Condo oversupply persists amid low FDI and foreign buyers
Total foreign direct investment (FDI) to the real estate sector peaked at $3.6 billion in the years preceding Covid-19, where half of the approved investments was backed by Chinese investors. In 2019 alone, FDI financing in the property and real estate development in Cambodia stood around ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sangeetha Amarthalingam
https://kiripost.com/stories/condo-oversupply-persists-amid-low-fdi-and-foreign-buyers
Bakong likely to make forays into Rwanda
National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and the National Bank of Rwanda recently held talks to explore ways to establish Bakong online payment system in that country, said an NBC statement. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sreekanth Ravindran
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501315349/bakong-likely-to-make-forays-into-rwanda/
Clean water pumped to dry suburbs
A team from the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) iS working cloSely with the Takhmao fire department to provide water to the reSidentS of Takhmao town. Several memberS of the public have complained about a Severe lack of water preSSure in recent weekS, with SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/clean-water-pumped-dry-suburbs
International trade down 13% in first half of 2023
Cambodia’s international trade performance in the first half of 2023 registered $23.69 billion, a decrease of 13 percent from $27.24 billion in the same period last year, according to a report from the General Department of Customs and Excise (GDCE) on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mon Sokeo
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-international-trade-down-13-in-first-half-of-2023
Agriculture Ministry working on forming commune agricultural coordinators across the country
Cambodian Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Dith Tina received visiting Dr Christoph Hoffmann, Member of the German Parliament and Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
http://Agriculture Ministry working on forming commune agricultural coordinators across the country
UN hamstrung in Ratanakkiri as more montagnards arrive
Local officials in Ratanakkiri province are actively preventing a team of U.N. workers in the area from making any attempt to reach nearly 40 Montagnard asylum seekers now hiding in the province. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and Colin Meyn
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-hamstrung-in-ratanakkiri-as-more-montagnards-arrive-78387/
Scrutiny over Finnish firm’s ties to Xayaburi
The Finnish government will investigate multinational consulting and engineering firm Pöyry over its involvement in Laos’s Xayaburi dam project, a letter obtained by the Post yesterday reveals. According to the letter from Finland’s Ministry of Employment and the Economy, dated October 16, a complaint filed by ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ministry Bans US-Backed Radio Broadcasts for Election Weekend
The Ministry of Information ordered local radio stations not to transmit programs from U.s.-backed broadcasters over the election weekend, an official said. Voice of America (VOA), the U.s. government’s official broadcaster overseas, and Radio Free Asia (RFA), a station funded in part by the U.s. government, ss='cambodia-color'>...
GDP stays in election race
The Grassroots Democratic Party (GDP) has turned back from its earlier warning that it could withdraw from participating in the July 29 national elections, it announced on sunday. The party said it made the decision as the atmosphere of resistance from the Kingdom’s authorities had ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gdp-stays-election-race
Cambodian PM says won't allow any foreign military base in his country
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen said on Monday there would never be a foreign military base in his country, following a news report that China was lobbying for a naval base in southwest Koh Kong province. The Asia Times, citing unidentified diplomatic sources and analysts, reported ss='cambodia-color'>...
Prak Chan Thul
https://reut.rs/2FxQgeq
Sar Kheng: Sokha requested security
Interior Minister sar Kheng on sunday revealed the story behind the transfer of former opposition party leader Kem sokha from Trapaing Phlong prison in Tbong Khmum province to his house in the capital. speaking at the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) headquarters in Prey Veng ss='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-sokha-requested-security
Interior Minister slams UNTAC
Interior Minister sar Kheng has slammed the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) which organised the 1993 elections. He said there were irregularities under UNTAC’s supervision of the polls, and despite spending $2 billion to bring democracy and peace to the country, war still ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/interior-minister-slams-untac
Hun Sen tells Rainsy to stake life on poll figures
Caretaker Prime Minister Hun sen on Monday called out former opposition leader sam Rainsy and swore on his life that the latter’s claims of inflated voter turnout figures or intimidation surrounding the July 29 national elections were unfounded. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-tells-rainsy-stake-life-poll-figures
Relations with China to continue growing
A high-ranking Chinese official has vowed to boost ties with Cambodia to a new high, noting that the Kingdom has steady economic development during a meeting with Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50545338/relations-with-china-to-continue-growing/
Cambodia-Finland air pact
Cambodia’s secretariat of Civil Aviation signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Monday with the Finland Civil Aviation Authority to open their skies and allow direct flights between the two countries. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27466/cambodia-finland-air-pact/
NEC says soldiers registered for vote in wrong commune
A spokesman for the country’s election authority said officials in Preah Vihear province were wrong to have registered a group of soldiers who neither lived nor worked there regularly, but added that they might get a pass because the soldiers could end up monitoring polling ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nec-says-soldiers-registered-vote-wrong-commune-118798/
PM raises doubts on ASEAN Economic Community
Prime Minister Hun sen questioned yesterday the extent of the AsEAN Economic Community’s (AEC) commitment towards forming an inclusive economic region as countries continue to compete with each other for agricultural exports and inflows of foreign direct investment. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pm-raises-doubts-asean-economic-community
Rohingya refugee likely back in Burma
A Rohingya refugee who landed in Phnom Penh in June as part of a controversial resettlement deal with Australia is likely back in Burma after requesting to return home, according to the Interior Ministry. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter and Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rohingya-refugee-likely-back-in-burma-97166/
Wild things return to Angkor Wat
Decades after poachers stripped the forests surrounding Angkor Wat of large mammals, an innovative conservation group is bringing them back. Already, Wildlife Alliance has rewilded the forest with gibbons and langurs. And more are coming. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Jeremy Hance
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/radical-conservation/2015/nov/24/angkor-wat-wildlife-gibbons-rewilding
Officials identify leader of capital’s sex trafficking ring
Military police have identified the suspected leader of what they believe to be a sex trafficking ring masquerading as a masseuse-training agency as a 40-year-old businesswoman with Cambodian and Thai citizenship who owns karaoke parlors in both countries. ss='cambodia-color'>...