Apple to officially sell iPhones in Cambodia
Apple Inc. on FrIday wIll offIcIally launch the IPhone In CambodIa through Its authorIzed reseller, IOne, gIvIng customers—long used to gray market IPhones—access to Apple’s warranty. “The sales launch wIll be July 18. IOne, whIch has the monopoly rIght to Import Apple’s products to CambodIa’s market ...
Hul Reaksmey and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/apple-to-officially-sell-iphones-in-cambodia-64448/
Customers call Metfone on promise
Winning text messages in hand, about 25 angry Metfone customers yesterday gathered at the telecom’s head office on Mao Tse Tung Boulevard to demand the new iPhones they were promised. Each of the customers had paid US$0.30 to enter a Metfone-sponsored contest and received a text ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011120753193/Business/customers-call-metfone-on-promise.html
Locals Pay Almost Double for iPhone Amid High Demand
Cambodian customers eager to buy Apple inc.’s newest iPhone are paying almost double the company’s asking price in the U.S., phone vendors in Phnom Penh said yesterday. At about a dozen phone shops near Phnom Penh’s Central Market, vendors were doing a steady trade in the ...
Construction for Pursat’s power projects on track
Two power projects, solar and hydro-power plants, are well underway for the construction in Pursat province – a western part of the country sharing its border with Thailand. ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50725772/construction-for-pursats-power-projects-on-track/
Firms yearn for investment law in 2021
Optimism prevails in the private sector that the investment Law widely anticipated to launch later in the year will spell new momentum in the Kingdom’s industrial diversification in parallel with the region and beyond. The current edition of the law comprises 11 chapter and 39 ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/firms-yearn-investment-law-2021
New draft law on investment mulled
The government is sending a new draft law on investment to the private sector to discuss ways to make it more comprehensive and help Cambodia become an attractive destination for new investment and to improve the investment environment in the country. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50773944/new-draft-law-on-investment-mulled/
Locally Created Video Game Tops Apple's Downloads in Cambodia
A group of 12 Cambodians has developed a new video game for the iPhone that just two weeks after its release has become Cambodia’s most-downloaded game in Apple inc.’s online store. Since it was released on November 30, “Asva the Monkey” has had more than 3,000 ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/locally-created-video-game-tops-apples-downloads-in-cambodia-6761/
Hospital after school
A rowdy 8-year-old boy has accused his teacher of hitting him over the head with a small whiteboard during class on Thursday, leaving him with a bloody head wound. Sok Kim Heng said yesterday that he spat on another student and, in return, his teacher whacked ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hospital-after-school
One more dead in shooting of village chief
A third man died of gunshot wounds in Phnom Penh Wednesday night after an interior Ministry official gunned down a village chief and his relatives when a neighborhood dispute escalated earlier in the day, police said on Thursday. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/one-more-dead-in-shooting-of-village-chief-103375/
Burger King to Open New Phnom Penh Branch
U.S. fast-food chain Burger King will open its second location in Phnom Penh in Boeng Keng Kang i commune by the end of January, the restaurant’s manager said Thursday. Located at the corner of streets 51 and 310, the restaurant will take over the building that ...
Sek Odom and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/burger-king-to-open-new-phnom-penh-branch-49728/
NGOs under close watch for bias
The Ministry of interior yesterday warned human rights groups that they are being closely watched for alleged bias towards the opposition CNRP, in a startling move targeting some of the country’s most prominent local NGOs. Ministry of interior (Moi) spokesman Khieu Sopheak confirmed yesterday that ...
Andrew Nachemson and Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-under-close-watch-bias
Ministries, 2 provinces talk waste management
The Ministry of interior’s General Department of Administration co-chaired a two-day online meeting from August 16-17 with two provincial administrations on identifying locations for landfills, while the Ministry of Environment continues to assist sub-national administrations in procedures to manage urban solid waste. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministries-2-provinces-talk-waste-management
Germany donates €5M to boost local services
The German government has committed €5 million (about $5.68 million) to a joint government and civil society programme to boost cooperation between local authorities, local service providers and the public to improve performance. The German Embassy announced the funding of the implementation of Social Accountability ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/germany-donates-eu5m-boost-local-services
New iPad to Be Released In Cambodia on Friday
Two months after it was unveiled and released in the U.S., Apple inc.’s newest version of the iPad will be released Friday in Cambodia, according to the website of the California-based technology giant. Though suppliers of the iPad in Cambodia were tightlipped yesterday on the number ...
Victims of Cobra Throwing Summoned to Court
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has summoned to court four people involved in a land dispute with a private company in Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak i commune, including two victims of a snake-throwing incident in October, over alleged violence and theft. On October 30, a bag ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/victims-of-cobra-throwing-summoned-to-court-49673/
Announcement on the continuation of the Implementation of the Social Accountability Framework (I-SAF) at the municipal/district/khan level on service delivery (commune/sangkat administration, primary schools and health centers) and I-SAF Phase II at municipal/district/khan administration of the capital city and provinces
On 22 April 2020, the National Committee for Sub-national Democratic Development (NCDD) issued an announcement on the continuation of the implementation of the Social Accountability Framework (i-SAF) at the municipal/district/khan level on service delivery (commune/sangkat administration, primary schools and health centers) and i-SAF Phase ii ...
National Committee for Sub-national Democratic Development
Local journalists lead police to Pursat timber stockpile
Environmental officials in Pursat are questioning rangers over how a group of local journalists discovered nearly 100 logs of luxury timber inside a wildlife sanctuary. After receiving a tip, the journalists, representing 24 small online media outlets, teamed up with five local policemen on Tuesday ...
Phak Seangly
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/local-journalists-lead-police-pursat-timber-stockpile
CNRP activist detained over political VCDs
Police on Sunday detained a CNRP activist and confiscated 347 political video-CDs that he was transporting to the party’s headquarters in Phnom Penh, police and opposition party officials said Monday. The VCDs showed violent police and military repressions of land and labor activists and last ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-activist-detained-over-political-vcds-58127/
P Sihanouk, Oz infrastructure programme talk smart-city development
A Preah Sihanouk provincial deputy governor on April 28 met with a policy adviser at Australia’s flagship infrastructure programme in Cambodia for talks on plans to transform the province into a model multi-purpose special economic zone (SEZ) by 2030, and other smart-city development initiatives. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/p-sihanouk-oz-infrastructure-programme-talk-smart-city-development
Cambodia Retains Its Reputation for Corruption
Cambodia continues to rank among the most corrupt countries in the world and much needs to be done to enforce the Anti-Corruption Law and investigate allegations of corruption, Transparency international (T.i.) Cambodia said yesterday. According to T.i.’s 2012 Corruption Perceptions index (CPi), Cambodia ranked 157th among ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-retains-its-reputation-for-corruption-6475/