Apsara Authority plans tree campaign
In a bid to restore the environment in the Angkor Archaeological Park, the Apsara Authority is planning a campaign to have 40,000 new trees planted. In a statement published on Thursday, the Apsara Authority said it plans to plant saplings in multiple locations spanning 35 ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50612582/apsara-authority-plans-tree-campaign/
Cambodia, Vietnam to hold joint disaster rescue exercises
The Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) and the People’s Army of Vietnam will hold joint disaster rescue exercises in further collaborations to “maintain peace, order and stability in the neighbouring countries”. The drills are to be carried in Cambodia and Vietnam’s neighbouring Svay Rieng and ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-vietnam-hold-joint-disaster-rescue-exercises
Coke’s new $100 million plant
Coca-Cola officially opened a new $100 million plant in Phnom Penh yesterday to expand its production capacity to meet increased demand for the Coke beverage in the Kingdom and Asean. The plant, situated on a 12.5-hectare land, in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone is able ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32783/coke---s-new--100-million-plant/
UK to open investment office
The United Kingdom Trade and Investment Office would establish a permanent branch in Phnom Penh in the expectation that economic ties between the two countries would continue to grow, Cambodian and UK officials said yesterday. Bilateral trade has risen by 300 per cent during the past ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012051856232/Business/uk-to-open-investment-office.html
Real Estate Market Showing Signs of Recovery
Land prices in Cambodia continued to recover in the last half of 2012, especially in urban areas, following a collapse of the market in 2008, real estate investors say. Keuk Narin, vice president of Asia Real Estate Cambodia, told VOA Khmer that commercial land prices ...
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/real-estate-market-showing-signs-of-recovery/1580588.html
ANZ keen to exit Cambodia bank stake
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd, the country’s third-biggest lender, is keen to exit its holding in Cambodia and will look at wholly owned business models wherever regulations allow. “We got out of a relationship, a small relationship, in Vietnam. We would like to ...
The Business Times News Staff
http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/breaking-news/asia/anz-keen-exit-cambodia-bank-stake-20140325
Cambodia may present safer base for Taiwanese businesses
Cambodia is a promising target for Taiwanese entrepreneurs seeking cheap labor without risking the social unrest that has surged through Vietnam, according to an economics professor in Taiwan cited in our Chinese-language sister paper China Times. Riots have broken out in Vietnam against China’s oil rig ...
Hong Kai-yin, Huang Tsung-yuan, Tang Yu-lin and Staff Reporter
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20140521000069&cid=1202
OIC delegation visits Cambodia
A delegation from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) recently visited Cambodia to participate in an international conference organized by the Council for Development of Cambodia under the slogan “Islamic Education and Economic Development in Cambodia” in the capital Phnom Penh. Located in the southern portion ...
Arab News Staff
http://www.arabnews.com/news/604706
Two Vietnamese deported as census continues
Police in Ratanakkiri deported two more Vietnamese nationals living illegally in the northern province last week, bringing the number of expulsions to 14 as the Ministry of Interior’s census of foreigners continues, police said. This year’s census—which is now complete in Ratanakkiri, according to officials ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-vietnamese-deported-as-census-continues-67812/
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
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 ...
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/