Parliament approves power projects
The National Assembly yesterday unanimously approved plans by SPHP (Cambodia) to invest in a new hydroelectric dam in Pursat province, as well as plans by Schnei Tech to build solar farms in Pursat and Kampong Chhnang province. Since power cuts began in March across the ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50619937/parliament-approves-power-projects/
Civil groups call for clear policies on women’s rights
Some 400 youth and women from 12 civil society organisations gathered at a hotel in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district on Sunday to celebrate women’s rights, weeks after they were prevented by security forces from marching to mark International Women’s Day. At Sunday’s gathering, the group ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/civil-groups-call-clear-policies-womens-rights
Rice exports up, but cash shortage hitting
Rice exports for the first quarter of the year jumped 8.5 percent to 162,220 tons from 149,464 tons for the same period last year, but in March the figure dropped 14.5 percent, or 9,592 tons, to 66,275 tons in the face of competition from Thailand, ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23629/rice-exports-up--but-cash-shortage-hitting/
Ven Vorn loses appeal
Environmental campaigner and Areng Valley community leader Ven Vorn lost his appeal against his one-year suspended sentence for “collecting forest products without permission” yesterday at the Appeals Court. Judge Kim Danny did not give reasons why the court decided to uphold the March ruling of the ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30048/ven-vorn-loses-appeal/
Press release on the setting of interest rate cap
On 13 March 2017, the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) issued a press release on the setting of interest rate cap of 18 percent per annum for microfinance institutions, deposit-taking MFIs and licensed rural credit institutions to help the poor, curb over-indebtedness and reduce poverty, ...
National Bank of Cambodia
Garment worker protest builds over severance
More than 1,000 workers protested in front of the soon-to-be-closed Svay Rieng Cambodia Garment factory yesterday to demand better severance benefits, and nearly half of them then marched to the provincial hall to seek help from government officials, workers said yesterday. Worker representative Pang Tra said ...
Insurance claims drop in Q1
Claims on Cambodia’s six biggest insurance companies declined year on year by more than 90 per cent in the first quarter of 2012, data from the General Insurance Association of Cambodia (GIAC) shows. The value of claims in 2011 was raised by fires that gutted two ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012051156100/Business/insurance-claims-drop-in-q1.html
Koh Pich to host ASEAN dinner
The new function building at Diamond Island known as Koh Pich City Hall will host the ASEAN Foreign Minister’s dinner on July 12. Completed in March and opened last month, construction of the lavishly furnished venue was timed to coincide with Cambodia’s chairmanship of ASEAN this ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012053156497/Business/koh-pich-to-host-asean-dinner.html
Qatar Airways to Cambodia
Qatar Airways will add a stop in Phnom Penh on it [sic] Doha-Ho Chi Minh City route, 20 February, while Air France announced it will pull its Phnom Penh service in March. Qatar Airways will operate a daily service between Doha-Phnom Penh via Ho Chi Minh ...
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2012/12/qatar-airways-to-cambodia/
Cambodia to face mass return of nationals working in Thailand
Thai and Cambodian labour officials will facilitate the re-employment in Thailand of more than 160,000 Cambodian workers who will possibly be deported to their home country after the nationality verification process ends next Friday, a senior Thai official said today. The process involves 222,430 Cambodian ...
http://www.pattayamail.com/news/cambodia-to-face-mass-return-of-nationals-working-in-thailand-19104
Despite dolphin-saving plan, dam threat remains
A little more than two years after signing off on a scheme aimed at improving protection of the critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphin, experts said last week they were concerned that Mekong dams would see wholesale destruction of the population. During a two-day workshop that closed on ...
The Cambodia Daily
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/despite-dolphin-saving-plan-dam-threat-remains-57509/
Thailand releases loggers
Four Cambodian nationals who had been incarcerated in Thailand for logging and illegally crossing the border were released on Monday after completing their prison terms, officials said yesterday. Touch Ra, deputy director of the Chaom-Sa Ngaom international border checkpoint in Oddar Meanchey province, said two of ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thailand-releases-loggers
Lending by Cambodia's banks rises 6 pct as deposits grow 10 pct in Q1: central bank
Lending by Cambodia’s commercial banks rose by 6 percent while deposits grew by 10 percent in the first quarter of this year, a National Bank of Cambodia (NBC)’s report said Tuesday. The report said the country’s 34 commercial banks had lent a total of 7.87 billion ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-06/11/c_133397680.htm
British PM's trade envoy to visit Cambodia to boost trade, investment ties
British Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy Lord Puttnam will visit Cambodia from March 4 to 7 to strengthen bilateral trade and investment relations, according to a press statement from the British Embassy here on Monday. During his visit, Lord Puttnam will call on Prime Minister Hun ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/euruope/2014-03/03/c_133157100.htm
Trade deficit prompts call to diversify exports
Cambodia’s trade deficit expanded to almost half a billion dollars during the first three months of the year, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Commerce. Between January and March, Cambodia’s exports reached $1.99 billion, up 19 per cent compared to the same period ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/trade-deficit-prompts-call-diversify-exports
CCHR releases a report assessing adherence to fair trial rights at the Court of Appeal
Today, 23 June 2014, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights’ (CCHR) Trial Monitoring Project releases its first report assessing the adherence to fair trial rights at the Court of Appeal (the Report). This is the seventh report published by the Trial Monitoring Project, and the ...
Cambodian center for Human Rights (CCHR)
UN representative hears minorities’ complaints
The U.N.’s human rights representative in Cambodia visited ethnic Bunong villagers in Mondolkiri province this week, days after local authorities prevented hundreds of them from marching to mark International Day of the World’s Indigenous People. Wan-Hea Lee met with villagers in Pech Chreada district’s Bosra commune ...
Aun Pheap and George Wright
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-representative-hears-minorities-complaints-66362/
Cambodians launch fresh rally against Aussie refugee deal
More than 100 human rights activists, youths and Buddhist monks marched on streets here on Friday in the latest round of protests against a refugee deal that Cambodia signed with Australia last month. Under the deal, Australia will send refugees, who intend to seek asylum in ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-10/17/c_133723949.htm
Villagers protest arrests over land dispute
About 90 villagers continued to demonstrate outside the Kompong Chhnang provincial court Wednesday, calling for the release of two men from prison and protesting the summoning of another eight over clashes last month with workers from the powerful KDC company. The rally came after about 200 ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-protest-arrests-over-land-dispute-65916/
Construction on two condominiums to begin in Q1
Cambodia’s growing condominium sector shows no signs of slowing down, with construction on two new condominiums set to begin in the first quarter of this year. According to real estate firm CB Richard Ellis’ December market view report, released Wednesday, work will begin on Sky Villa ...
George Styllis
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/construction-on-two-condominiums-to-begin-in-q1-75719/