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Loan agreement inked for Cambodia’s first garment training school

The Garment Manufacturer’s Association in Cambodia (GMAC) signed a $3.5 million loan agreement with French international development agency Agence Francaise de Development (AFD) yesterday to build Cambodia’s first garment sector training school. The school will train Cambodia’s unskilled garment workers and other Cambodians who wish to ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012120460070/Business/loan-agreement-inked-for-cambodias-first-garment-training-school.html

Fertilizer factory won’t hire non-CPP members, workers claim

Workers applying for jobs at a fertilizer factory in Kandal province claim they were passed over in favour of applicants who were members of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP). Prey Treng II village chief Hang Suon and two job applicants told the Post yesterday that Five ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012120460074/National-news/fertilizer-factory-wont-hire-non-cpp-members-workers-claim.html

T.K. Garment Co moves across the border for cheaper wages

When the government decided to raise the daily minimum wage to 300 baht nationwide, labour-intensive industries knew sunset was descending on their businesses. As a leading original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for popular clothes lines in Thailand, the company is relocating its largest production site to ...

http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/economics/324412/sunrise-in-cambodia

New life insurance product launched

Cambodia’s nascent life insurance market grew slightly after Manulife Cambodia launched the Manulife Savings Protector yesterday. Combining savings and protection, it will provide life protection for 10 or 15 years to create an estate for relatives in case of untimely death and offer benefits from ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012120460069/Business/new-life-insurance-product-launched.html

Cambodia’s PM eyes Japanese investment

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen expects the country to attract more Japanese tourists and investors to help improve the country tourism and economy. The PM said last week he was encouraging more Japanese investors and tourists by heightening bilateral ties. “Japan and Cambodia are known for having ...

http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2012/12/cambodias-pm-eyes-japanese-investment/

Malaysia frees 105 foreign maids 'held against will'

Malaysian authorities have freed 105 mostly Indonesian maids who were forced to work without pay by day and held against their will at night, local media reported on Monday. The women were freed Saturday in a raid on a building near the capital Kuala Lumpur where ...

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5igjHnvQyGUIdIgzEXhUZtP2oNyyQ?docId=CNG.cc66d94e22988b53c786d79196923ae9.571

Land activists welcome Hun Sen’s position on outsiders

About 60 land activists including children marched to the Peace Palace Monday to welcome Prime Minister Hun Sen’s position on outside involvement in land disputes. The residents of two property development sites and Thmor Kol community near Phnom Penh International Airport also presented a list of ...

http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NDE0Y2RlZTNlNDVhNDhjMjQ2Mjc5ZDM2ZjUyMTU1

Landmines kill 41 Cambodians, injuring 121 others in 10 months

Cambodia on Monday recorded 162 landmine casualties in the first ten months of this year, down 4 percent from 155 casualties at the same period last year, showed a report from the Cambodian Mine and Explosive Remnants of War Victim Information System. The report said that ...

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-12/03/c_132016467.htm

Vietnamese still Cambodia’s strongest market

Cambodia’s tourism arrivals jumped more than 24 percent during the first ten months 2012, with more than 2.86 million international visitors. A tourism ministry update reported Vietnam as the country’s number one largest source of foreign visitors, with 638,560 tourists followed by South Korea and China, ...

http://www.etravelblackboardasia.com/article/88009/vietnamese-still-cambodias-strongest-market

National Electricity Provider Warns of Dry-Season Power Cuts

The national electricity provider has warned residents in Phnom Penh and in Kompong Speu and Kandal provinces to expect power outages in the coming months as supply would likely fall short of demand throughout the dry season. In a statement issued Friday, Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) ...

http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/national-electricity-provider-warns-of-dry-season-power-cuts-6384/

Two Soldiers Shot Dead by Thai Military After Crossing Border

The Thai military shot dead two Cambodian soldiers from Preah Vihear province on Friday after they crossed illegally into Thai territory to log for luxury rosewood, officials said yesterday. Three soldier based in Choam Ksan district’s Sra Em commune crossed into Thailand’s Sisaketh province to search ...

http://www.cambodiadaily.com

Renewed MAI flights touch down in Cambodia

Myanmar Airways International (MAI) has resumed flights between Yangon and Phnom Penh after a four-month suspension due to low demand. The MAI flight landed at Phnom Penh International Airport at 7:15pm on Saturday. MAI country manager Ye Jhan  told a press conference to cover the flight’s arrival ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012120360047/Business/renewed-mai-flights-touch-down-in-cambodia.html

Four feared dead in Cambodia dam accident

According to Veal Veng district police chief Theang Leng, the incident occurred on Saturday afternoon, apparently after heavy water pressure caused part of the Stung Atay dam’s reservoir to collapse. “Four people are missing. We fear they have drowned but this is not sure yet,” he ...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-03/an-cambodia-dam/4403764

Dam collapse in Cambodia leaves four workers missing

Four workers have gone missing after the collapse of an in-progress hydropower dam in Western Cambodia, apparently due to a leak in the structure. The Associated Press reports that the Saturday collapse occurred at the Stung Atay Hydroelectric Project, a $255-million dollar dam on the Atay ...

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/cambodia/121202/dam-collapse-cambodia-leaves-four-workers-missing

Cambodian, Vietnamese militaries ink deals for quarry, rubber development projects

Cambodian and Vietnamese Defense Ministries on Friday signed two documents relevant to a joint venture for establishing a quarry and a rubber plantation project in Cambodia. According to a document briefed to reporters at the signing ceremony, the two deals included a quarry site establishment in ...

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-11/30/c_132011035.htm

CTH mulls EPL sub-licensing

Cable Thai Holdings (CTH) says it is in talks with leading cable-TV operators and private broadcasters in Cambodia and Laos to grant sub-licence rights to broadcast the English Premier League for three seasons beginning in 2013-14. CTH is a group of more than 300 cable-TV operators ...

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/CTH-mulls-EPL-sub-licensing-30195300.html

Cambodia's inflation lower than 3 pct this year: PM

Cambodia’s inflation rate is expected to be less than 3 percent in 2012 thanks to stable food prices, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Friday. “This year, the inflation will be less than 3 percent, it is low and good if compared to 5.5 percent rate last ...

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2012-11/30/c_132010698.htm

Airports of Thailand eyes Cambodia, Laos

Airports of Thailand (AOT) regards possible co-operation with Myanmar’s Airport Authority as a first step for engaging in airport operations and investment in Laos and Cambodia, the Bangkok Post reported AOT’s acting president, Somchai Sawas-deepon, as saying. ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012113060017/Business/airports-of-thailand-eyes-cambodia-laos.html

Water Festival Vendors in Phnom Penh See Revenue Drop

Provincial authorities have reported an influx of people from Phnom Penh to the provinces over the three-day Water Festival celebration, while vendors who set up shops on Koh Pich in the capital during the holiday said that they had barely broken even. This year saw ...

http://www.cambodiadaily.com

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