Long Rainy Season to Help Increase Rice Yields
Farmers can expect better rice paddy yields this year compared to last year after the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology yesterday predicted that the rainy season would run from mid-May until November with only a short dry spell. Chhomg sopal, agriculture development ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/long-rainy-season-to-help-increase%E2%80%88rice-yields-20266/
MUJI Plans Green Dye Factory for Cambodia
Japanese retail company MUJI announced the development of an eco-friendly natural dyeing plant in Cambodia, a press release on sunday said. The plan is part of the Business Call to Action, a global initiative supported by several international organisations and hosted by the UN Development Programme ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060466031/Business/muji-plans-green-dye-factory-for-cambodia.html
Cambodia's Angkor Wat earns 30 mln USD per annum from ticket sales
Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temples, one of the world heritage sites, generated an annual revenue of 30 million U.s. dollars from ticket sales, Deputy Prime Minister and Cabinet Minister sok An said sunday. Last year, the temples attracted 2.06 million foreigners, up 28 percent year-on-year, he ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2013-07/08/c_132522594.htm
Pheapimex Opponent Arrested
A well-known community representative who has long battled alleged land-grabbing by economic land concessionaire Pheapimex Group was arrested on fraud accusations and jailed in Pursat province’s Krakor district yesterday.Fellow community representative Lun sivy, 42, said Kuch Veng, a member of the Cambodian Peace Network, was ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052065715/National/pheapimex-opponent-arrested.html
Vietnamese Prime Minister Arrives for Three-Day State Visit
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung arrived for an official three-day visit sunday, during which he is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Hun sen as well as inaugurate a new Vietnamese-funded hospital and attend a groundbreaking ceremony for a bridge linking the two countries. Tran ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/vietnamese-prime-minister-arrives-for-three-day-state-visit-50453/
Strike grows as another factory walks
About 1,000 workers at one of Asia’s largest garment-processing factories have joined more than 4,000 who began a strike last week, as union workers demanded the company meet nine conditions, including severing ties with a shareholder. Employees at the sL2 factory of sL Garment Processing (Cambodia) ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strike-grows-another-factory-walks
Brighton to buy Indonesia manganese, Cambodia gold projects
ASX-liSted junior Brighton Mining Group on WedneSday announced that it would buy two unliSted companieS to gain control of high-grade manganeSe project in IndoneSia, and gold projectS in Cambodia. Brighton Mining holdS a 70% Shareholding in Summer Gold InveStmentS, which holdS two mineral conceSSion areaS SS='cambodia-color'>...
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly News Staff
http://www.miningweekly.com/article/brighton-to-buy-indonesia-manganese-cambodia-gold-projects-2013-12-04
Man dies in illegally dug gold mine
A 31-year-old man was killed on Monday when part of an illegally dug gold mine collapsed in Battambang’s Phnom Proek district, commune officials said yesterday. Bon Boern, 31, died at the scene, while Ath Kri, 21, was treated at the provincial hospital for a head injury, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/man-dies-illegally-dug-gold-mine
Philippine Airlines plans to add routes to Cambodia
Philippine Airlines plans to launch flights between the Philippines and Cambodia, according to an aviation official. The move would break the monopoly of domestic competitor Cebu Pacific Air, which started flying the route in April last year. Aviation authorities in the Philippines sent a letter to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Anne Renzenbrink
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/philippine-airlines-plans-add-routes-cambodia
Svay Rieng garment workers fired, suspended
Factories in svay Rieng province’s Manhattan special Economic Zone have fired or suspended at least 50 workers – and are pursuing legal action against some – for participating in a strike last month that saw some 30,000 walk off the job. Heads of the Collective Union ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/svay-rieng-garment-workers-fired-suspended
Siem Reap hotel gets new owner
Minor Hotel Group Ltd (MHG), a wholly owned subsidiary of Thailand-listed Minor International Public Company Limited (MINT), has acquired majority ownership of siem Reap-based sothea Boutique Resort to strengthen MINT’s presence in southeast Asia. After the $6.4 million deal, the sothea Resort will be rebranded ss='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/siem-reap-hotel-gets-new-owner
H&M tries exclusivity agreement
Clothing giant H&M is testing the garment production waters by entering into exclusivity agreements with factories in Cambodia and Bangladesh, according to a report from Bloomberg News yesterday. This means that sweden-based H&M would buy all of the factory’s output. H&M, it seems, would still be ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hm-tries-exclusivity-agreement
Hong Kong's KeyBridge acquires 65 pct shares of Cambodian telecom firm
The KeyBridge International (Hong Kong) Investment Company has acquired 65 percent shares of a Cambodian telecommunications company EMAXX in an amount of 15 million U.s. dollars, officials of the two companies announced Wednesday. “EMAXX has converted from a family business into a joint venture,” Ai Min, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-04/09/c_133249446.htm
Villagers questioned over land dispute
Five men in Koh Kong province could be prosecuted for stealing from a construction crew after the group allegedly seized tools in January, preventing the construction team from building fences in their village. Police summonsed the villagers from Kiri sakor district’s Prek Khsach commune for questioning ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-questioned-over-land-dispute
Aeon reports record revenue amid ASEAN expansion
Aeon Co, the Japanese firm developing the soon-to-be-opened Aeon Mall on Phnom Penh’s sothearos Boulevard, has reported a record $62.3 billion in revenue for its financial year ending February 28. The company, which has more than 260 subsidiaries, including the shopping centre development arm Aeon Mall ss='cambodia-color'>...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/aeon-reports-record-revenue-amid-asean-expansion
City Hall orders 40 more buses
Phnom Penh City Hall has purchased 40 secondhand buses from south Korea for an expansion of the city’s fledgling public bus service, said a municipal official who declined to reveal the details of the order. City Hall spokesman Long Dimanche said the buses are slotted to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-orders-40-more-buses-62352/
Fines called for in case against Khmer Krom
An ongoing land dispute may become more than just an embittered ordeal for three Khmer Krom villagers after officials requested yesterday that a Takeo court levy them huge fines. According to representatives from Borei Choslar district’s sangkum Meanchey village, they are only farming barren land that ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fines-called-case-against-khmer-krom
Controversial pagoda closed
Kandal province’s Tuol Reachea pagoda has been ordered shut for a week after authorities yesterday broke into the living quarters of Thean Vuthy, a man who claims to be the next Buddha, and found jewellery and other “irregular” items. The joint force from the Ministry of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/controversial-pagoda-closed
Four charged over forest clearing
Four of six men arrested on Thursday for allegedly clearing more than three hectares of protected forest within Mondulkiri’s seima Biodiversity Conservation Area were charged on saturday, court officials and rights monitors said yesterday. sou sovichea, provincial deputy prosecutor, confirmed yesterday that the four suspects charged ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/four-charged-over-forest-clearing
Human Rights Watch Finds Widespread Anti-Union Practices
In a new report highlighting abuse in Cambodia’s garment industry, Human Rights Watch has called on the Cambodian government to cease “intimidation and threats” against workers. The group interviewed nearly 200 factory workers from 55 different factories, and found that anti-union discrimination and poor workers conditions ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/human-rights-watch-finds-widespread-anti-union-practices/1843580.html