Courts step up charges in land disputes
The number of criminal charges meted out to villagers embroiled in land disputes rose by more than 50 percent in 2011 compared to the previous year, according to figures released by the rights group Adhoc yesterday. The rights group found that the courts charged 475 villagers ...
World Bank expects strong growth in 2012
The World Bank yesterday predicted gross domestic product to grow 6.5 percent this year, though it said that economic conditions could sour if the economies of Cambodia’s largest export markets in the US and Europe deteriorate. in an economic report outlining prospects for all of the ...
Shrimp firm in dispute with equity fund
Nautisco Seafood Manufacturing inc, a Canadian-Cambodian shrimp producer in Preah Sihanouk province, has accused the private equity fund Leopard Capital, one of its shareholders, of draining the company of its finances. in a statement released Friday, Nautisco said that Phnom Penh Municipal Court had ordered the ...
Sciaroni in US to Attract American Investment
Brett Sciaroni, the storied founder of Sciaroni and Associates in Phnom Penh, is in Washington for a two-day State Department business conference where he will urge US companies to invest in Cambodia, the firm said in a statement. Mr. Sciaroni will be representing Cambodia as president ...
Illegally Logged Rosewood Seized In Kratie Operation
The Kratie Provincial Court yesterday charged a truck driver with illegally collecting and transporting luxury wood after forestry officers last week confiscated 148 pieces of luxury wood totalling 31.2 cubic meters from his truck, which had been transporting the timber along National Road 7 ...
Workers Faint Daily in Sihanoukville, NGO says
The Cambodian Legal Education Center (CLEC) is “extremely concerned” after an investigation following a mass fainting last month at Nanguo garment factory in Preah Sihanouk province last month found that at least one to two workers are fainting daily in eight factories in the province. ...
Supreme Court Upholds Verdict in Divorce Case
The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the verdict of the Appeal Court regarding the division of assets in a high-profile divorce case that has bounced back and forth between the courts for years. Yesterday’s ruling decreed that Nina Kanikar You, ex-wife of former Funcinpec Secretary of State ...
Rail Project In Need of More Funds
The rehabilitation of Cambodia’s dilapidated railway network is nearly six months behind schedule, and with more than a year’s worth of work to do, the project is running out of money, a consultant for the Ministry of Public Works and Transport said yesterday. Paul Power, a ...
ASEAN aims to dodge crisis in West
ASEAN finance officials and the heads of regional central banks yesterday homed in on the possibility of economic crisis as well as potential means of averting contagion in fledgling Southeast Asian economies. The officials have also agreed “in principle” to doubling a regional currency fund to ...
Canadia subsidiary buys 15% stake in CVI
Diamond Island Development Co Ltd, owned by Canadia Bank, yesterday bought a 15 per cent stake in investment and Development Company of Cambodia (IDCC)’s Cambodia-Vietnam insurance Plc. The companies declined to give the value of the stake. Ngay Mengly, sales officer at Cambodia-Vietnam insurance Plc, said ...
Feasibility study to begin in Koh Kong
The government has announced the approval of a feasibility study to be conducted in Koh Kong province, signalling to demonstrators who have been rallying in front of the Land Management Ministry office in Phnom Penh that their land dispute may come to a close. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50493620/feasibility-study-to-begin-in-koh-kong/
Nearly $2 billion invested in four projects
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) on Thursday announced it has approved four projects so far in June, amounting to $1.9 billion. CDC posted in its Facebook page that since the beginning of the month it has issued final registration certificates for four ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50501766/nearly-2-billion-invested-in-four-projects/
Airport in Sihanoukville gets a major facelift
Sihanoukville International Airport is set to see higher passenger arrivals, thanks to the refurbishment of its passenger termInal, Cambodia Airports announced. In a press release on Wednesday, the operator of the KIngdom’s three airports said the refurbishment is In preparation for an IncreasIng number of ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/airport-sihanoukville-gets-major-facelift
Inflow of FDI up in first half
The inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Cambodia witnessed solid growth in the first half of this year due to strong funds flowing into the financial and real estate sectors, said a central bank report. It said this was despite the agriculture and garment ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/inflow-fdi-first-half
Cambodia to conduct population census in March
Cambodia is going to conduct a population census in March next year, Minister of Planning Chhay Than said here on Tuesday. “We plan to spend 8.5 million U.S. dollars for the one-week census, which will be commenced from March 3, 2019,” he told reporters after a ...
Xinhua
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/14/c_137389562.htm
First highway to break ground in November
Construction of the Kingdom’s first-ever highway, stretching 190 kilometres to connect Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville, was confirmed to start in November. The highway will begin in Phnom Penh’s Chaom Chao area, starting at street Tom Nop Kop Srov, which links national roads 4 and 5, ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50524648/first-highway-to-break-ground-in-november/
Crackdown on illegal fishing in Tonle Sap
Pursat provincial police and fishery administration officials cracked down on a large scale illegal fishing operation along Tonle Sap lake and seized equipment including over 5,300 fishing nets in Kandieng district’s Raing Til commune. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50524750/crackdown-on-illegal-fishing-in-tonle-sap/
Builders in protest over ‘owed’ $7K
Dozns of construction workers in Oddar Meanchey province’s Trapaing Prasat district protested on Wednesday, demanding more than $7,000 in wages their company owed them. The more than 30 workers were employed to construct a building at a sugarcane factory owned by Oknha Vinh Hour in ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/builders-protest-over-owed-7k
MOU to boost training in three provinces
The Labour Ministry and Swisscontact yesterday signed an MoU to provide skills training in three provinces. The MoU solidified cooperation under the Skills Development Programme, a project mandated by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and implemented by Swisscontact. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50535043/mou-to-boost-training-in-three-provinces/
Buffalo carts, logs seized in Kampong Thom
Authorities from Kampong Thom province’s environmental department seized 11 buffalo carts and 10 logs found at Prey Ang Ten wildlife sanctuary on Wednesday. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/buffalo-carts-logs-seized-kampong-thom