Let workers return home for elections: Unions
Two of the country’s biggest garment workers’ unions have asked the government to make factories give their workers three days of paid leave and provide loans for travel expenses to allow them to return to their hometowns to vote in the upcoming local elections. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhorn Phearun and Hannah Hawkins
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/let-workers-return-home-elections-unions-130376/
Investing smart to avoid commercial flop
As the country now focuses its attention on the commune elections, the real estate sector has quietened down slightly to observe the situation. However, Worldbridge Land’s chairman sear Rithy is unperturbed as he prepares to launch another large-scale development in the capital. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/investing-smart-avoid-commercial-flop
Angkor Wat sees sales surge
Angkor Wat ticket sales revenue surged during the first half of 2017 on the back of a sharp increase in tourist entry fees, with no indication that the steeper admission prices had discouraged visits to the Kingdom’s top tourist draw, government officials said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/angkor-wat-sees-sales-surge
Yunnan offers to help tourism sector
The Ministry of Tourism is to collaborate with Yunnan’s Tourism and Vocational Training Institution to develop human resources in tourism and seek the methodology to attract more Chinese tourists to visit Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/40085/yunnan-offers-to-help-tourism-sector/
As company clears land, Bunong villagers fight for ancestral home
The land concession overlaps the site of the Bunong community’s old village, their spirit forest and their burial grounds—religiously significant areas that, according to Bunong beliefs, are not to be disturbed or logged at the risk of incurring the wrath of local spirits. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Brendan O’byrne
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/as-company-clears-land-bunong-villagers-fight-for-ancestral-home-132609/
Deal gives UAE more confidence to invest
The Kingdom’s investment authority signed an agreement yesterday to promote and protect investments between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Cambodia, a move government officials hope will attract foreign direct investment from the oil-rich Gulf state, which currently stands at almost zero. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/deal-gives-uae-more-confidence-invest
Banking sector firms up its foundations
Cambodia’s banking sector enjoyed another strong performance last year as the Kingdom’s economy continued to expand, with banking credit moderating, deposits increasing and financial institutions remaining healthy as they further integrate into the global economy, the central bank said in its annual report yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/banking-sector-firms-its-foundations
Bangladesh signs big rice deal
Two weeks after Bangladesh and Cambodia signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Phnom Penh to purchase rice from Cambodia, on Monday of this week Bangladesh signed a deal to buy 250,000 tonnes of milled rice from Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5078380/bangladesh-signs-big-rice-deal/
Kingdom targeted by new malware
The Kingdom’s computer networks, including government servers, are reported to be the targets of a virus unique to Cambodia and deployed through spam emails and phishing campaigns, which lure victims with emails disguised as official communications, though officials yesterday maintained they were unaffected. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon and Rinith Taing
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-targeted-new-malware
GMAC calls on government to help offset rising labour costs
The industry body representing Cambodia’s garment sector issued a statement yesterday urging the government to help manufacturers reduce the cost of doing business in order to offset a higher minimum wage and workers benefit package due to come into effect on January 1. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gmac-calls-government-help-offset-rising-labour-costs
Vietnam nationals arrested in Kratie timber bust
Six VietnameSe nationalS were arreSted on WedneSday afternoon in a Military Police raid that Saw 30 officerS confiScating at leaSt 100 illegally felled treeS and 10 logging vehicleS from an economic land conceSSion in Kratie province&rSquo;S Snuol diStrict near the border with Vietnam. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vietnam-nationals-arrested-kratie-timber-bust
China deals swiftly signed
Cambodian and Chinese officials and business leaders yesterday signed 19 agreements during a visit to Phnom Penh by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, boosting Chinese investment at a time when the regional power has upped its economic and political support for Hun sen’s government. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/china-deals-swiftly-signed
Strikes down, but advocates, officials differ on significance
StrikeS in Cambodia plummeted by more than half laSt year, according to the MiniStry of Labour&rSquo;S annual report &ndaSh; a StatiStic lauded by the government aS evidence that worker conditionS had improved but rejected by labour advocateS aS a Sign that diSSent waS being SuppreSSed. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Yon Sineat and Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strikes-down-advocates-officials-differ-significance
National Bank to begin LPCO
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) will unveil its initial rates that banks and microfinance institutions (MFIs) will be able to use, as the NBC begins its liquidity-providing collateralized operation (LPCO) to boost the country’s riel liquidity, according to a senior bank official. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30852/national-bank-to-begin-lpco/
Sixth refugee arrives from Nauru under controversial deal
Cambodian authorities say the latest refugee to take up the country’s resettlement offer under a controversial deal with Australia arrived in Phnom Penh on sunday, only the sixth to do so since the deal was struck in september 2014. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sixth-refugee-arrives-nauru-controversial-deal-120305/
Opposition election complaints focus on Vietnamese voters
The opposition CNRP said on Tuesday it was preparing to submit complaints to the National Election Committee (NEC) about almost 5,000 Vietnamese voters it says were registered to vote without citizenship, a move criticized as continuing the party’s tradition of populist Vietnam-bashing. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/opposition-election-complaints-focus-on-vietnamese-voters-123235/
Only 23 rapes recorded in Phnom Penh last year in crime spike
Police tallied only 23 rapes in Phnom Penh last year despite an overall spike of 20 percent in criminal cases, prompting experts to caution that the data posted on the Cambodian National Police website provided only a partial picture of the city’s crimes. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Kimsay and Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/only-23-rapes-recorded-in-phnom-penh-last-year-in-crime-spike-123666/
Slowdown in services sector
A slow growth in tourism, and a slowdown in the logistics and real estate sectors could cumulatively have a knock-on effect that will threaten the overall growth of the country’s services sector, a report from the Ministry of Economy and Finance said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34626/slowdown-in-services-sector/
Beat Richner quits as head of Kantha Bopha Hospitals
Doctor Beat Richner, the prominent SwiSS-born doctor credited with reSurrecting the Kantha Bopha Children&rSquo;S HoSpitalS &ndaSh; which have treated millionS of patientS free of charge Since 1992 &ndaSh; Stepped down from hiS more than two-decade role of managing the hoSpitalS, citing a SeriouS illneSS. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/beat-richner-quits-head-kantha-bopha-hospitals
Police block marchers seeking Kampuchea Krom holiday
Riot police were deployed near Phnom Penh’s Wat Chas on Monday to prevent about 30 people from marching to the National Assembly to submit a petition seeking a new national holiday marking the day the French officially handed former Kampuchea Krom provinces to Vietnam. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-block-marchers-seeking-kampuchea-krom-holiday-131822/