Not all app stores online
Smartphones and the accompanying online stores that sell applications for them may be gaining ground across emerging markets, according to a study conducted by a London-based telecommunications research and analysis firm, but Cambodia’s market is limited by a lack of places to legitimately purchase apps, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012081357948/Business/slow-demand-for-paid-phones-apps.html
Fraud Case Highlights Bribery Around Requests for Citizenship
The Court of Appeal on Monday acquitted a South Korean businessman who allegedly stole $50,000 that was supposed to be used to acquire Cambodian citizenship for his boss in 2007. Koo Bonkwang, the former president of Commerce Central Finance, a microlender, said he paid the money ...
Garlic leaves are a boon for farmer
Profitable income generation has many sources. Whether it requires work in an office, trading on the market or farming land – the outcome always depends on the innovation and effort of the individual. For Pring Leang, the sources are three small fields in Kampong Por village ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/garlic-leaves-are-boon-farmer
Rainsy slams informal EU monitors
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has rebuked the European Union over two low-profile election experts it sent to monitor July’s elections, claiming their presence had undermined Cambodian democracy. In a letter sent on Tuesday to Ugu Astuto, the EU’s top diplomat for South and Southeast Asia, Rainsy ...
Meas Sokchea and Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-slams-informal-eu-monitors
Cambodia's Angkor heritage site attracts nearly 2 mln foreign tourists in 11 months
Cambodia’s Angkor Wat Temple, one of the world heritage sites, had received some 1.98 million international visitors in the first 11 months of 2013, up 8 percent from 1.83 million tourists over the same period last year, a tourism report said Wednesday. During the January-November ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/832841.shtml#.UrJemdIW2ls
Cambodia receives over 2.4 mln foreign visitors in 7 months
Cambodia has welcomed 2.43 million international tourists in the first seven months of the year, up 19 percent compared with the 2.04 million tourists over the same period last year, the figures of the Ministry of Tourism said Thursday. During the January-July period this year, Vietnam ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/810761.shtml#.UjJ2qNKBmN8
Lao Dam Breaks Ground
A waterfall has been blasted less than two kilometres from the Cambodian-Lao border, beginning work on another unapproved hydroelectric dam on the Mekong river, environmental group International Rivers claimed yesterday. Pianporn Deetes, the Thailand campaign coordinator for International Rivers, said she had learned of the excavation work, near ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012090458484/National-news/lao-dam-breaks-ground.html
Flood death toll rises to 45 in Cambodia
At least 45 people in Cambodia have died and thousands of families have been evacuated from homes to higher grounds in floods caused by monsoon rains and rivers overflowing their banks, a senior official said Thursday. “In the past three weeks, floods have claimed 45 lives ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-08/21/c_133573898.htm
Preah Sihanouk to remove more than 1,000 shophouses for flood mitigation
Preah Sihanouk Provincial Hall will demolish more than 1,000 illegally built shophouses and homes along the banks of canals and on the sidewalks in Sihanoukville to facilitate flood mitigation projects. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50686947/preah-sihanouk-to-remove-more-than-1000-shophouses-for-flood-mitigation
500-hectare industrial park for K.Speu
The chairman of Canadia Bank and Overseas Cambodia Investment Corp (OCIC) said his company is developing a 500-hectare industrial park in Kampong Speu province (along the National Road 51). ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50737773/500-hectare-industrial-park-for-k-speu/
France mulls $95M in agri-loans
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries expects to receive €80 million ($95 million) in loans this year from the French government and Asian Development Bank (ADB) to develop two projects that support Cambodian agricultural value chains. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/france-mulls-95m-agri-loans
ADB asked to craft game plan for monorail, subway
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport on April 6 asked the Metro Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) to help devise strategies for monorail and subway projects planned for Phnom Penh. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/adb-asked-craft-game-plan-monorail-subway
ASEAN aims to dodge crisis in West
ASEAN finance officials and the heads of regional central banks yesterday homed in on the possibility of economic crisis as well as potential means of averting contagion in fledgling Southeast Asian economies. The officials have also agreed “in principle” to doubling a regional currency fund to ...
Gov’t to crack down on overdue road tax
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) will continue collecting the annual road tax on vehicles due at the end of last month until the end of the year, but will start cracking down on late payments on January 1, it announced. The taxes can be ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18434/gov---t-to-crack-down-on-overdue-road-tax/
Cellcard's COO Kay Lot resigns
One of Cambodia’s primary telecommunications companies, Cellcard, announced yesterday that longtime Chief Operating Officer Kay Lot has resigned. The departure of Kay Lot follows the departure of CEO David Spriggs who resigned his position about two months ago. Telecommunications industry insiders say the otherwise healthy and profitable ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012090758552/Business/cellcards-coo-kay-lot-resigns.html
Sihanoukville construction sites scaled back
Preah Sihanouk provincial governor Chhit Sokhon ordered three construction sites near Sihanoukville’s O’Tres Beach to scale back their projects on Friday after the owners overstepped building limitations, officials said Sunday. Mr. Sokhon ordered three construction sites along the O’Tres stream, an inlet that stretches about 2 ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sihanoukville-construction-sites-scaled-back-67371/
Land encroachment causes floods
The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology has asked the capital and provincial authorities to prevent encroachment on river banks, ditches, creeks, canals, water reservoirs and lakes to avoid the effects of water drainage and flood disasters. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50721647/land-encroachment-causes-floods/
International remittances could plunge by millions
Cambodia could lose more than 15 percent of its international remittances in 2020 under the worst-case scenario because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). ...
Sorn Sarath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50751317/international-remittances-could-plunge-by-millions/
‘Safety, data and green’ is key for transport industry
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has outlined the three key areas of safety, data management and environmental sustainability for the Cambodian and regional transport industries during and after the current COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Harrison White
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50757191/safety-data-and-green-is-key-for-transport-industry/
50 x 2030 initiative launches data use grant competition
The 50×2030 Initiative is launching a data use grant competition for researchers in Cambodia. The initiative is a global partnership between the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Bank. The IFAD will lead the work on data ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50823382/50-x-2030-initiative-launches-data-use-grant-competition/