Koh Kong Zhejiang SEZ aims to attract 100 additional companies by year-end
Koh Kong Zhejiang Special Economic Zone (SEZ), located in Koh Kong province’s Sre Ambel district, currently hosts 28 companies and has pledged to attract 100 more by the end of 2024, according to a June 21 press release from the Council for the Development of ...
Cambodia’s trade with RCEP countries rose 14% H1 2024
Cambodia’s trade with the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) countries reached $16.9 billion in the first half of this year, up 14% from $14.8 billion over the same period last year, said a Ministry of Commerce’s report on Saturday. ...
Xinhua
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501526316/cambodias-trade-with-rcep-countries-rose-14-h1-2024/
Manet announces agricultural specialists for CLV-DTA communes
Agriculture officials are set to be deployed to all communes in the four Cambodian provinces of the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Summit Development Triangle Area (CLV-DTA) to strengthen the agricultural sector. The four provinces are Ratanakkiri, Mondulkiri, Kratie and Stung Treng. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/manet-announces-agricultural-specialists-for-clv-dta-communes
Women’s success key to Cambodia’s growth, says Ratha
With women constituting 61 percent of entrepreneurs in Cambodia, including 62 percent of micro-sized businesses and 26 percent of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), their success is crucial to the growth of the economy, said Chea Ratha, Secretary of State, Ministry of Commerce, recently. ...
Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501533923/womens-success-key-to-cambodias-growth-says-ratha/
KOICA commits additional $3 million to fund Tuol Sleng digital archives
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has committed an additional $3 million to fund the second phase of the “Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum Archives Preservation and Digitisation” project, which aims to address challenges that remain in ensuring the quality and accessibility of the archives. ...
Civil service database updated to streamline workflow
The Ministry of Civil Service has updated the details of civil servants working in the education and healthcare sectors into the sub-national database. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501548690/civil-service-database-updated-to-streamline-workflow/
PM plans for 7,000 schools to replicate Wat Bo school’s success
Prime Minister Hun Manet has unveiled an ambitious plan to transform 7,000 public schools to replicate the success of Wat Bo Primary School in Siem Reap, known for its high-quality education and exemplary student behaviour. ...
Kuch Sikol
https://kiripost.com/stories/pm-plans-for-7000-schools-to-replicate-wat-bo-schools-success
Phnom Penh Port’s August, 8-month revenue sees buoyant rise
State-owned Phnom Penh Autonomous Port’s revenue for August 2024 climbed 25 percent to $4.4 million from last year, amid buoyant growth in container TEUs and cargo volumes between January and August this year. ...
Sangeetha Amarthalingam
https://kiripost.com/stories/phnom-penh-ports-august-8-month-revenue-sees-buoyant-rise
Iron and steel imports up nearly 60 percent
According to the data released by the General Department of Customs and Excise (GDCE) earlier this month, iron and steel imports into the Kingdom increased by 59.2 percent during the first eight months of 2024 compared to the imports of these two core construction materials ...
James Whitehead
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501564466/iron-and-steel-imports-up-nearly-60-percent/
REDD+ scholarships and training reduce indigenous reliance on forest resources
The REDD+ Keo Seima Project, implemented by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, is providing scholarships and vocational training to 73 indigenous students and youth to help them continue their studies and earn income without relying on forest resources. ...
Phak Seangly
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/redd-scholarships-and-training-reduce-indigenous-reliance-on-forest-resources
Govt to address economic challenges, Pornmoniroth says
Aun Pornmoniroth, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance (MEF), yesterday asked the private sector to engage in discussions on major issues such as addressing current economic challenges, revising export tax on copper tax and reassessing overdue interest rates. ...
Nhean Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501570207/govt-to-address-economic-challenges-pornmoniroth-says/
Ministry: Regional nurseries underway; will support reforestation efforts
The Ministry of Environment is currently establishing a regional tree nursery at the Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary Office in Mondulkiri Province. Once completed, it will produce more than half a million saplings, which will be distributed to citizens for planting, with the goal of restoring ...
Phak Seangly
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-regional-nurseries-underway-will-support-reforestation-efforts
NEC readies first council election for new Kampong Som city
Election for a new city in Preah Sihanouk province has been officially scheduled for January next year. The National Election Committee (NEC) has picked January 26, 2025 for electing the Kampong Som City Council for the first time ever. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501571568/nec-readies-first-council-election-for-new-kampong-som-city/
MRC ministerial council approves a drought management strategy, other policies, boosting Mekong countries’ ability to prepare for future disaster
On 26 November 2019, Ministerial delegates from the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Council today at their annual gathering in Phnom Penh approved a drought management strategy for 2020-2025, allowing Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam to prepare for and manage drought collectively. The approved ...
Mekong River Commission
Students Urge All Sides to Keep Election Protests Peaceful
More than 200 students and opposition supporters marched Sunday around Phnom Penh’s Wat Phnom with flowers in hand, urging parties to refrain from violence during Saturday’s protest against last month’s contested national election results and for recent incitement charges against two students to be dropped. The ...
Zsombor Peter and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/students-urge-all-sides-to-keep-election-protests-peaceful-41556/
A minor melee mars day’s events
A day of peaceful demonstrations gave way to an evening of unrest last night as a handful of protesters were removed from a small patch of land across from the United States embassy and a grup of uninvolved people threw Molotov cocktails towards riot police ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minor-melee-mars-day%E2%80%99s-events
Familiar feel to shuffle
Ten of the Kingdom’s 24 ministerial positions are set to be reshuffled at the launch of the new government, according to an internal party memo obtained yesterday. Among those tapped for a cabinet position is Say Sam El – the 34-year-old son of Senate deputy president ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/familiar-feel-shuffle
Minister Says Set Phone Call Prices ‘Temporary’
The minister of posts and telecommunications on Monday insisted an edict ordering the country’s seven mobile phone operators to abide by a law that sets minimum prices for calls is only temporary. Prak Sokhon, the newly-appointed posts and telecommunications minister, said the order was necessary because ...
Joshua Wilwohl and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/minister-says-set-phone-call-prices-temporary-48975/
Opposition Youth Sing Against the Ban as Armed Police Patrol
A group of eight opposition CNRP youth supporters sang a single song near Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park before police deployed nearby had a chance to break up their concert on Thursday, a musical test of the new ban on public gatherings in the wake of ...
Mech Dara and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/opposition-youth-sing-against-the-ban-as-armed-police-patrol-50401/