Wetlands clearance stopped
Sa’ang and Kien Svay district authorities in Kandal province stopped a military official from clearing an area of wetland, creating a canal that was siphoning water from a larger canal that served farmers in the area and filling in other canals, seizing a bulldozer in ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wetlands-clearance-stopped
‘No manpower’ to move timber
Nearly 30 pieces of sralao and koki timber measuring 3m long and 30 to 40cm in diameter were found by locals at three sites in O’Raing district’s Dak Dam commune in Mondulkiri province on Tuesday. The timber was hidden in a forest around 1km from ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/no-manpower-move-timber
Hundreds of houses flooded after heavy rains
Some 800 houses in Svay Rieng province were flooded after heavy rains, with infrastructure in the province also damaged, authorities said yesterday. Men Vibol, Svay Rieng provincial governor, said multiple days of heavy rain had led to severe flooding, especially in Svay Rieng town. Many major ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hundreds-houses-flooded-after-heavy-rains
EGA reports Cambodian casino losses
Nasdaq-listed Entertainment Gaming Asia (EGA) reported a net loss of $6.7 million for the fourth quarter of 2016, compared with a loss of $2.7 million in the same time in 2015 largely due to the cancellation of its operations in Cambodia, the company said in ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ega-reports-cambodian-casino-losses
Preah Vihear land dispute families block tractors
Representatives of 40 families locked in a decade-old land dispute with a Chinese sugar company in Preah Vihear province blocked tractors from clearing land that the villagers say belongs to them, while 50 families in a separate land dispute in Koh Kong took their complaints ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-land-dispute-families-block-tractors
The big three. 2018 elections for Thailand, Malaysia and Cambodia
In 2018 there will be three elections in our immediate region – the much-predicted (and confirmed by the Thai PM) Thai election, another in Cambodia and one in Malaysia. All have their very local versions of democracy which will shape the outcomes. All are vital ...
Tanutam Thawan
https://www.phuketgazette.net/news/big-three-2018-elections-thailand-malaysia-cambodia
Auto parts firm Denso bets $19 million on plant
In a bid to ramp up vehicle production in ASEAN. auto parts manufacturer Denso Cambodia has announced the construction of a new $19 million plant in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone. The facility will produce magnetos and oil coolers with production slated to begin in ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/auto-parts-firm-denso-bets-19-million-plant
Govt may sell medical services to Cambodia
The government will likely sell a Japanese-style medical service to Cambodia in a package that includes an emergency care center, a medical graduate school and an insurance system. The government has decided to seek a market for the medical service in emerging nations in the Association ...
The Japan News Staff
http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0000762523
Rapid economic growth props up Cambodia’s strongman
Between 1995 and 2017 Cambodia grew at an average rate of 7.7%; gdp per person rose from $321 in 1994 to $1,137 in 2017, after accounting for inflation. Foreign money has flooded in and Cambodia’s economy, which war and the Khmers Rouges had destroyed, has ...
The Economist
https://www.economist.com/asia/2019/04/20/rapid-economic-growth-props-up-cambodias-strongman
Capital police consider installing CCTV cameras from China
Municipal police are considering implementing high-tech security cameras from China to help solve traffic accidents and crack down on crimes in the capital. Lieutenant General Sar Thet, chief of Phnom Penh police, said on Facebook that he led a delegation in China yesterday to observe ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50604360/capital-police-consider-installing-cctv-cameras-from-china/
Food safety lab launched
A mobile laboratory that will be able to analyze food samples at markets around the country was launched by the Ministry of Commerce yesterday, at the same time the ministry announced it was seeking Chinese support in building testing facilities at land borders to analyze ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32101/food-safety-lab-launched/
Phnom Penh Water Festival off
The Cambodian government has decided to cancel this year’s Water Festival in Phnom Penh out of respect for the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Tuesday. The Prime Minister said in a circular notice that the celebration on the Tonle Sap ...
Last Year Saw More New Firms Register
Almost 3,400 new businesses were registered in Cambodia in 2012, an increase of 9 percent on the previous year, according to figures from the Ministry of Commerce. In 2012, the ministry’s business registration department recorded some 3,385 new companies, compared with 3,104 new companies in 2011, ...
Ministry: election won’t hurt tourist numbers
While tourism in Cambodia has historically slowed in advance of general elections, tourism leaders in the government and private sector have said they expect this year’s July elections to have little impact on tourist arrivals. Tourism numbers dipped by 10.9 per cent for the 2003 ...
Cambodia bars Vietnamese protest
The Cambodian government said Thursday it will not allow Vietnamese living in the country to protest Chinese incursions in the South China Sea. Khieu Sopheak, spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said Cambodia does not allow any foreigners to protest other nationalities. The spokesman made the statement ...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/409925/cambodia-bars-vietnamese-protest
After rights review, groups press gov’t to act
Nearly a month after Cambodia’s second universal periodic review (UPR) of its human rights situation at the U.N. in Geneva, rights groups met in Phnom Penh on Thursday to discuss how they can work with the government to ensure that the 163 recommendations it accepted ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-rights-review-groups-press-govt-to-act-64438/
Police arrest 17 Bangladeshis wanted for human trafficking
A yearlong investigation by immigration police culminated in the arrest on Saturday of 17 Bangladeshi men hiding in Phnom Penh and Poipet City to avoid charges of human trafficking in their home country, police said Sunday. Three of the fugitives, arrested at a guesthouse in Phnom ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-arrest-17-bangladeshis-wanted-for-human-trafficking-72876/
NBC outlines 2021 risks for personal debt growth
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) said declines in personal income and savings in 2020 pose the primary risk for a potential increase in personal debt in the Kingdom in 2021, according to its Macroeconomic and Banking Sector Update 2020 report. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50799995/nbc-outlines-2021-risks-for-personal-debt-growth/
The potential of Cambodia
Whenever you build a structure, you always start with a plan that exists first as an idea and then makes its way to paper and then usually a model: and this is true of ships or skyscrapers. Then comes the construction process when you bring in ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052856411/Business/the-potential-of-cambodia.html
Firms Go to Arbitration Over Failed Gold Mining License Deal
Despite touting its Cambodian venture on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FSE), a British registered mining firm’s plan to extract gold in Ratanakkiri province stalled and the firm may face legal action over a failed deal to obtain an exploration license. Astra Resources Plc. has also gone ...