Indigenous people in Cambodia play vital role in organic rice production development
Indigenous people play a very vital role in the development of safe (organic) agricultural products and sustainable, according to Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF). ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50912652/indigenous-people-in-cambodia-play-vital-role-in-organic-rice-production-development/
NBC Director General Chea Serey says SMEs play an important role in supporting economic growth and improving people’s livelihoods
Ms. Chea Serey, Director General of the National Bank of Cambodia, has highlighted the importance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that have contributed significantly to supporting the national economic growth and helping the livelihood of people living in rural areas. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50993730/nbc-director-general-chea-serey-says-smes-play-an-important-role-in-supporting-economic-growth-and-improving-peoples-livelihoods/
PM: SMEs still plays crucial role in bolstering national economy
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet paid high attention to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) as it contributed to enhancing the national economy. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501444255/pm-smes-still-plays-crucial-role-in-bolstering-national-economy/
Pokémon go warning in temple complex
The Apsara Authority has called on tourists playing Pokémon Go to be careful when playing in the Angkor Archaeological Park and to respect all signs in the temples. Due to concerns over potential accidents happening to those playing the game, the Apsara Authority issued a statement ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28765/pok--mon-go-warning-in-temple-complex/
Oxfam urges NGOs to mull exit strategies
Oxfam International, one of the first aid groups to work in Cambodia post-Khmer Rouge, has urged the hundreds of international NGOs (INGO) still operating in the country to consider their future roles and possible exit strategies. Speaking at the launch of two new research reports yesterday ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/oxfam-urges-ngos-mull-exit-strategies
Vietnam-Cambodia Friendship Association plays important role in fostering both countries’ relations
Vietnam-Cambodia Friendship Association has been playing an important role in building the closer ties between the people of the two countries through various activities, including visit and cultural exchanges, youth-women-businessperson relationship promotion, humanitarian activities, and mutual support in preventing COVID-19. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501406116/vietnam-cambodia-friendship-association-plays-important-role-in-fostering-both-countries-relations/
Two Years In, Kampot Casino Downsizes
The Ha Tien Vegas Entertainment Resort and casino in Kampot Province along the Vietnamese border announced yesterday that it has sacked 500 employees and shut down its 130-room resort less than two years after it became the first casino to open in the province. The company said ...
Diplomats Continue Writing Letters of Complaint Over Asean
Nearly two months after the 45th Asean Foreign Ministers Meeting concluded with ministers failing to issue a joint communique for the first time in the block’s history, Cambodia remains on the defensive, this week disseminating yet another agressive letter to the editor of a regional newspaper. In a ...
Telco Axiata strengthens regional hold, controls 34% of Cambodian market post-acquisition
Being one of the biggest Asian telecommunications companies with operations across ten countries, Axiata Group Bhd has flexed its muscles to firm its grip on the Cambodian market After the acquisition of its rival Latelz Co Ltd, the second-largest mobile operator with a 21% market share ...
http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/12/17/business/12469671&sec=business
DPM of Cambodia says China plays crucial role in country’s socioeconomic, infrastructure development
Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn said on Monday that China has played a crucial role in supporting the country’s socioeconomic and infrastructure development. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501331308/dpm-of-cambodia-says-china-plays-crucial-role-in-countrys-socioeconomic-infrastructure-development/
Investment Or Imperialism? Tracking China's Big Ambitions In Cambodia
A few years ago this scene would have played out in China. More specifically, it would have played out in a Chinese coastal region to which millions of rural folks had arrived looking for work. A huge hangar, piles of fabrics of all colors at both ...
Voice of America planning to discuss buying air-time
Voice of America (VOA) has contacted Beehive Radio FM 105 and Radio FM 102 to discuss buying air-time to broadcast again, they said. VOA had recently received approval from the Minister of Information to go on air. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/voice-america-planning-discuss-buying-air-time
Economy to contract for the first time since conflict ended
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has predicted Cambodia’s 2020 Gross Domestic Product will contract by -1.7 percent this year in line with a global contraction of -3.0 percent. The reduction in GDP represents an economic downturn the world has not seen since the Great Depression, ...
Harrison White
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50713591/economy-to-contract-for-the-first-time-since-conflict-ended/
E-wallet payments nine times GDP: NBC
E-payment trends in Cambodia have significantly consolidated in recent years as more and more people transition from cash-based to digital transaction options, the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) reaffirmed in a recent report. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/e-wallet-payments-nine-times-gdp-nbc
Cambodia low on energy ranking
Low electrification rates and over-dependence on fossil fuel imports have contributed to Cambodia’s abysmally low ranking in the new World Economic Forum’s Global Energy Architecture Performance Index Report for 2014. Cambodia ranked 120 out of 124 nations, with a so-called Energy Architecture Performance Index (EAPI) score ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-low-energy-ranking
Maid Talk Premature: Ministry
The Ministry of Labour has played down reports it is close to sending domestic workers to Singapore, a country that has only recently granted foreign maids a weekly day off. The two countries’ governments had been in talks with Singapore’s Association of Employment Agencies about placing ...
‘Plenty of food’ for Cambodians during uncertain COVID times
A government ministry has reassured the public that there is no need to panic over potential food shortages amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50707165/plenty-of-food-for-cambodians-during-uncertain-covid-times/
Race against time for Chinese approval of longan shipments
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the Pailin Longan Association (PLA) are fast-tracking negotiations for market access to China in a race against time to reach a prompt and meaningful resolution to the plight facing longan growers before peak harvest season. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/race-against-time-chinese-approval-longan-shipments
NGO school calls for financial aid in these hard times
The Peoples Improvement Organization (PIO) has called for public donations to support more than 1,000 students studying full time from Kindergarten to Grade 12, amid the current financial crisis. ...
Mao Chanvireak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50922255/ngo-school-calls-for-financial-aid-in-these-hard-times/
Obama Urged to Address Rights Issues During Cambodia Visit
Some of the U.S.’ most senior lawmakers are urging Barack Obama to speak out on what they called Cambodia’s deteriorating human rights situation when the U.S. president makes what will be the first visit to the country by a sitting American leader later this month. ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/obama-urged-to-address-rights-issues-during-cambodia-visit-5555/