Cambodia, Vietnam strengthen banking cooperation
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) have agreed to strengthen bilateral cooperation through exchange of experience on economy and banking system. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501207675/cambodia-vietnam-strengthen-banking-cooperation/
ASEAN Chair’s Special Envoy welcomes Myanmar’s Year for Peace in 2022
The Special Envoy of the ASEAN Chair on Myanmar Prak Sokhonn has announced to welcome the State Administration Council (SAC) ‘s declaration of Myanmar’s Year for Peace in 2022. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501108353/asean-chairs-special-envoy-welcomes-myanmars-year-for-peace-in-2022/
Cambodia’s goods exports to US rise nearly a quarter on-year to $8.2B
Cambodia and the US traded goods worth $8.510 billion in the first 11 months of 2022, marking gains of 21.79 per cent on-year, with Cambodian exports to the world’s largest economy accounting for a 96.56 per cent share, according to the General Department of Customs ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodias-goods-exports-us-rise-nearly-quarter-year-82b
Koh Kong int’l airport not set for trial flights: governor
Koh Kong provincial governor Mithona Phouthong has warned that proposed flight trials at the province’s Dara Sakor International Airport could possibly be postponed as the developers need more time to complete construction and address some remaining shortcomings. ...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/koh-kong-intl-airport-not-set-trial-flights-governor
Cambodia, U.S. pledge to further enhance mutually beneficial cooperation
SokChendaSophea, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, engaged here on Dec. 14 in a friendly discussion with H.E. Ms. Melissa A. Brown, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, during the latter’s working visit to the ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501407468/cambodia-u-s-pledge-to-further-enhance-mutually-beneficial-cooperation/
Commerce minister, US Ambassador swap praise after trade trip
U.S. Ambassador William Todd and Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol praised each other for their dedication to the development of the Cambodian economy at a press conference in Phnom Penh on Monday, following a joint trade mission last month to the U.S. Mr. Todd and Mr. Chanthol, ...
Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/commerce-minister-us-ambassador-swap-praise-after-trade-trip-63458/
Government tells vietnam to ‘respect the borderline’
The Foreign Affairs Ministry sent a strongly worded diplomatic note to Vietnam on Friday asking its eastern neighbor to “respect the borderline” after an inspection by government officials confirmed that Vietnamese authorities dug five ponds within Cambodian territory in Ratanakiri province. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-tells-vietnam-to-respect-the-borderline-85488/
Hot Breakfast Program Helps Students
Tuesday morning, not long after dawn, a line of students formed outside En Komar Primary School, in Kampong Thom province. Students were waiting to receive breakfast from their teachers. The breakfasts are part of a World Food Program initiative that aims to feed 3.5 million students ...
Khoun Theara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/hot-breakfast-program-helps-students/1933562.html
Private entities handed state land
The government has converted three plots of land in Phnom Penh from state public property to state private property – effectively handing them to private entities – including a Ministry of Planning office on Monivong Boulevard that was transferred to the son-in-law of a senior ...
Mech Dara and Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/private-entities-handed-state-land
U.S. holds intellectual property rights workshop for Cambodian, Lao officials
The United States government on Tuesday organized an intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement workshop for some 50 Cambodian and Lao law enforcement officials. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-03/25/c_133212172.htm
Anti-Counterfeit Drug Campaign to Launch Monday
The US Embassy and the Ministry of Health will launch a national public awareness campaign Monday highlighting the dangers of counterfeit drugs, embassy and ministry officials said yesterday. “We want to focus on being able to raise awareness because it is known that using counterfeit ...
Thai Envoy Proposes Group to Address Logging
The Thai Ambassador in Phnom Penh has suggested that Cambodia form a special delegation to tackle the common – and often deadly – practice of illegal logging along the two countries’ shared border, the ambassador said yesterday. Already this year, 11 Cambodians have reportedly been ...
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
Aviation body breathes easier as audit delayed
The UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has agreed to postpone an audit of Cambodia’s aviation authority until June 2016 to give the agency more time to prepare.Sinn Chanserey Vutha, spokesman of the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA) said yesterday that his organisation was ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/aviation-body-breathes-easier-audit-delayed
PAL looks to operate direct flight to Cambodia
Philippine Airlines (PAL) plans to enter Cambodian skies for the first time with the launch of a direct flight from Manila, aviation officials said yesterday, though whether the airline will serve Phnom Penh or Siem Reap has yet to be decided. ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pal-looks-operate-direct-flight-cambodia
Domestic airports converted for public use
Prime Minister Hun Sen transferred control of some of the Kingdom’s domestic airports to local government authorities for public use during a cabinet meeting last Friday. “We handed over airfields to provincial authorities to manage and use for state or public interest,” Mr. Hun Sen said. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30210/domestic-airports-converted-for-public-use/
Airport audits end with positive hopes
Three officials from the United Nations’ International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) finished 10-day security audits at two of Cambodia’s three international airports late last week leaving officials hopeful of a positive outcome. ICAO’s security audit team wrapped up its work at Phnom Penh International Airport and ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31471/airport-audits-end-with-positive-hopes/
80 tons of Kampot pepper expected to be on market this year
Kampot pepper, a Cambodian product that got geographical indication (IG) certification from the European Union, is expected to yield 80 matrix tons for the markets by this year. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.akp.gov.kh/?p=108800
PM announces new airport in Siem Reap
Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday that Siem Reap is in need of a new airport to tackle the rising number of visitors to the area.Last week Cambodia reached an $880-million agreement with China’s Yunnan Investment Holding Ltd which allows the state-owned company to manage ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5084356/pm-announces-new-airport-siem-reap/
Small Planet granted local Air Operator's Certificate
The Kingdom’s aviation regulator yesterday granted an operator’s licence to Small Planet Airlines, allowing the Lithuanian-based leisure airline to operate flights from its new regional hub in Cambodia, civil aviation officials said. ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/small-planet-granted-local-air-operators-certificate