Local and foreign business interests form luxury property joint venture
A mid strong demand growth in the Grade A office sector, a joint-venture agreement signing event was held at the Sofitel Phokeethra last week, establishing an investment company, provisionally called Kingdom Luxury Development Co, which aims to build a Grade-A office tower Phnom Penh. The joint-venture ...
Standards must improve: official
Small food and beverage makers are at risk of being uncertified when the ASEAN economic community takes shape in 2015, with the vast majority far from achieving international quality and safety standards, a government official says. Him Phanith, the deputy director of National Productivity Center, said ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/standards-must-improve-official
Chamkar Mon Hospital land for sale online
The land on which the former Chamkar Mon Referral Hospital sits was put up for sale for $12.1 million on Friday, just days after a municipal health official denied that the property would be sold. According to an advertisement posted on the Khmer24 classified advertising website, ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/archives/chamkar-mon-hospital-land-for-sale-online-for-12-1m-59503/
Landmines kill 10 Cambodians, injure 61 in 4 months
Cambodia on Friday reported 71 landmine casualties in the first four months of 2014, an increase of 61 percent from 44 casualties for the same period last year. The report by the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority showed that during the January-April period, 10 ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-06/06/c_133388480.htm
Workers win seniority pay
A six-month standoff that eventually halted a box factory’s production ended on Friday, when managers of the factory in the capital’s Por Sen Chey district paid seniority bonuses to almost 150 former employees. Harta Packaging Industries paid bonuses of between $500 and $4,000 to a total ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-win-seniority-pay
Rice export target a big task
The pace of Cambodia’s rice exports are expected to slow this year. Unable to maintain the steady rate of previous years, the export volume for the first half of 2014 is much the same as it was this time last year. at the end of June, ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-export-target-big-task
Australians donate to school linked to sex abuse claims
Australians are among donors to a school charity in Cambodia where the director has been charged with arranging for foreign volunteers to sexually abuse teenage students. The scandal has focused new attention on the management of Cambodia’s orphanages and children’s charities and the deception used by ...
Lindsay Murdoch
http://www.smh.com.au/national/australians-donate-to-school-linked-to-sex-abuse-claims-20140713-zt63b.html#ixzz37P4WG85n
Flooding claims another life
The death toll from recent floods has reached six people, while inundations have caused more than 4,400 families across four provinces to be evacuated from their homes, according to the National Committee for Disaster Management. “The full extent of the damage is not known yet,” said ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/flooding-claims-another-life
Representatives to meet over factory fire
Representatives for the employees and owners of a Phnom Penh garment factory gutted by a fire last month will meet at the Ministry of Labor today to try and hammer out a pay package for the workers, though a factory official said they would not ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/representatives-to-meet-over-factory-fire-65988/
Kratie case exposes flaws in land-titling scheme
The latest case of scores of villagers from Kratie province tied up in a land dispute with an agribusiness firm has once again highlighted failures in the 2012 land-titling scheme launched by Prime Minister Hun Sen to settle unresolved land disputes and distribute hundreds of ...
George Wright and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kratie-case-exposes-flaws-in-land-titling-scheme-66131/
Smart posts midyear gains
Mobile service provider Smart has outperformed its fellow Axiata Group subsidiaries in the first half of the year, according to the Malaysian conglomerate’s latest financial report. Driven by a 115 per cent increase in data traffic revenue, Axiata’s results show Smart’s gross revenue totalled 270 million ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/smart-posts-midyear-gains
Cambodia hails China's active role in its peace, development
China had played an active role in seeking peace for Cambodia in the past and has greatly contributed to the country’s socio-economic development at the present, a senior Cambodian official said Saturday. “In the past, when Cambodia had chronic wars, China had actively contributed to seeking ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-09/06/c_133625898.htm
EU gives $3.9 million to attract investment
The European Union will spend €3 million ($3.9 million) on a program to encourage small and medium enterprises to invest in Cambodia. Speaking at a conference yesterday in Phnom Penh, EU Ambassador to Cambodia Jean-Francois Cautain said the five-year grant – to be managed by EuroCham ...
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/eu-gives-39-million-attract-investment
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Cambodia unveils regulation to protect entertainment workers
Cambodia’s Ministries of Labour and Tourism on Wednesday jointly launched a new regulation for protecting the occupational safety, health and labour rights of entertainment workers. “The regulation aims to improve working conditions, occupational safety and health rules of entertainment service enterprises, establishments and companies,”said a ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-10/08/c_133699392.htm
CNRP youth: we’ll fight ISIS
At least 50 opposition party youth members and supporters are asking for permission to join the US-led fight against Islamic StAte militants, a leading activist said yesterday. In return, they hope the US will help them fight Vietnamese encroachment in Cambodia and take back the island ...
Meas Sokchea
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-youth-we%E2%80%99ll-fight-isis
Ministry facing teacher shortage
Less than a week away from the start of the new school year, the government is short on teachers. Every year, the government struggles to recruit enough instructors to keep pace with enrollment rates and replace those who have retired, left teaching or passed away. The ...
Laignee Barron and Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-facing-teacher-shortage
Cambodia marks 3rd Sea Festival in southern Koh Kong province
The 3rd edition of Sea Festival kicked off on Friday in southern Cambodia’s Koh Kong province with an aim to attract more tourists to coastal areas. In a message to celebrate the festival, Prime Minister Hun Sen said the three-day event was to promote the potential ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=258170
Promises made to HIV village
Health Minister Mam Bunheng announced yesterday he has proposed that a reserve budget be used to help victims of the mass HIV outbreak in Battambang province’s Roka village, as he vowed to strengthen health services across the country. Speaking at a press conference following questioning by ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/promises-made-hiv-village
IFC criticised for abusive investments
Rights groups yesterday took aim at the private-sector arm of the World Bank for investing money into companies that are responsible for human rights abuses around the world, highlighting a Vietnamese rubber firm accused of illegal logging and land grabbing in Ratanakkiri province as a ...
Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ifc-criticised-abusive-investments
Key post to PM’s son-in-law
Dy Vichea – son of the late National Police chief Hok Lundy and son-in-law to Prime Minister Hun Sen – has been appointed director of the Central Security Department at the Ministry of Interior, the National Police said yesterday. National Police spokesman Kirt Chantharith said that ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/key-post-pm%E2%80%99s-son-law