Beyond Chea Vichea, Many Cases Lack Accountability, Justice
Ahead of the 10-year anniversary on Wednesday of the assassination of Free Trade Union (FTU) President Chea Vichea, police said Monday that despite their inability to bring anyone to justice for the high-profile slaying, the case remains open. However, Chea Mony, the brother of Chea Vichea, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy and Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eu-ambassador-distances-local-delegation-from-resolution-50914/
Youths heed city's siren call
When 29-year-old store manager srey Mom sent her mother in Takeo province some money to pay young people to help with the rice planting, her mother told her it was no use – the young people had abandoned the village to seek their fortunes in ss='cambodia-color'>...
HENG Huy Eng
IT and Website AdvisorHuy Eng graduated with a double major in Computer science from Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), and International study from Institute of Foreign Language (IFL). she has been working for ODC since it was firstly established in 2011. With several years ss='cambodia-color'>...
EU Under Fire for Policy Linked to Land Grabbing in Cambodia
KAMPONG SPEU PROVINCE&mdaSh; Three yearS ago, Pao had a farm and a charcoal Stove near a Stream in a community called Omlaing in weStern Cambodia. The farm gave her rice, charcoal SaleS gave her extra income and the nearby foreSt provided edible and medicinal plantS. Pao SS='cambodia-color'>...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine Staff
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Fashion retail enters the online era
SOURSDEY FaShion occupieS a Small Shopfront near the RuSSian Market. It lookS Similar to many of the Small boutiqueS Sprouting up acroSS Phnom Penh, packed with&nbSp; the lateSt in faShion aimed at young, trendy conSumerS. But the Shop&rSquo;S buSineSS plan differS from that of many SS='cambodia-color'>...
Land Titles Needed to Drive Investment in Agriculture
The issue of using land titles to encourage banks to boost their lending to the agriculture sector was raised at the “Empower Your Business: Riding on Cambodia’s Growth” seminar in Phnom Penh on July 21. “seventy percent of the population is undertaking agriculture as their ss='cambodia-color'>...
TNT expands Asia Road Network
TNT Express linked its Chinese day-definite domestic road services into its Asia Road Network. This has created the only scheduled day-definite road network covering China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and singapore, said the operator. CEO Marie-Christine Lombard said: “With the integration of TNT’s two ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.ifw-net.com/freightpubs/ifw/index/tnt-expands-asia-road-network/20017904622.htm
Cambodia to fall short in rice exports due to flooding
Phnom Penh–Cambodia’s rice exports to foreign countries this year will fall short from the amount that was expected earlier, due to the flooding, said President of the Federation of Cambodian Rice Millers Association Phou Puy on Tuesday. The flooding has hit the country since August, will ss='cambodia-color'>...
Battambang families seek land-dispute aid
Representatives of more than 300 families in Battambang province’s Bavel district yesterday urged government officials to intervene in a land dispute with provincial authorities and a businessman. Representative Thuy Ry said the 305 families had lived on the 3,638 hectares of land in Ampil Pram Doeum ss='cambodia-color'>...
Villagers take case to capital
Representatives from five communes in Koh Kong province engaged in a long-running land dispute with a private Chinese firm urged the government to issue them proper land titles during a press conference in the capital yesterday. Representative Chhai Beng Hout asked the government to instruct the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia expects 7 pct GDP growth in 2012
Cambodia’s Finance Minister Keat Chhon said Monday that the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth is expected at 7 % this year. The forecast is higher than that of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank — all forecast at ss='cambodia-color'>...
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Private firms plan CSX IPOs
A logistics firm and two garment manufacturers planned to list on the Cambodia securities Exchange during the second half of 2012, underwriter Phnom Penh securities said yesterday. The companies are the first known private businesses to confirm their intentions of listing on the Kingdom’s still-dormant bourse. Manufacturing ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011110352509/Business/private-firms-plan-csx-ipos.html
Floods abate, but villagers still isolated
Although floodwaters are receding, an unknown number of villages in several provinces remain accessible only by boat, and the extent of the damage has yet to be fully assessed, according to aid workers and the latest “situation update” from the United Nations Disaster Management Team. “In ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia to send labour to Qatar
The government has approved Qatar as a destination for the growing number of Cambodian labourers seeking employment overseas. Workers will not be recruited for housekeeping services, however, private sector officials said. The abuse of maids in Malaysia – many of whom were reportedly under-aged – has ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011121253300/Business/cambodia-to-send-labour-to-qatar.html
Japan Asks for Tax Breaks, Better Regulations
The Japanese Embassy in Phnom Penh appealed to the Cambodian government Tuesday to help encourage Japanese investment here by providing corporate tax holidays and reducing notoriously high customs tariffs by adopting more transparent and efficient practices. According to a set of requests prepared by the ss='cambodia-color'>...
CSX part of a larger capital market system
The Cambodia SecuritieS Exchange (CSX) iS an important component of a larger ecoSyStem of capital marketS, according to Eugene Lam, CEO of OSK Indochina SecuritieS Ltd, one of Cambodia&rSquo;S SecuritieS underwriterS approved by the SecuritieS and Exchange CommiSSion of Cambodia (SECC). Lam SayS one of SS='cambodia-color'>...
Analysis: Confronting the age crisis
Today is World Health Day, marking the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organisation in 1948. Each year, a theme is selected for World Health Day that highlights a priority area of concern for the WHO. This year’s priority area is ageing and health, ss='cambodia-color'>...
‘Illegal’ Pursat settlers given ultimatum
Pursat provincial authorities have given an ultimatum to 31 families who illegally settled on 100ha of land in Phnom samkos Wildlife sanctuary in Veal Veng district’s stung Thmey village. According to a provincial Department of Environment notice dated November 8 and obtained by The Post, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-pursat-settlers-given-ultimatum
Extractive industry to become new economic driver – Ministry
The government last week said the extractive industry is on course to become a main economic pillar. Cambodia’s economic development is mostly driven by the construction, real estate, tourism, garments and agricultural sectors, but the government is working to diversify, with the extractive industry set ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50663802/extractive-industry-to-become-new-economic-driver-ministry/