Raid nets fake Carabao energy-drink labels
Police in Phnom Penh raided a factory on Monday, collecting thousands of items of evidence linked to an alleged counterfeiting scheme producing soft drinks illegally marked with the logo of a popular regional brand. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/raid-nets-fake-carabao-energy-drink-labels
Raid nets fake Carabao energy-drink labels
Police in Phnom Penh raided a factory on Monday, collecting thousands of items of evidence linked to an alleged counterfeiting scheme producing soft drinks illegally marked with the logo of a popular regional brand. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/raid-nets-fake-carabao-energy-drink-labels
Former maid stopped with ‘fake’ ID doc
Thai authorities on Tuesday arrested a former Cambodian maid and her Malaysian boyfriend as they allegedly attempted to enter Cambodia using fake passports at the Poipet border checkpoint yesterday after travelling overland from Malaysia, border officials said yesterday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/former-maid-stopped-fake-id-doc
Welder jailed 5 years for fake money
Som Sitha, a local welder, was sentenced to five years in prison yesterday by the Phnom Penh Court of First Instance yesterday, for passing counterfeit money. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15208/welder-jailed-5-years-for-fake-money/
Mr. PUTH Chan Choth
Mr. PUTH Chan Choth is an ICT manager of an international humanitarian organization in Cambodia. He is also a technical working group of CCC (Cooperation Committee for Cambodia) that help to contribute an effective use of ICT for civil society organizations as well as contributing ...
Cambodian, Chinese Firms Sign Cassava Purchase Agreement
The China National Food Industry (Group) Corp and Cambodia’s Le Ye Rubber Co. on Sunday signed a cassava purchase deal. The agreement was signed between Cai Yongfeng, the president of China National Food Industry Group, and Gao Hong Zhi, CEO of Le Ye Rubber Co. ...
http://cambodiatodayz.com/cambodian-chinese-firms-sign-cassava-purchase-agreement.html
Cambodia's energy costs deter investors
Cambodia’s infrastructure is deterring highly anticipated investment into the production of raw materials to support its rapidly growing garment sector, experts say. While garment exports rose 10.2 per cent to $5.48 billion last year, the increase of raw materials imported to support this growth increased about ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013020761221/Business/cambodia-s-energy-costs-deter-investors.html
Environment Minister Defends Concessions
Environment Minister Mok Mareth yesterday defended the recent surge of economic land concessions granted by his ministry inside the country’s enviornmental conservation areas, saying that they would do more to help the areas than hurt them. Mr Mareth’s comments came while responding to questions at ...
Sand dredging deja-vu
They thought the days of scenic sunsets ruined by the noise and pollution of dredgers on the Tatai River were over, but villagers and business owners in the popular tourism destination now say they were duped in a promise from ruling party Senator Ly Yong ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011122753640/National-news/sand-dredging-deja-vu.html
Tate & Lyle Defends Sugar Plantation Deal In Koh Kong
A U.K. firm being sued by 200 Cambodian farmers over the loss of their land to two sugar plantations has defended its business dealings, claiming that the affected families were dealt with legally and were properly compensated for the loss of their properties. Local farmers ...
SL reps, unionists to sign deal to end strike
A nearly four-month strike, punctuated by a violent clash between unionists and police that left one bystander dead, could come to an end this afternoon. Officials from SL Garment Processing (Cambodia) Ltd and the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (C.CAWDU) – which represents a ...
Sean Teehan and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sl-reps-unionists-sign-deal-end-strike
Electric car is still on the charger
What happened to Cambodia’s electric car? The short answer is, the wait continues. More than seven months after its owners unveiled the new and improved Angkor EV 2013 to great fanfare, they are chronically short of funding and assembly is taking place in piecemeal fashion. Seang Chan ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/electric-car-still-charger
Koh Kong activists charged
Two Mother Nature activists arrested after filming suspected sand-bearing vessels have been charged with incitement and making unauthorised recordings of a person in “a private place” – an offence that drew skepticism yesterday, given they were in their own boat in the open ocean when ...
Phak Seangly and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-kong-activists-charged
Koh Kong pagodas threatened
Prak Thon says he will give up everything to stop a Chinese company from destroying his pagoda in Koh Kong province’s Kiri Sakor district. “I’ll allow them to demolish my house, but I will not allow them to destroy the pagoda. I’m satisfied if I die, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012070257150/National-news/koh-kong-pagodas-threatened.html
Hong Kong ready to provide technical assistance for Cambodia’s E-Commerce
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China has expressed its readiness to cooperate and provide technical assistance for Cambodia in the field of e-commerce. ...
Macau To Cambodia Route ‘In Negotiation’
A new air route may connect Macau and Cambodia this year, a move industry experts say would reduce travel costs in the region and reflects tourist interests in both destinations’ gambling industries. Several airlines are in contact with CAM, Macau International Airport Co, “seeking to launch ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050865475/Business/macau-to-cambodia-route-in-negotiation.html
Deutsche Bank, IFC Rubber Investments Questioned
Deutsche Bank and the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) have poured millions of dollars into Vietnamese rubber companies operating in Cambodia that have engaged in illegal logging and forced evictions of local farmers, the environmental rights group Global Witness says in a new report ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/deutsche-bank-ifc-rubber-investments-questioned-23598/
Activist calls for Areng crocodile preservation in Koh Kong’s Areng area
Mother Nature Cambodia environmental activists will submit a proposal to the Ministry of Environment and Fauna & Flora International (FFI), requesting for releasing Areng crocodiles in the Areng area of Chumnap commune, Thma Bang district, Koh Kong province for preservation purpose. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activist-calls-areng-crocodile-preservation-koh-kongs-areng-area
Koh Kong’s first coal-fired plant up in the air: Ministry
The investors of a project to build the first coal-fired power plant in Koh Kong province are still looking for buyers, according to the Ministry of Mines and Energy. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50643517/koh-kongs-first-coal-fired-plant-up-in-the-air-ministry/
Life as Living Nightmare Along National Route 6a
Two years after Prime Minister Hun Sen broke ground on a Chinese-funded project to widen National Road 6a in order to expand its capacity as a major trade and tourism thoroughfare, life for the tens of thousands of families living along the 50-km stretch of ...
Hul Reaksmey and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/life-as-living-nightmare-along-national-route-6a-51156/