Gov’t mulls suspending duty on rubber exports
The government will consider suspending its $50 per ton export duty on rubber following lobbying by local producers who say they are operating at a loss due to the sharp fall in global prices for the commodity, Agriculture Ministry secretary of state Eang Sophalleth said ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21714/gov---t-mulls-suspending-duty-on-rubber-exports/
US envoy says rights discussed at summit
The top U.S. envoy to ASEAN said on Wednesday that despite trade and security issues being at the center of last week’s U.S.-ASEAN Summit, U.S. President Barack Obama also used the setting to address the region’s human rights problems. ...
Kuch Naren and Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/108955-108955/
Port cargo traffic rises on swelling economy
Container traffic at Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (SAP), which operates the country’s only deep-sea port, increased by almost 10 per cent during the first quarter of the year, compared to a year earlier, while tonnage rose by 11.5 per cent, a company official said yesterday. ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/port-cargo-traffic-rises-swelling-economy
German MP calls for reform
Prime Minister Hun Sen told a visiting German federal minister that there was no political crisis in Cambodia, despite recent government action depicting the contrary, and claimed that opposition leader Kem Sokha was being sought by police because of an individual fault that could not ...
Ven Rathavong And Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26183/german-mp-calls-for-reform/
Cambodia will not investigate protest shooting death, government spokesman says
Cambodian authorities will not pursue inquiries into the shooting death of a man killed during anti-government protests two years ago, a government spokesman said today as a Cambodian rights group slammed the Southeast Asian nation’s “dangerous path” away from democracy. ...
Morm Moniroth
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/investigate-09152015173349.html
Capital’s port on course for IPO
Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) will hold a meeting next week to review the submitted financial statements of Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP), Cambodia’s second-largest port, and to consider its eligibility to list and trade its securities on the stock exchange, a CSX official said yesterday. ...
Sorn Sarath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/capitals-port-course-ipo
Cambodian land concessions deepen poverty, report says
Cambodian land concessions granted to companies last year affected nearly 80,000 people, displacing many of them and increasing poverty, the NGO Forum on Cambodia says in a new report. ...
Hean Socheata
http://www.voanews.com/content/cambodian-land-concessions-deepen-poverty-report-says/2974456.html
Laws forcing civil society donors to adapt
Legal restrictions on funding for civil-society – like Cambodia’s much-maligned NGO Law – are on the rise globally, a report by the Carnegie International Endowment for Peace has warned, putting international donors in the position of having to adapt to a backlash against democracy promotion. ...
Zoe Holman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/laws-forcing-civil-society-donors-adapt
Rice prices seen gaining ground in Mekong region
A prolonged regional drought is expected to push Thai and Vietnamese rice prices up by 10 to 15 per cent, narrowing the price gap that has kept Cambodian rice exporters from securing major international supply orders, one of the Kingdom’s biggest rice exporters said yesterday. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-prices-seen-gaining-ground-mekong-region
CNRP lawyer argues for attempted murder
A lawyer for CNRP lawmakers Nhay Chamroeun and Kong Saphea, who were severely beaten on October 26 in front of the National Assembly, filed a new complaint with the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday asking that those arrested for the crime be charged with ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-lawyer-argues-for-attempted-murder-102347/
Rice Federation raises alarm about Vietnam’s FTA with EU
The Cambodia Rice Federation yesterday raised fresh concerns about the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (FTA), after an online rice-industry portal said the deal will scrap import duties on about 80,000 tons of rice from Vietnam per year and that this could start this year. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21216/rice-federation-raises-alarm-about-vietnam---s-fta-with-eu/
Aust company brings solar to Cambodia
Before dawn breaks, Houk Kymia and Wen Suen begin to make coffee they will later sell on the streets of Phnom Penh, all this aboard their “tuk tuk,” a three-wheeled light delivery van which runs on solar energy and is helping them make a decent ...
Ricardo Perez-Solero
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/aust-company-brings-solar-to-cambodia/news-story/9490b85707deb72d333f728a12edd9d5
Aust company brings solar to Cambodia
Before dawn breaks, Houk Kymia and Wen Suen begin to make coffee they will later sell on the streets of Phnom Penh, all this aboard their “tuk tuk,” a three-wheeled light delivery van which runs on solar energy and is helping them make a decent ...
Court releases activist, former capitol tours bus driver on bail
Former Capitol Tours bus driver Nan Vanna and labor activist Ros Siphay were released on bail Wednesday, nearly two months after they were arrested for taking part in a demonstration against the company during which protesters were attacked by a mob of angry tuk-tuk drivers. ...
Free health care for Cambodia’s poorest
Cambodia received a new $130 million funding package from the World Bank last month that focuses on poverty reduction and bettering the lives of poor and vulnerable Cambodians in the country cooperation strategy set out in the new Cambodia -World Bank Group Country Engagement Note ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26055/free-health-care-for-cambodia---s-poorest/
Sar Kheng orders end to illegal fishing off coast
At a ceremony to install a former military commander as governor of Preah Sihanouk province on Monday, Interior Minister Sar Kheng chided local police for allowing a Russian faction to give the tourist hub a bad name and ordered an end to illegal fishing off ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sar-kheng-orders-end-to-illegal-fishing-off-coast-93581/
Cambodia misses goal for zero malaria deaths
Eight people have died of malaria so far this year across the country, according to the government’s latest figures. The deaths mean Cambodia has missed its goal to eliminate fatalities from the mosquito-borne parasite by 2015, though health officials questioned the number—and even the target. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-misses-goal-for-zero-malaria-deaths-100801/
Housing boom prompts calls for more lending, bubble warning
With the real-estate boom entering its fourth year banks and developers are eager to expand credit to the sector, though regulators say they are monitoring lending for real estate for signs of a bubble and are taking preemptive measure to minimize risks that could affect ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17987/housing-boom-prompts-calls-for-more-lending--bubble-warning/
Thailand, Cambodia to open new border crossing in Sa Kaeo
The 5th Committee Joint Trade Meeting which was co-chaired by Thailand’s Commerce Minister Apiradi Tantraporn and her Cambodian counterpart, Sun Chanthol, discussed a wide range of cooperation which was mainly focused on trade and investment along the Thai-Cambodian border. ...
Thai Visa News Staff
http://news.thaivisa.com/thailand/thailand-cambodia-to-open-new-border-crossing-in-sa-kaeo/123699/
Cambodia, Vietnam celebrate new border posts
Nearing the end of a year that has seen tension over Cambodia’s border with Vietnam often dominate domestic political discourse, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Saturday appeared alongside Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung to inaugurate two new border posts in Ratanakkiri and Takeo provinces. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-vietnam-celebrate-new-border-posts-104005/