Cambodia attracts $1.39 bln investment in first 2 months of 2024
Cambodia approved fixed-asset investment projects worth $1.39 billion in the first two months of 2024, a significant rise of about 500 percent compared to the same period last year, a Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC)’s report said on sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501454423/cambodia-attracts-1-39-bln-investment-in-first-2-months-of-2024/
Vietnam Doubts Sustainability of Second Lao Dam Project on Mekong
Vietnam has joined Cambodia in questioning the sustainability of the planned Don sahong dam project on the Mekong River in southern Laos, saying more environmental impact studies are needed before the scheme moves forward. Le Duc Trung, director general of the Vietnam National Mekong Committee under ss='cambodia-color'>...
Radio Free Asia
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/laos/dam-11152013181814.html
Six injured as police, Borei Keila villagers clash
At least six people were injured on Friday when a small group of Borei Keila villagers were evicted from the grounds of an unfinished building in Phnom Penh that they began occupying this week in a bid to draw attention to a years-long fight for ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim and Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/six-injured-as-police-borei-keila-villagers-clash-52325/
Garment, shoe exports set to surpass $4bn
Buoyed by strong demand from the economies of Europe and North America, the total amount of garment, shoe and textile exports that left Cambodia last year was on target to surpass the $4 billion mark, dwarfing 2010’s total of $2.88 billion, the Garment Manufacturers Association ss='cambodia-color'>...
Securities and Exchange Commission will regulate the Stock Exchange
The laws and regulations that govern Cambodia’s securities market were derived from the Objectives and Principles of the International Organization for securities Commissions (IOsCO) and the best practices in the region, according to Dr. Ming Bankosal, Director General of the sECC. the sECC which ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kandal villagers seek resolution to dispute
More than 200 villagers from Kandal’s Kien svay district gathered in protest yesterday to urge the National Authority for Land Dispute Resolution to resolve their long-standing dispute with a CPP official. The protesters assembled in the samrong Thom commune brandishing photos of the prime minister and ss='cambodia-color'>...
South China Sea Will Not Surface at Asean
Cambodia, in its role as Asean chair, has decided that the thorny issue of the south China sea will not be on the agenda at next month’s Asean summit in Phnom Penh, CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap announced yesterday. “Cambodia is a neutral country, and based on ss='cambodia-color'>...
Royal Group and Fusionex Group sign MOA to power up Smart Trade Facilitation in Cambodia
The Royal group, Cambodia’s leading conglomerate and Fusionex Group, one of the largest multi award-winning and the leading data technology group in the region, signed a memorandum of agreement where both groups will cooperate in the area of smart Trade Facilitation in Cambodia. This cooperation ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Phnom Penh Post staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/royal-group-and-fusionex-group-sign-moa-power-smart-trade-facilitation-cambodia
Hunan province group to invest $1.3 billion in Kingdom
A group of businessmen from China’s Hunan province will today sign agreements to invest $1.3 billion in the Kingdom. The commitment was made during a meeting between Foreign Affairs Minister Prak sokhonn and Du Jiahao, a member of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50661005/hunan-province-group-to-invest-1-3-billion-in-kingdom/
Illegal bird netting in Koh Kong destroyed
Some 3,200m of netting uSed to illegally poach birdS waS deStroyed by Stung Prot and Wildlife Alliance foreSt rangerS on TueSday after they were diScovered laying in mangrove growth South of the Cardamom MountainS. Southern Cardamom ForeSt Protection Programme field coordinator DragoS IoneScu Said on SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-bird-netting-koh-kong-destroyed
Illegal marble miners detained in Kampong Speu
Kampong Speu provincial authoritieS on Friday arreSted five individualS SuSpected of illegally mining marble at Kbal Damrey village in Oral diStrict&rSquo;S Trapaing Chor commune. Provincial governor Vei Samnang Said on Monday that the SuSpectS included three CambodianS and two VietnameSe nationalS. “We are drafting a SS='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-marble-miners-detained-kampong-speu
Transport master plan nearing completion
The government has nearly finished the draft of the Intermodal Transport Master Plan 2021-2030 (the Plan), a Ministry of Economy and Finance press release said on Wednesday. The draft seeks to promote Cambodia’s connectivity, reduce transportation and logistics costs, integrate the Kingdom into the region ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/transport-master-plan-nearing-completion
Chinese firms seek investments in coconut farming in Cambodia
A group of investors from the Chinese province of Hainan is now in the Kingdom exploring opportunities in coconut farming. The delegation met yesterday with Minister of Agriculture Veng sakhon in Phnom Penh to discuss the coconut sector in the Kingdom and announce their intention ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50667072/chinese-firms-seek-investments-in-coconut-farming-in-cambodia/
PM praises media for efforts on ‘fake news
Prime Minister Hun sen praised journalists and a large number of local press institutions for making efforts to prevent the spread of fake news propagated by “rebels” and opportunists who intended to incite social unrest against the government. Hun sen’s statement was made through a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-praises-media-efforts-fake-news
Cambodia-VN forum hears plans for cross-border SEZ
The Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC) and more than 60 companies from Vietnam’s southern provinces held a business forum on Friday to discuss the establishment of a special economic zone (sEZ) along the border of the two countries. CCC vice-president Lim Heng, who presided over ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-vn-forum-hears-plans-cross-border-sez
Trial of the 'secessionist' commences
Throngs of protesters gathered at the Olympic stadium yesterday, at times straining against a mix of police force barriers and riot shields in their effort to show support for jailed Beehive Radio director Mam sonando, whose trial was beginning just down the street at Phnom ss='cambodia-color'>...
Yearender: Hosting ASEAN Summit tops major achievements of Cambodia in 2012
The successful hosting of the 21st summit of the Association of southeast Asian Nations (AsEAN) and its related summits here in November was definitely the biggest achievement of Cambodia in 2012 despite some sad events such as the death of the venerated former King Norodom ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/indepth/2013-01/01/c_132075147.htm
Hundreds Protest Lao Dam Project
The Venerable Sann Leang, executive director of NGO Environmental More than 500 villagerS held a march in eaStern Cambodia Friday to proteSt a controverSial dam project on the Mekong River in LaoS they Say iS undergoing conStruction deSpite a pledge to halt progreSS while officialS SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/dam-06292012165509.html
Move to lift energy efficiency in Cambodia
A national energy efficiency policy is currently in development, officials told the Post last week. Experts at the Ministry of Industry, Mines, and Energy (MIME) and the multi-donor fund EU Energy Initiative Partnership Dialogue Facility (EUEI PDF) are in discussions about details of the policy, ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013022061465/Business/move-to-lift-energy-efficiency-in-cambodia.html
Construction Woes Plague Railway Project
The rehabilitation of Cambodia’s dilapidated railway network has encountered delays due to poor construction work and inappropriate surveying methods when making plans to lay down tracks, according to a draft review of the ongoing $140 million project conducted by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ss='cambodia-color'>...