Teen dead and child injured in B-40 explosion
One boy died and another was severely injured after an unexploded b-40 rocket they were playing with detonated in boeng Daeng village, in Kampong Cham’s Stung Trang district, on Monday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/teen-dead-and-child-injured-b-40-explosion
B.Grimm’s solar project sees 20 percent complete
Thailand-based Energy Company b.Grimm Power said its solar project in Cambodia is 20 percent complete after the firm took over the project from a local power company late last year. ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50723289/b-grimms-solar-project-sees-20-percent-complete/
SOA to build palm sugar factory with Korean firm
Local exporter Signatures of Asia and Korea-based b&G is Life are investing in a palm sugar processing factory in Kampong Speu province. In addition to the plant, the collaboration includes a warehouse, a solar dryer, and a blockchain-based traceability system, Pich Chan, SOA general manager, ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50661040/soa-to-build-palm-sugar-factory-with-korean-firm/
‘Solar energy will fill shortages,’ says Jona
Thai firm B Grimm Power Pcl has invested in a 30MW solar project in CamBodia, Ministry of Mines and Energy spokesman Victor Jona said on Wednesday. Jona, who is the director-general of the ministry’s General Department of Energy, told The Post that he welcomed the ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/solar-energy-will-fill-shortages-says-jona
Indian investors warming up to Cambodia
Although bilateral trade between India and Cambodia remains low, investors from the subcontinent are eying the market here for its potential as a regional hub for their agricultural, machinery and industrial products, b. Sarkar, executive director of the Engineering Export Promotion Council (EEPC) of India, ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21600/indian-investors-warming-up-to-cambodia/
Villagers fight mining venture
Nearly 70 representatives from 278 families in Preah Vihear’s Rovieng district are seeking intervention after a national mining company began drilling on their farmland last week, locals said yesterday. According to villager Yean bunchan, 47, representatives from a company based in Kandal province called T P ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-fight-mining-venture
B.Grimm buys 30MW solar plant under development in Cambodia
Thai firm B. Grimm Power has extended its interest in PV in Southeast Asia By investing in a 30MW solar project to Be set up in CamBodia.&nBsp;The ground-mount system is slated for development in Serie Saophoan, Banteay Meanchey Province. Company suBsidiary B.Grimm Solar Power entered ...
Tom Kenning
https://www.pv-tech.org/news/b.grimm-buys-30mw-solar-plant-under-development-in-cambodia
Firm completes purchase of solar project in Banteay Meanchey
Thailand-based energy company b Grimm Power Plc’s wholly-owned subsidiary, b Grimm Solar Power 1, has completed its acquisition of Cambodia’s Ray Power Supply Co Ltd. “[Ray Power] would like to update the progress [of the transaction]. The share transfer has officially completed and approval from ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/firm-completes-purchase-solar-project-banteay-meanchey
Poipet SEZ to import power
A special economic zone (SEZ) in Poipet City has decided to import electricity from Thailand to ensure a reliable power supply as it expects the influx of more factories and investment. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35649/poipet-sez-to-import-power/
Vietnam, Thailand tapped to supply rice
Neighbors Vietnam and Thailand have bagged contracts to supply a total of 500,000 metric tons (MT) of rice to boost the Philippines’ buffer stock in time for this year’s lean months, an official from the National Food Authority (NFA) said yesterday. Existing bilateral rice agreements ...
Claire-Ann Marie C. Feliciano
http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=TopStory&title=vietnam-thailand-tapped-to-supply-rice&id=104049
Office space growing as more firms set up shop in Phnom Penh
The supply of second-tier office space has increased during the first half of 2012 as the number of new firms in Phnom Penh city continues to grow, according to real estate experts. A study by Asia Real Estate Cambodia (ARC) found that office space in the “grade b” category now stands at ...
B Kak Woman Arrested
Prominent Boeung Kak villager and protester Yorm Bopha was yesterday jailed in Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar prison, after she and her husBand – en route to check for their names on a voting register – were pounced on By police in plain clothes in what ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012090558509/National-news/b-kak-woman-arrested.html
Pay&Go Aims to Streamline Bill Payments With New Services
A local company has begun working in cooperation with AbA bank to streamline payments for services such as electricity bills and mobile phone top-ups by allowing people to pay through its website, mobile applications and electronic kiosks. PayGo SEA (Cambodia) Co. Ltd., which operates under the ...
Joshua Wilwohl and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/paygo-aims-to-streamline-bill-payments-with-new-services-44794/
Number of Condominiums Grows in Phnom Penh
The number of condominiums in Phnom Penh has increased 22 percent to 2,578 units since the beginning of the year, according to data released yesterday by Asia Real Estate Cambodia. The firm said that the majority of the new units came from the completion of 10 ...
Two Men Arrested After 1 Ton Of Rosewood Seized
Two men were arrested yesterday and more than 1 ton of rosewood was confiscated after the car they were using to transport the illegally logged luxury wood smashed through a police barricade in Kandal province, officials said. Deputy Kandal provincial police chief Sao Sothun said that ...
Factory pay protest continues
Workers at the shuttered Yung Wah I and II factories in Kandal province will continue protesting today, despite the government already agreeing to pay them using company funds. Worker Soy Sokchea said yesterday that he and his colleagues would keep demanding benefits and seniority bonuses. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013021861414/National/factory-pay-protest-continues.html
Recruitment agencies operate without oversight
In June, after about a quarter million migrant workers returned from their jobs in Thailand fearing the military junta’s crackdown on illegal labor, Cambodia’s government announced it had slashed the cost of emigration, and would charge workers only $49 to legally return to work across ...
Phorn Bopha and Alex Consiglio
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/recruitment-agencies-operate-without-oversight-65497/
Tonle Bassac: Primed for the future
Tonle Bassac is located on the western shore of the Bassac River, from which it takes its name (Tonle is Khmer for ‘river’). Contained By the river to the east, Sihanouk Boulevard to the north and Norodom Boulevard to the west, Tonle Bassac hooks westward ...
David Murphy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/tonle-bassac-primed-future
Hun Sen Orders Workers Compensated
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen has promised to compensate thousands of garment workers demanding back pay they say they are owed since their factory owner fled the country to escape mounting debt, according to officials. Kandal provincial labor department director Thol Neang told RFA’s ...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/workers-02192013184511.html
B Keila, B Kak continue petitioning
Free of the police resistance that thwarted their march the previous day, about 65 borei Keila and boeung Kak community supporters marched to the Ministry of Justice yesterday in another effort to have land dispute activists Tim Sakmony and Yorm bopha freed from pre-trial detention ...