Tag Archives: vietnamese
Key Vote on Mekong Dam Expected Next Month
As Southeast Asia copes with some of the worst flooding in decades, there are also worries over the environmental impact of a series of new hydroelectric dams now under construction. Continue reading
Posted in Khmer newspaper
Tagged bangkok, cambodia, dams, delta, environmental, food, mekong, mekong-delta, mekong-river, news, project, rice, sea, vietnam, vietnamese
Leave a comment
Financial planning: Vietnamese bank targets rural clients
Financial planning SACOMBANK yesterday announced the launch of its new subsidiary, the 100 per cent foreign-owned Sacombank Cambodia Plc, which is set to target the Kingdom’s rural population. The Vietnamese commercial bank plans to open branches throughout the country’s provinces to provide banking services to a larger cross-section of Cambodia, Sacombank Cambodia vice president Nguyen Minh Tam told the Post yesterday. “We plan to focus on different customers to other banks and many kinds of sectors, but we’ll focus especially on SMEs in the provinces,” he said Continue reading
Posted in Khmer newspaper
Tagged after-receiving, bank, business, countryside, kingdom, provinces, sacombank, the-countryside, under-the-legal, vietnam, vietnamese
Leave a comment
IMF sees chances to grow
Photo by: Mai Vireak New International Monetary Fund resident representative for Cambodia Faisal Ahmed speaks to Post reporters in Phnom Penh yesterday. Rising production costs in countries like China and Vietnam may soon give rise to higher-value manufacturing in Cambodia, as investors are drawn to the Kingdom’s favourable business environment, the International Monetary Fund’s newest resident representative for Cambodia said yesterday. Continue reading
Posted in Khmer newspaper
Tagged business, cambodia, cambodia-faisal, chinese, development, international, japanese, monetary-fund, phnom, phnom-penh, vietnamese
Leave a comment
Tribunal Only Part of Answer to Trauma: Author
[Editor’s note: “Cambodia’s Hidden Scars” is an study of the trauma inflicted by the Khmer Rouge and its current manifestation in Cambodian society. It was published by the Documentation Center of Cambodia to promote healing some of the psychological damage brought on by the violence of the regime. Co-author Beth Van Schaack, a professor at Santa Clara University’s School of Law, specializes in transitional justice and international law and human rights. Continue reading
Posted in Khmer newspaper
Tagged cambodia, children, country, donor, government, khmer rouge issues, mental-health, nature, person, research, university, vietnamese
Leave a comment
Kingdom set for IT growth over next decade
Cambodia’s information technology sector is looking to leapfrog its current capacities in the next decade as the Kingdom chases other countries in the region, industry experts say. As much as 40 per cent of the country could be online within 10 years, Dell general manager of Indochina Ano-thai Wettayakorn told the Post last week Continue reading
Posted in Khmer newspaper
Tagged business, cambodia, consumer, countries, digital, government, Internet, kingdom, microsoft, per-cent, sofitel, the-government, vietnam, vietnamese
Leave a comment
Bird Flu Deaths Up; No New Strain Detected
Health officials in Cambodia say they have so far not detected a new strain of the bird flu virus that appeared recently in Vietnam. Bird flu, or avian influenza, has killed at least eight Cambodians so far this year, and the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization warned Cambodian authorities in August that a new strain in Vietnam had the potential of crossing into Cambodia Continue reading
Posted in Khmer newspaper
Tagged health, hospitals, ministry, news, niece, numbers, public-health, source, vietnam, vietnamese, virus, world, year
Leave a comment
Sam Rainsy Sentence Slightly Reduced in Map Case
The Cambodian Court of Appeals on Tuesday reduced by three years the prison sentence for exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy on criminal charges of disinformation. Sam Rainsy was facing a 10-year sentence for allegedly publishing a map of the border with Vietnam in 2009 that the government said was fraudulent Continue reading
Posted in Khmer newspaper
Tagged appeals-court, cambodia, cambodian, cambodian-court, country, government, opposition, rainsy, said-the-party, the-government, vietnam, vietnamese
Leave a comment