UN asked to ‘address crisis’
Amnesty International and rights group Licadho in a joint statement yesterday called on UN member states to “address the country’s human rights crisis” at a UN Human Rights Council hearing in Geneva on Tuesday. The statement, which was sent to foreign embassies, the Cambodian government and ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-asked-%E2%80%98address-crisis%E2%80%99
'Hong Kong Land' Project Pushed Back to 2013
Property development firm Hongkong Land (HKL) will not break ground on a 10,700-square-meter mixed-use office and retail project in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district until at least 2013, officials at the firm said Thursday. HKL acquired the property behind the U.S. Embassy in April 2011 as ...
Investment and Trade Fair Opens In Koh Kong
The first three-day Koh Kong Investment and Trade Fair 2013 kicked off on Saturday, promoting trade and investment in the southern provinces of Cambodia with neighbours Thailand and Vietnam. “The [fair] is aimed at promoting trade and development in Koh Kong province and other border ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051365565/Business/investment-and-trade-fair-opens-in-koh-kong.html
Myanmar urges closer ties with military
Myanmar’s army chiefs want to increase cooperation with Cambodia in a bid to build closer bilateral ties, according to a senior military official. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36280/myanmar-urges-closer-ties-with-military/
ASEAN FTA with Hong Kong, China on track
Trade between Cambodia and Hong Kong is rising fast, expanding from about $1 billion in 2014 to $1.3 billion last year year, Veng Sothy, an Undersecretary of State at the Commerce Ministry, told a meeting in Siem Reap Friday. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22681/asean-fta-with-hong-kong--china-on-track/
Cambodian miner Khmer Resources plans to tap Hong Kong capital market
Khmer Resources Investment, which is backed by the Cambodian government, aims to list in Hong Kong within two years, chairman Cao Yunde said. “We intend to leverage the capital market of Hong Kong to finance our growth through a public listing so as to maximise the ...
Cambodian parliament panel chief questions management of Angkor Wat revenue
A parliamentary commission leader wants Cambodia’s tourism ministry to manage revenue generated by the country’s iconic Angkor Wat temple complex, amid concerns that the government is losing money by retaining a private company to oversee ticket sales. A quasi-government group, Apsara Authority, which is responsible ...
Roseanne Gerin
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/angkor-wat-11192014172942.html
Cassava exports jump 94%
The Kingdom’s cassava exports soared 94 per cent year-on-year in the first nine months of 2011, despite the recent flood devastation the agriculture sector has experienced, according to Ministry of Commerce figures. The statistics showed that Cambodia’s export of dry and fresh cassava hit about 22,652 ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011101952198/Business/cassava-exports-jump-94.html
Thai Firm Moves in to Build Koh Kong Power Plant
A Thai Company is conducting a feasibility study to build a coal-fired power plant in Koh Kong province and has already invested in a local firm with permission to develop the plant, according to officials and the company. In an announcement to the Thai Stock ...
Officials deny timber sent to Vietnam via Sesan
Ratanakkiri Military Police officials yesterday denied multiple local media reports that thousands of logs of luxury timber were being transported on the Sesan River to be sent to Vietnam illegally. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-deny-timber-sent-vietnam-sesan
ACU arrests reporters and construction worker
The government’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Friday arrested two reporters and a construction worker in Kampot City for their alleged role in extorting a deputy provincial governor, officials and a colleague of one of the suspects said Sunday. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/acu-arrests-reporters-and-construction-worker-67990/
PM ends exile gov’t talk
Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday that his government will work with the Thai junta that came to power in a coup last week, and quashed speculation that the ousted Shinawatra clan may be allowed to set up a government in exile in Cambodia. In a ...
Vong Sokheng and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-ends-exile-gov%E2%80%99t-talk
Exports Rise, but Value of Goods Remains Weak
Cambodia saw significant percentage gains in regional trade in the first six months of the year, though the gap between imports and exports remained large, according to data released yesterday by the Ministry of Commerce. According to the figures, the country saw regional exports to ...
Tax reform looms large for new government
Cambodia’s General Department of Taxation has laid out a series of reforms it says are needed as the 2015 deadline looms for the Asean Economic Community, a single market for trade and development. Strengthening tax collection to increase revenue while nurturing an attractive investment climate is ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tax-reform-looms-large-new-government
Protesters put sugar firm’s wall on hold
Roughly 30 villagers locked in a land dispute with Koh Kong Sugar protested at a construction site yesterday where they say the company was attempting to erect a concrete barrier on disputed land. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/protesters-put-sugar-firms-wall-hold
Families file complaint against CPP senator
Nine families who lost their farmland to an under-construction special economic zone (SEZ) in Koh Kong province filed a complaint with the provincial government on Friday seeking to have the land excised from the industrial park and returned to them. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/families-file-complaint-against-cpp-senator-108773/
Illegal gold mines raided in Preah Vihear
Authorities in Preah Vihear province on Friday broke up six camps they say were being used to illegally mine for gold on land the government has granted to a Chinese company. Provincial industry and mines director Kong Makara said Sunday that authorities including local police and ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/illegal-gold-mines-raided-in-preah-vihear-66713/
Former National Aids authority official alleges corruption
A former official at the National Aids Authority (NAA) alleged this week that the organization falsified letters authorizing missions to three different provinces so that fraudulent expenses could be claimed. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/former-national-aids-authority-official-alleges-corruption-79213/
Arbitration body orders capitol tours bus drivers back to work
The Arbitration Council on Wednesday ordered 40 Capitol Tours bus drivers to end a strike that began on July 22 over claims that five other drivers were fired for attempting to organize a union at the company. ...
Huot Chanpav
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/arbitration-body-orders-capitol-tours-bus-drivers-back-to-work-90014/
Court yet to charge major general in land reclamation case
Koh Kong provincial court has yet to charge Major General Tun Deat who allegedly reclaimed land in the sea in Khemarak Phoumint city. ...
Sun Mesa
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50697850/court-yet-to-charge-major-general-in-land-reclamation-case