De Castle Royal to be completed by 2014
The De Castle Royal Condominium project, which has been on hold for some time, has announced that it will go back on the market after gaining $28 million in loans from Canadia Bank, which will allow for the completion of the 32-storey-building. The general manager of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/de-castle-royal-to%e2%80%8bbe%e2%80%8b-completed-by-2014/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013020761213/Real-Estate/de-castle-royal-to-be-completed-by-2014.html
Thailand, Vietnam Seek Controls on Rosewood Trade
Thailand and Vietnam have called for strict controls to be placed on the international trade of rosewood in an attempt to prevent the luxury wood species from being logged to extinction. Cambodia currently exports thousands of cubic meters of the wood to China each year, and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/thailand-vietnam-seek-controls-on-rosewood-trade/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thailand-vietnam-seek-controls-on-rosewood-trade-12299/
Ahead of Titling, Hun Sen Urges Swift Resolution to Land Disputes
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday urged people to resolve their own land disputes to aid the progress of an ambitious land-titling project announced earlier this month. Speaking at an event in Kompong Cham province’s Kroch Chhmar district to mark National Fish Day, Mr. Hun Sen thanked href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/ahead-of-titling-hun-sen-urges-swift-resolution-to-land-disputes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Mekong River threatened by transport of dangerous goods
The Mekong River Commission has released a comprehensive risk analysis of the transport of dangerous goods and issued recommendations to prevent oil spills, industrial waste and other emerging threats from navigation. Developed by the MRC Navigation Programme in Phnom Penh, the risk analysis finds that the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/mekong-river-threatened-by-transport-of-dangerous-goods/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
News Analysis: Cambodia Viewed As "Best" Investment Venue For Thais
Cambodia is considered “the most promising country” in the ASEAN community where Thai business entrepreneurs could set up trade and investment projects, according to a noted Thai academic and economist. Roongrote Benjamasuthin, director of the University of Thai Chamber of Commerce’s ASEAN Business & Economic Center, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/news-analysis-cambodia-viewed-as-best-investment-venue-for-thais/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/indepth/2013-02/09/c_132162078.htm
Cambodian, Chinese entrepreneurs meet to seek business chances
The 2013 China’s Zhejiang and Cambodia matchmaking symposium was held here on Tuesday to seek opportunities to expand business ties between China and Cambodia. Gong Zheng said the Chinese firms are doing businesses in the fields of agriculture, infrastructure development, construction and real estate, mineral href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodian-chinese-entrepreneurs-meet-to-seek-business-chances/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-03/05/c_132210667.htm
Research shows Cambodian entrepreneurship tendency
Ninety–nine per cent of Cambodians have a television set in their home, according to data compiled by Indochina Research. “We know everybody watches television,” said General Manager Laurent Notin. “Television is the most trusted media channel for Cambodians.” The saturation of television is only one of the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/research-shows-cambodian-entrepreneurship-tendency/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Hundreds of Preah Sihanouk Families Forced From Homes
More than 100 families in Preah Sihanouk province were forcefully removed from their homes yesterday morning by at least 100 armed police officers who dispersed the crowd by firing shots into the air from AK-47 rifles and spraying villagers with water cannons, accoring to provincial href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/hundreds-of-preah-sihanouk-families-forced-from-homes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Ministry Lists Fees to Help Firms Avoid Graft Claims
The government has publicly issued lists showing the costs of fees that businesses must pay to authorities for various services, in an effort to help companies avoid making informal payments made illegal by the anticorruption law. The lists were drafted during the past year after Cambodia href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/ministry-lists-fees-to-help-firms-avoid-graft-claims/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-lists-fees-to-help-firms-avoid-graft-claims-8434/
Wal-Mart and H&M Pay $200,000 to Cambodian Workers in Historic Settlement
When tales emerge from the retail supply chain, they’re usually tragic, like the alleged sweatshop conditions at the Foxconn (HKG:2038) plants that churn out Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) products, or the 112 Bangladeshi workers who died when their factory, where clothes for Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), Sears Holdings (NASDAQ:SHLD), href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/wal-mart-and-hm-pay-200000-to-cambodian-workers-in-historic-settlement/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Thai rice cuts pose problems
Thailand’s recent announcement of a 20 per cent price cut within the government rice-pledging scheme will have little impact for Cambodian exports, but farmers may feel the effects, say industry insiders. In an article published in the Bangkok Post on June 19, Thailand’s cabinet had agreed href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/thai-rice-cuts-pose-problems/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013062166407/Business/thai-rice-cuts-pose-problems.html
Facing Chinese Dam, Monks Fight for Temple
Monks residing in Koh Kong’s remote Areng Valley have begun raising funds online to renovate their local temple, despite plans in store for a large Chinese backed hydropower dam that would leave the site completely inundated. The 108-MW hydropower dam, to be built by href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/facing-chinese-dam-monks-fight-for-temple/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren និង Kene-Hern Chen
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/facing-chinese-dam-monks-fight-for-temple-31987/
Thailand and Cambodia to forge closer trade talks
After the fourth Joint Trade Commission (JTC) recently, Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapirom said that Thailand and Cambodia had the potential to drive two-way trade up by 30 per cent, due to strong growth in 2012. Last year, bilateral trade grew by 40.5 per cent year on href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/thailand-and-cambodia-to-forge-closer-trade-talks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Firms’ Timber Trade Decried
Two firms holding concessions in rapidly disappearing northern forests are amassing stockpiles of tens of thousands of luxury logs cut both within and outside their leases and trucking them on to Vietnam, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights has alleged. CCHR investigators that tracked logging operations href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/firms-timber-trade-decried/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052865880/National/firms-timber-trade-decried.html
New Chinese envoy pledges to further enhance ties with Cambodia
Newly-designated Ambassador of China to Cambodia Bu Jianguo on Thursday vowed to help further deepen all rounds of cooperation with Cambodia for the benefits [sic] of the two countries and peoples. Paying a courtesy call on Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong, Bu href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/new-chinese-envoy-pledges-to-further-enhance-ties-with-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-07/25/c_132573145.htm
AKP Corrects Report on Call for International Vote Probe
Information Minister Khieu Kanharith on Thursday clarified that Prime Minister Hun Sen did not express willingness to see international involvement in an independent investigation into election irregularities, after state media incorrectly reported to the contrary. State news service Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP), which operates out of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/akp%e2%80%88corrects-report-on-call-for-international-vote-probe/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Daily
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/akp%E2%80%88corrects-report-on-call-for-international-vote-probe-38139/
Cambodian PM inaugurates rubber processing plant in far northern province
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday inaugurated a rubber processing plant here, saying the factory would contribute to developing the country’s fast-growing rubber sector. The 7 million U.S. dollar plant, invested by Cambodia’s Sopheak Nika Investment Agro-Industry Company, was built on the area of 9 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodian-pm-inaugurates-rubber-processing-plant-in-far-northern-province/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-05/15/c_132384351.htm
Against the Grain
On the palm-studded plains of Cambodia, rice farmers’ eyes light up with the prospect of sending their crop northward to China. The poor Southeast Asian nation had been trying for several years to export rice to the mainland but only last year did it gain href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/against-the-grain/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.chinaeconomicreview.com/china-rice-demand-market-import
‘Thinnest’ smartphone is set for debut in Cambodia
Two days after Huawei introduced the world’s thinnest smartphone in London and Singapore, the Cambodian representative office of the China-based company announced that the sleek device would be sold in the Kingdom in July. While the Chinese telecom giant hopes to increase its market share of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/thinnest-smartphone-is-set-for-debut-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Confidence at central bank
As volatility strikes Asian markets in anticipation of the US Federal Reserve winding down quantitative easing – the practice of injecting money into the economy – the National Bank of Cambodia says the Kingdom will remain largely insulated thanks to an investment market still in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/confidence-at-central-bank/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013062566455/Business/confidence-at-central-bank.html