New report sees strong tourism growth
CBRE Cambodia’s latest MarketView report sees strong growth in Cambodia’s international tourism sector, with particularly strong in international arrivals resulting in growth in hotel occupancy rates and durations of stay. According to the May report, international arrivals in 2013 increased 17.5 per cent, to a total ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/new-report-sees-strong-tourism-growth
Instability delays CAA launching new routes
Cambodia Angkor Air (CAA) will delay the launch of its planned direct flights to Beijing, Tokyo and Singapore due to unrest in neighbouring countries, the airline said yesterday. Originally slated to open the new routes before the end of the year, tensions in Thailand and Vietnam ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/instability-delays-caa-launching-new-routes
New wolf snake discovered in Cambodia
A distinctive new wolf snake species discovered in Cambodia has been named in honour of Zoos Victoria, recognising their support provided to Fauna & Flora International’s (FFI) studies in the Cardamom Mountains over the last few years. The wolf snake is the latest species to be ...
AsianScientist News Staff
http://www.asianscientist.com/in-the-lab/wolf-snake-discovered-cambodia-2014/
Citizen-led media gets new blog
In a bid to highlight abuses in the workplace, an NGO today will officially launch a website and hotline, allowing people to post stories as citizen journalists. The Community Legal Education Center (CLEC) will hold a ceremony this morning promoting their new project, Voice of the ...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/citizen-led-media-gets-new-blog
New airline gets closer to launch
Cambodia Bayon Airlines will soon import two Modern Ark 60 aircrafts from the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), with plans to begin domestic flights before the end of the year, a company representative said yesterday. Bayon will sign an agreement with AVIC on Thursday ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-airline-gets-closer-launch
Antibiotic resistance sparks new health policy
Pharmacists in Cambodia have a particular affinity for prescribing antibiotics, so much so that resistance to the drugs has become a public health problem worthy of a national response. ...
Maria Paula Brito
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/antibiotic-resistance-sparks-new-health-policy-77730/
Amid overcrowding, inmates build new prison
Even within the country’s notoriously overcrowded prison system, inmates in this northern province live in particularly harsh conditions. Approximately 120 prisoners, including 16 women and three children, are held in four cells in the Oddar Meanchey provincial police headquarters. “In one cell we keep 20 or more ...
Lauren Crothers and Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/amid-overcrowding-inmates-build-new-prison-67129/
New malaria strain raises problems, fears
Physicians are scrambling to update treatments to combat the growing threat caused by a new strain of malaria that is unique to Cambodia and resistant to the drug that dictates whether patients are ultimately cured. ...
Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/new-malaria-strain-raises-problems-fears
US announces new Ambassador to Cambodia
The United States has announced nomination of new Ambassador to Cambodia to replace William E. Todd who has been serving the position since 2012, according to the White House. According to the statement, William A. Heidt currently serves as Executive Assistant to the Under Secretary ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/us-announces-new-ambassador-to-cambodia-8404
Mines Ministry issues new dredging licences
The Ministry of Mines and Energy has announced that it will grant two sand dredging licences around Phnom Penh Port, just days after declaring that no new licences would be issued until economic impact assessments had been carried out. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mines-ministry-issues-new-dredging-licences
New plan for low-cost housing
Cambodia’s Ministry of Land Management is in the initial phase of a project to build affordable housing for the Kingdom’s low-income population. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-plan-low-cost-housing
Nauru refugees settle into new neighborhood
In a sprawling villa down a quiet dirt road in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district, four refugees have reached what not so long ago would have seemed like a inconceivable end destination. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Holly Robertson
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nauru-refugees-settle-into-new-neighborhood-85106/
New Commerce Ministry website lacks facts
As the only finalist in its category at Thursday’s Cambodia Information and Communications Technology awards, the Commerce Ministry looks likely to take home first prize for its newly overhauled website. ...
Chris Mueller
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-commerce-ministry-website-lacks-facts-86466/
New SEZ aims for logistics hub
A new special economic zone aiming to make Cambodia into a regional logistics hub held an official groundbreaking ceremony yesterday, at its future home on the muddy outskirts of Phnom Penh in Kandal’s Takhmao district. The $100 million Kerry Worldbridge SEZ project is a partnership between ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-sez-aims-logistics-hub
GMAC to create new training institute
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) has begun seeking technical advisors to assist in the creation of a Cambodia Garment Training Institute. ...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gmac-create-new-training-institute
73 generals granted new ranks, jobs
A mass promotion announced by the Interior Ministry yesterday saw more than 80 senior police officials upgraded, including seven to three-star general status, as well as the appointment of seven new under-secretaries of state. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/73-generals-granted-new-ranks-jobs
New day for old finance market
The formalisation of Cambodia’s derivatives sector will provide budding investors with more choices for their portfolio – although at a risk, insiders say.After years of deliberation, the Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia (SECC) on July 2 passed a prakas, or regulation, which allows individuals ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-day-old-finance-market
New asylum seekers in Phnom Penh
Just days after a dozen Montagnard asylum seekers returned to Vietnam having given up on being granted refugee status, 11 more arrived in Phnom Penh over the weekend, according to the United Nations. ...
May Titthara and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-asylum-seekers-phnom-penh
New electronics manufacturer due at PPSEZ
Thai-listed electronics manufacturer, SVI Public Limited, will be next in line to join Cambodia’s emerging light-manufacturing industry. ...
Xueying Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-electronics-manufacturer-due-ppsez
Two new parties join the fray
Two new political parties – the Grassroots Democratic Party (GDP) and Khmer Solidarity Party (KSP) – submitted applications for party registration to the Ministry of Interior yesterday. ...
Va Sonyka and Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14011/two-new-parties-join-the-fray/