Land-grabbing letter hits nerve
The government yesterday lashed out at a letter sent by opposition lawmakers to the World Bank that urged the Bank to increase pressure on the government to end forced evictions, land grabbing and threats against community members involved in land disputes with well-connected companies. Council ...
Land Grabs Mar Cambodia’s Investment Boom
The evictions and so-called “land grabs” have angered aid donors, putting at stake hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid as well as a trade scheme that gives Cambodian produce tariff-free access to the EU. International donors and lenders such as the World Bank ...
Cambodia’s Crude Oil Imports Fall 12 pct in Q-1
Cambodia imported 412,190 tons of Crude Oil in Q-1 of Y 2013, a 12% fall compared with the 471,000 tons it imported at the same period last year, the Commerce ministry’s report showed Saturday. During the January-March period this year, the country spent US$ 397-M to ...
National Petroleum Authority to Change Hands
The Cambodian National Petroleum Authority (CNPA), formerly overseen by the Council of Ministers, will be integrated into the Ministry of Mines and Energy, according to senior CPP officials, the latest cut to the vast portfolio of government bodies controlled by Deputy Prime Minister Sok An. Since ...
Aun Pheap and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/national-petroleum-authority-to-change-hands-46796/
Cambodia, World Bank discuss education cooperation within COVID-19 context
The Kingdom of Cambodia and the World Bank have discussed the education situation and cooperation in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501042816/cambodia-world-bank-discuss-education-cooperation-within-covid-19-context/
PPCBank bond trades on secondary market
In a first for the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX), a listed bond were traded on the secondary market on November 24, data from the bourse show. As a result, South Korea-owned Phnom Penh Commercial Bank Plc’s (PPCBank) first bond offering (PPCB23A) on the CSX saw ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ppcbank-bond-trades-secondary-market
Cambodia’s Economic Growth Will Help Poverty Reduction
Cambodia economic growth was 7.3 percent in 2012. Agriculture grew by 4.3 percent, crops by 4.9 percent, fisheries by 6.7 percent, industry by 9.2 percent, garment [sector] by 6.9 percent and the service industry by 8.1 percent, said Dr Hang Chuon Naron, Secretary of State ...
Full text of White House statement on US-ASEAN Leaders Meeting
On November 19, 2012, President Obama met with the leaders of the 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN) to deepen our diplomatic, economic, security, and people-to-people ties with the key Asian multilateral organization. With a population of approximately 620 ...
Health exam committee targets fake certificates
Cambodia’s national examination committee is set to crack down on applicants using fake high school certificates for health sector degree exams. ...
Chea Sokny
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/health-exam-committee-targets-fake-certificates
Cambodia-South Korea trade reaches $377 Million January-May
Bilateral trade between Cambodia and South Korea reached $377 million for the first five months of 2021. This represents a 6.2 percent increase compared to the same period last year. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50879943/cambodia-south-korea-trade-reaches-377-million-january-may/
South Korea Nat’l Assembly applaud gov’t, NA mandates
Kim Jin-pyo, president of the South Korean National Assembly (NA), has lauded Cambodia’s new government and NA, describing the new mandates as full of youthful energy and ready to develop the Kingdom. ...
Vong Daravady
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/south-korea-natl-assembly-applaud-govt-na-mandates
Phnom Penh Governor Says Lake Families to Get Land Titles
For the first time since Phnom Penh municipality slated some 4,000 mostly poor families for forced eviction in 2007 to make way for a CPP senator’s controversial real estate project, City Hall yesterday promised them what they have always wanted most: titles to their land. ...
Royal Group to Take Stake in Mining Project
A mining company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange has announced a plan to pay $14 million for a license to explore for copper in Preah Vihear province, in a deal involving local conglomerate Royal Group. In an announcement to the bourse last Thurday, Geopacific Resource ...
Government Orders Railway Repairs to Start
The government has ordered French construction firm TSO (Cambodia) Co. Ltd. to resume work repairing the railway line between Phnom Penh and Serei Saophoan City in Banteay Meanchey province, an official said yesterday. The French firm has been contracted to rehabilitate the France-build railway – a ...
Cambodia Organizes Real Estate Exhibition
A 3-day Cambodia-Real Estate Exhibition 2013 kicked off [in Phnom Penh] on Monday as the country’s construction sector is rapidly growing in the last couple of years. The event, held at the Diamond Island Exhibition Center, brought together 68 exhibitors who are real estate developers, real ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-04/08/c_132292162.htm
Floods in Northwest as Hun Sen Issues Riverbank Collapse Warning
People living along the banks of the Mekong, Bassac and Tonle Sap rivers should exercise caution in the coming days, and be particularly aware of possible riverbank collapses as water levels are rising in Stung Treng province and elsewhere in the country, Prime Minister Hun ...
Giant Development in Cambodia Hinges on Chinese Buyers
There is an island in Cambodia that, unlike others in Southeast Asia, is not the object of an ownership dispute. But it is equally clear whom its current owners would like to land there: Chinese property buyers. If all goes according to plan, Koh Pich — ...
Chris Horton
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/realestate/commercial/giant-development-in-cambodia-hinges-on-chinese-buyers.html?_r=1
World Bank praises jab, booster campaigns
The rapid pace of Cambodia’s coronavirus vaccination campaigns and subsequent booster shot drives will be key to a faster economic reopening, according to a senior World Bank official on September 13. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/world-bank-praises-jab-booster-campaigns
Cambodian Exports to EU See Rapid Growth in 2012
Cambodia’s exports to the European Union (E.U.) grew to $2.32 billion in 2012, a 23 percent increase compared to the previous year, according to the E.U.’s latest trade figures. The figures, released this week by the European Commission’s trade office, testify to the region’s growing role ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodian-exports-to-eu-see-rapid-growth-in-2012-18329/