All-time high for Securities Exchange trading volume
The Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) recorded its highest ever trading volume on Monday, exchanging 2,150,535 shares with a total value of more than $4.43 million, according to a CSX press release. The previous record was 939,498 shares traded on July 5, 2017. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/all-time-high-securities-exchange-trading-volume
Preah Vihear parks see clearing
Forest rangers and the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) said on Tuesday that forest in the Phnom Tnort-Phnom Pok and Prey Lang wildlife sanctuaries in Preah Vihear province are being cleared by groups of perpetrators from Kampong Thom, Kampong Cham, Siem Reap and Battambang provinces. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-parks-see-clearing
Villagers demand $250 payout for land grab
Some 1,000 villagers on Tuesday blocked National Road 2 in Kandal province’s Kandal Stung district, each demanding compensation of $250 from the provincial authority for communal land they claim a former commune chief sold to a well-connected developer without their knowledge in 2008. ...
Kim Sarom
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-demand-250-payout-land-grab
Former chief bodyguard receives royal pardon
The former chief bodyguard of late Senate president Chea Sim has received a royal pardon nearly eight years after he was sentenced to 15 years behind bars on several charges, according to a royal decree dated November 12, last year, and obtained by The Post ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/former-chief-bodyguard-receives-royal-pardon
At party congress, CPP gives itself top marks
As senior members of the ruling CPP gathered in Phnom Penh this weekend for their annual congress, the party gave itself a glowing performance review and noted almost no areas for improvement, according to a 49-page report distributed to delegates at the two-day event. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/104926-104926/
Malaria drugs rolled out two years after government decision
The head of the government’s National Malaria Center said on Tuesday that mefloquine-based malaria drugs began arriving in western Cambodia earlier this month, two years after local and international health experts agreed they were needed to combat the parasite’s growing resistance to other medicines. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/malaria-drugs-rolled-out-two-years-after-government-decision-105194/
Agro giant denies rent overdue
Mong Reththy Group, one of the Kingdom’s largest agro-industrial conglomerates, insisted yesterday that it had settled arrears on its palm oil concession more than six months ago, contrary to local media reports stating the company owed concession rental fees dating back nearly 20 years. ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/agro-giant-denies-rent-overdue
Korean electronics giant sees growth in Cambodia
LG Electronics has identified Cambodia as the emerging market in ASEAN with the greatest potential for increasing sales and is expanding its business here, a senior executive of the South Korean company told Khmer Times last week at the LG Innofest 2016 Asia in Seoul. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21715/korean-electronics-giant-sees-growth-in-cambodia/
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
Rainsy to ‘rearrange’ Kingdom
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy held a Pchum Ben ceremony yesterday for the spirits of those killed in the still-unsolved 1997 grenade attack on an opposition rally, promising attendees that should his party win in 2018, he would “rearrange” the country’s government to ensure institutions’ independence. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-rearrange-kingdom
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/