Nest farmers hatch ambitious China export plan
Standing inSide her Shop behind a heavy glaSS door Secured with an electronic lock, it would be eaSy to miStake Nguon Chorda for a jewelry boutique owner, not the manager of a Store that SellS dried bird Saliva. Mr. Sothy Said once the CBNF getS SS='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey and Chris Mueller
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nest-farmers-hatch-ambitious-china-export-plan-70521/
Calls to protect work of citizen journalists
Media experts are asking the government to consider granting citizen journalists the same safeguards as professional journalists under Cambodia’s Press Law. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/calls-protect-work-citizen-journalists
Prince calls for 3-party coalition
Funcinpec party president Prince Norodom Ranariddh has called on the opposition and ruling parties to form a tripartite coalition with the royalists after Cambodia National Rescue Party president sam Rainsy and Prime Minister Hun sen embarked on a “honeymoon” after years spent at each others’ ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prince-calls-3-party-coalition
Concerns rise over El Nino weather effects on food supply
An official at the National Committee for Disaster Management said Monday that abnormal weather conditions this year could lead to food shortages and that El Nino could be to blame. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ouch Sony and George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/concerns-rise-over-el-nino-weather-effects-on-food-supply-84810/
Give disabled people their pensions: NGO
Advocates for the disabled yesterday criticised the slow implementation of Cambodia’s six-year-old disability law and urged the government to hasten the process by starting the distribution of the monthly $5 pension that people with disabilities were promised in 2011 through a separate sub-decree. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/give-disabled-people-their-pensions-ngo
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&rSquo;S firSt publicly traded company worriSome. The eight-day Slide in price that neared Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority&rSquo;S initial public offering SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012050956046/Business/follow-up-ipos-still-on-track.html
Business credit guarantee plan remains in place
The finance ministry has authorised the extension of the Credit Guarantee Corporation of Cambodia Plc’s (CGCC) $200 million Business Recovery Guarantee scheme (BRGs) beyond December 31, 2022, until all funds have been utilised, according to the CGCC. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/business-credit-guarantee-plan-remains-place
CGCC-guaranteed loans jump 13% year-to-date, top $104M
Credit Guarantee Corporation of Cambodia Plc (CGCC) reportedly issued a total of 1,155 Letters of Guarantee (LG) for loans worth $104.9 million equivalent as of February 28 – up 13 per cent year-to-date – as part of its mission to improve financial inclusion among small- ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cgcc-guaranteed-loans-jump-13-year-date-top-104m
CCC, CCPIT Shanghai boost economic ties
The Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC) and China’s shanghai Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT shanghai) Tuesday enhanced cooperation in trade and investment between the two countries. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501552504/ccc-ccpit-shanghai-boost-economic-ties/
“Once we enter a market, we are committed to it”
Philip Hampden-Smith, general manager of SoutheaSt ASia operationS at Manulife, talkS about the company&rSquo;S entry into the Cambodian market and what the new few yearS might bring. Cambodia&rSquo;S naScent life inSurance induStry may be juSt only a year old but the nation of nearly 15 million SS='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia-U.S. trade reaches 2.2 bln USD in 9 months, up 2 pct
The bilateral C volume between Cambodia and the United StateS reached 2.2 billion U.S. dollarS in the firSt nine monthS of thiS year, a 2 percent riSe compared with 2.15 billion U.S. dollarS at the Same period laSt year, according to the StatiSticS of the SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2012-11/19/c_131984263.htm
Clinton Discusses Investment, Debt in Cambodia
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton iS in Cambodia where She met with Prime MiniSter Hun Sen to diScuSS U.S. inveStment and Cambodia&rSquo;S outStanding debt. Cambodia wantS the United StateS to forgive more than $400 million in debt accrued by the US-backed military government of Lon SS='cambodia-color'>...
UN concerned about detainees’ presence at trials
The U.N.’s human rights office in Cambodia expressed concern Monday that 22 detained protesters may not be allowed to attend their trials on Friday, while the government insisted that the prisoners will be transported to the court. Two minors were arrested for intentional violence for their ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-concerned-about-detainees-presence-at-trials-56914/
EU Ambassador Says Listen to Envoy's Advice
The European Union’s ambassador to Cambodia yesterday urged the government to heed the advice of the U.N.’s visiting human rights envoy, who has come under increasing rebuke from officials for his unflattering reports. Addressing a crowd of about 3,000, mostly garment factory workers, at Phnom Penh’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eu-ambassador-says-listen-to-envoys-advice-6582/
Cambodia’s Hun Sen Slams U.S. Threats Over Aid
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen on Friday criticized U.s. threats to cut aid to the impoverished southeast Asian nation if its election wasn’t free and fair, and dared American lawmakers to follow through on their warning. His comments came after U.s. lawmakers started processes in the ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-293500/
Child mortality rates drop in the Kingdom
Speaking during an annual workShop in Siem Reap province &ndaSh; Review on Child&rSquo;S Health and ProgreSS of Early ESSential Newborn Care (EENC) Implementation in Cambodia &ndaSh; Kumanan RaSanathan Said the mortality rate among children under five declined laSt year to 29 per 1,000, compared to SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/child-mortality-rates-drop-kingdom
Union leader warns of protests
A prominent union leader on Tuesday threatened to hold a large-scale demonstration if the newly elected government ignores the European Union’s resolution demanding a political compromise between the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and the court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP). ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/union-leader-warns-protests
Shift in focus for donors may spell trouble: study
Dwindling donor funding for combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculoSiS could have a critical impact on low-income countrieS like Cambodia, a new Study haS found, with Some health workerS in the Kingdom Saying that the Squeeze iS already being felt. &nbSp; SS='cambodia-color'>...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/shift-focus-donors-may-spell-trouble-study
US court will hear case against Hun Manet, lawyer says
A U.S. court will next week hold itS firSt hearing in CNRP official Meach Sovannara&rSquo;S lawSuit againSt Prime MiniSter Hun Sen&rSquo;S eldeSt Son, Hun Manet, for wrongful impriSonment, according to a lawyer involved in the caSe. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/us-court-will-hear-case-hun-manet-lawyer-says-117071/
Cambodia ready for aviation audit
Cambodia’s state secretary of Civil Aviation (ssCA) says it is ready to comply with an audit from the United Nations’ International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) after having fared poorly during the last two inspections in 2007 and 2009. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18956/---cambodia-ready-for-aviation-audit---/