UK to make trade preference available to least developed countries
Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) yesterday announced that developing countries which are eligible, like Cambodia, will be able to get trade preference through the United Kingdom’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) from January 1. ...
Sen Davith
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50784702/uk-to-make-trade-preference-available-to-least-developed-countries/
CDC okays five projects worth $121M
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) on December 4 said it had issued final registration certificates to five investment projects worth more than $121 million and which are expected to generate 1,334 jobs. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cdc-okays-five-projects-worth-121m
Covid guidelines set for festival
Prime Minister Hun Sen has instructed the Ministry of Health to issue guidelines on measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19 during the upcoming Water Festival from October 30 to November 1. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/covid-guidelines-set-festival
Cambodia to get more downpours from today
More rain is expected to come across Cambodia, from Wednesday, Aug. 26 to Sept. 1, according to the new weather forecast released this morning by the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology (MOWRAM). ...
Phal Sophanith/AKP
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50756964/cambodia-to-get-more-downpours-from-today/
Passenger traffic slides down 67 percent while development of new airports boom
Cambodia’s three international airports handled 1.9 million air passengers in the first six months of this year, a 67.5 percent decrease from 6 million air passengers last year. ...
Chea Vannak /AKP
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50747225/passenger-traffic-slides-down-67-percent-while-development-of-new-airports-boom/
No entry from two nations
Alarmed over the number of Covid-positive passengers coming in via Malaysia and Indonesia, the government is temporarily suspending flights from both countries from August 1 until their infection rates decline. ...
Khann Chan Virak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50748812/no-entry-from-two-nations/
Prolonged VAT exemptions to benefit farmers
As revenues have soared, the General Department of Customs and Excise of Cambodia (GDCE) has opted not to impose new value-added taxes (VAT) on select agricultural equipment in policies set to take effect on January 1, next year. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/prolonged-vat-exemptions-benefit-farmers
Ministry ‘bullish’ on prospects of recovery
The Kingdom’s real economic growth is expected to recover by 4 percent in 2021 following a contraction of 3.1 percent in 2020, according to a report from the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF). ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50807772/ministry-bullish-on-prospects-of-recovery/
‘Stop COVID’ QR Code takes off
More than 1,900 public and private institutions, restaurants, hotels and factories were registered to implement a QR Code “Stop COVID” to increase the efficiency and speed of prevention and control of the spread of the COVID-19 virus. ...
Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50816331/stop-covid-qr-code-takes-off/
Sinovac vaccine rollout begins today to jab 745,000 people
The Ministry of Health yesterday announced that it will start vaccinating people in Cambodia with the Sinovac vaccine from today after 1.5 million doses purchased by the government arrived in Cambodia from China on Friday. ...
Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50832702/sinovac-vaccine-rollout-begins-today-to-jab-745000-people/
Floating home owners seek assistance
Over 1,500 floating houses and fish farming cages have been dismantled and evacuated from the rivers in Phnom Penh, according to Phnom Penh municipal police spokesman San Sok Seyha. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/floating-home-owners-seek-assistance
EU $2billion pledge benefits Cambodia’s education system
The European Union (EU) has pledged €1.7 billion (about $2 billion) to the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) with an objective to help reform education system in 90 countries around the world including Cambodia. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50906313/eu-2billion-pledge-benefits-cambodias-education-system/
Trade deficit with Korea widens 43%
Bilateral trade between Cambodia and South Korea was worth $552.1 million in the first seven months of this year, growing by nearly 11 per cent on a yearly basis from $498.75 million, according to the Korea International Trade Association (Kita). ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/trade-deficit-korea-widens-43
Access to clean water ticks up 11.8%
The number of households nationwide with access to clean water reached 1,091,869 last year, up by 11.80 per cent from 976,621 in 2020, according to the Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation. ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/access-clean-water-ticks-118
Customs revenues reaches $2.295 billion in 2021
Approximately $2.295 billion was collected as customs revenue in 2021, about 97.1 percent of the yearly plan, according to the data from the General Department of Customs and Excise (GDCE). ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501023830/customs-revenues-reaches-2-295-billion-in-2021/
Pig carcasses being smuggled from Cambodia to Thailand seized, driver of truck nabbed
About 1.5 metric tons of pork carcasses were seized by Thai Livestock and customs Sunday. The pork had been allegedly smuggled into Thailand’s eastern border province of Sa Kaeo from Cambodia, Thai media PBS World reported. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501197255/pig-carcasses-being-smuggled-from-cambodia-to-thailand-seized-driver-of-truck-nabbed/
Cambodia’s export to Japan jumps 11.4%
Cambodia exported $1.81 billion worth of products to Japan in the first 11 months of last year, a year-on-year increase of 11.4 percent, according to the data from the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) yesterday. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501216672/cambodias-export-to-japan-jumps-11-4/
SME Co-Financing Scheme II nearly runs out of budget
Small and Medium Enterprise Bank of Cambodia Plc (SME Bank) has released nearly $234 million to 1,981 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in various sectors across the country through SME Co-Financing Scheme II (SCFS II) from mid-August last year to July this year, according to ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501132349/sme-co-financing-scheme-ii-nearly-runs-out-of-budget/
Cambodia’s industry is expected to grow by 9.2 percent in 2023
The Cambodian industry is expected to grow by 9.2 per cent in 2023 with support from improved external demand that help boost garment and non-garment manufacturing, while the garment sector is expected to grow by 8.1 per cent in that year due to demand in ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501100710/cambodias-industry-is-expected-to-grow-by-9-2-percent-in-2023/
Australian miners find gold in Mondulkiri
Australian mining company Renaissance Minerals has produced its first gold in Cambodia’s Mondulkiri province, earning the Cambodia government $5.1 million in taxes, a senior government official said on Tuesday. ...
Chhorn Raksmey
https://kiripost.com/stories/australian-miners-find-gold-in-mondulkiri
