Region agrees on new standards for rubber
Rubber industry experts and government officials from ASEAN member countries gathered in Siem Reap yesterday to agree on harmonised standards for rubber products that would facilitate cross-border trade. The Asean Consultative Committee for Standards and Quality (ACCSQ) Rubber-Based Product Working Group (RBPWG) agreed to 61 harmonised ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/region-agrees-new-standards-rubber
PM: keep old border posts
It has been five months since the government updated the country on how far along they were with the demarcation process along the border with Vietnam. Yet Prime Minister Hun Sen has an entirely different focus: the border posts slowly being replaced. In a directive sent out ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30051/pm--keep-old-border-posts/
Families to receive land titles
Prime Minister Hun Sen has decided to cut land from an economic land concession (ELC) and a rubber plantation to grant land titles to more than 1,000 villagers in Tbong Khmum province’s Memot district, according to the Land Management Ministry. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28859/families-to-receive-land-titles/
Airports deemed ready for ICAO security audit
A spokesman for Cambodia’s aviation authority said yesterday that the Kingdom’s airports are “prepared and ready” for an audit by the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization that is set to commence on Thursday. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/airports-deemed-ready-icao-security-audit
$30B casino, theme park project mooted
MQ Technology Bhd, a Malaysian investment holding company, is looking to form a joint venture with a newly formed entity, Cambodian Resorts and Entertainment Co Ltd, to build a $30 million casino and theme park in Prey Veng province near the Vietnamese border, according to ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/30b-casino-theme-park-project-mooted
Villagers affected by dam meet with government officials
Villagers from Stung Treng whose homes stand to be flooded by the Lower Sesan II dam met with representatives of the Ministry of Mines and Energy at an NGO Forum-sponsored meeting in Phnom Penh yesterday, in hopes of establishing a dialogue towards a long-awaited compromise. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-affected-dam-meet-government-officials
Call to follow spirit of agreement
The government was urged yesterday to follow the spirit of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreement as a model to solve the current political problems with dialogue and partnership rather than conflict. At a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the signing of the agreements, which saw ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30979/call-to-follow-spirit-of-agreement/
Lancang-Mekong expo kicks off in Phnom Penh
The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation’s economic and technology exhibition 2017 kicked off yesterday in Phnom Penh to enhance trade and investment between China and Cambodia, plus other Mekong countries. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/40332/lancang-mekong-expo-kicks-off-in-phnom-penh/
Innovation and inspiration are the basis of BarCamp
BarCamp Phnom Penh, a technology conference at the University of Puthisastra, promises to attract industry professionals from ASEAN countries, the US, Germany and other countries around the world later this month, Be Chantra, lead organiser of the conference, says. Be Chantra says BarCamp Phnom Penh is ...
Metro looks to Laos, Cambodia for heavy equipment sales
Metro Machinery, the biggest dealer of heavy construction equipment in Thailand, is looking over the borders to Laos and Cambodia, which are exploiting their abundant natural resources and racing to develop infrastructure. The company will on October 9 ink two deals worth Bt1.5 billion each – ...
The bank that likes to say less: Cambodia’s greatest commercial success story is not over yet
AN HOUR’S drive south of Phnom Penh, deep in rural Cambodia, Chrek Heang is doing the rounds of his rapidly expanding poultry and fisheries business. Just four years ago he was living, like most of his countrymen, in a small wooden hut with a tin ...
Villagers along Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake Livelihood Threatened
Villagers on Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia, who depend on fishing for subsistence, say their livelihoods are threatened by illegal commercial fishing, which continues after a government ban. And they say authorities in charge of enforcing the ban are being bribed to look the other ...
Government Announces Anti-Graft Price Lists
Eight months after the anti-graft provisions of the Anti-Corruption Law came into effect, the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) announced yesterday that it would start a widespread campaign to introduce standardized fees for government services in every commune office—though it will likely be months before any visible steps are taken. More than 2,000 ...
First Quarter Insurance Revenues Up 39 Percent
Revenues in the insurance industry increased to $9.4 million in the first three months of the year compared with $6.7 million during the same period last year, figures from the General Insurance Association of Cambodia show. Ty Atith, a senior underwriter at Cambodian Reinsurance Company, said ...
Hun Sen distributes land titles to Rattanakiri residents
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday distributed 541 land titles covering 1,308 hectares to 301 mostly ethnic minority families in Andong Meas district. ...
Malaysian Maybank expands to outskirts
Malaysian-owned Maybank, one of the largest banks in Cambodia, opened its 12th national branch in Phnom Penh on Friday. The bank aims to reach emerging businesses in the city’s Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ) with the new office. ...
New flights between Sihanoukville and Phnom Penh to be launched soon
New scheduled flights between Sihanoukville and Phnom Penh will probably be launched soon, and Sihanoukville-Siem Reap flights will operate daily instead of three times a week, an industry leader says. These changes by Cambodia Angkor Air had a “high chance” of taking off in April to ...
Hero of clean water Ek Sokchan Retired
Mr. Ek Sokchan, head of Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority on June 30 retired from his position and he has been appointed as the secretary of state for Ministry for Industry, Mine and Energy. ...
Gas Imports Grow to Nearly 1M Tons This Year
Oil imports to Cambodia in the first half of the year increased 22 percent to nearly 1 million tons compared to the same period last year, according to figures obtained yesterday from the Ministry of Commerce. According to the data, Cambodia imported 922,860 tons of gas ...
New Online Service Launched to Smooth Tax Payment
In a bid to ease the collection of the recently introduced tax on properties worth more than $25,000, The Ministry of Finance has launched an online service to help people get the forms they need to pay the tax. In a statement released last week, the ministry said ...