Migrant workers deserve fair conditions abroad, lawmaker says
Cambodian migrant workers working legally or illegally in neighboring Thailand and other countries in the region have remitted more than $1 billion dollars annually, which contributes significantly to the economy, an opposition lawmaker says. But their emigration has affected local farming as well, emptying rural villages, ...
Men Kimseng
http://bit.ly/1apUD73
Gate’s design blamed in arson
A decorative gate erected in Siem Reap province’s Angkor Archaeological Park for the upcoming Khmer New Year festivities was burned down in the early hours of yesterday morning, following a backlash against its so-called Vietnamese design. Siem Reap Deputy Governor Bun Tharith said the gate – ...
Thik Kaliyann
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gates-design-blamed-arson
SEA mobile games revenue to hit US$7bil by 2019: Frost & Sullivan
The mobile games industry in South-East recorded impressive growth and reached over US$1 billion in revenue in 2014, according to Frost & Sullivan. Recent analysis from Frost & Sullivan shows that this was also the fastest growing region for mobile games in the world, driven by ...
DNA News Staff
https://www.digitalnewsasia.com/mobile-telco/sea-mobile-games-revenue-to-hit-usd7bil-by-2019-frost-sullivan
Vietnam, China trade ties seeing new momentum
Vietnam and China are gaining new impetus in economic relations, as evidenced by the continuous growth in bilateral trade revenue in the first half of 2015.Statistics from Vietnam’s General Statistics Office (GSO) released on Monday showed that China remained the largest trade partner of Vietnam ...
Want China Times News Staff
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20150716000057&cid=1102
Kingdom becoming more self-reliant on vegetables
A senior official at the Ministry of Agriculture has called on more investment in the horticulture and subsidiary crops sector because the demand for vegetables in the country has increased nearly 1,000 tonnes per day. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50726932/kingdom-becoming-more-self-reliant-on-vegetables/
WB sees Cambodia’s GDP shrinking one percent ahead of six percent rebound in 2021
The World Bank had forecasted that Cambodia’s economy would shrink 1.0 percent this year before rebounding 6.0 percent next year which was released in Washington yesterday. ...
Leasing Industry registers 63 percent surge in 2019
The Central Bank has reported that the total value in the leasing industry was recorded at 1,169 billion KHR ($287million), an increase of about 63 percent in 2019 compared with the year before. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50718028/leasing-industry-registers-63-percent-surge-in-2019/
ADB revises its Asia growth rate
The Asia Development Bank has revised its growth expectations for the entire region down to 6.1 per cent for 2012 in an update to its annual development outlook released in April. This revision comes after the IMF increased GDP projections for Cambodia to up to 7 per ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012100559119/Business/adb-revises-its-asia-growth-rate.html
Svay Rieng province sees over 2300 workers return in 2020
The deputy provincial governor of Svay Rieng has said that as of July 1, 2,317 people, of which 863 were females and 99 children, returned to the province in 2020. ...
Khann Chanvirak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50742354/svay-rieng-province-sees-over-2300-workers-return-in-2020/
Kratie land disputes ‘resolved’
The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction said on Tuesday that it had completed handing out land concessions to 1,382 families in Kampong Damrei commune, in Kratie province’s Chhlong district. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kratie-land-disputes-resolved
Kingdom receives aid for demining
The Chinese government on January 19 provided around $1 million worth of equipments for mine action in Cambodia. The aid came as Cambodia launched the National Mine Action Strategy 2018-2025. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-receives-aid-demining
Cambodia’s exports to Vietnam up 443% in first three months
Cambodia exported $ 1.47 billion worth of products to Vietnam in the first quarter of 2021, a dramatic increase of 443% from the same period last year. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50853469/cambodias-exports-to-vietnam-up-443-in-first-three-months/
Cambodia sets 2021 growth forecast at 2.5%
Cambodia drastically downgraded its economic forecast for 2021 to 2.5 per cent from the 4.1 per cent projection announced at the beginning of the year, due to the deteriorating Covid-19 situation. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-sets-2021-growth-forecast-25
NGO school calls for financial aid in these hard times
The Peoples Improvement Organization (PIO) has called for public donations to support more than 1,000 students studying full time from Kindergarten to Grade 12, amid the current financial crisis. ...
Mao Chanvireak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50922255/ngo-school-calls-for-financial-aid-in-these-hard-times/
Four agencies join Single Portal for new phase
The Ministry of Economy and Finance on September 1 is due to deploy Phase II of its online business registration platform, also known as the “Single Portal”, it said in a press release. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/four-agencies-join-single-portal-new-phase
Referral hospitals to give free Covid jabs indefinitely
Ministry of Health spokeswoman Or Vandine has advised the governors of the capital and provinces to continue vaccinations for children and all unvaccinated people ages 6 and up at designated referral hospitals or health centres despite the first round of the official vaccination campaigns having ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/referral-hospitals-give-free-covid-jabs-indefinitely
Indonesian Foreign Minister to pay an official visit on Tuesday
Ma Retno L.P. Marsudi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia, will pay an official visit to the Kingdom of Cambodia from Nov. 30 to Dec. 1, at the invitation of Prak Sokhonn, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50978385/indonesian-foreign-minister-to-pay-an-official-visit-on-tuesday/
China trade increases by 37% to pass $11B in 2021
The trade volume between Cambodia and China reached more than $11.1 billion last year, representing a 37.28 per cent year-on-year surge, the Chinese embassy in Phnom Penh reported, quoting figures from the Ministry of Commerce. ...
Hom Phanet
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/china-trade-increases-37-pass-11b-2021
NA passes draft plant protection law 92-0
The National Assembly (NA) on April 1 unanimously passed a draft law on phytosanitation and the protection of plants at the seventh session of its sixth mandate. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/na-passes-draft-plant-protection-law-92-0