Illegal Mobile Phone Services Targeted by Telecom Ministry
Illegal Thai mobile phone services have been ordered by the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications to cease their services inside of Cambodia. The services are being relayed as far as 100km within the border of Cambodia through a series of illegally constructed cell towers. qb
Machinery Imports Soar Through First Six Months
Sihanoukville Autonomous Port has seen an increase of 520 percent in the amount of construction machinery being imported. According to Chea Sambath, director of the port’s planning and statistics department, the increase is as a result of the increased investment in roads, hydropower dams and
Angkor protestors slighted
Angkor Beer drivers forced their way through a blockade formed by beer promoters protesting the company’s failure to respect them and follow an Arbitration Council ruling that they should be paid $2 more on the weekends. 200 protestors had planned to attend but only 30
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Police warn beer protestors
Police have told beer promoters protesting outside Cambrew Ltd. offices in Phnom Penh to quiet down as their strike goes into the third day. The strikers who promote Angkor Beer are asking that the brewery honor a decision by the Arbitration Council to award them
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Garment workers 'can't go on like this'
Nearly 400 workers at the Zhen Yun factory in the capital’s Russei Keo district went on strike yesterday after not receiving annual bonuses or appropriate overtime pay. The workers also said they were poorly treated by management
While the factory workers were striking, a Free Trade
Sickles brought to protest
Armed villagers from Kratie province’s Snoul district protested yesterday against district officials and a Vietnamese company they believe wants to cheat them out of their farmland.
The rights to 300 hectares of land around Sre Cha commune’s Meanchey village have been highly disputed since 2008, when
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Chinese bank to enter country's banking fold
The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) will enter Cambodia’s banking sector in November to become the country’s 30th commercial bank to date, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.
The report said that ICBC president Yang Kaisheng had met with Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday
Hun Sen probes fishing lots' irregular bids
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday ordered Agriculture Minister Chan Sarun to explain irregularities that have taken place in the bidding process for licenses to operate fishing lots around the Tonle Sap lake.
The order was carried out after Mr Hun Sen received a report from
Airport expansion key to Kingdom tourism
The Kingdom needs US$270 million to expand its three airports if the country is to meet its growing demand as a tourist destination, Cambodia Airport CEO Emmanuel Menanteau said yesterday.
The total number of visitors passing through the Kingdom’s airports will approximately double every 10 years,
Food costs expose gap in country's production
Despite a 67 per cent drop in food imports to Cambodia in 2011, inflation in exporting countries drove an 18 per cent rise in the total value of the imports.
Food imports fell from 769,993 tonnes in 2010 to 254,080 in 2011, while the total value
Expand Property Law for Foreigners, Premier Says
Prime Minister Hun Sen has called for the current law only allowing Cambodians to own property from the ground floor up to be scrapped. Currently foreigners can only buy apartments from the second floor and above. The purpose of the move is to increase foreign
Dispatches Reveal Cambodia Helped North Korean Refugees
US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks show that Cambodia assisted refugees escaping from North Korea. A North Korean was supposed to be deported to Vietnam and was claimed to have done such but it has now been proven otherwise. There have been other cases of
ICT agreement signed
Cambodia and Malaysia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in order to cooperate and share Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in order to develop the health, government and logistics sectors. Cambodia’s National ICT Development Authority met with the Malaysian Ministry for Science, Technology and
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World Bank Influence Curbed by ‘New’ Donors
The World Bank is losing influence in Cambodia to “emerging donors” and making no major headway in stemming corruption, the Bank’s Independent Evaluation Groups said in a report released Wednesday. Specifically focused on the World Bank;s 2007 anti-corruption initiative through 2010, the report uses six
Radiation detection equipment installed at Sihanoukville Port
In the fulfillment of a 2009 pact made between the US and Cambodia to reduce the risk of terrorist activity, the US National Nuclear Security Administration announced on Thursday that it had installed radiation detection equipment at Sihanoukville Autonomous Port.
With the new equipment, the port
Mfone CEO to resign, company says still open to merger talks
MFONE CEO Yap Wai Khee will resign at the end of the month, officials said yesterday, fuelling questions about the future of the company.
Yap Wai Khee, who held the position for about a year, will leave for family-related reasons, according to Atip Rittaporn, managing director
PM weighs in on China debt debate
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday added his two cents to the ongoing debate on what Cambodia’s debt to China actually is, declaring it stands at only US$2 billion.
At a ground-breaking ceremony marking the beginning of construction on Phnom Penh’s Cambodia-China Friendship Bridge, the premier rejected
Dry season rice crop jeopardized
The Center for Study and Development of Agriculture (Cedac) is calling on the government and microfinance firms to issue low-interest loans for flood-stricken farmers in order to save this year’s dry season rice harvest.
Floods have destroyed 10 percent of the rainy season rice crop and
Even the Cambodian elite have to pay taxes, ministry warns
The Ministry of Finance has warned Phnom Penh’s wealthiest property owners that they will be harshly penalized if they fail to pay property tax due by the end of the month.
According to a notice issued by the ministry on October 27, the window for tax
First 10 months of year's exports up 32.9 percent
Exports from Cambodia increased 32.9 percent to $3.7 billion during the first ten months of this year compared to the same period in 2010, according to data released by the Ministry of Commerce yesterday.
Milled rice exports saw the biggest increase with a 161.5 percent jump
