Workers unite in devotion to making vote count
Union leaders have admitted they were surprised at the high number of factory workers who returned to the provinces from Phnom Penh to cast their vote in the commune elections. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39042/workers-unite-in-devotion-to-making-vote-count/
CMAC clears 30 pieces of ordnance
Thirty pieces of unexploded ordnance were found and collected by the Cambodian Mine Action Centre yesterday in Pursat province after they were discovered by a villager at a construction site. ...
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-clears-30-pieces-ordnance
Environment ministry targets set
The Environment Minister instructed his staff to cooperate with relevant ministries and institutions to improve management in the sector at the closing of the ministry’s annual meeting on Monday. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5095895/environment-ministry-targets-set/
Ticon follows factory shift to Cambodia
Ticon Industrial Connection Plc, a Thai-based factory and warehouse developer, is expanding its operations into fast-growing Southeast Asian economies, including Cambodia, to help offset sluggish growth at home. ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ticon-follows-factory-shift-cambodia
US chemical bombs found in Svay Rieng
The Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) found two unexploded bombs containing dangerous chemical substances at a primary school and a pagoda in Svay Rieng province’s Romeas Hek district yesterday. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34710/us-chemical-bombs-found-in-svay-rieng/
Hundreds of luxury timber logs seized
Ratanakkiri province police seized 285 logs of first-grade timber in a raid at a cashew farm in a remote area of the province yesterday, although no loggers were arrested. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hundreds-luxury-timber-logs-seized
Kantha Bopha marks 25 years of child health
Kantha Bopha hospitals have treated almost 17 million children and pregnant women at a cost of $632 million, the organisation said, as it celebrated its 25th anniversary last week. ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5089132/kantha-bopha-marks-25-years-child-health/
New Chinese airline lands in local market
Shenzhen Airlines’ first flight to Cambodia landed at Phnom Penh International airport on Wednesday, officially making it the seventh Chinese air carrier to operate in the booming local aviation market. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5097359/new-chinese-airline-lands-local-market/
Makro supermart to open before year end
A branch of the cash and carry supermarket Makro will open in Phnom Penh by the end of the year after construction kicked off at an official groundbreaking ceremony yesterday. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38838/makro-supermart-to-open-before-year-end/
CNRP takes decisive victory in Kampong Cham
Jubilant cheers resounded at the Cambodia National Rescue Party headquarters in Kampong Cham last night as the party transformed its solid support base in the province into an undeniable stronghold. ...
Mech Dara and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-takes-decisive-victory-kampong-cham
Government vows to tighten control over Kingdom’s pawnbrokers
The government is preparing legislation aimed at ensuring tighter control over the nation’s pawnshops to ensure professionalism in a sector that has grown rapidly and lacks a supervisory framework. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-vows-tighten-control-over-kingdoms-pawnbrokers
Samrin’s hometown technically in Vietnam
National Assembly President Heng Samrin’s native village is, as map lines go, technically inside of Vietnam, the head of Cambodia’s Royal Academy said at a recent press conference. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/samrins-hometown-technically-vietnam
Ministry rebuts reports of Chinese money laundering through property market
The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs hit back at news reports about Chinese investors laundering their money through Cambodia’s real estate market on Monday, calling them “baseless”. ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-rebuts-reports-chinese-money-laundering-through-property-market
Huge fire kills adult and child in Mondulkiri
A massive fire killed two people, one of them a child, and destroyed at least 220 market stalls in Mondulkiri’s provincial capital of Sen Monorom town early on Saturday. ...
Kuoch Masy and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/huge-fire-kills-adult-and-child-mondulkiri
Vietnam to invest in hotels in Cambodia
Vietnamese investors are planning to invest more in accommodation services and to build hotels in at least three provinces that Vietnamese visitors traveling to the world-knowned Angkor Wat will travel past. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2012122760497/Business/vietnam-to-invest-in-hotels-in-cambodia.html
Banking on technology in capital
The Cambodian finance industry is to celebrate the sixth Banking and Finance Conference a week from today, at a meeting that will focus on developing technology in the country’s financial sector. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/banking-technology-capital
Thai trafficking alleged
Thai authorities have found five Cambodians employed illegally at a clothing store in Phuket after they were allegedly sold into slave-like conditions by a human-trafficking network, according to Thai media. ...
Amelia Woodside and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thai-trafficking-alleged
Maybank Cambodia opens 17th branch
Maybank Cambodia Plc has launched its 17th branch at Ta Khmao, Kandal Province to expand its footprint across the nation and to provide the community with convenient access of banking services. ...
The Star Online News Staff
http://www.thestar.com.my/Business/Business-News/2014/07/09/MAYBANK-CAMBODIA-OPENS-17TH-BRANCH-IN-CAMBODIA/
Official busted for alleged graft
An official at the Takeo provincial department of labour was arrested on Friday and charged for allegedly embezzling more than $310,000 from vocational teachers, the ACU and a prosecutor said yesterday. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/official-busted-alleged-graft
Communities urge gov't to rescind ELCs
Representatives of communities across the country who have had their lives upturned by development projects yesterday called on the government to rescind the economic land concessions at the centre of their disputes. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/communities-urge-govt-rescind-elcs