Construction sector totaled $5.3b in 2021
Construction investment in Cambodia totaled $5.3 billion in 2021, mainly from China, South Korea, and Japan, according to the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction. The ministry also revealed a total of 4,303 construction projects were approved by the government in 2021. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/construction-sector-totaled-5-3b-in-2021/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Seng Mengheng
https://kiripost.com/stories/construction-sector-totaled-53b-in-2021
Gov’t prepares to launch inflation relief programme
Prime Minister Hun Sen said that Cambodia is proud to have supported the poor and vulnerable with cash payments through the dark time of the Covid-19 pandemic. To date, the government has disbursed about $40 million a month to assist people affected by the virus. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-prepares-to-launch-inflation-relief-programme/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-prepares-launch-inflation-relief-programme
Tax revenue passes target amid money laundering cases
The General Department of Taxation (GTD) of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) has collected more than $2.94 billion of tax revenue for the period of first 10 months this year, which passes the amount set in the budget law 2022 and increases 26.96 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tax-revenue-passes-target-amid-money-laundering-cases/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501186161/tax-revenue-passes-target-amid-money-laundering-cases/
ADMM-Plus members affirm commitment to peace, stability
Minister of National Defence Tea Banh said he was proud that Cambodia had hosted the aSEaN Defence Ministers’ Meeting (aDMM) and aDMM-Plus, which issued a joint communique that showed the commitment of all aSEaN member states, as well as China and the US, to maintaining <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/admm-plus-members-affirm-commitment-to-peace-stability/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/admm-plus-members-affirm-commitment-peace-stability
Cambodia supports Lao PDR’s ASEAN Chairmanship next year
The Royal Government of Cambodia expressed its support to Lao PDR’s chairmanship of aSEaN next year, according to a press release from the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign affairs and International Cooperation issued this afternoon at the end of the two-day official visit of Cambodian Prime <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-supports-lao-pdrs-asean-chairmanship-next-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501239159/cambodia-supports-lao-pdrs-asean-chairmanship-next-year/
Employment rate over 99%: Labour minister
Minister of Labour and Vocational Training Ith Samheng said that ensuring the development of a resilient and well-paid labour market with better working conditions has contributed to the implementation of the strategic plan for the development of the employment sector. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/employment-rate-over-99-labour-minister/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/employment-rate-over-99-labour-minister
Hopes high for Kampong Chhnang logistics hub
Locally-owned KLP.T Transportation Co Ltd’s new multi-purpose port and logistics centre just east of Kampong Chhnang town is expected to provide a substantial boost to Cambodian freight movement, particularly of agricultural products from the provinces bordering Tonle Sap Lake to international markets. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hopes-high-for-kampong-chhnang-logistics-hub/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hopes-high-kampong-chhnang-logistics-hub
Main Siem Reap airport work ‘done by March’
Siem Reap angkor International airport (SaI) will be a major infrastructural feat that expands and improves the Kingdom’s air passenger and cargo services, bringing in more foreign tourists to fuel post-Covid-19 recovery in the industry. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/main-siem-reap-airport-work-done-by-march/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/main-siem-reap-airport-work-done-march
‘Single Portal’ registers 22K firms
A totAl of 22,713 compAnies, with cumulAtive “registered shAre cApitAl” of $6.40 billion, were Approved by the six first-phAse Agencies And successfully registered on the Online Business RegistrAtion PlAtform &ndAsh; Also known As the “Single PortAl” &ndAsh; As of MArch 6 At 2pm, the Online <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/single-portAl-registers-22k-firms/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/single-portal-registers-22k-firms
Ministry ‘bans’ water fights for all students
With Khmer New Year just around the corner, Minister of Education, Youth and Sport Hang Chuon Naron has advised students at all public and private schools not to engage in the water fights with squirt guns and coloured powders, an activity that has become popular <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-bans-water-fights-for-all-students/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Chea Sokny
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-bans-water-fights-all-students
Cambodia needs $30B for 150 prioritised infrastructure projects
Cambodia has sought partners to raise about $30 billion of investment funds to implement 150 hard and soft infrastructure projects that the government has classified as priorities to place in the Comprehensive Intermodal Comprehensive Master Plan (CIT-MP) for the next ten years, said a release <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-needs-30b-for-150-prioritised-infrastructure-projects/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501278432/cambodia-needs-30b-for-150-prioritised-infrastructure-projects/
PM asks VN to nab, extradite ‘criminal’
Prime Minister Hun Sen has publicly requested that Vietnam detain a “criminal” individual, should he attempt to enter the neighbouring country. although he did not use the individual’s name, some analysts understood that he may have been referring to self-exiled former opposition leader Sam Rainsy. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-asks-vn-to-nab-extradite-criminal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sok Raksa
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/pm-asks-vn-nab-extradite-criminal
Siamese crocodile habitat discovered
A wild SiAmese crocodile nest hAs been found in CArdAmom MountAin AreA by FAunA &Amp; FlorA’s CAmbodiAn Crocodile ConservAtion ProgrAm teAm, working in collAborAtion with the Koh Kong provinciAl DepArtment of Environment, Forestry AdministrAtion (FA), And locAl community. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/siAmese-crocodile-hAbitAt-discovered/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/siamese-crocodile-habitat-discovered
Chinese state-owned firm picked for study on Siem Reap expressway
Chinese state-owned China Road and Bridge Corp (CRBC) has been authorised by the Ministry of Public Works and Transport to conduct a formal, more in-depth study on the proposed Phnom Penh-Siem Reap Expressway, as the government seeks to spur transportation and tourism between the two <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-state-owned-firm-picked-for-study-on-siem-reap-expressway/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chinese-state-owned-firm-picked-study-siem-reap-expressway
Japan firm chooses Battambang for cashew nut shell fuel project
Japanese firm Top Planning Japan Co Ltd’s (TPJ) apparent interest in investing in facilities in Battambang province to convert cashew nut shells into fuel and process the fibre-rich seeds for export has been greeted with much enthusiasm among local authorities and has dramatically heightened prospects <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japan-firm-chooses-battambang-for-cashew-nut-shell-fuel-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/japan-firm-chooses-battambang-cashew-nut-shell-fuel-project
NBC calls for more UK investment, exports
National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) assistant governor Chea Serey on February 7 proposed that British businesspeople ramp up their investments in Cambodia and buy more local goods, to strengthen bilateral economic relations and stimulate recovery in the Southeast asian country following a downturn linked to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nbc-calls-for-more-uk-investment-exports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nbc-calls-more-uk-investment-exports
Cambodia clears 9 investment plans in garment, footwear, travel goods
The Cambodian Investment Board under the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) recently approved investment proposals for 11 more companies, creating 11,000 jobs. The companies will have a total investment of $57.3 million. Nine of these are in the garment, footwear and travel goods <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-clears-9-investment-plans-in-garment-footwear-travel-goods/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501239855/cambodia-clears-9-investment-plans-in-garment-footwear-travel-goods/
Cambodia’s agriculture census 2023 to be conducted in April
The Ministry of Planning will conduct the agriculture Census of Cambodia 2023 throughout the country from april 1 to 30. The information was shared in a meeting here on February 15 chaired by Dr Chhay Than, Senior Minister and Minister of Planning, and Chairman of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-agriculture-census-2023-to-be-conducted-in-april/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501240797/cambodias-agriculture-census-2023-to-be-conducted-in-april/
NagaWorld dispute drags on with 25th meeting
The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training remains unable to find a solution to the labour dispute between NagaWorld and its dismissed employees, while civil society organisations call on the ministry to end its role as mediator and for the use of existing legal mechanisms <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nagaworld-dispute-drags-on-with-25th-meeting/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Chea Sokny
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nagaworld-dispute-drags-25th-meeting
Preah Sihanouk land encroachers remove shacks, sign contracts
The Preah Sihanouk provincial authorities detained a group for allegedly encroaching on state land in Chamnot Ream village of Prey Nop district’s Bit Traing commune and dismantled the 18 huts they had built there. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/preah-sihanouk-land-encroachers-remove-shacks-sign-contracts/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Orm Bunthoeurn and Bor Pich Zelin
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-sihanouk-land-encroachers-remove-shacks-sign-contracts