Vihear families call on gov’t to stop logger
After almost five years of alleged illegal logging in Preah Vihear province’s Preah Rokar community forest by a local businessman, more than 100 villagers yesterday petitioned the provincial authorities to shut down his handicrafts company. The villagers say that the woodworking operation, owned by businessman Sar ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/p-vihear-families-call-govt-stop-logger
Prime Minister says test scores warning to students
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday said the pass rate of 25 percent in last month’s grade 12 national exam served as a warning that students could no longer pay their way through school and urged students who failed the exam to embrace their second ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prime-minister-says-test-scores-warning-to-students-67414/
Railroad protesters lobby ADB
About 50 villagers who live near railway lines in Phnom Penh gathered outside the Asian Development Bank yesterday morning to again demand more detailed information about what will happen to them during forthcoming phases of a bank-funded railway rehabilitation project. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Kevin Ponniah
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/railroad-protesters-lobby-adb
Businesses must pay property tax by October
Businesses registered in Cambodia have until the end of the month to pay their annual property tax to the country’s General Department of Taxation (GDT). According to the GDT, business owners must pay by September 30 to avoid being fined. ...
George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/businesses-must-pay-property-tax-by-october-67827/
Neuroscience center opens at hospital
Cambodia launched its first full-scale public neuroscience centre at Calmette Hospital in the capital yesterday. The $10.8 million, 90-bed Centre De Neurosciences – complete with a neurosurgical ward and research unit – will seek to treat patients regardless of their ability to pay. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/neuroscience-centre-opens
Round two: Thousands sign up for final re-test
More than 68,000 grade 12 students have signed up for a second and final shot at the high stakes national exam next Monday, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport reported. That’s all of the students who failed – and most who failed to show ...
Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/round-two-thousands-sign-final-re-test
China's loans vital to building SE Asian connectivity: Cambodia
The large loans China offered at the 9th East Asia Summit are vital to regional countries in their connectivity construction, a senior Cambodian official said on Thursday. Kao Kim Hourn, minister attached to Prime Minister Hun Sen, made the remarks at a press conference at ...
Ecns.cn News Staff
http://www.ecns.cn/voices/2014/11-14/142580.shtml
Regional officials meet over rubber fall
Officials from Southeast Asia’s natural rubber-producing nations met in Kuala Lumpur yesterday for the 12th international Tripartite Rubber Council (ITRC). Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) joined ITRC core nations – Thailand, indonesia and Malaysia – for the event, which is being touted as a joint ...
May Kunmakara
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/regional-officials-meet-over-rubber-fall
Cambodian, Chinese firms sign deals for business cooperation
Cambodian and Chinese companies on Monday signed five agreements for business cooperation and joint ventures in construction and agriculture. The deals were signed on the sidelines of an annual Cambodia Import-Export Exhibition here under the presence of Cambodian Commerce Ministry Secretary of State Kem Sithan. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141215/cambodian-chinese-firms-sign-deals-business-cooperation
Rice federation votes, approves export fee
The newly formed Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) voted Monday to require its members pay an export fee of $0.50 per metric ton of long-grain white rice and $1 per ton of fragrant rice in order to raise money for educating farmers and marketing Cambodian rice ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/rice-federation-votes-approves-export-fee-77253/
Myanmar, Cambodia seek investors for rice business
Two Southeast Asian countries not particularly known for large agricultural exports, Myanmar and Cambodia, have both declared that they want to participate in the global rice business by intensifying rice farming and milling across their respective countries with the help of foreign investors, including from ...
Arno Maierbrugger
http://www.gulf-times.com/eco.-bus.%20news/256/details/426906/myanmar,-cambodia-seek-investors-for-rice-business
Lack of sweet deals turning Cambodia’s palm sugar industry sour
There is a growing demand for palm sugar in the marketplace. But producers are unhappy that they have not been paid fair prices by middlemen. The fair price for a kilo of raw palm sugar varies from US$0.41 to US$0.70. But the producers get much ...
Tan Ju-Eng
http://bit.ly/1IL9QKU
Condominium developers begin shift towards local market
It is no secret that Cambodia’s condominium market has largely focused on attracting international developers and investors looking to jump into a growing market by offering expensive upscale units, but, as the standard of living in Cambodia is on the rise, many projects are shifting ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/condominium-developers-begin-shift-towards-local-market
Lawmakers urge Constitutional Council to amend NGO law
A group of opposition lawmakers has urged the Constitutional Council to amend a contentious law on regulating NGOs in the country. Prum Nhean Vicheth, a spokesman for the Constitutional Council, confirmed receipt of the petition and said the Council will be considering the draft law ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/lawmakers-urge-constitutional-council-to-amend-ngo-law/2886994.html
GMAC no fan of union law
The Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia says it will push for revisions made on the draft trade union law last week to be changed.During a meeting on July 28, the Ministry of Labour said it had revised a number of provisions in the law, which ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gmac-no-fan-union-law
Cambodia makes progress curbing bear trade
Cambodia’s wild bears are under unprecedented pressure. Their native forests are being cut down at record rates, and China’s huge demand for traditional medicine has made them targets. But experts say Cambodia’s conservation efforts are setting an example that has put it well ahead of ...
Robert Carmichael
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-makes-progress-curbing-bear-trade/2900786.html