Cambodia, Russia to hold 11th Inter-Governmental Commission for Trade, Economic, Scientific, and Technical Cooperation next year
Cambodia and Russia have agreed to organise the 11th Inter-Governmental Commission for Trade, Economic, Scientific, and Technical Cooperation in early 2024. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501374628/cambodia-russia-to-hold-11th-inter-governmental-commission-for-trade-economic-scientific-and-technical-cooperation-next-year/
Cambodian PM reaffirms his success at ASEAN Summit in Jakarta
Cambodian Prime Minister Dr Hun Manet Saturday reaffirmed his successful mission in the 43rd ASEAN Summit and Related Summits in Indonesia. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501357792/cambodian-pm-reaffirms-his-success-at-asean-summit-in-jakarta/
PM pushes for agricultural diversification
Prime Minister Hun Manet yesterday called for efforts to promote agricultural products, especially through diversification, for the betterment of farmers’ livelihoods. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501515572/pm-pushes-for-agricultural-diversification/
Cambodia-China ties in trade, investment, tourism look better: commerce minister
The ties between Cambodia and China in trade, investment and tourism have steadily grown from year to year thanks to good relations between the two countries, Cambodian Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh said Tuesday. “China is one of our key trading partners. The two-way trade volume ...
ICC Angkor-Sambo Prei Kuk Conference focuses on local community conservation and development
The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts has announced that one of the outcomes of the Fourth Intergovernmental Conference on Angkor and Sambor Prei Kuk is to focus on conservation, development and strategic planning for local communities around the Angkor Archaeological Park to support economic ...
Cambodia's SEZ exports expected to hit 1.2 bln USD in 2015
Exports from Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in Cambodia are projected to reach about 1.2 billion U.S. dollars this year, up 87 percent year-on-year, a local English newspaper reported Tuesday, citing figures from the Commerce Ministry.Exports from SEZs totalled 672 million U.S. dollars last year. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6705473/2015/12/15/cambodias-sez-exports-expected-hit-12-bln-usd-2015
Move to increase cross-border trade with Cambodia
THAILAND AND Cambodia will work on strategies next month in a bid to boost bilateral trade by 30 per cent a year over the next five years, while also stimulating more investment in planned special economic zones (SEZs). ...
Petchanet Pratruangkrai
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Move-to-increase-cross-border-trade-with-Cambodia-30273937.html
Foreign tourists to reach 3m in 2023
Tourism leaders remain confident the sector will further rebound in 2023, attracting three million international arrivals. ...
Chhorn Raksmey
https://kiripost.com/stories/foreign-tourists-to-reach-3m-in-2023
COVID-19 crisis pushes Cambodia’s economy to negative growth for the first time, says Ministry
As the global economy continues to reel from the compounded crises of Covid-19 and Ukraine-Russia, Cambodia has not been able to go through them unaffected. The Covid-19 crisis has pushed Cambodia’s economy to negative growth for the first time in 2020 due to a sharp ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501097431/covid-19-crisis-pushes-cambodias-economy-to-negative-growth-for-the-first-time-says-ministry/
NBC, ERIA join hands to develop strategy for green digital finance
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and the Economic Research Institution for ASEAN and East Asia have recently entered cooperation to develop a strategy for green digital finance in Cambodia. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501479400/nbc-eria-join-hands-to-develop-strategy-for-green-digital-finance/
Tourism Sector Faces Dearth of Skilled Labor
With the number of tourists visiting the country increasing rapidly, hotels are coming under strain due to lack of skilled chefs and waiters in the industry, according to hotel managers. In the first six months of 2012, international visitors reached 1.75 million, a 26.8 percent ...
Prices steady in October
Consumer prices in the Kingdom rose about five per cent year-on-year in October, according to the National Institute of Statistics, though they held steady from September. Declining food and fuel prices, along with an appreciating US dollar, were listed as the main reasons for the stabilisation ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011113053042/Business/prices-steady-in-october.html
Japanese to bolster SEZ development
A GROUP of Japanese businessmen yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding with Sonatra Group chairman Sorn Sokna to develop a special economic zone along the Mekong River at the site of the Prey Veng ferry terminals. The ferry service is expected to become redundant when the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013030561750/Business/japanese-to-bolster-sez-development.html
Study: Impacts of ELCs on the forest and livelihoods & SCW's action
On 06 April 2017, Save Cambodia’s Wildlife (SCW) has released a press release on its website about “Study: Impacts of ELCs on the forest and livelihoods & SCW’s action”. In the end of 2016, SCW in cooperation with lecturers from the Royal University of Phnom ...
Save Cambodia's Wildlife
Cambodia Takes Aim at the Dominant Dollar
PHNOM PENH—In its home country, the Cambodian riel has long played second fiddle to the U.S. dollar—but a new stock exchange and government de-dollarization policies could bolster it in coming years, policy makers and experts say. Dollars change hands with greater frequency than riel in the ...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303772904577336784184598356.html
PM says economy to grow by 7 per cent
Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Monday that the Kingdom’s economic growth is forecast to grow at 7 per cent this year, according to news agency reports. “We still maintain our forecast of 7 per cent growth and the latest forecast showed that the inflation rate ...
School director transferred after $30k scandal
Ly Sothea, the director of the National Institute of Business (NIB) at the center of a scandal involving more than $30,000 that was withheld from teachers, was transferred from his position Monday to a new job at the Labor Ministry, though an Education Ministry official ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/school-director-transferred-after-30k-scandal-98383/
Paddy rice farms curb losses from lost land
Cambodian paddy rice production fell only slightly during the first half of this year’s dry season, despite 12,000 hectares of usually productive land deemed unusable due to last year’s floods. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, dry season paddy rice production between December ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/paddy-rice-farms-curb-losses-lost-land
Don’t increase garment workers’ rent, says pm
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday urged landlords not to indiscriminately increase the price of rent in light of the upcoming hike in the wages of garment workers next year. Speaking at the inauguration of the Coca-Cola factory in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone, the ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32799/don---t-increase--garment-workers-----rent--says-pm/
Vehicle registration revving up
The number of registered vehicles surged this year due to rapid economic expansion and rising incomes this year, according to Ministry of Public Works and Transport secretary of state Min Meanvy. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17596/vehicle-registration-revving-up/