Growing Tourism – A Positive Sign: Asia and Pacific Continue as Travel Hot Spots
Asia and the Pacific continued as a hot spot for international tourism in 2012, attracting what is expected to be in excess of 350 million international visitor arrivals, expanding its collective inbound count by more than 5% and generating more than 18 million additional foreign visits, year-on-year. Within this ...
Government denies Koh Kong Chinese naval base ‘rumour’
Two ministries have denied plans for a Chinese naval base in Cambodia and that the Kingdom is caught in the middle of US-China “cold war”. In a press release on Saturday, a Ministry of National Defence spokesperson called the spread of information about a naval ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-denies-koh-kong-chinese-naval-base-rumour
Bulldozers will not move us, families insist
More than 100 families living in Koh Kong’s Kiri Sakor and Botum Sakor districts are on the clock, with an official government decree demanding they vacate their land in less than two months or face the bulldozers of the Chinese firm slated to build a ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bulldozers-will-not-move-us-families-insist
Korean College for Siem Reap
Cheju Halla, a Korean university, plans to build a university of tourism and hospitality in Siem Reap next year, Tourism Minister Thong Khon told reporters yesterday at a meeting with Han Soo Kim, the new South Korean ambassador to Cambodia. The Ministry of Tourism has requested ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012062156924/Business/korean-college-siem-reap.html
Sokimex Plans High-Rise Condos for Peninsula
Sokimex Group is set to break ground on six high-rise condominium buildings in Phnom Penh. Originally suspended in 2010 by Sok Kong because of low demand, the project has now been green lit. Phnom Penh property prices fallen 50 percent since 2008. ...
Sesan firm promises to build schools, roads
The Hydro Power Lower Sesan II Company Ltd has agreed to build infrastructure for 70 ethnic Lao families in Srekor village who refused to relocate after the controversial Sesan II Dam project went online in Stung Treng province last September. The company said construction will ...
Oung Dane
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sesan-firm-promises-build-schools-roads
Community reps claim ministry rejected sugar ELC petition
Representatives from communities in four provinces evicted to make way for sugar plantations alleged during a press conference yesterday they were barred from delivering petitions to the Ministry of Land Management. ...
Bun Sengkong and Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/community-reps-claim-ministry-rejected-sugar-elc-petition
Direct flights from Japan to start
Direct flights between Cambodia and Japan will start soon after representatives of both countries exchanged Air Service Agreement notes yesterday. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25466/direct-flights-from-japan-to-start/
Red Cross Criticized Over Slow Response to Floods
With thousands of families evacuated from their homes due to flooding, the Cambodian Red Cross (CRC), the largest and best-funded humanitarian organization in the country, has yet to provide flood aid to many struggling communities, local officials said Monday. Families living in some of the worst ...
Aun Pheap and Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/red-cross-criticized-over-slow-response-to-floods-44560/
Court rules in tycoon’s favour
Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday ruled in favour of a mining tycoon and convicted a Chinese-Cambodian widow of defaming the oknha during an embittered land dispute. Sok Neang Gek, 46, an interpreter at a garment factory in the capital, was fined $1,000 and ordered to compensate ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/court-rules-tycoon%E2%80%99s-favour
Opposition councilors bemoan ministry directive
A number of provincial and district councilors aligned with the opposition have not been paid in the past two months following a Ministry of Interior directive in March calling for their salaries to be halted and positions revoked, according to the secretary-general of the Sam ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/opposition-councilors-bemoan-ministry-directive-58131/
K Speu families threaten to take back farms
Representatives for about 250 families involved in a long-running dispute with an agri-business firm in Kompong Speu province have filed a complaint with rights group Adhoc and say they will attempt to retake land that was stolen from them. About 60 of the villagers traveled to ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/k-speu-families-threaten-to-take-back-farms-60033/
Kompong Thom police arrest 7 in illegal checkpoint racket
Police in Kompong Thom province Wednesday arrested seven people allegedly involved in an illegal checkpoint racket, while an eighth escaped with handcuffs on and is at large. Shortly before 7 a.m., a joint task force of police and military police descended on an illegal checkpoint staffed ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kompong-thom-police-arrest-7-in-illegal-checkpoint-racket-60508/
Cambodia expects to receive half million Chinese tourists this year: PM
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday that his country is expected to greet about 500,000 Chinese tourists this year, an estimated increase of 8 percent year-on-year. Kong Sopheareak, director of the Tourism Ministry’s Statistics and Planning Department, said Sino-Cambodian excellent ties and Cambodia’s attractive ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141201/cambodia-expects-receive-half-million-chinese-tourists-year-
Koh Kong plans new SEZs to ‘boost’ trade
A senior official from the Koh Kong Provincial Administration has revealed that the government has plans to establish two additional special economic zones (SEZs) in Botum Sakor district. ...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-kong-plans-new-sezs-boost-trade
Irrigation in Mekong basin threatens VN’s delta
The lower basin of the trans-boundary Mekong River starts from Laos and runs through Thailand, Cambodia and Viet Nam before emptying into the East Sea (South China Sea). Any attempts to interrupt the natural status of the river would pose risks to Viet Nam’s Cuu ...
VietNamNet Bridge Team
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/environment/160889/irrigation-in-mekong-basin-threatens-vn-s-delta.html
Preah Vihear Authorities Destroy Airfield Homes
Authorities have demolished the homes of 25 families living on the site of an obsolete airfield in Preah Vihear province’s Choam Ksan district, a rights group and the families said Sunday. The families were ordered to move off the land on Wednesday, with the district governor ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/preah-vihear-authorities-destroy-airfield-homes-20688/
Brokers arrested after terrified workers flee
Three brokers were arrested and sent to Koh Kong court yesterday, charged with trafficking 17 Cambodians to Thailand with the intention of sending them on to another country, officials and victims said. According to Soa Samnang, 46, he and 16 other villagers, the majority from Andong ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/brokers-arrested-after-terrified-workers-flee
2011 rubber prices surge 132 per cent on demand
Cambodia’s 2011 rubber exports and export prices grew by 5.5 per cent and 131 per cent respectively, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce obtained by the Post. The data shows rubber exports last year totalled 46,727 tonnes, compared to 30,040 tonnes in 2010. Export ...
Cambodia's bourse to get 2nd listed firm after over 2-year operation
Cambodia’s fledgling stock market is set to receive the second listed company next Monday after operating with a single listed firm for more than two years, officials said Tuesday. Hong Sok Hour, Chief Executive Officer of the Cambodian Securities Exchange (CSX), said the bourse had approved ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=223532