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New hall inaugurated at airport in capital
Cambodia Airports, a company majority-owned by France’s Vinci Group, officially inaugurated its $26 million new arrivals hall and the extension of its boarding concourse yesterday at the Phnom Penh International Airport. ... ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-hall-inaugurated-airport-capital
Airports operator looks to expand
- 31 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Airports and air travel / Economy and commerce / Exports / Imports / Infrastructure / Investment / Siem Reap / Trade / Transport and shipping / Transport infrastructure and facilities
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While Cambodia Airports, of which France-based Vinci Group is major stakeholder, sees tourist numbers taking off, eviction issues are gnawing at the company’s image. Emmanuel Menanteau, chief executive of Cambodia Airports, talked to the Post’s Sarah Thust about the expansion plans. How many tourist arrivals do ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013053165965/CEO-Talk/airports-operator-looks-to-expand.html
Cambodia Plantations Not IFC’s First Controversy
- 14 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Rubber / Sihanoukville / Sugar
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In the wake of a new report from environmental rights group Global Witness rebuking the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Deutsche Bank for investing in rubber plantations accused of illegal logging and forced evictions, both institutions have denied responsibility and deflected the blame ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-plantations-not-ifcs-first-controversy-23793/
Cambodia Airports Comes Under Attack by a Former Executive
- 8 April 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Airports and air travel / Economy and commerce / Industries / Infrastructure / Investment / Judiciary and courts / Siem Reap / Sihanoukville / Tourism / Transport and shipping / Transport infrastructure and facilities
- Agence des Participations de l’Etat / APE / APE commissioner David Azema / Arbitration Council in France / Berenegere Batiot / Cabinet Minister Sok An / Cambodia Airport owner Kong Triv / Cambodia Airports / Cambodia Airports CEO Emmanuel Menanteau / Cambodia Airports Communications Director Khek Norida / Cambodia Airports operation / Cambodia Airports owner Hann Khieng / Cambodia Airports revenues / Cambodia Airports Secretary-General Philippe Laurent / Campaign against Cambodia Airports / Company disputes / Corporate governance / Cyprus / David Azema / Department of Hauts-de-Seine / Department of Loire Atlantique senator Ronan Dantec / Deportation / Doctor Jekkil / Europe / Eva Joly / Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy / France’s external intelligence agency / France’s Green Party former presidential candidate Eva Joly / France’s Ministry of Economy / France’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs / French Ambassador Serge Mostura / French Consulate Daniel Maizierre / French defense company Thales / French Embassy / French Embassy in Phnom Penh / French military electronics maker Thales / French senator Ronan Dantec / Government of Taiwan / Grand Loge Nationale Francaise Freemansons / Hann Khieng / Hun Sen / ILS / Instrument Landing System / International Court of Arbitration / Kang Keng Airport / Khek Norida / Kompong Chhnang / Kompong Chhnang Province / Kong Triv / l’Humanite / Le Monde former editor / Lebanon / Malaysian aid / MEB Construction Sdn Bhd / Mediapart / Ministry of Interior / Money laundering / Moscow / Muhibbah / Muhibbah Engineering Berhad / Muhibbah Masteron / Nicolas Notebaert / Nicolas Sarkozy / Offshore accounts / Paris / Parisian department of Hauts-de-Seine / Patrick Devedjian / Philippe Laurent / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh International Airport / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Procurement irregularities / Ronan Dantec / Russia / Saint Petersburg / SCA / Serge Mostura / Siem Reap / Siem Reap International Airport / Siem Reap Province / Sihanouk Ville / Sihanoukville airport / Sihanoukville province / Sihanoukville Town / Society Concessionaires Des Aeroports / Sok An / Stefan Motschmann / Taiwan / Taiwanese navy captain Ying Ching-feng / Thai office of Bouygues / Thales / Thales Sale Manager Stefan Motschmann / Thales Southeast Asia Sale Manager / tourism industry / UMP / Vinci / Vinci Airports president Nicolas Notebaert / Vinci Construction Grands Projects Sdn Bhd / Vinci Group / Vinci Group direction generale de la Securite Exterieure / whistleblower / Workplace harassment / World Bank / World Bank-financed contract / Ying Ching-feng
Philippe Laurent became secretary-general of Cambodia Airports in May 2008. He was one of six senior executives in charge of the country’s international airports in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and the little-used facility in Sihanoukville. ... Mr. Laurent is now carrying out a one-man campaign against ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/selected-features/cambodia-airports-comes-under-attack-17727/
