Verdict Due October 1 in Trial of Jailed Radio Station Owner
On the fourth and final day of his trial for alleged involvement in a secessionist movement, independent radio station owner Mam sonando told the court on Friday that he had returned to Cambodia from the U.s. to stand the trial because he was innocent. Mr. sonando, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia records US$1.51-B trade deficit in 7 months
Cambodia reported a trade deficit of 34% in equivalent to US$1.51-B in the 1St 7 monthS of thiS year, the report of the Commerce MiniStry Showed ThurSday. During January-July period thiS year, the country&rSquo;S total import and export value waS US$7.45-B, up 15% from US$6.47-B at SS='cambodia-color'>...
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A new push for tourism cooperation
With the aim of attracting 25 million international visitors from 2013 to 2015 to Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CVLM) the respective ministers of tourism pushed for greater cooperation in developing the region’s tourism sector on Friday, according to the Vietnamese Communist Party official news ss='cambodia-color'>...
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Central Bank OKs SBC bid
The Taiwanese bank Cathay United, a subsidiary of Cathay Financial Holding and a listed company on the Taiwan stock Exchange, has purchased a 70 per cent stake in the Cambodia-based singapore Banking Corporation Ltd (sBC), a central bank official said yesterday. The National Bank of Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...
Police Say RCAF Trying to Bury Fatal Crash With Cash
Military officials are attempting to squelch a potential lawsuit from relatives of three people killed Friday when Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) soldiers smuggling wood through siem Reap province drove a military truck, donated by the U.s. government, into the family’s motorbike, police officials said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Social Work to shape Kingdom
Social work, long-eStabliShed in developed countrieS but unheard-of in Cambodia, could be Set to change the face of child protection in the country aS intereSt in the field growS. LaSt week, a hundred potential Social workerS from around the country came to Phnom Penh for an SS='cambodia-color'>...
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Asian bloggers discuss Internet freedom at Cambodia conference
Bloggers from across Asia came together in the Cambodian city of siem Reap this weekend to discuss blogging, technology and Internet freedom at 2012’s Blogfest Asia festival, a gathering of over 160 opinionated and distinctly geeky participants. Tops on the agenda? Internet freedom. The Cambodian contingent ss='cambodia-color'>...
No foreign carriers for domestic air travel in Cambodia
The government will not allow international airlines to establish domestic services in Cambodia, and the country’s domestic air travel industry is not being monopolised, says an industry leader. These two points were made by Tek Reth samrach, state secretary of the Council of Ministers, in response ss='cambodia-color'>...
Villagers summonsed in illegal logging case
Some 300 villagerS from the Andong Trabaek community in Svay Rieng province&rSquo;S RomeaS Hek diStrict will accompany two repreSentativeS who have been SummonSed to the provincial court TueSday to clarify allegationS of illegal logging that villagerS Say were fabricated by ForeStry AdminiStration officialS in order SS='cambodia-color'>...
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Thais to set up maize plant
THAI agribusiness giant Charoen Pokphand (CP) Foods is setting up a new silo and drying plant for maize in Pailin province. The exact investment cost is not known. According to a newspaper report in The Nation, the plant, together with a planned feed-meal plant in Laos, ss='cambodia-color'>...
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Bokor resort slated to bolster Kampot tourism
Kampot officials are looking to the Bokor Mountain Resort, a Us$1 billion project that opens today, to drive tourism growth in the burgeoning seaside destination. The provincial Tourism Department said the number of domestic visitors to Kampot had risen 120 per cent to 338,000 in the ss='cambodia-color'>...
SRP Campaign Videos Put Focus on Evictions
While the CPP in Phnom Penh has spent much of the campaign period broadcasting speeches by Prime Minister Hun sen, hosting music concerts and sending well-known comedians into the streets to work the crowds, the sRP has a starker campaign focus. When the sun sets, 10 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodian-Flagged Vessel Delivers Missile Trucks to N Korea
A Cambodian-flagged cargo ship was used last year to deliver four missile-launching vehicles to North Korea in violation of a U.N. security Council resolution that prohibits the sale of weapons to Pyongyang, according to media reports. The 84-meter long “Harmony Wish,” which flies a so-called Cambodian ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mobile phones could replace credit cards
Mobile money transfer service WING is preparing to launch a mobile wallet service later this year, and ACLEDA Unity is preparing to expand its own mobile services, enabling people to quickly pay for things just by touching their phone to a point-of-sale terminal. Near-field communications (NFC) ss='cambodia-color'>...
Prey Lang villagers on forest watch
Nearly 100 Prey Lang villagers in Kampong Thom province’s sandan district will today embark on a three-day “forest watch” mission to monitor what community representatives say are increased illegal logging activities in the jungle. This is the fourth time the community has conducted monitoring in the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia approves law on sending workers to Qatar
Cambodian workers are expected to arrive in Qatar soon as the southeast Asian country’s national assembly has approved a draft law to send workers to the Gulf state. According to The Phnom Penh Post, the house approved the draft law recently after the two ss='cambodia-color'>...
Unionists at casino betting on a strike
Almost 500 Tropicana Casino staff from gambling hub Poipet have threatened to strike on saturday if the casino’s Thai owner does not reinstate their union leader, sath ser, sacked by the company for supporting another terminated employee, workers said yesterday. A staff member who did not ss='cambodia-color'>...
Holiday blues hit factories
Tens of thousands of garment workers will enjoy an early start to the Pchum Ben holiday today as they trek back to their homeland. Their excitement, however, is not shared by their bosses, who will be left to rue a week-long halt in production. Enterprise and establishment ss='cambodia-color'>...
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PM defends Sonando verdict
Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday lashed out at critics of the Mam sonando verdict, saying outsiders shouldn’t be seeking the release of a prisoner. speaking to hundreds of villagers at a land title ceremony held in Chhuok district of Kampot province, Hun sen defended the guilty verdict handed ss='cambodia-color'>...
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Too few businesses registered
A majority of small and medium enterprises in Cambodia were not registered, despite the advantages it offered to businesses, participants at a workshop on business registration procedure, intellectual property and business etiquette for women heard yesterday. Referring to 2011 statistics, Chan sorey, vice-minister of the Ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...
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