US can’t force ASEAN to help contain China
As chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations for 2022, Cambodia announced on April 18 that ASEAN and the United States will hold a special summit in Washington on May 12-13 to commemorate 45 years of ASEAN-US relations. The second special summit since 2016 ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501074842/us-cant-force-asean-to-help-contain-china/
PMs Modi and Hun Sen discuss range of bilateral issues online
In an effort to boost bilateral ties between Cambodia and India, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached out to Prime Minister Hun Sen and held a virtual meeting yesterday, according to a press release issued by the Embassy of India in Phnom Penh. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501077942/pms-modi-and-hun-sen-discuss-range-of-bilateral-issues-online/
Manet holds bilateral talks with ASEAN counterparts
Prime Minister Hun Manet met bilaterally with the leaders of several ASEAN member states on the sidelines of the bloc’s 43rd summit in Indonesia, with the intention of strengthening relations and cooperation. On September 4, ahead of the start of the September 5-7 summit, Manet ...
Ry Sochan
https://phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/manet-holds-bilateral-talks-asean-counterparts
Cambodia working towards independent foreign policy
Taking the baton for the third time as the ASEAN chair in 2022, Cambodia’s diplomatic tenacity was tested by the war in Ukraine, Myanmar’s political upheaval, cross-Strait tensions, COVID-19 and US–China competition. Despite this precarity, Cambodia steered ASEAN through geopolitically choppy waters. The outlook for 2023 ...
Chansambath Bong
https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2023/02/14/cambodia-working-towards-independent-foreign-policy/
Westerdam’s return a symbol of Kingdom’s care for lives, says PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen confirmed that the MS Westerdam, a cruise liner with a unique link to the Kingdom, will return to Cambodia in December. More than three years ago, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the vessel was refused entry by several other ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/westerdams-return-symbol-kingdoms-care-lives-says-pm
Serey: Central bank’s MoU with UnionPay not yuan agreement
National Bank of Cambodia deputy governor Chea Serey clarified on July 16 that a recent memorandum of understanding with China’s UnionPay was not an agreement to legalise the Chinese yuan in the Kingdom or the Cambodian riel in China. Rather, it permits mobile payments using ...
Sok Raksa
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/serey-central-banks-mou-unionpay-not-yuan-agreement
Cambodia-China trade continues to grow despite global demand slowdown
Cambodia-China trade continued to rise in 2023 despite a slowdown in global demand, thanks to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement and the Cambodia-China Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA), a commerce official and experts said on Wednesday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501422036/cambodia-china-trade-continues-to-grow-despite-global-demand-slowdown/
South Korean investors eye automotive expansion
South Korean investors have shown a strong interest in expanding their investment in the automotive sector, according to the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). ...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/south-korean-investors-eye-automotive-expansion
South Korean investors eye automotive expansion
South Korean investors have shown a strong interest in expanding their investment in the automotive sector, according to the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). ...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/south-korean-investors-eye-automotive-expansion
Banks need robust cybersecurity for data privacy
In the age of digitalisation, banks play a crucial role in safeguarding the money and information of both people and businesses. However, as Cambodia embraces this digital revolution, the Kingdom also makes itself vulnerable to the constant danger of cyberattacks and breaches, putting financial data ...
Jigmee Palden Pazo
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501444679/banks-need-robust-cybersecurity-for-data-privacy/
Hun Sen OKs Large Amount of State Land to be Privatized
Prime Minister Hun Sen has officially allowed the privatization of 2,580 square meters of state owned land. 646 square meters of the land are in Phnom Penh. The sub-decree means that the land is closer to being eligible for development and sale. ...
Third worker killed at hydrodam
Ouch Nob, an electrician, was killed while working at the Russei Chrum Kraom river hydropower construction site. Last week two Chinese nationals also working at the site died. China Huadian Hong Kong Limited has agreed to pay the victim’s family $4,700 in compensation. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/third-worker-killed-hydrodam
Men who escaped Thai trawlers to be repatriated
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday said it was cooperating with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to repatriate 30 men – part of a group of 65 Cambodians who are in Indonesia after enduring months of abuse and exploitation while working aboard Thai fishing ...
Shooting of Cambodian loggers along Thai border continues
Adding to a spate of similar incidents since October, Thai soldiers fired on a group of Cambodians who had illegally entered Thailand from Oddar Meanchey province on Saturday looking to log valuable rosewood trees and shot one in the hand, a provincial official said yesterday ...
Investigation Into Dam Beatings Ceases, Police Say
Police in Kampot province say they cannot pursue a criminal case against 10 Chinese supervisors at the Kamchay dam worksite for severely beating four Cambodian workers, because the Cambodian men are not cooperating with the investigation after receiving monetary compensation from the Sinohydro company. ...
Crackdown nets more than one tonne of fish
Authorities in Tboung Khmum province’s O’raing Ov district on Wednesday seized several kilometres of small-hole fishing nets, bamboo poles and more than one tonne of small fish during a crackdown on illegal fishing on Kapit lake, according to officials. ...
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50526429/crackdown-nets-more-than-one-tonne-of-fish/
Push for canteens at all garment factories
The Land Management Ministry has complied with an order made by Prime Minister Hun Sen for factories to provide adequate places for garment workers to eat. Land Management Minister Chea Sophara yesterday told provincial subordinates that canteens must be built in factories. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50535265/push-for-canteens-at-all-garment-factories/
Land activists seek solutions
More than 700 land activists from the capital, Preah Sihanouk, Svay Rieng, Tbong Khmum, Preah Vihear and Kandal provinces gathered on Tuesday at Freedom Park in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district to deliver petitions seeking solutions to their longstanding land disputes. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-activists-seek-solutions
Cambodian rice to lose EU duty-free status
The Cambodian rice sector is set to lose its duty-free export status to the EU today – its major rice market – after the European bloc decided to impose tariffs on rice from Cambodia and Myanmar to curb a surge in such imports. ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodian-rice-lose-eu-duty-free-status
Customs outline ivory crackdown guidelines
As a member of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites), Cambodia has been pursuing ways to improve its law enforcement activities to prevent and crack down on the trafficking of elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/customs-outline-ivory-crackdown-guidelines