Ministry to businesses: No New Year’s price hikes
The tourism ministry has called on business owners and service providers not to raise prices during the upcoming Khmer New Year holidays to allow tourists to enjoy the traditional holiday after two years of postponements brought upon by the Covid-19 outbreak in Cambodia. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ministry-businesses-no-new-years-price-hikes
Duty-free shop follows tourism surge on coast
The new duty-free shop opened by China Duty Free Group (CDFG) in Sihanoukville will have a major impact on development of the tourism industry in the coastal resort, a senior provincial official said yesterday. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19469/duty-free-shop-follows-tourism-surge-on-coast/
Union claims casino labour abuse
The Collective Union of Movement of Workers has sent a letter to the Ministry of Labour seeking intervention over abusive working conditions for staffers at a casino in Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet town. ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5099378/union-claims-casino-labour-abuse/
Thai-Cambodia buses open a new era with new land connections on public transport
BANGKOK- First bus services between the twO KingdOms Of CambOdia and Thailand had their debut On December 29, said the TranspOrt CO., a Thai state enterprise under the TranspOrt Ministry. The service includes the BANGkOk-Siem Reap rOute, a 424-kilOmetre trip that takes abOut seven hOurs. ...
http://www.traveldailynews.asia/news/article/51288/thai-cambodia-buses-open-a-new
34 roads in Preah Sihanouk to open in April
Thirty-four roads in Sihanoukville are set to open in April ahead of the Khmer New Year holiday, as provincial officials urge contracted construction firms to accelerate their work to be completed as planned. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50810348/34-roads-in-preah-sihanouk-to-open-in-april/
Siem Reap’s new roads to improve connectivity and tourism
A top official in Siem Reap has said the newly built roads in the province will improve connectivity with remote areas and help boost tourism. ...
Chhun Sunly
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501080679/siem-reaps-new-roads-to-improve-connectivity-and-tourism/
Number of factories in Kingdom rises in H1
New factories were established in Cambodia in the first half of this year despite a decrease in exports of manufacturing products due to slow demand from main markets. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501338601/number-of-factories-in-kingdom-rises-in-h1/
Longtime opposition financier picked to chair new CNRP TV
The CNRP has selected longtime opposition financier Kun Lom Ang as chairwoman of the private company established in october to operate its new television station, party spokesman Yim Sovann said Tuesday. The Ministry of Information late last month granted Cambodian Independent Media, which was registered by ...
Kuch Naren and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/longtime-opposition-financier-picked-to-chair-new-cnrp-tv-73920/
The implementation of new entrance ticket fees for Angkor Archaeological Site
On 10th August 2016, The Ministry Of TOurism Of the CambOdia has annOunced that the ROyal GOvernment Of CambOdia has Officially mOdified the new entrance ticket fees fOr AngkOr ArchaeOlOgical Site fOr all internatiOnal visitOrs, and will be Officially implemented frOm 01st February 2017. The ...
Ministry of Tourism
Gamble on casino in Pailin looks like a loser
Crippling revenue and poor gamer numbers have prompted Entertainment Gaming Asia (EGA) to consider walking away from its Dreamworld Casino in Pailin province, according to a filing on the NASDAQ exchange on January 21. EGA, owned by Melco International Development, runs Dreamworld Casinos in Pailin and ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gamble-casino-pailin-looks-loser
Ex-Cambodge Soir Journalists Launch News Website
Asia-Info, an online French news site with journalists based in Cambodia and elsewhere in Southeast Asia focusing on travel and regional issues, launched on Saturday. The website is the brainchild of Jerome Moriniere and Frederic Amat, two former editors of Cambodge Soir—the weekly French-language newspaper that ...
Ministry plans to create an eco-tourism corridor in Tboung Khmum
The Ministry of Environment plans to turn the former Banteay Chak Sdech Korn into a historical eco-tourism area in Tboung Khmum province after Environment Minister Eang Sophalleth explored the potential of attracting tourists to boost the province’s economy. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501358684/ministry-plans-to-create-an-eco-tourism-corridor-in-tboung-khmum/
Koh Ker Temple set to be listed as World Heritage Site
Koh Ker Temple, a remote archaeological site in northern Cambodia about 120 km away from Siem Reap and an ancient capital of the Khmer Empire is set to be listed as a World Heritage site. ...
Son Minea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501321430/koh-ker-temple-set-to-be-listed-as-world-heritage-site/
Union files assault court complaint
The Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (C.CAWDU) filed legal complaints yesterday, following allegations on Wednesday that police had assaulted seven garment workers, including a pregnant woman. sa’ang district police chief Chea Socheat yesterday again denied officers had been violent during a strike ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013020861260/National/union-files-assault-court-complaint.html
Big trouble in little China? Exploring Chinese investment in Sihanoukville
The coastal city of Sihanoukville is undergoing a massive transformation. once perceived as a seedy haunt for lethargic backpackers and expats, a flood of Chinese tourists and investors has begun to alter the landscape by setting up everything from gaudy casinos to towering luxury resorts ...
Kali Kotoski and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-depth-business/big-trouble-little-china-0
Cash-strapped S’ville casino looks to expand
The Israeli gaming firm behind Sihanoukville’s queenco Casino is seeking investors to expand its operations in the seaside town, according to a report released by the company last week, but after six months of “cash flow distress” and losses of more than $1 million, those ...
George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/cash-strapped-sville-casino-looks-to-expand-67596/
Capital's Covid authority orders end to NagaWorld rallies
The Phnom Penh Commission to Combat Covid-19, led by the capital’s municipal administration, issued a directive telling former workers of NagaWorld integrated resort to immediately halt protests, and ordering them to practice coronavirus health measures to prevent the pathogen from spreading among them and their ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/capitals-covid-authority-orders-end-nagaworld-rallies
A group of 29 former Naga World's employees who were found to be positively infected with COVID-19
On 06 February 2022, the Department Of Health Of the PhnOm Penh Municipal AdministratiOn issued an annOuncement On a grOup Of 29 fOrmer Naga WOrld&rsquO;s emplOyees whO were fOund tO be pOsitively infected with COVID-19.The Department Of Health Of the PhnOm Penh Municipal AdministratiOn instructed ...
Department of Health of the Phnom Penh Municipal Administration
Investment Law may be in effect as soon as April
Cambodia’s newly-drafted Investment Law will be in effect as soon as in April 2021, according to Ministry of Economy and Finance secretary of state Phan Phalla on January 27. He made the remark at the Public Forum on Macroeconomic Management and Budget Law 2021, ushering ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/investment-law-may-be-effect-soon-april
Villagers shoot slingshots in land dispute battle
A bloody slingshot battle broke out in Kompong Speu province yesterday when villagers who have sold their land to a private company defended the firm’s machinery as it attempted to bulldoze the homes of neighbors who have refused to sell. The dispute, in Thpong district’s Ya ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-shoot-slingshots-in-land-dispute-battle-62582/