General Department of Customs and Excise earns more than $564 million in Q1
The General Department of Customs and Excise (GDCE) has collected $564.1 million as custom income in the first three months of this year, a decline of 5.2 percent compared to the same period of 2022. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501273118/general-department-of-customs-and-excise-earns-more-than-564-million-in-q1/
NEC begin campaign training as nat’l election approaching
The National Election Committee is running a May 2-3 training session on election campaigning, said NEC deputy secretary-general and spokesman Som Sorida. ...
Sem Pisey
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-begin-campaign-training-natl-election-approaching
CSX breaks another record-high trading value in 2022
The Cambodia Securities Exchange broke another record-high trading value for two consecutive years in 2022, as it received seven listings, an increase by 2.5 times over 2021. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501221450/csx-breaks-another-record-high-trading-value-in-2022/
Health Ministry aims to reduce blindness to 0.35% of populace by 2030
The Ministry of Health announced an updated roadmap for the management of blindness and its prevention. The plan aims to reduce blindness among the populace to 0.35% from the present rate of 1.2% by 2030. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501404753/health-ministry-aims-to-reduce-blindness-to-0-35-of-populace-by-2030/
Cambodia seeks 1.7 billion SDR loan for development projects
Cambodia has unveiled ambitious plans to secure a loan of 1.7 billion in Special Drawing Rights (SDR), or $2.3 billion, in 2024 for the development of key sectors. ...
Thang Sinorn
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-seeks-17-billion-sdr-loan-for-development-projects
PM to hold meeting to review Pentagonal Strategy
Prime Minister Hun Manet is scheduled to chair the Plenary Session of the Council of Ministers, which will be held on February 2, to review the implementation of the seventh mandate government’s Pentagonal Strategy. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501429291/pm-to-hold-meeting-to-review-pentagonal-strategy/
Cambodia welcomes 5.4 million foreign tourists in 2023
Cambodia attracted some 5.43 million international tourists in 2023, a sharp increase of 139 percent from 2.27 million in 2022, the Ministry of Tourism pointed out in a report on Friday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501426346/cambodia-welcomes-5-4-million-foreign-tourists-in-2023/
Kingdom records 23 percent rise in foreign tourist arrivals in Jan-April
Cambodia received 2.11 million foreign tourists in the first four months this year, up 23 percent compared to the same period last year, a Ministry of Tourism report showed on Monday. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501507656/kingdom-records-23-percent-rise-in-foreign-tourist-arrivals-in-jan-april/
Agricultural policy and administration
Agriculture in Cambodia accounts for approximately 56% of the labour force. The size of the sector means that policies developed here have a significant impact on the whole country. Agricultural policy and administration is managed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF). There ...
Types of state-protected areas
Flooded forest in Cambodia. Photo by Andrea Kirkby, taken 11 May 2014. Licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.A 1993 royal decree designated 23 protected areas covering about 3,273,300 ha, equal to around 18% of the country’s total land area, and brought them under the jurisdiction of the Ministry ...
Cambodia’s beer market growing more crowded
The Kingdom’s latest brewery is set to launch on November 1, introducing a new player into the growing Cambodian beer market, insiders said yesterday. The Khmer Brewery plant, a US$60 million joint venture between locally based Chip Mong Group and major international brewery manufacturer Ziemann Group, ...
Tourist arrivals grow 15% in first nine months
Visitor arrivals to Cambodia saw a year-on-year increase of 15 percent in the first nine months of 2011, reaching more than 2 million people, according to new figures released by the Tourism Ministry yesterday. The figures showed that, from January to September, arrivals by air increased ...
Microfinance Deposits and Loans Grow
Outstanding loans among micro-credit institutions increased by 6.7 percent to $505.46 million in the second quarter of this year compared to the first quarter, figures from the Cambodia Microfinance Association show. According to the data, deposits held by Cambodia’s 27 microlenders grew by 33.2 percent ...
UN set to hear report on Cambodian rights
The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Cambodia was due last night to present his 2011 report to the Human Rights Council in New York, where Foreign Minister Hor Namhong is attending the UN General Assembly’s annual debate. The report, first published on August 2, looks at ...
High Court orders release of 8 VN logging suspects
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the Mondulkiri provincial authority to release on bail eight Vietnamese nationals who have been imprisoned for more than six months over an illegal timber trade. At an hour-long trial in absentia, the Supreme Court ordered the eight Vietnamese to ...
Kim Sarom
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/high-court-orders-release-8-vn-logging-suspects
China, Cambodia mark successful law enforcement cooperation
The Chinese Embassy in Phnom Penh on Thursday lauded law enforcement cooperation efforts between the two countries that have seen around 1,000 Chinese nationals, accused of varying crimes, deported in the last 12 months. To mark the occasion, the Chinese Embassy posted on Facebook that at least 1,000 ...
Kann Vicheika
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/china-Cambodia-mark-successful-law-enforcement-cooperation/5128307.html
Royalties concern forest activists
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said in the first three quarters of this year, Cambodia earned $5.7 million in royalties from forest produce – an increase of nearly $2 million compared to the same period last year when it earned $4 million. The ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/royalties-concern-forest-activists
Japan provides USD 692,522 for physical education project and food and nutrition security project
On 27th December 2018, Japanese government has agreed to provide USD 692,522 in total for two Japanese organizations under the Grant Assistance for Japanese NGO Projects: USD 396,033 for Heart of Gold to implement “Project on Developing 4-year University of Physical Education Course at National ...
Embassy of Japan in the Kingdom of Cambodia
Press release on the Grade 12 examination result
On 09 September 2019, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport issued a press release on the examination result of the Grade 12 examination which happened on August 19-20, 2019. There are 79,052 successful candidates, accounting for 68,62% (was only 67,07% in 2018). Among the ...
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport
Sambo hydro dam info urged
Youth groups and environmental activists have requested the government release the latest documents concerning the proposed Sambo hydroelectric dam in Kratie province, amid lingering concerns of the possible environmental damage the dam may cause. The dam, if constructed, will be the largest in the country and ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30164/sambo-hydro-dam-info-urged/