Bringing Japan FDI into focus
Launched last week, the Cambodia-Japanese Business Investment (CJBI) group aims to facilitate a dialogue between the two countries to bolster investment, and to help guide Japanese businesspeople through Cambodia’s often murky investment climate. The Post’s Cheng Sokhorng sat down with Koem Oeurn, CJBI president, to ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/bringing-japan-fdi-focus
Land dispute petitions lodged with government
Five groups of land evictees marched to the Council of Ministers yesterday to submit petitions. . ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-dispute-petitions-lodged-government
Travel-goods makers told act now or risk missing the boat
Just weeks since the United States announced it would grant new trade privileges that allow Cambodian-manufactured travel goods such as luggage and backpacks to enter the US market duty-free under its Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) scheme, a visiting American trade official hinted yesterday that ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/travel-goods-makers-told-act-now-or-risk-missing-boat
Japan boosts primary healthcare
The government of Japan has agreed to provide a $134,526 grant to PH-Japan (PHJ) – a Japanese NGO working to improve Cambodia’s healthcare system – the embassy announced yesterday. According to an embassy press release, PHJ will use the money in Kampong Cham province, focusing on ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29496/japan-boosts-primary-healthcare/
Thailand drops quotas on flights to Cambodia
Thailand has dropped its seat quota on commercial flights to Cambodia after its government approved the removal of the restrictions in accordance with an aviation agreement between the two countries signed in May. The approval comes months after Cambodia did the same, liberalising air travel ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/thailand-drops-quotas-flights-cambodia
Cambodia at ‘high’ risk of Zika outbreak in 2017
Amid reports of the emergence of the Zika virus in Myanmar and the discovery of the first birth defect believed linked to the virus in Vietnam, two researchers with Phnom Penh’s Pasteur Institute have concluded that Cambodia is at high risk of its own Zika ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-high-risk-zika-outbreak-2017
Council starts rejecting CNRP voter complaints
The Constitutional Council of Cambodia on Monday rejected the CNRP’s complaints against the first 76 of 2,441 people the opposition party says were unlawfully registered to vote last year, arguing, like the National Election Committee, that the opposition party lacked evidence to back up its ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/council-starts-rejecting-cnrp-voter-complaints-124317/
Thais seek business opportunities
More than 30 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from Thailand came to Cambodia this week to explore business prospects and investment opportunities. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35554/thais-seek-business-opportunities/
PM orders another logo change
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday ordered microfinance institute (MFI) Prasac, one of the largest in Cambodia, to change its logo immediately for fear that the public may confuse it as representing the government. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35753/pm-orders-another-logo-change/
BRED bank to carve out a niche in the market
Bred Banque Populaire – part of the second-largest banking group in France – officially launched operations in Cambodia yesterday after a ribbon-cutting ceremony at its headquarters, marking the first venture of a European bank in the Kingdom since the late 1990s. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/bred-bank-carve-out-niche-market
Potatoes to take root
Cambodia’s eastern Mondulkiri province will become the country’s first hub for potato growing after a successful pilot project, researchers say. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36153/potatoes-to-take-root/
Draft law on trade remedies adopted
The Council of Ministers on Friday adopted a draft law on trade remedies to protect local producers, businesses, enterprises and foreign businesses operating in Cambodia from imported products being sold below their cost base. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36882/draft-law-on-trade-remedies-adopted/
US Naval aid unit pushed out, Embassy says
Amid a widening gulf in U.S.-Cambodia relations, the U.S. Embassy said on Monday that a Navy unit specializing in humanitarian work had been forced to leave the country, imperiling hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of community projects, including the construction of maternity wards and ...
Michael Dickison and Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/us-naval-aid-unit-pushed-out-embassy-says-127486/
U.S. To give $6 million to genocide research group
In a statement on Sunday, the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) said the $6 million in additional funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) would be paid into an endowment fund that would accrue interest over the next 20 years, eventually bringing in ...
Sun Narin
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/us-to-give-6-million-to-genocide-research-group/3794401.html
Storms to rage until next month
The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology has issued another bad weather advisory, warning storms will continue until the start of next month. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37819/storms-to-rage-until-next-month/
No concrete solutions for cement shortage
Despite being home to several cement factories, real estate industry experts say Cambodia’s cement manufacturing sector has yet to fulfill demands of the fast developing building boom. ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/no-concrete-solutions-cement-shortage
Minister of Information: We tax only stations that rent and use local frequency
After receiving a letter from the Ministry of Economy and Finance on the request to take actions against the Radio Free Asia and the Voice of America located in Cambodia, which have been actively engaged in broadcasting and renting airtime from other radio stations yet ...
Un Rithy
http://www.akp.gov.kh/kh/?p=193541
China seeks rubber imports
China wants to import 300,000 tonnes of rubber from Cambodia by early next year, as the Cambodian government boosts its capacity for direct rubber exports to China. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5081294/china-seeks-rubber-imports/
NBC tests mechanism to link Kingdom’s major banks
The central bank officially held a soft launch last Friday for its central shared switch mechanism, which connects account records of three of the Kingdom’s leading financial institutions, allowing them to operate ATM and point-of-sale (POS) terminals in tandem. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nbc-tests-mechanism-link-kingdoms-major-banks
PM urges unionist not to flee
Prime Minister Hun Sen has assured unionist Vorn Pao that he does not need to fear arrest and flee the country over possible links to an attempted colour revolution by the former opposition CNRP. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5091090/pm-urges-unionist-not-flee/