PPWSA stock to list today
Investors, along with the next two companies expected to list on the Cambodia securities Exchange, will watch carefully this morning the action on the country’s first initial public offering, nine months after the CsX officially opened. After a book-building process that was 17 times over-subscribed, Phnom Penh ss='cambodia-color'>...
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Companies lag on listing rules
Adding its name to a rapidly growing list of private companies, Tonlesap Airlines is gearing up for an initial public offering on the Cambodia securities Exchange. And like many of these companies, the listing is still years off as Tonlesap prepares the tax and financial information ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012083058376/Business/companies-lag-on-listing-rules.html
Forest watchdog warned against satellite imagery
Ministry of Environment officials have warned it will take legal action against Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) and several other organisations if they continue to collect deforestation data in the area. The ministry’s warning comes after PLCN suggested a new programme that would use satellite imagery ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forest-watchdog-warned-against-satellite-imagery
Pi Pay goes cashless with app
Cash may be king in Cambodia, but Pi Pay Asia is banking on rising smartphone penetration and an arsenal of digital payment solutions to help dethrone it.The company’s soon-to-be-released mobile-phone application provides a one-stop platform for cashless transactions, digital money transfers and e-wallet solutions, while ss='cambodia-color'>...
Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pi-pay-goes-cashless-app
Stock market rings in PPAP
ShareS in Phnom Penh AutonomouS Port (PPAP) debuted on Cambodia&rSquo;S Sleepy Stock exchange yeSterday morning, ending the day at 5,140 riel ($1.28), down 1.15 per cent from the 5,200 riel opening price, after a lukewarm SeSSion of SidewayS trading that daShed Some inveStorS&rSquo; hopeS for SS='cambodia-color'>...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/stock-market-rings-ppap
Education ushers women into workforce
Gender inequality in education is still palpable in Cambodia, causing women to be undervalued in the workplace and their potential to be untapped, the Under secretary of state at the Ministry of Women’s Affairs said during the celebration of the United Nations International Day of the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Youth urged to join STEM fest
Minister of Education, Youth and sports Hang Chuon Naron encouraged youths to participate in the annual Cambodia sTEM Festival, which is held online from January 25-29. This year’s theme is “Prepare for the Future” because Cambodia will need an increase of professionals in science, technology, engineering ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/youth-urged-join-stem-fest
Growth pegged at 5.5% for ‘23 recovery stage by World Bank
The World Bank has upheld its economic growth forecast for Cambodia this year at 5.5 percent, supported by the resurgence of the services sector, particularly tourism, following the post-pandemic recovery. This projection is in contrast with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), which revised its growth ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://phnompenhpost.com/business/growth-pegged-55-23-recovery-stage-world-bank
Autumn equinox over Angkor showcases ‘ancestors wisdom’
The autumnal equinox will occur this year on september 23. The phenomenon, which signifies an equal duration of day and night due to the Earth’s position in its orbit around the sun, happens twice a year in september and March. At these times, the sun ss='cambodia-color'>...
Bor Pich Zelin
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/autumn-equinox-over-angkor-showcases-ancestors-wisdom
FM to NGOs: Submit financials
Foreign minister Prak sokhonn urged international NGOs to respect Cambodia’s Law on Accounting and Auditing, noting that less than 50 per cent of them have submitted their required annual financial reports. While presiding over the opening of the third round of consultative meetings with foreign NGOs ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Raksa
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fm-ngos-submit-financials
Greed for land consumes lakes, forests: Environment 2022
Timber, monkeys, orchids, sand: Cambodia’s protected areas and natural resources continue to be a lucrative source of income, in spite of all the promises (and international funding) to protect them. Above all else, the hunger for land has consumed Cambodians and foreigners alike, triggering a constant ss='cambodia-color'>...
Danielle Keeton-Olsen
https://vodenglish.news/greed-for-land-consumes-lakes-forests-environment-2022/
UNICEF urges govt to enhance efforts to end child violence
During a three-day visit to Cambodia, UNICEF’s East Asia and Pacific Regional Director Debora Comini met with ministry officials and development partners to enhance efforts to end violence against children and end unnecessary family separation. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Som Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501404777/unicef-urges-govt-to-enhance-efforts-to-end-child-violence/
Investment Or Imperialism? Tracking China's Big Ambitions In Cambodia
A few years ago this scene would have played out in China. More specifically, it would have played out in a Chinese coastal region to which millions of rural folks had arrived looking for work. A huge hangar, piles of fabrics of all colors at both ss='cambodia-color'>...
Consolidation on Horizon as Mobile Operators Enter Talks
Cambodia Advance Communications Ltd, operating under the brand qb, is in talks to either merge with or acquire Thai majority-owned Mfone, a senior government official said yesterday. The talks come amid recent speculation that operators in Cambodia’s oversaturated telecommunications market would have to consolidate in order ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hun Sen receives award for leadership
Prime Minister Hun sen received the Leadership and Good Governance Award from the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) on Tuesday at the 2nd Asia-Pacific summit at the Peace Palace in the capital. The award was presented by UPF co-founder Hak Ja Han Moon after delivering her ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-receives-award-leadership
Government raises retirement age for civil servants to 60
The Ministry of Civil service released a letter on Thursday addressed to senior leaders of all institutions in the Kingdom announcing a change in the retirement age of civil servants. In compliance with Article 26 of the Law on social security Fund, civil servants, regardless ss='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-raises-retirement-age-civil-servants-60
US firms suggest ASEAN improve financial services
Although US buSineSSeS acroSS ASEAN have expreSSed a poSitive inveStment outlook towardS Cambodia and the other memberS of the regional group, they are unSure of how to take advantage of the free-trade agreement with China, inSiderS Said at the firSt-ever ASEAN-US BuSineSS Summit, which kicked SS='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodian Resorts on the Increase
International tourist arrivals into Cambodia have soared in the past year, with arrivals into siem Reap up 30 per cent in the first eight months of 2012 over the same period the previous year. The tourist industry was hit hard by the global economic crisis in ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/Real-Estate/cambodian-resorts-on-the-increase.html
China to back Kampot power plant
An unnamed Chinese investor will put nearly Us$400 million into a 300-megawatt coal-powered plant in Kampot province, officials said yesterday. The plant, slated for a November groundbreaking, will provide power for the Kampot special Economic Zone, the nearby Prey Nob oil refinery in Preah sihanouk province ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012061956867/Business/china-to-back-kampot-plant.html
Tackling Tourism
Tourism authorities are concerned that the role of siem Reap’s Cambodian tour guides catering to Korean tourists is being usurped by interpreters, with the tour guides being relegated to mere porters. This is mainly due to the lack of tour guides who can converse in the ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012082458277/Siem-Reap-Insider/tackling-tourism-issues.html