Low salaries stifle education reform efforts
Sao Sothy’s home is small and the furniture is sparse. There are no tables or chairs. In one room, there is a small bed, but her family of four sleeps on mats in the living room. Hanging on the otherwise bare walls is Ms. Sothy’s ...
Emily Wilkins and Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/low-salaries-stifle-education-reform-efforts-56752/
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 ...
Ratanakkiri Military Police seize first-grade timber logs
The Ratanakkiri provincial Military Police intercepted two four-wheel drive vehicles in Veun Sai district that were used to transport first-grade timber logs. The timber has been seized but the police said the drivers were not found at the scene and authorities are on the lookout ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ratanakkiri-military-police-seize-first-grade-timber-logs
UK envoy joins fundraiser for Battambang art school
Britain’s Ambassador to Cambodia took part in celebrations in Phnom Penh to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the throne – the longest serving monarch in British history. ...
Chhun Sunly
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501062906/uk-envoy-joins-fundraiser-for-battambang-art-school/
2013 National Budget to Rise Above $3B
Government spending next year will total more than $3 billion, a 16.2 percent increase from the $2.6 billion set aside for 2012, according to a draft of the national budget obtained Friday. The budget states that the government will allocate some $400 million, or 13.32 ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/2013-national-budget-to-rise-above-3b-5428/
Cambodia Far From Intellectual Property Targets
Cambodia is still a way off implementing World Trade Organization (WTO) rules on intellectual property rights, despite a deadline to do so in just over a month. At the end of June, the group of the world’s 49 least developed countries (LDCs), including Cambodia, run out ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/cambodia-far-from-intellectual-property-targets-26805/
Digital tech deal to change the transport game: Loba
The top logistics industry body has struck a deal with a digital technology association that is tailored to better position the freight sector to drive growth and slash delivery times and operating costs, according to the former’s chief. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/digital-tech-deal-change-transport-game-loba
Workers end Thai-Cambodia border protest
About 300 disgruntled Cambodian workers and used-garment merchants last night ended their blockade on the border with Thailand. The workers had earlier parked their two-wheel carts in front of the Aranyaprathet-Poi Pet border checkpoint on the Poi Pet side of the Thai-Cambodian friendship bridge. They demanded ...
Bangkok Post Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/427181/workers-end-thai-cambodia-border-protest
Mobile Food shops to become more popular
Mobile food shops, which are part of services provided by Neat Educational Information Center (NEIC), have first emerged in the middle of Phnom Penh Capital City. These mobile canteens are attracting a lot of customers and have helped create jobs for students who are facing ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=14&token=YjU4NDU1MWQ0MjU
Little spark for electric motos
Battery-powered scooters are capturing an increasing share of the Asia Pacific’s two-wheeled transport market, according to a recent study, but scooter retailers in Phnom Penh yesterday said Cambodians still opt for the petrol-burning version. By 2018, about 65.5 million electric scooters worth some US$382 million will ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012050756009/Business/little-spark-for-electric-motos.html
Contract farming law in the pipeline
The Cambodian Government has put the wheels in motion to create a contract farming law together with the purpose of stabilising agricultural commodity prices. It is also aimed at attracting investors and promoting public, private and producer partnerships in the Kingdom. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50708026/contract-farming-law-in-the-pipeline/
ADB asked to craft game plan for monorail, subway
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport on April 6 asked the Metro Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) to help devise strategies for monorail and subway projects planned for Phnom Penh. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/adb-asked-craft-game-plan-monorail-subway
NagaWorld sees year-on-year boost in VIP revenues
Phnom Penh casino NagaWorld has announced that gross gaming revenue (GGR) rose 48 per cent year-on-year for the first quarter of 2015, largely on the back of returns from VIP clients. Nagacorp, the Hong Kong stock exchange-listed parent of NagaWorld, said in an unaudited report released ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nagaworld-sees-year-year-boost-vip-revenues
Reduce road accidents by further 50%, minister says
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng urged citizens to adhere to the traffic laws and the authorities to continue enforcing them, noting that despite a 26 per cent decrease in the road toll in the first four months of this year, road users still need to ...
Bor Pich Zelin
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/reduce-road-accidents-further-50-minister-says
Elderly deaths in ‘HIV village’
The death toll is increasing in Battambang’s Roka commune, which has been plagued by a massive HIV outbreak, as health officials confirmed yesterday that two more HIV-positive villagers succumbed to illnesses despite undergoing antiretroviral treatment (ART). The two elderly women, aged 74 and 75, died on ...
Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/elderly-deaths-hiv-village
Cross at your own risk
Since he began making the perilous journey to Thailand to log rosewood 10 years ago, Sao Sophon* has had plenty of time to calculate the cost of dying. “When we cross the border to Thailand, our lives are equal to $80 or $90, because that is ...
May Titthara and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cross-your-own-risk
Kingdom factory goes for the gold
Cambodian garment makers are filling orders for the 2012 London Olympics in what insiders say is the first time the country has supplied the Games. ShenZhou International Group Holdings Ltd, one of China’s largest apparel exporters, makes shirts and other sportswear for Adidas that will supply ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011101952197/Business/kingdom-factory-goes-for-the-gold.html
Revenues Down at Pailin’s Dreamworld Casino
U.S.-listed firm Entertainment Gaming Asia’s (EGA) Dreamworld casino in Poipet province has seen revenue drop by almost 18 percent this year, according to financial results released by the company. Results issued on Thursday from Hong Kong said the casino, which opened in May 2012, made revenue ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/revenues-down-at-pailins-dreamworld-casino-39102/
Gov’t grants funding for special olympic team
The Cambodian government has granted $20,000 to the national Special Olympics team, for travel and competition at this year’s games in Los Angeles later this month. ...
Socheata Hean
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/govt-grants-funding-for-special-olympic-team/2865153.html