Emerald back on ASX after turning to gold
Emerald Resources NL, an Australian mining firm with interests in Cambodia, will relist on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) on Tuesday following the company’s compliance with chapters 1 and 2 of the exchange’s listing rules and rule 11.1.3, the company said in a filing yesterday. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/emerald-back-asx-after-turning-gold
Experts strategize on wildlife reintroduction
The pangolin is slow and has no teeth—its main defense is curling up into a ball on the dense forest floor. It’s an easy target for poachers looking to cash in on the mammal’s much-prized meat or the supposed medicinal qualities of the tiny anteater’s ...
Meghan Tribe
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/experts%E2%80%88strategize-on-wildlife-reintroduction-98393/
In HIV case, key evidence trails behind guilty verdict
When the Battambang Provincial Court last week handed down a 25-year prison sentence to Yem Chrin, an unlicensed medic blamed for spreading HIV to more than 280 residents of rural Roka commune, it likely failed to consider relevant medical evidence, according to interviews with doctors ...
Khy Sovuthy and Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-hiv-case-key-evidence-trails-behind-guilty-verdict-102320/
Siem Reap hotel protest moves to courthouse
About 200 unionists and past and present employees of Siem Reap City’s Victoria Angkor Resort & Spa on Monday demonstrated outside the Siem Reap Provincial Court against an injunction ordering them to stop protesting outside the high-end hotel, but agreed to disperse when military police ...
Ben Sokhean and Aria Danaparamita
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/siem-reap-hotel-protest-moves-to-courthouse-105062/
Thai company’s return to sugar group challenged by NGOs
Three local NGOs have filed a complaint with international sugar industry group Bonsucro for readmitting Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol even though thousands of families forced off the company’s former plantations in Oddar Meanchey province have yet to be fully compensated. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thai-companys-return-to-sugar-group-challenged-by-ngos-107852/
Cambodia to bid for Philippines rice contract, for show
Cambodia does not expect to win the contract to supply half million tons of rice to the Philippines during the bidding process that will take place in the upcoming months, citing high production costs as the major constraint in competing with neighboring Vietnam and Thailand, ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23965/cambodia-to-bid-for-philippines-rice-contract--for-show/
Highest hotel in Sunshine City
The highest hotel complex in Phnom Penh city will soon make its debut with ample parking space for all its guests and visitors. The complex, Ding Li Sunshine City, will be 37 stories high with four levels of underground parking, said its developer Ding Li ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25725/highest-hotel-in-sunshine-city/
Hyundai Engineering wins $120mn order to build a mall in Cambodia
South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering won a $120 million deal from a Japanese retail giant Aeon Co. to build a shopping mall in the Kingdom of Cambodia, a deal that is expected to help the Korean engineering company that has been focusing on plant construction diversify ...
Lee Han-na
http://pulsenews.co.kr/view.php?year=2016&no=407384
Disney buys up carbon credits in Mondulkiri
The Walt Disney Company has purchased $2.6 million in carbon credits in the forests of Mondulkuri province – marking the largest carbon credit sale to date in Cambodia and breathing life into a carbon-trading program many had written off as all but dead. ...
Phak Seangly and Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/disney-buys-carbon-credits-mondulkiri
Russian FSB director meets PM
Nikolai Patrushev, director of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and a top adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, met with Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday to discuss ways the two countries can combat terrorism and transnational crime, the prime minister announced via Facebook. ...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/russian-fsb-director-meets-pm
$5 mil Smart fund launched for start-ups
Smart Axiata, Cambodia’s leading telecommunications company, yesterday launched a $5 million venture capital fund for digital service companies and start-ups in the country. The Smart Axiata Digital Innovation Fund aims to meet demands for cash and expertise as the number of Cambodian digital entrepreneurs increases rapidly. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37001/-5-mil--smart-fund-launched-for-start-ups/
WEF forum to bring new investment
With the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Asean less than a week away, government officials yesterday said that the theme of the three-day event would focus on “Youth, Technology and Growth”, while providing an opportunity to raise Cambodia’s international profile and attract more investors and ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/wef-forum-bring-new-investment
Aeon anniversary highlights shifting market for local malls
AEON Mall, the first large-scale modern shopping mall in Cambodia, recently celebrated its third year of operation in the Kingdom, but with several new high-end malls slated to open over the next few years, analysts expect more competition and sweeping changes in the country’s retail ...
Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/aeon-anniversary-highlights-shifting-market-local-malls
Kidnapping rumors prompt second arrest, reprimand from PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen made an appeal to Facebook users to “not create problems” as nationwide child-snatching hysteria led to another arrest on Tuesday, this of a man whom Takeo provincial police had earlier questioned for allegedly posting that Vietnamese men were attempting to kidnap ...
Phan Soumy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kidnapping-rumors-prompt-second-arrest-reprimand-from-pm-133136/
Money laundering fight stepped up
The Anti-Corruption Unit is to launch a 15-month campaign against money laundering to keep Cambodia off an international blacklist. The ACU held a workshop yesterday on ways to fight money laundering with 48 of its own officials, along with police and court officials. ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5087807/money-laundering-fight-stepped/
Hun Sen says no need for international community to recognise elections
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday said he didn’t care whether the international community endorsed next year’s elections – the legitimacy of which critics have questioned amidst a crackdown on the opposition – raising concerns the Kingdom could find itself isolated if world powers decline ...
Four parties to join senate race
The Candlelight Party has not registered to join the upcoming senate election, but four other parties will run, including the ruling CPP and Funcinpec. Som Sorida, deputy secretary-general of the National Election Committee, said the registration period for the election started on November 28 and ended ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5096168/four-parties-join-senate-race/
Analysis: Cambodia signing up for Chinese billions – at a price
Arriving in Phnom Penh in the midst of a political crackdown on dissent, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang showed no qualms about signing 19 major development deals yesterday with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, making it clear that Chinese aid to the Kingdom remains unaffected by ...
Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/analysis-cambodia-signing-chinese-billions-price
Hun Sen seeks to bolster trade at India-Asean meet
Indian government data show that annual trade between the Cambodia and India has lagged of late, decreasing by nearly 30 percent to $141 million during the last Indian fiscal year, which ran from April 2016 to May 2017. That’s the lowest level since the 2012-2013 ...
Hor Kimsay and Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hun-sen-seeks-bolster-trade-india-asean-meet
Chinese New Year parties rise
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday said on his Facebook page that the number of people celebrating Chinese New Year in Cambodia is increasing.Mr Hun Sen said Cambodia now celebrates three New Year celebrations annually, including New Year’s Eve, and the Chinese and Khmer New Year. ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50105458/chinese-new-year-parties-rise/