On the World Cup clock
It’s day seven of the FIFA World Cup, and the night staff at Phnom Penh’s popular score sports Bar and Grill are looking a bit sleep-deprived. score is paying its staff “very well” in extra wages during the World Cup for the long nights they ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/world-cup-clock
Talks could broaden: analysts
While a bipartisan election reform committee meeting today is meant only to discuss technical reforms and leave key political concessions to future top-level talks, observers yesterday said a lot more is likely to be on the table. That hope comes despite public barbs having been traded ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/talks-could-broaden-analysts
Firm begins process to determine IPO share price
Grand Twins International (Cambodia) Plc., a manufacturer of clothes for U.s. athletic brands, on Monday will begin recording investor demands to determine the price for an initial public offering (IPO) as part of the last steps to list on the Cambodian stock Exchange (CsX), though ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/firm-begins-process-to-determine-ipo-share-price-53869/
Rainsy says CNRP could end Assembly Boycott Friday
Opposition leader sam Rainsy said that he made “tentative” plans with Prime Minister Hun sen on Wednesday to appear before King Norodom sihamoni on Friday to sign a deal ending the CNRP’s boycott of its 55 National Assembly seats. Government and CPP officials said they could ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rainsy-says-cnrp-could-end-assembly-boycott-friday-56266/
PM ends exile gov’t talk
Prime Minister Hun sen said yesterday that his government will work with the Thai junta that came to power in a coup last week, and quashed speculation that the ousted shinawatra clan may be allowed to set up a government in exile in Cambodia. In a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-ends-exile-gov%E2%80%99t-talk
Cambodia revising gambling laws to attract investment
The Cambodian government is in the process of amending its gaming laws in a bid to draw major casino operators, industry sources have confirmed to GGRAsia. Earlier on Tuesday, the Phnom Penh Post reported that the new draft of the national casino law could be finalised ss='cambodia-color'>...
GGRAsia News Staff
http://www.ggrasia.com/cambodia-revising-gambling-laws-to-attract-investment/
Thais mandate migrant worker health checks
On the road to legal employment in Thailand, Cambodian migrant workers are being made to undergo check-ups that have them cough, strip and give blood and urine samples to prove they are physically and mentally sound enough to work in the country. Obtaining a workers’ permit, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thais-mandate-migrant-worker-health-checks
UN says Australia refugee pact with Cambodia worrying precedent
Australia’s pact to allow some refugees to be transferred to Cambodia sets a troubling precedent for international practices on handling asylum seekers, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The deal, signed yesterday in Phnom Penh, applies to an initial 200 refugees detained by Australia ss='cambodia-color'>...
David Stringer
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-27/un-says-australia-refugee-pact-with-cambodia-worrying-precedent.html
Pchum Ben tourists turn out
Holidaymakers flocked to Cambodia’s temples and beachside towns during the september 22-24 Pchum Ben holiday break, officials said yesterday. Nou sophal, director of the sihanoukville department of tourism, said the province received about 67,600 visitors over the three-day festival period, up some 76 per cent over ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chan Muyhong
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/pchum-ben-tourists-turn-out
Donors meet over new civil servant per diems
Cambodia’s international donors met Tuesday to decide whether they will comply with the government’s recent move to increase the per diem that civil servants receive for attending work-related, out-of-office events. In July, Prime Minister Hun sen signed off on a sub-decree raising the Daily subsistence Allowance ss='cambodia-color'>...
Paula Brito
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/donors-meet-over-new-civil-servant-per-diems-72133/
Hun Sen calls on Vietnam to invest in rice processing sector
Prime Minister Hun sen on Friday called on the Vietnamese to invest in the Kingdom’s rice processing sector. speaking at an annual dinner with the Vietnamese business community in Cambodia ahead of Tet – the Vietnamese Lunar New Year – Hun sen said the Kingdom’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hun-sen-calls-vietnam-invest-rice-processing-sector
Circulation of riel rises 33%
The share of riel in circulation in the Kingdom grew by about 33 per cent year-on-year by last year’s end as deposits in riel increased by 37 per cent, said the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) 2019 Review and 2020 Outlook report. The report noted ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/circulation-riel-rises-33
Corn industry maintains hope for rebound amid plummeting prices
Total corn exports dropped by more than 40 per cent on 2018 due to last year’s drought and pest damage, industry insiders said. Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries data showed that last year the Kingdom exported 119,993 tonnes of red corn – down 41.23 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/corn-industry-maintains-hope-rebound-amid-plummeting-prices
Sar Kheng urges officials in Ratanakkiri to prevent crime
Minister of Interior sar Kheng has urged Ratanakkiri provincial authorities to do more to eliminate crimes in the province. speaking during the appointment ceremony of the chair of the Cambodian People’s Party’s working group for Ratanakkiri on Friday, sar Kheng, who is also deputy prime ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-urges-officials-ratanakkiri-prevent-crime
Thai firm to build plant in Pursat
Thai-based Precise Electric Manufacturing Co Ltd is planning to build an electric equipment plant in Pursat province to cash in on the high demand in the Kingdom. The announcement was made during a meeting between Pursat provincial governor Mao Thornin and the firm’s representatives on ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/thai-firm-build-plant-pursat
Earning money and making a difference
Social enterpriSe may be more than juSt a buzzword if laSt Saturday&rSquo;S attendance at Cambodia&rSquo;S Second-ever conference on the matter waS anything to judge by. The 350 perSon-pluS crowd of attendeeS conSiSted predominately of CambodianS, for whom doing buSineSS appearS to be about more than merely SS='cambodia-color'>...
Supporters pray for Sonando
While Mam Sonando lay in a cramped Prey Sar priSon cell yeSterday, Sweating out a fever, Some 100 memberS of the ASSociation of DemocratS burned incenSe and kneeled in prayer at the Preah Ang Dang Keu Shrine, calling for the outSpoken Beehive Radio director&rSquo;S releaSe. With SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012072457577/National-news/supporters-pray-for-sonando.html
Letter holds key for Tai Yang
It’s been marked by violence, fervent protests and a stream of recriminations, but now bureaucracy is hampering efforts to resolve the seven-week-long strike at the Tai Yang and Camwell factories, which supply Levi’s and Gap, a trade-union advocate said yesterday. Dave Welsh, country director of the American ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phnom Penh's new apartments soar on high rents
Real estate developments covered in green tarp have sprung up across the capital’s Boeung Kang Kong commune, and housing units are filling before the projects are finished, insiders said. The value of construction approvals in Phnom Penh jumped by 557.5 per cent in March to Us$150.5 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Drought hits rice exports
Rice exports this year had been flat compared to last year because of the many challenges growers were facing, insiders said this week. The data shows exports were no better than last year for the same period, as exports for the first eight months of ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012082158176/Business/drought-hits-rice-exports.html