CDC improves QIP application process for foreign investors
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) is seeking to make it easier for foreign firms to register as applicants for Qualified Investment Projects (QIP) in Cambodia through improvements to the online registration system.
James Whitehead
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501446568/cdc-improves-qip-application-process-for-foreign-investors/
Cambodia seeks more investment from Europe
Even though Cambodia has attracted more European investors, the number of their investment projects in the country is still small, said Sun Chanthol, Deputy Prime Minister and First Vice Chairman of the Council for the Development of Cambodia.
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501455006/cambodia-seeks-more-investment-from-europe/
3 accused of killing 'witch' in Cambodia
Three people in Cambodia were charged with the murder last week of a woman they believed to be a witch behind a spate of unexplained deaths in their community, according to a newspaper report on Monday.
Bankok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/439861/three-charged-with-killing-cambodian-woman-for-being-witch
Still detained: No answer on bail in Juhui case
An attorney for five people arrested after a violent protest at a Kampong Cham shoe factory said yesterday he is waiting for the court to issue a decision on a bail request he filed on Friday.
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/still-detained-no-answer-bail-juhui-case
Cambodia taps national park travel
A Japanese company, A2A Town (Cambodia), has submitted a request to the Cambodian Ministry of Environment to establish helicopter flights from Phnom Penh to Preah Soramrit Kossamak Kirirom National Park in Kampong Speu province.
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2015/07/cambodia-taps-national-park-travel/
Beer promoters to demonstrate over unpaid firing
A group of beer promoters plan to stage a demonstration Wednesday to demand payment for eight women who were fired by a beer company owned by a ruling party senator.
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/beer-promoters-to-demonstrate-over-upaid-firing/2900558.html
Market Shop Owners Try to Prevent Eviction
Vendors in Phnom Penh’s Ngin An market are protesting a government-backed bid by the market’s new owner to push them out by tomorrow.
More than 40 representatives of 223 vendors waved a banner at the market yesterday to protest a letter from Russey Keo District Hall
Fire Destroys 32 Homes In Russei Keo District
Two people received burns when a large fire gutted 32 houses in Russei Keo district’s Kilometer Nine commune on Friday, police said.
The fire broke out at 11 a.m. in a village of wooden houses at the rear of the Cambodian Television Network station, said municipal
Central Bank OKs SBC bid
The Taiwanese bank Cathay United, a subsidiary of Cathay Financial Holding and a listed company on the Taiwan Stock Exchange, has purchased a 70 per cent stake in the Cambodia-based Singapore Banking Corporation Ltd (SBC), a central bank official said yesterday.
The National Bank of Cambodia
Police destroy 50 homes in Mondulkiri
With a looming deadline to move still two days away, police yesterday stormed tiny Rayum commune in Mondulkiri province, dismantling and burning at least 50 homes belonging to villagers embroiled in a land dispute with a Vietnamese rubber company.
Seng Channy, a villager representative who escaped
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052456373/National-news/villagers-time-runs-out.html
Unions take big picture view
Union leaders yesterday said that despite having held strikes calling for a doubling of the minimum wage that were supported and encouraged by the country’s opposition party, they did not feel betrayed that the wage hike was taking a backseat in political negotiations.
Following a government
Mom Kunthear and Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unions-take-big-picture-view
Vietnamese logger’s release appealed
The Ratanakkiri provincial prosecutor on Monday filed a complaint with the Appeal Court against a decision made by the province’s investigating judge, San Bunthoeun, to release a Vietnamese timber trader, a court spokesman said.
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vietnamese-loggers-release-appealed
Kampong Chhnang factory boss calls scuffle ‘murder attempt’
A boss at a garment factory in Kampong Chhnang province has accused the husband and a friend of a recently fired employee of chasing down her car and trying to kill her.
Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampong-chhnang-factory-boss-calls-scuffle-murder-attempt
CPP complains of CNRP march
The CPP has filed a complaint to a commune election committee in Takeo province alleging that a group of CNRP supporters obstructed a ruling party parade of about 400 supporters on Saturday, officials said yesterday.
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/second2/cpp-complains-cnrp-march-130163/
NGO positive NA wants to tackle corruption
Transparency International Cambodia yesterday presented findings of a recent scathing report on corruption to the newly formed parliamentary anti-corruption commission.
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/ngo-positive-na-wants-tackle-corruption
Show yourself: Defendants tell tycoon to meet them
A father and daughter, arrested last month following a complaint by a powerful landowner who wants their land in Phnom Penh, called on the tycoon to engage with them face to face in a courtroom hearing yesterday.
Chhay Channyda
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/show-yourself-defendants-tell-tycoon-meet-them
Russian charged over man’s shooting during casino clash
A Russian expatriate accused of shooting a man during a fight between two groups of foreigners at a Sihanoukville casino in February was charged with intentional violence Tuesday and sent to prison to await trial, officials said.
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/russian-charged-over-mans-shooting-during-casino-clash-86339/
Furious villagers respond with flames
Local officials apologized yesterday to the Vietnamese owners of a rubber plantation in this northwestern province, after a dispute with local residents spiraled out of control a day earlier with angry villagers setting a company building aflame.
Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12952/furious-villagers-respond-with-flames/
Cambodia greets 333,900 Chinese tourists in 2012, up 35 pct
Cambodia attracted 333,900 Chinese tourists last year, a 35 percent rise compared with 247, 200 Chinese visitors in a year earlier, according to a report of the Ministry of Tourism on Tuesday.
“We see a steady rise of Chinese tourists to Cambodia from year to
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/travel/2013-02/12/c_132165732.htm
Ministry Meets Striking Union Representatives
Ministry of Social Affairs officials yesterday conducted a meeting between the owners of a factory, which produces clothing for H&M, Gap and Levi Strauss, and its workers, but threatened to file a complaint against the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union (CCAWDU), union representatives
