Kingdom’s bourse missing some magic
At the headquarters of the Cambodia securities Exchange on the 25th floor of Canadia Tower, something seems to be missing. Here, in Phnom Penh’s business heart, the sights typically associated with trading shares – gesticulating, shouting traders, the confusing hand signals, the buzz in the air ss='cambodia-color'>...
Anne Renzenbrink
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013062166422/Business/kingdom-s-bourse-missing-some-magic.html
Hundreds demonstrate on activist’s behalf
Two days before a land activist’s scheduled sentencing, about 400 people affected by land grabs demonstrated at Pursat Provincial Court in support of the man who frequently protests against the Pheap Imex Company. About 12,000 families are now involved in land disputes around a Pheap ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013070966735/National/hundreds-demonstrate-on-activist-s-behalf.html
Phnom Penh’s Bus Service Delayed
The Japanese International Co­operation Agency (JICA) on Tuesday announced it hoped to have a public bus system in place in Phnom Penh sometime in 2014, despite earlier assurances it would be up and running this year. The Japanese government’s international aid arm also presented options to ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penhs-bus-service-delayed-38546/
After Cambodia’s election: Stand-off
NEARLY three weeks after Cambodia’s general election, which both the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and the opposition claim to have won, life in Phnom Penh remains tense. Tanks have been deployed, although only on the outskirts, and queues have formed at banks and supermarkets ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buffalo holders seek owner’s restitution
Jarai ethnic minority villagers in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district are demanding compensation from a villager they claim illegally cleared a sizeable portion of their community forest this year. The villagers seized two carts transporting rosewood – and the four buffaloes pulling them – out of the forest ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/buffalo-holders-seek-owner%E2%80%99s-restitution
Focus now on flood’s aftermath
With the floodwaters receding following weeks of heavy rains, the National Committee for Disaster Management met with officials from 20 provinces on Friday to determine the scale of the devastation and begin planning the cleanup. The NCDM on Wednesday launched a disaster management database in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/focus-now-flood%E2%80%99s-aftermath
Rights group investigates miner’s death
The death of a miner on Monday in a pit collapse in Preah Vihear is under investigation by Adhoc, the rights group has said. Lor Chann, Adhoc coordinator in Preah Vihear province, said yesterday that the miner died while working for a private mining firm in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rights-group-investigates-miner%E2%80%99s-death
Kampot’s famous pepper goes global
When Him Anna started to plant pepper crops seven years ago, she would have never thought that one day it would turn into a profitable business. Today, Anna is the chief executive officer of Bright starling Holdings Co, which owns starling Farm Kampot Pepper. Established ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kampot%E2%80%99s-famous-pepper-goes-global
Cambodia-U.S. Bilateral Trade Increases
In the first seven months of this year, the bilateral trade between Cambodia and the U.s. has reached some Us$1.7 billion, up by 3.5 percent if compared to the same period in the previous year, according to the U.s. Trade Department’s figures. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ball’s in their court: CPP
Minister of Interior and Deputy Prime Minister sar Kheng said yesterday that the ruling party was waiting for the opposition to contact them regarding negotiations to break the ongoing political deadlock. CNRP president sam Rainsy yesterday said his party would “definitely” be contacting the CPP, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ball%E2%80%99s-their-court-cpp
Cham Prasidh’s wife anointed ‘oknha’
Tep Bopha Prasidh, a wealthy businesswoman and wife of Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh, has been anointed with the sought-after royal title of oknha. According to an August edition of the Royal Gazette, King Norodom sihamoni signed off on the new title on July 11. Roughly translated as tycoon, oknha is a ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cham-prasidh%E2%80%99s-wife-anointed-%E2%80%98oknha%E2%80%99
Cambodia’s tourism anchored to Angkor
More than 90% of tourists visiting Cambodia will end up at siem Reap’s world heritage site Angkor Wat, despite efforts to open other areas of the country to tourism. Officials attending the Asean Tourism Forum admitted that efforts to convince tour operators to include trips to ss='cambodia-color'>...
TTR Weekly News Staff
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2014/01/cambodias-tourism-anchored-to-angkor/
Sugar on EU visit’s agenda
European Union Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht will visit Cambodia this week, the European Commission announced, with rights groups hoping that land grabbing related to sugar plantations will be high on the agenda. Following bilateral meetings in Brussels last week between Cambodia and the EU during ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sugar-eu-visit%E2%80%99s-agenda
Court rules in tycoon’s favour
Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday ruled in favour of a mining tycoon and convicted a Chinese-Cambodian widow of defaming the oknha during an embittered land dispute. sok Neang Gek, 46, an interpreter at a garment factory in the capital, was fined $1,000 and ordered to compensate ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/court-rules-tycoon%E2%80%99s-favour
Officials protect private company’s machines
Chroy Changva district security guards Thursday stopped villagers from preventing a private company from pumping sand onto the wetlands behind their homes. The Overseas Cambodian Investment Corporation (OCIC) is building a $3-billion real estate project, known as “Chroy Changva City, City of the Future,” on the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/officials-protect-private-companys-machines-61335/
Hundreds plea for PM’s help
Hundreds of families descended on Phnom Penh yesterday to ask Prime Minister Hun sen and the United Nations to intervene in three separate land disputes. More than 800 families from across the country gathered in front of Wat Botum at about 9am, where they submitted petitions ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hundreds-plea-pm%E2%80%99s-help
China fuels Cambodia’s airline growth
The Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation says Cambodia’s aviation market grew briskly for the second consecutive year as national and foreign airlines added routes to China amid a surge in Chinese nationals visiting the country. The centre reported Cambodia has emerged as one of the fastest ss='cambodia-color'>...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2014/02/china-fuels-cambodias-airline-growth/
Cambodia’s export to EU skyrockets
Despite the depressed market conditions throughout Europe in 2013 Cambodia’s export to the EU skyrocketed. The country is well under way to take over Taiwan’s leading position in bike export to Europe. Between January and October 2013 Cambodia’s bike export showed a huge increase of no ss='cambodia-color'>...
Jack Oortwijn
http://www.bike-eu.com/Sales-Trends/Market-trends/2014/2/Cambodias-Export-to-EU-Skyrockets-1463329W/
Cambodia’s tourism short of staff
Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism says the country’s tourism sector is growing at an unsustainable rate that will cause a massive shortfall in skilled tourism-related labour. The ministry’s statistics department director, Kong sopheareak, told local media that as tourist arrivals increase substantially every year, the challenge is ss='cambodia-color'>...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2014/05/cambodias-tourism-short-of-staff/
Sambo’s return to city nixed
Sambo the elephant will not be allowed to return to work in Phnom Penh, becauSe both City Hall and the ForeStry AdminiStration oppoSe the idea, the FA&rSquo;S director-general Said yeSterday. The 54-year-old Sambo left the city in 2012 after decadeS of entertaining and giving rideS to SS='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sambo%E2%80%99s-return-city-nixed