EU Eyes Asean as Solution for Troubles at Home
As Europe continues to navigate its way through a two-year debt crisis, EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht yesterday sought to put Europe at the center of southeast Asia’s future at the EU-Asean Business summit in Phnom Penh, and urged EU investors to take advantage ss='cambodia-color'>...
PM tells ministry to ‘work on’ bail for Rainsy plot supporters
Prime Minister Hun sen has instructed the Minister of Justice to work with prosecutors to release on bail under court supervision those activists who had supported sam Rainsy’s plan to return and overthrow the government. speaking at the inauguration of a cement factory in Kampot ss='cambodia-color'>...
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/pm-tells-ministry-work-bail-rainsy-plot-supporters
‘Solar energy will fill shortages,’ says Jona
Thai firm B Grimm Power Pcl has invested in a 30MW solar project in Cambodia, Ministry of Mines and Energy spokesman Victor Jona said on Wednesday. Jona, who is the director-general of the ministry’s General Department of Energy, told The Post that he welcomed the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/solar-energy-will-fill-shortages-says-jona
Life on the farm at CC4
A remote jail opened more than five years ago to lessen chronic overcrowding in the prison system is also operating as a farming business, where free labour is seemingly used to yield big profits for senior staff.When Correctional Centre 4 (CC4) opened its gates in ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/life-farm-cc4
Kingdom-Hungary sewage solutions in the pipeline
The Ministry of Environment has announced that it will collaborate with Hungary to implement a pilot project to solve sewage system issues in towns in some provinces. A representative for the Hungarian Embassy in Cambodia, Zoltan Gyorgy Horvath, met with the ministry’s secretary of state, sao ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-hungary-sewage-solutions-pipeline
Markers set in Doh Kramom area to prevent encroachment
The provincial administration and the Department of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction in Mondulkiri province planted 53 stone markers around the Doh Kramom mountain area to protect it from any further encroachments. But the indigenous community claimed that the planting of markers, which was ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/markers-set-doh-kramom-area-prevent-encroachment
Border provinces request more energy from Thailand
Thailand had been asked to supply more electricity to those Cambodian provinces close to the shared border, according to officials. suy sem, Cambodian minister of Industry, Mine and Energy, talked to reporters after a bilateral meeting with his counterpart, Thai Minister Arak Chonlatanon last week, a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Construction sector investment soars
Investment in the Cambodian construction sector reached Us$1.38 billion in the first seven months of 2012, an 8s-percent rise over the same period last year, according to figures from the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction. During the January to July period this ss='cambodia-color'>...
LG looks to introduce Optimus G soon
One of the top three manufacturers of mobile phones for the Cambodian market, LG, is likely to roll out its new flagship product, the Optimus G, by the end of the year. success in the smartphone market would signal a successful turnaround for LG. Prior ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012092758949/Business/lg-optimus-g-coming-soon.html
Workers' 'resignations' disputed
Workers at shuttered plush-toy company First & Main claimed yesterday their bosses had forced them to thumbprint resignation letters they had not written, a plan they feared could deny them severance pay. Mech Mom, a representative of the 357 workers at the Us-owned factory, in the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kratie meet pushes dolphin protection
Residents of Kratie province had an education in conservation yesterday as the government and outside partners reiterated a september sub-decree banning gill nets on a sizable stretch of the Mekong in a bid to protect the badly endangered Mekong River dolphin. Touch seang Tana, head of the Commission ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia to hold River Festival to attract tourists
THE [sic] Ministry of Tourism plans to organize an annual River Festival along the Mekong and Tonle sap in a move to attract tourists, officials said. Additionally, it wants to raise awareness for environmental protection with a “Clean City Day” on February 27. The Minister of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chut Wutty investigation wraps following shooting charge
An unintentional murder charge handed to security guard Ran Boroth on Friday for allegedly killing military police officer In Rattana has left rights groups asking why officials initially claimed the deceased man had committed suicide. Only three days after it was established by Prime Minister Hun ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012050755993/National-news/case-closed-in-shooting.html
As Soldiers Leave Kratie Village, Problems Remain
After a three-day blockade, soldiers pulled out over the weekend from the Kratie province village where a teenage girl was shot dead last week by government security forces, officials said yesterday. However, human rights workers denied a report by a provincial official that freedom of movement ss='cambodia-color'>...
The potential of Cambodia
Whenever you build a structure, you always start with a plan that exists first as an idea and then makes its way to paper and then usually a model: and this is true of ships or skyscrapers. Then comes the construction process when you bring in ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052856411/Business/the-potential-of-cambodia.html
Official Arrested Over Abuse of Land Program
Police in Stung Treng province on TueSday arreSted a Council of MiniSterS official and her huSband for trying to cheat a land-titling program Prime MiniSter Hun Sen announced laSt month, according to local officialS. It markS the Second time thiS week that authoritieS arreSted or detained SS='cambodia-color'>...
Conference focus on social enterprises
Cambodia’s second conference on social enterprise is set to take place tomorrow with the aim of tackling poverty, social exclusion and health and environmental problems, organisers say. The all-day conference, at the Cambodia-Japan Conference Centre at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, will facilitate discussions among participants ss='cambodia-color'>...
EU Bike Import Shows Huge Shifts
The import flow of bicycles (excluding e-bikes) into the European Union is changing rapidly between countries What is in particular striking is the massive upswing in imports from Cambodia. In 2011 the European Union imported 366,000 bikes from Cambodia which took the country to the 9th ss='cambodia-color'>...
Boeung Kak women jailed after three-hour trial
Thirteen women protesters from Boeung Kak lake were yesterday sentenced to two and a half years in prison after a three-hour trial that was widely condemned as illegal – and which prompted sRP lawmaker Mu sochua to urge the international community to suspend aid to ss='cambodia-color'>...
NagaCorp To Build Underground Retail Center In Phnom Penh
Nagacorp will build an underground road and retail space linking its casino complex in Phnom Penh to nearby Koh Pich, according to the announcement released by City Hall yesterday. The underground road, which will be 23 meters wide and 447 meters long, will connect to National ss='cambodia-color'>...