Construction investment notably increases in 2013
Construction investment in Cambodia in the past 11 months of 2013 was worth of USD 2.4 billion or 1526 projects, covering construction area of 7 million sq km, said The Ministry of Urbanization and Construction. The ministry added that compared with the same period of last ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=NTEzNDI5N2YzMGE
Malaria deaths dip in first half
A new report from Cambodia’s centre for malaria control shows fatalities from the disease have dropped 85 per cent in the first half of 2013 compared with the same period last year. The total number of malaria cases reduced by 52 per cent during that period, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/malaria-deaths-dip-first-half
Singapore Invests in New Cambodian Bank
An investment company owned by the Singaporean government is a minority partner in a fully licensed commercial bank set to open later this month in cooperation with Canadia Bank PLC and the country’s postal service, a source familiar with the deal confirmed Tuesday. Fullerton Financial Holdings, ...
Joshua Wilwohl and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/singapore-invests-in-new-cambodian-bank-42137/
Cops nab 2 in foreigner shootings
A man suspected of robbing and shooting two foreign nationals late last month was shot four times on Monday night during a shootout with police before being taken into custody. Police also apprehended a second, uninjured suspect after the shootout. Chea Sovann, 32, and Sa Ravan, ...
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cops-nab-2-foreigner-shootings
Ball’s in their court: CPP
Minister of interior and Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng said yesterday that the ruling party was waiting for the opposition to contact them regarding negotiations to break the ongoing political deadlock. CNRP president Sam Rainsy yesterday said his party would “definitely” be contacting the CPP, ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ball%E2%80%99s-their-court-cpp
Chainsaws stayed busy in past year
The extent of the devastation of Cambodia’s forests was brought into sharp relief as 2013 drew to a close, with a series of detailed maps and satellite data released by NGOs showing the drastic depletion of the Kingdom’s woodland ecosystems. Images released by Open Development Cambodia ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chainsaws-stayed-busy-past-year
CNRP cites assaults in nixing talks
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party yesterday withdrew from talks with the government scheduled for today in protest against soldiers cracking down on monks and demonstrators during a garment worker strike in the capital. Special Forces Airborne 911 Unit soldiers with metal pipes, knives, AK-47s, slingshots ...
Shane Worrell and Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-cites-assaults-nixing-talks
Malaysia's Dataprep considers presence in Cambodia
Malaysian information technology service provider Dataprep Holdings Bhd is considering establishing a presence in Cambodia, the Malaysian Reserve reported Monday. “We are currently looking at increasing our presence in indochina, ASEAN and China,” chief executive Ahmad Rizan Ibrahim was quoted as telling reporters Friday. ...
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=ZjViNjdmMjg5ZTc
BIDV to open in Phnom Penh
A subsidiary of the Bank for Investment and Development of Viet Nam (BIDV) opened its seventh branch In Mean Chey District, Phnom Penh, on Sunday. The new branch is also expected to meet local demand and boost the development of trade and Investment ties between ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=YTY2YzNlODE3YTk
Turkey, Czech open embassies in Cambodia
The countries of Turkey and the Czech Republic have opened permanent embassies in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, according to Koy Kuong, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and international Cooperation on Wednesday. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=MTNjNDhiOWY2MzY
ANZ Implicated in Sugar Plantation Evictions
Three NGOs on Wednesday called on ANZ Royal Bank to help the hundreds of families who have lost farmland to a sugar plantation that the bank helped to finance in Kompong Speu province. The NGOs also made public a 2013 social and environmental impact assessment of ...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/anz-implicated-in-sugar-plantation-evictions-50980/
Raising a stink in Siem Reap
Piles of waste stinking up Siem Reap’s Chreav commune are causing serious health problems and making the area unlivable, according to local residents. The site in Knar village, which is run by refuse company Global Action for Environment Awareness (GAEA), is plagued with flies and a ...
Thik Kaliyann
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/raising-stink-siem-reap
Aeon MFI to expand in Cambodia
Aeon Microfinance (Cambodia) plans to expand its branches in Cambodia this year and also diversify its products from the current base after two years of operating in the Kingdom, officials with the company say. Until now, the microfinance institution (MFI) – which is part of the ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/aeon-mfi-expand-cambodia
Two killed in separate UXO blasts
A 12-year-old boy and a 37-year-old farmer lost their lives over the weekend in UXO explosions in Battambang and Pailin provinces. ...
Lieng Sarith
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/two-killed-separate-uxo-blasts
Leaflets get unionist in hot water
Police in Svay Rieng province yesterday afternoon arrested a union worker who was delivering flyers supporting a stay-at-home strike scheduled to begin after Khmer New Year. While delivering about 1,100 fliers to union members at Full Fortune Knitting, Kem Chamroeun, a 25-year-old Collective Union of Movement ...
Mom Kunthear and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/leaflets-get-unionist-hot-water
Arrests after vendors rally in Sisophon
Three people were arrested in Banteay Meanchey province on Friday during a protest in which more than 400 vendors rallied against orders to move to new market sites. in what authorities said was an effort to “restore public order”, police and military forces were deployed to ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/arrests-after-vendors-rally-sisophon
Strikes still on in some provinces
Unrest in the garment sector spread yesterday, as hundreds of workers from Kandal province demonstrated outside their factory. The 700 workers at Unity Fashion factory walked off the job after managers said they would dock wages of workers who did not show up on April 17, ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strikes-still-some-provinces
Four injured in roller coaster accident
Two teenagers and a couple in their twenties were injured in a roller coaster accident on Sunday at Chamkar Pring Amusement park in Sen Sok district, police said Monday. Keo Sothout, district police chief, said that a bolt on the ride came loose and sent two ...
Hay Pisey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/four-injured-in-roller-coaster-accident-57652/
Court rules in tycoon’s favour
Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday ruled in favour of a mining tycoon and convicted a Chinese-Cambodian widow of defaming the oknha during an embittered land dispute. Sok Neang Gek, 46, an interpreter at a garment factory in the capital, was fined $1,000 and ordered to compensate ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/court-rules-tycoon%E2%80%99s-favour
CNRP calls for ‘public’ swearing-in
Authorities in Mondulkiri decided to switch a swearing-in ceremony for two newly elected Keo Seima district councillors to a commune hall after the opposition objected to it being held at the home of the district’s pro-ruling party governor, officials said. Khum Kan said he and a ...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-calls-%E2%80%98public%E2%80%99-swearing