UN extolls power of tech in goals to development
Private-sector investment into technology can help developing countries meet the UN’s sustainable Development Goals (sDG), representatives said yesterday at a conference, sparking debate on how Cambodian entrepreneurs can incorporate humanitarian goals into core business operations. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/un-extolls-power-tech-goals-development
Minister lays out Sihanoukville tourism plans
The Ministry of Tourism (MoT) has announced plans to strengthen the image of sihanoukville’s coast as a tourism destination, with authorities expecting the province to surpass the two-million mark in tourist arrivals in 2017. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5088047/minister-lays-sihanoukville-tourism-plans/
Anti-fraud software firm draws major clients
A year after a local technology company introduced new software to combat financial crime in Cambodia, four banks have started using the system to fight against money laundering and terrorism financing, the company’s executive said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/anti-fraud-software-firm-draws-major-clients
CPP spokesman and former Kem Sokha colleague questioned
Cambodian People’s Party spokesman Chhim Phal Virun was questioned Tuesday morning as a witness in the “treason” charges brought against former opposition leader Kem sokha, his former colleague at the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR). ss='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-spokesman-and-former-kem-sokha-colleague-questioned
New dam on Mekong looms
Representatives from Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam gathered in Vientiane on Thursday to launch a six-month consultation process on what would be the third mainstream hydropower dam in Laos’s Lower Mekong River. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-dam-mekong-looms
IT sector stumbles on skills gap
Cambodia’s nascent information technology (IT) sector faces an enormous skills gap that is slowing the industry’s development, increasing costs for businesses and affecting the competitiveness of firms in the Kingdom, according to a report released yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/it-sector-stumbles-skills-gap
Kampong Speu pond digging unearths 350kg bomb
The Cambodian Mine Action Centre yesterday retrieved and neutralised a massive M117 bomb from Kampong speu province’s Prek Kmeng commune, and safely detonated four smaller bombs found in Preah sihanouk province on the same day. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampong-speu-pond-digging-unearths-350kg-bomb
Task force grills officials over allegations of graft
Two military commanders, a military police commander and a provincial police chief in Mondulkiri were questioned by the national military police’s anti-logging task force yesterday for their alleged involvement in a Vietnamese timber smuggling operation. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/task-force-grills-officials-over-allegations-graft
HKL gets $15 million to grow MFI operations
Cambodian microlender Hattha Kaksekar Ltd (HKL) has secured a $15 million cash injection to expand its business operations from its parent company, Thailand’s Bank of Ayudhya, Hout Ieng Tong, president and CEO of HKL, confirmed yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Phnom Penh Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hkl-gets-15-million-grow-mfi-operations
Iraqi team arrives for training with CMAC
For the second year running, a delegation of Iraqi demining trainees have come to the Kingdom for a training programme at the Cambodian Mine Action Centre’s (CMAC) Technical Institute of Mine Action in Kampong Chhnang province. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/iraqi-team-arrives-training-cmac
Villagers protest over Kandal development
About 300 villagers from Kandal province’s Kandal stueng district who are locked in a land dispute with the Heng Development Company gathered in front of the provincial hall yesterday asking for help in solving their case. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50109479/villagers-protest-kandal-development/
Coal outgrows hydropower
As Cambodia’s demand for electricity grows and domestic energy production increases, new data released from the Ministry of Mines and Energy yesterday show that coal-fired energy generation surpassed hydroelectricity for the first time last year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/coal-outgrows-hydropower
Acleda to issue new ATM cards
Acleda Bank will issue new ATM, debit and credit cards to all its customers nationwide with the new bank logo, in compliance with an order issued by the Council of Ministers, said the bank’s CEO yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35668/acleda-to-issue-new-atm-cards/
Investment fund suggested for Cambodia
Industrial insiders and experts on the Kingdom’s nascent stock market have suggested the government set up a fund as an investment vehicle designed to broaden the local public investor base, based on The Thai Fund (TTF). ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36361/investment-fund-suggested-for-cambodia/
Water utility widens revenue stream
The capital’s listed water utility inaugurated a new treatment facility yesterday that will increase its production capacity of clean water by 30 percent, and add to its revenue stream – a move likely to impress its shareholders. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/water-utility-widens-revenue-stream
$5 million horticulture project
New Zealand is to provide $5 million to support the sustainable development of horticulture over a five-year period in Cambodia, New Zealand’s foreign minister Gerry Brownlee announced on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5077252/5-million-horticulture-project/
Life in the dark amid broken power promises
In Svay Rieng province&rSquo;S Bati commune, electricity poleS and wireS Sprung up five yearS ago in Thnanh village but power Still haS not run through them, leaving villagerS reliant upon batterieS and moSt recently, Solar panelS. SS='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5079925/life-dark-amid-broken-power-promises/
Sesan dam families ask PM for help
Ten representatives of 143 indigenous families affected by the development of the Lower sesan II hydropower dam in stung Treng province gathered yesterday to submit a petition to the Interior Ministry and the Prime Minister’s cabinet. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5080579/sesan-dam-families-ask-pm-help/
Cambodia does not need international recognition for upcoming elections: PM
The result of Cambodia’s 2018 national election does not need the United Nations’ recognition and the country is determined to hold elections on schedule, said Prime Minister Hun sen on Thursday (Jan 18). ss='cambodia-color'>...
Maruhan Japan Bank buys stake in MFI
Maruhan Japan Bank yesterday became the first commercial bank in Cambodia to make a direct equity investment into a microfinance institution by becoming sathapana’s majority shareholder, with a 95.1 per cent stake. Financial details were not disclosed. ss='cambodia-color'>...