Open Data Day 2024 : Open data for sustainable and inclusive development for all
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On the morning of 2 March 2024, the Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) organized and celebrated Open Data Day 2024 (ODD 2024) in Phnom Penh with the support of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade through The Asia Foundation’s Ponlok Chomnes: Data and ...
Foreign Ministry Tells NGOs to 'Readjust' Their Actions
The Foreign Affairs Ministry met with to non-governmental groups yesterday and accused them of inciting families to oppose the rehabilitation of the Cambodian rail system, ordering the NGOs to “readjust” their workForeign Affairs spokesman Koy Kuong said his ministry invited Bridges Across Borders Cambodia and ...
HCM City hosts Lower Mekong Initiative Disaster Management workshop
HCM CITY – A workshop to develop disaster management capacity for the four Lower Mekong countries of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Viet Nam by encouraging collaborative efforts through dialogue and information exchange opened yesterday in HCM City. The five-day Lower Mekong Initiative (LMI) Disaster Management workshop, ...
Economists contest Moody's downgrades
In the past month, ratings agency Moody’s has downgraded its outlook for two of Cambodia’s largest commercial banks. On September 2, Acleda Bank’s performance outlook went from “stable” to “negative” due to risks associated with rapid credit growth and a drain on local currency by depositors. ...
Petroleum engineers to provide support to Cambodia
At a Sept 11 meeting between Deputy Prime Minister Sok An and Ganesh C. Thakur, President of the U.S.-based Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), plans were discussed about the SPE providing training and expertise for the Kingdom’s oil and gas sector, according to a statement ...
PPWSA stock offering slated to outperform
The Kingdom’s first initial public offering is fast approaching, and demand is expected to be robust. Book-building, the process during which bids for the IPO are taken and a price is set for shares, ended yesterday. The final offering price is expected before the subscription for ...
French Scholar ‘Shocked’ Over Damage to Riverside Home
Leaning over the railing on the roof of the Khmeroyal Hotel along Phnom Penh’s Sisowath Quay, 54-year-old scholar and long-time Cambodian resident Oliver de Bernon peered across at his crumbing riverfront apartment yesterday. Residents of the block between streets 178 and 184 on Sisowath Quay ...
Pay Off Officials, Risk Prison Stint, New Law Says
The government has brought into force a new law that makes all illegal payments to officials punishable by up to 15 years in jail for those who accept such payments and up to 10 years for those who make payments. Im Oudom, a member of ...
Officials mum on 'advocacy' NGO missive
Top government officials yesterday either declined to comment or said they had no knowledge of a letter from Finance Minister Keat Chhon to Prime Minister Hun Sen proposing to bar all foreign NGOs from “advocacy” work in the country, as well as stopping foreigners from ...
Victim of police beating files court complaint
An opposition Sam Rainsy Party activist who was badly beaten on September 16 by riot police during a protest against the demolition of homes at Boeng Kak lake filed a complaint yesterday with the Phnom Penh Municipal Court against developer Shukaku Inc and the officers ...
Strikers fed up with delays
Striking workers planned to set tyres aflame today outside a garment factory that supplies JC Penney in the capital’s Por Sen Chey district, union officials said yesterday on the sixth day of the strike at Hong Kong-owned Win Shing-tex Cambodia Co Ltd. Ath Thorn, head of ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012032355209/National-news/strikers-fed-up-with-delays.html
Announcement on the approval for Cambodian oil and gas concession requested by Angkor Gold Corp.
On 13 August 2019, Mr. Stephen Burega, Chief Executive Officer at Angkor Gold Corp. announced that Angkor, through its subsidiary EnerCam Resources Co. Ltd. (“EnerCam”), had received the approval of the Royal Government of Cambodia on its application for a 7300 square kilometre oil and gas concession in Cambodia. The ...
Angkor Gold Corp.
Ride-hailing firm eyes Cambodia
Aiming to disrupt the thriving local ride-hailing market with a new business model, Belarus-based Onde recently announced its intention to enter Cambodia. In an interview with Khmer Times, a representative of the startup said they provide the software entrepreneurs need to run their own taxi ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50658936/ride-hailing-firm-eyes-cambodia/
Three new natural protected areas established to be under the management and conservation of Ministry of Environment
On 13 September 2016, the Royal Government of Cambodia has decided to establish three new Natural Protected Areas with a total land area of 27 941.06 hectares to be under the management and conservation of Ministry of Environment. Those three Natural Protected Areas include of ...
Ministry of Environment
Exchange of notes for Japan’s grant assistance
On Friday 23 September 2016, in response to a request from the Royal Government of Cambodia and the World Food Programme (hereinafter referred as “WFP”), the Government of Japan has agreed to extend a Grant Assistance of two hundred and twenty million Japanese Yen (¥220,000,000), ...
Embassy of Japan in the Kingdom of Cambodia
Announcement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs over Cambodia's position on South China Sea
On 09th July, 2016, after the Permanent Court of Arbitration set 12 July 2016 as the date to issue its final award over the arbitration case submitted by the Philippines against China on South China Sea dispute, the ministry of Foreign Affairs issued an announcement ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Three RCAF members charged for beatings
Three men, all members of the military, were yesterday charged over the savage assault of two opposition lawmakers outside parliament last week during a pro-CPP protest, as the spotlight intensified on the role of the armed forces in the attack.Royal Cambodian Armed Forces members Sot ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea, Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/three-rcaf-members-charged-beatings
The 2nd Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Foreign Ministers' Meeting
The second Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting was held in Siem Reap, Cambodia on 23 December 2016, attended by H.E. Prak Sokhonn, Senior Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Kingsom of Cambodia, H.E. Wang Yi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Press release on the strengthening customer protection of the National Bank of Cambodia
On 18 August 2017, the National Bank of Cambodia issued a press release to strengthen customer protection as follows:Fines 400 million Riel (US $ 100,000) to microfinance institutions (MFIs) that do not comply with the laws and regulations, especially the Prakas on transparency in the ...
National Bank of Cambodia