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/
Joint naval exercises underway
The US and Royal Cambodian Navy joined forces yesterday for the opening ceremony of the seventh annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness Training (CARAT) exercise at Ream Naval Base, a joint maritime training exercise that since 2010 has aimed to increase cooperation and strengthen security at sea ...
Safiya Charles
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31490/joint-naval-exercises-underway/
Farmer injured in mine explosion
A farmer from Oddar Meanchey province’s Banteay Ampel district was injured on Saturday when his excavator hit an anti-tank mine. District police chief Hom Phearum said that 23-year-old Khum Raksmey was seriously wounded, but did not describe the extent of his injuries. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35076/farmer-injured-in-mine-explosion/
MFI credit firm to push deeper into Cambodia
Micro-Credit Ratings International Ltd (M-CRIL), an Indian provider of rating and advisory services to the microfinance industry, has secured a $1.5 million equity investment agreement from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to push into emerging markets including Cambodia, the ADB said in an announcement last ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mfi-credit-firm-push-deeper-cambodia
Business centre lure for Chinese
Cambodia is to open commercial centres in China to help Chinese investors understand the potential of Cambodia. The centres will soon be established in some provinces, Prime Minister Hun Sen said on his Facebook page during his trip to the Commercial and Tourism Cooperation Forum in ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38508/business-centre-lure-for-chinese/
Japan firms link up to offer leasing
Rent Japan Group Inc, a publicly listed Japanese company that specializes in the recycling and reuse of consumer products, will establish a joint venture with a Japanese financial services firm to launch a new leasing company in Cambodia, it said in a filing yesterday to ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/japan-firms-link-offer-leasing
Free pass to Thailand gets political in Poipet town
Local authorities in Poipet are grappling with a dilemma of their own making after the ruling party for months footed the bill to make day passes to enter Thailand free for Cambodian vendors – a populist move now complicated by the CPP’s apparent electoral loss ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/free-pass-thailand-gets-political-poipet-town
Hun Sen offers ultimatum for CNRP officials: defect or risk a five-year ban
Prime Minister Hun Sen threatened yesterday to impose a five-year ban on more than 100 unnamed senior CNRP officials, seemingly under a controversial provision of the Law on Political Parties, while insisting that the main opposition party will indeed be dissolved this month by the ...
Niem Chheng, Ben Sokhean and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-offers-ultimatum-cnrp-officials-defect-or-risk-five-year-ban
Timber found in Kratie
Nearly one hundred pieces of timber were found separately in Kratie province’s Prek Prasap and Sambo districts over the weekend, but no arrests were made. About 40 pieces were discovered in Sambo’s Vathanak commune after forestry officials unsuccessfully chased a truck they believed was carrying timber. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50100815/timber-found-kratie/
Tep Vanny's sentence upheld at Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a 30-month sentence for land activist Tep Vanny on charges relating to a 2013 protest outside Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house that turned violent, leaving the Boeung Kak resident to serve out more than a year of her remaining ...
Ananth Baliga and Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tep-vannys-sentence-upheld-supreme-court
Land dispute activist arrested
A representative of villagers in a land dispute in Oddar Meanchey province’s Anlong Veng district was arrested on Wednesday for alleged property damage. Sat Bora, 34, has been representing 122 families in Anlong Veng commune, who have been locked in a land dispute with authorities for ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50108979/land-dispute-activist-arrested/
Slowdown in GDP growth projected for 2019
The World Bank on Thursday forecast a slight dip in the country’s economic growth rate by 2019 amid declining foreign investment, rising inflation and a slowdown in the expansion of garments manufacturing, and advised improvements to infrastructure and training to keep the economy on its ...
Matt Surrusco
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/slowdown-in-gdp-growth-projected-for-2019-128024/
CNRP, Observers put election ink to test
Representatives from the E.U., CNRP and civil society organizations put newly delivered election ink to the test on Wednesday, a week after a spokesman for the country’s top election body warned that a sample batch of the ink could be washed off using a hair ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/129896-129896/
Loggers detained in Thailand
Sixteen Cambodians were arrested on Monday for illegally crossing the border to log luxury rosewood trees in Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province. The men, aged between 16 and 55, were all residents of Battambang province. They were arrested in Pang Sida National Park with logging tools and ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38744/loggers-detained--in-thailand/
New facility worries activists
Activists say a new sand-processing facility is under construction in Koh Kong’s Tatai Wildlife Sanctuary, in the vicinity of the area where two companies were granted permission to conduct environmental impact assessments (EIAs) for sand-dredging projects, documents show, despite a standing government ban on sand ...
Yesenia Amaro and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-facility-worries-activists
Logging probe moved to capital
A high-profile investigation into corruption charges levelled against Mondulkiri police officials for colluding with Vietnamese timber traders has been transferred from the provincial court to Phnom Penh due to a lethargic investigation by local police, many of whom are involved in the case, a court ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/logging-probe-moved-capital
Report shows need for Cambodia to diversify exports
Global credit rating agency Moody’s Investors Services said yesterday that while it has retained Cambodia’s B2/stable sovereign rating alongside Vietnam’s B1/positive rating, the Kingdom’s low diversification of exports has put it at higher risk from external shocks than its eastern neighbour. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/report-shows-need-cambodia-diversify-exports
KrisEnergy signs oil deal next week
Singapore-based oil and gas company KrisEnergy is scheduled to sign an agreement with the Cambodian government next Wednesday for the extraction of petroleum from Block A to develop the Aspara oil field. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5078426/krisenergy-signs-oil-deal-next-week/
Koh Kong activists charged
Two Mother Nature activists arrested after filming suspected sand-bearing vessels have been charged with incitement and making unauthorised recordings of a person in “a private place” – an offence that drew skepticism yesterday, given they were in their own boat in the open ocean when ...
Phak Seangly and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-kong-activists-charged