Resurgent mobile deals could hurt margins, analysts say
‘Top up $2 and get 30 free minutes daily for 20 days. Top up $5 and expand the same offer for a month. And, for a $10 recharge, that half-an-hour freebie lasts 50 days.” Mobile operator Beeline, which announced the promotion in August, called it “another ss='cambodia-color'>...
Anne Renzenbrink
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/resurgent-mobile-deals-could-hurt-margins-analysts-say
New container terminal may not deliver for Cambodia
Shallow draft, lack of rail connectivity, uneaSy relationS with Vietnam, and the general Slowdown may leave LM 17, Cambodia&rSquo;S brand new $28-million container terminal near Phnom Penh, up the Strait. Even if the terminal achieveS the targeted throughput of 110,000 TEUS (it haS moved 70,000 So SS='cambodia-color'>...
Hindu Business Line News Staff
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/logistics/new-container-terminal-may-not-deliver-for-cambodia/article5061737.ece
Government Ties CNRP to Bombings, ‘Terrorist’ Group
A package of documents and DVDs sent from the Ministry of Interior to foreign embassies and NGOs this week uses speeches made by opposition leaders Kem sokha and sam Rainsy, criminal acts that have occurred since the election and a letter from an alleged terrorist ss='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/government-ties-cnrp-to-bombings-terrorist-group-41431/
Battling dengue on a shoestring
The man leading Cambodia’s seemingly sisyphean attempt to combat dengue fever can be found most days in a weakly lit office inside the Communicable Disease Control Department, which is stacked wall to wall with drooping folders and medical texts. For more than 10 years, the soft-spoken ss='cambodia-color'>...
Amelia Woodside and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/battling-dengue-shoestring
Flooding takes a toll
Ten days ago, Loun somaly, 33, left his house to deliver a deposit to the glass workers he hired to replace a window on his rickety sheet metal-panelled house. Ly sophal, somaly’s tenacious three-year-old son, followed him outside, asking if he could join. But with floodwater ss='cambodia-color'>...
Toll may lose rail rights
A company with ties to one of China’s top state-owned firms will look to push Toll Royal Railways and its local partner Royal Group of Companies out of a 30-year railroad concession with pledge to invest nearly Us$850 million to revamp existing lines and build an additional ss='cambodia-color'>...
Call for training participants: SMEs and informal economies in Siem Reap
Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) is pleased to announce the opening of registration for a full-day training session scheduled for 6 June 2024 in siem Reap city, siem Reap province. The training marks the implementation of the project “strengthening Informal Economies and sMEs in Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...
Open Development Cambodia Organization
Government Aims to Increase Silk Production
Cambodia’s Agriculture Ministry has announced plans to increase the annual production of silk from 4 tons to 400 tons by 2020. Cambodia primarily relies on silk from Vietnam and China. The project is entitled the silk Rehabilitation Project and is funded by the UN Food ss='cambodia-color'>...
Basic Concerns Remain Priority in Rural Areas
Roads, bridges, schools, sanitation and other forms of basic infrastructure are still top priorities for many rural citizens of Cambodia. Comfrel has done a study of issues that voters are concerned with and found that infrastructure is a key area. Traditionally the rural areas have ss='cambodia-color'>...
‘Maid brokers’ on the stand
A teenager was one of 13 girls locked inside a recruitment company’s offices in the capital last year after being promised work as a maid in Malaysia, she told the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday. The court yesterday tried three people over alleged illegal detention and human ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012040655461/National-news/maid-brokers-on-the-stand.html
We’re going to Wisney World!
More than 6,000 mostly Chinese attendees witnessed the inauguration ceremony of a $1 billion sihanoukville resort project called Wisney World in the capital on Wednesday. The event on Koh Pich, attended by several senior Cambodian government officials, is a joint venture between China’s AMC International ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/were-going-wisney-world
Airport in Sihanoukville gets a major facelift
Sihanoukville International Airport iS Set to See higher paSSenger arrivalS, thankS to the refurbiShment of itS paSSenger terminal, Cambodia AirportS announced. In a preSS releaSe on WedneSday, the operator of the Kingdom&rSquo;S three airportS Said the refurbiShment iS in preparation for an increaSing number of SS='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/airport-sihanoukville-gets-major-facelift
ADB disburses $90 million loan to modernise agriculture industry
The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) approved a $90 million loan on Wednesday to help Cambodia modernise the agriculture sector and enhance climate resilience. The Climate-Friendly Agribusiness Value Chains sector Project will cost more than $141 million to implement, with the government of Cambodia and beneficiaries ss='cambodia-color'>...
Authorities in Ratanakkiri find stash of 160 pieces of timber
Authorities in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Chum district on saturday commandeered 160 pieces of first-grade timber they stumbled upon. They believe the timber was a collected stash that illegal loggers had hidden in the forest as they waited for rain to cease before transporting it out, said ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-ratanakkiri-find-stash-160-pieces-timber
Families displaced in Siem Pang
Thousands of families along the sekong river were evacuated last week after the collapse of a dam in Laos led to a deluge in the district. A member of the Kavet ethnic minority, Ms Doung and her family were among 15 other families in santepheap ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50517410/families-displaced-in-siem-pang/
Cambodia to conduct population census in March
Cambodia is going to conduct a population census in March next year, Minister of Planning Chhay Than said here on Tuesday. “We plan to spend 8.5 million U.s. dollars for the one-week census, which will be commenced from March 3, 2019,” he told reporters after a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhua
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/14/c_137389562.htm
Local government halts lake filling
Siem Reap provincial authoritieS have Stopped three companieS from illegally filling in a natural reServoir in Trav Kod reSort. The province&rSquo;S deputy adminiStration director Sok Thol told The PoSt yeSterday that the three companieS had filled in the 30ha lake and built wooden cabinS on SS='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/local-government-halts-lake-filling
Homes in Phnom Penh to be torn down
Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district administration will tear down illegal houses and shops built on the bank of Prek Thnot river, said its administrative director Mok Puthea. He said illegal homes, shops, cafes and canteens in Teuk Thla village along the river in Kraing Pongro commune ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/homes-phnom-penh-be-torn-down
Road repairs increased last year
The Transport Ministry repaired more roads last year when compared to work done in 2017, according to its annual report. In the report issued on Wednesday, the ministry noted it repaired a total of 9,671 kilometres of national and provincial roads, an increase when compared ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50568071/road-repairs-increased-last-year/
EU never envisaged putting trade sanctions on Kingdom: Mogherini
In an interview with the Nikkei Asian Review on July 31, Mogherini – who is also the Vice-President of the European Commission – was asked whether the EU’s possible sanctions would lead to reforms in Cambodia, to which she said the Kingdom “needed to respect ss='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/eu-never-envisaged-putting-trade-sanctions-kingdom-mogherini