PPWSA closes higher after a week down
For the first time in weeks, Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority yesterday closed up 4.35 per cent, a sign the stock was stablising after a rough opening, insiders said.
After an eight-day price decline, PPWSA – the sole listed company on the Cambodia Securities Exchange –
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Rise in Cargo Reflects a Diversifying Economy
The amount of air cargo entering and leaving Phnom Penh increased by almost 40 percent last year, and nearly 100,000 more business travelers to the capital were recorded during the first 11 months of last year compared to the same period in 2011, data from
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/rise-in-air-cargo-reflects-a-diversifying-economy-7214/
Bribery a challenge for Cambodia's tourism sector
The tourism sector has complained about the attempted extortion and bribery by officials at the international border checkpoints that still upset tourists coming into Cambodia.
The issue was raised yesterday during a meeting of the Interministerial Committee for Facilitating the Travel and Transport of Tourists and
Laos, Cambodia eye a single-visa policy
Laos is considering a single-visa scheme with its neighbours Thailand and Cambodia to promote balanced development in the subregion, officials said.
The Lao government will hold talks with Cambodia, possibly at the end of this month, to learn from Phnom Penh’s experience in this matter, a
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K-pop a boon for cosmetics shops
Kim Hyun-joong is looking at you. From a poster outside of a hair salon, from a shop window, in a TV commercial or on local social media sites, the South Korean singer and actor decorates various advertisements in Phnom Penh.
But it isn’t just about his
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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
A minor melee mars day’s events
A day of peaceful demonstrations gave way to an evening of unrest last night as a handful of protesters were removed from a small patch of land across from the United States embassy and a grup of uninvolved people threw Molotov cocktails towards riot police
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minor-melee-mars-day%E2%80%99s-events
Striking teachers to be taught a lesson
As teachers in several provinces continue to strike over low wages, the Ministry of Education declined to say yesterday whether it would follow through on threats to enact harsh punishment on those who have walked.
In a statement issued on Friday and obtained yesterday, Pin Chamnarn,
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/striking-teachers-be-taught-lesson
Cambodia Listed as a Top Retirement Destination
Cambodia has for the first time made it onto the Global Retirement Index, a yearly list of the world’s top retirement locations.
The list, compiled annually for the past 30 years by International Living Magazine, compares countries throughout the world across a range of categories including
Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-listed-as-a-top-retirement-destination-50319/
For underpaid teachers, a desire for dignity
Hang Mao was among more than 11,000 Phnom Penh public school teachers who were told two weeks ago that corruption in the classroom would no longer be tolerated.
The message came from senior city officials, including Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong and municipal education director Chea
Phann Ana
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/for-underpaid-teachers-a-desire-for-dignity-51857/
A way of life falls with trees
The Phnong ethnic minority in Mondulkiri province have heard the promises of development before.
With increasing investment and the selling off of the region’s forests will come new roads and schools, they are told.
But people in this ancient community, tired of seeing their sacred forests handed
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/way-life-falls-trees
Rainfall still a month away, says ministry
The Ministry of Water and Meteorology has warned farmers of a rainfall shortage forecast to last at least another month, with average daily temperatures also forecast to remain above average.
The announcement, issued on Monday, says that up until mid-July Phnom Penh, Kandal, Kampong Speu, Takeo,
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rainfall-still-month-away-says-ministry
Salt makers shake out a big surplus
Cambodia’s salt production rose sharply at the end of this year’s harvest season thanks to more favourable weather conditions enhancing yields.
Salt production in Kampot and Kep provinces – home to Cambodia’s salt fields – reached 147,000 tonnes this year, nearly double the 80,000 tonnes recorded
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/salt-makers-shake-out-big-surplus
‘A threat to Cambodia’s sacred forests’
In southwest Cambodia, at the foot of the Cardamom Mountains, is a single dirt road that meanders through the heart of the pristine Areng valley. Ten miles down this road, villagers have set up an encampment to stop a hydroelectric dam project that they fear
New York Times News Staff
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/opinion/a-threat-to-cambodias-sacred-forests.html
Koh Russey, a jewel by the sea
After its November launch in Hong Kong, Alila Villas Koh Russey will break ground late next month, initiating the construction of a world-class luxury resort.
Alila Villas occupies 25 hectares on Koh Russey, an island in the Koh Rong archipelago in the Gulf of Thailand, with
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/koh-russey-jewel-sea
Exports to Japan see a big jump
Cambodia’s exports to Japan increased sharply by 39 per cent over the first three months of 2014 compared to the same period last year, according to data from the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO).
Total exports reached more than $178 million at the end of March,
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exports-japan-see-big-jump
Jailings are a threat to deal: Rainsy
Cambodia National Rescue Party president Sam Rainsy yesterday said that, contrary to his speech before the National Assembly last week, the Kingdom’s political crisis would not be resolved as long as opposition activists were still being harassed by the courts.
If there are still CNRP members
Meas Sokchea
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Election group wants a more powerful NEC
An election reform lobby group has called for the ruling Cambodian People’s Party and opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party to grant wide-ranging powers to a new election body.
The Election Reform Alliance and political parties that did not win seats in last year’s national election said
Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/election-group-wants-more-powerful-nec
Workers start wage battle a day early
About 1,000 workers from a Phnom Penh footwear factory got an early start on Tuesday on a cross-union campaign for a $177 minimum wage, set to start today, protesting in front of their factory over internal workplace grievances.
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/workers-start-wage-battle-a-day-early-68119/
Wanted: big trucks for a big crowd
With the spectre of potential garment-sector unrest on the horizon and emboldened communities protesting land disputes, the National Police is buying what appear to be the authorities’ first water-cannon trucks designed specifically to control demonstrations.
In advertisements in yesterday’s Post and Post Khmer newspapers, the
Kevin Ponniah and Chhay Channyda
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