Jailed family’s release demanded
Human rights group Adhoc has demanded the release of a couple and their 9-month-old child jailed amid a land dispute in Preah Vihear, calling their arrest a “grave human rights abuse”. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/jailed-familys-release-demanded
Almost $14 million investment projects approved by CDC, creating close to 3,000 jobs
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has approved four new investment projects with a total capital of $13.9 million. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/1073833/almost-14-million-investment-projects-approved-by-cdc-creating-close-to-3000-jobs/
Open an account at a securities firm and get ready to trade
CSX chief executive Hong Sok Hour explains how the exchange will function on its first day of trading and into the future. The way to begin trading on the CSX is to open an account with any one of a dozen securities firms which are licensed ...
PM wants more Japanese investment in Cambodia
Prime Minister Hun Sen, speaking at the Mekong- Japan Business Forum in Tokyo on October 9, invited Japanese firms to visit Cambodia and convince themselves that it a worthy country for their investments. ...
Ven Rathavong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50540098/pm-wants-more-japanese-investment-in-cambodia/
Angkor ticket sales earns $107 million
The Angkor Archeological Park, which include the famed Unesco-listed Angkor temples, earned income from entry tickets of $107.9 million in 2017, a 72.5 percent increase compared with the year before. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5099220/angkor-ticket-sales-earns-107-million/
Hotels told to use own power
State-owned energy supplier Electricite du Cambodge (EDC) has sent letters to some of Phnom Penh’s four- and five-star hotels, asking that they switch to generators between 8am and 9pm this month — a move hotel-industry experts say would have a significant economic impact. In a letter ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013040264826/Business/hotels-told-to-use-own-power.html
Cambodia reports 18th human case of bird flu this year
A 15-month-old boy in the capital’s Russei Keo district has been diagnosed with H5N1 virus, bringing the number of the cases to 18 so far this year, a joint statement by the World Health Organization and Cambodian Health Ministry said Wednesday. The latest death case ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/health/2013-09/04/c_132691671.htm
Two Cambodian children hospitalized with H5N1
Cambodia’s health ministry today announced two more H5N1 avian flu cases, both in children, the hardest-hit group in that country so far. The patients are a 9-year-old boy from Battambang province and a 5-year-old girl from Kandal province, according to a joint statement today from Cambodia’s ...
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2013/08/two-cambodian-children-hospitalized-h5n1
Reporter to spend 2 years in prison for blackmail
A reporter for TV9 was sentenced to two years in prison by the Kampot Provincial Court on Wednesday after being found guilty of attempting to blackmail a deputy provincial governor last year, court officials said. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/reporter-to-spend-2-years-in-prison-for-blackmail-94494/
NEC sets voter registration dates
After multiple delays, the National Election Committee yesterday released its schedule for voter registration, giving itself three months to register the close to 9.6 million eligible voters across the country. ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-sets-voter-registration-dates
Architect Vann Molyvann dies in Siem Reap at 90
Renowned Cambodian architect Vann Molyvann has died at the age of 90 in his home in Siem Reap. Molyvann’s assistant, Choung Chhoeun, confirmed the architectural great passed away today at 9:45am. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/breaking-architect-vann-molyvann-dies-siem-reap-90?utm_content=buffer9172a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
World Bank predicts GDP growth easing
The World Bank has predicted that Cambodia’s GDP will grow at a more modest 6.9 percent this year and next, and slow slightly to 6.7 percent in 2019. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37549/world-bank-predicts-gdp-growth-easing/
OSK Investment Bank and RHB Capital merge
OSK Investment Bank Berhad (OSKIB), the parent company of OSK Indochina Bank Limited (OSKIBL), has become a wholly owned subsidiary of the Malaysia-based financial services group RHB Capital Berhad (RHB Capital), effective from November 9. ...
Japan to provide Cambodia with nearly 34 mln USD grant aid
Cambodia will sign to receive 33.9 million U.S. dollars in grant aid from Japan for three projects in small hydropower dams, healthcare and education, according to a news release from Cambodia’s foreign ministry on Monday. ...
New twist in Cambodian sugar firm saga
Taiwanese food supplier Ve Wong, one of two sugar company owners locked in a long-running battle with villagers in Koh Kong’s Sre Ambel district, has made an eyebrow-raising offer – to give the disputed land back. The company’s offer, posted to the non-profit Business and Human ...
Tourism a key revenue generator for SMEs
Cambodia’s small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) earned $1.9 billion in revenue last year from the tourism sector, and could increase this amount further by reducing imports, an industry spokesman said yesterday. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tourism-key-revenue-generator-smes
Millions more new ID cards required
The General Department of Identification issued some 2.8 million identification cards between January and October as part of an effort to bring a new generation of cards to some 10.9 million Cambodians by 2017. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/millions-more-new-id-cards-required
HAGL goes bananas with fruit exports
Vietnamese conglomerate Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) has shipped a total of over 9,000 tonnes of Cambodian bananas destined for the Chinese market since the firm first started exporting in July, a company representative said. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hagl-goes-bananas-fruit-exports
Cambodia 2013 rice production may increase to 6 million tons, despite floods, says FAO
Cambodia’s milled rice production is expected to increase to around 6 million tons (about 9.34 million tons, basis paddy) in 2013, up about 1% from the previous year, according to the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). ...
Oryza News Staff
http://oryza.com/news/rice-news/cambodia-2013-rice-production-may-increase-6-million-tons-despite-floods-says-fao
RCAF helicopter crashes, killing 5
A ROYAL Cambodian Armed Forces helicopter, one of a group of Z-9 helicopters received from China in 2013, has crashed during a training exercise in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district, killing five people with one seriously injured. ...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rcaf-helicopter-crashes-killing-5