Hun Sen Signed Off On Mfone Customers Deal With Mobitel
Prime Minister Hun Sen approved a decision in January to transfer hundreds of thousands of customers from bankrupt mobile phone operator Mfone to the country’s largest telecommunications firm, Mobitel, despite a court injunction preventing Mfone from offloading assets. According to the statement released yesterday by the ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-signed-off-on-mfone-customers-deal-with-mobitel-17533/
Arbitration Court Backs Government in Power Deal with US Firm
The government has won an arbitration case in a World Bank court, successfully countering a $300 million claim made by a U.S based company over a failed power plant project dating back to 1996. According to a statement from the Council of Ministers’ Press and Quick ...
Japan signs a $90m loan deal to improve highway
After reaching agreement late last month, the contract for a $90 million concession loan from Japan to Cambodia was officially signed in Phnom Penh yesterday to improve 83.5 kilometres of National Road 5. The construction is scheduled to start in June 2015 and will be ...
Cambodian to meet some MDG goals, deal landmine issues: envoy
Cambodia will meet some of the Millennium Development Goals by the end of 2015 and will continue to deal with landmine threats, said a Cambodian envoy to UN Tuesday at the General Debate of the UN General Assembly. The number of people below the poverty line ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-10/02/c_132767290.htm
PAL vows to pursue Cambodia airline deal with local tycoon
Philippine Airlines continues to pursue talks to form a new Cambodian flag carrier with local telecommunications, banking and property tycoon Kith Meng despite missing a deadline to close the deal for a second time this week, its top executive said. PAL president Ramon S. Ang said ...
Business Inquirer Net News Staff
http://business.inquirer.net/148155/pal-vows-to-pursue-cambodia-airline-deal-with-local-tycoon
Cambodian, Chinese firms ink deals to jointly invest in agriculture
Two Cambodian companies on Monday signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) with Chinese companies to invest in the agricultural sector. One deal was inked between Chan Sothea, general director of Cambodia’s Century Rice Group, and Ivan, managing director of Shengen Yonglongxin Industrial Company. Under the agreement, the two ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-12/16/c_132972733.htm
Cambodian PM heads for Bangladesh, 4 deals to be signed
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen left here on Monday for a 3-day official visit to Bangladesh where the two countries are expected to ink four deals, a senior official said. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-06/16/c_133409920.htm
PAL urged not to pursue deal to form Cambodia Airlines
Flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) is said to be better off not pursuing a deal with Royal Group of Cambodia (RGC) to form Cambodia Airlines Co. Ltd., saying there are other “bigger priorities” for the flag carrier. CAPA said the Cambodia-Philippines is a small market, ...
Lenie Lectura
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/02/04/14/pal-urged-not-pursue-deal-form-cambodia-airlines
Australian media cite Hun Sen Facebook page on refugee deal
A post on a Facebook page that Prime Minister Hun Sen has denied is his own was cited Tuesday by both the Sydney Morning Herald and Australia’s national broadcaster as having officially announced the Cambodian government’s agreement to resettle asylum seekers held by Australia. Mr. Hun ...
Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/australian-media-cite-hun-sen-facebook-page-on-refugee-deal-59229/
Cambodia, FAO ink deal to battle climate impacts on agriculture
The Cambodian Ministry of Environment and the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Monday signed a five-year cooperation agreement with an aim to reduce climate impacts on agriculture, accOrding to a joint statement. The agreement was inked jointly by Cambodian Minister of Environment Say ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140609/cambodia-fao-ink-deal-battle-climate-impacts-agriculture
Sam Rainsy defends opposition deal with Cambodia’s ruling party
With Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), saying it was in the interest of implementing key electoral reform and bringing greater freedom to the country. Speaking in a video posted to his Facebook account, the president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) ...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/deal-07232014180806.html
Cambodia, Seychelles sign 6 deals to pave way for cooperation
Cambodia and Seychelles on Thursday inked six documents to pave the way for bilateral cooperation in the fields of politics, trade, investment, tourism, agriculture, and air services. The deals were made during the two-day visit of Seychelles Foreign Minister Jean-Paul Adam to Cambodia. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/africa/2014-10/16/c_133721159.htm
Cambodia rice exporters hope to clinch philippines rice import deal
Cambodian rice exporters are keen on winning the Philippines government’s latest rice import tender for 500,000 tons of 25% broken white rice slated for August 27, 2014, according to local sources. ...
Oryza News Staff
http://www.oryza.com/news/rice-news/cambodia-rice-exporters-hope-clinch-philippines-rice-import-deal
Malaysia's Wah Seong in 10-year power deal with Cambodia
Wah Seong Corporation Bhd’s subsidiary will be selling 48,000 MW of power per annum over 10 years to Cambodia’s power company. Wah Seong said on Friday its subsidiary PMTI Energy (Cambodia) Co Ltd had signed a power purchase deal with the Electricité Du Cambodge to sell ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=ZTNmM2VkMTNmMDI
Cambodian garment makers, ILO sign deal to abolish child labour
The International Labour Organization’s Better FactOries Cambodia (BFC) and the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) signed an agreement on Thursday to jointly eliminate child labour in the garment industry. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141218/cambodian-garment-makers-ilo-sign-deal-abolish-child-labour
Cambodia, China ink deal to set up agricultural promotion center
Cambodia and China on Tuesday signed an agreement to establish a Cambodia-China Agricultural Promotion Centre, aiming at helping Cambodia develop agriculture sustainably. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-12/23/c_133874592.htm
Resettlement offer to asylum seekers may have breached Cambodia deal
Australian immigration officials have approached asylum seekers within the Nauru detention centre about resettlement in Cambodia, apparently in contravention of the agreement between the two countries. The settlement agreement with Cambodia specifies that offers should be made only to people with refugee status. But it ...
Paul Farrell
http://bit.ly/1DQq6ZR
Cambodia to free or reduce jail terms for some 625 prisoners
Some 625 prisoners could be released or see their jail terms reduced on the occasion of Khmer New Year, which falls on April 14-16, according to the Ministry of Justice. ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/850705.shtml#.UzJ5K_mSxqU
City bus operation awarded on basis of ‘verbal’ contract
The Chinese-owned company that began operating Phnom Penh’s new public bus service Wednesday secured its five-year deal on the basis of a verbal agreement and has not yet signed a formal contract with City Hall, the company’s CEO said. Lim Andre, the CEO of Global (Cambodia) ...
Simon Henderson and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-bus-operation-awarded-on-basis-of-verbal-contract-53627/
Private property, public greed in Cambodia
Mark Moorstein knew little about Cambodia before he got involved in a lawsuit on behalf of land owners there. But as it’s turning out, the suit could end up affecting most every country in Asia. Moorstein is a land-use lawyer in Northern Virginia who, like many ...