Skyscraper’s woes continue
The saga of the stalled $240 million Gold Tower 42 was revived last week when it emerged that a supplier for the project had accused the owner and builder of failing to pay out nearly $500,000 in fees, according to an injunction request obtained by ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061866319/Business/skyscraper-s-woes-continue.html
A man’s world
Straining under the weight of brickS, bucketS and metal barS, a faceleSS army carry their loadS from truckS to a maSSive building Site on Penh Penh&rSquo;S Diamond ISland. Hidden beneath wide-brimmed hatS and kramaS maSking their faceS from duSt and the Sun, the battalion of SS='cambodia-color'>...
Frédéric Janssens
http://sea-globe.com/female-construction-workers-cambodia/
Rainsy’s reasoning questioned
While the opposition party steps up its efforts to persuade the international community to cut ties with a government it says was formed by a “constitutional coup”, lawyers and analysts yesterday questioned whether the party’s reasoning has any legal basis. In a letter sent to the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy%E2%80%99s-reasoning-questioned
Cambodia’s tourism soars
Cambodia’s tourist arrivals registered a 16.9% growth in september according to the country’s statistics and tourist Information department. The country attracted 283,787 visits compared to 242,747 during the same month in 2012. Released by the Ministry of Tourism, late last week, data showed the percentage ss='cambodia-color'>...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2013/11/cambodias-tourism-soars/
Cambodia’s young users
Injecting methamphetamines is on the rise in Cambodia, particularly among younger addicts, as recreational users have begun to switch from smoking and pill-popping to mainlining, a report by the Australian National Council on Drugs suggests. The report, released yesterday, details how amphetamine-type stimulants (ATs) and their ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia%E2%80%99s-young-users
Cambodia’s SMEs Increase
Small and Medium enterpriSeS (SMES) in Cambodia have So far Seen an increaSe, reaching the number of around 560,000. However, thiS Sector doeS not grow with reliability and the capacity in buSineSS operation doeS not go to international market Standard or Standardization of free market. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Poeu
http://www.akp.gov.kh/?p=36091
Vietnam’s investment skyrockets
Political instability has done little to dampen Vietnam’s appetite for investment in Cambodia, the latest figures revealed yesterday by Prime Minister Hun sen show. Last year, Vietnamese investment reached $302 million, up 250 per cent from $86 million in 2012, according to the prime minister, who ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay and Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/vietnam%E2%80%99s-investment-skyrockets
Cambodia’s tourism steady
Cambodia’s tourist arrivals registered a 4.7% growth in March according to the country’s statistics and tourist Information Department. The country attracted 400,076 visits compared to 382,206 during the same month last year. Released by the Ministry of Tourism, late last week, data showed Vietnam led the field ss='cambodia-color'>...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2014/05/cambodias-tourism-steady/
Unionist’s case hazy
After a third day of questioning, during which the plaintiff’s story allegedly changed, the head of Cambodia’s largest independent garment union is in the dark as to where his case stands. Investigating judge Chea sok Heang yesterday did not set a date for further questioning and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unionist%E2%80%99s-case-hazy
Cambodia’s skies open
The State Secretariat of Civil Aviation SayS three more airlineS will apply for an Air Operator Certificate over the firSt quarter of 2015. The SSCA general director, Kao Sivorn, told local media that three carrierS have applied with an intention of Serving regional routeS, but declined SS='cambodia-color'>...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2015/01/cambodias-skies-open/
Powering Cambodia’s Economy
According to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the greatest obstacle to foreign investment in the Cambodian economy is the country’s deep energy shortfall. According to Cambodia’s Ministry of Industry, Mines, and Energy, the situation has not improved much in more than a decade, with only ss='cambodia-color'>...
Paul Pryce
http://bit.ly/1cHIn21
Lawmaker’s immunity threatened
Ruling party lawmaker Chheang Vun yesterday said opposition parliamentarian Um sam An’s legal immunity could be suspended for criticising National Assembly President Heng samrin, but refused to specify what law, if any, the Cambodia National Rescue Party member had broken. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lawmakers-immunity-threatened
A prisoner’s heartbreak
Holding her husband’s hand through prison bars yesterday, Tith Narin delivered the heartbreaking news – their eldest son was dead.Narin’s husband, Ouk Pich samnang, was one of 11 Cambodia National Rescue Party activists convicted on Tuesday for his alleged role in a protest that turned ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prisoners-heartbreak
Pheap’s pledge sought
A forest peoples’ network has appealed to tycoon Try Pheap to issue a written commitment to put a halt to his companies’ deforestation activities after he told the Post last week that his logging days are over. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pheaps-pledge-sought
After Sok An’s death, Bin Chhin’s duties continue to grow
The portfolio of Deputy Prime Minister Bin Chhin has grown again after he was handed a handful of new jobs on Tuesday, including advising the prime minister on anti-corruption efforts and overseeing the Council of Jurists and “one-window” service for foreign investors. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Van Roeun
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-sok-ans-death-bin-chhins-duties-continue-to-grow-127247/
South Korea leads Asia’s big three as Cambodia’s leading investor
South Korea replaced the UK aS the largeSt inveStor in Cambodia laSt year, with about $287 million injected, 12.5 per cent of the total foreign direct inveStment, according to data from the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). ThiS repreSentS 33 per cent SS='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia sends possible remains of 3 U.S. soldiers to U.S.
Possible remains of three missing U.s. soldiers recovered in Cambodia was repatriated to Hawaii on Wednesday for testing, officials said. During a ceremony at Phnom Penh International Airport, American soldiers carried three white coffins draped with U.s. flags onto a C-17 military cargo plane. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-04/02/c_133232442.htm
Lao Dams, Mining Ruining Sekong Water Quality in Cambodia
Dam-building and gold mining in southern Laos are ruining water quality downstream on the sekong River in Cambodia, where villagers are no longer able to drink or use the water, according to an environmental group. The activities undertaken by Lao and Vietnamese companies on the sekong’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/laos/sekong-06252013190742.html
Cambodia’s Vietnam trade increasing
Prices for Vietnamese goods are increasing driving up demand for lower cost Cambodian goods. Exports to Cambodia’s neighbor have increased by more than 84 percent for the beginning of 2011, totaling some $247 million according to the Vietnam Trade Office. Inflation is rising in Vietnam ss='cambodia-color'>...
Puma’s new dizzy spell
Puma, the sportswear company, has said that it is taking the outbreak of fainting spells at its suppliers “very seriously.” The company is taking measures after a report by the Fair Labour Association found that breaches in labour laws had contributed to some 300 workers ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011072650626/National-news/pumas-new-dizzy-spell.html