General Accused of Smuggling $1M In Goods
Military police in Preah Sihanouk province Said yeSterday that they impounded four truckS carrying retail goodS worth about $1 million that a lieutenant general in the Royal Cambodian Armed ForceS had imported from Thailand without paying tax duty. The unpaid import duty amounted to about SS='cambodia-color'>...
Environmental activist Chut Wutty shot dead
Cambodia’s most outspoken activist against illegal logging was shot dead today while escorting journalists near a protected forest in Koh Kong province, where he has repeatedly attempted to expose illegal logging rackets that include military officials. Chut Wutty, the director of Natural Resource Protection Group, was ss='cambodia-color'>...
Six Questioned Over Tonle Sap Reservoirs
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday questioned six people, including a provincial director of water resources and a commune chief, over allegations that they cleared part of a flooded forest in Kompong Thom to illegally construct reservoirs on the Tonle sap. Earlier this month, military ss='cambodia-color'>...
UN Delegates Call on Cambodia to Heed Envoy's Remarks
U.N. representatives from Japan, the European Union and Australia called on Cambodia to heed recommendations made in a report on human rights and economic land concessions by the U.N.’s envoy surya subedi at the Human Rights Council in Geneva Tuesday. While the E.U. commended Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...
Court grants delay in K Chhnang land dispute
Kampong Chhnang villagers who have been hit with a new lawsuit over property that they and the wife of a senior government official both claim said yesterday that coming to court would be impossible, as they did not have a defense lawyer and needed time to locate ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tiger Air's First Flight to Cambodia Lands Monday
Tiger Airways’ first flight from singapore to Cambodia is scheduled to land at Phnom Penh International Airport on Monday morning, making it the latest airline to offer direct flights to the country. Deborah Yeo, a public relations consultant for Tiger Airways, said that beginning Monday, the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Rice exports up 2 percent over last year
Cambodia’s total export of milled rice via the single window office slightly increased by two per cent over the first nine months of this year compared to the same period last year, according to data from the Ministry of Agriculture. speaking at the Cambodian Rice Forum ss='cambodia-color'>...
Trade with Thailand increases
Trade between Cambodia and Thailand increased by about 40 per cent to Us$3 billion in the first nine months of this year in comparison with the same period last year, according to figures provided by the Royal Embassy of Thailand in Cambodia. According to Nat Vimonchandra, ss='cambodia-color'>...
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Second-hand, first in imports
Cambodia imported almost 10 times as many used clothes as new ones in the first 11 months of last year, according to statistics from the Ministry of Economy and Finance. some 79,217 tonnes of used garments worth $61.5 million were brought in during that period, compared ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013030461731/Business/second-hand-first-in-imports.html
Still No Donor to Take Over Communal Land Titling From Canada
The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) said yesterday that it had still found no replacement donor to commit long-term to carrying on its work helping indigenous ethnic minority groups secure communal land titles once it pulls out in May. Kan Vibol, project field manager for CIDA’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thumbprint dubious: court
The legitimacy of a lawsuit filed by prominent businesswoman Chhin sokountheary, also known as “Crocodile Grandmother”, accusing Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktema of abusing his power by stealing some 34 hectares of privately owned land is being called into question by the Phnom Penh Municipal ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032564664/National/thumbprint-dubious-court.html
Trees being cleared for Sesan dam
As many as 40 workers are cutting down trees, marking other trees they plan to fell in protected forest areas and piling up luxury timber in a flood-safety zone in stung Treng’s srekor commune, a local official said yesterday. Commune chief seak Mekong said the workers ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013040264835/National/trees-being-cleared-for-sesan-dam.html
Poipet Casino Grand Opening set for Next Month
U.S. liSted gambling firm Entertainment Gaming ASia Inc. (EGA) will next month hold a grand opening for itS Second caSino on the Thai-Cambodia border, the company Said. In a Statement iSSued on Monday from Hong Kong, it Said that Dreamworld Club in Poipet, which haS been SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/poipet-casino-grand-opening-set-for-next-month-19965/
Call for More Investment in Infrastructure
As much as $16 billion of investment is needed in Cambodia over the next decade if the country’s infrastructure is to keep up with the pace of economic growth, ac­cording to a regional think tank. At a seminar in Phnom Penh on Thuesday, Jakarta-based Economic Research ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/call-for-more-investment-in-infrastructure-33737/
Food prices up 1.6 pct in April
Cambodia saw a one per cent rise in inflation in April compared with the same month last year, according to the latest data from the National Institute of statistics (NIs). sim Ly, an official at the NIs said there was a slight increase in food and ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013070566683/Business/food-prices-up-1-6-pct-in-april.html
Goods traffic through Phnom Penh port up 29 pct
Cargo shipments moving in and out of the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) increased 29 per cent in the first six months of this year when compared to the same period in 2012, according to official data. The figures show that imported and exported goods amounted ss='cambodia-color'>...
Combi plans $1.5m factory for baby goods
CONSTRUCTION iS progreSSing on a $1.5 million baby-productS factory that will be among the largeSt in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ). Combi (Cambodia), which ownS the factory, announced the planS for itS new facility in an online job liSting yeSterday. The five-hectare factory waS Scheduled SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032164550/Business/combi-plans-1-5m-factory-for-baby-goods.html
Another complaint in Sen Sok
Yet another resident of Phnom Penh’s sen sok district came forward yesterday to join “Crocodile Grandmother” Chhin sokoutheary in accusing city and district officials of issuing a false sub-decree to acquire land in the vicinity of Pong Peay Lake in Phnom Penh Thmey commune. Chea savean, ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032062038/National/another-complaint-in-sen-sok.html
Workers, cop injured as strike turns violent
Violence broke out twice yesterday at the Maru Chuen garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district – first, between police and strikers, and later, between strikers and employees who remained at work. In the morning, seven workers and one police officer were injured after police intervened ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032164547/National/workers-cop-injured-as-strike-turns-violent.html
New land titles not recognised: villagers
Ten families locked in a long-standing land dispute with the Pheapimex Group in Pursat provinces’s Krakor district said yesterday that the company was refusing to recognise titles recently granted to them and blocking them from the land.“We 10 families have been given more than 30 ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
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