The Phnom Penh Post
Deals With China Inked
- 22 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Chinese aid / Economy and commerce / Energy / Energy policy and administration / Generation and distribution facilities / Infrastructure / Non-DAC members / Roads and bridges / Transport and shipping / Transport infrastructure and facilities
- agricultural industry / agricultural produce / Agro-business company / aid / Beijing / Boeung Kak Lake / Cambodia / Cambodian resources / CamGSM / Chen Jian / Chinese companies / Chinese National Development and Reform Commission / Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce / construction / defense / Development / Eang Sophalleth / energy / environmental destruction / Erdo Hongjun Investment Company / exportation / Huawei / Hun Sen’s spokesman / Investment / investment groups / investments / irrigation / Keat Chhon / Kith Meng / Lao Meng Khin / Lao Mong Hay / Leopard Capital / memorandums / mining / Mining projects / Ministry of Economy and Finance / MOU / oil-rich territory / One-China Policy / Phnom Penh / Politburo Standing Committee / power plant projects / Prime Minister Hun Sen / regional trade / regulation / rice exports / roads / Royal Group / Satellite / Scott Lewis / South China Sea / Taiwan / telecommunications / Z-9 helicopters / Zhou Yongkang
Cambodia agreed to acquire Chinese-made Z-9 helicopters for US$195 million in one of 26 memorandums of understanding agreed by the two countries on Saturday. Cooperation was pledged in sectors such as energy, mining, agriculture and road construction, as well as defense spending and aid. The ...
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Tariffs May Prompt Thaicom Move
- 19 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce
- Axiata / Cambodia Capital / Customers / Hello / Hello CEO / Malaysian companies / Mfone / Mfone CEO / Ministry of Post and Telecommunications / mobile operators / price competition / price cuts / Simon Perkins / subscriber market share / Suphajee Suthumpun / Tariffs / Thaicom / Thaicom CEO / Yap Wai Khee
Steep price cuts by mobile operator Hello may prompt Thaicom to sell its majority stake in Mfone, according to investment firm Cambodia Capital. Cambodia Capital claims Hello’s drop in the tariffs it charges customers this year has heavily impacted Mfone’s operations, as well as those ...
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Lakeside Deal Skips Village 1
- 19 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Infrastructure / Land / Rail / Transport infrastructure and facilities
- Boeung Kak Lake / Cambodia / compensation / evictions / Kep Chuktema / Land dispute / Lao Meng Khin’s Shukaku Inc / Ministry of Transport / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh Govonor / Phnom Penh Municipal Hall / Pov Choeurn / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Property tax / real estate development / Sra Chak Commune / sub-decree / Toll Royal Railway / train lines / Village 1 / World Bank
Hundreds of families at Boeung Kak lake would receive land titles next week, Phnom Penh governor Kep Chuktema announced yesterday, but one village has been excluded from the deal that all but ends Phnom Penh’s highest-profile land dispute. At a meeting with about 500 villagers ...
More NGOs Scrutinised
- 19 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce
- Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Australian aid / Battambang / Bridges Across Borders / Businesses / Cambodia / Cambodian Government / civil society / Democracy / development projects / Housing Rights Task Force / Kampot / Koy Kuong / loans / Ministry of Foreign Affairs / ministry officials / NGO Forum / NGOs / Ouch Borith / Phnom Penh / protests / railway rehabilitation project / Royal Group / Sahmakum Teang Tnaut / Secretary of State / Sia Phearum / Sihanoukville / Toll Holdings / transparency
International NGO Bridges Across Borders and umbrella group NGO Forum met yesterday morning with officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who accused both of making “false” and “unfair” claims to the Asian Development Bank about the death of two children relocated by a railway ...
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Accounting for the Bourse
- 17 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Securities exchange (stock market) / Stock market
- ACLEDA / Association of Chartered Certified Accountants / banking / bourse / Cambodia Public Bank / Cambodian Securities Exchange / Canadia Bank / credit ratings / CSX / Dieter Billmeier / Duy Anh / financial experts / governance / Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange / Lucia Real Martin / National Conference on Accountancy / regulation / transparency / Vietnam Securities Cambodia Plc
Financial experts in the Kingdom yesterday called on the banking sector to implement improved corporate governance and increase transparency in order to ensure confidence in companies ahead of trading on the Cambodian Securities Exchange. Banks in the country have been required to publicly disclose financial ...
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Climate Change Considered as Flooding Hits Cambodia
- 15 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agriculture and fishing / Disasters / Environment and natural resources / Floods
- Brian Lund / Cambodia Climate Change Alliance / Climate Change / Crop Failures / flooding / Global Environmental Facility / Kalyan Keo / Kratie Province / Ministry of Environment / Ministry of Water Resources / monsoon rains / National Climate Change Committee / Oxfam / Red Cross / Rice Farming / Takeo Province / Traing District / Tralach Commune / UNDP / United Nations Development Programme
The wet season had come and gone with almost no rain. Despite the best efforts of the farmers from Tralach commune, in Takeo province’s Traing district, widespread crop failures two years ago brought the community to the economic, and dietary, brinkThis week, farmers in Kratie ...
Asean to forge ahead through global crises
- 11 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Trade / Trade policy and regulation
- ASEAN / Boediono / Cambodia / Chang Mai Initiative / Chinese aid / debt crises / Economics / energy / Europe / Exports / Food / foreign investment / free trade / GDP / Global economy / global financial crises / Indian aid / Indonesia / Indonesia Vice President / Indonesian Trade Minister / Japanese aid / labor / Laos / Mari Pangestu / Production / Recession / regional trade / rice / Singapore / South Korean aid / Southeast Asia / stock market / stock markets / Thailand / trade ministers / Unions / United States aid
Southeast Asia needs to push ahead with a regional free trade bloc and policies to cope with global financial crises, Indonesia’s government said yesterday. Indonesia’s Vice President Boediono, addressing trade ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), said it was evident since the ...
Building water links to Vietnam
- 11 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Infrastructure / Transport and shipping / Waterways and ports
- Agricultural Development International / Agricultural Development International Country Manager Tim Purcell / Agriculture & Agri-business / agriculture exporters / agriculture exports / Boats / buyers / Cai Mep / Cai Mep Deepwater Port / Cambodia / Cargo / connecting waterway / consumers / deepwater Port / Dredging / Eang Veng Sun / Eang Veng Sun PPAP Deputy Director General / enabling legislation / European buyers / Exporters / Exports / global shippers / HCMC / Hei Bavy / Hei Bavy Port Director General / Hin Theany / Ho Chi Minh City / Legislation / Mekong / Mekong river / Mitsui OSK Line / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh Autonomous Port / Port Director General / Port Director General Hei Bavy / PPAP / PPAP Deputy Director General / PPAP Deputy Director General Eang Veng Sun / Rail link / rice / rice buyers / Shipments / Sihanoukville / Sihanoukville Port / Tim Purcell / Tim Purcell Agricultural Development International Country Manager / tracking / tracking system / traders / water / water links / waterway
Authorities are planning upgrades to effectively double the capacity of boats travelling from Phnom Penh Autonomous Port to Vietnam, according to port Director General Hei Bavy. A 2009 agreement with Vietnam authorities allows ships travelling down the Mekong from Cambodia to offload at Cai Mep ...
Workers face contract woes
- 11 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- basic rights / benefits / Bonuses / Clark Gard / collective bargaining / Companies / Contracts / employers / Employment / employment contracts / factory / FDC / Fixed-duration Contracts / Garment Industry / Garment Manufacturers’Association / Garment Manufacturers’Association Secretary-General Ken Loo / industrial relations / industry / Ken Loo / Ken Loo Secretary-General of the Garment Manufacturers’Association in Cambodia / labor conditions / Maternity leave / permanent contract / permanent contracts / research / researchers / rights / Secretary-General of the Garment Manufacturers’Association in Cambodia / seniority / seniority bonuses / short-term contracts / Sick leave / Union / union member / Unions / workers / workers rights / working conditions / Yale Law School
The use of short-term contracts by employers in the Kingdom’s garment industry is threatening workers’ rights and could lead to decreased productivity in the sector, researchers said at a meeting yesterday. Following the release of a report by Yale Law School last week based on ...
Protected forest ‘is finished’
- 11 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / National parks and wildlife sanctuaries / Protected forest
- agro-industrial development / agro-industry / An Mady Group Co Ltd / Boeung Per / Boeung Per Wildlife Sanctuary / business / Chhut Vuthy / Chhut Vuthy Director of the Natural Resources Protection Group / concession land / concessions / Development / Director of the Natural Resources Protection Group / Director of the Natural Resources Protection Group Chhut Vuthy / fishing cat / Forest / Government / government-backed appropriation / government-backed appropriations / Hun Sen / Kampong Thom / Kampong Thom Province / Kompong Thom / Kompong Thom Province / Kui / Kui ethnic minority / Kulen Promtep / Kulen Promtep Wildlife Sanctuary / land / Land concessions / Lim Heng / Mekong Rubber Co / Ministry of Environment / Ministry of Environment Secretary of State Thuk Kroeun Vutha / muntjac deer / natural resources / Natural Resources Protection Group / Okhna An Mady / Plantations / Preah Vihear / Preah Vihear Community Network for Action / Preah Vihear Province / Preah Vihear’s Rovieng district / prime minister / private land / Protected land / reclassified / resin / resin trees / resources / Romny / Romny commune / Romny commune of Preah Vihear’s Rovieng district / Rovieng / Rovieng District / Royal Decree / rubber / rubber plantations / Secretary of State at the Ministry of Environment Thuk Kroeun Vutha / Sovanpaum Co / threatened species / Thuk Kroeun Vutha / Thuk Kroeun Vutha Secretary of State at the Ministry of Environment / timber / trees / Try Pheap Import Export Co Ltd / Wildlife Sanctuary
In the latest government backed appropriation of protected land, nearly 20,000 hectares of the Boeung Per wildlife sanctuary have been reclassified as state private land for agro-industrial development. Two sub-decrees, obtained by The Post this week and initialed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on July ...
Bank of India looks ahead
- 11 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce
- Bank of India / Bank of India Chief Manager Sripada Rao / Cambodian market / Economics / Embassy of India / Indian aid / Indian Embassy Phnom Penh / International Business / loans / Mumbai / National Bank of Cambodia / Phnom Penh / Sripada Rao / Standard and Poor
The Bank of India will move to a larger location on Norodom Boulevard, aiming to attract increased business from both Cambodian and Indian clients, said Chief Manager Sripada Rao. The Mumbai, India-based bank first opened in the Kingdom in 2009 headquartered on the capital’s Monivong ...
Petroleum imports surge on economic growth
- 11 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agriculture and fishing
- Bin May Malia / Bin May Malia Marketing Division Manager at PTT / Block A / Cambodia / Chheng Kimlong / Chheng Kimlong Economics lecturer at the University of Cambodia / consumers / Economics / Electricity / emerging economy / Fuel / fuel tax / Gasoline / gasoline prices / Government / government subsidies / import / import figures / imported electricity / imported energy fuel taxes / Imports / industrial production / industry / Ministry of Commerce / Ministry of Commerce statistics / official import figures / oil / oil extraction / Petroleum / petroleum imports / Production / PTT / PTT marketing division manager / PTT marketing division manager Bin May Malia / smuggling / Statistics / subsidies / tax / Taxes / Thai fuel retailer / University of Cambodia / University of Cambodia Economics Lecturer Chheng Kimlong
A resurgent economy and efforts to crack down on smuggling have led to a large increase in petroleum imports, according to experts. Cambodia has imported 756,139 tonnes worth US$692 million in the first half of the year, from 440,607 tonnes worth $296 million in the ...
Tycoon’s dredging tests locals’ patience
- 10 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Industries / Tourism
- Andaet Island / Ban / Bun Leut / Bun Leut Provincial Governor / Cambodia / Council of Ministers / Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan / CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat / Dredging / dredging licence / dredging operation / Dredging operations / eco-resorts / Economics / ecotourism / environment / Governmnet Officials / Hun Sen / industry minister Suy Sem / King of Koh Kong / Koh Kong / Licence / Lim Kean Hor Minister for Water Resources / local environment / Lower Tatai / Ly Yong Phat / LYP Group / Minister for Water Resources / Minister for Water Resources Lim Kean Hor / Ministry of Industry Mining and Energy / NGOs / Pech Siyon / Pech Siyon Koh Kong provincial director department of Industry Mines and Energy / Phay Siphan / Phay Siphan spokesman for the Council of Ministers / poaching / Political Wrangling / prime minister / provincial authorities / provincial governor Bun Leut / Regulations / resorts / Sand / sand dredging / Sand Resource Management Committee / Senator Ly Yong Phat / Singapore Ministry of National Development / Suy Sem / Suy Sem Industry Minister / Tatai river / temporary ban / Tourism / tourism investment / tourism operators / Upper Tatai / villagers / Water Resources Minister
Ruling party senator Ly Yong Phat has defied an order endorsed by the Prime Minster to halt his controversial sand dredging activities on the Tatai river in Koh Kong, prompting authorities to request intervention, documents obtained by The Post reveal. The dredging operation on the ...
World Bank fund halt irks officials
- 10 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Aid and development / Economy and commerce / Multilateral development assistance / World Bank
- aid / aid agencies / aid contributor / aid contributors / alumina mine / Annette Dixon / Annette Dixon World Bank Country Director / bank / Boeung Kak Lake / Boeung Kak lake development / Boeung Kak Lake residents / Cambodia / Cambodian Government / cheap loans / Chinese aid / Chinese embassy / Chinese governmental documents / City Hall records / Contracts / Council of Ministers / Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan / country loans / Development / Embassy of Japan / Erdos / Erdos Hong Jun / Erdos Hong Jun Investment / Erdos Hong Jun Investment Company / funds / Government / Government officials / Governor Kep Chuktema / Housing / housing development / Human Rights / human rights abuses / Human Rights Task Force / Human Rights Taskforce secretariat Sia Phearum / human rights violations / Japanese aid / Japanese Ambassador / Japanese Ambassador Masafumi Kuroki / Japanese Embassy / Kep Chuktema / lakeside residents / land / Land dispute / land disputes / Lao Meng Khin / Lending / loans / local government officials / Masafumi Kuroki / Masafumi Kuroki the Japanese Ambassador / Mondulkiri / Mondulkiri Province / Phay Siphan / Phay Siphan Council of Ministers spokesman / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh municipal Government / Relocation / residents of Boeung Kak lake / rights froups / Senator Lao Meng Khin / Shukaku Inc / Sia Phearum / Sia Phearum secretariat of the Human Rights Task Force / Sihanoukville / suspension of funds / Tep Vanny / UN / United Nations / World Bank / World Bank central management and executive board / World Bank Country Director / World Bank Country Director Annette Dixon
THE government expressed disappointment yesterday with the World Bank’s announcement that it had halted new country loans due to the ongoing land dispute at Boeung Kak lake in Phnom Penh and vowed to raise the issue with the bank’s executive board. “We are very dissatisfied ...
Kith Meng re-elected
- 9 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce
- ANZ Royal Bank / bank / business / businessmen / Cambodia / Cambodian Chamber of Commerce / Cambodian Chamber of Commerce president Kith Meng / foreign investors / governm / Investment / Kith Meng / Kith Meng chairman Royal Group / Kith Meng president of the Cambodian Chamber of Commerce / Mao Thora / Ministry of Commerce Secretary of State / Ministry of Commerce Secretary of State Mao Thora / MobiTel / Nguon Meng Tech / prime minister / Royal Group / Sok Kong / Sokimex Group / Theng Bunma / Toll Royal Railways / wikileaks
PROMINENT businessman Kith Meng was re-elected unopposed yesterday as president of the Cambodian Chamber of Commerce. Kith Meng, the only contender who declared his candidacy for the three-year mandate, received support from all 11 candidates eligible to stand. Kith Meng, who is also chairman and chief ...
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Villagers protest at governor’s home
- 9 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agriculture and fishing
- Disputed Land / evictions / governor / Governor Hun Neng / Kampong Cham / Kampong Cham Province / Kampong Cham's Memot district / Kompong Cham / Kompong Cham Province / Kompong Cham's Memot district / land / Land dispute / Land Law / Memot Rubber Plantation / Memot's Tramoung Commune / Protest / Tramoung commune / villagers
Representatives of 168 families from Kampong Cham’s Memot district staged a protest at the provincial governor’s home yesterday, seeking an intervention on their behalf in an ongoing land dispute with Memot Rubber Plantation. ...
Farmers get permission to cultivate
- 9 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agriculture and fishing
- Battambang / Battambang Province / Battambang Province's Samlot District / crops / Disputed Land / district officials / Farmers / Hen Sophan / Kampong Lpov / Kampong Lpov commune / Kompong Lpov / Kompong Lpov commune / land / land disputes / Military / military official / RCAF / RCAF's Military Region 5 / Royal Cambodian Armed Forces / Samlot / Samlot District / soldiers / Tuy Bun Ly / Tuy Bun Ly deputy commander of RCAF's Military Region 5 / villagers
Farmers who on Sunday said they had been shot at by Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) soldiers for trying to cultivate 390 hectares of disputed land in Battambang province’s Samlot district were granted permission yesterday to plant on some parts of the land, villagers and ...
Forest on the auction block
- 9 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agriculture and fishing / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / National parks and wildlife sanctuaries / Protected forest / Siem Reap
- Adhoc / Adhoc head of land programme Ouch Leng / agricultural development / Agriculture & Agri-business / Anlong Veng / Anlong Veng District / businessmen / Chut Wutty / Chut Wutty director of the Natural Resource Protection Group / compensation / concessions / developing agriculture / Development / diverse species / environment / environmental impact / environmental impact assessments / Forest / forest areas / Government / Hun Sen / illegal loging / Illegal poaching / Kulen Promptep / Kulen Promptep Sanctuary / land / Land concessions / law / leases / logging / Ministry of Environment / Ministry of Environment secretary of state Thuk Kreun Vutha / National Park / Natural Resource Protection Group / Natural Resource Protection Group director Chut Wutty / NGOs / Oddar Meanchey / Oddar Meanchey Province / Oddar Meanchey's Anlong Veng District / Ouch Leng / Ouch Leng head of the land programme at Adhoc / Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary / poaching / Preah Vihear / Preah Vihear Province / prime minister / Private Companies / private firms / reclassified / Siem Reap / Siem Reap Province / state / state private land / Thuk Kreun Vutha / Thuk Kreun Vutha secretary of state at the Ministry of Environment / token crops / villagers / wildlife / Wildlife Sanctuary
Almost 30,000 hectares of a wildlife sanctuary in Oddar Meanchey, Siem Reap and Preah Vihear provinces have been reclassified as state private land for agricultural development, drawing sharp criticism from rights groups. Four sub-decrees signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on July 22 reclassify land ...
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Fashion retail enters the online era
- 8 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce
- boutiques / business / Cambodia / Cambodians / Chinese aid / consumers / Facebook / Fashion / H&E Collection Fashion Shop / Hong Kong / Huat Sok Eng / internet / Khun Keomoly / Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications / Online / online retailing / online shopping / Phnom Penh / retail / retail outlets / retailers / shopping / shopping online / Soursdey Fashion / Technology / website
SOURSDEY Fashion occupies a small shopfront near the Russian Market. It looks similar to many of the small boutiques sprouting up across Phnom Penh, packed with the latest in fashion aimed at young, trendy consumers. But the shop’s business plan differs from that of many ...
Korea trade keeps on climbing
- 8 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce
- agricultural products / bilateral trade / business / Cambodia / cars exports / Commerce Ministry / Commerce Ministry's Department of Statistics and Information / Department of Statistics and Information / Export / export business / Exports / Footwear / garment manufacturing / Gwang-Ho Lee / Gwang-Ho Lee Cambodia Director General KOTRA / import / importers / Imports / Kong Putheara / Kong Putheara director of the Commerce Ministry's Department of Statistics and Information / Korea / Korea Trade Investment Promotion Agency / Korean cars / Korean companies / KORTA / natural rubber / rubber / Seafood / South Korean aid
CAMBODIA’S trade with South Korea grew 38 percent in the first half of 2011 on the same period last year, according to Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KORTA) statistics. The growth is partly due to increasing numbers of South Korean importers seeking business in Cambodia, KOTRA’s ...
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More workers faint at factory
About 50 factory workers fainted on Friday at the Zhen Tai Garment (Cambodia) Co Ltd factory on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, the day after a group of workers fainted at the facility. On Thursday, roughly 30 workers fainted and about 2,000 fled the factory ...
Girl freed from T&P training centre
- 8 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- ACRA / An Bunhak / An Bunhak ACRA President / Association of Cambodian Recruitment Agencies / Battambang / Cambodia / Centaury Manpower / Community Education Legal Centre / Council of Ministers / domestic migrant workers / Human trafficking / Hun Sen / Huy Pich Sovann / Kampong Chhnang / Kompong Chhnang / Malaysian aid / Ministry of Labor / Ministry of Labour / Neak Ban / New Straits Times / Phnom Penh / Police / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Sam Piseth / T&P Co Ltd / training center
The Association of Cambodian Recruitment Agencies will consider kicking its most notorious member, T&P Co Ltd, out of the association if the company is found to have falsified documents to conceal the age of a 15-year-old girl rescued from its training centre last week. ACRA ...
Inflation fuels protest over petrol prices
- 8 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Cambodia / Cambodian National Confederation for Laborers Protection / CNCLP / CNCLP President Sath Chheanghour / factory workers / Food prices / Freedom Park / fuel prices / Government / import tax / Inflation / Keo Remy / Keo Remy chief of spokesmen of the Press and Quick Reaction Unit / New York Mercantile Exchange / Oil prices / Phnom Penh / Press and Quick Reaction Unit / rising petrol prices / Sath Chheanghour
More than 200 factory workers gathered at Freedom Park near Wat Phnom yesterday to urge the government to cut taxes on petrol, saying fuel prices were driving food prices beyond what they could afford. But the government is doing all it can to curb inflation ...
Region’s links crucial
- 5 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Industries / Tourism
- Burma / Cambodia / Chinese aid / Cooperation / Economic growth / GDP / Global Economic Crisis / GMS Railway Coordination Office / Greater Mekong Subregion Ministerial Conference / Infrastructure / Laos / Ministers / Myanmar / Phnom Penh / Rail link / Thailand / Tourism / Transportation links
Improved transportation links will assist further economic growth in the region, as Cambodia’s economy continues to improve, officials said yesterday. Ministers from Cambodia as well as China, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar met yesterday at the 17th Greater Mekong Subregion Ministerial Conference held in Phnom ...
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