President Obama Expected to Attend Summit in Phnom Penh
A senior White House official has again indicated that U.s. President Barack Obama is expected to attend the East Asia summit in Phnom Penh in November. U.s. Assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell reiterated Mr. Obama’s plans to attend the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodian airports to get $400 million upgrade
VINCI Airports will invest close to $400 million on upgrading Cambodia’s airport system over the next eight years, according to chairman, Nicolas Notebaert. Notebaert, speaking at the Global Airport Development (GAD) conference in Paris earlier today, revealed that $80 million would be invested on an extension ss='cambodia-color'>...
E-card holders concerned about SIM card exchange
Mfone e-card holders are concerned that the cards can no longer be used after the change from Mfone’s sIM card to Cellcard’s sIM and, along with officials, are unsure of a solution. Wholesalers and retailers have expressed concern that they will lose money when the scratch ss='cambodia-color'>...
CNRP officials imprisoned on insurrection charges
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday charged at least seven opposition CNRP lawmakers-elect and a party activist with insurrection and incitement over a protest that turned violent on Tuesday, sending six of the group to Prey sar prison. Meng sopheary, a lawyer on the defense ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-officials-sent-to-prison-on-charges-of-insurrection-64320/
Chemicals in war-era barrels tested and confirmed as tear gas
The head of the Cambodian Mine Action Authority (CMAC) said Thursday that field testing of a pair of war-era barrels found by villagers in Mondolkiri province earlier this week identified the contents as Cs, a tear gas-like powder or aerosol that was used by the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter and Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chemicals-in-war-era-barrels-tested-and-confirmed-as-tear-gas-63226/
Japan firms see fresh potential in Kingdom
A delegation of more than 30 Japanese businesspeople yesterday met with the Council for the Development of Cambodia to discuss investment opportunities in the Kingdom, after seeing what they said were vast improvements in domestic legal and tax regulations. However, no definite decisions had yet ss='cambodia-color'>...
Complaint Filed as Anti-Flooding Project Begins
As dignitaries marked the groundbreaking of a project to improve Phnom Penh’s defenses against flooding yesterday, a complaint had already been filed against the project’s contractor for impeding a public road. The Japanese government is putting $46 million into a new phase of the city’s flood ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tourism unaffected by blasts
There has been no impact on tourists traveling by air between Cambodia and Thailand following the multiple fatal bombings in the southern part of Thailand last week, according to government and industry officials. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28561/tourism-unaffected-by-blasts/
Land disputes hurting women
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) demanded the government intervene immediately after finding that 98.2 percent of women involved in land disputes with private companies were suffering from serious psychological after-effects and nearly half of the women participating in the survey said they had ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30261/land-disputes-hurting-women/
City bus service to go provincial
Provinces could soon have their own public transport system if Phnom Penh City Hall’s proposal to expand its bus service outside the capital gets underway. City Hall also has plans to run a luxury bus service from Phnom Penh to neighboring Thailand and Vietnam, said ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26942/city-bus-service-to-go-provincial/
Role small, memory cloudy, former KRouge banker tells court
For six hours yesterday at the Khmer Rouge tribunal, sar Kimlomouth, who served as deputy director general of the state bank, consistently downplayed both his level of authority within the department and his ability to recall information from so long ago. Throughout the day’s proceedings, lawyers ss='cambodia-color'>...
US Official Meets Asean Leaders Over Corruption
U.S. AmbaSSador to ASean David Carden met with judgeS and JuStice MiniStry repreSentativeS from all 10 ASean countrieS in Phnom Penh yeSterday to diScuSS the importance of fighting againSt corruption and upholding the rule of law for foreign inveStorS. “Cambodia will proSper if outSide inveStment comeS SS='cambodia-color'>...
Telecom Cambodia set to list early next year
State-owned communicationS provider Telecom Cambodia iS planning to liSt on the local bourSe by June next year Telecom Cambodia waS originally Scheduled to liSt by the end of thiS year but the company did not meet liSting requirementS in time. SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/telecom-cambodia-set-to-list-early-next-year--907924
Cambodia To be Free from ODA in 2030
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance H.E. Keat Chhon announced that Cambodia would be free from the Official Development Assistance (ODA) by 2030. speaking to the U.s. Ambassador to Cambodia H.E. William E. Todd in a discussion at the ministry yesterday, H.E. Keat ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Keng becomes president of estate agents association
Cheng Kheng, director of the CPL real estate company, has been elected to be president of the Cambodian Valuers and Estate Agents Association in 2013, after sung Bonna, director of the Bonna Realty Group, ended his 2012 term. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia's exports to U.S. down 1 pct in 11 months last year
Cambodia exported products in equivalent to 2.49 billion U.s. dollars to the United states in the first eleven months of 2012, down 1 percent from 2.52 billion U.s. dollars it exported at the same period a year earlier, the report of the U.s. Department of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Government Expects 14.5 Percent Rise in State Revenue
The government plans to raise $3.51 billion in state revenue in 2014 in order to finance a $3.4 billion draft budget, an increase of about 14.5 percent compared to the previous year, when the government raised $2.98 billion in revenue, according to a draft of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-expects-14-5-percent-rise-in-state-revenue-46807/
Navy loggers opened fire: NGO
NGO Wildlife Alliance has publicly accused members of the Royal Cambodian Navy of opening fire on patrolling rangers on the Tatai river in Koh Kong’s smach Meanchey district after they tried to seize an allegedly illegal shipment of rosewood. At about 11pm on October 10, a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly and Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/navy-loggers-opened-fire-ngo
New hound joins mine battle
Cambodia’s newest demining employee comes with an impressive resume, years of experience – and four legs. Rambo touched down in Phnom Penh yesterday, then was driven to the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) training facility in Kampong Chhnang province. He is the first of 18 trained ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-hound-joins-mine-battle
Villager arrested over recent KDC land dispute clashes
A 36-year-old villager was arrested at his home in Kompong Chhnang province Monday on allegations of destroying public property and causing injuries during one of several recent clashes in a long-running land dispute between farmers and the powerfully connected KDC International. Villagers say KDC, a firm ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villager-arrested-over-recent-kdc-land-dispute-clashes-64611/