ADB gets behind solar project
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has financially backed Singapore’s Sunseap Group’s project to build Cambodia’s first large-scale solar power project under a long-term agreement with The state-run energy utility Electricite Du Cambodge. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37758/adb-gets-behind-solar-project/
Angkor Gold to assist in promoting gender equality
Angkor Gold Corp, a Canadian mineral exploration company with operations in Cambodia, announced its participation in a three-year project with the Global Compact Network Canada (GCNC) to assist Canadian organisations address the United Nation’s sustainable development goals. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50113476/angkor-gold-to-assist-in-promoting-gender-equality/
Disabled men seek war vet pension status
About 50 people representing 520 villagers from nine districts in Banteay Meanchey province who claim to be disabled soldiers on Monday asked the provincial hall to intervene and request that the government help them get pensions. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50113876/disabled-men-seek-war-vet-pension-status/
Drop ICT tariffs to grow: study
Cambodia could add an additional $320 million to the economy over the next 10 years while increasing tax revenue by $24 million if it dropped its tariffs on information and communication technology (ICT), according to new research published yesterday. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/drop-ict-tariffs-grow-study
More riverbank collapses near sand dredging site
Still more riverbank collapses have struck a community in Kandal province’s Sa’ang district where multiple houses have crumbled into the Tonle Bassac river a stone’s throw from where four companies are dredging the riverbed for sand. ...
Yesenia Amaro and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-riverbank-collapses-near-sand-dredging-site
Knight Frank releases report on commercial, residential sector
Knight Frank Cambodia, a leading independent real estate consultancy in Cambodia, released its latest half yearly commercial and residential report for 2017. The report highlights four main sectors: The office sector, retail sector, serviced apartment sector and condominium sector. ...
Khmer Times
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5079314/knight-frank-releases-report-commercial-residential-sector/
Thai, Cambodian FMs meet in Bangkok on economic cooperation
Thailand and Cambodia will step up road construction, and open more checkpoints along their common borders, Thai News Agency reported on Wednesday. the resolution was made during the 8th Thai-Cambodian Joint Commission, held in Bangkok on Tuesday and Wednesday. ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-12/26/c_132064949.htm
Manulife Enters Cambodia Market With Phnom Penh Office
Manulife Financial Corp. (MFC), Canada’s largest insurer, has opened an office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, its first in the Southeast Asian nation. Manulife has about 40 people in its Cambodian unit, the Toronto-based insurer said today in a statement. ...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-28/manulife-enters-cambodia-market-with-phnom-penh-office.html
5,000 civil servants declare assets, debts in 2014
The Anti-Corruption Unit said that 5,179 civil servants have already declared Their assets and debt for two-year period. The assets and debt declaration has been made since early 2014. 141 officials declared assets and debt in May. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=NWU1NzY5NzI4ZDk
Dam promises are ‘a facade’
With regional consultations on Laos’s Don Sahong dam expected to commence soon, the developers are violating pledges to postpone construction, which is being undertaken by a Chinese company associated with several controversial hydropower projects, the Post has learned ...
Daniel Pye and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dam-promises-are-%E2%80%98-facade%E2%80%99
Cambodian PM, opposition leader to jointly inaugurate New Year festival at Angkor heritage site
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and opposition leader Sam Rainsy will for the first time jointly inaugurate the Angkor Sankranta festival, which will be held on April 14-16 in northwest Cambodia’s Siem Reap City to celebrate Khmer New Year. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://bit.ly/1Ohz72O
Swap deal struck: Families to move for city development
More than 130 families will be relocated to make way for a multibillion-dollar development project in the capital’s Chroy Changva district after an agreement was signed yesterday by villagers, district officials and the Overseas Cambodian Investment Corporation (OCIC ) said. ...
Kim Sarom
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/swap-deal-struck-families-move-city-development
Summons arrives one year later
A Kampong Cham Provincial Court summons over a protest shocked a former local union president and his wife yesterday, since the event in question occurred more than a year ago and the union leader’s wife had no involvement in it. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/summons-arrives-one-year-later
Insult ban won’t affect free speech, parties say
The electoral reform working groups from The ruling CPP and opposition CNRP resumed talks Monday after canceling Their meetings last week, with officials from both parties again defending Their controversial push to ban NGOs from “insulting” parties during election campaigns. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/insult-ban-wont-affect-free-speech-parties-say-77262/
Funcinpec factions war over who can issue official letters
A petty power struggle over who is authorized to issue official Funcinpec letters broke out over the weekend amid the party’s efforts to integrate two formerly warring internal factions after Prince Norodom Ranariddh returned as its leader last month. ...
Hul Reaksmey and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/funcinpec-factions-war-over-who-can-issue-official-letters-78506/
New accountability in disaster management
New articles may be added to a draft law on disaster management, including punishments for officials who break the law. the current draft includes prison sentences and small fines for people who, for example, enter restricted areas during a disaster. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/new-accountability-disaster-management
Kem Sokha to honor Phnom Penh court summons
CNRP Vice President Kem Sokha announced on his Facebook page on Tuesday that he would honor his summons to appear at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court this morning to answer questions about the opposition party’s protests in 2013 and 2014. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kem-sokha-to-honor-phnom-penh-court-summons-81613/
Shamed police official denied bail, retried over murder plot
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday morning denied a bail request from former municipal penal police officer Hang Vuthy and in The afternoon retried him over his role in a 2003 conspiracy to murder national military police commander Sao Sokha. ...
Poipet safe from water shortage, governor says
Poipet City’s governor said Thursday that residents did not need to worry that their taps could run dry, despite a warning earlier this week by the private company that provides the city’s water that supplies were running low. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/poipet-safe-from-water-shortage-governor-says-85458/
Regional concerns over dam project in Laos remain unaddressed: green group
An intergovernmental body that supervises development along the Mekong River must address regional concerns over the controversial Don Sahong dam project in Laos at its annual consultation meeting next week, an environmental watchdog said Thursday. ...
Joshua Lipes
http://bit.ly/1Fqzm4k