Cambodia gears up to get 6.4M int’l tourists
Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism has set a target to receive 6.4 million international tourists in 2025 and seven million by 2026. ...
Nhean Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501350473/cambodia-gears-up-to-get-6-4m-intl-tourists/
Environment minister eyes eco-tourist infrastructure in two protected preserves
Minister of Environment Say Samal has announced plans to enhance infrastructure in two key protected areas to boost local livelihoods and sustainable tourism. ...
Bor Pich Zelin
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/environment-minister-eyes-eco-tourist-infrastructure-two-protected-preserves
Cambodia expects more Chinese visitor arrivals to drive tourism growth
“I want to send a message to all Chinese citizens that please come and visit Cambodia, a safe tourist destination,” says Ministry of Tourism Secretary of State Top Sopheak. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501379503/cambodia-expects-more-chinese-visitor-arrivals-to-drive-tourism-growth/
Cambodian journalists celebrate World Press Freedom Day with Prime Minister
Some 5,000 Cambodian media practitioners celebrated World Press Freedom Day with Prime Minister Hun Manet and many senior government officials on May 3 afternoon. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501482845/cambodian-journalists-celebrate-world-press-freedom-day-with-prime-minister/
Talks over garment factory’s closure bear no fruit
The Ministry of Labour met with Malaysian-owned Global Apparels Limited factory representatives, union officials and workers yesterday, to negotiate an agreement for compensation as The company closes down. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/talks-over-garment-factorys-closure-bear-no-fruit
Ministry to push quality control
The Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts (MIH) has started a laboratory and a department to check on The quality and safety of local products to be exported, state news agency AKP reported yesterday. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37270/ministry-to-push-quality-control/
NGO: Data shows ‘wholesale sell-off’
Cambodia should urgently disclose all information about land ownership and rethink its “wholesale sell-off” of the country’s natural resources, a local rights group said yesterday. the call to release information about Cambodia’s land sector, including a declaration of revenues, came as Licadho released an analysis of ...
Daniel Pye and Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/ngo-data-shows-wholesale-sell
Banking liquidity tool moves to weekly issuance
Cambodia’s central bank yesterday launched a weekly issuance of Negotiable Certificate of Deposits (NCD) with selling scheduled for every Wednesday – a move aimed at developing the interbank lending market by promoting a secondary market for the short-term interest-bearing certificates. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/banking-liquidity-tool-moves-weekly-issuance
Budget backed without support
Members of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party voted in the National Assembly yesterday to back a 2017 national budget that outlines spending of $5 billion, but opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) members refused to give it their support. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32306/budget-backed-without-support/
Ministry has big plans for Cambodia’s cashews
Cambodia and Vietnam signed an agreement earlier this month to greatly expand Cambodia’s cashew exports by 2028, but the proposed export level would require several hundred thousand hectares of additional land and there is no concrete plan yet to meet the target. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ministry-has-big-plans-cambodias-cashews
Clock ticking on city’s waste crisis: reports
The government could be forced to shell out more than $120 million [≈ Finance industry 2011 political donations] to build new landfills over The next decade unless it invests in preventing Phnom Penh’s current site from reaching capacity, according to a pair of new reports. ...
Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/clock-ticking-citys-waste-crisis-reports
Cambodia, China sign MoU on education cooperation
The Cambodian Royal School of Administration and Pudong Executive Leadership Academy of China signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enhance bilateral cooperation in The education sector. ...
Nop Sreymao
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501550505/cambodia-china-sign-mou-on-education-cooperation/
Cambodian PM says not to appoint capable children in posts
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday that he could not appoint his children in the cabinet posts even though they were qualified. “I have five children and five children-in-law. All of them have possessed degrees ranging from bachelor’s degrees to doctorate’s degrees, but I cannot ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-08/06/c_133536466.htm
Exports inch up in spite of international trade falling from Jan-Aug
Trade between Cambodia and international partners in the first eight months of 2023 amounted to nearly $32 billion, down 14.5 per cent compared to $37.4 billion in the same period in 2022, although the General Department of Customs and Excise of Cambodia (GDCE) contended that ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exports-inch-spite-international-trade-falling-jan-aug
Prime Minister says test scores warning to students
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday said the pass rate of 25 percent in last month’s grade 12 national exam served as a warning that students could no longer pay their way through school and urged students who failed the exam to embrace their second ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prime-minister-says-test-scores-warning-to-students-67414/
PM calls for halt to ‘illegal’ protests
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday called on labour unions to immediately stop organising demonstrations and strikes to “illegally” demand benefits from factory owners. He said such actions could spin out of hand and force around two-thirds of the Kingdom’s factories, approximately 800 of the ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-calls-halt-illegal-protests
Cambodia's trade with ASEAN hit US$4.16 Billion last year
Cambodia’s trade volume with Asean member states reached US$4.16 billion last year, up 12 percent from US$3.71 billion in 2012, Xinhua news agency reported. In the Commerce Ministry’s report released Wednesday, Cambodia exported products equivalent to US$482 million to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) ...
Bernama News Staff
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v7/wn/newsworld.php?id=1019495
GDT, banks vow to step up tax payment efficiency
The finance ministry has to-date signed memorandums of understanding (MoU) with 10 banks to process tax-related payments to The General Department of Taxation (GDT), one of its subordinate units. ...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gdt-banks-vow-step-tax-payment-efficiency
Vietnam actively joins cross-border payment connectivity effort
Cambodian media has reported on August 25 that the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation in regional payment connectivity with the central banks of Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501349303/vietnam-actively-joins-cross-border-payment-connectivity-effort/
Hun Many hailed on return with peace prize
A day after being awarded the fledgling Gusi Peace Prize in Manila, Prime Minister Hun Sen’s youngest son, Hun Many, returned home to a hero’s welcome on Thursday. ...
Ben Sokhean and Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-many-hailed-on-return-with-peace-prize-101363/