Malaysian bank eyes the affluent
A new Malaysian player in Cambodia’s expanding banking sector aims to capture the “emerging affluent” with its mobile and online services. Malaysian-based Hong Leong Bank will begin operating in Phnom Penh today, with a branch on Street 214. Joe Farrugia, CEO of Hong Leong Bank Cambodia, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013070866710/Business/malaysian-bank-eyes-the-affluent.html
Cambodia Receives 1.79 Million Foreign Tourists In First Five Months
Cambodia attracted 1.79 million foreign visitors in the first five months of the year, up 19 per cent over the previous year. From January to May, Vietnam remains the main source of visitors with 341,000 tourists, up 11 per cent year-on-year, followed by South Korea with ...
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v7/wn/newsworld.php?id=962064
Cambodia's micro-lenders record 24 pct lending growth in Q1
Cambodia’s 35 microfinance institutions had lent 1 billion U.S. dollars to customers by the end of March this year, up 24 percent from 808 million U.S. dollars it lent at the end of last year, the data of Cambodia Microfinance Association (CMA) showed Wednesday. on the ...
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2013-05/03/c_132357476.htm
French Ambassador vows to strengthen further relations with Cambodia
Serge Mostura, French Ambassador to Cambodia, said he wanted to boost economic diplomacy between Cambodia and France. Citizens of France visits Cambodia only as tourists or for study, but none have placed investments in the country, so he vows to attract small and medium sized ...
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NDcxZTc4YzQ5YTR
Bank to join growing group from Taiwan
Taiwan-based Shanghai Commercial & Savings Bank Ltd plans to open a representative office in Cambodia, joining an increasing number of Taiwanese banks and garment industry investors in the Kingdom. Shanghai Commercial & Savings would enter a crowded sector, behind other Taiwanese-based financial intuitions [sic]. Hua ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061366235/Business/bank-to-join-growing-group-from-taiwan.html
In Mondolkiri, Political Candidates Address Ethnic Minority Concerns
Human rights workers and other civil society groups on Wednesday urged the competing political parties for July’s election to address the ongoing land crises and illegal deforestation that are hurting indigenous populations. About 100 people from various ethnic minority groups from five provinces attended a forum ...
In carbon, gains for agriculture
Paying Cambodian farmers to capture carbon by not removing mulch during planting and harvesting would help support climate change mitigation, reduce soil deterioration and return higher yields in the long term, say leading agriculture experts. Speaking at a conference in Phnom Penh last Friday, Professor Rattan ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013062466434/Business/in-carbon-gains-for-agriculture.html
Political bias alleged
Four families in Oddar Meanchey province’s Samrong town have filed a complaint with their commune hall, alleging that a military official and a village chief are trying to block them from receiving land titles because the families support the Cambodian National Rescue Party. The families and ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/political-bias-alleged
Sam Rainsy’s Last-Minute Efforts to Run Rebuffed
Both the National Assembly and the Constitutional Council of Cambodia, the highest legal authority in the land, convened closed-door meetings Thursday during which they decided not to reinstate opposition leader Sam Rainsy as a voter and parliamentary candidate for Sunday’s national election. According to a copy ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/sam-rainsys-last-minute-efforts-to-run-rebuffed-36763/
Show Licences or ship out, sand dredgers told
Phnom Penh municipal officials have ordered owners of eight sand-dredging companies that continued work despite a mandated moratorium to halt operations and show proof of their licences or shut down for good. on Saturday, the municipality informed the owners, whose names they declined to release, that ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/show-licences-or-ship-out-sand-dredgers-told
Watchdogs accused of conspiring with CNRP
Deputy Prime Minister Sok An has accused two independent election watchdogs of conspiring with the opposition to undermine the election. Speaking at the Council of Ministers on Monday, An said that the Committee for Free and Fair Elections (Comfrel) and the US-government-funded National Democratic Institute (NDI) ...
Kevin Ponniah and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/watchdogs-accused-conspiring-cnrp
Chinese Arrivals To Cambodia Continue To Grow
Cambodia’s Tourism Ministry said about 231,000 Chinese visited Cambodia in the first six months of the year, up 55 percent over the previous year. Cambodia received 334,000 Chinese visitors in 2012, up 35 percent year-on-year, Xinhua news agency quoted the ministry saying in a report. Kong Sopheareak, ...
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v7/wn/newsworld.php?id=970883
Ratanakkiri cop in bed with loggers, villagers say
Rights group Adhoc will take a complaint filed against a commune police officer accused of colluding with illegal loggers in Ratanakkiri’s Lumphat district to the provincial court today. The complaint, which villagers in Lbaing II commune filed with Adhoc on Friday, alleges that commune police officer ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ratanakkiri-cop-bed-loggers-villagers-say
Police beat Borei Keila activists blocking road
Yet another clash between protesters and police resulted in at least three women being knocked unconscious in the capital yesterday. A Post reporter saw police punch and use batons to quell protesters after a group of about 250 people, including many from the Borei Keila community ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-beat-borei-keila-activists-blocking-road
H5N1 Avian Influenza: Cambodia Reports 22nd Case In Girl From Battambang Province
The Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Kingdom of Cambodia has announced a new human case of H5N1 avian influenza, according to a ministry press release Wednesday. The case is a 6-year-old girl from Romdoul village, O Romdoul commune, Phnom Preuk district, Battambang province confirmed positive ...
Robert Herriman
http://www.theglobaldispatch.com/h5n1-avian-influenza-cambodia-reports-22nd-case-in-girl-from-battambang-province-38291/
Oil and gas giant Chevron rotates local personnel
After two and a half years, Chevron’s Cambodia country manager, Steve Glick, will move on from his position in what the oil and gas giant called a routine rotation, according to a statement released yesterday. Glick, who came to the job in 2011, will be “taking ...
Daniel de Carteret and May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/oil-and-gas-giant-chevron-rotates-local-personnel
Bird flu kills 13 people in Cambodia this year
A ten-year-old boy died of bird flu on Saturday, bringing the death toll of the fatal disease to 13 in Cambodia so far this year, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said. “We regret to announce that the boy passed away in Kantha Bopha Hospital this ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/health/2013-11/09/c_132873955.htm
‘Wintery’ weather warning
As temperatures drop during the cool season, children, infants and the elderly should take extra measures to ward off common seasonal illnesses, officials from the Ministry of Health said on Wednesday. In a press release issued by the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization’s ...
Mom Kunthear and Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98wintery%E2%80%99-weather-warning
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http://postkhmer.com/index.php/business/business/108937-2014-01-08-04-22-58