ACLEDA Bank launches ACLEDA Internet Bank
ACLEDA Bank PLC, the Cambodia’s leading commercial bank, has launched a new service called “ACLEDA Internet Bank”, according to a statement on its website. The statement said the new service would offer additional alternative for its value customers in doing financial transactions via the internet at ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=NTg0YTVkMDcwMjg
Press statement of the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia
Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) expressed its dissatisfaction on the decision of fixing minimum wage in a new level of 123 USD, which later on the government decided unilaterally add 5 USD more, making the new applied minimum wage up to 128 USD in ...
Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC)
Nearly $175 million in new investments flow in but can’t keep pace with increasing unemployment
Five more investment projects worth $174.8 million have been approved, according to a press release of the Council for the Development of Cambodia issued on May 22. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50726183/nearly-175-million-in-new-investments-flow-in-but-cant-keep-pace-with-increasing-unemployment/
UN says nine new Montagnards add to ‘urgency’ in Ratanakkiri
Two weeks after five Montagnard asylum seekers crossed into Ratanakkiri province from Vietnam, the U.N. said Sunday that reports of the arrival of nine more—including three children—added to the situation’s “urgency.” Two ethnic Jarai villagers living in Ratanakkiri said the nine Montagnards—an indigenous group from Vietnam’s ...
Aun Pheap and Chris Mueller
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-says-nine-new-montagnards-add-to-urgency-in-ratanakkiri-76361/
Notice on opening the new academic year of 2020-2021 for the public schools
On 28 December 2020, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoYES) announced the new academic year of 2020-2021 of the public educational institutions will be started on 11 January 2021 across the country. All the schools shall follow the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for ...
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoYES)
More than two million tourists traversed the country during the New Year weekend
The Ministry of Tourism has reported that that the three days of the Global New Year holiday and weekend from December 31, 2021 to January 2, 2022 brought 2,002,298 domestic tourists out to traverse the country and take in the tourism sites of Cambodia. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501000354/more-than-two-million-tourists-traversed-the-country-during-the-new-year-weekend/
Former PM Hun Sen: Cambodian-Thai new prime ministers to further strengthen cooperation
The new Prime Ministers of Cambodia and Thailand will work together to boost the cooperation between the two neighbouring countries. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501347740/former-pm-hun-sen-cambodian-thai-new-prime-ministers-to-further-strengthen-cooperation/
PMs of Luxembourg and the Netherlands ready to work with Cambodian new PM
Prime Ministers of Luxembourg and the Netherlands have recently addressed separate messages of congratulations to Kitti Tesaphibal Pundit Hun Manet on his appointment as the Prime Minister of Cambodia, affirming that they are ready to work with him for the mutual benefit of their nations. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501352966/pms-of-luxembourg-and-the-netherlands-ready-to-work-with-cambodian-new-pm/
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) published a new dataset on “Reclassifying natural protected areas in Cambodia”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) published a new dataset on “Reclassifying natural protected areas in Cambodia.” This dataset collected data on the expansion of protected areas in Cambodia taken from government Sub-decrees. The coordinate system, WGS 84, Zone 48N, is used to determine this geographical data, ...
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new dataset on “Sea surface temperature from MODIS Aqua Data”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new dataset on “Sea surface temperature from MODIS Aqua Data”. This bilingual new dataset exists of average sea surface temperature (sst) in Cambodia. The data can be visualized with an interactive map and graph representing its dataset and is ...
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new dataset on “Land cover in Cambodia (2015-2020)”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new dataset on “Land cover in Cambodia (2015-2020)”. This bilingual new dataset highlights 15 classes of land cover throughout Cambodia and allows it to download for purposes.=> Please click here to go to “Land cover in Cambodia (2015-2020)”. ...
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new dataset on "Forest cover in Cambodia (2015-2021)"
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new dataset on “Forest cover in Cambodia (2015-2021)”. This dataset gives data focused on Cambodia’s annual forest cover range from 2015 to 2021.=> Please click here to go to “Forest cover in Cambodia (2015-2021)”. ...
USAID announces new project for enhancing quality of healthcare across Cambodia
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announces the award of its new, five-year Enhancing Quality of Healthcare Activity II (EQHA II) to continue supporting efforts to improve the quality of public and private health services for all Cambodians. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501396747/usaid-announces-new-project-for-enhancing-quality-of-healthcare-across-cambodia/
PM Hun Manet reiterates no new taxes nor tax increases
Dr Hun Manet has reiterated that the 7th-mandate Royal Government will neither create new taxes nor increase existing ones. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501391897/pm-hun-manet-reiterates-no-new-taxes-nor-tax-increases/
Two new tyre plants approved in August, 3,500 jobs created
Two tyre manufacturing factories, with a total investment of $686 million, were approved by the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) in August, creating 3,459 jobs. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/two-new-tyre-plants-approved-in-august-3-500-jobs-created
Market Shop Owners Try to Prevent Eviction
Vendors in Phnom Penh’s Ngin An market are protesting a government-backed bid by the market’s new owner to push them out by tomorrow. More than 40 representatives of 223 vendors waved a banner at the market yesterday to protest a letter from Russey Keo District Hall ...
NGO law ‘obstacle to development goals’
Civil society organizations yesterday expressed concern about the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations last month, which they said would be hard to achieve under the new Law on Associations and NGOs (LANGO). ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16582/ngo-law----obstacle-to-development-goals---/
Prince to run: Ranariddh’s comeback under way
Prince Norodom Ranariddh has officially registered his new political faction, the Community of Royalist People’s Party, as a contender in the next national elections in 2018. The party’s new chief of cabinet, Nop Sothearith, yesterday told the Post he submitted the application to run to the Ministry of ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prince-run-ranariddh%E2%80%99s-comeback-under-way
Development council approves electric bike plant and rain gear investments
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) yesterday approved two new projects worth $5.6 million that will create nearly 1,500 new jobs. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50849071/development-council-approves-electric-bike-plant-and-rain-gear-investments/
Mercedes halts imports over luxury tax
The sole retailer of Mercedes-Benz cars into the country, Hung Hiep (Cambodia) Co., has suspended imports since January over what it claims is a new import duty on luxury cars coming into the country. Other luxury car importers including Porsche, Audi, BMW and Jaguar Land Rover, ...
George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/mercedes-halts-imports-over-luxury-tax-56050/