MoH discovers 4th case of monkeypox
Another person was diagnosed with monkeypox on Tuesday, bringing to four the number of cases of the illness in Cambodia, the Ministry of Health announced. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501428689/moh-discovers-4th-case-of-monkeypox/
Govt seeks $40B capital to build infrastructures by 2033
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) and the Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MPWT) yesterday held a meeting to review the process of transport and logistics master plan as the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) seeks an investment capital of nearly $40 ...
Nhean Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501443206/govt-seeks-40b-capital-to-build-infrastructures-by-2033/
Cambodia exports rubber worth $490.6 million in 2023
Cambodia exported 368,048 tonnes of dry rubber in 2023, a slight decrease of 1.3 percent from 372,903 tonnes in a year earlier, said a report from the General Directorate of Rubber on Wednesday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501425159/cambodia-exports-rubber-worth-490-6-million-in-2023/
CDC registered 22 investment projects worth $444 million in the first 15 days of February 2024
In the 15 days of February 2024, the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) decided to issue certificates for the registration of 22 qualified investment projects with a total investment capital of more than $444 million. This is according to the report from the ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501442338/cdc-registered-22-investment-projects-worth-444-million-in-the-first-15-days-of-february-2024/
Ministry of Labour and the Dariu Foundation of Switzerland sign MoU on digital technology training
Heng Sour, Minister of Labour and Vocational Training, and Rajiv Pradhan, Country Director in Cambodia of the Dariu Foundation of Switzerland, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the Digital Literacy Initiative for young people and students of technical training institutions to receive digital education for ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501445560/ministry-of-labour-and-the-dariu-foundation-of-switzerland-sign-mou-on-digital-technology-training/
“Release wing star shoes union leader Chea Chan”, CATU pleads with Kampong Speu court
The Cambodian Alliance of Trade Unions (CATU) demands that Kampong Speu Provincial Court drop the criminal charge against Chea Chan, union president of Wing Star Shoes, and release him. ...
Sovann Sreypich
https://cambojanews.com/release-wing-star-shoes-union-leader-chea-chan-catu-pleads-with-kampong-speu-court/
650 civil servants get digital tech training
The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications’ Cambodia Academy of Digital Technology has announced that it provided digital skills training for 650 civil servants between November and March, offering certificates upon completion that it says will prove their digital competency. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/650-civil-servants-get-digital-tech-training
PP improves traffic management skills
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Phnom Penh City Hall yesterday signed an agreement to improve the capacity of traffic management personnel. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50939298/pp-improves-traffic-management-skills/
Stop and go: More traffic lights going up in capital
Phnom Penh is looking to improve its traffic light system and will fit more than 30 unregulated intersections with traffic lights by February next year, City Hall has announced. The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which is assisting the city, has prioritised the system as a ...
Annie Lee
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/stop-and-go-more-traffic-lights-going-capital
One-Party Parliament Effortlessly Passes $3.56 Billion Budget
Sixty-six National Assembly members of the ruling CPP on Tuesday unanimously approved Cambodia’s $3.56 billion draft budget for 2014 without debate and without even the hint of an opposition, whose 55 lawmakers-elect are boycotting parliament in protest over July’s still-disputed national election result. The ruling party ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/one-party-parliament-effortlessly-passes-3-56-billion-budget-46913/
Opposition to form ‘shadow cabinet’ in parliament
A “shadow cabinet” will be created inside the National Assembly once the CNRP’s lawmakers-elect swear into office, senior opposition party officials said Thursday, in a move that nine years ago saw an opposition lawmaker imprisoned on charges of inciting a rebellion. Prime Minister Hun Sen and ...
Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/opposition-to-form-shadow-cabinet-in-parliament-64917/
Study Begins for Underpass on Russian Boulevard
The Overseas Cambodian Investment Corporation (OCIC) is conducting a feasibility study to construct a 272-meter-long underpass that will run beneath the intersection of Phnom Penh’s Russian Boulevard and Monivong Boulevard, City Hall announced on its website Friday. “It’s a new plan and another solution to ...
Thai military arrests Poipet border traders
Sixteen Cambodian border traders were imprisoned by the Thai military over the weekend after they were caught smuggling shoes and clothing illicitly bearing registered trademarks across the Poipet City border crossing on Saturday. The traders, who supply the Rong Kluea border market in Thailand’s Sa Kaeo ...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thai-military-arrests-poipet-border-traders-66689/
Cintri back to work in time for royal ceremony
Phnom Penh’s trash collectors ended their strike Wednesday after being promised increased salaries—leaving two days to clean the streets before Friday’s ceremony to inter the ashes of the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk. Ngoun Sipheng, the operations manager for Cintri, which has a monopoly on waste ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cintri-back-to-work-in-time-for-royal-ceremony-63738/
Water supply capacity to be extended to meet growing demand
Demand for clean water in Phnom Penh capital is on the rise due to the growing population and constructions in the city. To respond to the current demand, Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) has planned to attract investments and seek financial support for expansion ...
Chea Vannak/AKP
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50745579/water-supply-capacity-to-be-extended-to-meet-growing-demand/
Software giant targets piracy
Microsoft Cambodia has appointed Thakral Cambodia Industries Limited as its second authorised software distributor in the country, a move intended to help the computer giant’s local operation combat the rampant use of pirated software. Thakral, one of the largest distributors of IT products in Cambodia (its ...
Anne Renzenbrink
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/software-giant-targets-piracy
Cambodian Stock Exchange Set to Launch
The Cambodian Stock Exchange(CSX) has prepared its initial public offerings in a symbolic launch, though no public trading was offered. Finance Minister Keat Chhon and his South Korean partners hold a 49 percent stake in exchange. Two state-owned companies will go public including: the Phnom ...
Kith Meng re-elected
PROMINENT businessman Kith Meng was re-elected unopposed yesterday as president of the Cambodian Chamber of Commerce. Kith Meng, the only contender who declared his candidacy for the three-year mandate, received support from all 11 candidates eligible to stand. Kith Meng, who is also chairman and chief ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011080950932/Business/kith-meng-re-elected.html
Telecommunications Regulatory Body Launched
With a proposed telecommunications law yet to be approved, the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications yesterday launched the Telcom Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) to handle disputes between mobile phone companies and Internet providers, although officials admitted that the body will have limited powers. .. But unless ...
Cambodia has 960 garment, footwear factories: labor minister
Garment and footwear industry, Cambodia’s largest foreign exchange earner, currently consists of 960 factories, employing some 620,000 workers, labor minister Ith Samheng said Thursday. The sector made a revenue of 5.5 billion U.S. dollars last year, accounting for around 80 percent of the country’s total exports, ...
Asean - China Centre News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2014-04/24/c_133287164.htm