Clash with sugar firm puts villagers in court
Kampong Speu provincial court iSSued SummonSeS yeSterday to five villagerS from Thpong diStrict&rSquo;S Omlaing commune, who are involved in a long-Standing land diSpute with Cambodia People&rSquo;S Party Senator Ly Yong Phat&rSquo;S Phnom Penh Sugar company. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Minister to be questioned over HIV outbreak
Health Minister Mam Bunheng has been summoned for questioning next week by the National Assembly’s health commission over the outbreak of HIV among villagers in Battambang province’s Ro­ka commune, the commission’s secretary-general said Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/minister-to-be-questioned-over-hiv-outbreak-76629/
Cambodia to Resume International Adoptions on January 1
Cambodia will allow inter-country adoptions to resume from January 1 next year, four years after the government stopped adoptions amid claims of corruption and baby selling, government officials confirmed yesterday. speaking after a meeting with susan Jacobs, the U.s. state Department’s special adviser on children’s issues, secretary of ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-to-resume-international-adoptions-on-january-1-4934/
Phnom Penh Municipal Court Overturns Mfone Injunctions
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has overturned two injunctions filed against bankrupt mobile operator Mfone, saying the decision will help the court-appointed administrator in charge of Mfone’s assets pay back creditors the money they are owed. The court issued Eltek’s injunction in October and Huawei’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
GTI price drops on day one
After a five-month IPO process steeped in anticipation, Grand Twins International ended its first day on the Cambodia securities Exchange (CsX) with results many observers found disappointing. GTI shares opened yesterday’s session at 9,700 riel ($2.41), with a ceremonial bell ringing at the CsX’s head office. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gti-price-drops-day-one
Riel trust needed for stability
As much as $320 million is being lost annually as a result of Cambodia’s reliance on the Us dollar, while a longstanding mistrust in the riel means there is less of the local currency in circulation, restricting the national bank’s ability to respond in times ss='cambodia-color'>...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/riel-trust-needed-stability
No breakthrough in new talks for Cambodian minimum wage increase
Cambodian authorities have held two rounds of talks with garment factory owners and unions under a new mechanism to help break a deadlock over increasing the workers’ monthly minimum wage but to no avail. But Labor Minister Ith sam Heng said that he expected the Garment ss='cambodia-color'>...
Roseanne Gerin
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/working-group-10162014181856.html
Result of Cambodia vote must be 'fully rejected': opposition
The result of Cambodia’s general election, in which long-serving Prime Minister Hun sen’s ruling party Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) declared victory, must be fully rejected by the international community, the opposition said on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Reuters Staff
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cambodia-election-opposition/result-of-cambodia-vote-must-be-fully-rejected-opposition-idUSKBN1KK09B
Another Korean ministry says it didn’t help envoy
South Korea&rSquo;S MiniStry of JuStice haS become the Second of that nation&rSquo;S miniStrieS to deny it iS working with Cambodia&rSquo;S ambaSSador to the country, Suth Dina, to clamp down on illegal migrantS and political diSSent. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/another-korean-ministry-says-it-didnt-help-envoy
Government scrubs database that exposed Hun family riches
The Commerce Ministry has scrubbed its website of all corporate shareholder information since last month’s release of a report damned by Prime Minister Hun sen’s children for shedding light on the first family’s sprawling business empire. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-scrubs-database-exposed-hun-family-riches-116772/
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. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37758/adb-gets-behind-solar-project/
Flu outbreak afflicts Mondulkiri village
Half of the residents of Mondulkiri’s Norng Buor village fell ill during a mass flu outbreak this weekend, prompting a rapid mobilisation of the province’s health authorities, who ascribed the flu’s rapid spread to poor hygiene. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/flu-outbreak-afflicts-mondulkiri-village
Hong Kong economic delegation visits Kingdom
Hong Kong’s top economic official will lead a 48-person delegation to Cambodia on Monday and Tuesday to explore business opportunities related to China’s Belt and Road Initiative, according to a release from the official’s office. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hong-kong-economic-delegation-visits-kingdom
Loran Imex to launch $2m rice mill in 2013
Loran Import-Export Co Ltd, Cambodia’s largest milled-rice exporter, is scheduled to start construction on a new rice mill this month worth more than Us$2 million, according to the company’s General Director Lim Bunheng. The mill will help reduce the flow of Cambodia’s paddy rice into neighbouring ss='cambodia-color'>...
GE Engines to power Cambodian rice husk power project
GE Energy has signed a contract with Cambodian industrial conglomerate soma Group to supply two of its engines to power a biomass gasification facility. soma Group’s Hak se mill biomass gasification project is located in Cambodia’s rural rice milling region Kamphong Cham, and reinforces a 2011 ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://biomassmagazine.com/articles/7870/ge-engines-to-power-cambodian-rice-husk-power-project
Insuring for higher education
Canada-based life insurance company Manulife has launched a product intended to provide parents with security for their children’s education, and officials at the firm say they are optimistic about its prospects. Manulife’s research found that even families who were financially struggling would take advantage of ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013042365160/Business/insuring-for-higher-education.html
US turns to Cambodia rice market
Cambodia’s rice exporters are eager to sell more of their goods in the United states and tap into the world’s largest economy. speaking at the International Export Market Research for Cambodian Rice seminar in Phnom Penh yesterday, song saran, CEO of Amru Rice Cambodia, one of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/us-turns-cambodia-rice-market
Rice sector credit boost
The government-backed Rural Development Bank (RDB) will lend $64 million to Cambodia’s agriculture sector in 2014, the bank’s top official said yesterday. sun Kunthor, president of RDB, said most of the funding would be used to support growth in Cambodia’s rice sector as it strives to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-sector-credit-boost
Cambodia rejects suspicions reversal on us base upgrade signals plans to host Chinese military assets
Cambodia’s Minister of Defense Tea Banh on Monday dismissed suspicions that his government had reneged on accepting an offer from the U.s. to upgrade buildings at a naval base in Preah sihanouk province because it plans to host Chinese military assets at the site. In a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joshua Lipes
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/base-07012019152820.html
Garment worker missing for nine days
On September 10, Thol Vin, 18, left for her job at a garment factory in Phnom Penh&rSquo;S Dangkor diStrict, juSt like any other day. She had been working there for more than two yearS until She diSappeared unexpectedly during her lunch break. On Friday, Thol and SS='cambodia-color'>...