Monitoring for Nothing: Is the ILO’s ‘Better Factories’ programme failing the Kingdom’s garment workers?
The United Nations in Cambodia has taken a beating in recent months. The UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal has been plagued by high-profile resignations and accusations of political interference. Elsewhere human rights activists have criticised the UN’s failure to take a firm stance against an increasingly ss='cambodia-color'>...
Frédéric Janssens
http://sea-globe.com/monitoring-for-nothing/
Announcement on security, safety, and public order during the Chinese and Vietnamese new year
On 11 January 2023, the Phnom Penh Capital Administration has posted an announcement on security, safety, and public order during the Chinese and Vietnamese New Year on their official Facebook site. The announcement has banned the use of all firecrackers, fireworks, and other explosives during the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phnom Penh Capital Administration
Joint press release: CCHR, ADHOC and Solidarity Center published the 2023 annual report of the Cambodia fundamental freedoms monitor
On 24 April 2024, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) and the solidarity Center released the 2023 annual report on the monitoring of fundamental freedoms in Cambodia, which was produced by the Fundamental Freedom Monitoring Project ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia steps up fight against climate change
Considered one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to the effects of climate change, the Royal Government of Cambodia is taking major steps to improve its resilience and reduce its disaster risk with support from the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. To ss='cambodia-color'>...
Omar H. Amach
https://www.unisdr.org/archive/64687
Kingdom will export one million tonnes of rice by 2022, says CRF
The Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) has committed to raising the Kingdom’s rice exports to one million tonnes by 2022, its president song saran said on Wednesday. The comment was made at the strategic Plan 2020-2023 Consultation Workshop, which was attended by CRF members, ministry representatives, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-will-export-one-million-tonnes-rice-2022-says-crf
First buses, now trains could come to capital
As part part of its multibillion-dollar Urban Transport Master Plan, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) unveiled a modern rail system for Phnom Penh yesterday that could begin operation as soon as 2023. The trains would thin out traffic on the capital’s choked-up roads, which currently lack ss='cambodia-color'>...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/first-buses-now-trains-could-come-capital
Cambodia attracts three million international tourists in seven months
Cambodia recorded some 3.03 million international visitors in the first seven of 2023, a sharp increase of 308 percent from 743,459 over the same period last year, a Ministry of Tourism’s report showed on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501348457/cambodia-attracts-three-million-international-tourists-in-seven-months/
Economic crisis sees latex exports fall 10% in first eight months
The global economic crisis has reduced Cambodia’s latex export earnings to $273.4 million in the first eight months of 2023, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries’ General Department of Rubber (GDR). ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/economic-crisis-sees-latex-exports-fall-10-first-eight-months
Cambodia records 1.26 million air passengers in Q1
Cambodia reported 1.26 million air travelers during the first quarter of 2023, up 549 percent from only 195,000 passengers over the same period last year, said the state secretariat of Civil Aviation’s report released on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501276387/cambodia-records-1-26-million-air-passengers-in-q1/
Vietnam becomes largest ASEAN trading partner of Cambodia: media
Vietnam became Cambodia’s largest trading partner among members of the Association of southeast Asian Nations (AsEAN) in the first five months of 2023 as bilateral trade made up nearly 50% of the total between Cambodia and AsEAN members during the period. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501321665/vietnam-becomes-largest-asean-trading-partner-of-cambodia-media/
Cambodia records 1.26 million air passengers in Q1
Cambodia reported 1.26 million air travelers during the first quarter of 2023, up 549 percent from only 195,000 passengers over the same period last year, said the state secretariat of Civil Aviation’s report released on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501276387/cambodia-records-1-26-million-air-passengers-in-q1/
Cambodia, Laos to ink action plan for strategic partnership
Prime Minister Hun sen and his Lao counterpart sonexay siphandone are set to sign a 2023-2027 action plan for a comprehensive and long-term strategic partnership between the two countries during the former’s February 13-14 visit. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/cambodia-laos-ink-action-plan-strategic-partnership
PM pushes ahead with Cambodia vision 2030
Prime Minister Hun Manet laid out plans for Cambodia to graduate to an upper-middle income country by 2030 and strengthen the nation’s resilience and sustainability beyond then at the Cambodia Outlook Conference 2023. ss='cambodia-color'>...
PichBormey Chhim PichBormey
https://kiripost.com/stories/pm-hun-manet-pushes-ahead-with-cambodia-vision-2030
Milled rice exporters optimistic
Cambodia exported over 656,000 tonnes of milled rice in 2023, marking a 3% increase from the previous year and generating over $465 million in revenue, a rise of 13%, as reported by the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF), the Kingdom’s apex rice industry body. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/milled-rice-exporters-optimistic
Tax collection up 4.49 percent to $3.6 billion
Cambodia increased its tax collection by 4.49 percent year-over-year to $3.6 billion in 2023. We exceeded our target (101.13 percent) with this year’s collection, said the General Department of Taxation (GDT) at the Ministry of Economy and Finance. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501428582/tax-collection-up-4-49-percent-to-3-6-billion/
Agriculture now 22 per cent of GDP
Despite being challenged by natural disasters, climate change and global crises, agriculture sector contributed about 22 per cent of Cambodia’s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2023, according to Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Dith Tina. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/agriculture-now-22-per-cent-of-gdp
Cambodia expects three to four million foreign arrivals in 2023
Prime Minister Hun sen expressed his hope that between three and four million foreign tourists will visit Cambodia this year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501232098/cambodia-expects-three-to-four-million-foreign-arrivals-in-2023/
Cambodia announces the implementation of a single trademark application policy from august 2023
The Intellectual Property Department of the Ministry of Commerce of Cambodia issued Announcement No. 2501/R/DIP, stating that trademark applicants must unify and use a single trademark application for one or multiple classes of goods and services from August 2023. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501338842/cambodia-announces-the-implementation-of-a-single-trademark-application-policy-from-august-2023/
UXO casualties down one third to date in 2023
Officials from the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) reported that in the first nine months of the year, nearly 30 people were victims of unexploded ordnance (UXO), a reduction of around one third on the same period last year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Sokny
https://phnompenhpost.com/national/uxo-casualties-down-one-third-date-2023
Planning ministry to release 2021 agricultural survey findings early 2023
The Ministry of Planning will announce the results of the Cambodia Agricultural survey 2021 (CAs2021) early next year, while a working group will begin the 2022 agricultural survey in early October. The CAs 2020 report showed that 57 per cent of household agricultural holdings are ss='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/planning-ministry-release-2021-agricultural-survey-findings-early-2023