CDC to issue factory certificates
The Council for the Development of Cambodia granted permission for three more companies this month to build garment factories in Phnom Penh and in Takeo and Kampong Speu provinces. The three investment projects are worth about $10 million and will create about 3000 jobs. ...
Sum Manet
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50303116/cdc-to-issue-factory-certificates/
Preah Vihear villagers summoned to court for ‘detaining’ bulldozer
An investigative judge at the Preah Vihear provincial court warned that he would issue arrest warrants for two NGO staff and about 10 Kuoy indigenous villagers in relation to a land dispute with two companies if they failed to appear in court on Wednesday. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-villagers-summoned-court-detaining-bulldozer
New building, broken promises at Borei Keila
A decade ago, powerful businesswoman Suy Sophan promised to build 10 apartment blocks for residents of Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila neighborhood who faced eviction to make way for her real estate project. She only built eight, leaving hundreds of residents without a home. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-building-broken-promises-at-borei-keila-113303/
Foreign minister to join Asean meeting
As one of 10 Asean foreign ministers, Cambodian Foreign Affairs Minister Prak Sokhon will travel to China for a two-day meeting between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and the foreign ministers of Asean, according to a statement from the Foreign Ministry released on Saturday. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26033/foreign-minister-to-join-asean-meeting/
Micro lenders see steady expansion
Loans and deposits in the Kingdom’s crowded microfinance sector rose about 10 percent during the first quarter of the year from the same period last year, according to a report from the Cambodia Microfinance Association, which put the rise down to an expanding economy. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24525/micro-lenders-see-steady-expansion/
Phnom Penh Port profits up
The first quarter earnings of the publicly listed Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) were up by more than 10 percent in comparison to the same period last year thanks to the Kingdom’s steady economic growth and the company’s efforts in streamlining its expansion. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26369/phnom-penh-port-profits-up/
After abandoning auctions, government sells off seized timber
The government sold off more than 10,000 cubic meters of illegally logged wood in direct negotiations with private businessmen over the past two days, according to a Finance Ministry official, after abandoning efforts to auction it off due to a lack of interest. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/abandoning-auctions-government-sells-off-seized-timber-116575/
MoU with UN stalled by government
A memorandum of understanding between Cambodia and the United Nations has been stalled for almost 10 months thanks to the government’s insistence that an updated version include pointed references to the concept of “non-interference” lifted from the UN charter, the Post has learned. ...
Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mou-un-stalled-government
ASEAN creates 'community' encompassing 600+ million people
Leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Sunday signed a declaration establishing a formal economic, political, security and socio-cultural community. The AEC is set to become fully functional December 31. ...
Steve Herman
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/asean-economic-community/3069046.html
More Montagnards opt to return home
More Montagnard asylum seekers are planning to return to home amid cuts in United Nations-provided food rations.Vivian Tan, regional spokesperson for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), said more than 10 indigenous Christian Montagnards had requested assistance in returning to Vietnam. ...
Alice Cuddy and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-montagnards-opt-return-home
Armed soldiers storm forestry office to retake truck
A group of 10 armed soldiers stormed a Forestry Administration office in Oddar Meanchey province on Monday and attempted to seize a military truck that had been confiscated from them after they used it to transport illegal timber, leading to an hourslong standoff, officials said. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/armed-soldiers-storm-forestry-office-to-retake-truck-110515/
Garment industry exports up, jobs down
Exports grew at a solid pace in 2016, rising by 7.2 percent to $7.3 billion, but the number of registered exporting factories fell by 10.4 per cent, while the number of workers declined by 2.9 per cent, compared to 2015. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39024/garment-industry-exports-up--jobs-down/
Ministries to pilot use of budget reform tool
The Financial Management Information System (FMIS), a reform initiative designed to improve the governance and transparency of national budget management, will be applied to 10 government ministries later this year after a successful implementation of the scheme at the National Treasury Department, officials said yesterday. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ministries-pilot-use-budget-reform-tool-0
Vietnam nationals arrested in Kratie timber bust
Six Vietnamese nationals were arrested on Wednesday afternoon in a Military Police raid that saw 30 officers confiscating at least 100 illegally felled trees and 10 logging vehicles from an economic land concession in Kratie province’s Snuol district near the border with Vietnam. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vietnam-nationals-arrested-kratie-timber-bust
Working underground in Ratanakkiri
Both the miners and brokers at the mining site said the land on which the mining is conducted costs roughly $10,000 per hectare per year in a deal between the rubber plantation owner and a gemstone businessman who they referred to as the “boss”. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5098126/working-underground-ratanakkiri/
Beaten activists accused
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court issued a warrant yesterday summoning human rights activists Am Sam Ath and Chan Puthisak to court today on charges that they incited an attack on two Daun Penh district security guards during a World Habitat Day protest on October 10. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35233/beaten-activists-accused/
Senate poll campaign period set
The National Election Committee has set a two-week campaign period for the upcoming Senate elections on February 25. The NEC issued a statement yesterday saying all parties would be provided equal time on state television network for campaigning from February 10 to 25. ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50107118/senate-poll-campaign-period-set/
Students faint in high school
More than 10 students at Bak Chenhchean senior high school in Pursat province’s Phnom Kravanh district fainted yesterday. Major Tann Kearith, district police chief, said the students fainted at about 9am and were sent to the provincial referral hospital following the incident. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50104636/students-faint-in-high-school/
Building exhibition scheduled for Sept
The third edition of CAMBUILD, one of the country’s biggest international building and construction conferences, is scheduled for September 10-12 on Koh Pich. Three hundred participants are expected to exhibit at the event. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/building-exhibition-scheduled-sept
Out of the woods: Forest crime often goes unpunished
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries saw at least 2,400 cases of forest- and wildlife-related crimes in 2014, of which almost 1,800 were forwarded to the courts, though fewer than 10 people were sentenced in relation to the crimes, ministry figures say. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/out-woods-forest-crime-often-goes-unpunished