Cambodia's digital journey shows signs of growth
The number of students pursuing Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) majors in higher education in Cambodia has increased in recent years, but the numbers still remain relatively low. ...
Prak Chan Thul
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodias-digital-journey-shows-signs-of-growth
New Mortgage Program Helps Cambodia's Poor Find Better Homes
If you’ve applied for a mortgage recently, you know how hard it can be. The bank demands all kinds of obscure documents and wants proof of almost every asset you own. But an innovative mortgage program halfway around the world will evaluate your application without ...
http://www.wbur.org/npr/176121367/new-mortgage-program-helps-cambodias-poor-find-better-homes
Boat Route to Siem Reap To Reopen on August 15
Riverboat services between Siem Reap and Phnom Penh are scheduled to restart on Aug 15 after closing down in March due to low water levels in the Tonle Sap river, a port official said yesterday. Chieat Thol, deputy director of the administrative department and the ...
Rural areas plagued by shortage of toilets
The Ministry of Rural Development yesterday called for increased investment to expand access to sanitation facilities in rural Cambodia as well as more awareness about the link between low rates of access to toilets and high rates of communicable disease. Cambodia ranked at the bottom of ...
Report shows China demand will fuel growth of rice exports
Cambodia’s rice production and exports will likely continue to grow this year and next year despite low milling rates, buoyed by strong demand from China, according to a report from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). In the report released last week, the USDA ...
Robin Spiess
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/report-shows-china-demand-will-fuel-growth-rice-exports
Affordable public housing needed: official
A senior official at the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction appealed yesterday to institutions, private companies and related parties to help increase public housing for low and middle income families. In the first annual national forum on housing yesterday, Chhan Saphan, a secretary ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31108/affordable-public-housing-needed--official/
Brace for storm next week
The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology said that some areas in the Kingdom would be hit by a storm next week, especially the coastal provinces. Water Resources Minister Lim Kean Hor said that a high pressure system would have a weak influence on Cambodia and ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32426/brace-for-storm-next-week/
Flood warning until October 31
The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology warned on Saturday of potential flooding from the remnants of tropical storm Haima, which killed at least 13 people in the Philippines and battered southeast China last week. Water Resources Minister Lim Kean Hor told the public and authorities ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31162/flood-warning-until-october-31/
Cambodia Record Significant Progress in Child Mortality
The mortality rate for children under the age of 5 in Cambodia has fallen by 64 percent since 1990, with the most marked decrease noted over the past decade, according to a Unicef report released yesterday. The report, Committed to Survival: A promise Renewed, lists Cambodia ...
Officials ignore call for special small and medium enterprises bank
Cambodian officials have refused to establish a specialised bank for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) despite experts saying the sector needs aid in order to compete efficiently with ASEAN economic integration in 2015. Hang Chounnaron, secretary of the Ministry of Economy and Finance said Cambodia would ...
Myanmar Airways flights to Cambodia to take off again
Myanmar Airways International (MAI) will resume its regular flights between Yangon and Cambodia’s two main international airports in early December after they were suspended for about three months. MAI started a twice-weekly schedule to Siem Reap in late February, but suspended the route over the last ...
Cambodia's inflation stands at 3 pct last year: central bank governor
Cambodia’s inflation rate decelerated to 3 percent last year, down from 4.9 percent in a year earlier, Governor of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) Chea Chanto said Saturday. “This is a remarkable drop and the 3-percent rate last year is low and controllable,” he said ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-01/19/c_132113989.htm
Government rolls out new agriculture policy
The Ministry of Agriculture on Tuesday released a draft policy to strengthen the agriculture sector by educating farmers on how to gain greater access to markets and increase their productivity by using sustainable farming methods. The Agriculture Extension Policy, drafted in cooperation with USAID, aims to ...
Kang Sothear and George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/government-rolls-out-new-agriculture-policy-65282/
Cambodia farms at risk
Cambodian farmers are at high risk of being affected by climate change due to low levels of awareness, education and adaptation, with women particularly vulnerable, a study released yesterday says. The study, which surveyed farmers in the provinces of Battambang, Kampong Thom, Takeo and Prey Veng, ...
Charles Rollet
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-farms-risk
SME policy needed by AEC
Public and private sector representatives have urged the Cambodian government to fast-track policies to foster a more “formalised”, compliant and productive small- to medium-size enterprise (SME) sector. Chea Serey, director general at the National Bank of Cambodia said the high cost of regulatory compliance, a ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/sme-policy-needed-aec
Reforms making an impact
Cambodia was ranked higher than other CLMV countries (Cambodia, Lao, Myanmar, Vietnam) for the readiness of private and state-owned organisations to deal with external economic changes, according to the Change 2015 Readiness Index released by KPMG. The international auditing firm’s report shows that Cambodia was the ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/reforms-making-impact
NA puts brakes on rent hikes
Lawmakers yesterday passed a rent control law for low-income earners and students, prohibiting landlords from increasing rent for two years once a contract is signed and allowing tenants to scrap a lease agreement without notice. The law, which sailed through the National Assembly with 102 of ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/na-puts-brakes-rent-hikes
Russia pledges to boost trade ties with Cambodia, to consider debt relief
Newly appointed Ambassador of Russia to Cambodia Anatoly Borovik has pledged to further boost the trade relations and investment between the two countries, which are currently at a low level. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50773458/russia-pledges-to-boost-trade-ties-with-cambodia-to-consider-debt-relief/
Banteay Meanchey, northwest provinces brace for flash floods
The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology issued a warning that Cambodia will be affected by the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone, a low-pressure system, from September 22-26 along the Dangrek mountains. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/banteay-meanchey-northwest-provinces-brace-flash-floods
Frustration brews as petrol prices soar 10% on-month
Retail fuel prices have been gradually increasing in recent weeks, adding another burden for low-income households whose finances have been hit hard by Covid-19. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/frustration-brews-petrol-prices-soar-10-month