Workers not underage, factory says
A Ying Dong Shoes representative yesterday denied claims his factory employs workers as young as 13 and shares an owner with Wing Star Shoes, where two died in a ceiling collapse on May 16. Chan Kosal, a representative of Ying Dong, a supplier to Asics, said ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013053065943/National/workers-not-underage-factory-says.html
Sihanoukville aims to reform tourism landscape
Preah Sihanouk province plans to attract a new type of Chinese investor which could restore the image of Sihanoukville as a tourist city and shift investment away from casinos. In a meeting with Chinese embassy officials in August, provincial governor Kuoch Chamroeun said the current ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sihanoukville-aims-reform-tourism-landscape
Puma’s new dizzy spell
Puma, the sportswear company, has said that it is taking the outbreak of fainting spells at its suppliers “very seriously.” The company is taking measures after a report by the Fair Labour Association found that breaches in labour laws had contributed to some 300 workers ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011072650626/National-news/pumas-new-dizzy-spell.html
Cambodia attracts $294 million in investment in Q1
Cambodia attracted 39 fixed-asset investment projects worth $294 million in the first quarter of 2023, generating some 47,000 new jobs, a report of the Council for the Development of Cambodia said Monday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501271448/cambodia-attracts-294-million-in-investment-in-q1/
Cambodia’s Grand Dragon Resorts seals proxy betting deal
Casino property Grand Dragon Resorts (pictured), located in Cambodia, has partnered with live dealer gaming system provider Ezugi to offer proxy betting. The agreement will see Ezugi using its Casino streaming technology to broadcast live table action direct from the Casino floor, including baccarat tables and ...
GGRAsia News Staff
http://www.ggrasia.com/cambodias-grand-dragon-resorts-seals-proxy-betting-deal/
Illegal Logging Threatens UN’s Carbon Trading Project
The military’s ongoing clearing of community forests in oddar Meanchey province risks derailing Cambodia’s first forest-based carbon trading scheme backed by the U.N., according to the latest assessment of the project. Community forest groups, who stand to earn millions from the project, said on Wednesday that ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/illegal-logging-threatens-uns-carbon-trading-project-21395/
Cops nab 2 in foreigner shootings
A man suspected of robbing and shooting two foreign nationals late last month was shot four times on Monday night during a shootout with police before being taken into custody. Police also apprehended a second, uninjured suspect after the shootout. Chea Sovann, 32, and Sa Ravan, ...
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cops-nab-2-foreigner-shootings
Preah Vihear Governor to close NGO office for inciting workers
Preah Vihear provincial governor oum Mara has sent a letter to inform Interior Minister Sar Kheng that he is ordering an NGo to close its local offices, on the grounds that the organization is inciting villagers to destroy sugarcane farmed by a Chinese company. In the ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/preah-vihear-governor-to-close-ngo-office-for-inciting-workers-55773/
Border opening on table
Cambodia and Thailand are in talks to open more border gates to import and export agricultural products after the two countries largely closed their borders amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Held on Tuesday on the Thai side of the border, the Cambodian delegation was led by ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/border-opening-table
Kingdom inks over $1.2B of concessional loans in Q1-3
Cambodia signed almost $1.22 billion worth of new concessional loans with development partners (DP) in the first nine months of this year – just shy of a four-fold increase from $0.31 billion in the same time last year – of which bilateral DPs accounted for ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-inks-over-12b-concessional-loans-q1-3
Asian mega centre boost for Christchurch business
Three New Zealand companies will leave their mark on Kids City, a massive New family entertainment complex in Cambodia offering 7000 square metres of indoor activities, shops, cafes and an ice skating rink on the top floor. When it opens in March, visitors to the 12-story ...
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10851834
Sea Clashes Loom Over Southeast Asia Summit
Tiny Cambodia is emerging as a key pawn in the diplomatic struggle over one of the world’s busiest stretches of water: the potentially energy-rich South China Sea. The country of 15 million people is this year hosting a series of regional summits in which China’s claims ...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304177104577308972320988892.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Sugar Firm Staff Protest Over Unpaid Wages
About 250 laborers working at a newly opened $90-million sugar factory complex in Kratie province-hailed by the government as a boon to Cambodia’s economy-staged a protest last Saturday morning demanding to be reimbursed for two weeks worth of unpaid wages. District governor Heng Soha acted ...
New owners, old story
An existing moratorium on economic land concessions should be no impediment to pouring more cash into the Kingdom’s booming, and highly criticised, rubber trade, industry executives in the capital heard yesterday, as many current ELCs can simply be recycled to a new crop of investors. Ly ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-owners-old-story
Foreign tourist arrivals increase by 191 percent in Q1
The number of international tourists has seen a sharp increase by 191 percent or 241,485 in the January-April period this year, a positive sign for the tourism recovery since Cambodia announced to fully reopen the country in November last year. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501087385/foreign-tourist-arrivals-increase-by-191-percent-in-q1/
Q1 int’l tourists rise 125% as Kingdom reopens
The number of international visitors to Cambodia hit 159,546 in the first quarter of this year, marking a 125.03 per cent increase from 70,901 on a yearly basis, of which 54.51 per cent entered the Kingdom by air, according to the Ministry of Tourism. ...
Hom Phanet
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/q1-intl-tourists-rise-125-kingdom-reopens
ACLEDA reports 20% less net profit in Q1
Mainboard-listed commercial bank ACLEDA Bank Plc’s net profit for the first quarter ended March 31 fell 20 per cent to $35.36 million from $44.10 million last year as a result of widening net impairment loss, interest expense, and general and administrative expenses. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/acleda-reports-20-less-net-profit-q1
Investments in Kingdom rise by 7 percent in Q1
In the first quarter of 2022, the number of projects approved by the Council for the Development of Cambodia reached 47, an increase of 6.8 percent and the total investment touched $2,520.6 million, an increase of 14.2 percent over the same period in 2021, according ...
Sok Sithika
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501102954/investments-in-kingdom-rise-by-7-percent-in-q1/
Kandal residents protest new land filling near airport development
Kandal village residents protested on Thursday against the filling in of land near their homes at the $1.5 billion airport development project, with a company official saying they were only filling the homes of three people who had agreed to leave the site. ...
Runn Sreydeth and Khuon Narim
https://cambojanews.com/kandal-residents-protest-new-land-filling-near-airport-development/
New name, same airline
Grounded Tonlesap Airlines has changed its name to Wat Phnom Airlines, an official with Cambodia’s State Secretariat of Civil Aviation said yesterday, about two months after the local chartered carrier suspended all of its flights. Wat Phnom Airlines is now in the process of applying for ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061966352/Business/new-name-same-airline.html