Export plans on hold
Local instant noodle company Men Sarun failed in its plan to export canned noodles to US markets this year, and an official confirmed that failures stemmed from both the unstable market price and increasing costs of transportation. Choun Kol, deputy general director of Men Sarun Investment, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032264621/Business/export-plans-on-hold.html
Tuk-Tuk Maker Eyes Cambodian Market
Japan-based Terra Motors Corporation viewed Cambodia as a potential market for its electric tuk-tuk, the company’s general manager of overseas sales said yesterday. “We’re thinking of entering the Cambodian market as well. But at this moment, there are no concrete plans. [We] just hope to enter,” ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032964775/Business/tuk-tuk-maker-eyes-cambodian-market.html
U.S. pledges 20 mln USD to WFP for school feeding in Cambodia
The United States has pledged 20 million U.S. dollars over the next three years to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) to carry out school feeding program in Cambodia, said a WFP press release on Tuesday. The statement said the donation, made by the U.S. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-10/08/c_132780183.htm
Geopacific Resources to update capital raising for copper project in Cambodia
Geopacific Resources (ASX: GPR) is in pre-open following the ASX granting the company a trading halt, pending an announcement regarding a proposed capital raising in the form of a placement to sophisticated investors. Geopacific is focused on the highly prospective Kou Sa copper project in Cambodia, ...
Long march to capital begins
The long journey on foot from the provinces to Phnom Penh began yesterday for hundreds of villagers and monks who intend to mark December 10’s International Human Rights Day by protesting outside the National Assembly. Parades of people, expected to grow in size the closer they ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/long-march-capital-begins
Half a million Cambodians affected by land grabs: rights group
More than half a million Cambodians have been affected by land conflicts involving the government since 2000, with more than 2,000 families across the country subjected to largely violent land grabs during the first few months of this year, local rights group Licadho said Tuesday. The ...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/land-04012014170055.html
Phnom Penh port expansion seeks funding solution
With construction on the second phase of a new cargo terminal at the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) set to begin in 2016, officials are now looking for ways to finance the project. Hei Bavy, director general for PPAP, said the $20 million expansion will see ...
Chan Muyhong
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/phnom-penh-port-expansion-seeks-funding-solution
Anti-graft chief says probe into health ministry in ‘final stage’
The head of the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) said Wednesday that he would send officials to Singapore today for the “final stage” of an investigation into corruption within the Health Ministry, first revealed in a probe made public in November last year by the Global Fund ...
Construction sector creates hundred thousands of jobs
The Kingdom’ construction sector has created more than 170,000 jobs in average per day across the country in the first half this year, an increase from 134,000 compared with the same period last year, according to figures from the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning ...
Sorn Sarath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50752957/construction-sector-creates-hundred-thousands-of-jobs/
Huge swathes of land returned to state by evicted encroachers
Kampong Thom provincial authorities have determined that over 10,000ha of flooded forestland located in three different areas near the province’s Tonle Sap Lake shoreline have been illegally encroached upon, with more than 200 families having already returned in excess of 2,000ha of misappropriated land back ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/huge-swathes-land-returned-state-evicted-encroachers
Cambodia embraces intensive livestock production
Cambodia, a Southeast Asian country with 15 million inhabitants, has begun to embrace intensive livestock production despite numerous obstacles. The industry heavily relies on the import of genetics, soybean meal, fish meal, additives, medicines and vaccines. A major constraint preventing producers from taking up intensive ...
China to buy more Cambodian rubber
China is expected to purchase 300,000 tonnes of rubber from Cambodia in 2018, according to a commerce ministry statement. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/40122/china-to-buy-more-cambodian-rubber/
ELC plantation land: use it – or lose it
One decade ago, villagers celebrated when a 10,000 hectare Economic Land Concession here was awarded to a prominent Phnom Penh tycoon. ...
Ven Rathavong and Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13247/elc-plantation-land--use-it-----or-lose-it/
UNICEF steps in to help disabled
UNICEF yesterday awarded $400,000 to six NGOs to work with disabled people around the country through a series of community based programs. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17210/unicef-steps-in-to-help-disabled/
Police arrest five, seize nearly 3kg of drugs, $100K
Police arrested five people in drug raid in Tuol Kork district, and seized nearly 3 kg of drug and about US$100,000. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/police-arrest-five-seize-nearly-3kg-of-drugs-100k-7740
Chinese animal feed mill opens in Cambodia
A Chinese animal feed mill officially opened at the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ) on Aug 28. It is the first animal feed mill from China and the fifth animal feed factory to operate in Cambodia Cambodia has strongly depended on the imports for animal ...
Cambodia may find new rice market in Manila
Low international rice prices have further stymied Cambodia’s milled-rice exports, millers reported yesterday, but large orders – reportedly the first ever – from the Philippines have encouraged at least one of the Kingdom’s biggest rice exporters. Mega Green Imex Cambodia this year to date has received ...
Company Building Lower Sesan 2 Dam Gets OK to Clear Land
Representatives of a massive hydropower dam project in Stung Treng province’s Sesan district approached local authorities late last month informing them that the government had granted the company permission to clear 36,000 hectares of land for a reservoir, officials said on Sunday. The 400-megawatt Lower Sesan ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/company-building-lower-sesan-2-dam-gets-ok-to-clear-land-9252/
Hun Sen Hopes for Increased Rubber Exports
Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday that he hoped land being registered to rural families as part of the government’s nationwide land-titling program would be used to cultivate rubber trees in order to help the country compete with Vietnam as the world’s third-largest rubber exporter. ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-hopes-for-increased-rubber-exports-24502/
Cambodia's rural communities to get sustainable energy access
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Government of Australia are expanding access to economical and reliable energy for rural Cambodian households, including through the promotion of cookstoves in Svay Rieng and Kampong Cham provinces. A $6.1 million Australian Aid grant, administered by ADB, will finance ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=YTc1MDdmNzhlNTM