Cambodia and India discuss air link, trade
During his state visit to India, Prime Minister Hun Sen urged companies from the subcontinent to consider Cambodia as their next investment destination. Both governments have recently stressed the need to enhance air connectivity between both nations to boost the movement of tourists and businesspeople. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/105413/cambodia-india-discuss-air-link-trade/
Thais ‘offer trains’ for new rail link
The Thai government has made a verbal commitment to supply four trains to Cambodia for a railway set to connect the neighbouring countries by early July, said Ly Borin, undersecretary of state at the Public Works and Transport Ministry and director of the Cambodia Railroad ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thais-offer-trains-new-rail-link
Future of E-Business linked to skills
The future of e-business in Cambodia depends on gaining better skills, a group of students heard yesterday at the University of Puthisastra. In a panel discussion on the future of e-business as part of BarCamp Phnom Penh, T.O. Software president Heng Chamroeun offered advice to the ...
Maid’s Death Believed Linked to Abuse
A Cambodian maid who recently returned home from work in Malaysia fell ill and died over the weekend, highlighting ongoing concerns over the treatment of impoverished Southeast Asian women who seek work abroad but are often abused by their employers. Kuy Lyda, 17, died at a ...
Sok Serey
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/maid-06252012155226.html
PM to end missing link to Cambodia
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra promised on Saturday to complete a missing rail link with Cambodia to foster closer ties with the neighbouring country. Ms Yingluck inspected the damaged tracks from Aranyaprathet district in Sa Kaeo to the border with Poipet in Cambodia and directed officials ...
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/343138/yingluck-to-end-missing-link-to-cambodia
Trade Expo Links Vietnam, Cambodia Military Firms
The 2013 Vietnam-Cambodia trade fair will commence on Nov 14 in Cambodia’s capital city Phnom Penh, said a representative from the Defence Ministry at a press briefing on Friday According to the organising board, some 200 Vietnamese enterprises have registered with more than 300 booths ...
Saigon-GP Daily News Staff
http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/Business/2013/10/106621/
Linking the worst factories with the labels
The building that housed USA Fully Field Garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district stands empty now. The grounds are littered with garbage and boxes full of dusty brand labels that were stitched onto clothes by almost 400 workers before the factory owner fled in ...
Simon Henderson and Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/linking-the-worst-factories-with-the-labels-55839/
EDC plans power line linking lake provinces
Electricite du Cambodge (EDC) will spend $167 million to install a 350-km-long high-voltage transmission line connecting four provinces around the Tonle Sap lake, the state-owned utility announced in a press release Monday. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/edc-plans-power-line-linking-lake-provinces-79879/
After distributing cash, group denies CPP links
Representatives of a group known as Cambodia Youth Movement 157, which counts Defense Ministry officials among its leadership, on Sunday handed out money to eviction-threatened indigenous families in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley on behalf of Hun Manet, the son of Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-distributing-cash-in-areng-valley-group-denies-cpp-links-86879/
Trafficker linked to ex-court director convicted
A drug dealer who found himself at the center of a high-profile corruption scandal when it emerged that his SUV has been gifted to the son of ousted Phnom Penh Municipal Court director Ang Mealaktei was convicted on Friday, but the court said his car ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/trafficker-linked-to-ex-court-director-convicted-91200/
Thailand to restore rail link with Cambodia
Thailand is hoping to resurrect a rail link with Cambodia to improve transport in the Mekong sub-region, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said on Thursday. ...
Patsara Jikkham
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/transport/671340/thailand-to-restore-rail-link-with-cambodia
Workers Protest at Factory Linked to Manhattan SEZ
More than 3,000 factory workers protested yesterday at the Manhattan Quing Dao Textiles Corp in Kompong Cham Province’s Kompong Siem District to demand that the factory owner abide by an Arbitration Council Ruling issued in late 2010, a union representative said yesterday. The factory web site ...
Protest Continues at Factory Linked to Manhattan SEZ
More than 1500 factory workers yesterday marched from the Manhattan Quing Dao Textiles Corp in Kompong Cham province to the provincial headquarters to ask authorities to force the factory owner to abide by two arbitration council rulings, a union representative and a factory worker said ...
Labor Ministry official's link to agency sparks controversy
Amid mounting concerns over labor recruitment agencies’ treatment of migrant workers, new links were discovered yesterday between agencies and the officials that regulate them, as a daughter of a senior Labor Ministry official was found to be running a major recruitment firm. Nhem Chakrya, deputy director ...
Kratie officials find brewery ‘linked’ to poisoning deaths
Local authorities in Kratie province believe they have identified the source of the deadly rice wine, made with lethal levels of methanol that killed 14 people. The discovery was made after investigations traced the incident to the owner of a brewery who died after drinking ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kratie-officials-find-brewery-linked-poisoning-deaths
Pheap denies link to timber at Mondulkiri ELC
As a national crackdown on illegal logging rumbles on, Try Pheap, Cambodia’s most prominent timber tycoon, issued a public denial of reports that he was linked to an economic land concession (ELC) where authorities found hundreds of cubic metres of potentially illegal timber. ...
Phak Seangly and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pheap-denies-link-timber-mondulkiri-elc
Commuter rail link from city to airport considered
Royal Railways, the company that holds a 30-year concession to operate the Kingdom’s railway network, is conducting a feasibility study on establishing a commuter rail service to run between the capital’s airport and its central district, the company’s chief executive said yesterday. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/commuter-rail-link-city-airport-considered
Local expert claims illegal construction linked to corruption
A local expert has said that with the absence of a master plan for Phnom Penh or a comprehensive construction code, collusion with corrupt officials has led to illegal construction in the city.This claim was solidified last week when the government warned that it would ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/local-expert-claims-illegal-construction-linked-corruption
Pressure on hearings in Vietnam voter link complaints
The National Election Committee (NEC) yesterday changed its procedure for resolving complaints that allege some registered voters are Vietnamese by holding brief, private hearings to speed up the process. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34548/pressure-on-hearings-in-vietnam-voter-link-complaints/
Joint trade commission to foster links with Bangladesh
Bangladesh is rushing to push forward a draft proposal to form a joint trade commission with Cambodia that is expected to be signed this year, an official from Cambodia’s Commerce Ministry said yesterday. Trade between the two developing nations has been minimal, amounting to just ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/joint-trade-commission-foster-links-bangladesh