Postal service to launch e-commerce
The state-owned Cambodia Post will launch an online shopping platform in March in a move to tap the current rise in e-commerce activity. Ork Bora, director-general of the Cambodia Post, told Khmer Times yesterday that after about a year of studying e-commerce, the state-owned enterprise decided ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33904/postal-service-to-launch-e-commerce/
Prahok makers seek GI status
Geographical indication status is being sought for Siem Reap prahok fish paste after the Industry Ministry granted approval for a national standard. Siem Reap prahok fish paste, made from fermented fish, is among many products in Cambodia that the government is working to get GI status. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5082459/prahok-makers-seek-gi-status/
Preah Sihanouk land brokers given warning
Preah Sihanouk’s provincial governor on Wednesday warned that legal action would be taken against any brokers trying to grab land in the Kbal Chhay area, where it is prohibited to build property or sell land plots. The warning came after provincial authorities discovered that in recent ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50103182/preah-sihanouk-land-brokers-given-warning/
Bad weather affects border trade, seafood prices
Thailand’s border trade at Chanthaburi has dropped by half due to the heavy rain in many eastern provinces, while erratic changes of weather in the southern provinces has caused the increased price of seafood. Thai-Cambodian Business and Tourism Association vice chairman Sombat Juengtrakul said that ...
http://www.pattayamail.com/business/bad-weather-affects-border-trade-seafood-prices-16869
Land disputes to dominate next year's election
Land disputes are expected to be a hot issue in next year’s election, overshadowing perennial issues such as illegal immigration, destruction of forests, corruption, and unemployment. Prime Minister Hun Sen himself has acknowledged that the government’s failure to resolve the issue will mean handing ammunition to ...
Cambodia's tax revenue totals $683 million
The Cambodian government collected $683 million in taxes over the first 11 months of this year, according to data from the General Department of Taxation released last week. An economist said the increase in domestic tax revenue emphasised that Cambodia still has room for improvement in ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012121160203/Business/tax-revenue-totals-683-million.html
Land’s ‘owner’ alleges violence
Six residents of the Boeung Chhouk community in the capital’s Russei Keo district have been summonsed to court to answer charges they used violence against the supposed owner of their land – a person they claim never to have met. Khiev Chenda, 42, one of six ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012053156506/National-news/lands-owner-alleges-violence.html
Visitors to Cambodia Increase by 27 Percent
The number of visitors to Cambodia increased 27 percent to 1.27 million people in the first four months of the year compared to the same period last year, according to figures released yesterday by the Ministry of Tourism. Kong Sopheareak, director of the tourism statistics department, ...
Tourism Revenues Rise; Firms Urged to Buy Locally
Revenues from the tourism sector increased 7 percent to $1.91 billion in 2011, though more could be made if hotels sourced more goods from local producers instead of importing from abroad, Tourism Minister Thong Khon said yesterday. Speaking at a conference in Phnom Penh, Mr. Khon ...
Migrants to Korea jump
More Cambodian migrant workers headed to South Korea in the first half of this year than in all of 2011, data from the Ministry of Labour shows. A suspension on Vietnamese migration, coupled with an improving Korean economy, primarily accounted for the jump, officials say. Working ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012071057315/Business/migrants-to-korea-jump.html
French investors plan tram system for Phnom Penh
French companies are considering plans to invest in a tram system providing comfortable public transport for residents of Phnom Penh, an official said Friday Kuy Koung, spokesman for Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, said the project was discussed during a meeting between Foreign Minister ...
From Alibaba, a Trove of Cambodian Treasures
From large tracts of rural land to sand from the country’s rivers to human hair, a host of Cambodia’s natural resources are on display in the shop window of China’s largest online trading website. Alibaba.com – which claims more than 80 million users worldwide and is ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/from-alibaba-a-trove-of-cambodian-treasures-5698/
Dragon building roars to life
Champagne greeted the movers and shakers at the highest level of Cambodia’s tallest building yesterday in a ceremony that marked substantial completion of the structure of Vattanac Capital Tower. Designed in the shape of a dragon with particular attention to the Chinese art of placement for ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012051056079/Business/dragon-building-roars-to-life.html
Trade with Vietnam increases
A pledge in mid-June by Cambodia and Vietnam to increase bilateral trade by more than US$2.5 billion by 2015 may lead to decreased trade with Thailand, market analysts have said. The pledge made by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Tan Dung ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012070957288/Business/trade-with-vietnam-increases.html
Illegal loggers, trafficker return
Fourteen Cambodian men jailed in Thailand for drug trafficking or illegal logging have been released in the past week after reaching the end of their sentences, a border official said yesterday. Touch Ra, director of the Chaom Sangam Cambodia-Thailand border checkpoint in Oddar Meanchey province, said ...
Land prices along major roads increase sharply
The price of land along four major boulevards in Phnom Penh climbed by 16 per cent in early 2013, according to real estate experts, compared to the same period in 2012. VMC Real Estate chairman Dith Channa said land prices increase because the quality of ...
Seun Son
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/land-prices-along-major-roads-increase-sharply
Vendors Protest Market Rebuilding at Appeal Court
About 200 vendors from Phnom Penh’s Tomnup Market gathered in front of the Appeal Court yesterday morning to protest an earlier ruling by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court that paved the way for the market’s reconstruction. In 2011, the market’s owner, New Rich Cambodia ...
Hun Sen Encourages Cambodians to Emulate Chinese-Style Wealth
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday encouraged Cambodians to strive for Chinese-style millionaire status as he inaugurated a sugar refinery located inside two controversial plantations belonging to CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat and his wife in Kompong Speu province. “I have one clear policy in strengthening the ...
Hun Sen wants more Australian investors
The Prime Minister appealed Wednesday to Australian investors to increase their investments in Cambodia, especially in the agriculture and the tourism sectors. The comments were made during a meeting with the outgoing Australian Ambassador to Cambodia, Penny Richards, at the Peace Palace. He said, because of ...
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=YzFhMzAxN2QzNDZ
Kingdom’s hoofed species need conservation: WWF
Diminishing populations of hoofed animals in Southeast Asia have hit Cambodia hard, with numbers of one of the Kingdom’s indigenous species dropping by 90 per cent. The current banteng census shows an 80 per cent drop in the world’s banteng population and a 90 per ...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom%E2%80%99s-hoofed-species-need-conservation-wwf