Investment in construction reaches all-time high
Investment In the construction sector reached an all-time high last year at almost $3.5 billion, up about 40 percent from the $2.5 billion Invested In the sector In 2014, accordIng to data from the MInistry of Land Management, Urban PlannIng, and Construction. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19955/investment-in-construction-reaches-all-time-high/
Despite threats, unregistered sims still in service
Four months ago, Deputy National Police Commissioner Chhay Sinarith declared unregistered SIM cards a major threat to national security. They were a favored tool of terrorists, kidnappers and drug runners, he insisted, before accusing mobile operators that distribute them of toying with the safety of ...
Khy Sovuthy and Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/despite-threats-unregistered-sims-still-in-service-106516/
Wild animals, illegal meat seized in raids
Authorities have seized more than 160 kilograms of illegal wildlife meat and several live animals during separate raids in Stung Treng and Ratanakkiri provinces over the past week. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wild-animals-illegal-meat-seized-raids
Foreign national pleads ignorance in drug case
A Nigerian man charged with drug trafficking told the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday that he did not know the packet he was handling contained methamphetamine. ...
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/foreign-national-pleads-ignorance-drug-case
Testing for HIV begins in Kandal village
Testing on anxious villagers began in earnest yesterday as Health Ministry officials arrived in Peam, the Kandal province village recently discovered to have 14 confirmed HIV diagnoses. ...
Mech Dara and Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/testing-hiv-begins-kandal-village
Court summons businessmen in connection to timber
Although they remain publicly unnamed, nine businessmen in the timber industry were summoned to appear at the Tbong Khmum provincial court today for alleged deforestation crimes and illegal business dealings, according to officials. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22346/court-summons-businessmen-in-connection-to-timber/
Owner of plants burned in pot bust
More than 350 marijuana plants were destroyed by police during a raid on Tuesday that led to the owner’s arrest in Kampong Cham province’s Stung Trang district, while a second suspect involved in the operation is at large. ម្ចាស់ដើមកញ្ឆារត្រូវបានចាប់ខ្លួន ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22867/owner-of-plants-burned-in-pot-bust/
Kampot cements its place in construction industry
Work started yesterday on Cambodia’s largest and most modern cement plant, which will be built in Kampot province with an investment of $262 million by Chip Mong insee Cement. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23017/kampot-cements-its-place-in-construction-industry/
Centre in China to aid Mekong management
The governments of China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam have agreed to set up a centre in China where the six countries can work together to find solutions to water resource management problems, the Mekong River Commission said in a statement released yesterday. ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/centre-china-aid-mekong-management
In Cambodia, calls for Panama papers probe
Civil society groups and anti-corruption experts have urged Cambodia’s government to open an investigation into why Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana was named in the so-called Panama Papers. ...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voanews.com/content/cambodia-panama-papers-probe-justice-minister-ang-vong-vathana/3280296.html
Loggers sent back by authorities in Thailand
Nine Cambodians were arrested and sent back to Cambodia from Thailand yesterday after Thai soldiers allegedly caught them logging illegally in the Dangrek Mountains. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/loggers-sent-back-authorities-thailand
Border friendship exchange programme held in Hanoi
The event was attended by President Tran Dai Quang, Minister of Defense Ngo Xuan Lich, Minister of Public Security To Lam, Director of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People’s Army Luong Cuong as well as Chinese Ambassador to Vietnam Hong Xiaoyong, Lao ...
Vietname Net Bridge
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/government/156136/border-friendship-exchange-programme-held-in-hanoi.html
Group Lease sees spike in Cambodian income
Thai financing firm Group Lease Plc posted a record-high 222.17 million baht ($6.3 million) net profit from its operations in the first quarter of the year, a 101.5 per cent increase from the same period a year earlier, driven by improvements in its Thai operations ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/group-lease-sees-spike-cambodian-income
Observers see Cambodia’s democracy in retreat
Political intimidation, the suppression of political expression and restrictions on freedom of assembly have Cambodia’s young democracy under threat, observers in the country say. ...
Dy Khamboly
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/observers-see-cambodia-democracy-in-retreat/3343728.html
Malaysian businessmen urged to invest in Cambodia
The President of the Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC), a leading organization representing the private sector in the Kingdom, has urged Malaysian investors and businessmen to invest in and do business with Cambodia to forge a stronger relationship between the two Asean states. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25770/malaysian-businessmen-urged-to-invest-in-cambodia/
Over 100 explosives cleared out in Kandal
Government deminers on Saturday successfully cleared more than 100 US-made cluster bomblets from a rice field in Kandal province’s Muk Kampoul district, according to the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC). ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/over-100-explosives-cleared-out-kandal
Publisher says officials involved in illegal timber
A local newspaper publisher has appealed directly to Prime Minister Hun Sen for help after provincial officials allegedly crashed into his car and threatened him in order to hide timber smuggling activities. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/publisher-says-officials-involved-illegal-timber
Ethnic forest patrol ambushed in Preah Vihear
Four members of a forest patrol were ambushed in Preah Vihear’s Cheam Pen community forest on Tuesday afternoon, according to deputy forest chief Ros Lim. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ethnic-forest-patrol-ambushed-preah-vihear
Fatal bridge accident in Kandal prompts inquiry
Cambodian government officials have opened an investigation into accusations that Hanshin, a Korean construction company, breached contract by failing to follow safety regulations after two brothers were killed when they drove off an unfinished bridge in a Hanshin construction zone last week. ...
Kong Meta and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fatal-bridge-accident-kandal-prompts-inquiry
PPSP reports decline in revenue, net profit
Industrial park operator Phnom Penh SEZ, which became the fourth company on Cambodia’s stock exchange when it listed In May, released its audited 2015 annual report and 2016 half-year fInancials yesterday, reportIng declInes In revenue and net profit over the past 18 months on slower ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ppsp-reports-decline-revenue-net-profit