Japan Asks for Tax Breaks, Better Regulations
The Japanese Embassy in Phnom Penh appealed to The Cambodian government Tuesday to help encourage Japanese investment here by providing corporate tax holidays and reducing notoriously high customs tariffs by adopting more transparent and efficient practices. According to a set of requests prepared by The ...
Police deny baton beatdown
The Phnom Penh municipal police chief yesterday denied claims his officers had beaten three female garment factory workers with batons and shields during a protest in which a 21-year-old’s nose was allegedly broken on Tuesday. Police chief Touch Naruth called The Post yesterday claiming no weapons ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012032955319/National-news/police-deny-baton-beatdown.html
China firm now eyes power lines
The Beijing-based PowerChina Resources Limited (PCR), a shareholder of Sinohydro Kamchay Hydroelectric Project Co. Ltd, which developed The Kamchay hydroelectric dam in Kampot, expressed its interest in building electricity transmission lines in Cambodia. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27263/china-firm-now-eyes-power-lines/
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 ...
Cambodia’s Deportation of Uighurs to China Remembered
Four years after the forcible deportation of 20 Uighur asylum seekers from Cambodia to China, an advocacy group has said it remains “deeply concerned” about their fate and has called on China to lift a veil of secrecy surrounding their treatment. In a statement, the World ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodias-deportation-of-uighurs-to-china-remembered-49549/
Greens will try to force Senate vote on plans to settle refugees in Cambodia
The Greens will attempt to force a vote in The Senate on plans to resettle in Cambodia refugees whose claims for protection are recognised on Nauru and is challenging Labor to block any deal. The party’s immigration spokesperson, Sarah Hanson-Young, is confident any deal with The ...
Campaign promotes free textbooks for students
Two NGOs on Monday launched an online campaign to galvanize public support for providing students with free textbooks after a survey found that 85 percent of high-school pupils lack the necessary books for their studies. the Khmer Institute for National Development (KIND) and the Affiliated Network ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/campaign-promotes-free-textbooks-for-students-67146/
No increase in foreign direct investment last year
Cambodia received roughly $4 billion in foreign direct investment last year—roughly the same amount as in 2013, the secretary-general of the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) said after a meeting with the National Assembly’s environment and rural development commission. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/no-increase-in-foreign-direct-investment-last-year-78629/
Cambodia defends Its human rights record
Cambodia presented its human rights report before the United Nations Office in Geneva amid growing allegations that abuses are being systematically committed by state forces. the UN committee acknowledged that Cambodia has introduced some reforms in recent years, in particular land reform and registration Of ...
Mong Palatino
http://thediplomat.com/2015/03/cambodia-defends-its-human-rights-record/
World Bank urges government to accelerate reforms
The World Bank urged The Cambodian government Wednesday to accelerate reforms while taking a participatory approach to its National Strategic Development Plan. Speaking at a meeting of The Development Partner Coordination Committee, World Bank Country Director Annette Dixon congratulated The government on its current development plan ...
Cambodian Rice Exports Double in the First Seven Months
Cambodia exported 221,027 tons of milled rice in the first seven months of the year, an increase of 103 percent compared to the same period last year, according to figures from the Ministry of Commerce. officials and rice experts said the increase in exports was thanks ...
Lindsey Peterson and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/cambodian-rice-exports-double-in-the-first-seven-months-43062/
Pol Pot on the tourist map
The Documentation Centre of Cambodia has joined a coalition of government ministries on an study tour to establish a tourism plan in The former Khmer Rouge stronghold of Anlong Veng district in Oddar Meanchey, officials said yesterday. Anlong Veng was The last stronghold for The Khmer ...
Evening the odds with Mother Nature
About 20 people grinned for the camera as they posed in front of a flagpole-like structure located just off a muddy dirt road in Kampong Chhnang province’s Samaki Meanchey district on Thursday morning. While a rather unimpressive visual, the agrometerological station is a first-of-its-kind device in ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/evening-odds-mother-nature
Deputy police chief in Cambodia seeking help to track down call centre gang members
Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn, the deputy national police, is in Cambodia today (Tuesday) to seek cooperation from police there in the arrests of nine Thai and Chinese suspects working in a call centre gang. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501355676/deputy-police-chief-in-cambodia-seeking-help-to-track-down-call-centre-gang-members/
80MW wind farm project in Kampot hits EdC price snag
French-owned The Blue Circle’s 80MW wind power investment project in Kampot province has hit an impasse, as its proposed $0.068 per kWh tariff rate for The national grid exceeds what state-run energy supplier Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) is willing to pay, according to a Ministry ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/80mw-wind-farm-project-kampot-hits-edc-price-snag
Ministry calls on the stop of ill-willed advocacy under the name of environmental protection
The Ministry of Environment has reiterated The government’s solid commitment in natural resource conservation, and called on The stop of any ill-willed campaign under The name of “environmental protection”. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50827084/ministry-calls-on-the-stop-of-ill-willed-advocacy-under-the-name-of-environmental-protection/
Japanese FDI on the rise in Cambodia
The strong inflow of Japanese investment is expected to continue on The back of both large-scale commercial projects and The consumer habits of Japanese expatriates residing and working in Cambodia, according to investment officials. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/japanese-fdi-rise-cambodia
Union leader rejects video, photo evidence
During his second day under questioning on charges of inciting violence and property damage at a January 2 protest, union leader Vorn Pao was presented with photographs showing his tuk-tuk packed with rocks, and a video of him calling on low-ranking police to turn their ...
Eang Mengleng and Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/union-leader-rejects-video-photo-evidence-59326/
Weighing risk and reward on construction sites
As the booming construction sector attracts more rural Cambodians to seek employment in the capital, the different working conditions between high-rises in urban areas and borey developments have factored into varying degrees of earning potential and living standards.According to estimates by the Ministry of Land ...
Kali Kotoski and Sum Manet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/weighing-risk-and-reward-construction-sites
Protected forest ‘is finished’
In the latest government backed appropriation of protected land, nearly 20,000 hectares of the Boeung Per wildlife sanctuary have been reclassified as state private land for agro-industrial development. Two sub-decrees, obtained by the Post this week and initialed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on July ...