Cambodia's listed water supplier records revenue up 25 pct last year
The listed Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) earned total revenues of 36.9 million U.S. dollars in 2012, up 25 percent year-on-year, according to the firm’s unaudited financial statement on Wednesday. The report said that the firm’s net income after tax was 8.56 million U.S. dollars ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-02/20/c_132181099.htm
UK to open investment office
The United Kingdom Trade and Investment Office would establish a permanent branch in Phnom Penh in the expectation that economic ties between the two countries would continue to grow, Cambodian and UK Officials said yesterday. Bilateral trade has risen by 300 per cent during the past ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012051856232/Business/uk-to-open-investment-office.html
GE Engines to power Cambodian rice husk power project
GE Energy has signed a contract with Cambodian industrial conglomerate Soma Group to supply two of its engines to power a biomass gasification facility. Soma Group’s Hak Se mill biomass gasification project is located in Cambodia’s rural rice milling region Kamphong Cham, and reinforces a 2011 ...
http://biomassmagazine.com/articles/7870/ge-engines-to-power-cambodian-rice-husk-power-project
Cedac Encourages Using Frogs As an Alternative to Pesticides
Cambodian farmers often turn to pesticides when trying to stop insects from destroying crops, but the Cambodian Center for Study and Development in Agriculture (Cedac) has come up with a better idea: frogs. “Frogs are important to protect rice plants from damage by insects, especially during ...
PPWSA closes higher after a week down
For the first time in weeks, Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority yesterday closed up 4.35 per cent, a sign the stock was stablising after a rough opening, insiders said. After an eight-day price decline, PPWSA – the sole listed company on the Cambodia Securities Exchange – ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012050956046/Business/follow-up-ipos-still-on-track.html
Villagers in Land Dispute Questioned by Court
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday questioned four Russei Keo district villagers from two families who have been embroiled in a land dispute for two years with a local businessman, lawyers said yesterday. The families are accused of physically attacking landowner Lao Tong Ngy, a man ...
SRP Asks King Sihamoni to Pardon Boeng Kak 15
Members of the opposition SRP on Saturday sent a petition to King Norodom Sihamoni asking him to pardon the 13 Boeng Kak residents who were sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail on May 24 after holding a peaceful protest against CPP senator Lao Meng Khin’s ...
Lawsuit Filed Against Banteay Meanchey Land Protesters
Banteay Meanchey’s provincial environment department, a local company and two bulldozer drivers, have sued four villagers in Banteay Meanchey province over their alleged role in a violent land protest in February. The villagers, who have been summoned for questioning this week, stand accused of intentional property ...
Hun Sen rejects opposition calls to hold new election, step down
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday rejected opposition calls for him to dissolve the National Assembly to pave the way for a new election and to step down from power. “I want to stress that there is no re-election, no one dissolves the legislature and ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/kyodo-news-international/131220/hun-sen-rejects-opposition-calls-hold-new-election-ste
Villagers protesting eviction forcibly removed
Forty villagers on Tuesday were forcibly removed from outside the Pursat provincial office, where they have been camping for the past five days to protest what they say was the burning down of their homes by district officials, villagers and a rights group said. “This morning, ...
Mech Dara and Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-protesting-eviction-forcibly-removed-52608/
Hun Sen firm on election reform negotiations
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday said his party will stand firm on its position that a simple majority vote in parliament be used to select members of the National Election Committee. His Cambodian People’s Party is in negotiations for electoral reform with the opposition, which ...
Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/hun-sen-firm-on-election-reform-negotiations/1948504.html
Villagers demand dam open its sluice gate
More than 100 villagers in Battambang province’s Sangke district whose rice crops are threatened by drought protested twice last week, calling on local authorities to force the Chinese company building an irrigation dam in the area to open the sluice gate to flood the parched ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-demand-dam-open-its-sluice-gate-63941/
King Sihamoni hails Cambodia-Vietnam ties
Cambodian people consider Vietnam a big friend that supported and provided valuable assistance for Cambodia during the course of history, the King said while receiving outgoing Vietnamese ambassador Ngo Anh Dung in capital Phnom Penh on July 18. He appreciated Dung’s contributions to cementing bilateral relations ...
VietNamNet Bridge News Staff
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/government/107889/king-sihamoni-hails-cambodia-vietnam-ties.html
Court hears years-old case against CNRP officials, lawyer
The Kandal Provincial Court on Tuesday tried two opposition CNRP officials and their lawyer—two of them in absentia—over a case dating back to 2011 that was abruptly scheduled a week ago. Chan Cheng, who was elected last year as a CNRP National Assembly member from Kandal ...
Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-hears-years-old-case-against-cnrp-officials-lawyer-64703/
Sorya drivers called to court over intimidation, defamation
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court summoned two former Phnom Penh Sorya Transportation bus drivers for questioning Tuesday after the court received a complaint from the bus company accusing the drivers of intimidation and defamation. The drivers, Yim Kuyba and Phon Visal, were asked to appear in ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sorya-drivers-called-to-court-over-intimidation-defamation-58320/
Thai military arrests Poipet border traders
Sixteen Cambodian border traders were imprisoned by the Thai military over the weekend after they were caught smuggling shoes and clothing illicitly bearing registered trademarks across the Poipet City border crossing on Saturday. The traders, who supply the Rong Kluea border market in Thailand’s Sa Kaeo ...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thai-military-arrests-poipet-border-traders-66689/
Experts, Asia-Pacific ministers to discuss rural development in Cambodia
Some 200 agricultural development experts and government ministers from across Asia and the Pacific gathered here on Tuesday to discuss plans to transform rural areas in the region. The 2-day workshop on transforming rural areas in Asia and the Pacific was jointly organized by the Cambodian ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-12/02/c_133827784.htm
Cambodian fishermen urge better studies on Lao dam
As Cambodia prepares for a regional meeting over a contentious Lao dam on the Mekong River, fishing communities in Stung Treng province have appealed to Laos to cancel the project. The Don Sahong dam would be built on the Mekong, two kilometers from the Cambodian border. ...
Say Mony
http://www.voanews.com/content/cambodia-fishermen-don-sahong-dam-mekong-river/2550700.html
Bale festival seeks to spark pastoral tourism
Driving on National Road 6 through recently harvested rice fields, six 10-meter-tall structures emerge like vortexes from the sparse terrain. Not far along is the commotion of a country fair: bale mazes, archery games, face painting, a ferris wheel and blaring Khmer pop music. Welcome to ...
Aria Danaparamita and Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/bale-festival-seeks-to-spark-pastoral-tourism-77574/
Courts ban beach sale in latest Polonsky-Doroshenko dispute
Officials in Preah Sihanouk province last week moved to bar prominent Russian businessman Nikolai Doroshenko from selling Sihanoukville’s Victory Beach after the Appeal Court ruled that he had violated a contract to transfer the property to fugitive Russian oligarch Sergei Polonsky, court Officials said Wednesday. ...