China’s appetite for rubber increasing
Natural rubber consumption in China, Cambodia’s largest rubber market, is expected to rise by 7.2 per cent in 2013 after growing by 4.5 per cent last year, according to the singapore-based International Rubber study Group (IRsG). Demand in North America was expected to grow 4.2 per ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013012460966/Business/china-s-appetite-for-rubber-increasing.html
Healthy growth for Cambodia’s economy
A NEW report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) says GDP growth in Cambodia over the next five years is likely to hit 6.9 per cent, the highest of any AsEAN country apart from Laos. However, the report warns that Cambodia needs to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Japan’s commerce with Cambodia up
Bilateral trade volume between Cambodia and Japan amounted to $641 million last year, up 25 percent compared with $512 million a year earlier, a report by the Japan External Trade Organization showed Thursday. On the investment side, Japanese firms have begun to focus their ss='cambodia-color'>...
NGOs query Lao’s telco promotion
Four NGOs asked the government yesterday to explain the decision to promote Lao saroeun to an undersecretary of state position in the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, even though he has not been cleared of alleged corruption. “In proper practice, people under investigation for alleged corruption ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032062034/Business/ngos-query-lao-s-telco-promotion.html
Mfone’s Licence Revoked; Staff Terminated
The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications has revoked the operating licence of bankrupt phone operator Mfone, which went out of business two months ago, while more than 1,000 employees had their jobs officially terminated yesterday. The revocation of the licence and the mass dismissal of the ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/mfones-license-revoked-staff-terminated-16474/
Malaysia’s Felda mulls local crops
Malaysia-based agricultural and commodities company Felda Global Ventures Holdings is considering investing in palm oil, sugar and rubber crops in Cambodia. Felda Global head of corporate communications Izan Hussain said yesterday the company had received numerous business proposals, but had not made any decisions. “Our discussions and ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032964774/Business/malaysia-s-felda-mulls-local-crops.html
Villagers Petition Against Crematorium’s Removal
More than 1,000 villagers in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district have signed a petition pro­testing the removal of a crematorium that is currently on land slated for a large development project. According to a letter from the Council of Ministers addressed to the Ministry of Cults ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-petition-against-crematoriums-removal-27487/
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