Malaysian motorcycle maker breaks into Cambodian market
DNC Asiatic Holdings Sdn Bhd, a Malaysian manufacturer of motorcycles, will ship 25,000 units of its Demak model to the kingdom this year, in a deal worth $56 million that is part of its overseas expansion strategy. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50101598/malaysian-motorcycle-maker-breaks-cambodian-market/
Chea Mony vows to step down as Union chief
After 11 years as president of the Free Trade Union, Chea Mony said Sunday that he would not seek re-election as head of one of the country’s largest unions, which launched Cambodia’s labor movement nearly two decades ago. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chea-mony-vows-to-step-down-as-union-chief-88878/
Police ‘check’ NGO’s Koh Kong premises
Police in Koh Kong province yesterday raided a house rented by local environmental NGO Mother Nature in what its members have described as an ongoing campaign of intimidation against the group amid the detention of three of its activists. ...
Pech Sotheary and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-check-ngos-koh-kong-premises
Cambodia’s rice export up 35 Percent in Q1 amid looming ban
Cambodia exported a total of 230,948 tons of milled rice to foreign markets in the first quarter of this year, according to Cambodia Rice Federation’s report. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50708588/cambodias-rice-export-up-35-percent-in-q1-amid-looming-ban/
Cambodia's anti-graft agency receives 728 complaints in 9 months
The Cambodia’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) had received 728 corruption-related complaints in the first nine months of this year, down 16 percent from the same period last year, the agency said in a statement on Sunday. “From January to September 2014, the ACU had received a total ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140928/cambodias-anti-graft-agency-receives-728-complaints-9-months
Putting border issue on the map
The Cambodian government yesterday produced some of the maps it has been using to demarcate the eastern frontier, stressing that they match the constitutionally mandated map despite having been developed in Vietnam. At a press conference at the Council of Ministers, the government’s senior official on ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/putting-border-issue-map
Court charges two for defamation over land dispute in Koh Kong
Hundreds of people gathered in front of the Koh Kong Provincial Court on November 18 to await the sentencing of their three community land representatives who were accused of defamation related to a land dispute. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/court-charges-two-defamation-over-land-dispute-koh-kong
JETRO visit raises Japanese investment hopes
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) says it has greenlit a total of 148 Japanese investment project proposals planned outside of the Kingdom’s special economic zones (SEZ) as of July 31 worth about $2.85 billion since its establishment on August 5, 1994. ...
Hom Phanet
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/jetro-visit-raises-japanese-investment-hopes
Koh Kong Shooting Suspect Not Investigated
Authorities are not investigating last week’s restaurant shooting in Koh Kong province, in which the province’s governor said that a nephew of Prime Minister Hun Sen was a suspect. Koh Kong governor Bun Leut said on Thursday that Nhim Pov, a nephew of Mr. Hun Sen, ...
Report cites election day voter fraud
Voter rolls at several polling stations appear to have been “intentionally manipulated” in advance of the election to allow large groups of individuals to cast fraudulent ballots in communes where they were ineligible, according to a report released Saturday by rights group Licadho. One of the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/report-cites-election-day-voter-fraud
Kingdom set to bring in Chinese salt
The first deliveries of salt from China arrived on Tuesday at Sihanoukville port after an agreement for a 30,000-tonne import was inked last month, said Bun Baraing, the co-president of the Salt Producers Community of Kampot-Kep (SPCKK). ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-set-bring-chinese-salt
National Assembly Chairman holds talks with Cambodian Senate President
National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung held talks with visiting President of the Cambodia Senate Samdech Say Chhum in Hanoi on December 16, dealing with an array of important contents of comprehensive cooperation between the two legislatures. ...
Vietnamnet News Staff
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/government/148864/national-assembly-chairman-holds-talks-with-cambodian-senate-president.html
Mystery blazes destroy more seized timber
Government officials say they are investigating the causes of two separate weekend fires in Mondolkiri province that reportedly burned through hundreds of high-value logs the government had sold to a businessman after confiscating them from a pair of rubber plantations. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mystery-blazes-destroy-more-seized-timber-124313/
PPSEZ's profits falls 42%
Phnom Penh Special Economics Zone (PPSEZ) showed its decline of revenue to 42 percents in 2016 which causes 65 percent of net profit’s downfall comparing to the year of 2015, it said in a filing to the Cambodia Securities Exchange yesterday. ...
The Phnom Penh Post Staff
http://bit.ly/2n9omfn
Fresh mango exports up 251 percent in first eight months
The export of Cambodian fresh mangoes to international markets saw a remarkable increase of 251 percent to 163,828 tonnes during the first eight months of this year. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50931274/fresh-mango-exports-up-251-percent-in-first-eight-months/
Going bananas over Cambodia’s exports as demand sees nearly 350,000 tons exported in first nine months
In the first nine months of 2021, Cambodia exported 343,812 tons of fresh bananas, an increase of 46 percent compared to 2020. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50955304/going-bananas-over-cambodias-exports-as-demand-sees-nearly-350000-tons-exported-in-first-nine-months/
Women in upper union positions vital
Female union leaders in the garment industry – where women constitute 90 per cent of the work force – are effective at bargaining for better working conditions, but their voices aren’t being heard in a union landscape dominated by men, a labour expert said yesterday. Veasna ...
PM justifies need for Chinese construction workers
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday justified the need for Chinese workers in the Kingdom by saying that local workers still lack expertise. Mr Hun Sen, during his inspection visit to Morodok Techo National Stadium, said Chinese nationals working in the Kingdom are permitted for employment and ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50628531/pm-justifies-need-for-chinese-construction-workers/
The man in the mirror – the Enemy within
Recent politic rhetoric in Cambodia and back-pedaling by some political leaders brings to mind a classic from the late Michael Jackson “Man in the Mirror”. Below, I have inserted one paragraph from his lyrics to put things in perspective before I ramble on the about ...
T. Mohan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17536/the-man-in-the-mirror-----the-enemy-within/
In Myanmar election, lessons for Cambodia
A Cambodian election observer in Myanmar says the country’s process holds lessons for Cambodia. Yet the NLD and the ruling junta have tried to resolve their differences, leading up to the opposition’s election victory, said Koul Panha, who has been in Myanmar since Nov. 3, ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/in-myanmar-election-lessons-for-cambodia/3053436.html