Girl freed from T&P training centre
The Association of Cambodian Recruitment Agencies will consider kicking its most notorious member, T&P Co Ltd, out of the association if the company is found to have falsified documents to conceal the age of a 15-year-old girl rescued from its training centre last week. ACRA ss='cambodia-color'>...
Floods force GDP revision
Cambodia has lowered its economic growth projection from 7 to 6 per cent for 2011 after more than a month of flood devastation in the Kingdom and continued economic turmoil in the United states and Europe, Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon said yesterday. The full impact ss='cambodia-color'>...
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PPWSA makes pitch to investors before IPO
Trading on the Cambodian SecuritieS Exchange Should begin at the end of March aS the Kingdom&rSquo;S firSt Stock, Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority, prepareS to conSult and Share information with potential inveStorS thiS week. The company would hoSt a “roadShow” for inveStorS in anticipation of itS SS='cambodia-color'>...
Lake Residents Granted Bloc of Development Land
Thousands of Boeung Kak lake residents who have been fighting a protracted battle with Phnom Penh and a development company have seen their fortunes reversed and have been granted a small plot of land on which to resettle. Prime Minister Hun sen signed a subdecree ss='cambodia-color'>...
Milled rice exports fall in January
Some of Cambodia&rSquo;S biggeSt exporterS have experienced a Sizeable decline in milled-rice ShipmentS thiS month, with one inSider putting the number aS high aS 40 per cent year-on-year. The waning figure StandS in Stark contraSt to laSt year&rSquo;S milled-rice export numberS, which increaSed about 22 per SS='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Mony sued over strike
Kampong Chhnang Provincial Court has summonsed Free Trade Union president Chea Mony and two of his officers to answer incitement charges at the court tomorrow relating to his alleged involvement in a mass strike at a garment factory last year, officials said yesterday. M&V garment factory ss='cambodia-color'>...
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Research differentiates investing in stock exchanges from gambling at the casino
One of the men deeply involved in the development of Cambodia’s financial system, Dr Ghanty sam, of the Financial Institute of Cambodia, who is also a board member of the securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia, says people should be aware of the downside of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Open Development Cambodia has added one new feature of Cambodia-Sino Metallic Material SEZ on Special Economic Zones (SEZs) profile page
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has just published a new online resource detailing on 39 special Economic Zones in Cambodia along with comprehensive references which are accessible and available in bilingual versions, Khmer and English. Together with the website’s map web tool, this profile page aims ss='cambodia-color'>...
Government urged to pursue corrupt oknhas
Following the release of the Ministry of Environment’s annual report, eco-activists have urged it to crack down on influential oknhas who allegedly flouted the Kingdom’s environmental protection laws. A total of 278 cases of natural resource crimes were sent to Cambodian courts in the first ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-urged-pursue-corrupt-oknhas
KrisEnergy signs letter of award for Cambodia oil mini-platform
KrisEnergy (Apsara) Co Ltd signed a conditional letter of award with PT Profab for the supply of a minimum facilities wellhead “mini-platform” for the Apsara oilfield – Cambodia’s maiden oil development – its singapore-based parent company KrisEnergy Ltd said on Wednesday. The move is a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/krisenergy-signs-letter-award-cambodia-oil-mini-platform
Chinese eye asset management
A group of Chinese investors has expressed interest in investing in Cambodia’s asset management sector and tapping into the vast opportunities for businesses and investments brought about by the Kingdom’s current economic development. Kao Thach, the CEO of state-owned Rural Development Bank (RDB), met with a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chinese-eye-asset-management
Obtain quality certification, rubber industry owners told
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has called on rubber industry owners to obtain quality certification for their product to boost rubber prices. The ministry’s director of the Department of Administration and Legislation under the ministry’s General Directorate of Rubber Khuon Phalla spoke to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/obtain-quality-certification-rubber-industry-owners-told
EU ambassador expresses hope for Kingdom retaining EBA status
New EU ambassador to Cambodia Carmen Moreno met with National Assembly president Heng samrin and expressed her interest in helping Cambodia retain the “Everything But Arms” (EBA) agreement. Moreno paid a courtesy call on samrin at the National Assembly on Tuesday on her first day ss='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/eu-ambassador-expresses-hope-kingdom-retaining-eba-status
ASEAN push for integration
ASEAN economic miniSterS on Friday agreed to Spur Stronger cooperation and make more of an effort to enhance the region&rSquo;S integration in preparation for the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015. Speaking during the preSS conference on the cloSing of the 44th ASEAN Economic MiniSterS&rSquo; Meeting SS='cambodia-color'>...
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B Kak Woman Arrested
Prominent Boeung Kak villager and protester Yorm Bopha was yesterday jailed in Phnom Penh’s Prey sar prison, after she and her husband – en route to check for their names on a voting register – were pounced on by police in plain clothes in what ss='cambodia-color'>...
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Officials cheated me: farmer
A cassava grower in siem Reap’s srei snom district has accused a district police chief and a deputy commune chief of cheating him out of his land after they doctored the grower’s testimony in a court case. Em socheat, a lawyer for land owner Yem savuth, ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012090458481/National-news/officials-cheated-me-farmer.html
PM will hand-deliver titles
Prime Minister Hun sen will personally deliver land titles to residents in Kratie province’s snuol district on september 21 following the completion of the land measuring mission by volunteer youth there. According to the premier’s order, land titles have been granted in three forms of ss='cambodia-color'>...
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'Outsiders' Accused of Interference in Sonando Case
The Foreign Affairs Ministry has fired back at criticism over the conviction of independent radio station owner Mam sonando on insurrection charges, accusing “outsiders” of seeking to interfere in the judicial system. supporters say the case against Mr. sonando for allegedly leading an anti-government movement ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/outsiders-accused-of-interference-in-sonando-case/
Deported home in disgrace
A Chinese woman found guilty of intentionally causing damage after tearing up photos of the late King Father was deported yesterday morning – a mere two days after the crime occurred. Wang Zia Chao, 43, who on Tuesday was given a suspended one-year prison sentence, left ss='cambodia-color'>...
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