Commune Chief Collectors’ Scam Follows Election
The commune election had only just ended on Sunday when the scam had started. on Tuesday, a well-dressed man claiming to be the brother of one of Phnom Penh’s newly reelected commune chiefs visited a business to present an invitation. It was convincing: The father of the ...
Bokor resort slated to bolster Kampot tourism
Kampot officials are looking to the Bokor Mountain Resort, a US$1 billion project that opens today, to drive tourism growth in the burgeoning seaside destination. The provincial Tourism Department said the number of domestic visitors to Kampot had risen 120 per cent to 338,000 in the ...
Over 2.5 million visitors to Cambodia in the first nine months of 2012
Cambodia attracted some 2.57 million international visitors in the first nine months of this year, a 24% rise compared with the same period last year, a report from the Ministry of Tourism showed on Wednesday. ...
http://www.traveldailynews.com/news/article/51858/over-2-5-million-visitors-to
REDD+ forest clearing unabated: community
Since last year, up to a half of nearly 8,000 hectares of community forest has been encroached upon and cleared in oddar Meanchey province’s Banteay Ampil district by soldiers, community representatives said yesterday. Din Heng, chief of Ang Dong Bor community, said the army has cleared ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/redd-forest-clearing-unabated-community
Workers Claim Police Beat Them During Factory Protest
About 10 workers were beaten by police and military police during a protest over severance payments yesterday in Kandal province, workers and union representatives said. Protests at Tai Yang Enterprises—which supplies clothing to U.S. brands Levi Strauss and old Navy—in ang Snuol district have been ongoing ...
Cambodian-Thai delegation visits cross-border railway site
A Cambodian-Thai delegation visited the cross-border railway site in Stung Bot Wednesday to examine the old line and a metal bridge which is being replaced, officials said. In addition to Stung Bot, where a new international border crossing is planned for Banteay Meanchey province, the officials ...
Riverbank Collapse Prompts Dredging Complaint
More than 300 Kandal province villagers have filed a complaint with Sa’ang district officials over Sand dredging along the BasSac river after riverbanks in their village collapsed, district governor Khim Chankiri Said yesterday. Mr. Chankiri Said, however, that the Sand dredging operation along the BasSac ...
New condo aimed at local investors
Star5 Development and the Skyland Company have formed a joint venture, with approximately $20 million in investment capital, to develop an affordable condominium named Skyland Condo aimed at local investors. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28095/new-condo-aimed-at-local-investors/
New electronics manufacturer due at PPSEZ
Thai-listed electronics manufacturer, SVI Public Limited, will be next in line to join Cambodia’s emerging light-manufacturing industry. ...
Xueying Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-electronics-manufacturer-due-ppsez
Expectations exceeded at new dental hospital
When Dr. Tith Hongyoeu opened Roomchang Dental and Aesthetic Hospital in a new 10-storey building on Street 184 just off Norodom Boulevard six months ago, it was the realisation of a dream come true for a poor boy from Kampong Thom province who grew up ...
Cambodia 'must admit to logging'
At a meeting with Prime Minister Yingluck ShinawAtra, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen had admitted Cambodians were conducting illegal logging and thAt Thai authorities were right to Attempt to defend their territory. on SAturday, 20 nAtural resource protection officials from Si Sa Ket province which borders ...
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/292142/cambodia-must-admit-to-logging
Sand Settles on Boeng Kak Project as Site’s Future Uncertain
In Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district there is a 133-hectare mound of sand that was once a lake. It took nearly four years to fill Boeng Kak with that sand. on the southern perimeter of the massive sand pit sit two large billboards. on those billboards there ...
Protesters Move Largely Unhindered by Police Checkpoints
Despite the return of police checkpoints around Phnom Penh on Wednesday morning ahead of the opposition CNRP’s latest protest against July’s still-disputed national election, most demonstrators coming in from the provinces were let through. Typifying what turned out to be a lighter security touch compared to ...
Khuon Narim and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/protesters-move-largely-unhindered-by-police-checkpoints-45741/
Newlyweds targeted with ‘wedding loans’
Phnom Penh Commercial Bank will offer “wedding loans” to newlyweds, a product based on a similar borrowing practice is South Korea. The majority-owned South Korean bank will set aside more than US$1 million for start-up families that don’t want their parents shelling out savings for new ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012071157335/Business/newlyweds-wedding-loans.html
Loans from China Still Welcome, Hun Sen Says
The Chinese government is considering loaning an unspecified amount of money to cover the cost of constructing 20 new national roads, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday. Speaking at the inauguration of 128-km stretch of National Road 62 linking Kampong Thom and Preah Vihear provinces, also primarily funded by ...
Cambodian buses in Saigon to be strictly controlled
In the petition to the National Road Administration, Deputy Director of the HCM City Department of Transportation – Mr. Duong Hong Thanh, reported that at the time the Vietnam-Cambodia agreement on land transportation took effect, only 40 cars of each country were allowed to cross ...
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/society/74337/cambodian-buses-in-saigon-to-be-strictly-control.html
Strikers move protest to Phnom Penh
Thousands of workers from Tai Yang Enterprise, a supplier for major brands including Levis and the Gap, will move their nearly three-week-old strike from their factory in Kandal province’s ang Snuol district to Freedom Park in Phnom Penh tomorrow in order to bring their petition ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012071057320/National-news/strikers-move-to-phnom-penh.html
Villagers call for state electricity
About 200 protesters clamoured yesterday in front of a Kandal province commune chief’s office, demanding the state take control of providing their electricity. Yong Phany, a 32-year-old protester from Ang Snuol district’s Poeuk commune said Peoun sambat, the private company contracted to provide electricity to the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013062166410/National/villagers-call-for-state-electricity.html
Gov’t vows crackdown on lawbreaking contractors
Contractors that dodge requirements to register with the social security fund, leaving workers to foot their hospital bills alone, will start facing harsher legal penalties, the director of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) said. ...
Jonathan Cox and Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18493/gov---t-vows-crackdown-on-lawbreaking-contractors/
Muslim woman, girl back from Malaysia
A day after opposition leader Sam Rainsy publicly took up their cause, a young Cham Muslim woman and girl were repatriated Tuesday after being trafficked into the Malaysian sex trade and were greeted by Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/muslim-woman-girl-back-from-malaysia-78619/