ព័ត៌មាន
ASEAN+3 leaders meet in Cambodia to chart future cooperation
The ASEAN+3 (China, Japan and South Korea) Summit was held here on Monday to discuss measures and actions to further enhance cooperation in the future. The Summit was made between the leaders of the ten-country ASEAN led by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and the leaders ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-11/19/c_131984651.htm
Gillard talks trade in Cambodia
PRIME Minister Julia Gillard is aiming for an ambitious trade agreement that not only covers ASEAN and its neighbours but leaves the door open for other entrants. Ms Gillard arrived in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh on Monday for the East Asia Summit, which is set ...
Lee arrives in Cambodia for regional cooperation summits
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak arrived in Cambodia on Sunday for a series of international summits, including one involving the newly re-elected U.S. president, Barack Obama, about freer trade and other cooperation issues in the region. On Monday and Tuesday, Lee will attend a trio ...
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2012/11/16/83/0301000000AEN20121116009151315F.HTML
Aviation Chief Urges Compensation for Victims of PMT Crash
Fielding questions from opposition lawmakers in the National Assembly yesterday, the chief of the State Secretary of Civil Aviation (SSCA) addressed a host of issues that have drawn recent criticism of the government body. SSCA Secretary of State Mao Havanall began by saying that the secretariat ...
East Asia Summit to discuss how to address economic, financial disorder
East Asian leaders will discuss how to address economic and financial disorder when they meet heads of the International Monetary Fund, the Asian Development Bank and the World Trade Organization next week, a source said Wednesday. The source, who asked not to be named, said the ...
UN Rights Official Urges Cambodia to Ratify Convention To Protect Workers Abroad
A top UN diplomat has encouraged Cambodia to ratify a convention that would protect its migrant workers abroad. James Heenan, from the office of human rights at the UN, said in a forum in Phnom Penh that Cambodian workers abroad often see their rights violated. .. ...
Cambodian legislators, officials talk to enhance migrant worker rights
Approximately 150 parliamentarians, government officials, recruitment agency representatives, trade unions leaders, and development partners gathered here on Monday to discuss ways and measures to promote and protect the rights of Cambodian migrant workers. Speaking at the opening of the parliamentary forum on the promotion and protection ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-11/12/c_131967978.htm
ASEAN to study new ties with six partners
ASEAN says it will study how to implement a proposed economic partnership with its six external partners that might lead to the foundation of world’s largest economic bloc. The proposed bloc, dubbed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) or “ASEAN+6” , would integrate ASEAN’s 10 ...
Rise in foreign tourist arrivals
The number of foreign tourists arriving in Cambodia increased 23 per cent in the third quarter of the year compared to the same period last year, according to new statistics from the Ministry of Tourism. The data show the number of tourists who arrived in the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012110259529/Business/rise-in-foreign-tourist-arrivals.html
Over 2.5 million visitors to Cambodia in the first nine months of 2012
Cambodia attracted some 2.57 million international visitors in the first nine months of this year, a 24% rise compared with the same period last year, a report from the Ministry of Tourism showed on Wednesday. ...
http://www.traveldailynews.com/news/article/51858/over-2-5-million-visitors-to
U.S., S. Korean, Chinese, Japanese leaders to attend 21st ASEAN Summit in Cambodia
U.S. President Barack Obama, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda have already confirmed their participation in the 21st ASEAN Summit and related Summits here on Nov. 15-20, said Cambodia’s Foreign Minister Hor Namhong on Monday. ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-10/22/c_131922509.htm
UN Security Council vote up
Cambodia will know by the early hours of tomorrow whether its bid for a seat on the UN Security Council has been a success. The Kingdom is up against South Korea – the home country of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon – and Bhutan for the Asia-Pacific ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012101859285/National-news/un-security-council-vote-up.html
Cambodia's Angkor Wat Temple attracts 1.36 mln foreign visitors in 8 months, up 31%
About 1.36 million international tourists visited Cambodia’s Angkor Wat Temple, one of the World Heritage Sites, in the first eight months of this year, a 31 percent rise compared with 1.04 million during the same period last year, a report of Siem Reap provincial tourism ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/culture/2012-09/26/c_131874967.htm
Bank Collapse Sees Property Up for Grabs
A prime piece of Phnom Penh real estate was put up for auction last week by a South Koran government agency attempting to recoup taxpayers’ money lost during a bank collapse last year. Bids have been made that could see a new development on the site, ...
Koomkin bank takes Camko City to court
The foreign commercial arbitration case between South Korean Kookmin Bank and World City Asset Management and World City, two real-estate development firms, has been received by the Cambodian Court of Appeals. World City Asset Management received a loan from Kookmin bank in Korea in 2007 to ...
Korean earned income to rise
Cambodians working in South Korea this year are expected to remit up to US$80 million to the Kingdom as up to 40 per cent more Cambodian labour heads to the East Asian nation compared to last year. The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training expects at ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012082958336/Business/korean-earned-income-to-increase.html
Korean tourists fuel demand for dog meat in Cambodia
Riding a motorcycle with a cage, Pov Nat scours rural areas for dogs. He pays between 30,000 ($7.38) and 80,000 riel a head and sells the animals to a butcher in Siem Reap. The 21-year-old native of Kampong Cham province began buying dogs after coming to ...
http://view.koreaherald.com/kh/view.php?ud=20120826000233&cpv=0
Seoul Court Releases CEOs Tied to Local Projects
The chief executives of two companies behind major developments in Cambodia-who were jailed in Seoul in February for their part in a major South Korean financial scandal-have been partially cleared and released, according to a court official. Lee Sang-ho – the CEO of World City Co. ...
S. Korea, Cambodia Agree On Sharing Military Supplies
South Korea and Cambodia have agreed to share military supplies in peacekeeping and rescue operations as part of efforts to expand military ties between the two sides, the defense ministry here said Tuesday. Lee Seon-chul, the head of the South Korean defense ministry’s logistics managment bureau, ...
Gov't Approves Nearly $500M in Investments
Cambodia approved a total of $479.68 million in new investment projects between January and June with more than 70 new ventures in the pipeline, according to date released yesterday by the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). Investments in the garment sector continued to dominate new investments, comprising 49 of ...
Growth to be focus of ASEAN Economic Summit
Prime Minister Hun Sen will be opening the 44th ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting and related meetings will kick off August 27 in Siem Reap, the centre of Khmer culture and civilization in Cambodia, and will run to September 1, according to the Ministry of Commerce. The meeting ...
Brokers nabbed at airport
Four brokers accused of duping 19 victims out of thousands of dollars for non-existent jobs in South Korea were arrested at Phnom Penh International Airport on Saturday. Keo Thea, chief of Phnom Penh’s anti-human trafficking and juvenile protection department, said Por Sen Chey district police arrested ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012080657832/National-news/brokers-nabbed-at-airport.html
China provides largest loan to Cambodia
China is the largest provider of financial assistance to Cambodia for agriculture and irrigation development in the last three years, Cambodia’s Minister of Finance Keat Chhon said on Tuesday. Since 2010 to date, he said, Cambodia has received a total loan of $561 million and a ...
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2012-07/17/content_15591814.htm
Newlyweds targeted with ‘wedding loans’
Phnom Penh Commercial Bank will offer “wedding loans” to newlyweds, a product based on a similar borrowing practice is South Korea. The majority-owned South Korean bank will set aside more than US$1 million for start-up families that don’t want their parents shelling out savings for new ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012071157335/Business/newlyweds-wedding-loans.html