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Economic Census Sheds Light on Businesses
- 9 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agriculture and fishing / Censuses / Economy and commerce
- Agro-business company / Animal feeds production / Battambang / Battambang Province / bricks / bus transportation / business / Cambodia / Cambodian businesses / casinos / cement / census / Chhay Than / commercial zone / drinking water / economic activities / economic census / Economics / fish sauce / food production / Footwear / garment / garment manufacturing / garments / gold / gold mining / guesthouses / Hotels / hydroelectric / hydroelectric power / hydroelectric power generation / hydroelectric power generation satation / Indonesia / industries / industry / Japan International Cooperation Agency / Japanese aid / Kampong Cham / Kampong Cham procince / Kampot / Kampot Province / Kandal / Kandal p / Kep / Koh Kong / Koh Kong Province / Kompong Cham / Kompong Cham Province / machinery / mining / mining exp0loration / Ministry of Planning / Mondokiri Province / mondolkiri / Oddor Meanchey / Oddor Meanchey Province / Pailin / Pailin Province / Phnom Penh / Planning Minister / Planning Minister Chhay Than / Ratanakiri / Ratanakkiri Province / rice / rice milling / Road construction / rubber / sea transport / sea transportation / Siem Reap / Stung Tren Province / Stung Treng / sugar cane / Takeo / Takeo Province / timber / timber manufacturing / Tourism / transport / Transportation / workers
The Ministry of Planning yesterday released the preliminary results of the 2011 economic census, which found that Cambodia has a total of 503,008 businesses nationwide, of which nearly 20 percent are based in Phnom Penh. The census, which began on March 1 and was financed ...
Teenager Rescued From T&P Training Center
- 8 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Human rights / Social development
- Battambang / Battambang Province / Century Manpower / CLEC / Community Legal Education Center / deputy police chief Prak Saony / domestic servant / education / education center / Hagar / head of Community legal Education center's labor program / Human Rights group / job recruitment agency / Kompong Chhnang / Kompong Chhnang porvince / Kompong Chhnang province deputy police chief Prak Saony / Labor Minister / LICADHO / Malaysian aid / Migrant Workers / migrant workers' rights / Moeun Tola / NGO / Phnom Penh / Police / Prak Saony / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / recruitment / recruitment agency / T&P Co Ltd / training center / underage / underage recruiting / Ung Rithy Group / Vong Sauth / Vong Sauth Labor Minister / workers rights
Police and a human rights group said they rescued a 15-year-old girl from the training center of an overseas job recruitment agency in Kompong Chhnang province on Saturday. A rights worker said two more underage girls had been saved from being sent abroad to work ...
Seized Wood Reported Stolen From R’kiri Park
- 2 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Economy and commerce
- Adhov / Casino / Chou Sopheak / Council of Ministers / Government officials / illegal logging / Keo Chanthan / Kra Nhoung wood / loggers / Lumber / luxury grade / Mine Developer / Pen Bonnar / Ratanakkiri Province / timber / Try Pheap Import Export Company / Virachey National Park / Wood
Seized and then sold wood has apparently been stolen from the Try PHeap Import Export Company which bought the lumber. The wood amounts to approximately 42 cubic meters and is priced at over $37,000. Blame for the theft is being cast everywhere including on the ...
US Cables Say Sesan River Had No Warning System for Floods
- 20 July 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Disasters / Environment and natural resources / Floods
- Cambodia / Dams / Diplomatic Cables / flood / flooding / Floods / hydropower / Ratanakiri / Ratanakkiri Province / sesan / Sesan river / United States of America / US Embassy / USA / Warning system / wikileaks
WikiLeaks has recently released US diplomatic cables that show that the there was no warning system along the Sesan river in Ratanakkiri province for floods in 2007. There have been many complaints by the communities along the river of the floods caused by dams along ...
