Banking service deemed poor
While Cambodia’s crowded banking sector has enjoyed strong growth, the majority of consumers surveyed have cited dissatisfaction with banking services as a main impediment for the sector’s confidence and future growth. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/banking-service-deemed-poor
After Paris attacks, Cambodian authorities strengthen security
Authorities have bolstered security across Cambodia in response to last week’s coordinated terror attacks in Paris that left 129 people dead, according to a statement posted to the National Police’s website on Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Government considers delay of business registration
Fewer than half of Cambodia’s 42,000 registered businesses have met the government’s deadline for reregistering online, prompting the Ministry of Commerce to consider another extension, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/government-considers-delay-business-registration-118856/
UK bilateral trade unchanged
The United Kingdom’s bilateral trade dealing with Cambodia will remain unchanged in light of ongoing negotiations on the UK’s position within the European Union, a senior British trade official said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31879/uk-bilateral-trade-unchanged/
Land disputes with Phanimex to be resolved
The Land Management Ministry has said it will resolve the land disputes in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district and Kandal’s Ponhea Leu district between suy sophan and more than 500 families. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35083/land-disputes-with-phanimex-to-be-resolved/
Solar power set to shine in Bavet
Cambodia’s first large-scale solar power project is still in the trial testing stage, but is expected to be fully operational at the end of this month. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5079197/solar-power-set-shine-bavet/
Start date set for garment worker health checks
The Ministry of Labour’s spokesman yesterday said that free medical treatment for garment workers, announced by Prime Minister Hun sen last week, will start on January 1. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5081004/start-date-set-garment-worker-health-checks/
Land minister urges White Building residents to support CPP
Land Management Minister Chea sophara rallied residents of Phnom Penh’s condemned White Building to vote for the CPP on Tuesday, repeating calls he made last month to the apartment block’s homeowners. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia collects tax of 881 million USD in 2013
The kingdom’s General Department of Taxation had collected 881 million U.s. dollars of taxes in 2013, up 19 percent from 740 million U.s. dollars in a year earlier, a press release said Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-01/09/c_133031865.htm
Cambodia-Thailand trade hits 5 bln USD last year
Trade volume between Cambodia and its neighboring Thailand topped 5 billion U.s. dollars in 2014, an 11 percent increase from last year’s 4.5 billion U.s. dollars, a Cambodian commerce official said Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=267098
Cambodia's GDP per capita to hit 1,130 USD in 2014: PM
Cambodia’s GDP per capita is expected to reach 1,130 U.s. dollars this year, an estimated increase of 8 percent from 1,043 U.s. dollars last year, Prime Minister Hun sen said Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=235977
Cambodian officials encourage illegal fishing in exchange for bribes
Corrupt local officials who patrol the area around Cambodia’s Tonle sap are encouraging illegal fishing in southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, according to a nongovernmental organization worker. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chin Chetha
http://bit.ly/1JIs1TX
Land concessions responsible for large-scale deforestation in Cambodia
Land concessions for large-scale agricultural plantations are stripping off Cambodia’s forest cover, according to a new report by Forest Trends, a U.s.-based environmental protection group. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Morgan Erickson-Davis
http://news.mongabay.com/2015/08/land-concessions-responsible-for-large-scale-deforestation-in-cambodia/
Press release on Minister Delegate OUCH Borith highly appreciates Cambodia-UN Cooperation, underlines Cambodia’s pride in becoming the main contributor to UNPKOs
On 22 August 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on Minister Delegate OUCH Borith highly appreciates Cambodia-UN Cooperation, underlines Cambodia’s pride in becoming the main contributor to UNPKOs. H.E. Abdulla shahid stressed that his visit, although short, underscored his ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Caution: Children at work
Labour legislation in Cambodia is so weak and so often ignored that half the Kingdom’s children between the ages of seven and 14 participate in the workforce, the world’s largest federation of unions has told the World Trade Organisation General Council in Geneva. Children, women and ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011110252486/National-news/caution-children-at-work.html
Officials Again Seize Timber In Kratie Without Any Arrests
For the second time in a month, Forestry Administration officials in Kratie province’s snuol district have found hundreds of cubic meters of first-grade wood that had been smuggled to a site near the tributary of the Prek Pao river, officials said yesterday. As in previous wood ss='cambodia-color'>...
Railway compliance complaint sent to ADB
Families have fallen into poverty and children have dropped out of school due to deficiencies in the Asian Development Bank’s rehabilitation of Cambodia’s railway system, according to a complaint filed to the bank’s compliance review department. According to David Pred, managing associate for NGO Inclusive Development International, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hun Sen Orders Workers Compensated
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun sen has promised to compensate thousands of garment workers demanding back pay they say they are owed since their factory owner fled the country to escape mounting debt, according to officials. Kandal provincial labor department director Thol Neang told RFA’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/workers-02192013184511.html
Asean invests $178 Million in Cambodia for the first semester of 2012
Cambodia has gained the investments of 178 million U.s. dollars from its AsEAN member states in the first six months of 2012, according to a report from the Council for the Development of Cambodia said this week. From January to June this year, the country granted ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hun Sen lambasts rights rapporteur
Prime Minister Hun sen lashed out at the UN’s human rights envoy to Cambodia yesterday, saying surya subedi’s latest report skewed too heavily toward the opposition and suggested his talents might be better employed elsewhere. While the premier never mentioned the Nepalese national and Leeds ss='cambodia-color'>...