Templeton Cautions Investors Riding Myanmar, Cambodia Growth
Investors should be cautious when pursuing the opportunities for growth present in Myanmar and Cambodia, southeast Asia’s frontier markets, Templeton Asset Management Ltd. said. In Cambodia, state-owned Phnom Penh Water supply Authority will have its initial public offering this month, making it the first to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Trucks Banned on Phnom Penh Streets for Duration of Summit
Phnom Penh City Hall has banned all trucks transporting goods and gasoline from traveling on the city’s roads in daytime hours to ease traffic during the Asean summit, according to a notice placed on the municipality’s website saturday. The Ministry of Education has also told 12 ss='cambodia-color'>...
No arrests yet in National Assembly attacks
Pressure is growing on investigators probing the savage beating of two opposition lawmakers outside parliament last week, as an official yesterday claimed police needed more time to make arrests.Cambodia National Rescue Party parliamentarians Nhay Chamroeun and Kong sakphea are recovering in a Bangkok hospital after ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/no-arrests-yet-national-assembly-attacks
Preah Sihanouk residents gather in defense of disputed land
Nearly 100 residents from samrong commune’s O’Trachak Chit village in Preah sihanouk province’s Prey Nup district gathered yesterday in front of the provincial hall to ask authorities to expedite the resolution of their year-long land dispute with the provincial Forestry Administration, according to community representatives. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21415/preah-sihanouk-residents-gather-in-defense-of-disputed-land/
Port IPO road show kicks off
On course to become the third listed company on Cambodia’s stock exchange, Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) kicked off a road show for its initial public offering (IPO) yesterday to prospective investors.PPAP, the state enterprise that operates Cambodia’s second-largest port, is seeking to raise up ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/port-ipo-road-show-kicks
Building homes for underserved communities
Despite recent announcements of large development projects throughout Cambodia focusing on so-called “affordable housing” for the emerging middle class, there remains a massive gap in the market for quality affordable housing for the poor; especially the urban poor as more rural Cambodians flock to cities ss='cambodia-color'>...
James Whitehead
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/building-homes-underserved-communities
World Bank says Cambodia will weather China slowdown
The World Bank on Monday stuck to its prediction made in April that the country’s economy would continue to cool off slowly over the next few years and said China’s own slowdown would send only modest ripples through Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/world-bank-says-cambodia-will-weather-china-slowdown-96516/
Kep real estate comes of age
When Dan Kreis, founder, owner and operator of Kep Lodge Eco-Resort, arrived in Kep for the first time in 2005, he found only a handful of locally-owned guesthouses, less than 10 foreign residents, no supermarket, no electricity, no local bar, a coastline littered with little ss='cambodia-color'>...
James Whitehead
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/kep-real-estate-comes-age
Feed mill to take bite out of growing import demand
Chip Mong Group is the latest conglomerate to invest into local production of animal feed, announcing this week that it will sink $60 million into building a large-scale feed mill and industrial piggery, a move that agricultural experts welcomed but said would still not be ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/feed-mill-take-bite-out-growing-import-demand
EU issues support for investment in Kingdom
EU Ambassador Carmen Moreno has vowed to bring more European investors into the Kingdom and pledged to uphold good relations between the EU and Cambodia. During a meeting with senate president say Chhum yesterday, Ambassador Moreno acknowledged the country’s progress and improvement under the government’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50664368/eu-issues-support-for-investment-in-kingdom/
Press release: MoI will conduct the second round of consultation on the amendments to the LANGO
On 28 November 2019, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) posted a press release on the organizing the second round of consultation meeting on the amendments to the Law on Association and Non-Governmental Organization (LANGO), which will be happened on 03rd December 2019 at the “Building ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ministry of Interior
Market Shop Owners Try to Prevent Eviction
Vendors in Phnom Penh’s Ngin An market are protesting a government-backed bid by the market’s new owner to push them out by tomorrow. More than 40 representatives of 223 vendors waved a banner at the market yesterday to protest a letter from Russey Keo District Hall ss='cambodia-color'>...
Fainting workers blame fumes
Almost 150 garment factory workers from two Phnom Penh factories fainted late last week after inhaling toxic fumes used to treat clothes, workers and union leaders said yesterday. The mass faintings came as the Clean Clothes Campaign and Community Legal Education Center released an evaluation report ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012090358448/National-news/fainting-workers-blame-fumes.html
Sihanoukville eviction on hold
The Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court delayed the deStruction of the homeS and SubSequent eviction of 14 familieS embroiled in a land diSpute with a company owned by tycoon Kong Treav in Village 4 of Sihanoukville&rSquo;S Commune 4, local authoritieS Said yeSterday. Though many of the familieS SS='cambodia-color'>...
As Cambodia Courts US Business, Old Problems Remain
As a delegation of Us business owners prepares to travel to Cambodia with Us secretary of state Hillary Clinton, analysts say they will be tough to court, given Cambodia’s lack of law enforcement. “Investors don’t bring guns, they don’t bring bodyguards—they bring money to invest,” said ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ratanakiri deaths 'avoidable'
Better communication from authorities in Cambodia and Vietnam might have prevented the deaths of villagers and the destruction of homes in Ratanakkiri at times when water has been released from Vietnam’s Yali Falls dam, researchers said yesterday. speaking at a national workshop about the Yali Falls ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012102559406/National-news/ratanakkiri-deaths-avoidable.html
Exports to US rise by 0.2 per cent
Cambodia’s total exports to the United states increased by 0.2 per cent over the first 10 months of the year, a year-on-year analysis from the Us Department of Commerce showed. The data showed exports to the Us totalled $2.296 billion between January and October this ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2012122160403/Business/exports-to-us-rise-by-0-2pc.html
Thai Representative Meets With Koh Kong ‘Blood Sugar’ Families
Some 200 Koh Kong farmerS locked in a long-running land diSpute with two Sugar plantationS met TueSday with a repreSentative of the Thailand-baSed ownerS for the firSt time Since the land diS&Shy;pute began in 2006. Khamrom Phochai, a Thai national and repreSentative of Thai&Shy;land&rSquo;S Khon Kaen SS='cambodia-color'>...
Tobacco Harvest Hurt by Rains, Fewer Farmers
Rainfall during this year’s dry season and fewer farmers cultivating tobacco has resulted in a shortage of raw tobacco and a steep price increase, industry officials and farmers said yesterday. Tola Ponlu, head of corporate and regulatory affairs at British American Tobacco (BAT) in Phnom Penh, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Rights worker's hearing delayed
A Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge yesterday approved a proposal to delay the case against human-rights worker Chan soveth, according to his employer, Adhoc. soveth has been accused of providing assistance to “specific perpetrators”. Although the court did not provide names, an anonymous court official recently ss='cambodia-color'>...