Growth in vehicle sales fuelled by bank loans, dealers say
<p>Commercial banks are providing more loans for vehicle purchases, leading to a jump in car sales this year, according to dealers.
While the improved domestic economy and effects of the March disasters in Japan on its competitors had improved sales figures of Great Wall vehicles, increased ...p>
Garment factory back in business after last week’s mass fainting
<p>Three workers at M&V International Manufacturing Ltd’s garment factory in Kampong Chhnang factory fainted yesterday and about 20 others were permitted to stop working for two more days due to poor health, a representative of their union said. Nearly 300 workers fainted at the factory last ...p>
Tep Nimol, Don Weinland, P. 5
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/garment-factory-back-business-after-last-week%E2%80%99s-mass-fainting
Land on capital’s riverfront is opened up for investment
<p>The government has signed off on a proposal to designate more than 9 hectares of land along phnom penh’s riverfront as state-private land, opening it up for private investment or long-term leasing. The 9.25-hectare stretch of riverfront from the capital’s Night Market to the Chroy ...p>
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/land-capitals-riverfront-opened-investment
At Cambodia’s last independent newspaper, top editor fired, foreign journalists quit
<p>All but a handful of foreign journalists on staff at The phnom penh post, Cambodia’s last remaining independent daily newspaper, resigned on Wednesday. Citing differences over the meaning of “editorial independence,” they quit within days after new owners fired its editor-in-chief who refused to remove a published ...p>
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.voanews.com/a/cambodia-last-independent-newspaper-editor-fired-reporters-quit/4387613.html
Inflow of FDI up in first half
<p>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 ...p>
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/inflow-fdi-first-half
PM: Programme to recover Vietnam War missing back on
<p>prime Minister Hun Sen has announced the resumption of the MIA programme to recover the remains of American service personnel missing after action on Cambodian soil during the Vietnam War. The programme was suspended for more than a year after the US government imposed visa ...p>
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-programme-recover-vietnam-war-missing-back
O’Touk area development ‘a concern’
<p>Civil society organisations monitoring land disputes in preah Sihanouk province continue to voice concerns over the environmental impact of developing public land after permission was granted to reclaim a site in the O’Touk area to build a boat terminal. Sok Sokhom, the director of the ...p>
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/otouk-area-development-concern
Cambodia steps up fight against climate change
<p>Considered one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to the effects of climate change, the Royal Government of Cambodia is taking major steps to improve its resilience and reduce its disaster risk with support from the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. To ...p>
Omar H. Amach
https://www.unisdr.org/archive/64687
MRC awards green campaign winners to raise awareness of plastic pollution
<p>A phnom penh resident was among the six winners of a green campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of disposing plastic waste in the river as the Mekong River Commission (MRC) on Friday commemorated the 24th anniversary of the signing of the agreement that ...p>
Eight people sent to court over violent protest
<p>preah Sihanouk provincial authorities on Sunday sent eight people to court for blocking National Road 4 and using violence against authorities in a land dispute in prey Nop district’s Bit Traing commune. Four police officers and two commune security guards sustained injuries when the protesters ...p>
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eight-people-sent-court-over-violent-protest
Cambodia’s rubber exports show 23% increase, but prices decline
<p>Cambodia’s rubber exports increased 23 per cent in the first quarter of this year on the same period last year, while rubber prices continue to decrease, according to figures from the General Directorate of Rubber under the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The data ...p>
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodias-rubber-exports-show-23-increase-prices-decline
Expert warns of ‘debt-trap’ ahead of Cambodian PM visit to China Belt and Road Forum
<p>Overdependence, coupled with loans and the cost of maintaining infrastructure, could leave Cambodia in a “debt trap” to China, an expert said Tuesday, as Cambodia’s prime Minister Hun Sen prepares to attend a summit in Beijing on Chinese president Xi Jinping’s sweeping Belt and Road ...p>
Joshua Lipes
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/trap-04232019163513.html
Key commerce laws to be passed this year
<p>A raft of new laws to boost the local economy is in the pipeline and will be passed before the end of the year, according to a senior public official. Mao Thora, secretary of state at the Ministry of Commerce, told Khmer Times on Tuesday that the E-commerce ...p>
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50622358/key-commerce-laws-to-be-passed-this-year/
National Bank of Cambodia slams NGOs’ lending report
<p>The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) on Thursday slammed a report on predatory lending in the Kingdom by local human rights NGOs Licadho and Sahmakum Teang Tnaut (STT), which was released on Wednesday, as “flawed”. The report, entitled Collateral Damage, claimed that increasing levels of ...p>
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/national-bank-cambodia-slams-ngos-lending-report
Siem Reap orders halt to state land grabs
<p>The Siem Reap provincial administration has ordered its relevant authorities to take legal measures against anyone illegally clearing and grabbing wetland, community land or natural protected areas. It also urged them to immediately stop issuing ownership letters and documents for such land. The announcement, obtained ...p>
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/siem-reap-orders-halt-state-land-grabs
Governor seeks World Bank’s help to tackle waste woes
<p>Due to the rapid growth of the Kingdom’s coastal city of Sihanoukville, the amount of rubbish being produced daily has skyrocketed from just 100 to 200 tonnes per day in 2015 to a staggering 1,000 tonnes today, prompting preah Sihanouk’s governor to request World Bank ...p>
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50649191/governor-seeks-world-banks-help-to-tackle-waste-woes/
Investment in construction hits $6.5 billion: Ministry
<p>Investment in construction in the Kingdom reached a new high during the first nine months of the year, amounting to $6.5 million, according to the latest government report. From January to September, investment in the sector grew by 34.7 percent compared with the same period last ...p>
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50652396/investment-in-construction-hits-6-5-billion-ministry/
Working group to assess media freedom through local lenses
<p>The Union of Journalist Federations of Cambodia has established a working group tasked with promoting media freedom and evaluating content to foster quality journalism in the Kingdom. The UJFC in a statement on Tuesday said the working group is dubbed the Cambodian Committee for Media Assessment ...p>
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50655949/working-group-to-assess-media-freedom-through-local-lenses/
Ministry of Labour informed the employers to allow the workers and employees to have 3 days off joining the election of members of the national assembly in the 6th legislature
<p>On 13 June 2018, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training released an announcement referencing to letter No.961 N.E.C singed on 12 June 2018 by the National Election Committee (NEC) to inform all owners, and employers of factory, manufacturing and all institutions to facilitate the ...p>
Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training
Kingdom’s rice exports down 1.5%
<p>The Kingdom’s rice exports saw a 1.5 per cent drop last year compared to 2017 due to the industry’s lingering challenges – the cost of production and competition with the international market. Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries figures show that the country exported 626,225 ...p>
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-rice-exports-down-15
