Australia keen on fortifying economic ties with Cambodia
Australia reaffirms its commitment to further strengthen cooperation with the Kingdom in several areas especially in the fields of economy, investment, trade, agriculture and climate change, supporting the socio-economic development response to the regional and global crisis. ...
Nhean Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501427170/australia-keen-on-fortifying-economic-ties-with-cambodia/
Kandal families slated for eviction from airport site renew requests for land titles
Hundreds of families living along both sides of the so-called “94 canal” and facing relocation to make way for a new airport in Kandal province called for authorities to give them land titles, on-site development and an end to intimidation, during a public forum in ...
Sorn Sarath and Phon Sotthyroth
https://cambojanews.com/kandal-families-slated-for-eviction-from-airport-site-renew-requests-for-land-titles/
NagaCity Walk gives capital a taste of duty-free shopping
The NagaCity Walk, a $94 million subterranean shopping centre in Phnom Penh aimed at high-rolling tourists visiting the adjacent NagaWorld casino and hotel complex, held its soft opening yesterday, with duty-free luxury goods ranging from affordable tobacco, perfumes and designer watches to a $3,400 bottle ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nagacity-walk-gives-capital-taste-duty-free-shopping
New Private Hospital to Employ 208 Cambodians
A new high-end private hospital in Phnom Penh, a collaboration between Cambodia’s Sokimex and Ho Chi Minh City’s well-known Cho-Ray Hospital, is set to hire 280 Cambodian health care workers in the next year, according to a Sunday satatement posted on the City Hall website. ...
Interest-free loans to lure businesses
HCM CITY — The HCM CITY government will offer interest-free loans to local companies doing business in the CITY, Laos and Cambodia. With a stimulus package of VND8 trillion (US$381 million), the CITY has approved interest-fee loans of up to VND100 billion ($4.7 million) over ...
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/Economy/215583/Interest-free-loans-to-lure-businesses.html
Press release of Phnom Penh Capital Hall on providing the public free of charge to travel to hometown by city buses during the Pchum Ben festival
On 03 October 2018, Phnom Penh Capital Hall issued an announcement to the public to inform the public that during the coming Pchum Ben festival, the capital hall will arrange 215 public city buses to serve officials, military forces, citizen, workers, and the public travelling to ...
Phnom Penh Capital Hall
Sar Kheng downs offer of inclusion into CNRP
A remark by an opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) senior adviser that Minister of Interior Sar Kheng would remain deputy prime minister if the opposition party won the 2018 national elections drew a terse response from the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), with the minister ...
Leonie Kijewski and Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-downs-offer-inclusion-cnrp
Cambodia ripe for more exports
Cambodia offers plenty of opportunities for Vietnamese exporters although there is intense competition from countries such as Thailand and China, delegates said at a conference in HCM City last Thursday. Le Quoc Phong, general director of the Binh Dien Fertiliser Group, said the Cambodian market had ...
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/Economy/226853/cambodia-ripe-for-more-exports.html
Construction investment notably increases in 2013
Construction investment in Cambodia in the past 11 months of 2013 was worth of USD 2.4 billion or 1526 projects, covering construction area of 7 million sq km, said The Ministry of Urbanization and Construction. The ministry added that compared with the same period of last ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=NTEzNDI5N2YzMGE
Agreement to boost construction sector
An agreement was signed between Cambodia’s Constructors Association (CCA) and the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction two days ago, to tighten enforcement on construction companies here in making them meet industry standards. The ministry’s head, Im Chhun Lim, said that Cambodia’s construction and ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060366007/Business/agreement-to-boost-construction-sector.html
No consultation as government develops new urban planning policy
The Ministry of Land Management and Urban Planning announced yesterday that it will soon complete a new draft sub-decree that aims to guide and regulate urban development in towns and cities. Land and human rights groups, however, criticized the ministry for failing to consult them on ...
Shukaku pushes forward at Boeung Kak
Local developer Shukaku will step up construction of its controversial Boeung Kak lake development project this month, beginning work on a drainage system and corporate office, a spokeswoman told the Post yesterday. An updated master plan of Shukaku’s Phnom Penh City Centre project – an ...
Shane Worrell and Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/shukaku-pushes-forward-boeung-kak
Education ministry wants bachelor’s degrees for all teachers
The Education Ministry will organize a training course and study programs that will give all of the country’s teachers access to bachelor’s degree programs by 2020, officials said yesterday. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17961/education-ministry-wants-bachelor---s-degrees-for-all-teachers/
‘Boeng Kak 13’ make final appeal to clear their names
Thirteen land-rights activists from the Boeng Kak neighborhood appeared Wednesday at the Supreme Court in Phnom Penh for a final appeal in a yearslong legal battle over a protest-related conviction. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/boeng-kak-13-make-final-appeal-to-clear-their-names-109329/
City aims to address market's trash problem
City Hall yesterday held a meeting with trash-collection companies and district authorities to address the longstanding garbage problem at the capital’s Phsar Doeum Kor Market in Tuol Kork district. ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/city-aims-address-markets-trash-problem
Hun Sen orders government to help 7 Boeung Kak families
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday directed Phnom Penh Governor Khoung Sreng to quickly resolve land dispute claims by seven families residing in the Boeung Kak area, an order that flies counter to City Hall’s announcement in April that it had officially closed the resolution process ...
Niem Chheng and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-orders-government-help-7-boeung-kak-families
More “Empty promises” for Boeung Kak
Boeung Kak Lake residents say they’ve been given another hollow promise after Phnom Penh’s governor failed to start measuring property for land titles on Wednesday. On Monday, Governor Pa Socheatvong met with 76 Boeung Kak Lake families and, according to those in attendance, promised that land ...
Sopheak Chakrya, P.6
http://www.phnompenhpost.com
City Hall asks wealthy to help fund Water Festival
Phnom Penh City Hall has launched an appeal for the country’s wealthy to help fund this year’s Water Festival in the capital, which is set to return next month after being canceled for the past three years. ...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-asks-wealthy-to-help-fund-water-festival-71011/
Trucks hauling luxury wood busted
Police in Kompong Speu province on Monday night stopped three container trucks on National Road 4 bound for Sihanoukville Autonomous Port, seizing more than 100 logs of illegal luxury wood, officials said. Provincial economic police chief Nhem Sao said that his officers and police from Chbar ...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/trucks-hauling-luxury-wood-busted-57090/
More Chinese firms weigh local investment
Six companies from China’s Guangzhou city and Guangxi province met with Kim Sithan, Cambodia’s secretary of state at the Ministry of Commerce, yesterday to discuss investment in the country Heavy machinery, fertiliser and chemical companies expressed interest in Cambodia’s agricultural sector ...