Cambodia's construction sector attracts 2.27 bln USD in 9 months
Cambodia’s construction sector has attracted a total investment of 2.27 billion U.S. dollars in the first nine months of 2013, up 24 percent compared with 1.83 billion U.S. dollars over the same period last year, a government report showed Thursday. The report said during the January-September ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-10/31/c_132848042.htm
Cops on call for KNY
As hundreds of thousands participate in the annual mass migration from Phnom Penh to their home provinces for Khmer New Year next week, military police will remain at their posts. National Military Police in the capital and provincial outlets will be working at full capacity 24 ...
Vong Sokheng and Maria Wirth
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cops-call-kny
Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) Launched to Help Nation Reach Annual Rice Export Target of One Million Tons by 2015
Cambodia officially announced the creation of the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) to improve competitiveness, promote trade, and increase investment in the rice sector, according to comments from the Prime Minister. Board elections are expected to take place Mrch 24 and the chairman is limited to ...
Oryza News Staff
http://oryza.com/news/rice-news/cambodia-rice-federation-crf-launched-help-nation-reach-annual-rice-export-target-one
Provincial governors get RCAF promotions
The governors of Siem Reap and Kompong Chhnang provinces have been promoted in the military, according to a royal decree signed last month. The decree, which was signed by King Norodom Sihamoni and dated April 24, promotes Siem Reap governor Khim Bunsong from major general to ...
Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/provincial-governors-get-rcaf-promotions-58615/
Gov't eyes industrial expansion
In search of Cambodia’s next economic growth driver, the government yesterday laid out the Cambodia Industrial Development Policy 2015-2025, which aims to expand the Kingdom’s narrow industrial base beyond garments and rice.The new policy, launched by Prime Minister Hun Sen at the Peace Palace in ...
Sor Chandara and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-eyes-industrial-expansion
Cambodia’s vaccination coverage reach an amazing 23 percent
The vaccination coverage against COVID-19 pandemic in Cambodia rose to almost 23 percent or some 2,280,875 of the planned 10 million people to be vaccinated, as of May 24. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50862220/cambodias-vaccination-coverage-reach-an-amazing-23-percent/
Nat’l Road 4 to be widened
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport is in the final stages of project planning for the widening of National Road 4 from 7m to 10m. The project is scheduled to last 24 months from 2022 to 2023. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://phnompenhpost.com/national/natl-road-4-be-widened
Representatives of 210 families protest at Siem Reap provincial hall demanding land compensation
More than 100 villagers claiming to represent more than 200 families in Prasat Bakong district, Siem Reap province protest in front of the provincial hall on the morning of October 24 to demand fair land compensation as the market prices while officials have promised to ...
Cambodia’s new government approves goals for new mandate
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet on August 24 chaired the first meeting of the Council of Ministers, with the official launch of the government’s Pentagon Strategy Phase I high on the agenda. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501349610/cambodias-new-government-approves-goals-for-new-mandate/
Hun Sen urges balanced approach to conflicts in address to UNGA
Prime Minister Hun Sen addressed the 77th UN General Assembly (UNGA) in the early hours of September 24, highlighting global challenges exacerbated by the escalation of armed conflicts and superpower rivalry, among others, while urging world leaders to adopt a balanced approach to the pressing ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-urges-balanced-approach-conflicts-address-unga-0
Cash aid for poor, vulnerable households enters 12th round
As of January 24, the government has spent more than $930 million in cash support for poor and vulnerable households affected by Covid-19, with nearly 2.8 million people receiving payments. ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cash-aid-poor-vulnerable-households-enters-12th-round
Cash aid for poor, vulnerable households enters 12th round
As of January 24, the government has spent more than $930 million in cash support for poor and vulnerable households affected by Covid-19, with nearly 2.8 million people receiving payments. ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cash-aid-poor-vulnerable-households-enters-12th-round
Legacy fund launched for Cardamoms
The government and international donors on March 24 launched the Legacy Landscape Fund for the Central Cardamom Mountains National Park. The fund aims to improve the management of the protected area. ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/legacy-fund-launched-cardamoms
NEC announce opening dates of party, candidate registration
The National Election Committee (NEC) announced that the process of registration for parties and candidates for July’s national election will be open for 15 days, from April 24 to May 8. ...
Kim Yutharo
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-announce-opening-dates-party-candidate-registration
Kingdom endorses dolphin declaration
A senior official from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, along with representatives from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Cambodia, attended the Global Declaration of River Dolphins event in Bogota, Colombia, on October 23-24. ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-endorses-dolphin-declaration
Minister of Commerce chairs the 2ndmeeting of the CCC and NCCP
On 24 January, 2024, ChamNimul, Minister of Commerce and the Chairperson of the Cambodian Competition Commission (CCC) chaired the 2nd Meeting of the CCC in order to review, discuss, and approve the regulations under the Law on Competitionat the Ministry of Commerce. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501428841/minister-of-commerce-chairs-the-2ndmeeting-of-the-ccc-and-nccp/
Floods show Laos needs early warning
Heavy flooding during the rainy season, affecting 10 out of 17 provinces in Laos, has underlined the need for stronger disaster-management efforts, experts say. Tropical storm Haima struck central and northern parts of the country on June 24, with Nock-10 hitting central and southern areas on ...
Draft budget law allocates $2.6bn for 2012
Total government spending in 2012 is set to reach $2.62 billion, an increase of 9 percent on the $2.4 billion the government had budgeted to spend in 2011, according to a copy of the 2012 draft budget law obtained yesterday. As part of the new budget, ...
UAE considering Kingdom's rice
Cambodia plans to expand its exports of milled rice and other agricultural products to the United Arab Emirates, Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh said yesterday. The UAE seeks a replacement for the milled rice it would otherwise import from Thailand, where the worst flooding in decades ...
MRC awards green campaign winners to raise awareness of plastic pollution
A Phnom Penh resident was among the six winners of a green campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of disposing plastic waste in the river as the Mekong River Commission (MRC) on Friday commemorated the 24th anniversary of the signing of the agreement that ...