EU still the Kingdom’s best export destination
The European Union will continue to remain Cambodia’s biggest export recipient, mopping up $2.32 billion in shipments this year, with the Us following a close second at $2.07 billion, according to Commerce Ministry estimates. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/eu-still-kingdoms-best-export-destination
Protesters put sugar firm’s wall on hold
Roughly 30 villagers locked in a land dispute with Koh Kong sugar protested at a construction site yesterday where they say the company was attempting to erect a concrete barrier on disputed land. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/protesters-put-sugar-firms-wall-hold
Veggie farming to trim kingdom’s import bill
Government officials, economists and businesses discussed the implementation of a draft program to invigorate vegetable farming in the Kingdom and cut imports from neighbouring countries in half by 2018. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/veggie-farming-trim-kingdoms-import-bill
Indian power firms eye kingdom’s energy gaps
More than 50 representatives of Indian energy firms attended the opening of the Powering Cambodia conference in Phnom Penh yesterday, engaging local government officials and stakeholders in the Kingdom’s energy sector to explore investment opportunities in the field of electricity generation and distribution. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/indian-power-firms-eye-kingdoms-energy-gaps
Party chief’s special envoy welcomed in Cambodia
Quan, who is also head of the CPV Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations, informed President of the ruling CPP and Prime Minister Hun sen and CPP Honorary President and President of the National Assembly Heng samrin about the outcomes of the CPV’s 12 th ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vietnam Net team
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/government/151654/party-chief-s-special-envoy-welcomed-in-cambodia.html
Explainer: China’s one belt one road initiative
One Belt One Road refers to the “silk Road Economic Belt” and the “21st Century Maritime silk Road.” Chinese President Xi Jinping first brought up the concept during foreign visits in late 2013. It is Xi’s signature world economic strategy. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hong Kong Free Press Team
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2016/03/06/explainer-chinas-one-belt-one-road-initiative/
Kingdom’s first abattoir primed for Australian cattle
After a series of technical delays and setbacks, the Kingdom’s first industrial slaughterhouse is ready to begin operations and will start production upon receiving its first shipment of 2,000 heads of live Australian cattle in late May, the company behind the project said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski and Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-first-abattoir-primed-australian-cattle
Ministers discuss Sihanoukville’s still-murky development plans
An inter-ministerial meeting that took place earlier this month in Preah sihanouk was said to have been called to make concrete the seesawing plans of the province’s business and environmental development. ss='cambodia-color'>...
PM’s son threatens lawsuits over attack allegations
In an apparent attempt to distance himself from the savage beating of two opposition party lawmakers last month, Hun sen’s son and ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) lawmaker Hun Many threatened legal action against any individuals linking him to the incident. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pms-son-threatens-lawsuits-over-attack-allegations
Koh Rong Samloeun’s Asia-driven tourism boom
Just four years ago, the white sand beach at Koh Rong samloeun’s saracen Bay was empty. Now workers can be seen scrambling over the frames of new bungalows along the shoreline, and speed boats arrive hourly from the mainland to drop off crowds of tourists ss='cambodia-color'>...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21542/koh-rong-samloeun---s-asia-driven-tourism-boom/
Cambodia key to China’s silk road revival
Cambodia is a major player in AsEAN for realizing China’s Belt and Road Initiative, which Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed last year to connect China to neighboring countries and the world, Chinese officials said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24477/cambodia-key-to-china---s-silk-road-revival/
Concern over trade deal’s investor dispute mechanism
A civil society organisation has raised concerns about the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), claiming that one provision of the sweeping trade agreement would limit the Kingdom’s ability to draft socially beneficial policies. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/concern-over-trade-deals-investor-dispute-mechanism
Exchange of notes for Japan’s grant assistance
On Friday 23 September 2016, in reSponSe to a requeSt from the Royal Government of Cambodia and the World Food Programme (hereinafter referred aS “WFP”), the Government of Japan haS agreed to extend a Grant ASSiStance of two hundred and twenty million JapaneSe Yen (¥220,000,000), SS='cambodia-color'>...
Embassy of Japan in the Kingdom of Cambodia
Bourse gives nod to port’s IPO application
Cambodia SecuritieS Exchange (CSX) granted itS approval in principle of the liSting eligibility review application of Phnom Penh AutonomouS Port (PPAP), the exchange announced on itS webSite yeSterday. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/bourse-gives-nod-ports-ipo-application
PM’s sons begin to take center stage
As Prime Minister Hun sen ages, more and more talk is surfacing of his sons taking his mantle and leading the country into the future. Two were in the spotlight this past week as they bolster their credentials for their eventual rise to the top ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16893/pm---s-sons-begin-to-take-center-stage/
PM’s response over dredging insufficient: CNRP lawmaker
After writing to Prime Minister Hun sen in July asking him to order an investigation into the sand dredging taking place in Koh Kong province, CNRP lawmaker son Chhay on Wednesday accused the prime minister of not fully addressing the issues in his letter of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pms-response-over-dredging-insufficient-cnrp-lawmaker-101844/
PPWSA’s Q3 profit hit by expenses
Cambodia’s first listed company, the Phnom Penh Water supply Authority, yesterday reported a 41 per cent drop in profits after tax for the quarter ending september 30, with the company attributing the drop to an increase in expenses incurred over the quarter. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ppwsas-q3-profit-hit-expenses
Poipet customs director removed in riot’s wake
Banteay Meanchey provincial authorities yesterday promoted a new director of Provincial Customs and Excise to replace his predecessor, seven months after an office under his jurisdiction was at the centre of a riot. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poipet-customs-director-removed-riots-wake
U.S. secretary of state to visit Cambodia
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will pay an official viSit to Cambodia later thiS month to booSt bilateral tieS, Cambodia&rSquo;S MiniStry of Foreign AffairS Said on Saturday. &nbSp; SS='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhua team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20012/u-s--secretary-of-state-to-visit-cambodia/
Hun Sen’s Facebook ‘Likes’ real, government declares
Claims that Prime Minister Hun sen’s recent spike in Facebook popularity is the result of purchasing “likes” from abroad are “completely twisted,” the government’s National Counter-Terrorism Committee concluded in a five-page report released on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pms-facebook-likes-real-government-declares-110328/