Dream deferred in S’pore
As another Cambodian maid who travelled to singapore under a pilot scheme between the two countries prepares to return home this week alleging labour rights abuses, recruitment agencies in Phnom Penh continue to look for more women to sign up for the overseas work. The ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dream-deferred-spore
Women’s issues underfunded: report
Efforts to empower women at a sub-national level are drastically under-funded, according to research released yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/womens-issues-underfunded-report
Government reclassified state’s properties
The government has reclassified 34,000 square meters of state public land to state private land, clearing the way for the ministries and other authorities in control to sell or rent the properties for private development. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18223/government-reclassified-state---s-properties/
Cambodia’s Place in ASEAN
Cambodia is one of the smallest and poorest economies in AsEAN. It accounts for only 0.7% of total regional economic activity and had the lowest GDP per capita in 2014 (Table 1). Only the Lao PDR has a smaller economy, and the next-poorest countries in ss='cambodia-color'>...
IndraStra Global
http://www.indrastra.com/2016/07/EXCERPT-Cambodia-s-Place-in-ASEAN-002-07-2016-0037.html
Dam’s impacts being felt
Residents of stung Treng province’s Preah Romkil commune are reluctant to express their concerns over Laos’s Don sahong hydropower dam since it was endorsed last month by Prime Minister Hun sen, despite the impacts of the dam already being keenly felt, activists and researchers said ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dams-impacts-being-felt
Cambodia’s rich currency heritage
These coins was found at excavation sites and archaeologists believe many more have yet to be uncovered, pointing to depictions of coins on objects from the Nokor Phnom era (also known as the Funan era), which dates back to the 1st century and is recognized ss='cambodia-color'>...
Riel Gains
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36634/cambodia---s-rich-currency-heritage/
Emerald’s gold prospects improve
The Australian-listed mining firm behind Cambodia’s Okvau gold project in Mondulkiri province released its definitive feasibility study (DFs) yesterday, confirming its predictions of 1.14 million ounces in gold reserves while reducing its projected investment costs for extraction. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/emeralds-gold-prospects-improve
Phnom Penh’s sewers criticised
Interior Minister sar Kheng bemoaned Phnom Penh’s sewage infrastructure and criticised the Ministry of Environment for allowing untreated waste water to flow into the Mekong and Bassac rivers in unscripted remarks on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/phnom-penhs-sewers-criticised
Sokha’s witness request denied
An investigating judge has rejected Kem sokha’s request that he interview a representative from the Us government in connection with the former opposition leader’s “treason” case, despite the fact that sokha stands accused of plotting a Us-backed overthrow of the Cambodian government. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sokhas-witness-request-denied
Kingdom’s economy insulated: officials
SpeakerS at a government forum held yeSterday on macroeconomic management and the 2017 budget law Said Cambodia&rSquo;S Strong economic growth haS been largely unScathed by China&rSquo;S Slowdown, though cloudS were forming on the horizon. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-economy-insulated-officials
Angkor Air’s Macau route
Tourists wanting to visit Asia’s answer to Las Vegas will be able to fly from Preah sihanouk province to Macau after Cambodia Angkor Air unveiled the new route yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36262/angkor-air---s-macau-route/
Acleda’s new ATM cards
Acleda Bank spent about $1 million to produce 800,000 new ATM cards with EMV chips to enable them to be used globally and also to mitigate the risk of fraud, said the bank’s president and group managing director on Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38780/acleda---s-new-atm-cards/
Dam’s consultation process concludes
The consultation process for the controversial proposed Pak Beng dam in Laos concluded on Monday, allowing construction to begin even as local and international civil society groups continued to urge a delay until a forthcoming Mekong River Commission (MRC) environmental assessment is released later this ss='cambodia-color'>...
Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dams-consultation-process-concludes
Enhancing PPSEZ’s social responsibility
The Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone and the United NationS Development Programme yeSterday entered into an agreement to enhance PPSEZ&rSquo;S corporate Social reSponSibility in line with the UN&rSquo;S SuStainable Development GoalS. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39842/enhancing-ppsez---s-social-responsibility/
Thailand’s Amata eyes Cambodia
Thailand’s Amata Corporation Plc., which is the country’s largest listed conglomerate in the industrial estate sector, is keen to set up a special economic zone (sEZ) in Cambodia due to the Kingdom’s strategic geographical location in the Greater Mekong sub-region. The plan was announced on sunday ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30602/thailand---s-amata-eyes-cambodia/
Sokha’s pardon: ‘no conditions’
Freshly pardoned CNRP deputy leader Kem sokha yesterday claimed the pardon that exonerated him on Friday was made without any conditions or concessions from the opposition party. The acting president of the opposition, who had been under de facto house arrest since May and had been ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32752/sokha---s-pardon-----no-conditions---/
Government’s post service increases
Cambodia Post’s services grew this year, thanks to a rise in foreign investment in Cambodia, more overseas tourists, and the rising trend of online markets. Ork Bora, Cambodia Post general director, said yesterday that the increase over all previous years was due to increased confidence of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33441/government---s-post-service-increases/
Something’s fishy with prahok
This year’s prahok season has left a bad taste in the mouths of those involved in making the pungent dish that is a staple in Cambodian cuisine. There are concerns that the vagaries in the mudfish catch, due to climate change and illegal exports to Vietnam, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35332/something---s-fishy-with-prahok/