Taiwan's 2015 overseas property investments likely to grow sharply
Taiwan’s outbound property investments are likely to increase significantly in 2015 amid growing interest in overseas markets and a slowdown in the domestic market, an investment consulting firm in Taipei said Saturday. Taiwan’s property investors are also looking at opportunities in emerging markets, including Vietnam ...
The China Post News Staff
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2015/02/23/429470/Taiwans-2015.htm
Successful drug raid nabs 3 as arrests continue to increase
Police arrested three people and confiscated about 1 kg of methamphetamine pills in a raid in Kompong Chhnang province on Saturday afternoon, the latest case in a year that has seen nearly three times as many meth busts as in the same period last year, ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/successful-drug-raid-nabs-3-as-arrests-continue-to-increase-96373/
US businesses optimistic
Half of US businesses operating in Cambodia believe that political stability in the country is such that they are confident in expanding their operations, according to an annual report by the American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore and the US Chamber of Commerce’s International Affairs ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28690/us-businesses-optimistic/
Seventh Chinese man arrested for kidnapping
Military police in Phnom Penh on Wednesday arrested a seventh suspect in the kidnapping of three Chinese men freed on Monday from their captors, who had detained them for two months in a bid to make them pay back loans with the help of their ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/seventh-chinese-man-arrested-for-kidnapping-103263/
Fisheries earnings scaled up
Earnings in the fishing sector rose by 62 percent during the first nine months of the year. However, growth in exports of inland fish as well as in marine production was flat during the January-September period compared with the same period in 2016. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5087445/fisheries-earnings-scaled/
Cambodia’s property market continues to trend upwards, evolve
2015 saw a spike in foreign direct investment (FDI), and the property sector was a big benefactor of these investments both in terms of headline investments in new development projects, and also from foreign individuals investing in one or numerous condos, SoHo units or strata ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/cambodias-property-market-continues-trend-upwards-evolve
Press release on Japanese grants for rehabilitation of road and improvement of healthcare
On 05 December 2017, the Japanese Government provides the Grants for KUSANONE Projects, US$ 329,736 in total, to rehabilitate a road in Preah Vihear Province, construct health centers in Kratie and Kandal Provinces, and install medical equipment at Angkor Hospital for Children in Siem Reap ...
Embassy of Japan in Cambodia
Sub-decree could back evicted villagers’ claims
A little-publicized sub-decree signed in July and discovered by the Post yesterday in an NGO database raises questions as to whether the eviction on Saturday of six ethnic Kuoy families in Preah Vihear was in contravention of an order by Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...
Jack Davies and Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sub-decree-could-back-evicted-villagers-claims
Boeung Kok residents petition World Bank over years-long land dispute
Residents of property development site, Boeung Kok, on Thursday gathered in front of an office of World Bank in Phnom Penh in order to present petition to the World Bank. They were seeking intervention from the World Bank to help solve years-long land dispute in their ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=YjgxMzRkNGNkZDQ
Ms. SIN Kim Sean
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Ms. SIN Kim Sean is the Deputy Chief of Party and Grants Manager in the East-West Management Institute’s Program on Cambodian Civil Society Strengthening (CCSS). She is a lawyer, an arbitrator in labor field for Arbitration Council and arbitrator in commercial field for Cambodia’s National ...
HLH to Expand With Corn, Rice Plantations
Singapore-listed firm HLH Group is planning to expand its presence in Cambodia with 90,000 hectares of corn, rice and soybean plantations planned over the next decade in Kompong Speu and Koh Kong provinces, an official at the company said yesterday. HLH Group came under scrutiny ...
(Simon Marks and Kuch Naren, p 29)
http://www.camnet.com.kh/cambodia.daily/
Gov’t Reveals Chinese, Korean Railway Plans
The Chinese and South Korean governments have been granted permission to build 565 km of new railroad in Cambodia and have already conducted feasibility studies, according to a government report released yesterday. In its annual report, the Ministry of Public Works and Transport said that plans ...
District Police Chief Removed Over Link to Sale of State Land
A district police chief in Kampong Chhnang province has been removed from his post over his alleged involvement in the sale of almost 130 hectares of state land to private buyers, provincial officials said yesterday. Kim Sareth, the chief of police in Toek Phos district, was ...
Finance Minister Lauds Boeng Kak's Tax Bill
The Finance Ministry has sent a letter to well-known businesswoman Choeung Sopheap thanking her for paying her taxes on the highly controversial filling in of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak lake, and holding her firm up as an example of corporate professionalism. Though Shukaku Inc., which is ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/finance-minister-lauds-boeng-kaks-tax-bill-11863/
Cambodia growth to continue, but development faces shortfalls
Despite steady economic growth in recent years, Cambodia remains one of the least-developed countries in the Asia-Pacific region and faces the challenge of diversifying its economy and moving up the production value chain, the U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) ...
Lauren Crothers, P. 20
http://The Cambodia Daily
Cambodia to receive 4.5 million tourists by 2015
Cambodia expects to welcome 4.5 million tourists by 2015, increasing from 3.5 million in 2012, thanks to its cultural properties, Prime Minister Hun Sen said. “Undoubtedly, heritage and cultural tourism are playing a substantial part in this growth. Twenty years ago, when Angkor was inscribed on ...
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=MDI0MmQ3MGJlNmR
Second strike for gold prospector
Australia-listed Geopacific Resources announced yesterday it had made a second gold discovery in the Prospect 181 area of the Kou Sa project in the northern Preah Vihear province. The discovery in the Chep district near the Laos border came about three months after the first ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50302967/second-strike-for-gold-prospector/
World Bank to re-engage after five-year absence
The World Bank has approved $130 million in developmental aid aimed at reducing poverty in Cambodia, signalling its first direct re-engagement with the Kingdom since it left in protest in 2011 after one of the largest forceful evictions led by the government displaced more than ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/world-bank-re-engage-after-five-year-absence
Forest protection saves village
The story of the Oum Saom forestry community in Kampong Thom province is one that has been told in various forms hundreds of times in Cambodia: local residents locked in a seemingly never-ending battle against a company aiming to cut down their local forest and ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32690/forest-protection-saves-village/
Land dispute activist arrested
A representative of villagers in a land dispute in Oddar Meanchey province’s Anlong Veng district was arrested on Wednesday for alleged property damage. Sat Bora, 34, has been representing 122 families in Anlong Veng commune, who have been locked in a land dispute with authorities for ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50108979/land-dispute-activist-arrested/