Steering away from the grey market
While the Kingdom’s automotive sector has seen the entry of authorised dealerships, grey market dealers still make up the bulk of car sales.Dealerships are trying to lure prospective customers to purchase new vehicles, but grey market used cars still enjoy a substantial cost advantage given ss='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/steering-away-grey-market
World Bank East Asia Pacific regional vice President visits Cambodia
The World Bank looks forward to working with Cambodia to support the country’s efforts in reducing poverty and improving economic and social conditions for its people, especially in agriculture, health, education and transportation, said Axel van Trotsenburg, World Bank Regional Vice President for East Asia ss='cambodia-color'>...
The FINANCIAL News Staff
http://finchannel.com/index.php/business/item/51499-world-bank-east-asia-pacific-regional-vice-president-visits-cambodia
The Fatal nature of garbage dumps
On the outskirts of Phnom Penh once stood a smoldering testament to mankind’s assault on the Earth. stung Meanchey was the largest waste disposal site in Cambodia, the size of 76 football fields. scavengers sifted through 900 tons of new waste delivered each day, amid ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mikaela Lefrak
https://newrepublic.com/article/123304/fatal-nature-garbage-dumps
City hall orders utility firms to bury ‘anarchic’ cables
Private utility companies that run their cables along overhead lines in central Phnom Penh will now have to bury them beneath the city’s streets, and pay to do so, City Hall announced on Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-orders-utility-firms-to-bury-anarchic-cables-102154/
Tuk-tuk association to lodge complaint against Licadho
The Cambodia Confederation Development Association (CCDA), a well-known tuk-tuk and moto-taxi association, plans to lodge complaints against local rights group Licadho next week over a statement the NGO co-signed with 33 other civil society groups regarding the association’s involvement in a saturday protest at the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21235/tuk-tuk-association-to-lodge-complaint-against-licadho/
Tourism forum to focus on ‘authentic’ Mekong experiences
This year’s theme will be “Authentic Experiences along the Mekong River.” According to Jens Thraenhart, executive director of the MTCO, “Travellers want to be able to truly experience the country that they are visiting and come away with a true appreciation of the local experience. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Logan Connor
http://sea-globe.com/mekong-tourism-forum/
More rice name confusion
The seeds of confusion in the rice industry have been sown further. After endorsing the Phka Romduol and Phka Chansensor varieties to be the Kingdom’s own umbrella brands for fragrant and premium rice last week, the National standards Council (NsC) said yesterday it did not ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27410/more-rice-name-confusion/
Yusen opens perishables storage facility in Cambodia
Japan-based Yusen Logistics has opened one of Cambodia’s largest temperature-controlled distribution center in Phnom Penh, which is becoming a significant air cargo destination for its textiles and perishable exports. The 33,000-square-foot facility has almost twice the capacity of the existing warehouse and includes a 4,237-square-foot ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lewis King
http://aircargoworld.com/yusen-logistics-opens-perishables-storage-facility-in-cambodia/
GMS cross-border pact on hold
Though all countries in the Greater Mekong sub-region (GMs) had signed a cross-border trade agreement (CBTA) 14 years ago to enhance the sub-region’s economic connectivity, the CBTA, however, is yet to be ratified in individual Mekong nations for its full implementation. This was revealed last ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28140/gms-cross-border-pact-on-hold/
ANZ: good growth but diversify
Cambodia’s gross domestic product (GDP) is predicted to grow around 7.2 percent this year, buoyed up by clothing and apparel exports to the European Union (EU), according to estimates by the ANZ Group. The banking group also advised the Kingdom to diversify its economy and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28144/anz--good-growth-but-diversify/
Developer puts condo project The Bay on hold as supply glut looms
The Singaporean developer behind The Bay, a $500 million mixed-uSe real eState project on the capital&rSquo;S Chroy Changvar peninSula, haS announced it iS putting the reSidential phaSe of the project on hold due to unfavourable market conditionS &ndaSh; a move that could herald the firSt SS='cambodia-color'>...
Cam McGrath and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/developer-puts-condo-project-bay-hold-supply-glut-looms
Hun Sen bodyguards had hand in beating of opposition lawmakers: witnesses
The mob that beat up two Cambodian opposition lawmakers outside the National Assembly building in Phnom Penh early this week included about 200 young men from Prime Minister Hun sen’s corps of bodyguards who were driven in trucks to the protest and later boasted about ss='cambodia-color'>...
Prach Chev
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/cambodia-beating-10302015160823.html
Minister urges officials to speed up ID scheme
Officials responsible for issuing new identity cards, which every adult will eventually need, must get a grip on the task and speed up, the Ministry of Interior said yesterday.In an “instruction” to staff, Interior Minister sar Kheng said the number of new ID cards issued ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-urges-officials-speed-id-scheme
SME federation wants its own SEZ
The Federation of Associations for small and Medium Enterprises of Cambodia is planning to propose that the government set up special economic zone (sEZ) for small and medium-sized sized enterprises (sMEs) so that they can work in clusters, saying this will enhance their productivity, increase ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21157/sme-federation-wants-its-own-sez/
Prosecutor seeks tougher charge for german child abuse suspect
The sexual abuse case involving a 57-year-old German national and at least five underage boys continued in Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday. Udo sabiniewicz, owner of FX Animation studio in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district, could be sentenced to one to three years in prison ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21608/prosecutor-seeks-tougher-charge-for-german-child-abuse-suspect/
Boat pilots seek share of tourism profits
The owners of the boats that ferry customers to the floating villages on Tonle sap Lake have seen their profits increase as gas prices fall and ticket prices rise. But one group has not profited from the lake’s tourism boom: the men who pilot the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Jonathan Cox and Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22344/boat-pilots-seek-share-of-tourism-profits/
Flooding from dam washes out homes, rice fields in southern Cambodia
Local government officials in a southern Cambodian province failed to evacuate villagers in time to prevent their homes and rice fields from flooding after the operators of a Chinese-built hydropower dam informed them a day earlier that they would open the facility’s gates to release ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chandara Yang
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/flooding-from-dam-washes-out-homes-rice-fields-in-southern-cambodia-09162015162039.html
Contentious draft law to regulate unions approved for assembly debate
The Council of Ministers on Friday green-lighted a contentious law that labor leaders say will make it hard to form unions and collectively bargain.The draft law will now be debated in the National Assembly, where the ruling Cambodian People’s Party has a majority and will ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/contentious-draft-law-to-regulate-unions-approved-for-assembly-debate/3056778.html
Major facelift for notorious Prey Speu
Officials in the Ministry of social Affairs are planning to make a set of major changes to the infamous Prey speu detention center, aimed at improving its healthcare services, educational options, and the quality of the housing it offers. But some critics say the changes ss='cambodia-color'>...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18784/major-facelift-for-notorious-prey-speu/
Oil and gas imports fall: ministry
The Kingdom’s petroleum and gas imports fell in the first quarter of this year due to waning consumer and business demands, according to the Ministry of Commerce. However, a large petroleum, lubricants and oil importer said the fall in gas imports was just relative and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26222/oil-and-gas-imports-fall--ministry/