900,000 Chinese tourists in 2016
Cambodia last year recorded around 900,000 Chinese tourist arrivals and the kingdom is on track by 2020 to host about seven million foreign tourists, with two million of them coming from mainland China, according to the Tourism Ministry yesterday. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33864/900-000-chinese-tourists-in-2016/
Post-Obama, Hun Sen faces uncertain US policy
If it wasn’t already clear, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday let an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos know how he really felt about Former U.S. President Barack Obama and his administration’s “pivot” to Asia. ...
Colin Meyn
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/post-obama-hun-sen-faces-uncertain-us-policy-123860/
PM offers Myanmar a ‘win-win’
During the inauguration of a pagoda in Prey Veng on Friday, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced he will send several advisers to Myanmar to share lessons from his “Win-Win” policy, which he credits with ending Cambodia’s civil war. ...
Touch Sokha and Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-offers-myanmar-win-win
AMRO forsees stable growth ahead
Cambodia’s economic growth is expected to remain stable this year with inflation rising slightly on increases in the costs of global fuel and food prices, the Asean+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) concluded following its annual consultation visit to the Kingdom. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/amro-forsees-stable-growth-ahead
Tbong Khmum residents evacuated as Mekong floods moves south
Hundreds of riverside families in Tbong Khmum province were on Monday evacuated away from the flooding Mekong River, even as the provinces hit hardest by tropical storm ‘Sonca’ last week returned to normalcy and evacuees shuffled back to their homes. ...
Okhna owns land at site of illegal Koh Kong mangrove filling, contract shows
A section of protected mangrove forest in Koh Kong that in December was discovered to have been filled with sand was illegally sold to tycoon Chea Leanghong in 2017, documents show, with local authorities having signed off on the deal. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/okhna-owns-land-site-illegal-koh-kong-mangrove-filling-contract-shows
Canada praises progress in factory labour conditions
Donica Pattie, Canada’s Ambassador to Thailand, Cambodia and Laos, on Friday lauded Cambodia’s recent advancements in factory labour conditions, which she said might prompt Canada to increase purchases from Cambodian textile manufacturers, according to a high-ranking Cambodian official. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50114733/canada-praises-progress-in-factory-labour-conditions/
UAE- Lubna Al Qasimi heads Trade delegation to Cambodia and Thailand
Sheikha Lubna Bint Khalid Al Qasimi, Minister of Foreign Trade will lead a delegation on Monday to Cambodia and Thailand to discuss strengthening trade and investment ties with these countries. The delegation also included officials and representatives from national institutions and companies. ...
SL factory owners deny agreement
Just as a solution to a two-week-long dispute at two SL Garment factories seemed over on Saturday, the company’s owner issued a statement refusing to recognise an agreement that had lured more than 5,000 employees back to work. ...
Damco expands operations
Alongside growing Cambodian exports, Danish logistics company Damco opened a second CFS warehouse facility in Phnom Penh yesterday. The 10,500-square-metre facility, on National Road 4, brings the company’s total warehousing capacity in Cambodia to 16,500 square metres. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013040564905/Business/damco-expands-operations.html
China provides 300 biodigesters to Cambodian households
The Chinese government signed to provide 300 biodigesters to Cambodian households on Monday, officials said. Sar Chetra, deputy secretary general of the Cambodian Ministry of Agriculture, signed to receive the donation from Song Xiaoguo, economic councilor at the Chinese Embassy in Cambodia. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-06/16/c_133411168.htm
Interior Ministry says no to campaign demonstrations
Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak said yesterday that the government will not let opposition leader Sam Rainsy dodge a government ban on public gatherings by holding mass demonstrations during the campaign period before the May 18 district, provincial and city council elections. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/interior-ministry-says-no-to-campaign-demonstrations-55530/
Labor unions, associations not allowed to celebrate Labor Day at Freedom Park
Phnom Penh City Hall has refused labor unions and associations to celebrate 128th International Labor Day (May 1) at Freedom Park. The decision was made during a meeting on Thursday between representatives of labor unions, association and Phnom Penh City Hall officials. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=YzFjZmRmZjg4ODE
Tax hike cuts slaughterers’ profit
Almost 50 livestock slaughterers in Preah Vihear town yesterday protested a rise in taxes and fees they must to pay on their products. Pin Raksmey, chief of the committee at Kampong Pranak market, said that the problem was out of his hands. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tax-hike-cuts-slaughterers%E2%80%99-profit
China dam discharges in Mekong
A large-scale hydropower dam in China began releasing a deluge of water from its overfilling reservoir on Friday, leaving downstream neighbours to fear imminent inundation. ...
Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/china-dam-discharges-mekong
Hun Sen to attend summit in China this weekend
Prime Minister Hun Sen will lead a delegation to attend the Dialogue on Strengthening Connectivity Partnership and the APEC CEO summit to be held from 7-9 November in Beijing, China, according to a press release issued by Ministry of Foreign Affairs Monday. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/hun-sen-to-attend-summit-in-china-this-weekend-7599
46 killed and 197 wounded during Water Festival holidays
46 people were killed, and 197 others were injured in road accidents from 4-8 November 2014, up from 29 killed and 117 injured over the same period last year, according to a report of General Commissariat of National Police on Monday. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/46-killed-and-197-wounded-during-water-festival-holidays-7630
Girl killed by UXO explosion in Kompong Speu
A 10-year-old girl was killed instantly when a piece of unexploded ordinance (UXO) detonated under the heat of a brush fire in in Kompong Speu province’s Oral district on Sunday afternoon, her commune chief said Monday. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/girl-killed-by-uxo-explosion-in-kompong-speu-77256/
RCAF brigade accused
Three villagers from Oddar Meanchey province’s Trapaing Prasat district were illegally detained and beaten on Monday by a group of soldiers from the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces’ Number 6 Brigade over a land dispute, victims and rights group Adhoc said yesterday. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/rcaf-brigade-accused
US congressional delegation wraps up Cambodia visit
A US delegation led by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic House minority leader, wrapped up two days of meetings in Cambodia on Tuesday, having met with Prime Minister Hun Sen and key rights and democracy workers. ...
Sok Khemara
http://bit.ly/1BNvKsC