Floods to push up non-performing loans in 4th quarter
The worst floods in a decade may boost the number of nonperforming loans in the Kingdom’s microfinance industry in the fourth quarter, insiders said yesterday. However, those insiders said the damage done to Cambodia’s agriculture sector would not have a significant impact given the MFIs’ diversified ...
Food security in focus as floods recede
The government had set aside 3,000 tonnes of rice seeds to distribute to farmers whose crops were destroyed by flooding and had so far distributed 1,900 tonnes of rice to those affected by the floods in 18 provinces, the National Committee for Disaster Management said ...
Cambodian rice output grows in 2011 despite floods
Cambodia’s total paddy rice output reached 8.4 million tonnes in 2011, up from 8.25 million tonnes last year, according an initial assessment by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Provincial MAFF officials from across the Kingdom met in Phnom Penh on Saturday, when data was ...
International Tourists Up 13.4 Percent
The number of visitors arriving in Cambodia in the first six months of this year has increased 13.4 percent to 1,385,029, compared to the same period in 2010, Kong Sophearak, director of the statistics department at the Ministry of Tourism, said yesterday. The largest influx ...
Economic Census Sheds Light on Businesses
The Ministry of Planning yesterday released the preliminary results of the 2011 economic census, which found that Cambodia has a total of 503,008 businesses nationwide, of which nearly 20 percent are based in Phnom Penh. The census, which began on March 1 and was financed ...
Major bank downgrade
Moody’s Investors Service announced yesterday it had downgraded the credit rating of ACLEDA Bank, citing the departure of two of the bank’s major investors in as many years. The loss of a second big sharehol-der in the first half of this year had led to ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011090251414/Business/major-bank-downgrade.html
Land disputes in Siem Reap
More than 1,000 families from four districts in Siem Reap province involved in ongoing land disputes released a joint statement on Friday asking for intervention from government officials. Villagers involved in six separate land disputes with various private companies in four districts claim a total ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011090551447/National-news/land-disputes-in-siem-reap.html
Borei Keila residents appeal for governor's help
About 100 residents of Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila community embroiled in a long-running land dispute with the powerful construction firm Phanimex filed a complaint at the Prampi Makara district offices on Friday, seeking the intervention of Phnom Penh governor Kep Chuktema and demanding that the ...
Land titles sought in Kompong Thom
The Kampong Thom provincial governor issued a letter on Tuesday to villagers living in Santuk district, ordering them to provide documentation confirming their ownership of land they reportedly “purchased” from brokers after it had already been assigned to relocated families, officials said yesterday. Deputy district governor ...
As rice harvest begins, grain's price soars
As the harvest of the wet season rice crop gets under way in many parts of the country, rice prices have started to increase, rice millers said yesterday. They said prices were now up about 15 percent compared to the same time last year, but ...
Students raise concerns over Mekong dam
Hundreds of students attending a forum yesterday on plans of regional governments to develop hydropower dams on the Mekong River expressed concern over the river’s future, and they urged the governments to abandon the projects or proceed with caution. The forum in Phnom Penh was the ...
MFI survey claims debtor success
A survey by Cambodian microfinancers showed debtors were better off in several respects than those who didn’t borrow from the institutions, MFI officials claimed. Responding to recent concerns over the role of microfinance institutions in creating poverty and loss of property in the Kingdom, the Cambodia ...
Petition timed to Hu’s visit stymied by police
Two villagers from Koh Kong province involved in a land dispute with a Chinese company were detained for questioning on Saturday afternoon, halting their plans to file a petition with the Chinese embassy during President Hu Jintao’s visit. Thirty-three other villagers who had planned to deliver ...
Press release on field inspection of illegal coastal land reclamation in Prek Treng beach
On September 18, 2018, Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction issued a press release on field inspection of illegal coastal land reclamation in Prek Treng beach, which located in Village 4, Otres Commune, Stung Hao District, Preah Sihanouk Province, for the land to ...
Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction
Educational television program on environment produced by Ministry of Environment
The Ministry of Environment and Khmer Mekong Films production are working together to produce an educational television program called “Make it Beautiful” to promote public understanding on environment protection, natural resources management, biodiversity conservation, and living sustainability. This program will be showed on every Sunday ...
Ministry of Environment
Driving License Renewal Center will be officially launched at AEON Mall on June 15, 2016
Ministry of Public Works and Transport has recently decided to establish a Driving License Renewal Center at AEON Mall in the purpose to facilitate faster and more convenient services, bring it closer to public, improve transparency, save time, and minimized the costs related to renewal ...
Ministry of Public Works and Transport
Despite a slow start, SEZ profits booming
Special economic zones (SEZs), billed as a one-stop shop for potential investors, have had a slow start in the Kingdom – only 13 out of 30 registered zones are operational – with many failing to get off the ground given the difficulty in providing the ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/despite-slow-start-sez-profits-booming
Cambodia’s Place in ASEAN
Cambodia is one of the smallest and poorest economies in ASEAN. It accounts for only 0.7% of total regional economic activity and had the lowest GDP per capita in 2014 (Table 1). Only the Lao PDR has a smaller economy, and the next-poorest countries in ...
IndraStra Global
http://www.indrastra.com/2016/07/EXCERPT-Cambodia-s-Place-in-ASEAN-002-07-2016-0037.html
Thais increase migrant wages
The Thai Labor Ministry has increased the minimum wage for Cambodian migrant workers since the start of the year, however civil society officials say there are both pros and cons to the salary increase.A notice published yesterday and signed by Labor Minister Ith Samheng, who ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36474/thais-increase-migrant-wages/
Hun Sen urges Philippine investment for ailing rice sector
Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Monday he had urged Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to invest more heavily in Cambodia’s rice sector, while also acknowledging the need to lower rice processing costs and find new export markets to boost the competitiveness of Cambodia’s most important ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-urges-philippine-investment-for-ailing-rice-sector-127867/