Kirilo Hydro station goes online
The Kirilo No.3 Hydro-power Station, located in the KOH Kong Province of Cambodia, was recently put into operation. The ribbon cutting ceremony of the Project was held on February 23, 2013 in the power station area. The Project was investigated and designed by HYDROCHINA Mid-South href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/kirilo-hydro-station-goes-online/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
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Cambodia attracts over 2 mln foreign tourists in first half
Cambodia received 2.09 million international visitors in the first six months of the year, up 19 percent compared with the 1.75 million tourists over the same period last year, figures from the ministry of tourism showed Saturday. Tourism is one of the sectors supporting the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodia-attracts-over-2-mln-foreign-tourists-in-first-half/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
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Thailand, Cambodia mull joint business, trade body
Thailand and Cambodian signed an agreement for the formation of a joint business council to promote bilateral trade and investment. The memorandum of understanding was officially endorsed on Tuesday evening by Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen on the sidelines of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/thailand-cambodia-mull-joint-business-trade-body/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
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Titles near as students finally on way to district
Nearly 50 families in Koh Kong province’s Kiri Sakor district will finally receive official titles after repeatedly requesting – and being denied – student volunteers to measure their land, the villagers’ commune chief said yesterday. Koh Pol commune chief Ev Kosal, who participated in the meeting href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/titles-near-as-students-finally-on-way-to-district/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Mortgage Lending Rises for New Home-Buyers
Cambodians, particularly young adults, are more often turning to banks to help them buy their homes, according to figures obtained from the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) yesterday. From $179 million in 2008, the total sum lent out to those buyers fell to $94.5 million href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/mortgage-lending-rises-for-new-home-buyers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/mortgage-lending-rises-for-new-home-buyers-20083/
Kampot pepper demand dips
Sales of Cambodia’s World Trade Organization-certified pepper from Kampot province fell to 21 tonnes at the end of this year’s harvest season, a slight decline from 22 tonnes after the end of last year’s season. Nguon Lay, president of the Kampot Pepper Association, said fast-changing href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/kampot-pepper-demand-dips/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kampot-pepper-demand-dips
Officials Consider Export Numbers Fishy
The Ministry of Commerce has released figures showing Cambodia’s export of fishery goods including fresh and dried fish products have decreased drastically in the first quarter of the year, though several government officials viewed the figures with scepticism. Cambodia exported 49.9 tonnes of fish products in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/officials-consider-export-numbers-fishy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050365392/Business/officials-consider-export-numbers-fishy.html
Insurance Institute To Boost Skills in Kingdom
An insurance training centre is being planned in Cambodia to develop local expertise lacking in the Kingdom’s nascent insurance industry. The institute hopes to offer diploma courses to industry leaders here so they in turn will be qualified to provide insurance training to others, such as href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/insurance-institute-to-boost-skills-in-kingdom/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Kingdom to reach rice target
Following a considerable increase in Cambodia’s milled rice exports in the first four months of the year, Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh said he was optimistic the Kingdom’s rice exports would reach the 2015 target of one million tonnes. With this year’s export figures notably higher href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/kingdom-to-reach-rice-target/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051065539/Business/kingdom-to-reach-rice-target.html
Arrests Threatened In Ratanakkiri
Provincial authorities in Ratanakkiri have warned ethnic Jarai villagers that they will be arrested if they continue to stop bulldozers belonging to a Vietnamese company from clearing forest in O’Yadav district’s Paknhai commune, community leaders said yesterday. Sav Finh, leader of Lom village’s forestry protection committee, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/arrests-threatened-in-ratanakkiri/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051565625/National/arrests-threatened-in-ratanakkiri.html
Bangladesh woes spare Kingdom
A recent string of disasters rocking Bangladesh’s garment industry has highlighted its factories’ shocking safety record, and stoked optimism that giant fashion brands will flock to move their orders to countries like Cambodia. But Cambodia’s garment industry has not experienced any major deluge of business so href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/bangladesh-woes-spare-kingdom/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051665643/Business/bangladesh-woes-spare-kingdom.html
Instalment payments for goods gaining purchase
AEON Microfinance (Cambodia) Co, part of Japan-based AEON Group, said sales by instalment for electrical appliances and motorbikes increased by 715 per cent in the first quarter of 2013 year on year, a trend industry experts say will grow further with increasing demand for electronics. Started href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/instalment-payments-for-goods-gaining-purchase/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Bail Requests Denied for All Eight Unionists
The Kampong Speu Provincial Court has denied bail for eight unionists accused of instigating violence at the Sabrina Garment factory last Monday. Kampong Speu Provincial Court judge, Cheum Rithy said yesterday that he had not approved the bail request because significant work remained in questioning href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/bail-requests-denied-for-all-eight-unionists/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Global hotel group sees profits rise 20 per cent
Intercontinental Hotels Group, one of the world’s leading hotel companies and operator of InterContinental Hotels & Resorts – one of whose hotels is located in Phnom Penh – said first-half-of-year profits rose 20 per cent on strong gains in the Americas region. According to a statement href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/global-hotel-group-sees-profits-rise-20-per-cent/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/global-hotel-group-sees-profits-rise-20-cent
Authorities, NGOs Brace For Floods
Provincial authority and humanitarian NGOs are preparing for severe flooding in Kompong Thom province as floodwaters flow south from inundated Preah Vihear province along the Stung Sen River. Leng Vireak, senior manager for disaster response at NGO world Vision, said that the situation was stable href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/authorities-ngos-brace-for-floods/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
R’kiri floods trap thousands
The number of Ratanakkiri residents trapped in their homes by floodwater that continues to rise amid relentless rain is now estimated by provincial authorities to be at least 4,000. Heavy rain has put five Lumphat district communes – Lbaing I, Chey Uddom, Batang, Seda and Kaleng href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/rkiri-floods-trap-thousands/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
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FBI Holds Investigation Talk for Cambodian Youth
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thursday gave a talk to some 200 Cambodian youths in Phnom Penh, describing criminal investigation, especially in human trafficking and child prostitution. Various youth from across nine provinces attended the discussion, where they learned how they can participate in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/fbi-holds-investigation-talk-for-cambodian-youth/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Khoun Theara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/fbi-holds-investigation-talk-for-cambodian-youth/1800147.html
(English) Anti-Eviction Protesters Burn Tires, Block City Hall
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Khuon Narim
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(English) PM, Rainsy meet nailed down: gov’t
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Stuart White and Meas Sokchea
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(English) Strikers fired in Svay Rieng
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Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strikers-fired-svay-rieng