Machinery Manufacturers Tap Garment Sector
More than 150 companies from China, Taiwan, singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, as well as Germany and England on Thursday set up shop at the exhibition center on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich island, displaying everything from $900 labeling machines to sewing machines worth $56,000 that automatically attach ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thai trade fair pushed back to 2012
The postponed 2nd Thailand Trade Exhibition 2011 will not be reorganised this year due to budget restrictions, according to Jiranan Wongmongkol, commercial counsellor based at the Thai embassy in Phnom Penh. The trade fair was originally scheduled for May 19 to 22 at Phnom Penh’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Investment by China Doubles In First Half
Cambodia approved $1.2 billion in investments from China in the first six months of the year, a 104 percent increase in the amount of Chinese money set to flood into the economy compared to the same period last year, the Cambodian Investment Board said. The ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ministry questions oil assessment
Cambodia’s Ministry of Environment told a Japanese oil company yesterday to better define the location of its initial onshore operations given the potential impact on the local population and environment. The Ministry of Environment has required Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation to specify where ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011111552750/Business/ministry-questions-oil-assessment.html
Kingdom's three-year land rush
The government has granted more than 7 million hectares of land to private companies through concessions since 2008, with 222 private companies claiming more than 2 million hectares alone in economic land concessions, rights group Adhoc said yesterday. Ouch Leng, head of Adhoc’s land program, said ss='cambodia-color'>...
Authorities Fire Weapons During Seziure of Rosewood
Forestry officials and police in siem Reap province’s Banteay srei district seized a car transporting more than 100 pieces of illegally logged rosewood on Wednesday night, the 10th haul of the luxury wood in the province since January, according to a court official. Despite the efforts ss='cambodia-color'>...
Workers Faint Daily in Sihanoukville, NGO says
The Cambodian Legal Education Center (CLEC) is “extremely concerned” after an investigation following a mass fainting last month at Nanguo garment factory in Preah sihanouk province last month found that at least one to two workers are fainting daily in eight factories in the province. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Prey Lang villagers on patrol
Kampong Thom province About 500 frustrated villagers, citing the authorities’ inaction as their motivation, rode some 250 motorbikes into Prey Lang forest over the weekend in yet another effort to combat illegal logging they say is decimating the area. The villagers from four provinces surrounding Prey Lang ss='cambodia-color'>...
NGOs Say Railway Compensation Report Devalues Homes
Housing rights groups yesterday criticized resettlement packages paid out by the government and Asian Development Bank (ADB) to people displaced by the rehabilitation of Cambodia’s railways, saying the packages do not account for growing inflation. A joint statement issued yesterday by Housing Rights Task Force, ss='cambodia-color'>...
One Killed and One Injured While Logging Across Borders
One man was killed and one injured in two separate shooting incidents that took place last week at the borders with Thailand and Laos, officials said yesterday. In both cases, the Cambodians are believed to have been shot while illegally logging highly coveted luxury rosewood in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Police Say Hun To News Story Untrue
The Interior Ministry yesterday defended Prime Minister Hun sen’s nephew, Hun To, following explosive allegations by an Australian newspaper, The Age, which alleged that Australian police had suspected Mr. To of involvement in a drug smuggling and money laundering syndicate. An official from the Cambodian conglomerate ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lost Opportunities as Cambodian Labor Goes Abroad: Advocate
Even with an improved domestic job market, many Cambodian workers are seeking jobs overseas, despite the risks. This is mainly due to the government’s failure to get the word out, Moeun Tola, a labor advocate at the Community Legal Education Center, told “Hello VOA” Thursday. “We see ss='cambodia-color'>...
More than 40 families given land to move off roadside
Preah Sihanouk provincial authoritieS provided plotS of land to 45 familieS on Saturday after they agreed to move off a roadSide in Sihanoukville&rSquo;S Buon commune.&nbSp;Provincial Governor Kuoch Chamroeun Said on Saturday during a land diStribution ceremony that the 45 familieS Squatted and lived on a SS='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50654899/more-than-40-families-given-land-to-move-off-roadside/
Families stuck in Oddar Meanchey land row seek solution from PM, ministry
Fourteen families in Oddar Meanchey province’s O’smach commune on Friday sent a letter to Chea sophara, Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, asking him to intervene in their land dispute with military officials. The families accused border military commander Pok sophal and three ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-stuck-oddar-meanchey-land-row-seek-solution-pm-ministry
Influx of Chinese business travelers, investors to Cambodia drives construction boom
Cambodia’s economy has seen an influx of business investors from China, which has driven demand for housing and hospitality services in the southeast Asian nation. Two million Chinese visited the country last year, an increase of around 67 per cent from 2017. They represented the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Martin Choi
https://www.scmp.com/property/international/article/3020644/influx-chinese-business-travellers-investors-cambodia-drives
NGOs call for road safety to be included in nat’l examination
wo NGOs focused on Cambodian road safety have sent a letter to Minister of Education Hang Chuon Naron on Wednesday requesting that road safety be included in students’ learning objectives ahead of the beginning of the new school year on Friday. In their letter, the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-call-road-safety-be-included-natl-examination
Kampong Cham riverbank collapse affects commune administration hall
Around 50 metres of riverbank on saturday collapsed in Kampong Cham province’s Kampong Cham city and has affected a commune administration hall building. Provincial Governor Un Chanda, who inspected the collapse site in Veal Vong commune, on saturday said he had ordered officials to tackle ss='cambodia-color'>...
Situation ripe for strikes: study
Short-SightedneSS, weak adherence to the law and poor working conditionS in Cambodia&rSquo;S garment Sector are creating a fertile field for StrikeS to prevail over negotiationS, a recent Study releaSed by the Arbitration Council Foundation, an independent labour mediator, haS found.According to the Study, incidentS of SS='cambodia-color'>...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/situation-ripe-strikes-study
Rice bank buys direct to control prices
The Cambodia Rice Bank (CRB) will intervene to prevent the price of fragrant rice from falling further by offering to buy the staple grain directly from farmers at the market price of 840 riel (21 cents) a kilogram. The CRB also called on farmers to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29842/rice-bank-buys-direct-to-control-prices/
Non-taxpayers targeted
The government will not increase the rate for income tax and other taxes for the next two years, but will instead concentrate on expanding the base for tax collection, taking into account that there are still many individuals and businesses that do not pay tax ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30034/non-taxpayers-targeted/