Firms urged to take rail route
Prime Minister Hun sen urged logistics companies transporting heavy goods to switch from container truck shipping to rail shipments, increasing cost efficiency while sparing the nation’s roads from load damage. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/firms-urged-take-rail-route
True money to extend services to Niron MFI
Mobile payment provider True Money Cambodia signed a memorandum of understanding with local microfinance institution Niron Mikroheranhvatho Plc on Friday to facilitate bill payments for the microlender’s 60,000 customers. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/true-money-extend-services-niron-mfi
Cambodian journalists to receive training in the US
Cambodian journalists will visit the U.s. to observe the presidential election in November to learn from their American colleagues’ experience of covering the polls, a media development group has said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Say Mony
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodian-journalists-to-receive-training-in-the-us/3313932.html
Mango exports to EU growing
Almost 60 tons of Cambodian mangoes were exported to the European Union during the harvesting season this year, according to Mong Reththy, who runs the country’s largest agricultural export company. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24859/mango-exports-to-eu-growing/
Ground water may be over-exploited: NGOs
Over-exploitation of the Kingdom’s underground water sources has contributed to the water scarcity problem faced by the country during the past two years of drought, relief organisations said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ground-water-may-be-over-exploited-ngos
Tigers and tubers—secrets of Bunong healers
When French pharmacologist Francois Chassagne set out to catalogue traditional medicine used by Cambodia’s Bunong ethnic minority group in 2013, he came across a surprising remedy for burns: tiger breastmilk. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tigers-and-tubers-secrets-of-bunong-healers-114163/
Police detain five following slaying of Chinese woman
Authorities have detained five Chinese nationals for questioning following the brutal slaying of a Chinese woman at her apartment in Phnom Penh’s Pur senchey district on sunday evening, police said on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-detain-five-following-slaying-of-chinese-woman-100506/
Ministry orders unlicensed Chinese firms to suspend work
Officials say a pair of Chinese companies have started construction on two residential building projects in Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon district without proper authorization and have ordered them to cease work immediately. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-orders-unlicensed-chinese-firms-to-suspend-work-100992/
Kampong Speu garment workers continue strike
Protesting working conditions, nearly 300 garment workers in Kampong speu’s Chbar Mon town entered their tenth day of strikes yesterday as the Arbitration Council prepared paperwork to resolve the dispute. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampong-speu-garment-workers-continue-strike
Defence Minister meets Cambodian veterans
The Vietnam People’s Army will work hard to preserve, cement and develop the solidarity between Vietnam and Cambodia, Minister of Defence General Phung Quang Thanh said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vietnamnet News Staff
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/government/149144/defence-minister-meets-cambodian-veterans.html
NGOs say HIV tests in Peam must go on
Multiple Cambodian HIV NGOs yesterday questioned the wisdom of discontinuing mass HIV testing at Kandal province’s Peam village, where a disproportionate cluster of infections has been discovered in recent weeks. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-say-hiv-tests-peam-must-go
Sixty-five illegal workers arrested in capital
Cambodia’s Immigration Police raided a Phnom Penh construction site yesterday, detaining 65 out of 109 Vietnamese laborers who were found to be working illegally in Niroth commune, Chbar Ampov district. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22804/sixty-five-illegal-workers-arrested-in-capital/
Beachfront evictions to begin in Sihanoukville next week
The eviction of businesses along sihanoukville’s popular O’Chheuteal Beach will begin as early as Monday, after the provincial governor returns from a trip abroad, an official said on Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/beachfront_evictions_to_begin-110076/
CRF to register ‘Angkor Malis’ brand and logo
The Cambodian Rice Federation (CRF) will officially register the name “Angkor Malis” in June as the umbrella brand for the Kingdom’s premium varieties of fragrant rice, a representative said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/crf-register-angkor-malis-brand-and-logo
Cambodian Public Bank symbolizes close ties between Malaysia and Cambodia
Malaysia’s award-winning Public Bank, which is celebrating its 50th Golden Jubilee this year, is one of the first foreign banks to open its door in Cambodia in 1992. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Time Team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25641/cambodian-public-bank-symbolizes-close-ties--between-malaysia-and-cambodia/
Wing to process business registry fees
The Ministry of Commerce has tapped Wing (Cambodia) Ltd specialised Bank to be the fourth financial institution designated to handle payments for companies incorporated using the ministry’s online registration system. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/wing-process-business-registry-fees
Cambodia asks East Timor to import rice, sugar
Cambodia is seeking to export milled rice and sugar to East Timor, according to the Ministry of Commerce, with experts saying it will expand markets for the Kingdom’s agricultural products. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28511/cambodia-asks-east-timor-to-import-rice--sugar/
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. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/city-aims-address-markets-trash-problem
Business briefs
The country’s two largest ports saw traffic jump in the first eight months of this year, compared to the same period last year, according to figures released by the port authorities Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15712/business-briefs/
Death toll on roads at more than 1,800 so far
More than 1,800 people have died on Cambodia’s roads so far this year, representing an almost 4 per cent increase in casualties compared to the same period in 2014. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda and Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/death-toll-roads-more-1800-so-far