China gives $3m for city surveillance system
The Chinese government on Tuesday donated $3 million to Cambodia to set up a closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance system across Phnom Penh to help cut down on crime and traffic accidents, according to the national police. “This is a donation from the Chinese ministry of Public ...
Sek Odom and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/china-gives-3m-for-phnom-penh-surveillance-system-66349/
Japan awards Cambodia $230m in infrastructure aid
The Japanese government on monday awarded nearly US$230 million in grant aid and loans to Cambodia. The loans are for a city transmission and distribution system expansion project in Phnom Penh and improvement of National Road No. 5, linking Phnom Penh and the Thai border. ...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/512492/japan-awards-cambodia-230m-in-infrastructure-aid
IFC gives Acleda a $110M loan boost
The International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank, and the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) announced Thursday that they will provide Acleda Bank with a $110 million loan to finance rural and micro-businesses, especially agricultural enterprises. ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ifc-gives-acleda-110m-loan-boost
Official questioned over $1.5M land ‘fraud’
A former ministry of Interior police officer was tried by the Phnom Penh municipal Court yesterday for allegedly embezzling more than $1.5 million under the pretense of buying land from Kandal province villagers for a company he used to work for. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/official-questioned-over-15m-land-fraud
Authorities shut down illegal M’kiri mine site
An illegal gold mine allegedly managed by a military police commander in mondulkiri province was shut down by a local prosecutor last week after being in operation for more than two decades, officials said. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-shut-down-illegal-mkiri-mine-site
RCAF top brass unaware of M’kiri standoff
Two days after a platoon leader in Mondolkiri accused soldiers froM Kratie of pointing their weapons at his Men in order to free a group of suspected illegal loggers froM VietnaM, two of the Military’s Most senior officials on Thursday said they were unaware of ...
Sek Odom and Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rcaf-top-brass-unaware-of-mkiri-standoff-87239/
Angkor Wat tourists bring Cambodia nearly $40m
Cambodia has earned nearly US$40 million from foreign tourists who visited Angkor Wat in the first eight months of this year, according to a report released Friday. ...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asean/681476/angkor-wat-tourists-bring-cambodia-nearly-40m
PRASAC takes $2m loan from Dutch firm
PRASAC Microfinance Institution, CaMbodia’s biggest MFI by outstanding loans, has received a US$2 Million loan froM the Netherlands DevelopMent Finance CoMpany ...
Advanced Bank of Asia loans MFI $2m
The Advanced Bank of Asia (ABA) last week loaned PRASAC Microfinance Institution US$2 Million to support the rapid growth of the Microfinance loan industry. The doMestic loan was chosen to “diversify our funding sources” because of a large reliance on overseas capital which Moves Many of the jobs created ...
‘Historic’ deal for workers
Labour-rights groups are lauding a “historic” deal that will result in about $200,000 in wages and benefits being paid to workers who were stranded when the Kingsland Garment factory in Phnom Penh closed unannounced in December. In a meeting on Friday that took place as more ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013030461726/National/historic-deal-for-workers.html
Newly Paved Road Expected to Up M’kiri Trade
With the paving of the road from Sen monorom City to a planned international border crossing with Vietnam recently completed, cross-border trade in the area is expected to rise, officials said. Chinese-owned company Roch China Construction finished paving the 32-km road last month using a ...
Property Tax to Generate $6M for Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh City Hall has estimated it could receive about $6 million in revenue next year from property tax collection, which started recently. City Hall released some tax calculation methods on its website last week and said that “based on the estimation of the technical ...
Japanese Government To Loan $47M for Agro-Development
The Minister of Water Resource and Meteorology announced yesterday that the Japanese governMent’s international aid agency will provide his Ministry with $47 Million on loans for an agriculture developMent project near the Tonle Sap lake. During a donation cereMony for 144 Japanese-funded agricultural Machines held ...
Lion Forest Industries’ RM78.3m Cambodian Investment
Kuala Lumpur–Lion Forest Industries BHD (LFIB) is acquiring 58,000 hectares under an economic land concession (ELC) in Cambodia for US$26.1 million (Rm78.3 million) to cultivate oil palm and rubber trees. LFIB said on monday, Aug 29 the concession would not be less than 70 years under ...
ADB offers $15m loan for financial-sector growth
Cambodia and the Asian Development Bank have signed their latest loan agreement of US$15 million for the development of the Kingdom’s financial sector, according to ADB. The money would be used for a number of development programs, including the improvement of regulatory regimes, creation of an ...
South Korea lends $52.2M for road renovation
South Korea has loaned Cambodia $52.54 million to renovate the 63.5km-long National Road 21, which connects the provinces of Kandal and Svay Rieng, according to a statement yesterday by the ministry of Finance ...
Damages from mine to cost at least $4m
The government said yesterday that a gold mine in Kompong Cham province that has damaged about 1 square km of land with chemical waste would cost at least $4 million to clean up. Speaking at a workshop in Phnom Penh on revenue transparency, Sim Sisokhaly, director ...
Firms, gov't discuss $50m banana farm plan
Plans for a 5,000-hectare banana farming project in Koh Kong province, proposed last year by an Australian and a Japanese company, look set to go ahead, with state news agency Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP) yesterday reporting that the project would cost $50 million. Last Friday, the ...
US supports $2.7m in loans for agriculture
The US government is working with a Cambodian microfinance institution to finance $2.7million in loans to farmers and small- and medium-sized agro-businesses in Battambang, Kompong Thom, Pursat and Siem Reap provinces in order to improve their access to credit, the US Embassy said. USAid will work ...
Kingdom inks $60.3m loan for flood relief
The Ministry of EconoMy and Finance yesterday signed a US$60.3 Million loan package with Asian DevelopMent Bank to aid in reconstruction efforts after the KingdoM last year suffered its worst floods in a decade. ...