Families Foresee Rocky Road Ahead
Fourteen Phnom Penh families claimed yesterday that government maps showing their houses in the path of a road-widening project were inaccurate and would condemn them to eviction without adequate compensation. Ek Malin, 57, a representative of the community on street 347 in Tuol Kork district’s Boeung ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013042665262/National/families-foresee-rocky-road-ahead.html
Huge Increase in MFI Loans, Deposits
More economic activity and a better understanding of using formal financial services among rural residents are leading to good loan performance rates and increases in savings deposits in Cambodia’s microfinance industry, according to industry sources. The loan portfolios of the 35 registered microfinance institutions (MFI) and ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050265366/Business/huge-increase-in-mfi-loans-deposits.html
Cambodia exports to Thailand rise as nations improve economic ties
Cambodia’s total exports to Thailand sharply increased in the first quarter of the year, according to official data from Ministry of Commerce received by the Post last week. Officials said the rise is the result of efforts by both countries to improve trade facilitation and economic ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hong Leong Bank Cambodia gets banking licence
Hong Leong Bank Bhd’s (HLB) subsidiary Hong Leong Bank (Cambodia) PLC (HLBC) has clinched a banking licence for its operations in the country from the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC). HLBC, a commercial bank with a capital of RM119.25mil, would begin operations on July 8, the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sokha given chance to debate CPP on TV
Acting opposition leader Kem sokha will have a rare chance to face off against a ruling party opponent in a nationally televised debate before the election. The debate will be one of two broadcast on TVK on July 20 and 21 in a series organised by ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Phnom Penh Post
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sokha-given-chance-debate-cpp-tv
Angkor Wat revenue at $51 million for last year
Revenue from foreign tourists buying passes to see temples in siem Reap’s Angkor Wat complex amounted to about $51 million last year, according to a Post calculation of data that was released Friday in a letter by the Apsara Authority, which manages the site. [Bun] Narith ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/angkor-wat-revenue-51-million-last-year
Kem Sokha Concerned Over Post-Election Violence
Opposition vice president Kem sokha on Thursday said he could not guarantee there would be no violence following sunday’s vote and appealed to the international community to be on alert and help ensure a peaceful transition after the election results are released. speaking to reporters after ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/kem-sokha-concerned-over-post-election-violence-36762/
China provides 33 mln USD in free-interest loan to Cambodia for development projects
The Chinese government on Thursday signed up to provide a free-interest loan of 200 million Renminbi (33 million U.s. dollars) to Cambodia for social and economic development projects. The agreement was inked between Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo and Cambodian Finance Minister Aun Porn Moniroth ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-11/14/c_132888622.htm
ADB funds tourism development in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a 100 million UsD aid package to support the development of tourism infrastructure in the three Mekong River countries of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The decision was made at the annual meeting on tourism development of the Greater Mekong ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vietnamnet Bridge News Staff
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/travel/91098/adb-funds-tourism-development-in-vietnam--laos--cambodia.html
NGO alleges bribery over titles
An environmental protection NGO is preparing to file a lawsuit with the Kampong speu provincial court and a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Unit against an Agriculture Department official who was allegedly paid by a development firm to issue land titles to villagers squatting on state ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-alleges-bribery-over-titles
(English) Cambodia Rejects Rice Contamination Claims by EU
Sorry, thiS entry iS only available in អង់គ្លេស (ស.រ.អ). SS='cambodia-color'>...
Oryza News Staff
http://oryza.com/news/cambodia-rejects-rice-contamination-claims-eu
Verdict today in case of jailed land activist
After more than three months in jail, environmental activist Kuch Veng is set to hear his verdict at the Pursat provincial court. The verdict was originally scheduled to be handed down July 10, but the judge ordered it delayed after some 300 people from 11 provinces ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/verdict-today-case-jailed-land-activist
Monks feeling policed
During a small press conference yesterday, the founder of the Independent Monk Network said about 30 police officers came to Wat Botum two nights in one week, asking to search the premises for “bad men” who may be hiding there. The visits occurred on the nights ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sean Teehan and Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/monks-feeling-policed
Lao consultants give dam the thumbs up
The controversial Don sahong hydropower dam, which Laos says it will soon build just a kilometre from the Cambodian border, will not have significant effects on the Mekong River, according to an environmental impact assessment paid for by the dam’s builder. Obtained yesterday, the report – ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lao-consultants-give-dam-thumbs
Gov’t to push rural sanitation
With the vast majority of rural Cambodians still lacking access to a toilet, and suffering the incumbent health risks, Ministry of Rural Development officials on Monday renewed long-standing intentions to improve the country’s sanitation infrastructure. Just days after World Toilet Day, the officials surveyed villages ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-push-rural-sanitation
Tanks sit between villagers, farmland
Villagers in Oddar Meanchey province’s samroang town filed a complaint to Adhoc yesterday after local authorities repeatedly failed to budge a nearby military unit, which the villagers say has stationed six tanks on their farmland and refused to grant residents access to their crops, or ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tanks-sit-between-villagers-farmland
Geopacific Resources to update capital raising for copper project in Cambodia
Geopacific Resources (AsX: GPR) is in pre-open following the AsX granting the company a trading halt, pending an announcement regarding a proposed capital raising in the form of a placement to sophisticated investors. Geopacific is focused on the highly prospective Kou sa copper project in Cambodia, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Opposition tells CPP: Agree, or talks off
Opposition leaders have given the ruling party an ultimatum: Agree to our demands by the end of the year or the talks are over. Kem sokha, Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy president, said yesterday that after discussing the matter with party president sam Rainsy, they had ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/opposition-tells-cpp-agree-or-talks
Long march to capital begins
The long journey on foot from the provinces to Phnom Penh began yesterday for hundreds of villagers and monks who intend to mark December 10’s International Human Rights Day by protesting outside the National Assembly. Parades of people, expected to grow in size the closer they ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/long-march-capital-begins
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