Phnom Penh, Lowell enter ‘Sister City’ relationship
Phnom Penh on Wednesday cemented a “sister city” relationship with Lowell, Massachusetts, which has the second largest Cambodian-American population in the U.s. after Long Beach, California. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penh-lowell-enter-sister-city-relationship-76170/
NagaWorld posts $136M profit
On the back of a quest for high-rolling Chinese clients, NagaWorld’s gross gaming revenue soared 17 per cent in 2014, although profits were slightly down due to rising costs and lower profit margins from VIP customers. Gross gaming revenue clocked in at $381.4 million for 2014, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nagaworld-posts-136m-profit
Cambodia sees rise in trade with U.S.
Bilateral trade between Cambodia and the United StateS waS valued at 3.17 billion U.S. dollarS in 2014, a 5 percent riSe from 3.01 billion U.S. dollarS in 2013, the figureS of the U.S. Department of Commerce Showed Friday. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2015-02/06/c_133975310.htm
Sorya Shopping Mall shuts amid vendor protest
After negotiations between vendors and management at Phnom Penh’s sorya Mall ended without a solution on Wednesday, hundreds of disgruntled shopkeepers shut their shops on Thursday, effectively closing one of the city’s biggest shopping centers. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kang Sothear and Taisa Sganzerla
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sorya-shopping-mall-shuts-amid-vendor-protest-77926/
Court charges man for fishing with grenade
The Stung Treng Provincial Court on TueSday charged a 25-year-old man with illegal fiShing after he allegedly uSed a grenade to kill fiSh in a protected Stretch of the Mekong River in Thala Barivat diStrict. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-charges-man-for-fishing-with-grenade-79986/
Police searching for Russian accused of sparking Casino brawl
Police in Preah Sihanouk province are Seeking the arreSt of Oleg Tikhanov&mdaSh;a RuSSian buSineSSman on Interpol&rSquo;S liSt of moSt-wanted criminalS&mdaSh;for ordering an attack that led to a violent brawl at Sihanoukville&rSquo;S Queenco Hotel & CaSino in February. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-searching-for-russian-accused-of-sparking-casino-brawl-81227/
Government releases draft law on food safety
The Commerce Ministry on Wednesday released a draft of the country’s first food law, which establishes a Food safety Authority charged with protecting domestic consumers and ensuring that exports meet international standards. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Janelle Retka and Aun Chhengpor
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-releases-draft-law-on-food-safety-88533/
Cambodian UN Ambassador refutes human rights allegations
Cambodia’s Representative of the Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office in Geneva on Monday refuted claims made by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights that civic space is shrinking in Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Brian Badzmierowski
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50819960/cambodian-un-ambassador-refutes-human-rights-allegations/
580 iconic Giant Turtles released into Mekong river on World Turtle Day
To mark World Turtle Day, Wildlife Conservation society (WCs) in collaboration with Fisheries Administration celebrates the conservation of the Critically Endangered Cantor’s Giant softshell Turtles in Cambodia, by releasing 580 hatchlings into the wild. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501081043/580-iconic-giant-turtles-released-into-mekong-river-on-world-turtle-day/
Son Chhay found guilty for defamation, ordered to pay CPP $750,000
The Phnom Penh court on Friday ordered opposition Candlelight Party vice president son Chhay to pay the ruling CPP 3 billion riel ($750,000) in damages, finding him guilty of defamation for saying that voting fraud occurred during the June commune elections. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sorn Sarath
https://cambojanews.com/son-chhay-found-guilty-for-defamation-ordered-to-pay-cpp-750000/
Condo oversupply persists amid low FDI and foreign buyers
Total foreign direct investment (FDI) to the real estate sector peaked at $3.6 billion in the years preceding Covid-19, where half of the approved investments was backed by Chinese investors. In 2019 alone, FDI financing in the property and real estate development in Cambodia stood around ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sangeetha Amarthalingam
https://kiripost.com/stories/condo-oversupply-persists-amid-low-fdi-and-foreign-buyers
Bakong likely to make forays into Rwanda
National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and the National Bank of Rwanda recently held talks to explore ways to establish Bakong online payment system in that country, said an NBC statement. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sreekanth Ravindran
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501315349/bakong-likely-to-make-forays-into-rwanda/
Clean water pumped to dry suburbs
A team from the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) iS working cloSely with the Takhmao fire department to provide water to the reSidentS of Takhmao town. Several memberS of the public have complained about a Severe lack of water preSSure in recent weekS, with SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/clean-water-pumped-dry-suburbs
International trade down 13% in first half of 2023
Cambodia’s international trade performance in the first half of 2023 registered $23.69 billion, a decrease of 13 percent from $27.24 billion in the same period last year, according to a report from the General Department of Customs and Excise (GDCE) on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mon Sokeo
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-international-trade-down-13-in-first-half-of-2023
Agriculture Ministry working on forming commune agricultural coordinators across the country
Cambodian Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Dith Tina received visiting Dr Christoph Hoffmann, Member of the German Parliament and Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
http://Agriculture Ministry working on forming commune agricultural coordinators across the country
AFD, EU back Cambodia’s water sector reformation
The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the European Union (EU) expressed their commitment to support the expansion of the Phnom Penh Water supply Authority (PPWsA). ss='cambodia-color'>...
Nhean Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501574411/afd-eu-back-cambodias-water-sector-reformation/
Foreign Minister backs full UN membership for Palestinians
Speaking at the UN General ASSembly in New York on Monday, Foreign MiniSter Hor Namhong backed the PaleStinianS&rSquo; bid for full UN memberShip and called for the lifting of a decadeS-old US embargo on Cuba, one of the countrieS backing Cambodia&rSquo;S bid for a Seat SS='cambodia-color'>...
Research shows Cambodian entrepreneurship tendency
Ninety–nine per cent of Cambodians have a television set in their home, according to data compiled by Indochina Research. “We know everybody watches television,” said General Manager Laurent Notin. “Television is the most trusted media channel for Cambodians.” The saturation of television is only one of the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vendors Protest Market Rebuilding at Appeal Court
About 200 vendors from Phnom Penh’s Tomnup Market gathered in front of the Appeal Court yesterday morning to protest an earlier ruling by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court that paved the way for the market’s reconstruction. In 2011, the market’s owner, New Rich Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...
Withdrawals top hundreds of millions
More than $600 million flooded out of Cambodia’s entire banking system during the third quarter of this year, as fears of post-election chaos set off panic and mass withdrawals, new figures from the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) reveal. The figures, obtained yesterday, were the first ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/withdrawals-top-hundreds-millions