The Phnom Penh Post
Factory for Nissan cars, parts proposed
A Malaysian automotive company has requested approval to establish a factory in Cambodia to assemble Nissan automobiles and manufacture spare parts for the vehicles, a government official said yesterday. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/factory-nissan-cars-parts-proposed
Government needs $620M to cope with climate: org
Cambodian ministries are currently facing a $620 million funding shortfall if they are to implement their climate change adaption action plans by 2018, according to figures announced by NGO Forum at a press conference yesterday. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-needs-620m-cope-climate-org
Voter registration drive falls behind schedule
Voter registration has fallen far behind schedule over the past two weeks, with enrolment dropping to just 30,000 a day from a target of 100,000, according to official figures, leaving more than 2 million Cambodians at risk of not registering to vote in time. ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/voter-registration-drive-falls-behind-schedule
UN backs local OHCHR office in dispute
The United Nations is standing behind Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) country representative Wan-Hea Lee after a letter signed by Foreign Minister Prak Sokhon accused her of failing to respect Cambodia’s sovereignty. ...
Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-backs-local-ohchr-office-dispute
Preah Vihear officials charged in graft case
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court charged two officials from the Preah Vihear mines and energy department with corruption yesterday, with a former colleague linking the charges to an illicit 2014 land sale. ...
Phak Seangly and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-officials-charged-graft-case
Prison rates soaring in Cambodia
Cambodia’s incarceration rate has doubled in the past 10 years, according to statistics obtained from the General Department of Prisons. Department spokesman Nouth Savna said that in 2006 there were just 9,634 people behind bars; as of earlier this week, that figure had increased 125 ...
Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prison-rates-soaring-cambodia
Spectrum licences up for grabs
The government announced yesterday that it will hold its first public auction for 4G spectrum frequencies, with two licences up for bid on frequencies reassigned after their original licence-holders failed to utilise them. ...
Kali Kotoski and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/spectrum-licences-grabs
T-Shop eyeing growth with plan for IPO
T-shop Cambodia, a Phnom-Penh based electronics distributor, is planning an aggressive push into the provinces through company-owned and franchise outlets, and will look to raise capital for expansion by offering shares on the local stock exchange, the company’s CEO said yesterday. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/t-shop-eyeing-growth-plan-ipo
Back home, hostages tell of time in captivity
Four Cambodian fishermen released by Somali pirates last month recounted their ordeal at a press conference hosted by NGO Caritas yesterday. Khorn Vanthy, 26, from Kampong Cham; Kin Kemhen, 33, of Kratie; and Em Phoum Many, 33, and Nhem Soksan, 33, both from Kampong Chhnang, spent ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/back-home-hostages-tell-time-captivity
PM: Cambodia on track for high-income status
Extolling forecasts that Cambodia’s economy will maintain its 7 percent growth rate this year, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday reiterated a past prediction that the country would reach upper-middle income status by 2030 and become a high-income country in 2050 – though one expert said ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-cambodia-track-high-income-status
New guidelines on impact assessments almost ready
Civil society groups are getting closer to unveiling a new set of guidelines that will change how the impact of big development projects is assessed across the Mekong region, NGOs said yesterday, following the end of a two-month public consultation period. ...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-guidelines-impact-assessments-almost-ready
Chroy Changvar residents stop OCIC fence layers
About 10 villagers from Chroy Changvar district’s Prek Tasek commune stopped workers of a development firm from clearing their land to build a fence demarcating a planned satellite city. Commune resident Chheng Heak said six workers from the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC), which is developing ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chroy-changvar-residents-stop-ocic-fence-layers
Tobacco turns over a new leaf
Agriculture officials and struggling smallholder tobacco farmers are cautiously hopeful that tariff exemptions granted under a new trade agreement with Vietnam will lift sagging demand for their crops. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tobacco-turns-over-new-leaf
Annual cold spell on the way: weather official
Ministry spokesman Mao Hak said yesterday that seasonal rains are expected to taper off in mid-November, with cooler winds sweeping into the Kingdom from Siberia and Tibet, promising a “winter” even cooler than last year’s, in which some areas saw temperatures as low as 18 ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/annual-cold-spell-way-weather-official
Aquaculture pushed for women
A project in Stung Treng province is giving women the opportunity to participate in one of the fastest-growing food-production sectors in Cambodia: aquaculture fisheries – a field that has also traditionally been among its most male-dominated. ...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/aquaculture-pushed-women
ANZ to remain in local market?
The chief executive of ANZ Royal Bank has denied media reports that the Australian and New Zealand Bank Group (ANZ) is considering pulling the plug on its Cambodian operations amid a planned retreat from the region’s markets. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/anz-remain-local-market
Cambodia at ‘high’ risk of Zika outbreak in 2017
Amid reports of the emergence of the Zika virus in Myanmar and the discovery of the first birth defect believed linked to the virus in Vietnam, two researchers with Phnom Penh’s Pasteur Institute have concluded that Cambodia is at high risk of its own Zika ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-high-risk-zika-outbreak-2017
Hometown of Samrin not in swap: gov’t
Minister in Charge of Border Affairs Var Kimhong yesterday moved to quash the latest outbreak of rumours that National Assembly President Heng Samrin’s native village of Thlok Trach would be given to Vietnam in a land swap. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hometown-samrin-not-swap-govt
Three forex giants hold sway
A recent study on the role of Cambodia’s moneychangers found that three private forex traders control two-thirds of the total demand for riel currency and exert more influence on foreign currency exchange rates than the central bank, raising the possibility of collusion in fixing rates. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/three-forex-giants-hold-sway
Minister calls for higher standard for road work
Minister of Public Works and Transport Sun Chanthol yesterday ordered his officials to keep a close eye on a new $1.3 million project to widen National Road 4 in Preah Sihanouk province in order to halt criticism of shoddy road quality and corruption in his ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-calls-higher-standard-road-work
US envoy’s appeal won’t spur negotiations: CPP
Prime Minister Hun Sen has no plans to negotiate with his Cambodia National Rescue Party counterparts, a ruling party spokesman reiterated yesterday, following calls for intra-party talks last week by a senior US diplomat. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-envoys-appeal-wont-spur-negotiations-cpp
Prey lang activists ‘assaulted’ in Kratie
Three members of the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) were attacked in Kratie province on Thursday by men believed to be involved in illegal logging, PLCN activists said yesterday. ...
Touch Sokha and Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prey-lang-activists-assaulted-kratie
Chroy Changvar locals reject city’s ultimatum
About 40 Chroy Changvar peninsula residents yesterday held a press conference rejecting City Hall’s two-month ultimatum to part with most of their land or accept below-market rates to make way for a planned satellite city. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chroy-changvar-locals-reject-citys-ultimatum
Betel nut use raises risk of oral cancer six-fold: study
Cambodian betel nut chewers are six times more at risk of contracting potentially malignant oral cancers, according to a new report. The study surveyed 1,634 people in Phnom Penh, Kampot, Kampong Cham, Pursat and Stung Treng and found that 54 percent had oral lesions – white ...
Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/betel-nut-use-raises-risk-oral-cancer-six-fold-study