Three parties to kick off campaigns this weekend
The National Election Committee yesterday said that three out of seven political parties registered for the sub-national elections will kick off their campaigns on the main streets in Phnom Penh over the weekend. In a statement, the NEC noted that the ruling Cambodian People’s Party ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50604684/three-parties-to-kick-off-campaigns-this-weekend/
Mondulkiri families concerned for land as airport work begins
Several families in O’Raing district’s Sen Monorom commune in Mondulkiri province express concern that they will lose their plantation and community burial land after seeing machinery arrive to excavate soil for the construction of an airport. They say the excavation is taking place in a ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mondulkiri-families-concerned-land-airport-work-begins
ACU presses charges against Koh Rong officials, seizes assets
The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Friday said the land dispute between disgraced tycoon Sok Bun and 42 families on Koh Rong Island in Preah Sihanouk province was made up in an attempt to take over state land. During a press conference on Friday, ACU president ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/acu-presses-charges-against-koh-rong-officials-seizes-assets
Top cop to officers: ‘behave’
Cambodian police officers need to step up their game, the Kingdom’s top cop told his department hierarchy this week.Speaking at a ceremony to promote two senior officers on Monday, National Police chief Neth Savoeun said staff who want to be promoted or rewarded needed to ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/top-cop-officers-behave
Cambodia to expand ultra-broadband network
An agreement signed between Alcatel-Lucent and Cambodia’s Chuan Wei Ltd. is expected to pave the way for expanding mobile ultra-broadband connectivity across the country. According to data from Alcatel-Lucent, approximately one-third of Cambodians are connected to the Internet, with the majority accessing data on their ...
Enterprise INNOVATION News Staff
http://enterpriseinnovation.net/article/cambodia-expand-ultra-broadband-network-1345890702
Cambodia to expand ultra-broadband network
An agreement signed between Alcatel-Lucent and Cambodia’s Chuan Wei Ltd. is expected to pave the way for expanding mobile ultra-broadband connectivity across the country. According to data from Alcatel-Lucent, approximately one-third of Cambodians are connected to the Internet, with the majority accessing data on their ...
Enterprise INNOVATION News Staff
http://enterpriseinnovation.net/article/cambodia-expand-ultra-broadband-network-1345890702
Sokimex to expand its hotel chain
Sokha Hotels and Resorts, the hospitality arm of Sokimex Group, is continuing to expand and will open a new resort hotel in Siem Reap, a company representative said yesterday.Svay Vuthy, chief legal and corporate affairs officer at Sokimex, said the 700-room hotel already under construction ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sokimex-expand-its-hotel-chain
ID cards in kandal thought to be fake
A commission of experts will check nearly 50 new Cambodian national ID cards today amid suspicions the card holders do not hold Cambodian nationality after irregularities were found during voter registration in Kandal province earlier this month. Provincial police chief Eav Chamroeun said yesterday afternoon that ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29770/id-cards-in-kandal-thought-to-be-fake/
Gold Green for Knai Bang Chatt
Kep province’s Knai Bang Chatt hotel is the first in Cambodia to receive the gold certification in the international Green Growth 2050 initiative after it was accredited by industry experts. In August, an Australian team of experts conducted an independent audit and found that the hotel ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29916/gold-green-for-knai-bang-chatt/
Holiday accident toll falls
Almost 30 people were killed and nearly 140 injured in traffic accidents over the five-day Pchum Ben holiday weekend, showing a slight decrease compared with previous years. National deputy police chief Kirth Chantharith said yesterday there were 75 traffic accidents from Wednesday to Sunday which caused ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30316/holiday-accident-toll-falls/
Cambodian parties to monitor voter registration project
Cambodia’s political parties say they are preparing to monitor a voter registration pilot project which will be held in November ahead of future local and national polls. Cambodia’s last election in 2013 was marred by disputes over the results. The opposition alleged widespread voter fraud, ...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voanews.com/content/cambodia-election-voter-registration-pilot-project/2954222.html
Singapore’s Ascott moves into Phnom Penh
CapitaLand’s wholly owned serviced residence business unit, Ascott Limited, has entered the Cambodian market with a contract to manage Somerset Norodom Phnom Penh, the company announced on Friday.“With our entry into Cambodia, Ascott is now present across nine out of 10 countries in ASEAN,” Ascott ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17144/singapore---s-ascott-moves-into-phnom-penh/
Online supermarket ready to take orders
KhmerToGo.com can’t solve the capital’s traffic problem, but it can keep residents and restaurant owners from getting stuck in it.The new online supermarket is set to go fully operational next week, offering what it claims will be the country’s most comprehensive selection of wholesale and ...
Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/online-supermarket-ready-take-orders
North Korea-funded museum set to open in Siem Reap
An Angkor-themed museum funded and operated by North Korea, but located in Siem Reap, is finally set to open after years of delays.The vast Grand Panorama museum, set on a 4-hectare site just 3 kilometres from the temple complex, is due to open on December ...
Jamie Elliott
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/north-korea-funded-museum-set-open-siem-reap
Sihanoukville businesses want beach ban revoked
Dozens of businesses from Sihanoukville’s Otres beach will deliver a letter to the National Assembly today seeking intervention on a government order to vacate the beach or be forcibly evicted. X Otres BeachX Yun Min ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sihanoukville-businesses-want-beach-ban-revoked
Cambodia property awards
The Cambodia Property Awards is back for a second year to reward the best developers, projects and designs in the Kingdom. Those impressive developments will be highlighted at the second annual Cambodia Property Awards 2017, the biggest and most exclusive awards program in the country that ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27003/cambodia-property-awards/
Palm farmers eye a sweet deal
Palm sugar producers in Kampong Speu province say they are ready to scale up and meet demand as global consumer goods giant Unilever looks to source palm sugar for its products from the Cambodian market. Prak Sereywath, president of the Cambodia Institute for Research and Rural ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/palm-farmers-eye-sweet-deal
Land dispute closes a national road
About 50 protesting villagers in Sihanoukville’s Mouy commune blocked National Road 4 yesterday for about one hour in an effort to stop authorities from demolishing their houses illegally built in the Kbal Chhay protected forest. Heng Sokhom, a representative of the group, acknowledged that their houses ...
Pech sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30114/land-dispute-closes-a-national-road/
ADB: GDP to grow 7.1% in 2017
The latest report from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) describes Cambodia’s economic situation in 2016 as “broadly as expected,” as it predicts a slight increase in economic growth of 0.1 percent, to 7.1 percent. Released yesterday, the update to its annual “Asian Development Outlook” for 2016 ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30245/adb--gdp-to-grow-7-1--in-2017/
AIIB urged to fast-track loans
Cambodia’s Minister of Economy and Finance last week made a request to a visiting senior official from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to speed up loan approvals for least development countries (LDCs) in order to spur infrastructure development. Aun Pormoniroth made the request to AIIB ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28195/aiib-urged-to-fast-track-loans/