Mass Faintings Continue at Two Factories
Workers at two different factories in Phnom Penh suffered mass fainting spells yesterday according to the Ministry of Labor and the factory officials. A Puma owned shoe factory 49 workers fainted and at the Hung Way garment factory another 64 workers fainted. The Puma factory ...
Firms may invest in light rail, traffic lights
Japanese technology companies Toshiba Corp and Kyosan Electric have met with Phnom Penh Municipality to discuss investing in a light rail system and new traffic light network. According to an announcement on the municipality’s website yesterday, Kazutoshi Fukuda, managing director of Kyosan Electric, and Yasuyoshi Mugiya, ...
Laos dam looms over fish quota
A new government plan has set a goal for an annual 1.2 million tonnes of fish by 2019, but officials and environmentalist have said the construction of Xayaburi dam in Laos could stymie Mekong fisheries. The plan would push fish exports to 500,000 tonnes of fish ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011120953255/Business/laos-dam-looms-over-fish-quota.html
Visitors fill hotels in Sihanoukville
Year-end travelers have fully booked Sihanoukville province’s hotels and guesthouses for the first-ever Sea Festival, which is expected to attract thousands of visitors this year, tourism officials said. Tith Chantha, general director at the Ministry of Tourism, confirmed that all hotel and guesthouse rooms were booked ...
Complaint Filed as Anti-Flooding Project Begins
As dignitaries marked the groundbreaking of a project to improve Phnom Penh’s defenses against flooding yesterday, a complaint had already been filed against the project’s contractor for impeding a public road. The Japanese government is putting $46 million into a new phase of the city’s flood ...
Unicef calls for ‘concrete action’ on online bullying in Cambodia
The UN Children’s Agency has called for a new policy to protect Cambodian children from bullying. In a statement released to coincide with Safer Internet Day on Tuesday, Unicef said young people between the ages of 15 and 25 years olds were particularly at risk. Natascha ...
Kann Vicheika
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/unicef-calls-for-concrete-action-on-online-bullying-in-cambodia/4775248.html
Cambodia's lifeline threatened as Mekong recedes to historic low
As world leaders meet in New York from Monday to discuss the global challenge of climate change, thousands of kilometres away people in Cambodia are grappling with dramatic changes to the country’s ecosystem, including the lowest water levels in the crucially-important Mekong River ever recorded. The United Nations ...
Andrew Nachemson
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/cambodia-lifeline-threatened-mekong-recedes-historic-190920072518567.html
Group tackles forestry crimes
Five new chainsaws and six makeshift tractors were impounded by the Prey Preah Roka Forest Community Network (PPRFCN) and rangers during a three-day forest patrol from June 7-9 in Preah Vihear province. Sun Pov, a PPRFCN representative who also participated in the forest protection campaign, ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/group-tackles-forestry-crimes
School for autistic students to vacate NBIC to make room for the disabled
The Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation has told The Rabbit School, a local NGO that educates autistic students, to move its operations from government-run National Borei for Infants and Children (NBIC) to a new premise, school director Hun Touch said. The ministry’s ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/school-autistic-students-vacate-nbic-make-room-disabled
Gov’t: Being competitive key to growth
Minister of Commerce Pan Sorasak on Wednesday said the Cambodian government has focused on its competitiveness strategies and the growth of Industry 4.0 in the Kingdom to withstand the trends of global protectionism and geopolitical polarisation. Speaking at a workshop on “Cambodian Trade Integration Strategy ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-being-competitive-key-growth
China increases rice import quota
Four days after the EU imposed tariffs on rice imported from Cambodia, China agreed on Monday to increase its import quota for Cambodian rice to 400,000 tonnes this year from the previous 300,000 tonnes. If Cambodia can supply the quantity under the new Chinese quota, ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/china-increases-rice-import-quota
Authorities to compensate families over airport expansion
The State Secretariat of Civil Aviation yesterday said it will continue to address the issue of compensation for the remaining seven families whose land is impacted by the expansion of Preah Sihanouk International Airport. It has already resolved the issue with 250 other affected families. The ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50655171/authorities-to-compensate-families-over-airport-expansion/
Obama unveils maritime plan for Southeast Asian nations
President Barack Obama pledged Tuesday to help Asia-Pacific allies boost their maritime security as part of talks with leaders in the Philippine capital, Manila. The White House announced a package of up to $259 million in new aid over the course of two years, including ...
Mary Alice Salinas
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/obama-in-philippines-for-apec-summit/3061433.html
Draft Law on Unions ready for debate at National Assembly
A controversial draft law to regulate unions is set for debate at the National Assembly, despite protests by union leaders, who say the new law will make it even harder for workers to bargain for rights, fair wages and proper working conditions. More than 3,000 ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/draft-law-on-unions-ready-for-debate-at-national-assembly/3084425.html
Zaha hadid’s little known plan to redesign Phnom Penh
Prior to her death on Thursday of last week, British architect Zaha Hadid was working to help Cambodia rebuild after the tragedies of its history. As was well-known, she was designing a new institute in Phnom Penh to foster research and remembrance of the country’s darkest ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voanews.com/content/zaha-hadid-little-known-plan-to-redesign-phnom-penh/3271325.html
PPSEZ’s rethink after sharp profit fall
Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ) ‒ a listed company on the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) ‒ reveled on Friday that by 2020, 50 percent of the company’s revenue would be generated by sales of services. This new target was made after PPSEZ informed the ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29024/ppsez---s-rethink-after-sharp-profit-fall/
Borey developers adjust strategies as sales decline
Condos and boreys have been experiencing a decline in sales, prompting developers to go back to the drawing board when devising financing strategies in a bid to lure back potential buyers. Nget Piseth, director assistant of Borey Piphup Thmey, said recently that residential sales in his ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/borey-developers-adjust-strategies-sales-decline
Now add Cambodia to the list of Singapore developer targets
A few weeks ago, OPP.Today explored the issue of why Singapore developers want to strengthen overseas sales, after repeated government market cooling measures have hit both foreign and domestic demand for Singapore property. What is clear is that Singapore developers are looking for new sources ...
Adrian Bishop
http://www.opp.today/now-add-cambodia-to-the-list-of-singapore-developer-targets/#tb3iyiRRrbD1IUFb.97
Special Economic Zones ‘key to future’
Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have brought almost 70,000 new jobs to the country, according to an Asian Development Bank report released last week. With tax exemptions on production materials, lower profit tax, and renewable leases, the SEZs have drawn foreign-owned factories manufacturing everything from bicycles ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16920/special-economic-zones----key-to-future---/
Cause of Salmonella infection spikes still a mystery
In the summer of 2013, the French government sent out an alert to health agencies throughout Europe of a spike in travelers recently returned from Cambodia needing treatment in hospitals after exposure to a rare strain of salmonella. By the fall, 34 patients in France, ...
James Reddick
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18249/cause-of-salmonella-infection-spikes-still-a-mystery/