NEC defends printing of extra ballots for vote
The National Election Committee yesterday defended its decision to print 1.5 million extra ballots for the upcoming commune elections, saying the chances of misuse were minimal given better identification systems – though the opposition and civil society remained unconvinced. ...
Touch Sokha and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-defends-printing-extra-ballots-vote
Cambodia Offers Rice To Indonesia - Bernama
Indonesia will soon sign a contract to import 100, 000 metric tones of rice from Cambodia over the next 5 years On his part, Hun Sen invited Indonesian Investors to invest in poor harvest businesses such as rice hulling in Cambodia ...
Woori to buy Cambodian microfinance institution
Woori Bank has decided to acquire Cambodia’s microfinance institution Malis Finance for 5 billion won ($4.9 million) to accelerate its global expansion. The Financial Services Commission approved Woori Bank’s acquisition of Malis on Wednesday, according to bank officials. ...
Suk Gee-hyun
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20140619000883
Cambodia grants work cards to 25,000 foreigners in six months
Cambodia’s Ministry of Labor granted about 25,000 work permits to foreigners in the first six months of 2015, about 5,000 more than the total of last year, a local newspaper reported Friday. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6617771/2015/07/17/cambodia-grants-work-cards-25000-foreigners-six-months
Cambodia receives 2.3 mln foreign tourists in 1st half of 2015
Cambodia attracted about 2.3 million foreign visitors in the first six months of 2015, an increase of 5.6 percent compared with the same period last year, Tourism Minister Thong Khon said Tuesday. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-08/11/c_134504960.htm
New climate plan launched
The Environment Ministry in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) yesterday launched a $5 million, five-year plan to mitigate the effects of climate change on rural communities in four Cambodian provinces. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-climate-plan-launched
China-aided 2023 SEA Games stadium symbolises close Sino-Cambodian ties
Travelling along National Road 5 in the north of Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, tourists can easily spot a mammoth sailing ship-shaped structure – the China-funded Morodok Techo National Stadium. ...
National exam monitors recruited
The Anti-Corruption Unit yesterday started registering volunteer observers for the Grade 12 National Exam to monitor the process and guard against cheating. The ACU said it needed between 4,500 and 5,000 volunteer observers for the August 20 exam. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50510375/national-exam-monitors-recruited/
‘Anarchic’ cottage residents agree to relocate willingly
Forty-five families from Commune IV in Preah Sihanouk province’s Mittapheap district on Thursday said they would willingly dismantle their makeshift homes and relocate in exchange for 5m by 20m plots of land in Kbal Chhay district. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anarchic-cottage-residents-agree-relocate-willingly
Current account deficit rises to $542M in 4Q15
Cambodia’s current account balance deficit was the equivalent of $542 million in the fourth quarter of 2015, the equivalent of 11.5 per cent of GDP, the National Bank of Cambodia said in a report released yesterday. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/current-account-deficit-rises-542m-4q15
Cambodia begins minimum wage talks after Myanmar Government approves salary for garment workers
Cambodia’s 700,000 garment and footwear workers currently earn a minimum wage of $128 a month. Last year, the lowest legal salary for Cambodian workers in the $5.7 billion industry was only $100 per month. ...
Factory agrees to stop poisoning neighbors
About 60 families in Battambang town gathered yesterday to demand that the owner of an ice-making factory stop releasing polluted water into the creek that runs through their neighborhood in Romchek village 5 as well as on their land. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22273/factory-agrees-to-stop-poisoning-neighbors/
Old debt on agenda for PM’s Russia visit
Prime Minister Hun Sen will attempt to renegotiate the $1.5 billion of Soviet-era debt Cambodia accrued during the 1980s when he visits Russia in May, according to a post on the premier’s Facebook page. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/old-debt-agenda-pms-russia-visit
Budget backed without support
Members of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party voted in the National Assembly yesterday to back a 2017 national budget that outlines spending of $5 billion, but opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) members refused to give it their support. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32306/budget-backed-without-support/
Roadside families protest at City Hall
Nearly 100 residents living along a stretch of land running from a railway in Boeung Kak to National Road 5 have gathered again outside City Hall to demand information about the development of a new road threatening to destroy their homes. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38081/roadside-families--protest-at-city-hall/
Ministry says most NGOs ignore tax requirements
Only 200 of some 5,000 domestic NGOs have submitted required banking details to the Interior Ministry, its spokesman said on Monday, as the government steps up enforcement of tax requirements on organizations that may have racked up huge unpaid bills. ...
Hang Sokunthea and Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-says-most-ngos-ignore-tax-requirements-133324/
SL factory owners deny agreement
Just as a solution to a two-week-long dispute at two SL Garment factories seemed over on Saturday, the company’s owner issued a statement refusing to recognise an agreement that had lured more than 5,000 employees back to work. ...
ACLEDA capitalises for growth
ACLEDA Bank, the largest locally owned commercial bank in Cambodia, said it has raised its current registered capital by $72.5 million, to $185.6 million, for business expansion domestically and internationally. It is the tenth time the bank has done so. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052365788/Business/acleda-capitalises-for-growth.html
Cambodia sees rise in trade with U.S.
Bilateral trade between Cambodia and the United States was valued at 3.17 billion U.S. dollars in 2014, a 5 percent rise from 3.01 billion U.S. dollars in 2013, the figures of the U.S. Department of Commerce showed Friday. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2015-02/06/c_133975310.htm
Shoot-out after Laotians snared in drug sting
Stung Treng provincial military police and at least four Laotian drug smugglers exchanged gunfire along the Lao border Tuesday after a man was arrested for attempting to sell more than 1.5 kg of crystal methamphetamine to undercover officers, an official said Wednesday. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/shoot-out-after-laotians-snared-in-drug-sting-78704/