EDC tells banks to stop outsourcing collections
State-run energy utility Electricité du Cambodge (EdC) has asked banks and microfinance institutions (MFIs) to stop using third-party services to collect payment of customer electricity fees, local media reported yesterday. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/edc-tells-banks-stop-outsourcing-collections
Tourist arrivals rise, but short of estimate
An estimated 4.8 million tourists visited Cambodia in 2015, up 6 percent from the 4.5 million visitors last year, Ministry of Tourism Undersecretary of State Top Sopheak said on Sunday. ...
Kang Sothear and Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tourist-arrivals-rise-but-short-of-estimate-106269/
Energy forum promotes renewables through regulation
A team of energy regulators from the four Lower Mekong countries and the United States began a three-day forum yesterday in the capital to try to coordinate a clean energy strategy for the region. ...
James Reddick
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17448/energy-forum-promotes-renewables-through-regulation/
Banks roll out cards with new logos
Financial institutions that were abruptly ordered to change their logos earlier this year due to the perceived similarities with state iconography have begun issuing new bank cards to their clients free of charge. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/banks-roll-out-cards-new-logos
Pesticide-wary vegetable buyers chided by premier
Prime Minister Hun Sen scolded Cambodians for complaining about pesticides contaminating their vegetables during a one-hour speech in Siem Reap yesterday, stating that the solution is simply not to buy contaminated vegetables. ...
Yon Sineat
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pesticide-wary-vegetable-buyers-chided-premier
CNRP lawmakers visit prisoners on hunger strike
Opposition lawmaker Mu Sochua said a group of 10 convicted anti-eviction activists on hunger strike at Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar prison were in a weak state during her visit to the facility Monday. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-lawmakers-visit-prisoners-on-hunger-strike-74732/
Exports to Japan bucking the trend
Cambodia’s exports to Japan dramatically increased during in the first quarter of 2015, bucking the trend of fellow ASEAN member states who all saw a decline in shipments to Japan over the same period. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exports-japan-bucking-trend
Vietnam seizes ivory that passed through Cambodia
Police in southern Vietnam seized 387 kilograms of elephant tusks last week after the ivory passed through the Prek Chak international border checkpoint in Kampot province, the state-run Viet Nam News newspaper reported Friday. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/vietnam-seizes-ivory-that-passed-through-cambodia-87355/
SME Bank expected to help boost local production
The State-run SME (Small and Medium Enterprise) Bank is expected to help lift local productions, supplying domestic demands, officials and key insiders said. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50721318/sme-bank-expected-to-help-boost-local-production/
Police Deny Responsibility for Shooting Civilians
Police on Wednesday denied any responsibility for the shooting death of a street food vendor after they fired live rounds during clashes with garment factory workers in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district on Tuesday, with a government spokesman saying the security forces can use “any means” ...
Lauren Crothers and Phann Ana
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-deny-responsibility-for-shooting-civilians-46937/
BBC Report Says Media Stifled, Journalists Targeted in Cambodia
In a week that has seen one journalist murdered and another threatened for their investigations into corruption and forest crimes, a timely new study into the state of Cambodia’s media has found that the country’s press is being stifled. Eleven journalists have now been killed in the country ...
Maid Talk Premature: Ministry
The Ministry of Labour has played down reports it is close to sending domestic workers to Singapore, a country that has only recently granted foreign maids a weekly day off. The two countries’ governments had been in talks with Singapore’s Association of Employment Agencies about placing ...
Malaysia workers reject wage deal
Cambodian garment workers at a factory in Malaysia that supplies major international brands were on strike for a third day in a row yesterday, refusing an agreement on accommodation and demanding higher salaries. Representatives of the workers at the Honsin Apparel Sdn Bhd factory in Jahor ...
Villagers protest hike in electricity expense
More than 60 villagers from Kampong Cham province’s Stung Trang district staged a protest on Monday at Arak Tnort commune hall, demanding answers for a massive price hike that has accompanied the installation of electricity meters ahead of a planned switchover to state-provided power. Private company ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-protest-hike-electricity-expense
Gunawadh back as TVK director eleven days after resignation
Kem Gunawadh was reinstated as director-general of state broadcaster TVK on Wednesday, less than two weeks after his highly publicized resignation for failing to live broadcast the annual Royal Plowing Ceremony, according to a statement signed by Information Minister Khieu Kanharith. Acting Director-General Pang Nath denied ...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/gunawadh-back-as-tvk-director-eleven-days-after-resignation-59948/
Couple gets seven years in prison for land fraud scheme
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday sentenced a couple to seven years in prison for commiting land fraud in 2015. Siek Leng and Chan Boramey were found guilty of forging public documents, fraud and using fake public documents under Articles 629, 630 and 377 of ...
Kim Sarom
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/couple-gets-seven-years-prison-land-fraud-scheme
Environment ministry warns public to beware of fraudulent brokers selling protected land
The Ministry of Environment has warned the public about scammers who were deceiving people by claiming they legally owned land in protected areas and providing them with fake ownership deeds in bogus land sales when it isn’t possible for anyone to privately own protected land. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/environment-ministry-warns-public-beware-fraudulent-brokers-selling-protected-land
Telecom Cambodia workers protest over missing money
Dozens of employees of Telecom Cambodia protested outside the state-owned company’s head office in Phnom Penh on Monday over allegations that a manager pocketed $230,000 in payments from a private firm. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/telecom-cambodia-workers-protest-over-missing-money-93606/
Cambodia refutes new East Sea-related agreement with China
Cambodia does not have any new agreements regarding the South China Sea (East Sea) issue with China, the country’s Secretary of State and Spokesman for the Council of Ministers, Phay Siphan, has said. ...
Vietnam News Team
http://vietnamnews.vn/world/296040/cambodia-refutes-new-east-sea-related-agreement-with-china.html
Exports to the US slip slightly
Cambodia’s exports to the United States, the second largest importer of local goods after the European Union, declined slightly during the first quarter of the year compared with the same quarter last year. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24662/exports-to-the-us-slip-slightly/