Sihanoukville Port plans to list on stock exchange in July
While the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority’s (PPWSA) share price continued to fall yesterday, a second state firm came a step closer to joining it on Cambodia’s nascent stock exchange by announcing plans to register by the end of July. At a ceremony marking the first ...
UN seeks full inquiry into Cambodian activist's death
The United Nations human rights office called on Cambodia on Tuesday to carry out a full investigation into the killing of an anti-logging activist and to ensure the safety of witnesses to the crime in which a policeman was also shot dead. Chut Wutty, director of ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/01/cambodia-un-activist-idUSL5E8G131820120501
U.S. Supports Strengthening High-Level Legal Networks in ASEAN
Over 70 judges and justice ministry officials from throughout ASEAN gathered at a U.S.-supported ASEAN legal and judicial cooperation workshop in Cambodia this week for an unprecedented exchange of ideas on the rule of law in the ASEAN region. Representatives from the ASEAN Senior Law Officials Meeting (ASLOM), ASEAN Member State judicial bodies, and the ASEAN ...
World Bank Denies It Will Fund Project in Cambodia
The World Bank has denied a report that it is preparing to fund a new education project in Cambodia, 10 months after the bank froze all new lending to Cambodia to protest evictions and Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak lake. In The, an undersecretary of state ...
Funcinpec enters fray
Members of a party unable to garner a single seat in the National Assembly at July’s national election will hold undersecretaries of state positions in at least 28 different government ministries. In an interview yesterday, Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan told the post that the ...
Meas Sokchea, P.3
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China, Cambodia establish intergovernmental coordination committee
Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong on Thursday co-chaired the first meeting of China-Cambodia Intergovernmental Coordination Committee in Beijing. During the meeting, the two sides achieved broad consensus on enhancing comprehensive strategic partnership of cooperation, said a ...
Ecns News Staff
http://www.ecns.cn/2014/01-03/95372.shtml
Firm plans more bus lines
Chinese firm Global (Cambodia) Trade Development will launch several more city bus lines in Phnom Penh over the next 10 months, dramatically expanding what has so far been a successful experiment to introduce mass transit to the capital, the company and state media said yesterday. Lin ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/firm-plans-more-bus-lines
Cambodia sees 1.41 bln USD trade deficit in 1st half of 2014
Cambodia has seen a trade deficit of 1.41 billion U.S. dollars in the first six months of this year, the latest report of the Ministry of Commerce showed Monday. Total trade volume reached 8.95 billion dollars during the January-June period this year, an increase of 17 ...
Asean-China-Center News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2014-07/15/c_133484829.htm
Rolling blackouts ‘not in the works’: official
Phnom Penh residents should experience blackouts less frequently this dry season, as state-run Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) now has enough power to avoid a repeat of last year’s rolling blackouts, a senior company official said yesterday. The amount of electricity Cambodia will receive from several hydropower ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rolling-blackouts-%E2%80%98not-works%E2%80%99-official
Judiciary laws moving forward with ‘debate’
The National Assembly yesterday opened debate for the first time on the first of three controversial judicial draft laws, approving in principle the first two chapters of the Law on the Organisation and Functioning of the Courts, in the continued absence of the opposition Cambodia ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/judiciary-laws-moving-forward-%E2%80%98debate%E2%80%99
Help for the elderly extended
The government has approved a second phase of a pilot project in Battambang and Banteay Meanchey provinces that will this time see professional caregivers rather than volunteers visit the homes of the elderly to assist with domestic work, hygiene needs and general companionship. “Families are the ...
Amelia Woodside and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/help-elderly-extended
Maid accused of hitting baby in Singapore
Singaporean police have investigated allegations that a Cambodian woman working as a maid in the city-state assaulted an infant in her care, according to the Cambodian ambassador there and a Singaporean recruitment agency. Cheth Naren, Cambodian ambassador to Singapore, said that three Cambodian women came to ...
Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/maid-accused-of-hitting-baby-in-singapore-64328/
Gov’t to meet recruitment firms over migrants
Labor Ministry officials are set to meet today with about 40 local recruitment agencies to talk about formalizing the procedure for sending migrant workers to Thailand, an agency director said. The meeting will focus on how the agencies can help migrants obtain work permits and other ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-to-meet-recruitment-firms-over-migrants-62202/
Russia pledges duty-free trade
Russia is set to approve duty- and quota-free imports for up to 3,000 Cambodian agricultural products, according to local government officials. A statement issued by Cambodia’s Ministry of Commerce on Friday states that Russia’s Minister for Economic Development, Alexey Ulyukaev, agreed in principal to increase the ...
Chan Muyhong and Charles Rollet
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/russia-pledges-duty-free-trade
Sonatra takes one-year hiatus
Local stock brokerage company Sonatra Securities has announced it will completely dilute its books and put a halt on all business activities from October 1. In a press release posted on Sonatra’s website last week, the firm stated without an explanation that it was suspending all ...
Hor Kimsay
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/sonatra-takes-one-year-hiatus
Cambodian King hails Vietnam’s supports during President Sang’s visit
The Cambodia people never forget the invaluable supports Vietnam had given to Cambodia and will continue enhancing ties between the two countries, King Norodom Sihamoni told visiting President Truong Tan Sang Tuesday. Sang met with the Cambodian King right after his arrival in Phnom Penh on ...
Viet Nam to boost textile and garment exports
Viet Nam expects to raise its textile and garment production by 20 per cent in order to boost the sector’s export value by US$4 billion to $28.3 billion this year. Viet Nam also intends to step up its textile and garment exports by 13 per ...
Viet Nam News Staff
http://vietnamnews.vn/economy/266663/viet-nam-to-boost-textile-and-garment-exports.html
Gov’t prepares for mine standoff
Officials backed by a small detachment of gendarmerie seconded from the National Military Police are preparing for potentially violent confrontations with security forces employed by illegal mining companies, an official said yesterday. Meng Saktheara, a secretary of state at the Ministry of Mines and Energy, yesterday ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/govt-prepares-mine-standoff
One million hectares reclassified, gov’t says
More than 1 million hectares of forest terrain and land leased by private companies has been put under government control since Prime Minister Hun Sen initiated a moratorium on new economic land concessions (ELCs) in May 2012, the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and ...
May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/one-million-hectares-reclassified-gov%E2%80%99t-says
Info law to be open to input
The Ministry of Information yesterday announced a three-year public consultation period on a new access to information draft law that has been in the works since 2007. But freedom of information advocates greeted the news with scepticism, citing a lack of representation from civil society on ...
Taing Vida
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/info-law-be-open-input