LED lights’ lure of lower electricity bills
The locally based Global Media Group is bringing the latest LED lighting technology to the Cambodian market in an effort to reduce people’s electricity bills. GMG assistant chief executive Bun sim said the company would use all its know-how, as well as experts from south Korea, ss='cambodia-color'>...
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Bonna Reality inks deal with Malaysian real estate developer
Bonna Realty Group yesterday signed an agreement with the National 6A Investment, a Malaysian real estate developer, to be an authorised sales agent for a 10-storey condominium that is currently being constructed and is expected to be finished by the end of 2014. The National 6A ss='cambodia-color'>...
Farmers of cassava afraid of losing out to a lack of rainfall
The price for cassava plants is increasing in the Kingdom’s north-western provinces, where the new season started. Due to the lack of rain many were damaged, according to farmers and officials. sreng sreang, deputy director of the Pailin longan collective, which planted about five hectares of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Milled rice exports gaining traction
The tonnage of the Kingdom’s milled-rice exports jumped nearly 50 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter, according to the Ministry of Commerce, with export revenues soaring as much as 82 per cent. Total exports of milled rice for the first three months of 2012 hit ss='cambodia-color'>...
SH protesters to keep striking
More than 700 workers at the sH International factory in the capital’s Po sen Chey district have vowed to keep striking, despite the Ministry of Labour saying it could not help solve their dispute because their demands were “excessive”. The workers protested again yesterday outside the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Families on Rubber Company's Land Face Eviction Deadline
Surrounded by 100-armed police officerS, authoritieS in Mondolkiri province yeSterday Said the roughly 200 familieS living on a rubber company&rSquo;S land conceSSion in Koh Nhek diStrict have until Friday to leave their homeS. After having already Seen diStrict police burn down three of their homeS over SS='cambodia-color'>...
Cheap Thai Green Beans Send Local Prices Downward
Large quantities of cheap green bean exports from Thailand are driving down prices of the product in Kompong Cham province by as much as 40 percent compared to the same period last year and forcing farmers to grow other crops, officials and farmers said yesterday. The ss='cambodia-color'>...
European Union Grants $54 Million to Cambodia
The European Union yesterday pledged to support Cambodia with three grants totaling $54 million, including one payment to help bolster the country’s ability to organize its public finances, officials announced at a press conference in Phnom Penh. “The E.U. will continue to support Cambodia with ss='cambodia-color'>...
Coal justified: ministry
The general director of the Energy Department at the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy has defended Cambodia’s energy needs and its use of coal power as the country attempts to use modern technology to reduce pollution ahead of the AsEAN senior Energy Officials’ 30th ss='cambodia-color'>...
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Officials Urge NGOs to Respect Rule of Law in Sonando Case
As criticism continues to mount over the arrest of outspoken Beehive Radio owner Mam sonando, a government spokesman shot back yesterday, accusing NGOs of undermining the country’s rule of law. “NGOs are not a judge and [the] rule of law reflects from the people,” said ss='cambodia-color'>...
Communities want to ban gillnet use to protect dolphins
Fishermen representing five Cambodian communities will publicly express their support for a ban on gillnet use in a ceremony highlighting the importance of the Mekong River Irrawaddy dolphin. The event organised by the Commission for Dolphin Conservation and Development of the Mekong River Dolphin Eco-tourism Zone, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia needs to polish reputation
The chief economist at the Economic Research Institute for AsEAN and East Asia says Cambodia needs to attract greater numbers of multinational companies and treat them well, in order to establish production networks that will transfer technology to smaller Cambodian businesses. In an interview with the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Striking workers resign in trade-off
Tae Young factory workers have ended their strike demanding the reinstatement of 16 fired workers after the factory last week agreed to drop its legal complaints against eight of the 16 in return for the entire group’s official resignations. About 600 protesters began the strike at ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia Drops a Spot in Asean as Burma Reforms
THE ten-member Association of south-East Asian Nations (AsEAN) is used to fending off “interference” by the West in the internal affairs of some of its members. In recent years the human-rights record of the regime in Myanmar has been the tenderest of these sore spots. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vietnam visitors drive tourist stats
International tourist arrivals to Cambodia increased nearly 28 per cent during the first quarter of the year compared with the corresponding period of 2011, Ministry of Tourism data shows. The country drew more than 995,000 tourists from abroad during the three-month period, up from 778,467 a year earlier, ss='cambodia-color'>...
PPWSA slide continues, as price sees correction
SellerS have dominated the Cambodia SecuritieS Exchange for the laSt Seven dayS of trading, and the downward trend for the Single Stock, Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority, waS expected to continue into next week, expertS Said. PPWSA cloSed down 4.6 per cent yeSterday at 7,250 riel SS='cambodia-color'>...
Shooting Victims’ Lawyers Denied Site Visit
Lawyers for the three women injured in a Feb. 20 shooting at a special Economic Zone (sEZ) in svay Rieng province were prevented from visiting the site of the shooting, allegedly on orders from the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC), a lawyer and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Police Begin Dismantling Mondolkiri Village Involved in Dispute
As the eviction deadline looms for residents of a Mondolkiri village embroiled in a land dispute with a Vietnamese-owned rubber plantation, police have begun to dismantle vacant homes in the village, an official and a villager said yesterday. sin seng, 43, a resident of the remote ss='cambodia-color'>...
Puma Factory Reaps Rewards Of Paying for Workers’ Meals
A factory supplying shoes for German sports brand Puma has experienced no mass faintings and seen overall productivity improve since it started providing meals to its workers last year, a Puma representative and a factory official said yesterday. Workers at Huey Chuen (Cambodia) Corp. Ltd. in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Migrant Worker Complaints Rise as Families Lose Touch
Rights group Adhoc yesterday said it had seen a spike in complaints from families of migrant workers since last year’s government-ordered freeze on recruitment agencies sending maids to Malaysia. At a press conference in Phnom Penh, Adhoc said it had received 141 complaints from the relatives ss='cambodia-color'>...
