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R’kiri row no drag on oknha title

The Royal Palace has granted the prestigious title of oknha to politically connected businesswoman Keat Kolney, who has been locking horns for a decade with ethnic Jarai minorities in Ratanakkiri province over hundreds of disputed hectares. Kolney – who is married to Chhan Saphann, an official ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/r%E2%80%99kiri-row-no-drag-oknha-title

Cambodia sees big jump in construction investment in first quarter

Cambodia’s construction sector received a total investment of 851 million U.S. dollars in the first three months of 2014, up 311 percent compared with 207 million U.S. dollars over the same period last year, the official figures showed Thursday. During the January-March period this year, the ...

Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=219820

Cambodia has 960 garment, footwear factories: labor minister

Garment and footwear industry, Cambodia’s largest foreign exchange earner, currently consists of 960 factories, employing some 620,000 workers, labor minister Ith Samheng said Thursday. The sector made a revenue of 5.5 billion U.S. dollars last year, accounting for around 80 percent of the country’s total exports, ...

Asean - China Centre News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2014-04/24/c_133287164.htm

Licadho data ‘not real’: gov’t

The government yesterday accused Licadho of producing wildly misleading figures on land grabs, following the rights group’s announcement earlier this week that land conflicts in Cambodia have affected more than half a million people since 2000. Speaking at a press conference yesterday, Sar Sovan, secretary of ...

May Titthara and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/licadho-data-%E2%80%98not-real%E2%80%99-gov%E2%80%99t

Expansive Sihanoukville property development on schedule for completion in 2017

Representatives of Borey Kuch Asia say the company has injected millions of dollars into an apartment and villa complex in Sihanoukville, and that the project will be completed in 2017, despite political uncertainties. Borey Kuch Asia project manager Tous Sapheoun said the company spent two years ...

Sum Manet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/expansive-sihanoukville-property-development-schedule-completion-2017

Cambodia's construction sector attracts 2.27 bln USD in 9 months

Cambodia’s construction sector has attracted a total investment of 2.27 billion U.S. dollars in the first nine months of 2013, up 24 percent compared with 1.83 billion U.S. dollars over the same period last year, a government report showed Thursday. The report said during the January-September ...

Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-10/31/c_132848042.htm

Cambodia's construction attracts over 2 bln USD investment in 8 months

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) — Cambodia’s construction sector had received a total investment of 2.14 billion U.S. dollars in the first eight months of the year, up 40 percent from 1.53 billion U.S. dollars over the same period last year, a government report showed ...

Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-09/27/c_132755769.htm

Cambodia's construction continues strong growth in H1: minister

Investments in Cambodia’s construction sector have continued to grow sharply in the first six months of the year thanks to sound economic growth and investors’ trust in the country’s political stability, Im Chhun Lim, the country’s Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, said ...

Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/810044.shtml#.Ui69otKBmN8

Another construction worker killed

An 18-year-old man became the third construction worker in three days to be killed on the job after part of a building collapsed on him and three co-workers – including two 15-year-olds – on Monday, police said. Yu Bunrong, from Kampong Cham province’s Koh Sotin district, ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/another-construction-worker-killed

Agreement to boost construction sector

An agreement was signed between Cambodia’s Constructors Association (CCA) and the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction two days ago, to tighten enforcement on construction companies here in making them meet industry standards. The ministry’s head, Im Chhun Lim, said that Cambodia’s construction and ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060366007/Business/agreement-to-boost-construction-sector.html

Villagers fear eviction looms

Villagers who fear eviction from their homes of 30 years in Kratie province travelled to Phnom Penh yesterday to plead for Prime Minister Hun Sen’s intervention. Fifteen representatives of 88 families who live close to Kratie Airport, in Kratie town’s Srei Padav village, said provincial authorities ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013030561741/National/villagers-fear-eviction-looms.html

Slow is good: The real estate market’s slower current growth is better in the long run, experts say

While the Cambodian real estate market has still not fully recovered from its steep decline during the 2008-2009 economic crisis, its slower but steady growth is more sustainable than the rapid ascent seen in the years leading up to the fall, experts say. although growth ...

http://www.etmcambodia.com/viewarticles.php?articlesid=320

Ground broken on Koh Pich for Japan-Cambodia venture

Popular Japanese hotel chain Toyoko Inn has embarked on a joint-investment with Cambodian company OCIC to build a three-star hotel on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich, to cater to the growth of foreign investors and visitors to Cambodia. The groundbreaking ceremony for the 22-storey, 304 unit Toyoko ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/Business/ground-broken-on-koh-pich-for-japan-cambodia-venture.html

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