Domestic and Chinese investors lead $619 million investment boom in Cambodia
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has given the green light to 21 new investment projects in November 2023. With a total investment capital of nearly $619 million, these projects can potentially create approximately 22,000 jobs. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501404257/domestic-and-chinese-investors-lead-619-million-investment-boom-in-cambodia/
Acid services reduced
With acid attacks in steep decline – not a single attack has been recorded so far this year – the only organisation working directly with acid survivors on the ground is scaling back its services by 75 per cent. Cambodian Acid Survivors Charity (CASC) is no ...
Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/acid-services-reduced
Chasing China’s rice import potential
China National Cereal, Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO) is the latest mainland Chinese company to sign a deal to export Cambodian rice. COFCO is one OF a number OF Chinese companies that have signed similar deals with their Cambodian counterparts, but direct rice exports to China ...
Electricity co-operation crucial
Co-operation on the exchange of electricity will be very important in making the 10-country ASEAN bloc move forward to a single market by 2015, experts said, but a shortage of power supply in each country remains a challenge. Speaking to reporters yesterday after the opening of ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052465820/Business/electricity-co-operation-crucial.html
Cambodian Parliament Ratifies ASEAN-China Maritime Transport Agreement
The National Assembly of Cambodia on Friday ratified the agreement on maritime transport between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China, saying the agreement is essential to develop trade and economic ties between ASEAN and China. “The agreement aims to facilitate and foster ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-05/10/c_132372924.htm
Over 200,000 Cambodian migrants leave Thailand as junta rounds up illegal foreign workers
More than 200,000 Cambodian migrant workers have been either deported from or fled Thailand since early this month in the wake of a junta-led clampdown on illegal migrant laborers, Major General Pich Vanna, chief of Cambodia-Thailand Border Relation Affairs office, said Monday. “As of Monday evening, ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-06/16/c_133411841.htm
Canadia, Gov't Look to Soothe Tax Process
With the deadline to pay annual property taxes rapidly approaching, hundreds of Phnom Penh homeowners queued this week at Canadia Bank’s headquarters on Monivong Boulevard to pay their tax bills in relative comfort, and avoid long visits to district and municipal taxation offices. Canadia Bank signed ...
CARDI raises climate change concerns in report
A report from the Cambodia Agriculture Research and Development Institute (CARDI), a semi-autonomous organisation, showed that 83 per cent of farmers surveyed in Kampong Speu, Kampot and Kampong Cham provinces had noticed the effects of climate change. ...
Kali Kotoski and Sorn Sarath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cardi-raises-climate-change-concerns-report
UN Envoy Continues Meetings With CNRP, NGOs
U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi, who is on his 10th fact-finding mission to Cambodia, met with opposition CNRP leader Sam Rainsy on Tuesday ahead of a planned meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen and other senior government officials Wednesday. Reached by telephone after the meeting ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-envoy-continues-meetings-with-cnrp-ngos-50589/
South Korea-Funded Civil Aviation Training Center Inaugurated
A civil aviation training center was launched in Phnom Penh on Wednesday, three years after an agreement was signed with South Korea to fund the construction of the new facility. ...
Hang Sokunthea
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/s-korea-funded-civil-aviation-training-center-inaugurated-126918/
Insiders say new concrete factories not enough to stabilise local sector
Four new Cambodian cement factories are set to come online in the near future, tripling the number of local producers, but insiders and officials this week maintained that even increased capacity will not significantly lower rates of cement imports to Cambodia due to prevailing high ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/insiders-say-new-concrete-factories-not-enough-stabilise-local-sector
UN vows Khmer Rouge trial aid
Cambodia and the United Nations have vowed to find more funds to support the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, according to the Council of Ministers. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36896/un-vows-khmer-rouge-trial-aid/
Siem Reap government promises to fix dispute
Siem Reap officials yesterday promised almost 100 protesters a resolution to a land dispute between villagers and a military unit. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/siem-reap-government-promises-fix-dispute
HRP granted extension to meet dissolution conditions
The Ministry of Interior granted the dissolved Human Rights Party (HRP) and Candlelight Party six-month extensions to provide the government with official lists of party leaders, a letter written by Minister of Interior Sar Kheng said on Friday. “The Ministry of Interior agrees to allow ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/hrp-granted-extension-meet-dissolution-conditions
GO Communications snaps up Cambodia's Active Event Management
Malaysia-based GO Communications Group has acquired Active Event Management, one of the leading public relations and events agencies in Cambodia. The 100-per-cent buy-out follows the group’s signing of a partnership agreement with leading Thai PR agency DC Consultants in May. Danai Chanchaochai, CEO of DC Consultants, said ...
Climate change sees decline in fish and agricultural produce
The Environment Ministry said yesterday that about 79% of Cambodians have been affected by climate change, which has resulted in declining fish and agricultural produce. ...
Son Minea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50901975/climate-change-sees-decline-in-fish-and-agricultural-produce/
Two Decades On, Constitution Fails to Live Up to Promises
The atmosphere in Phnom Penh 20 years ago today was one of jubilation and optimism as then-Prince Norodom Sihanouk signed Cambodia’s new Constitution into law and reclaimed the throne as King. The promulgation of the Constitution—which marked the end of the U.N. Transitional Authority in Cambodia’s ...
Alex Willemyns and Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-decades-on-constitution-fails-to-live-up-to-promises-43035/
Council of Ministers approves two coal-fired plants, transmission line
The Council of Ministers has approved two coal-fired power plant projects and a transmission line worth nearly $1.7 billion, a plenary meeting of the Council of Ministers heard on Friday. The project is in line with the government master plan for the development of additional ...
Current accounts in control
Cambodia’s current accounts deficit has increased in recent years, but is not yet a cause for concern, according to experts. The Asian Development Bank’s July update showed Cambodia’s current accounts deficit stood at 11 percent of GDP in 2010, and statistics show the trade gap ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011080450869/Business/current-accounts-in-control.html
Plans set for Silk Research Centre at RUPP
Cambodian silk producers will be soon able to get quality silkworms from a breeding centre at the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), thanks to a specialised team that is seeking to increase professionalism in the Kingdom’s silk industry. ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/plans-set-silk-research-centre-rupp