Cambodia News: Phnom Penh Post

Property investments take dive
The Phnom Penh Post
Over the nine months, 92 new buildings from five stories and above were built in Phnom Penh and as of 2005 until now, there are 1,084 such buildings. Data from Preah Sihanouk provincial department of Land Management shows that from 2005 to 2016, the ...

Blue wine? A startup in Spain shakes things up
The Phnom Penh Post
Five years ago, a group of university students in Spain's Basque Country decided they wanted to shake up a sector – any sector – but preferably one to do with food or drink. So Imanol, Inigo, Gorka, Aritz and Taig picked the most traditional of them ...

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Court questions marriage scam 'suspects'
The Phnom Penh Post
Tbong Khmum provincial court on Wednesday questioned a husband and wife for conspiring to traffic a Cambodian woman to China through marriage scam. The couple were detained and detained on October 16 in Toul Vihear village, Chiro II commune, ...

Conflict lingers on Paris Accords
The Phnom Penh Post
As the Kingdom prepares to commemorate on October 23 the 27th anniversary of the signing of the 1991 Paris Peace Accords, which ushered in an end to nearly two decades of civil war, there is political conflict on whether the tenets of the agreement are ...

Forest activists decry illegal logging
The Phnom Penh Post
Prey Lang forest activists in Kampong Thom province on Wednesday claimed that illegal logging is continuing unabated, no thanks to local authorities and powerful individuals whom they allege are aiding the perpetrators. While acknowledging that forest ...

PM orders restoration of S'ville beach
The Phnom Penh Post
Director of the Cambodian National Research Organisation (CNRO) Sok Sokhom told The Post on Wednesday that Sophara observed the restoration after a week-long inspection of Praek Treng beach. “After the Minister of Land Management went there for a ...

'Kingdom ready if EBA withdrawn': Ministry
The Phnom Penh Post
A senior Labour Ministry official said a withdrawal of the preferential Everything But Arms (EBA) trade agreement with the EU would not hurt the Kingdom's economy. Ministry spokesman Heng Suor said the government had prepared plans in the event of an ...

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'No more lawyer shortage'
The Phnom Penh Post
Newly elected BAKC president Soun Visal told The Post on October 4 that he was aware of the issue. However, he said lawyer shortages were not a concern anymore. “We have lawyers standing by permanently in court. We have 500 volunteer lawyers in ...

'Trapped in debt bondage'
The Phnom Penh Post
The blood bricks report was released on Tuesday following the sharp rise in Cambodian brick prices in the last year due to growing demand from the rapidly developing coastal town of Sihanoukville and Phnom Penh. Cambodia's construction industry has ...
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Fish species in troubled water
The Phnom Penh Post
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) organised a workshop in the capital on Tuesday, bringing in a number of experts to identify high-priority data needed to tackle the issue of fish migration in the Mekong Basin. USAID Cambodia food ...

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