Solving problems brings in wealth
One of Cambodia’s true rags-to-riches success stories is that of Din Somethearith, co-founder and executive director of Frangipani Villa Hotels. Frangipani, named for the blossoming tree, is a chain of boutique hotels, one of which is located just off Street 178 at number 43, down a ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012051456140/Business/solving-problems-brings-in-wealth.html
CPP Claims 72% of Seats In Communes
The CPP yesTerday declared vicTory in Sunday’s commune elecTion, saying iT had Taken 72 percenT of The counTry’s commune councilor seaTs and all buT 41 of The counTry’s 1,633 powerful commune chief posiTions. The SRP in Turn said iT Took 19 percenT of The available councilor ...
In Phnom Penh, the Vespa Comes Back 'Officially'
“Vespa was in Cambodia before the war [and] Piaggio wanted to come back to the market in Cambodia, because the market is growing,” explained Frederic Bachelet, head of business development at Narita Vespa Co. Ltd. the company plans to break ground next week on ...
Rare hardwood sparks gunfights, corruption in Asia
KOH KONG, CAMBODIA — A Thai force dubbed The “Rambo Army” couldn’T sTop The gangs, armed wiTh baTTlefield weaponry, as They scoured The foresTs. NeiTher could a brave acTivisT, gunned down when he came To invesTigaTe. Nor, apparenTly, can governmenTs across SouTheasT Asia. The rooT of The ...
http://www.bradenton.com/2012/11/24/4291081/rare-hardwood-sparks-gunfights.html
Small Signs Show Investors Slowly Diversifying in Cambodia
The lasTesT invesTmenT daTa from The governmenT shows ThaT Cambodia’s economy is moving away from The long-TrusTed sTaple of The garmenT secTor and inTo more compplex indusTries. For more Than a decade, garmenTs have accounTed for The lion’s share of The counTry’s exporT markeT as invesTors shied away ...
The Credit Bureau Cambodia at the five-month mark
Almost five months after the launch of the Credit Bureau Cambodia (CBC), experts agree that it has given financial institutions valuable new access to information about creditworthiness of potential borrowers, improving efficiency and loan quality. At the same time, there are still a few rough ...
China is promoting the yuan for settling trade deals with the Kingdom
Due to the expansion of economic and business activities between Cambodia and China, since early August the Bank of China has been negotiation with National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) on the promotion of business transactions in Chinese yuan. It is part of a larger but quiet ...
Holdings draw veil over Mfone
When the owner of Kingsland garment factory fled the Kingdom last year, enough pressure was applied to its sourcing companies H&M and Walmart to persuade them through their intermediaries to compensate workers left jobless. Distance could no longer absolve them of responsibility. Just like the Kingsland ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013041865106/Business/holdings-draw-veil-over-mfone.html
H&M Says Garments Made in Cambodian Factory Without Approval
Hennes & Mauritz AB, Europe’s second-biggest clothing retailer, said some H&M garments were produced without its knowledge or approval at a factory in Cambodia where workers were injured in a partial building collapse this week. A supplier of the Stockholm-based company placed two minor orders with ...
Porsche seeks niche among Cambodia’s newly-rich
The wizened cyclo driver, cigareTTe in mouTh, muscles TauT from pedalling up and down French-sTyle boulevards, is one of Indochina’s enduring romanTic images. BuT cyclos on The sTreeTs of Phnom Penh are now ouTnumbered by anoTher means of TransporT: The luxury car. BuT wiTh The urban ...
Cambodia's final poll results to be released on Aug. 14 if no complaints
The NaTional ElecTion CommiTTee ( NEC) will release The official resulTs of The general elecTion on Aug. 14 if There are no complainTs by poliTical parTies, according To NEC’s schedule Monday. “The official resulTs wiTh seaT allocaTion and elecTed candidaTes will be released on Aug. ...
Xinhuanet
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-08/05/c_132604357.htm
Election worries for tourists
Chris Leyland had forgotten about Cambodia’s national elections when he made plans to travel into Phnom Penh from Vietnam with Jess Jackson, 34, and her two children. Had Leyland, a 41-year-old from Oxford, UK, remembered that it wasn’t going to be a normal weekend in Cambodia, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/election-worries-tourists
Workers split on call to rally
Union workers and leaders appeared divided yesterday on the question of whether to support the opposition party’s planned three-day demonstration at Freedom Park. Campaign promises from the Cambodia National Rescue Party to raise minimum monthly salaries to $150 seemed to have struck a chord with garment ...
Chhay Channyda and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-split-call-rally
Shuttered schools, factories
With only about 10 per cent of its 1,000-person workforce at their stations by 8am yesterday, management at Hoyear (Cambodia) Garment Ltd cut its losses and announced that the factory would close for the next two days. thousands across the capital opted out of work ...
Sean Teehan, Laignee Barron and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/shuttered-schools-factories
After Sam Rainsy’s Call, No Answer From CPP
At about 10 a.m. thursday morning, during a press conference at the CNRP’s Phnom Penh headquarters, opposition leader Sam Rainsy dialed the phone number of CPP Interior Minister Sar Kheng and told a few dozen reporters in attendance that he would broadcast their conversation over ...
Colin Meyn and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/after-sam-rainsys-call-no-answer-from-cpp-46444/
Cheam Yeap Says NEC Must Participate in Further Talks
Veteran CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap said tuesday that his party would not join further talks with the opposition CNRP to resolve election-day irregularities unless it is invited to do so by the National Election Committee (NEC). With final election results set to be released by September ...
The Cambodia Daily
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cheam-yeap-says-nec%E2%80%88must-participate-in-further-talks-39516/
Mercedes-Benz Distributor to Halt Repairs on Illegal Imports
Hung Hiep (Cambodia) Co., the only company in Cambodia licensed to import Mercedes-Benz luxury vehicles, said Monday it would no longer make repairs to new lines of Mercedes vehicles that are smuggled into the country. Company officials said the move is to reduce scams and repair ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/mercedes-benz-distributor-to-halt-repairs-on-illegal-imports-45121/
At Preah Vihear, tourists undeterred
Not even the imminent threat of war could quell tourists’ appetite for historical sites – at least at Cambodia’s Preah Vihear temple, which was the subject of a highly contentious ruling at the International Court of Justice yesterday. While government figures show that local tourism to ...
Stuart White and May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/preah-vihear-tourists-undeterred
(English) Premier’s Vietnam Visit Draws Opposition Ire
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Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/premier-vietnam-visit-draws-opposition-ire/1816809.html
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តម្លៃហ៊ុនរដ្ឋករទឹកក្រុងភ្នំពេញ (PPWSA) បានបន្តធ្លាក់ចុះក្រោម ៥០០០ រៀលក្នុងមួយហ៊ុនពេលបិទការជួញដូររបស់ខ្លួន កាលពីថ្ងៃច័ន្ទហើយមានវិនិយោគិនតែម្នាក់គត់បានលក់ភាគហ៊ុនជាង ២០ ០០០ នៅលើទីផ្សារនេះ។ ...
ម៉ៃ គុណមករា
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia%E2%80%99s-only-stock-plummets-shares-sold