Ananth Baliga

Aug 13, 2024 | asia.nikkei.com | Ananth Baliga

PHNOM PENH -- The Cambodian government has quietly defused tensions with France's Vinci over the erosion of its aviation monopoly in Phnom Penh by granting the company rights to manage the city's new Chinese-built international airport, due to open next year. Through a joint venture, the French company took over the running of Phnom Penh International Airport in 1995 and then subsequently also assumed control over airports in Siem Reap and Sihanoukville.

Jul 10, 2023 | kamnotra.io | Ananth Baliga

Millions of dollars were set aside to pay for Prime Minister Hun Sen’s global meetings, while more than 1,000 workers received state compensation for companies abandoning their operations in Cambodia, book 78 of the Royal Gazette shows. The gazette’s book No. 78 for 2022, publicly released by the Council of Ministers on May 17, compiles an assortment of 46 government documents signed from July 5 to December 27.

Jul 10, 2023 | kamnotra.io | Ananth Baliga

Kampong Speu Sugar, run by the wife and son-in-law of ruling-party Senator Ly Yong Phat, received a new permit to open a factory in Aural district, according to the Royal Gazette. In a prakas signed by the Ministry of Industry on June 6, 2022, and released in the Royal Gazette in May this year, Kampong Speu Sugar, represented by Kim Heang, received a permit to open a factory producing sugar, fertilizer, ethanol and other alcohols in Aural district’s Trapeang Chour commune.

Feb 3, 2023 | vodenglish.news | Ananth Baliga

Some 40 villagers blocked a national road in Preah Sihanouk this week, lighting smoking fires and wielding sticks in front of authorities in a land dispute in an area that has seen prior violence and conflicting claims among military and powerful individuals. Officials were reluctant to elaborate on the details of the dispute, however, not naming the company involved and suggesting the protesters had dropped in from out of town.

Jan 29, 2023 | vodenglish.news | Ananth Baliga

Phnom Penh police demoted a traffic officer after he chased down an online seller’s Range Rover over unclear reasons after working hours, sparking a widely shared social media complaint. The municipal police said in a statement issued Thursday that around 2 a.m. on January 19, Chim Salin pursued a black SUV from the Chamkarmon traffic light. The statement said the chase was at high speed, but did not clarify whether the Range Rover had been speeding.