Gray-market cars continue to deter potential investment
Germany’s car manufacturers are on edge as the U.K., their No. 1 importer, prepares to leave the E.U. And although expAnding into Cambodia’s market is unlikely to ease their anxiety, German investors who gathered in Phnom Penh on Thursday said whatever potential might exist here ...
Hang Sokunthea
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/gray-market-cars-continue-to-deter-potential-investment-125321/
Play fair, say local producers
Manufacturers of local products want fair play. While they have been receiving some consumer-support for their products, they still face an uphill battle against the same products imported from neighboring countries. And many local producers say the government should be doing more to help them ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36313/play-fair--say-local-producers/
Drug mule arrested at airport with ‘cocaine in stomach’
Cambodian authorities last week arrested an alleged drug mule attempting to smuggle cocaine into the Kingdom by hiding it in his stomach. South African national Blignaut Chan, 26, was seized on September 13 at Phnom Penh International Airport in a joint operation between the National ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/drug-mule-arrested-airport-cocaine-stomach
Sihanoukville ranks amongst the top global holiday destinations for 2018
The New York Times has released their starter kit for escaping into the world – their renowned list of the “52 best places to go in the world”. The beaches of Sihanoukville ranked at number 13 on the list amongst other top destinations such as ...
Realestate.com.kh
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50102547/sihanoukville-ranks-amongst-the-top-global-holiday-destinations-for-2018/
Cambodia tops region for fires detected from space
Yet again, the Kingdom this year burns brighter than its neighbours, with fires in Cambodia being detected from space at a much higher rate than any other country in the region, according to a NASA report published last week. It’s likely a product of both ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-tops-region-fires-detected-space
Chroy Changvar residents stop OCIC fence layers
About 10 villagers from Chroy Changvar district’s Prek Tasek commune stopped workers of a development firm from clearing their land to build a fence demarcating a planned satellite city. Commune resident Chheng Heak said six workers from the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC), which is developing ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chroy-changvar-residents-stop-ocic-fence-layers
Cambodia’s politics play out on social media
Facebook has long been the key battleground in Cambodian politics, with parties wrestling for the ear of a young and increasingly connected electorate. But recent analytics show a particularly political brand of social media addiction in the Kingdom, even by regional standards, pushing the stakes ...
Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodias-politics-play-out-social-media
NEC releases official voter list
The National Election Committee has released the official voter list for July’s general election, containing nearly 85 percent of eligible voters. The voter list contains 8,380,217 names out of 9,882,746 eligible voters, or 84.8 percent of those aged 18 and over. There will be 22,967 polling stations ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50104215/nec-releases-official-voter-list/
Police collusion? Complaint filed against Kandal cops
Two police officials – one the deputy police chief of Kandal’s Takhmao town and the son of Provincial Police Chief Eav Chamroeun – are the subject of a complaint filed with the Ministry of Interior by three people who allege they might have colluded to ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-collusion-complaint-filed-against-kandal-cops
Heng Pov asks for fast appeal
Disgraced former Phnom Penh Municipal Police Chief Heng Pov yesterday called for a speedy appeal trial before the Supreme Court in two of his cases – which relate to the possession of fake currency and to the illegal detention of a suspect – despite lamenting ...
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/heng-pov-asks-fast-appeal
China to fund restoration of Angkor Thom site
China will fund a restoration project, slated to start in mid-2018, at an ancient royal palace complex within the Angkor Thom archaeological site in Siem Reap province, officials said yesterday. Long Kosal, spokesman for the Apsara Authority, said the palace is centuries old, and while ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/china-fund-restoration-angkor-thom-site
More than 300 RCAF officers promoted, including 178 new generals
The King has signed off on promotions for more than 300 Royal Cambodian Armed Forces officers in December and January, including at least six generals who recently joined the ruling CPP’s Central Committee. The mass military promotion – the second so far this year – brings ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-300-rcaf-officers-promoted-including-178-new-generals
Five nabbed over marble quarrying in protected area
Kampong Speu provincial police yesterday arrested three Cambodians and two Vietnamese nationals who allegedly quarried for marble in a protected area in Oral district. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50664280/five-nabbed-over-marble-quarrying-in-protected-area/
New unit stops 23 on Thai border
Units of a newly deployed, 100-strong military police force stationed around Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet town after Pchum Ben snared 23 workers seeking to illegally cross the border into Thailand for work on Tuesday. Twenty mobile, five-man units were patrolling in rotating day and night shifts ...
Analog to be Replaced by Fully Digital Television by 2020
Analog broadcasts from television stations all over Cambodia will cease and be replaced by digital transmissions by 2020 at the latest, Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith said yesterday. Speaking at a press conference to representatives from 13 television stations, Mr Kanharith said Cambodia needs to transition ...
First Quarter Insurance Revenues Up 39 Percent
Revenues in the insurance industry increased to $9.4 million in the first three months of the year compared with $6.7 million during the same period last year, figures from the General Insurance Association of Cambodia show. Ty Atith, a senior underwriter at Cambodian Reinsurance Company, said ...
Bloody crackdown on garment strike in Phnom Penh
A union employee representing striking workers from a factory that supplies Levi’s and Gap was left a bloodied mess near Wat Botum yesterday after police allegedly attacked him. According to rights groups, police set upon Long Panha, of the Cambodian Alliance of Trade Unions (CATU), who ...
Investors speculating on Phnom Penh condos
While the scores of new condominium properties appearing in Phnom Penh are selling well, their buyers are mainly speculators hoping to make quick profits, a leading property firm said. A report by international realty group CB Richard Ellis (CBRE), distributed Wednesday, says that the city’s property market in ...
Cambodia rubber drops 6 per cent
Cambodia’s rubber prices declined almost six per cent in the past two weeks, caused by concern over the European crisis with Greece, industry players and Cambodian officials said yesterday. Men Sopheak, deputy director general of Chop Rubber Plantation, a big rubber exporter in Cambodia, said the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012051856229/Business/cambodia-rubber-drops-6-per-cent.html
Workers Refuse to Restart Work at Thai Factory
About 600 Cambodian workers at a seafood factory in Thailand are refusing to go back to work, and are demanding compensation after a mass brawl with Burmese co-workers broke out on Monday ending in two deaths, a worker said yesterday. The fight broke out after hundreds ...