Rail line discussed for north Cambodia
A Chinese railway company may conduct a feasibility study on a 700-kilometre rail line in northern Cambodia, officials and local media reported yesterday. Officials from Nanning Survey and Design Institute Co Ltd, a subsidiary of China Railway Siyuan Group, discussed the study with the Ministry of ...
WTO review of Kingdom trade policy expected
The World Trade Organisation today will conclude its first-ever review of Cambodia’s trade policies and practices and issue its concluding remarks. The trade review, which began on November 1, is the first time the Kingdom, which was the first least-developed country to fully accede to the ...
Protest over fishing lot bidding continues
Government officials sent conflicting messages yesterday over how they would handle the complaints of about 50 businessmen from Kompong Cham province who continued to protest at the Fisheries Administration over Prime Minister Hun Sen’s decision to cancel their bids to operate fishing lots. Por Try, secretary ...
Land row villagers see hope
The Preah Vihear provincial authority and other relevant parties issued a statement on Wednesday that contained five points aimed to end a land dispute between 330 families and private company Metrei Pheap. This follows the submission of a petition requesting Prime Minister Hun Sen to ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-row-villagers-see-hope
Sihanoukville water treatment plants ‘set for testing’
Officials have said that four facilities designed to prevent waste water from reaching the sea in Preah Sihanouk province would be ready for testing on Monday, as engineers readied to complete the projects before deadline. Yos Chorm Narady, under-secretary of state at the Ministry of ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sihanoukville-water-treatment-plants-set-testing
Rainsy election boycott call a ‘betrayal of King’
Deputy Prime Minister Hor Namhong on Wednesday criticised calls from former Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) leader Sam Rainsy to boycott the July 29 elections as a “betrayal to the King, nation and people”. He also labelled Rainsy “stupid” in comparing himself with the late ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-election-boycott-call-betrayal-king
Unlicensed medicine sale banned
The Ministry of Health has banned the sale of medicine without a legal permit at supermarkets, mini-marts and baby shops nationwide. It said offenders face strict legal measures, including fines of up to 10 million riel ($2,500). A letter signed by secretary of state at ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unlicensed-medicine-sale-banned
Korean government recovers $8m of illegal assets
Investigators from South Korea’s state-run deposit insurer have announced their largest overseas illegal assets haul ever after they tracked down and recovered large land holdings owned by a Korean fraudster near Phnom Penh.The haul, worth some $8 million, sheds light on the use of the ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/korean-government-recovers-8m-illegal-assets
Hun Sen announces broad cuts of petty taxes
The country’s lower class will receive a series of tax breaks starting in 2016, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced Thursday, with tariffs on motorbikes, tuk-tuks and farm machinery to be waived, along with fees at stalls in state-owned markets.Striking a populist tone during the inauguration ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-announces-broad-cuts-of-petty-taxes-98057/
MARDeC technical cooperation project agreement signing ceremony
On 6th June in Fisheries Administration, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), an agreement was signed by H.E Nao Thuok, Secretary of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Cambodia and Mr. Adachi Itsu, Chief Representative of JICA Cambodia Office for implementation of ...
Japan International Cooperation Agency
Potholes on a path to progress
Cambodia marginally improved its global competitive ranking this year, moving up five spots to place 90th out of 144 nations surveyed, with weak public institutions and lack of innovation continuing to affect its economic progress, according to a newly released World Economic Forum report.The Global ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/potholes-path-progress
Accounting and finance top job listings
Cambodia’s accounting and finance industries have seen the healthiest growth over the past three months, followed by jobs in sales, hospitality, management and marketing, according to the latest report by jobs website Everjob. More than 2,500 positions in the accounting and finance sectors were listed on ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30601/accounting-and-finance-top-job-listings/
Electricity Vietnam No Longer Involved in Lower Sesan 2 Dam
Electricity Vietnam International (EVNI), a subsidiary of Vietnam’s state-owned electricity giant EVN, is no longer involved in the Lower Sesan 2 dam, a Vietnamese Embassy official confirmed yesterday. Cambodian conglomerate Royal Group and China’s Hydrolancang International Energy Co. Ltd. on Monday signed an agreement in Phnom ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/electricity-vietnam-no-longer-involved-in-lower-sesan-2-dam-6363/
Cambodia's employers, trade unions fail to reach agreement on pay rise
The third round of negotiation between Cambodia’s garment and footwear manufacturers and representatives of trade unions on minimum wage increase ended without result on Monday. The talk between the employers represented by Nang Sothy, co- chair of the Government-Private Working Group on Industrial Relations, and Ken ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-03/11/c_132225825.htm
Cambodia Officially Starts Trading Life Insurance
Cambodia on May 21 officially started to trade life insurance for first time in history with hope of supplementing social security and growth of insurance development in the kingdom. At the inauguration ceremony at 21st floor of Canadia Tower in Phnom Penh, His Excellency, Aun Porn Moniroth, secretary of state of finance ministry said: “it ...
Vietnam Confirms Stake in Sesan Dam Bought by Chinese Firm
A representative of Vietnamese state-owned electricity giant Electricity Vietnam International (EVNI) confirmed yesterday that their stake in a dam project in Stung Treng province has been bought out by their Cambodian and Chinese business counterparts. While Royal Group chairman Kith Meng has maintained that EVNI still ...
AK Shots provoke complaints
Villagers in Ratanakirri province filed complaints to the provincial court and rights group Adhoc yesterday, claiming three security guards patrolling former state forest in O’Chum district threatened them and fired an AK-47 to scare them away. Kreung ethnic villager Travh Khambon, 37 of La’ak commune Kam ...
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 ...