New S Reap airport 44% done, still set to open in Oct 2023
Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport iS Still on track to open in October 2023, with work on PhaSe I reaching 44 per cent aS of end-September, according to a Senior civil aviation official. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-s-reap-airport-44-done-still-set-open-oct-2023
Sipar’s mobile library initiative gets Cambodian children reading
More than 15,000 Cambodian children and youths read books in seven target areas through their mobile library project last year, NGO sipar reported. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501348687/sipars-mobile-library-initiative-gets-cambodian-children-reading/
Cambodia’s special 18th sustainable development goal
As a part of the Global Week of Action to mobilize support for the sustainable Development Goals (sDGs), ODC’s team spread word on its website, social media, and in person, at the launch of Prayuters Library in Preah Vihear province.Observers may note that while many ss='cambodia-color'>...
Exports to S Korea help reduce current trade deficit: pundit
Trade between Cambodia and South Korea reached nearly $504 million in the firSt eight monthS of 2023, marking an 8.4 per cent decline over the Same period laSt year, according to the General Department of CuStomS and ExciSe (GDCE). DeSpite thiS, Cambodian exportS Surged by SS='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exports-s-korea-help-reduce-current-trade-deficit-pundit
Countries, including Cambodia, growing 70% of world’s food face ‘extreme’ heat risk by 2045
Blistering crop-withering temperatures that also risk the health of agricultural workers could threaten swathes of global food production by 2045 as the world warms, an industry analysis warned Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501152829/countries-including-cambodia-growing-70-of-worlds-food-face-extreme-heat-risk-by-2045/
General’s son latest ruling-party scion made provincial governor
The son of U.s.-blacklisted general Kun Kim has been promoted to Preah Vihear governor — at least the ninth child or in-law of ruling party leaders currently serving as provincial governor across the country. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://vodenglish.news/generals-son-at-least-ninth-ruling-party-scion-made-provincial-governor/
Boeng Tamok’s development outweighs preservation of lake, says land official
A Land Ministry official said development of Boeng Tamok in northern Phnom Penh was a higher priority than the water body’s preservation, adding that only a lake like the Tonle sap was worth preserving. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://vodenglish.news/boeng-tamoks-development-outweighs-preservation-of-lake-says-land-official/
Viet Nam’s PM successfully wraps up working trip to Cambodia
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh returned to Hanoi on November 13 afternoon, concluding his official visit to Cambodia and his attendance at the 40th and 41st AsEAN summits and Related summits. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501184280/viet-nams-pm-successfully-wraps-up-working-trip-to-cambodia/
From loggers to farmers, Mondulkiri’s communities turned away from forests
Since an irrigation SyStem waS Set up in hiS remote Mondulkiri village four yearS ago, Morn Samean Saw hiS farming yieldS increaSe, reinforcing hiS impreSSion that he made the right choice when he let go of hiS former activity, logging. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Teng Yalirozy
https://cambodianess.com/article/from-loggers-to-farmers-mondulkiris-communities-turned-away-from-forests
Cambodia’s export to RCEP member countries up 6%
Cambodia exported a total of $4,703 million worth of goods to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) member countries in the first nine months of this year, an increase of six percent when compared with the same period last year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501179416/cambodias-export-to-rcep-member-countries-up-6/
Cambodia supports Lao PDR’s ASEAN Chairmanship next year
The Royal Government of Cambodia expressed its support to Lao PDR’s chairmanship of AsEAN next year, according to a press release from the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued this afternoon at the end of the two-day official visit of Cambodian Prime ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501239159/cambodia-supports-lao-pdrs-asean-chairmanship-next-year/
UK pledges aid for women’s empowerment, education
The Ministry of Women’s Affairs and the UK embassy in Phnom Penh have agreed to work together on women’s empowerment, women’s education and ending violence against women and girls. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/uk-pledges-aid-womens-empowerment-education
Spending on capital’s new airport nears $700M: SSCA
Nearly $700 million has been spent on the new $1.5 billion Techo International Airport (TIA), the main construction work on which has reached 46 per cent as of March 31, motivated by positive tourism growth, according to a senior civil aviation official. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Rann Reuy
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/spending-capitals-new-airport-nears-700m-ssca
Koh Kong’s first int’l seaport set for launch
Koh Kong province’s first international seaport, invested in and developed by Koh Kong Port Management Co Ltd, is scheduled to launch in the second half of the year, as a number of linked infrastructure works reach completion, according to provincial governor Mithona Phoutong. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/koh-kongs-first-intl-seaport-set-launch
Cambodia’s economy grew 5.5% in 2022, says PM
Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday announced that Cambodia’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 5.5 percent in 2022, while the tax revenue collected from both customs and taxation grew by 2 percent higher than expected. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501212559/cambodias-economy-grew-5-5-in-2022-says-pm/
IOM reaffirms commitment to Kingdom’s migrant workers
International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Asia-Pacific regional director sarah Lou Ysmael Arriola on May 3 reaffirmed her commitment to assist Cambodia in protecting the rights of migrant workers and improving governance, employment, human resource and migration system development, according to a labour ministry statement. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/iom-reaffirms-commitment-kingdoms-migrant-workers
Thais reassure Cambodia’s migrant workers can stay
Prime Minister Hun sen announced that Thailand has responded to Cambodia’s concerns about suggestions that the Move Forward Party of Thailand would repatriate Cambodian and Laos migrant workers from Thailand. The Thai party confirmed that none of their policies involved the repatriation of workers from ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Sokny
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thais-reassure-cambodias-migrant-workers-can-stay
Potential of renewable energy sources in Cambodia’s growing market
Cambodia, a rapidly developing SoutheaSt ASian nation, haS been experiencing Significant economic growth in recent yearS. With a GDP growth rate of 7.1% in 2019, the country haS been making StrideS in variouS SectorS, including agriculture, manufacturing, and touriSm. One of the moSt critical challengeS SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501311118/potential-of-renewable-energy-sources-in-cambodias-growing-market/
Cambodia’s business establishments increase 50 pct in 10 years
Cambodia has 753,670 business establishments, employing 2.98 million people, the preliminary results of the 2022 Economic Census said here on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501222359/cambodias-business-establishments-increase-50-pct-in-10-years/
Cambodia’s export to South Korea swells under FTA
Cambodia’s export to south Korea has increased significantly thanks to the bilateral free trade agreement, which was put into force last December. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501245624/cambodias-export-to-south-korea-swells-under-fta/