ASEAN Online Sale Day 2021 slated for August 8-10
ASEAN countries are preparing for the ASEAN Online Sale Day 2021, which is slated for August 8-10. Comprising two tiers for domestic and cross-border transactions, this year’s programme will be co-chaired by Brunei, which is chair of ASEAN in 2021, Singapore and Vietnam. ...
Asia News Network
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/asean-online-sale-day-2021-slated-august-8-10
Best, Cainiao launch China logistics service
Best Inc, a ChInese smart supply chaIn solutions and logistics services provider, on August 2 rolled out a “full-chaIn, direct logistics service” to send packages from ChIna to Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam, it said In a press release. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/best-cainiao-launch-china-logistics-service
Officials meet with their EU counterparts to talk recovery
Senior government officials and European counterparts met last Friday to discuss Cambodia’s economic plan. New trade policies to help the Kingdom recover from the pandemic were the focus of the conversation as well as the World Trade Organization’s role in shaping the post-pandemic recovery. ...
Husain Haider
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50896690/officials-meet-with-their-eu-counterparts-to-talk-recovery/
Boeng Tompun canal cleared of waste to prevent flooding
More than 2,500 trucks of garbage and overgrown grass, equivalent to 12,050 cubic metres, were removed following four months of restoration work on the almost four-kilometre-long Boeng Tompun canal, which was built to prevent flooding in five Phnom Penh districts. ...
Mao Chanvireak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50903527/boeng-tompun-canal-cleared-of-waste-to-prevent-flooding/
Kingdom’s exports of organic foods to Oz set to gain boost
Cambodian organic exports to Australia are expected to gain more momentum after the government inked a deal with Lexmin Pty Ltd’s branch in the Kingdom, according to Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-exports-organic-foods-oz-set-gain-boost
Vietnam deal struck for longan exports amid Thai border closure
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on August 12 called on exporters of Pailin longan to divert their products from Thailand to Vietnam in light of the Covid-related Cambodia-Thai border closures, as the harvest season ramps up. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/vietnam-deal-struck-longan-exports-amid-thai-border-closure
3rd dose campaign for frontliners with AstraZeneca to begin by Monday the latest
Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered the National Ad-hoc Commission for COVID-19 Vaccination to launch the 3rd dose campaign for frontliners in the second week of this month or not later than next Monday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50910440/3rd-dose-campaign-for-frontliners-with-astrazeneca-to-begin-by-monday-the-latest/
PPAP: Port business remains afloat
The locally-listed Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) on August 9 posted a recovery in business performance over the first seven months of this year as the Kingdom leverages its relatively brisk coronavirus vaccine rollout to ease out of the Covid stranglehold. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ppap-port-business-remains-afloat
Senate nod for draft APTERR law on agri ties
The Senate yesterday approved the draft law on amendments to the ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve (APTERR), a regional cooperation aimed to strengthen food security, poverty alleviation, and malnourishment eradication within the region without distorting normal trade in the global market. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50918767/senate-nod-for-draft-apterr-law-on-agri-ties/
Cambodia home to 849 species of moth
Cambodia is home to 849 species of moth, pointed out the Angkor Centre for Conservation of Biodiversity (ACCB) in a Facebook post today on the occasion of the National Moth Week which started on July 17. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50898002/cambodia-home-to-849-species-of-moth/
Sokhonn addresses non-aligned movement
Minister of Foreign Affairs and international Cooperation Prak Sokhonn said it is only with true multilateralism that the international community will be able to address the current major challenges because they are global in impact. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/sokhonn-addresses-non-aligned-movement
Workshop to raise awareness regarding child abuse online
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport will hold a five-day workshop on the topic of “online sexual exploitation of children in Cambodia” next week to raise awareness of the risks the internet poses to children. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workshop-raise-awareness-regarding-child-abuse-online
Capital’s south an ‘improving foundation to build on’: CBRE
Interest In “Southern Phnom Penh” has gaIned substantial traction over the past five years sInce plans for Hun Sen Boulevard were unveiled, triggerIng a frenzy of real estate speculation, CBRE Cambodia reported on August 12. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/capitals-south-improving-foundation-build-cbre
Cambodia’s children 46th most vulnerable to climate change
UNICEF warns that children in Cambodia are at high risk of being negatively impacted by the ongoing climate change crisis, which poses a threat to their health, education and economic prospects. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodias-children-46th-most-vulnerable-climate-change
Japan gives $72M for water supply expansion, socio-economic development
The Japanese government will extend loan and grant totaling $72.72 million for an ongoing water supply expansion project and the implementation of socio-economic development programmes in Cambodia, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and international Cooperation. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/japan-gives-72m-water-supply-expansion-socio-economic-development
Cup plant to use rice, corn, cassava
Local enterprise TK&D Manufacturing on September 19 inaugurated a new production line for paper cups and straws made from rice, corn and cassava in Pursat province’s easternmost Krakor district, to supply domestic and international markets. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cup-plant-use-rice-corn-cassava
Parts of deity statue unearthed at Angkor Thom, reassembled
Archaeologists from the Apsara National Authority (ANA), a body tasked with managing the Angkor Archaeological Park, have unearthed the partial head and shoulders of a statue of a deity near Angkor Thom’s Ta Kav gate in Siem Reap province, and have reassembled the sculpture for ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/parts-deity-statue-unearthed-angkor-thom-reassembled
Spice community ready to enter into Mena region
The Cambodia Pepper and Spices Federation (CPSF), in collaboration with USAID-funded Feed the Future Cambodia Harvest II project (Harvest II), on September 20 virtually launched the “Export Mission to the Middle East and North Africa” programme. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/spice-community-ready-enter-mena-region
King, PM congratulate Hungary over anniversary of diplomatic ties
King Norodom Sihamoni in a congratulatory letter to President of Hungary János Áder on September 10 to mark the 65th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between the two countries had also expressed his intention to visit the country. ...
Sar Socheath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50938533/king-pm-congratulate-hungary-over-anniversary-of-diplomatic-ties/