The Phnom Penh Post

Agreement to increase cross-border vehicle limit

Cambodia and Thailand will sign a memorandum of understanding on Friday to increase the quota of buses and trucks permitted to cross the border between the two countries, a transport official said yesterday. ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/agreement-increase-cross-border-vehicle-limit

Tourism officials lay out plans for schools

Tourism Ministry officials outlined plans yesterday for two new vocational training facilities for the country’s growing tourism sector. Try Chhiv, deputy director general of the Ministry of Tourism, said the government will build the first school in Phnom Penh with a capacity of 1,000 students, ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tourism-officials-lay-out-plans-schools

Minister to be grilled on sand export discrepancy

Minister for Mines and Energy Suy Sem will appear at the National Assembly on Thursday to answer questions about a more than $700 million discrepancy in data on sand exports to Singapore, according to a letter signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-be-grilled-sand-export-discrepancy

EU pressure effective?

In recent years, communities displaced by sugar plantations have attempted to reclaim their land by targeting the plantations’ investors and buyers overseas, but a study published last week in the peer-reviewed Journal of Civil Society suggests such efforts may disappoint. ...

Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eu-pressure-effective

Ghosts in the machine

Private firms say costs, delays and bureaucratic red tape have increased since an obscure private company took over the government’s work-permit application and issuance system in September. The Ministry of Labour announced in August that it had outsourced work permit application processing to E-Solutions (Cambodia) Co ...

Kali Kotoski and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ghosts-machine

Power line project threatens highly endangered bird: org

A proposed power transmission line to be constructed at the edge of the Tonle Sap Floodplain Protected Landscape as early as next year will pose a new threat to a critically endangered bird species known as the Bengal Florican, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/power-line-project-threatens-highly-endangered-bird-org

$30B casino, theme park project mooted

MQ Technology Bhd, a Malaysian investment holding company, is looking to form a joint venture with a newly formed entity, Cambodian Resorts and Entertainment Co Ltd, to build a $30 million casino and theme park in Prey Veng province near the Vietnamese border, according to ...

Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/30b-casino-theme-park-project-mooted

Kolao revs up its investment

Kolao Group, a South Korean-owned automaker and distributor, plans to build factories in a proposed industrial park in Cambodia to assemble its proprietary line of automobiles and motorcycles, a company executive said yesterday. ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kolao-revs-its-investment

Revenue rises in Q3 at capital’s water firm

The capital’s listed water utility posted higher revenue against lower earnings during the third quarter of the year in a filing to the Cambodian stock exchange yesterday. Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) saw its revenue rise by $1 million, or 8 percent, year-on-year to $13.9 ...

Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/revenue-rises-q3-capitals-water-firm

Chinese firm mulls energy sector prospects

A leading Chinese manufacturer of power transmission and distribution equipment recently visited Cambodia to explore opportunities in the Kingdom’s rapidly growing energy sector, including a proposal for a factory to produce equipment for the electricity sector. ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chinese-firm-mulls-energy-sector-prospects

Dam’s impacts being felt

Residents of Stung Treng province’s Preah Romkil commune are reluctant to express their concerns over Laos’s Don Sahong hydropower dam since it was endorsed last month by Prime Minister Hun Sen, despite the impacts of the dam already being keenly felt, activists and researchers said ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dams-impacts-being-felt

Company owners, employees arrested over huge timber raid

The owners of Hong Sopheap Development Company in Preah Vihear have been arrested days after military police carried out a massive raid on a 4,000 hectare social land concession (SLC) that the company holds a licence to log. ...

Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/company-owners-employees-arrested-over-huge-timber-raid

Advocates, employers tussle over compliance

Local garment sector stakeholders failed to find common ground at a meeting on supply chain safety protocols, with the government and employers expressing reluctance to take on an additional level of responsibility. ...

Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/advocates-employers-tussle-over-compliance

CNRP eyes health checkup

Opposition lawmakers have requested Health Minister Mam Bunheng appear at the National Assembly to answer questions over graft, irregularities and poor services within his portfolio, including claims that officials from the National Malaria Centre misappropriated cash from the Global Fund. ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-eyes-health-checkup

Industrial rail project gathers steam with government push

Transport Minister Sun Chanthol has vowed to reinvigorate a long-dormant project to connect the Kingdom’s sole operating railway line to the capital’s biggest industrial park – a move that would boost rail traffic ahead of the completion of a rail link to northwestern Cambodia and ...

Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/industrial-rail-project-gathers-steam-government-push

Customs urged to move online

Customs authorities should work quickly to adopt an envisioned online registration system for cross-border cargo shipments that would expedite delivery and cut out pesky middlemen who tack on unofficial fees, Transport Minister Sun Chanthol said yesterday. ...

Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/customs-urged-move-online

White Building surveyed

Land Management Minister Chea Sophara led a veritable battalion of ministry officials in a survey of Phnom Penh’s iconic White Building on Saturday morning in preparation for a proposed development project on the site. ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/white-building-surveyed

Chinese firm eyes steel mill

One of China’s largest steelmakers is seeking partners in Cambodia to build a steel mill that will reduce the Kingdom’s dependency on imported steel for its construction sector, a company executive said. Weng Wei Min, director of the economic cooperation department at Hangzhou Iron and ...

Cam McGrath and Joey Chua Xue Ting
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chinese-firm-eyes-steel-mill

Pigs call first dibs on feed

AGRO-Industrial conglomerate Mong Reththy Group inaugurated its first feed mill on Friday, with the factory’s production line aimed foremost at supplying the group’s industrial pig-rearing operation, a company executive said yesterday.​ ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pigs-call-first-dibs-feed

NEC sends out election rules for scrutiny

With voter registration wrapping up last week, the National Election Committee over the weekend issued a call for the public to submit their evaluations of the rules that will govern the June 4 commune elections – the first popular ballot since the disputed 2013 national ...

Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-sends-out-election-rules-scrutiny

Some 7.87M registered to vote: NEC

Just under 7.9 million Cambodians enrolled to vote in next year’s commune elections during the registration period that closed on Wednesday, results released yesterday show, with the figure well short of the goal of 9.6 million people older than 18. ...

Alex Willemyns
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/some-787m-registered-vote-nec

Article 2 will stand: Hun Sen

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday hit back at opposition critics of his efforts to seek French expert help in modernising old colonial maps of Cambodia’s border with Vietnam, rejecting their claims that such an effort would require a constitutional amendment. ...

Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/article-2-will-stand-hun-sen

Ministry to be grilled on sand exports

The National Assembly’s anti-corruption commission will summon Minister of Mines and Energy Suy Sem to answer questions about an apparent $700 million discrepancy in sand exports to Singapore. ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-be-grilled-sand-exports

Better infrastructure needed for trade: study

Cambodian goods benefit from the lowest export tariff rates in the world but the Kingdom’s trade is still held back by lengthy bureaucratic procedures and corruption, according to a new study by the World Economic Forum (WEF). The Global Enabling Trade Report 2016, a study published ...

Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/better-infrastructure-needed-trade-study

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