Hun Sen Says Chinese Companies Not Favored, Just Served
Prime Minister Hun Sen yeserday lauded his government’s strong ties with China but said Cambodia does not give Chinese any preferential treatment. Mr. Hun Sen was speaking at the inauguration of the $47.1 million Kirirom III hydropower dam in Koh Kong province’s Sre Ambel District- constructed ...
Third Taiwanese Bank Slated To Open in Cambodia
The Taiwan Cooperative Bank will become the third bank from Taiwan, which has no diplomatic relations with Cambodia under the “one-China” policy. National Bank of Cambodia officials say the bank has been provisionally approved, but that the central bank needs time to look over the fine ...
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/third-taiwanese-bank-slated-to-open-in-cambodia/1522678.html
Ministry urges greater youth participation in forest protection
The Environment Ministry is urging people, especially youth, to take part in the protection of forests and natural resources as the government is lacking manpower and equipment. Kong Siek Ly, director of the community living department at the ministry, said on Saturday that a total ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50555320/ministry-urges-greater-youth-participation-in-forest-protection/
Survey counts homeless youth
Cambodia’s seven largest urban centres are home to nearly 2,700 homeless adolescents who face numerous health and education-related obstacles, according to a new study by the Cambodian National Institute of Statistics, Columbia University and Friends International. ...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/survey-counts-homeless-youth
Timber trader Try Pheap linked to logging racket
In a new report, U.K. environmental rights group Global Witness places Cambodian timber magnate Try Pheap at the heart of a vast illegal logging operation driving the country’s rarest tree species to the brink of extinction with the collusion of government and military officials. “The Cost ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/timber-trader-try-pheap-linked-to-vast-logging-racket-77466/
First elderly care centre to open
The Ministry of Social Affairs plans to create an elderly care centre, which would be the first centre in Cambodia focused on receiving and taking care of the elderly. officials said it might be created next year. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5091115/first-elderly-care-centre-open/
Dozens of protesters demand release of activists in Koh Kong
Dozens of people protested outside of the provincial prison in Koh Kong on Wednesday demanding the release of three activists from environmental NGO Mother Nature who were charged on Monday with threatening destruction, a rights worker and police said. ...
National Road 10 project construction on track
National Road 10, which will link Battambang to Koh Kong province, is now 43.75 percent complete and scheduled to open for traffic in 2023. This was announced by the Secretary of State of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport Bong Bun Hourn following an ...
Jason Boken
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50807538/national-road-10-project-construction-on-track/
Japanese firm seeks to open care centre for the elderly
A Japanese company is seeking approval for its new project to establish an elderly care centre in Cambodia to improve the quality of life and health of the aged. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501304391/japanese-firm-seeks-to-open-care-centre-for-the-elderly/
Prospect of another Koh Kong dam raised
The government is forming an interministerial committee to review an application from a Chinese firm to build another hydropower dam in Koh Kong province, according to a spokesman from the Mines and Energy Ministry. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/prospect-another-koh-kong-dam-raised
Vietnamese military bank to open doors today
Vietnam’s Military Commercial Joint-Stock Bank (MB Bank) will open its doors in Phnom Penh today, becoming the fourth Vietnamese bank to set up operations here and bringing the total number of commercial banks in Cambodia to 31. Nguon Sokha, general director of the National Bank of ...
UDG denies links to naval base
The vice president of China’s Union Development Group has dismissed reports that it is involved in the construction of a Chinese naval base in Koh Kong province. A report published by Asia Times last month said that China has been lobbying the Cambodian government since ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50564717/udg-denies-links-to-naval-base/
Study finds mouth cancer rife
The Cambodian National Survey of Oral Muscoal Lesions, launched yesterday at the University of Puthisastra’s health faculty, found the prevalence of oral cancer and potentially malignant oral disorders among Cambodians was 5.6 per cent – about five times more than some other ASEAN countries. ...
Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/study-finds-mouth-cancer-rife
Worldbridge to open first SME industrial park
The first industrial park for small and medium enterprises in the Kingdom will open this October in Kandal province, just 12 kilometres from the centre of Phnom Penh. The SME Eco Park, referred to also as SME Cluster Zone by the developer, is located on ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50505212/worldbridge-to-open-first-sme-industrial-park/
Cambodia, Thailand to open new border crossings
Cambodia and Thailand are planning to open four new border crossings in four provinces as part of a move to increase trade between the two countries, officials said yesterday. ...
Igor Kossov and Ek Madra
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14631/cambodia--thailand-to-open-new-border-crossings/
Financial firms defend validity of investment scheme
A Cambodian company that encouraged clients to pour money into a Hong Kong-based investment firm, which is linked to an alleged ponzi scheme here, on Wednesday held a conference in Phnom Penh to reassure its investors that the scheme is legitimate. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/financial-firms-defend-validity-of-investment-scheme-86498/
New car sales back on track
New car sales noticeably increased in the first quarter of this year, a contrast to the year earlier period when sales dropped compared with the first quarter of 2011, officials said. Major car dealers in Cambodia said yesterday the jump is due to improvements in ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013041265053/Business/new-car-sales-back-on-track.html
Unequal treatment at Cambodian factories
The ongoing story of garment workers left jobless by company closures in late December is fast becoming A Tale of Two Factories: one group of workers has everything before it, the other has nothing. It’s this widening gulf between workers at Yung Wah Industrial and Kingsland ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013022561588/National/unequal-treatment-at-factories.html
SR airport lounge to be ready by next month
Plaza Premium Group, the Hong Kong-based company that opened its first lounge in Cambodia at Phnom Penh International Airport last month, will open its second lounge in Siem Reap airport by the end of next month, according to the firm that manages the Kingdom’s three ...
Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sr-airport-lounge-be-ready-next-month
Bank of China to expand operations in Cambodia
Bank of China, one of the five biggest state-owned commercial banks in China, will expand its operations in Cambodia by opening new branches in Siem Reap and Sihanoukville, a local bank executive said yesterday. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/bank-china-expand-operations-cambodia