The Phnom Penh Post

City considers adding more referral hospitals

Phnom Penh City Hall plans to build more referral hospitals in the capital in the coming years as the seven currently in use are nearing capacity, according to Municipal Governor Pa Socheatvong. ...

Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/city-considers-adding-more-referral-hospitals

Vets living on SLC say site lacks clean water

About 30 veterans living in Aphivat Thmey village in Stung Treng’s Samaki commune – on land granted to them as a social land concession (SLC) last year – are pushing authorities to deliver a basic necessity the site lacks: clean water.​ ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vets-living-slc-say-site-lacks-clean-water

Pheapimex ties ‘cause for concern’

Alex Corporation, the firm behind a proposal for an ambitious Mondulkiri mining project, appears to be ultimately owned by ruling party Senator Lao Meng Khin and his wife, Choeung Sopheap, the Post has discovered, a scenario rights groups say should give cause for concern.​ ...

Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pheapimex-ties-cause-concern

Order signals likely end to airport land dispute

The Council of Ministers on Tuesday directed the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA) to submit a confirmation that the city’s airport will not be expanded so that officials can begin issuing land titles to surrounding communities, seemingly signalling an end a long-running land dispute.  ...

Touch Sokha and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/order-signals-likely-end-airport-land-dispute

Chhin chides ministry on ELCs

Deputy Prime Minister Bin Chhin, the Kingdom’s top authority in charge of resolving land disputes, slammed the Ministry of Agriculture over “shameful” irregularities in granting economic land concessions at the Environment Ministry’s annual meeting yesterday.During yesterday’s meeting, Chhin accused the Ministry of Agriculture of granting ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chhin-chides-ministry-elcs

Logging busts persist as tycoon implicated

Two separate timber busts in recent days netted some 300 pieces of illegally transported wood in Stung Treng belonging to a prominent businessman, and several hidden timber stockpiles at a military officer’s Kampong Speu lumberyard. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/logging-busts-persist-tycoon-implicated

Plans spilt for oil refinery

A mysterious cluster of crude oil storage tanks recently constructed on the coast near Kampot are linked to a $400 million project by timber baron Try Pheap to build an industrial park and oil refinery, government officials confirmed yesterday. ...

Kali Kotoski and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/plans-spilt-oil-refinery

Accounting platform seeks funds

The developer of Banhji, a locally developed accounting platform aimed at small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), is in talks with investors to secure funding as part of a plan to expand the application beyond Cambodia. Officially launched in October after a four-month beta testing period, ...

Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/accounting-platform-seeks-funds

Homes wrecked in riverbank collapse

Three houses collapsed into the Mekong River in Kratie’s Chhlong district after a riverbank gave way on Monday amid recent unseasonable heavy rains. Twenty-eight other houses in the predominately Cham village have been pre-emptively dismantled following the collapse, according to Meas Kunmony, district deputy governor. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/homes-wrecked-riverbank-collapse

NEC-run safe zones suggested

A senior member of the Electoral Reform Alliance yesterday appealed for the National Election Committee to be given special jurisdictional powers over certain areas around the country during election campaigns so that it can ensure freedom of assembly. ...

Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-run-safe-zones-suggested

Villagers wary of M’kiri mine project

An environmental impact assessment released on Friday for a $245 million mining project slated to begin operations in Mondolkiri province next year has raised concerns about its potential effects on the environment and local communities. The project, proposed by the Chinese-owned Alex Corporation, would see a ...

Phak Seangly and Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-wary-mkiri-mine-project

Government urged to hasten amendment of investment laws

The government should speed up amendments to its investment laws ahead of two major business conferences set for next year when visiting foreign investors will get first-hand knowledge of the economy, the head of a local business association said yesterday. ...

Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-urged-hasten-amendment-investment-laws

Surprise flooding concerns

Eight provinces experienced flooding yesterday, according to a disaster management official, with hectares of farmland also left damaged as unseasonal heavy rains continue to whip the country. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/surprise-flooding-concerns

Agriculture minister goes on defensive

Agriculture Minister Veng Sakhon yesterday defended his ministry amid complaints by farmers of low yields during dry season, rising costs of production and a lack of markets to sell their produce, saying that other ministries and sectors also shared responsibility. ...

Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/agriculture-minister-goes-defensive

Japanese FDI flows in roads, bridges it built

Japanese investors have sunk over $800 million into the Cambodian economy over the past two decades, with much of this investment coming on the back of concessional aid directed to develop and strengthen the country’s trade and industry capacities, according to data provided on Friday ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/japanese-fdi-flows-roads-bridges-it-built

Dredging plans raise concerns in K Cham

Kampong Cham authorities met with concerned villagers on Friday over a proposed sand-dredging project that some fear could lead to the collapse of their riverbank. More than 220 families living on the riverbank in Tamieng village thumbprinted a petition delivered to provincial authorities requesting that ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dredging-plans-raise-concerns-k-cham

Unions, government consult on new min wage law

The Ministry of Labour met with unions on Friday to gather input on a universal minimum wage law currently being drafted, union representatives and ministry officials confirmed yesterday. “The meeting is a forum for each party to review the draft and provide comments so the ...

Sen David and Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unions-government-consult-new-min-wage-law

App boosting Prey Lang network’s data collection

The number of illegal logging sites discovered within Prey Lang forest between April and July was 14 percent higher than the previous four-month period, according to a report released yesterday by the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) based on data collected with a novel smartphone ...

Cristina Maza and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/app-boosting-prey-lang-networks-data-collection

Chinese firm snaps up $49.2M in local assets

Shanghai-listed Guangzhou Yuetai Group will purchase $49.2 million in assets in Cambodia by buying a 45 percent stake in a local property development firm and a 19 percent stake in a Cambodian import-export company, the company said in a filing yesterday. ...

Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chinese-firm-snaps-492m-local-assets

Cambodia, China to hold exercises

A major eight-day military exercise between Cambodian and Chinese troops will commence today at the Thlok Tasek Military Institute in Kampong Speu’s Phnom Sruoch district. Code named “Golden Dragon”, the manoeuvres will see soldiers from the two countries participating in myriad exercises including emergency road repairs ...

Joey Chua Xue Ting and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-china-hold-exercises

A budding friendship

A more than hour-long meeting between Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, making his first-ever visit to Cambodia, and Prime Minister Hun Sen ended yesterday afternoon with an aide to the premier offering reporters the typical avowals of “cooperation”. But while the state visit – which included ...

Jack Davies and Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/budding-friendship

NGO calls out rangers

The director of an anti-logging NGO has called on the Anti-Corruption Unit to investigate seven government rangers for alleged involvement in forestry crimes in the Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary from February to August this year. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-calls-out-rangers

Agreement to increase cross-border vehicle limit

Cambodia and Thailand will sign a memorandum of understanding on Friday to increase the quota of buses and trucks permitted to cross the border between the two countries, a transport official said yesterday. ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/agreement-increase-cross-border-vehicle-limit

Tourism officials lay out plans for schools

Tourism Ministry officials outlined plans yesterday for two new vocational training facilities for the country’s growing tourism sector. Try Chhiv, deputy director general of the Ministry of Tourism, said the government will build the first school in Phnom Penh with a capacity of 1,000 students, ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tourism-officials-lay-out-plans-schools

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