EU launches 11 mln USD education capacity development project in Cambodia
The European Union on Monday launched the second phase education capacity development project worth 11 million U.S. dollars in Cambodia, aiming at strengthening the skills of educators. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1L9DgCj
Government to promote private investment in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam
Hoping to give more teeth to its Act East Policy, the Modi government has decided to expand india’s economic links with Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) by promoting private sector investments in these countries through a project development company. ...
Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury
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Chinese firm to open 1st duty free store in Cambodia
China Duty Free Group (CDFG) announced Monday that it has invested in a downtown duty free store in Cambodia’s cultural Siem Reap City and the store will be launched in December. “CDFG’s Cambodian subsidiary will firstly start its downtown duty free store of 4,500 square meters ...
Ecns.cn News Staff
http://www.ecns.cn/business/2014/08-12/129128.shtml
Resintech to tap into rubber plantation with joint venture in Cambodia
Resintech Bhd, a local Polyethylene and poly vinyl chloride (PVC) pipe manufacturer, will tap into the rubber plantation sector in a bid to diversify its business segment given the healthy outlook on the rubber industry. Resintech’s managing director Datuk Teh Kim Poo said that according to ...
IMF maintains Cambodia's projected growth at 7.2 pct in 2014
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday kept its projection for Cambodia’s economic growth rate at 7.2 percent this year and 7.3 percent next year. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2014-10/10/c_133705938.htm
20 Cambodian workers rescued in Indonesia to return home this afternoon
20 Cambodian workers, who were rescued recently in indonesia, will return home Wednesday afternoon, said a senior official. Kuong said the repatriation of the Cambodian workers is arranged by the Cambodian Embassy in indonesia in collaboration with international Organization for Migration (IOM). Following a request ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/20-cambodian-workers-rescued-in-indonesia-to-return-home-this-afternoon:-spokesman-7684
Cambodia to amend rules to recognize "minority leader" in parliament: PM
Cambodia’s National Assembly will soon amend its internal rules in order to formally recognize a “minority leader” in this legislative body, Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Thursday. However, the minority leader will not have the real power as the prime minister since the title ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-12/04/c_133833123.htm
Chinese-invested Bayon Airlines ready to start domestic flights in Cambodia
Cambodia Bayon Airlines (CBA), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Aviation industry Corporation of China, is ready to operate domestic flights in Cambodia later this month, the company said Monday. The MA60 aircraft will be mainly utilized to fly domestic routes within Cambodia. “Flight operations are scheduled ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141215/chinese-invested-bayon-airlines-ready-start-domestic-flights
Six pythons emerge as plot of land cleared in Phnom Penh
An excavator operator clearing a patch of land in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district had a surprise run-in on Friday with six pythons, which broke cover as his machine moved onto their wetland habitat, according to a local official. ...
Hay Pisey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/six-pythons-emerge-as-plot-of-land-cleared-in-phnom-penh-78010/
Gov’t to raise taxes to clean up litter in cities
Environment Minister Say Sam Al on Wednesday announced the creation of a recurring annual $5-million fund to help Phnom Penh and every provincial capital clean up their trash-strewn streets, especially outside homes and restaurants. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-to-raise-taxes-to-clean-up-
Rail rivals China, Japan compete for high-speed track in Asia
In many parts of northeast Asia and Europe traIn travel In the 21st century is a safe and fast cross-country mode of transport. In South and Southeast Asia, ridIng the rails is frequently frustratIng and sometimes dangerous with derailments and fiery crashes. Impoverished Cambodia has ...
Steve Herman
http://bit.ly/1aXwYKw
Police have no leads in fatal armed robbery at Wing Kiosk
Police in Svay Rieng province said Wednesday that they had yet to identify any suspects in the armed robbery of a mobile-payment kiosk and currency exchange business in Romeas Hek district that left one man dead. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-have-no-leads-in-fatal-armed-robbery-at-wing-kiosk-82435/
Hun Sen shutters two firms in Siem Reap tour boat trade
Two companies collecting commission from tourist-boat operators on the Tonle Sap lake in Siem Reap province have been closed down on orders from Prime Minister Hun Sen, according to the provincial governor. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-shutters-two%e2%80%88firms-in-siem-reap-tour-boat-trade-82661/
Cambodian PM expresses condolences over capsized ship tragedy in central China
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday expressed his deepest sympathy to China and members of the bereaved families in a passenger ship mishap in central China’ s Hubei province on Monday. ...
Cambodia’s rice exports increases 63 percent in first five months
Cambodia exported 243,025 tons of milled rice in the first five months of this year, representing a 63.9 percent increase on the 148,262 tons recorded the year before, according to a report from the Secretariat of One Window Service for Rice Export Formality. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12027/cambodia---s-rice-exports-increases-63-percent-in-first-five-months/
Cambodia, Thailand eyeing over US$5 Billion in trade this year
Cambodia and Thailand are targeting to boost bilateral trade to more than US$5 billion in 2015, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported. in the first quarter of 2015, bilateral trade between both countries reached over US$1.6 billion. ...
Bernama News Staff
http://bit.ly/1MDvAKX
APSARA to build a $10 million hospitality center in Siem Reap
The Authority for Protection and Management of Angkor and the Region of Siem Reap (APSARA) will build a $10 million hospitality center in Siem Reap, home of Angkor Wat temple. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1FE5raa
18 families ordered to leave land, as Chinese development moves in
Eighteen families in a remote region of Koh Kong province have been ordered to move, in order to make way for the development of a Chinese-funded luxury tourist outpost. The families received notice on June 5, ordering them to leave their homes within one month. ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://bit.ly/1L4nJbk
Cambodia deports 700 illegal immigrants, nabs Vietnamese spies in border row
Cambodia has deported 700 illegal immigrants in the past six months, the ministry of interior said on Thursday, as the detention of Vietnamese border guards who disguised themselves as local police to spy on a meeting underscored Phnom Penh’s difficulty in controlling its borders. ...
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://bit.ly/1MNwvsl
Cambodia receives 1.6 mln foreign tourists in first 4 months
Cambodia welcomed some 1.6 million foreign tourists in the first four months of 2015, a 4.5 percent rise compared with the same period last year, Tourism Minister Thong Khon said Friday. ...
Xinhua team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12227/cambodia-receives-1-6-mln-foreign-tourists-in-first-4-months/