Government undecided on new resettlement sites for evictees
A Finance Ministry official said on Sunday that the government had yet to decide whether it would comply with Asian Development Bank (ADB) rules that families facing eviction from along the country’s old railway tracks be offered resettlement options better than the ones they have ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-undecided-on-new-resettlement-sites-for-evictees-102214/
Residents of Kandal get over 1,000 ‘hard titles’
The Kandal Provincial Administration on April 18 presented over 1,000 “hard titles” – the strongest form of property ownership certificate in the Kingdom – to more than 500 households in Anlong Ta Sek Leu village in Sa’ang district’s Prek Ambel commune. ...
Sem Pisey
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/residents-kandal-get-over-1000-hard-titles
Increase in visitors to Preah Vihear
Foreign visitors to the 11th-century Preah Vihear temple, on the Cambodian-Thai border, rose almost 78 per cent between January and october compared with the same period last year, despite a deadly border dispute that drew international attention in February. About 2,140 foreign nationals visited the 1,000-year-old ...
Meet eyes Angkor management
Representatives from countries and preservation organisations across the globe gathered in Siem Reap yesterday as Prime Minister Hun Sen officiated the kickoff of an intergovernmental conference focused on Angkor Wat. The event marks the third once-per-decade conference of the International Coordinating Committee for the safeguarding ...
Thik Kaliyann
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/meet-eyes-angkor-management
Land laws not properly implimented
Laws protecting ethnic minorities’ communal land rights are good, but their implementation has a long way to go, said participants in a forum of minorities from Mondulkiri and Kratie provinces yesterday. After July’s parliamentary elections, legislators should take the opportunity of a newly constituted government to ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013013061073/National/land-laws-not-properly-implimented.html
Comprehensive Land Policy Is Under Construction
In response to the vision of land policy in Cambodia, which is to administer, manage, use and distribute land in an equitable, transparent, efficient, and sustainable manner in order to contribute to achieving national goals of poverty alleviation, ensuring food security, national resources and environmental ...
Island casino’s fate to be decided
A preah Sihanouk provincial official said on Monday that the administration would request approval from the Ministry of Environment and the National Committee for Coastal Management and Development to dismantle a Chinese casino on Koh Rong sanloem. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/island-casinos-fate-be-decided
Dam resettlement site gets electricity
According to the Stung Treng Provincial Electricity Authority’s announcement yesterday, an electrical line was connected from the dam to a transmission network at the new site in Srekor. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dam-resettlement-site-gets-electricity
New Year to boost plant sales in Phnom Penh
Sales of plants and flowers will reach a high during the Lunar New Year celebrations in Phnom Penh, which start on Sunday, as more customers than ever before buy floral decorations for their houses, flower shop owners in Phnom Penh predicted. “During the weekend many people ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013020461162/Business/new-year-to-boost-plant-sales-in-phnom-penh.html
Tonle Sap water project to help Siem Reap town
The Japanese government sealed the deal yesterday on an agreement to provide Cambodia with a US$86 million loan for a project that will supply Siem Reap town residents with water from the Tonle Sap lake and alleviate their need for water drawn from wells. The 40-year ...
Long-Running Protest Still Without Resolution
About 2,000 workers at a factory supplying clothes to U.S. brands Levi Strauss, Gap and old Navy were stopped by security forces yesterday as they attempted to march from Kandal province to the Ministry of Labor to protest for severance payments and additional benefits. Protests at ...
Tragedy hits home
Seven Cambodians are now believed to have been killed and 14 injured by a falling beam at a construction site in Thailand on Tuesday, Foreign Affairs spokesman Koy Kuong said yesterday. “Cambodian embassy officials in Bangkok are working with the Thai police to find out the ...
Cheang Sokha and Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tragedy-hits-home
Siem Reap Theft Fears Rise
Fears of theft are on the rise among market vendors in a tourist district in Cambodia’s Siem Reap province, the gateway to the world-renowned Angkor archeological site. Vendors at a market in Puok district said they had lost a lot of money following a slew of ...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/siem-reap-01302013174007.html
China to help conserve Cambodia's Angkor World Heritage Site
Cambodia’s Apsara Authority and China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the project of sustainable management of the existing resources for conservation and sustainable development in Angkor World Heritage Site and Siem Reap region. The deal was inked between ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-06/27/c_132492881.htm
“we can’t be rich among millions of poor”
Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol warned students at the elite Royal School of Administration on Tuesday: “We cannot live on a rich island in the middle of a poor ocean.” ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13548/---we-can---t-be-rich-among-millions-of-poor---/
Cambodian garment workers suffer from anemia, food insecurity: study
A new study indicated that 43. 2 percent of Cambodian garment workers suffered from anemia and 15. 7 percent of workers are underweight, the International Labor organization (ILo) said Monday. The study also found that garment workers spent approximately 1. 3 U.S. dollars per day on ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-09/29/c_133682574.htm
OZ Knew of Gold at M'Kiri Site, Report Shows
OZ Minerals has details revealing the size Of gOld resOurces available at its MOndOlkiri site and has had them fOr nearly a year. FOr withhOlding the infOrmatiOn OZ Minerals cOuld face legal actiOn in Australia. KeO Seima, a partner OrganizatiOn was bOught Out in 2009 ...
(By Simon Marks, pg. 1)
Cops allegedly attacked garment strikers
Police have been accused of punching and shoving garment workers from Tai Yang and Camwell factories in Kandal province as the month-long strike over bonuses continued yesterday. Rong Chhun, president of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions, said 11 people had been slightly injured after being attacked ...
Boost for Cambodia’s tourism
Cambodia’s Prime Minister, Hun Sen, says Asia Atlantic Airlines’ upcoming flights thAt will connect Thailand, Cambodia and Japan will benefit the country’s tourism industry. The airline will fly from Thailand’s Suvarnabhumi Airport and stop in Phnom Penh before flying to Toyko’ Narita, with full traffic rights. The ...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2014/07/boost-for-cambodias-tourism/
FedEx opens new air freight hub
FedEx has officially opened its new South Pacific Regional Hub in Singapore, the largest consolidated facility in the Asia-Pacific region. The $97 million hub is the first and only express transportation facility in Singapore. The 282,700-square-foot integrated facility houses air, ground and clearance operations under one roof ...
http://www.supplychainreview.com.au/news/articleid/81499.aspx