Indian firms urged to invest in Kingdom
Cambodian officials and private sector representatives met a visiting Indian business delegation yesterday to pitch for more Indian investment in the country and to explore ways of increasing the relatively low level of bilateral trade and investment. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/indian-firms-urged-invest-kingdom
Corruption curriculum headed to junior high
In what it says is a bid to fight graft in the Kingdom from the bottom up, the Ministry of Education announced yesterday the expansion of its anti-corruption curriculum to junior high school students. ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/corruption-curriculum-headed-junior-high
Smoke-free campaign launched
A new government initiative to warn Cambodians about the dangers of smoking tobacco was launched yesterday by the Ministry of Health and World Health Organization. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/smoke-free-campaign-launched
Sex-ed site reaching thousands, NGO says
A lack of knowledge about sex is posing a risk to the health and education of adolescents, according to the Ministry of Education, which has created an online program to help better inform and equip the young people who make up 60 per cent of ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sex-ed-site-reaching-thousands-ngo-says
Phnom Penh's roots discovered
Two newly discovered archaeological sites suggest people were living close to what is now Phnom Penh thousands of years before the capital was founded.Villagers living along the Mekong, and a monk at a pagoda, both in Kandal province, have discovered artefacts including Neolithic axes and ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/phnom-penhs-roots-discovered
Half of nation’s orphanages fail to register
Nearly half of the known orphanages in Cambodia missed on Tuesday’s deadline for registering with the government, further delaying attempts to reform the country’s wayward residential child care sector, an official said on Tuesday. ...
Buth Kimsay and Taylor O'connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/half-of-nations-orphanages-fail-to-register-113320/
Current assets in Cambodia's banking system rise to 25.6 bln USD by June
Current assets in Cambodia’s banking and financial institutions had risen to 25.6 billion U.S. dollars by June 2016, an increase of 21.3 percent in the last 12 months, according to the biannual report of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), or the central bank, on ...
XINHUA
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=332556
Food stockpiles depress prices
Record stockpiles of food will keep worldwide prices low for 2017 and much could depend on China’s huge stocks of many commodities, Dutch food and agri financing bank Rabobank predicted yesterday, painting a dour picture for Cambodia’s food exporters struggling against low prices. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32346/food-stockpiles-depress-prices/
Rubber prices could rise
Rubber prices on the global commodities market are expected to rise to $2,500 per ton due to the improved state of the world economy and efforts by four major rubber producing countries – Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia – to cut back supply, according to ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32511/rubber-prices-could-rise/
Derivatives licensing capped by regulator
Cambodia’s capital market regulator announced yesterday that it would suspend the issuance of new central counterparty licences to derivatives trading firms, claiming that capping the market at four was sufficient to serve current demand. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/derivatives-licensing-capped-regulator
Project to boost veggie farming
Cambodia and New Zealand have reached a memorandum of understanding aimed at improving agricultural productivity to increase food safety and reduce reliance on imports. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5080733/project-boost-veggie-farming/
Government order to display prices in riel currency fails to stick
A government prakas that requires all businesses to post prices of their goods and services in the local riel currency has had little impact on pricing practices, with the vast majority of businesses in Cambodia continuing to quote prices in US dollars and authorities showing ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-order-display-prices-riel-currency-fails-stick
Two million urged to correct civil records
The Interior Ministry’s general department of identification has urged two million people with incorrect civil records to amend their personal information with officials. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5089918/two-million-urged-correct-civil-records/
Local officials given power to issue ag origin certificates
In a bid to decentralise the certificates of origin (COs) process to help promote international exports and ease cross-border trade, the Ministry of Commerce launched a pilot project yesterday that allows officials in the provinces of Battambang and Pailin to directly issue certification. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/local-officials-given-power-issue-ag-origin-certificates
Chinese PM wraps up Cambodia visit, promising huge aid package
Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang has announced a series of large aid packages to Cambodia at the end of his first visit to the country this week as Cambodia turns further away from Western donors. A total of 19 agreements were signed to fund large-scale ...
Aun Chhengpor
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/chinese-pm-wraps-up-cambodia-visit-promising-huge-aid-package/4203509.html
Slowing rice export growth ‘worrisome’
An Agriculture Ministry official said on Sunday that slowing growth in Cambodian milled rice exports—increasing just 0.7 percent last year—was the result of outdated policies and was a concerning trend. ...
Chhorn Phearun
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/slowing-rice-export-growthworrisome-123114/
Draft consumer law completed
The Ministry of Commerce has finished the draft consumer protection law and will soon submit it to the Council of Ministers, according to a senior government official. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34241/draft-consumer-law-completed/
Minister wants tougher fisheries crackdown
Interior Minister Sar Kheng has ordered government officials and department heads to crack down on anyone committing fishing crimes, telling a committee meeting that lax efforts to “educate” repeat offenders continued to fail and exacerbate the problem.According to Deputy National Police Chief Kirth Chantharith, Mr. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34867/minister-wants-tougher-fisheries-crackdown/
Cambodia signs deal with Chinese province
The Cambodian government signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with officials from China’s Shaanxi province aimed at bolstering trade and tourism, according to a release yesterday by the Ministry of Commerce. ...
The Phnom Penh Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-signs-deal-chinese-province
HKL gets $15 million to grow MFI operations
Cambodian microlender Hattha Kaksekar Ltd (HKL) has secured a $15 million cash injection to expand its business operations from its parent company, Thailand’s Bank of Ayudhya, Hout Ieng Tong, president and CEO of HKL, confirmed yesterday. ...
The Phnom Penh Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hkl-gets-15-million-grow-mfi-operations