Electricity provider to offer Wing payments
Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) on Monday announced it will offer customers in Sihanoukville, Battambang and Siem Reap the option to pay their bills via mobile payment provider Wing. EdC and Wing officials signed an agreement on July 1 at the Cambodiana Hotel in Phnom Penh authorising ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/electricity-provider-offer-wing-payments
Government rolls out new agriculture policy
The Ministry of Agriculture on Tuesday released a draft policy to strengthen the agriculture sector by educating farmers on how to gain greater access to markets and increase their productivity by using sustainable farming methods. The Agriculture Extension Policy, drafted in cooperation with USAID, aims to ...
Kang Sothear and George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/government-rolls-out-new-agriculture-policy-65282/
Cambodia joins 54th ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting
Foreign Affairs minister Prak Sokhonn will participate in the 54th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (54th AMM) and related meetings starting today until August 6 via video conference. ...
Son Minea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50906328/cambodia-joins-54th-asean-foreign-ministers-meeting/
Vietnam, Cambodia foster economic, science and technology partnership
Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn co-chaired the 19th meeting of the Vietnam-Cambodia Joint Committee on economic, science and technology cooperation via viDeoconference on December 19. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50992272/vietnam-cambodia-foster-economic-science-and-technology-partnership/
ACLEDA, ABA to facilitate Port EDI payment service
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with ACLEDA Bank and ABA Bank to facilitate the payment of public service fees via Port EDI, an electronic data exchange system. ...
Hom Phanet
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/acleda-aba-facilitate-port-edi-payment-service
Spokespersons unit created to address criticism from media
In order to counter criticisms made by journalists and the general public, the government has created a unit made out of ministry spokespersons to ensure speedy responses. The decision to create the unit was sanctioned by Prime Minister Hun Sen on March 6 via a ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50586572/spokespersons-unit-created-to-address-criticism-from-media/
CIMBT expands intra-Asean ATM service
CIMB Bank Thai (CIMBT) clients will one day able to use ATMs for financial transactions anywhere in Asean. The regional linkage of ATMs is aimed at improving service and cost efficiency as a part of the CIMB Group’s regional strategy. Executive vice-president Dusanee Klewpatinontha said Cambodia has ...
http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/economics/312275/cimbt-expands-intra-asean-atm-service
Qatar Airways to Cambodia
Qatar Airways will add a stop in Phnom Penh on it [sic] Doha-Ho Chi Minh City route, 20 February, while Air France announced it will pull its Phnom Penh service in March. Qatar Airways will operate a daily service between Doha-Phnom Penh via Ho Chi Minh ...
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2012/12/qatar-airways-to-cambodia/
Tractor Imports From Thailand Decline
The number of agricultural tractors and power-trailers imported to Cambodia through the Poipet International Checkpoint in Banteay Meanchey province has decreased by 72 percent in the first six months of the year, compared to the same period last year, the provincial commerce department said. Thong Thyna, ...
Rainsy courts Vietnamese
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy yesterday said that up to a quarter of a million ethnic Vietnamese living in Cambodia could be granted full citizenship rights via the Nationality Law if his Cambodia National Rescue Party were to come to power. The CNRP president has sought in ...
Kevin Ponniah and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-courts-vietnamese
Border provinces tightening up as Omicron hits Thailand
Amid fears of large-scale transmission of the new Covid-19 variant Omicron, border province authorities are looking at the possibility of implementing strict measures for crossing migrant workers, including implementing mandatory quarantines and PCR testing. These measures are the result of what was learnt dealing with ...
Yim Sreylin
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50997363/border-provinces-tightening-up-as-omicron-hits-thailand/
Cambodia’s Ministry of Commerce advises exporters to find alternatives as Vietnam-China border crossings congested
The Ministry of Commerce yesterday informed traders, Association of Freight Forwarders, Importers and the public that at present, exporting goods to China via the Vietnam China border may become an issue due to the severe bottleneck. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501000340/cambodias-ministry-of-commerce-advises-exporters-to-find-alternatives-as-vietnam-china-border-crossings-congested/
Use app to report road damage: ministry
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport on January 21 reiterated a call to the public to report road damage via the ministry’s “Road Care” app, to ensure prompt repair. ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/use-app-report-road-damage-ministry
Cambodia’s electronic payment amount among highest in world
The amount of payments made via electronic system in Cambodia reached nearly 1,000 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2022, said a senior official of National Bank of Cambodia (NBC). ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501319532/cambodias-electronic-payment-amount-among-highest-in-world/
Amid credit expansion, Riel loans minimal
Cambodia’s credit sector is expanding rapidly with the central bank saying now is the time to start infusing the market with riel and begin a process of de-dollarization in the country’s economy. But as the growth of dollarized loans outstrips those in riel, disbursing credit ...
George Styllis and Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/amid-credit-expansion-riel-loans-minimal-66610/
Ground breaks on Battambang water plant
Ground has been broken on a new water treatment plant in Battambang province which will serve the provincial capital. The plant, in Kampong Wat Kor commune’s Seima village of the town, is co-financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Agence Francaise De Developpement- AFD ...
Yuth Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ground-breaks-battambang-water-plant
First two days of voter registration nets over 30K new voters
The National Election Committee (NEC) confirmed that in the first two days of new registration on October 20-21 for next year’s national election, more than 30,000 new voters had registered, while nearly 6,000 people have been de-listed. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/first-two-days-voter-registration-nets-over-30k-new-voters
Maid nightmares retold
A Cambodia migrant worker who was at times threatened at knifepoint, tied up or punched in the head by her employer yesterday revealed her chilling experience of the labour recruitment industry. Following her testimony via video link, broadcast at Sam Rainsy Party headquarters, opposition parliamentarian ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011082651282/National-news/labour-nightmares-retold.html
Investment accounts open
Several securities firms are opening accounts, even as the first listing on the Cambodia Securities Exchange are not expected until later this year, company officials said yesterday. The CSX was launched on July 11 without any listed firms, though state-owned Telecom Cambodia, Phnom Penh Water Supply ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011072850678/Business/investment-accounts-open.html
Southwest border flooded with contraband
The southwestern areas along the Vietnam – Cambodia border are now in their usual busy time of the year, with smuggled goods entering the country with near impunity. Most of the markets in the Mekong delta are flooded with various contraband products, mostly brought from China ...
http://tuoitrenews.vn/cmlink/tuoitrenews/business/southwest-border-flooded-with-contraband-1.97203