Capital’s new governor arrives swinging
Khoung Sreng was sworn in as the new governor of Phnom Penh yesterday, wasting little time before sending a warning that he will act against “ill-intentioned” people in the city, with Interior Minister Sar Kheng pledging at the event that recent commune election successes of ...
Mech Dara and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/capitals-new-governor-arrives-swinging
Project aims to send children in orphanages home
Though they live in orphanages, an estimated 13,000 children in facilities across Cambodia have at least one living parent. As part of a sea change in government policy in a country with a checkered history with orphanages, officials in Battambang province on Tuesday kicked off ...
Janelle Retka and Chhorn Phearun
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/project-aims-to-send-children-in-orphanages-home-132890/
Water utility says order to drop rates will not dilute its revenues
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s order for the capital’s water supplier to lower its rates and compensate customers for charges incurred under a new payment scheme introduced in May will not have a significant impact on the company’s revenue or growth plans, a finance officer at ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/water-utility-says-order-drop-rates-will-not-dilute-its-revenues
Lenders foresee challenges in raising the local currency ratio
Commercial lenders have said the central bank’s requirement that banks and microfinance institutions (MFIs) increase the share of local currency in their loan portfolio to at least 10 percent by the end of 2019 could prove challenging to implement as their biggest clients exhibit a ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/lenders-foresee-challenges-raising-local-currency-ratio
Workshop mulls which fruits sweetest for regional plan
German development agency GIZ held a consultation workshop in Phnom Penh yesterday for its two-year Facilitating Trade in Agricultural Goods in Asean (FTAG) initiative, holding discussions with Ministry of Agriculture officials and local traders aimed at identifying the most suitable fruit and vegetable crops for ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/workshop-mulls-which-fruits-sweetest-regional-plan
Oddor Meanchey forestry police let rosewood shipment go
Forestry police let a vehicle with a half cubic meter of rosewood go Wednesday after border soldiers stopped it in Ou Svay commune in Tropang Prosat district. The vehicle belonged to Rath Sambo, a police officer at the Ministry of Interior who fled the scene, sources ...
Telecommunications Minister Assures Internet Cafe's Futures
More than a month after ordering Internet cafes within 500 meters of schools to shut down, Telecommunications Minister So Khun said yesterday that no cafes would be force to close. “We have no plans to close any cafes. We encourage more to open,” Mr. Khun said ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/telecommunications-minister-assures-internet-cafes-futures-6801/
Qatar Airways touches down in Cambodia
With the launch of daily scheduled services, Qatar Airways becomes the only Middle Eastern airline flying to the South East Asian nation – and destination number 125 served worldwide. Guests gathered at Phonm Penh International Airport in celebration of the new air link, connecting Cambodia ...
Women's rights group troubled by ADHR draft
A “public morality” clause in the draft ASEAN Declaration on Human Rights threatens the most basic rights of women and sexual minorities and should be scrapped, a coalition of women’s groups said in a statement released yesterday. Civil society groups met with foreign ministers at the ...
Tiger goes terminal, and adds India and Cambodia cities
Tiger Airways reverses its ‘terminal’ thinking at long last in Singapore, and adds new cities in Cambodia and India. .. Tiger Airways is adding Hyderabad, India (tomorrow) and Phnom Penh, Cambodia (next Monday) to its reach only days after shifting up market into Singapore’s main terminal ...
UAE says mulling investment in halal food, rice in Cambodia
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is considering investing in halal food production and rice milling in Cambodia, visiting UAE Minister of Foreign Trade Sheikha Lubna Bint Khalid Al Qasimi said here on Tuesday. Speaking in a meeting with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen at the Peace ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2012-10/02/c_131885280.htm
Manulife pays out to family over Everest climber’s death
Life insurance company Manulife has compensated its first client since it began operations in Cambodia in June this year, a company official said. Robert J Elliott, CEO and general manager, told the Post yesterday that Manulife disbursed its first claim to the beneficiaries of its client, ...
Cambodia wins awards
The real estate and construction industry in Cambodia has been boosted recently after two companies won prestigious awards for their work in the Kingdom. Vattanac Capital walked away with the prize for Best Commercial Development (South East Asia) for the Vattanac Capital Tower at the second ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013010360594/Real-Estate/cambodia-wins-awards.html
Levi's, Gap garment workers on strike in Cambodia
Workers at a large Cambodian garment factory that makes clothes for Levi’s, Gap and other well-known international brands are striking for more pay and better working conditions. More than 5,000 workers from the Singaporean-owned SL Garment Processing (Cambodia) Ltd. failed to reach an agreement with their ...
Cambodia’s largest port reports US$14-M revenues, + 14% in 1st 5 months of Y 2012
Cambodia’s largest Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (SAP) Saturday reported that it earned the total revenues of about US$14-M in the 1st 5 months of this year, + 14 rise from US$12.3-M at the same period last year. Goods exported through the port are mostly garment products and ...
Cambodia has Annual Bunker Sales Potential of 720,000 mt
Bunker supplier Go4 Bunker Denmark’s new Cambodian bunker venture, Go4 Bunker (Cambodia) Co., Ltd (Go4BC), has said that Cambodia has an annual bunker sales potential of 720,000 metric tonnes (mt). The comments came during the firm’s official opening ceremony at Hotel Cambodiana in Phnom Penh, which ...
http://shipandbunker.com/news/world/596768-cambodia-has-annual-bunker-sales-potential-of-720000-mt
Cambodia-U.S. trade reaches 2.2 bln USD in 9 months, up 2 pct
The bilateral C volume between Cambodia and the United States reached 2.2 billion U.S. dollars in the first nine months of this year, a 2 percent rise compared with 2.15 billion U.S. dollars at the same period last year, according to the statistics of the ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2012-11/19/c_131984263.htm
Hor Namhong to talk debt in US
Cambodian Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong will conduct a one-day visit to Washington, at the behest of US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, where he will again lobby for US debt forgiveness. The one-day visit on Tuesday will also focus on strengthening bilateral ties between ...
Court orders strikers back to work
The Kandal Provincial Court ordered thousands of striking garment employees back to work for the second time yesterday, but they will continue fighting until their demands are met, a union president said. Workers at Ang Snuol district’s Tai Nan I, Tai Nan II and Camwell factorieshave ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012070457188/National-news/court-orders-strikers-back.html
Agriculture Census to Be Launched in Cambodia
Following the release of the country’s first nationwide economic census earlier this year, the government is now planning to carry out a similar census dedicated to the agriculture sector, a government official said yesterday. Minister of Agriculture Chan Sarun announced the government’s intention to carry out ...