Dengue fever cases surge in 2022
In the first five months of this year, Cambodia detected more than 1,100 cases of dengue fever, an increase of over 600 cases compared to the same period last year, including two deaths. ...
Nang Veasna
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501089983/dengue-fever-cases-surge-in-2022/
US named Cambodia's largest partner for exports and China for imports
Cambodia’s most significant trade partner for exports is the United States, while its primary source of imports is China. ...
Seng Mengheng
https://kiripost.com/stories/us-named-cambodia-largest-partner-for-exports-and-china-for-imports
Hun Sen says Cambodia’s four CLV-DTA provinces will not be ceded to Vietnam or Laos
Cambodian Senate President Hun Sen clarified that Cambodia’s four provinces will not be ceded to Vietnam and Laos in the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle Area (CLV-DTA). ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501540545/hun-sen-says-cambodias-four-clv-dta-provinces-will-not-be-ceded-to-vietnam-or-laos/
Cambodia, South Korea to boost bilateral cooperation on all fronts
Cambodia and South Korea are committed to expand bilateral cooperation on defence, tourism, people-to-people exchanges and education. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501540967/cambodia-south-korea-to-boost-bilateral-cooperation-on-all-fronts/
Over 8,600 govt scholarships available for varsity studies
For the academic year 2024-2025, the Ministry of Education will offer full scholarships to 8,621 students in a variety of majors. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501579175/over-8600-govt-scholarships-available-for-varsity-studies/
MoH launches first national Children’s Environmental Health report
In a landmark move to safeguard the health of future generations, the Ministry of Health (MoH), with support from UNICEF, has released the first-ever Children’s Environmental Health (CEH) report in Cambodia. ...
Taing Rinith
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501579873/moh-launches-first-national-childrens-environmental-health-report/
Ministry of Women's Affairs
Ministry of Women’s Affairs. Photo taken from the Ministry’s Facebook Page, taken on 17 September 2016.EstablishmentUnder Royal Decree No. NS/RKM/0197/22, the Ministry of Women’s Affairs was formally established on 24 January 1996. The Ministry became the Ministry of Women and Veteran’s Affairs under the Royal ...
Russia converts debt to investment
Russia has agreed to recategorise Cambodia’s outstanding $1.5 billion debt as an investment, pledging to provide more aid to the Kingdom next year. Prime Minister Hun Sen met with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Brussels on Thursday. Mr Hun Sen had asked Russia to ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50542729/russia-converts-debt-to-investment/
UNHRC releases documents on state of Cambodia
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has published three documents in preparation for a review next month on the situation in Cambodia. The UNHRC is set to review the human rights situation in the Kingdom on January 30 during the 32nd Universal Periodic Review (UPR), ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unhrc-releases-documents-state-cambodia
Government, ILO cooperation hailed
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday highlighted the joint accomplishments of the Cambodian government and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in helping to bring 1.5 million of the Kingdom’s workers into the formal labour market. The ILO was established in Paris on October 29, 1919, ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-ilo-cooperation-hailed
Two schools issue ban on smart phones
Two state schools have banned students from using smart phones during school hours, saying it distracts them from their studies. Um Maly, the principal of Pochentong Secondary School in Dangkor district, yesterday said that he made an announcement on Monday informing his more than 1,000 ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50601667/two-schools-issue-ban-on-smart-phones/
Increase in electricity production as rain hits Kingdom
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday said the Kingdom’s hydropower stations can now produce 600 out of 1,400 megawatts required to power the country due to rain during the past few days. Mr Hun Sen made the statement during an anniversary event commemorating World Red Cross ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50602093/increase-in-electricity-production-as-rain-hits-kingdom/
Major set to open 100 cinemas next year
SET-listed Major Cineplex Group Plc has earmarked 1.2 billion baht to open 100 new cinemas nationwide next year in a bid to boost revenue by 10-15%.The investment budget will not cover further expansion in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam, which will be made through partnerships ...
Nanat Suchiva
http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/news/778761/major-set-to-open-100-cinemas-next-year
Cambodia fails to meet rice export target
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Thursday that his country has failed to export its targeted 1 million tonnes of milled rice this year. The volume of exports, however, was higher than last year, as for the whole 2014 more than 370,000 tonnes of milled ...
Kyodo News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asean/790885/cambodia-fails-to-meet-rice-export-target
Government officials increasingly on Facebook
In July, an estimated 2.9 million Cambodians were on Facebook, up from 1.7 million a year earlier.The social networking website Facebook has grown increasingly popular with government officials, who use it to communicate with their constituents and to push their political positions to a younger ...
Socheata Hean
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/government-officials-increasingly-on-facebook/3084608.html
Gov't figures show Cambodia's mobile internet usage continues to rise
The number of people in Cambodia accessing the Internet from their mobile devices increased by 1.3 million during a 10-month period last year, though the number of mobile phone subscribers increased by just over 4,500 during the same period, according to figures released last week by the ...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuawilwohl/2016/02/25/govt-figures-show-cambodias-mobile-internet-usage-continues-to-rise/#144870ea5fb7
Microcredit, a ‘double-edged sword’ strategy for migration
In Cambodia, as credit becomes increasingly available, more people are taking loans from microfinance institutions to help with migration.As of June 2015, microfinance institutions lent more than $2 billion, compared to $1.6 billion dollars in 2014, according to the Cambodia Microfinance Association. ...
Ten Soksreinith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/microcredit-a-double-edged-sword-strategy-for-migration/2979173.html
Tycoon senator opens up on Thai power deal
Cambodia’s electricity generation reached 2.714 billion kilowatt hours last year, of which 1.851 million KWh was generated by hydro dams and 863.02 million KWh by coal-powered plants. Household access to electricity rose 18.8 percent, compared to 2013, according a report from Cambodia’s Electricity Authority. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19173/tycoon-senator-opens-up-on-thai-power-deal/
Ministry vows to wipe out unlicensed clinics
More than 1,300 unlicensed medical clinics were shut down in 2015 and the remaining 900 will be closed in 2016, Health Minister Mam Bunheng said on Tuesday, ostensibly putting an end to lax medical standards that have allowed for scandals such as the mass HIV ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-vows-to-wipe-out-unlicensed-clinics-104517/
Japan’s top airline to add Phnom Penh route in September
All Nippon Airways (ANA) – Japan’s largest carrier – will begin flying between Tokyo and Phnom Penh on September 1, the spokesman for the Secretariat of State of Civil Aviation told Khmer Times yesterday, adding that the first direct flight from Japan to Cambodia will ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20134//