New capital international airport to employ 20,000
Prime Minister Hun Sen confirmed yesterday that the current Phnom Penh International Airport will be used only for the head of state, heads of local governments and Cambodian senior leaders, as a military airbase, for domestic flights, private jets and for diplomatic officials and foreign ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50736826/new-capital-international-airport-to-employ-20000/
Hydropower Dams
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A subset of data containing known operational and planned hydropower dams in the Greater Mekong Subregion, for Cambodia, compiled by International Rivers and published in June 2014. Dams data are compiled from various sources, including: the Global Reservoir and Dam (GRanD) Database, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural ...
New $9M brickworks in Kampot
Kampot province has becomes the home of a new $9 million brickworks that was officially inaugurated on November 22. Equipped with state-of-the-art technology and an automated production line, the factory will be able to turn out 800,000 bricks per day in its initial phase, Kampot ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-9m-brickworks-kampot
Navy rejects US concern over upgrade of Ream base
The Royal Cambodian Navy yesterday brushed aside a concern raised by the United States Department of Defense which alleged that the Kingdom may be hosting China military assets and personnel at Ream Naval Base after Cambodia demolished a US-built facility at the naval base in ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50769633/navy-rejects-us-concern-over-upgrade-of-ream-base/
Endangered status mulled for Kesor Kol
The Ministry of Environment is planning to declare wild Kesor Kol plants – a type of orchid – an endangered species with increased protections, according to the ministry’s secretary of state Neth Pheaktra. Pheaktra also warned of legal action against those who collect or sell wild Kesor ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/endangered-status-mulled-kesor-kol
National Road 10 project construction on track
National Road 10, which will link Battambang to Koh Kong province, is now 43.75 percent complete and scheduled to open for traffic in 2023. This was announced by the Secretary of State of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport Bong Bun Hourn following an ...
Jason Boken
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50807538/national-road-10-project-construction-on-track/
80MW wind farm project in Kampot hits EdC price snag
French-owned The Blue Circle’s 80MW wind power investment project in Kampot province has hit an impasse, as its proposed $0.068 per kWh tariff rate for the national grid exceeds what state-run energy supplier Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) is willing to pay, according to a Ministry ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/80mw-wind-farm-project-kampot-hits-edc-price-snag
Cambodia set to reaffirm commitment at Non-aligned Movement conference
Ouch Borith – minister attached to the prime minister and permanent secretary of state for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation – is slated to personally attend the High-Level Meeting to Commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the First Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement ...
Environment ministry’s Neth Pheaktra on purposeful PR
For many years now, Ministry of Environment secretary of state and spokesman Neth Pheaktra has been leading tour groups composed of journalists on visits to Cambodia’s natural protected areas, which are often otherwise legally off-limits to anyone but forest rangers and the communities living there. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/environment-ministrys-neth-pheaktra-purposeful-pr
Tonle Sap Lake forest replanting underway
More than 60,000ha of flooded forest land in Zone 3 in the six provinces around the Tonle Sap Lake has been reclaimed from nearly 15,000 families and returned to the state. Officials have since reforested the area with different kinds of trees, bamboos and palm ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tonle-sap-lake-forest-replanting-underway
Justice ministry inks MoU with US digital library
On behalf of Minister of Justice Koeut Rith, justice ministry secretary of state Chin Malin signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Building Bridges USA (BBUSA) Law Office on “Enriching legal knowledge and the use of an electronic law library”, in a ceremony held ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/justice-ministry-inks-mou-us-digital-library
US ambassador commits to ties with Cambodia
The United States is scheduled to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts later this month in an effort to protect and restore Khmer culture, a move said to help the tourism sector’s rebound after being hit hard ...
Prak Chan Thul
https://kiripost.com/stories/us-ambassador-commits-to-ties-with-cambodia
Profit down in first nine months of year: PPAP
Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP), a listed state-owned river quay, reported a decline in revenue for the first nine months of 2023, a decrease attributed to unfavorable global economic conditions, largely exacerbated by the prolonged Russia-Ukraine conflict, which has adversely impacted global demand. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/profit-down-first-nine-months-year-ppap-2
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 ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/admm-plus-members-affirm-commitment-peace-stability
Cambodia, Germany explore investment diversification
German delegation led by Michael Keller, Secretary of State of the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action yesterday called on Sok Chenda Sophea, Minister attached to Prime Minister and Secretary General of the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC)—the highest decision making ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501239504/cambodia-germany-explore-investment-diversification/
SME Bank loans top $432M, help at least 3,260 businesses
The state-owned Small and Medium Enterprise Bank of Cambodia Plc (SME Bank) has disbursed more than $432 million in loans to at least 3,260 SMEs, to keep them from going under during the height of the Covid-19 crisis, and subsequently to help them reopen and ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sme-bank-loans-top-432m-help-least-3260-businesses
Commercial Court could function ‘as early as 2024’: Justice ministry officials
A Ministry of Justice official said that a Commercial Court could be established and put into action as soon as 2024. Addressing the February 2 “AmCham Business Law Conclave: Critical Updates That You Need to Know for 2023” in Phnom Penh, justice ministry secretary of state ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/commercial-court-could-function-early-2024-justice-ministry-officials
New train builds efficiency for China-ASEAN biz
The China-Laos-Thailand round-trip train, an extension of the China-Laos Railway, was successfully launched on Tuesday. The new efficient, stable cold chain channel is expected to inject new impetus into trade between China and member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501236371/new-train-builds-efficiency-for-china-asean-biz/
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. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn and Bor Pich Zelin
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-sihanouk-land-encroachers-remove-shacks-sign-contracts
Ministry establishes a working group for justice reform
The Ministry of Justice has established a Strategic, Policy Research and Analysis Group to reform and amend laws and regulations in the field of justice in Cambodia. A decision by the Ministry on Friday stated that a strategic, policy research and analysis team in the ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501420008/ministry-establishes-a-working-group-for-justice-reform/