Another deceived bride repatriated from China
A Cambodian woman who went to China to marry a man there was repatriated on Thursday after escaping from her husband’s house and finding refuge at the Cambodian consulate in Guangzhou. Yoeng Sreymom arrived at Phnom Penh International Airport at about 3:30 p.m. in the company ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/another-deceived-bride-repatriated-from-china-64430/
Cambodia envoy lauds Clark airport growth
Cambodia Ambassador Tuot Panha said the viability of Clark International Airport will make it one of the progressive international gateways in the Philippines. The ambassador said she would like to see flights between Clark and Phnom Penh or Clark and Siem Reap, now one of the ...
Sun Star News Staff
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pampanga/local-news/2014/03/09/cambodia-envoy-lauds-clark-airport-growth-332246
Tourism numbers give boost to Sihanoukville property prices
Property has seen a boost in Sihanoukville city in the first quarter of this year, underpinned by increased tourist numbers year-on-year. Cheng Kheng, director of CPL Real Estate Company and president of the Cambodian Valuers and Estate Agents Association, said the outlook on property in Sihanoukville ...
Sum Manet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/tourism-numbers-give-boost-sihanoukville-property-prices
TAITRA reiterates Phnom Penh trade center approved
The Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) yesterday insisted it has received the green light from the Cambodian government to open a Taiwan trade center in Phnom Penh. TAITRA, a non-profit trade promotion organization affiliated with the Ministry of Economic Affairs, made the remarks in response ...
Shih Hsiu-chuan
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2014/07/20/2003595537
Phnom Penh City Hall warns of arrests over Vietnam protest
City Hall on Friday threatened up to 15 years in prison for students planning a protest in front of the Vietnamese Embassy over comments made in June by an embassy official that the Kampuchea Krom region belonged to Vietnam long before it officially became part ...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penh-city-hall-warns-of-arrests-over-vietnam-protest-64496/
Minister lauds controversial sugar industry
Environment Minister Say Sam Al on Wednesday lauded the country’s controversial sugar industry and the jobs it has created, saying that companies operating in the sector need to be defended against the widespread criticism they have been receiving. Rights groups and the opposition CNRP have undertaken ...
Khuon Narim and Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/minister-lauds-controversial-sugar-industry-64810/
Standards must improve: official
Small food and beverage makers are at risk of being uncertified when the ASEAN economic community takes shape in 2015, with the vast majority far from achieving international quality and safety standards, a government official says. Him Phanith, the deputy director of National Productivity Center, said ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/standards-must-improve-official
Smartphone sales slowing
After years of ever-brisker sales, the smartphone market may be plateauing. Cambodians spent more than $300 million on smartphones last year, a 38 per cent increase from 2012’s figure of about $220 million, according to data from Singapore-based research firm GfK. Some 907,000 smartphones were sold in ...
May Kunmakara and Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/smartphone-sales-slowing
Mafia ‘not welcome’
Cambodia’s National Police chief Neth Savoeun has told foreign embassies that it won’t tolerate “foreign mafia” in the Kingdom, in what appears to be a thinly veiled message to Russia concerning recent conflict between Russian nationals in Sihanoukville. According to the statement, Savoeun has been ...
Vong Sokheng and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/mafia-not-welcome
Cambodia reduces infant mortality
Cambodia is not meeting many of its UN Millennium Development Goals, which are coming due this year, but it has made progress in the reduction of infant mortality. Currently, 28 of 1,000 children born in Cambodia die before reaching the age of one. That number is ...
Men Kimseng
http://bit.ly/1IOq4mN
OCIC razes last shacks, families move on
The last of 16 shacks that once clung to the edge of a mammoth development project in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district were demolished by the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) on Monday. Seven families in Doeum Kor 2 village—where marshlands are quickly being pumped full ...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ocic-razes-last-shacks-families-move-on-68073/
Buddhist Institute is safe, minister tells National Assembly
Despite being hemmed in by construction on all sides as NagaWorld expands its casino empire in Phnom Penh, the Buddhist Institute will not be sold off or rented out, Cults and Religion Minister Min Khin told a National Assembly commission on Thursday. In May, the Institute’s ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/buddhist-institute-is-safe-minister-tells-national-assembly-69526/
Protest still on: youth leader
Ignoring objections and even vague threats made by the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Cambodian activists in South Korea plan to stage a protest on Sunday ahead of a five-day summit Prime Minister Hun Sen is scheduled to attend on December 10. Around 1,500 opposition supporters intend to ...
Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/protest-still-youth-leader
Hope for B Kak activists
An Appeal Court judge yesterday said that seven female Boeung Kak land activists imprisoned in November for protesting on Monivong Boulevard in Phnom Penh were not actually blocking traffic at the time of their arrest. Eleven activists – the seven women arrested on November 10 and ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hope-b-kak-activists
Fish and rice, together at last
A new long-term project aims to boost fish stocks in rice fields. That was not a typo. For years, rice farmers in Cambodia have swept up fish – as well as frogs, snails and other aquatic fauna – that make their way from streams, canals and ...
PM pledges new health centre over US bombs
In a speech to some 15,000 garment workers in Phnom Penh yesterday, Prime Minister Hun Sen returned to the topic of the United States’ war legacy in Cambodia, pledging to build a health centre for people purportedly suffering the after-effects of American chemical weapons in Svay ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-pledges-new-health-centre-over-us-bombs
CDC okays 144 Japan projects worth $2.79B since ‘94 debut
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has approved a cumulative 144 Japanese investment projects worth $2.79 billion since its inception in 1994, 66 of which are in special economic zones (SEZ) with $340 million in capital investment, it said in a press release. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cdc-okays-144-japan-projects-worth-279b-94-debut
Mushrooms bring cash to Oddar Meanchey villagers
Residents in Oddar Meanchey province can earn extra income from trading non-timber forest products sourced in the Sorng Rukhavorn Wildlife Sanctuary in Samrong town. Mushrooms in particular are a lucrative product selling from 15,000 to 20,000 riel ($3.70 to $5) per kilogramme. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://phnompenhpost.com/national/mushrooms-bring-cash-oddar-meanchey-villagers
Closed Vietnam borders drive down prices of rice on domestic markets
Farmers in provinces bordering Vietnam are complaining about a drop in the price of rice in domestic markets due to an inability to export to Vietnam because of the closed border, leaving too much supply in Cambodia and not enough demand. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/closed-vietnam-borders-drive-down-prices-rice-domestic-markets
Loan offtake slows, NPLs go up
Growth in the offtake of loans from financial institutions is forecast to be in single digits this year in Cambodia, compared to the 17 percent growth in 2022, according to the Cambodian Financial Sector Report 2023 by Mekong Strategic Capital. ...
Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501350471/loan-offtake-slows-npls-go-up/