Telcos still vie for subscribers
The battle for subscriber numbers rages on in the still-clustered Cambodian mobile market. Smart Mobile this week announced it passed the 3 million-subscriber mark, which would make it Cambodia’s second-largest operator by subscriber numbers after Vietnam’s Metfone. Numbers obtained by the Post showed Cellcard with a consecutive href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/telcos-still-vie-for-subscribers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
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ការវិនិយោគក្នុងវិស័យបច្ចេកវិទ្យានៅកម្ពុជា ចាប់ផ្ដើមទទួលបានការចាប់អារម្មណ៍
ខណៈដែលអ្នកវិនិយោគក្នុងស្រុក ហាក់មានភាពស្ទាក់ស្ទើរក្នុងការបោះទុនវិនិយោគលើផ្នែកបច្ចេកវិទ្យា សហគ្រាសបង្កើតថ្មីឬ startup ខ្មែរមួយចំនួន បានទទួលទុនវិនិយោគផ្ទាល់ពីអ្នកវិនិយោគនៅតំបន់បច្ចេកវិទ្យា Silicon Valley របស់សហរដ្ឋអាមេរិក។ សហគ្រាសបង្កើតថ្មីទាំងនេះ រំពឹងថា ជាមួយទុនវិនិយោគពីខាងក្រៅ href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/investors-start-to-see-potential-returns-in-cambodian-startups/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
សឹង សុផាត និង នៅ វណ្ណារិន
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Acleda to sell vehicle tax stamps
Cambodia’s government yesterday announced it had chosen the largest local bank, Acleda Bank Plc, to be its partner for vehicle tax stamp sales. Acleda will operate for the General Department of Taxation of the Ministry of Economy and Finance in all 23 provinces and Phnom Penh. Sim Eang, royal href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/acleda-to-sell-vehicle-tax-stamps/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Moody’s to review Cambodia's banks for downgrades
Moody’s Investor Services will review ACLEDA Bank and Cambodian Public Bank (Campu Bank) for potential downgrades, according to a release from the rating agency on Wednesday. But the move comes primarily as a response to the global financial crisis and the rating agency’s attempt to realign sovereign ratings with href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/moodys-to-review-cambodias-banks-for-downgrades-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012042055668/Business/moodys-eyes-kingdom-banks.html
SL factory strikes to slow Cambodian garment industry
A sharp increase in garment factory strikes this year has raised eyebrows among industry insiders, who say the disputes could lead to a decrease in year-on-year export growth. The Arbitration Council, which hears work-related disputes such as factory strikes, saw claims nearly double during the first href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/sl-factory-strikes-to-slow-cambodian-garment-industry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
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UN urges Cambodia to hold companies to account over land disputes
Companies that have seized land, confiscated livestock and destroyed homes and property have gone unpunished, the UN special rapporteur for Cambodia has said. Surya Subedi, professor of international law at Leeds University, said all the communities he had met raised the issue of misconduct by href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/un-urges-cambodia-to-hold-companies-to-account-over-land-disputes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/may/14/un-cambodia-companies-land-disputes
Abused Workers Back Home
A maid who fled her employer after an attempted rape and was then thrown in a detention centre just two days after she gave birth was one of 26 distressed men and women who make up the latest repatriated abuse victims from Malaysia. Detained for as href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/abused-workers-back-home/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David and David Boyle, P. 1
PPWSA stock to list today
Investors, along with the next two companies expected to list on the Cambodia Securities Exchange, will watch carefully this morning the action on the country’s first initial public offering, nine months after the CSX officially opened. After a book-building process that was 17 times over-subscribed, Phnom Penh href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/ppwsa-stock-to-list-today/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
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Cambodian Confederation Union denied recognition again
The Cambodian Confederation of Unions has been shot down again in its bid for formal recognition as a trade union confederation, president Rong Chhun said yesterday, this time because some of its unions represent teachers. The Ministry of Labour informed the CCU in a letter obtained href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodian-confederation-union-denied-recognition-again/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Shane Worrell and Mom Kunthear, P. 1
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Investment Or Imperialism? Tracking China's Big Ambitions In Cambodia
A few years ago this scene would have played out in China. More specifically, it would have played out in a Chinese coastal region to which millions of rural folks had arrived looking for work. A huge hangar, piles of fabrics of all colors at both href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/investment-or-imperialism-tracking-chinas-big-ambitions-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
MFIs defy typically slow first quarter
Total loans and deposits at the Kingdom’s microfinance institutions jumped in the first quarter of 2012 despite what is typically a slow season for the industry, insiders said yesterday. Loans outstanding reached US$708 million for the period ending on March 31, climbing 9.8 per cent from href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/mfis-defy-typically-slow-first-quarter-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Global death toll of environmental activists rising, report says
In April, Chut Wutty was shot to death in the Cambodian forests he was so outspoken in defending, a slaying that outraged human rights activists suspicious of the conflicting explanations given by police. His death appears to be part of a chilling trend. Growing numbers of activists href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/global-death-toll-of-environmental-activists-rising-report-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Four face charges in incitement case
Ratanakkiri Provincial Court yesterday summonsed three well-known rights workers and a journalist to appear for questioning next week over years-old incitement charges in connection with a long-standing land dispute. In a summons signed by deputy provincial prosecutor Chea Sopheak, the court ordered Radio Free Asia journalist Sok Ratha, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/four-face-charges-in-incitement-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Hun Sen aims to attract more Japanese money
Japan’s Sumi Wiring Systems Co Ltd launched production of automobile wiring this month, a company official said yesterday. Japanese companies such as Sumi and Minebea, a ball-bearings maker, have helped Cambodia’s manufacturing industry diversify away from garments, the country’s main manufacturing product and export, and Prime Minister Hun Sen href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/hun-sen-aims-to-attract-more-japanese-money/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Follow-up IPOs still on track
Sihanoukville Autonomous Port, one of two state-owned companies slated to list on the Cambodia Securities Exchange this year, yesterday called the price decline in the country’s first publicly traded company worrisome. The eight-day slide in price that neared Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority’s initial public offering href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/follow-up-ipos-still-on-track/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012050956046/Business/follow-up-ipos-still-on-track.html
Kingdom’s logistics firms see diversity
Logistics firms saw a new level of diversity in Cambodian exports, a trend that would protect the economy from external shock, several shipping companies said. The Kingdom is on the right track to diversify and increase the export of agricultural products, while decreasing its reliance on href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/kingdoms-logistics-firms-see-diversity/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia: Police Officers Kill Girl, 15, in Clash With Villagers Over Land
Security forces shot and killed a 15-year-old girl on Wednesday during a clash with about 200 villagers armed with axes and crossbows in eastern Cambodia, in the latest of several violent evictions aimed at clearing land for development. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodia-police-officers-kill-girl-15-in-clash-with-villagers-over-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia May Lure Up to 10 IPOs a Year, Korea Bourse Says
Cambodia’s stock market, which is set to open next week after several delays, may be able to lure five-to-10 initial public offerings a year, according to Korea Exchange Inc., the Cambodian government’s partner in the bourse. State-owned Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) will start trading href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodia-may-lure-up-to-10-ipos-a-year-korea-bourse-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Growth in hotel industry
The hotel industry in Cambodia is growing but still sees room for improvements, industry experts said at the Cambodia Hotel General Managers Summit in Phnom Penh yesterday. In terms of revenue and the number of players, the hotel and restaurant industry has an overall growth rate href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/growth-in-hotel-industry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012101159242/Business/growth-in-hotel-industry.html
Chut Wutty death to be examined by committee
A joint investigative committee will be established to re-examine the killing of activist Chut Wutty and military police officer In Rattana, the head of the armed forces told the Post yesterday, after providing his own version of the incident to radio. Pressure from the families of victims and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/chut-wutty-death-to-be-examined-by-committee/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...