Smartphone software to help rice farmers
An international agriculture NGO is preparing to roll out a nationwide project in partnership with computer-chip maker Intel whereby more than 25,000 farmers will be able to receive real-time advice on farming methods via a smartphone app. The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) piloted the ...
Kang Sothear and George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/smartphone-software-to-help-rice-farmers-67162/
Bus lines expand at fast pace
Phnom Penh’s lone bus line along Monivong Boulevard was significantly expanded yesterday, while two other lines are set to begin operation in the coming weeks, according to City Hall. Bus Line 1 – the current route, which operates from 5:30am to 8:30pm – will now run ...
Taing Vida
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/bus-lines-expand-fast-pace
Cambodian opposition MPs attend session for 1st time after boycott
All fifty-five Members of Parliaments (MPs) from the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) attended a parliamentary session for the first time on Friday after they had boycotted the parliament for 10 months following a disputed election results in July last year. CNRP’s president Sam Rainsy ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140807/cambodian-opposition-mps-attend-session-1st-time-after-boyco
Chinese firm to open 1st duty free store in Cambodia
China Duty Free Group (CDFG) announced Monday that it has invested in a downtown duty free store in Cambodia’s cultural Siem Reap City and the store will be launched in December. “CDFG’s Cambodian subsidiary will firstly start its downtown duty free store of 4,500 square meters ...
Ecns.cn News Staff
http://www.ecns.cn/business/2014/08-12/129128.shtml
Cambodian Opposition Gets Parliamentary Commission Roles
This week lawmakers from Cambodia’s opposition party are being voted onto 10 parliamentary commissions. This is a key part of a political deal in which the opposition finally agreed to take its 55 seats in parliament, ending its year-long boycott over alleged vote-rigging in the ...
Robert Carmichael
http://www.voanews.com/content/cambodian-opposition-gets-parliamentary-commission-roles/2428215.html
Resintech to tap into rubber plantation with joint venture in Cambodia
Resintech Bhd, a local Polyethylene and poly vinyl chloride (PVC) pipe manufacturer, will tap into the rubber plantation sector in a bid to diversify its business segment given the healthy outlook on the rubber industry. Resintech’s managing director Datuk Teh Kim Poo said that according to ...
Nary a drop to drink
As a light rain peppered the dry earth in Kampong Thom province’s O’Dong village on Friday afternoon, residents rejoiced. Having scrambled around for pots and bowls, they hoped the drizzle would yield enough water to cover their basic needs. But after just 15 minutes, hope turned ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nary-drop-drink
CMAC destroys more than 36,000 mines, UXOs in 2019
Throughout this year, the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) had detected and destroyed more than 36,000 mines and unexploded ordnance (UXOs) on nearly 6,700ha of mine-contaminated land across 487 locations in the Kingdom. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-destroys-more-36000-mines-uxos-2019
Embassy seeks further inroads into Thailand’s retail market
Cambodia is seeking to display more of its products in supermarkets across Thailand to reduce the trade deficit with its neighbour. Cambodian Ambassador to Thailand Ouk Sorphorn asked Thailand’s Siam Piwat Company Limited to distribute Cambodian goods in its Iconsiam and Siam Paragon retail outlets. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/embassy-seeks-further-inroads-thailands-retail-market
Mondulkiri Airport will aid plans for biggest eco-tourism region in Cambodia
Mondulkiri province has been flagged for transformation into the biggest agro- and eco-tourism destination in Cambodia, according to the Ministry of Economy and Finance. A feasibility study includes upgrading an airport for the capital, Sen Monorom, for domestic and international destinations. ...
Groups voice concerns over new dam
Civil society organisations working on water management in Cambodia have expressed concern that Laos’ proposed Luang Prabang hydropower dam project and the existing upper Mekong River dam project will potentially cause more transnational impacts on hydrologic flow, movement of fish and sediment. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50688101/groups-voice-concerns-over-new-dam
Internet safety push begins
Action Pour Les Enfants (Aple) has joined forces with the National Committee for Counter Trafficking (NCCT) and several ministries to promote a safer internet experience for the young. ‘Safer Internet, Social Morality and Family Values’ is a campaign that aims to encourage safe and positive use ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/internet-safety-push-begins
Key stakeholders report Kingdom’s investment climate friendly, favourable
In a series of interviews conducted by a World Economic Forum team with key stakeholders across policymakers, firms, business associations and researchers, amounting to 41 separate entities, firms have reported Cambodia as possessing a friendly investment and business environment. ...
Poovenraj Kanagaraj
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50691650/key-stakeholders-report-kingdoms-investment-climate-friendly-favourable
Cambodia’s ranking as a logistics hub remains ‘stable’
Cambodia’s ranking has slightly improved in this year’s global index of emerging logistics markets, rising one notch compared with the same survey last year from 42 to 41 among 50 countries included in the study. ...
Jose Rodriguez T. Senase
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50692512/cambodias-ranking-as-a-logistics-hub-remains-stable
Red-tape eliminated for agro-product exporters
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has announced that rice exporters and agro-product exporters can now attain sanitary and phytosanitary certificates at one window service centres to streamline the process. The ministry’s decision was made after a Cambodia Rice Federation proposal last week. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/red-tape-eliminated-agro-product-exporters
Rice farmers struggle during drought season
For more than four months, people living in some rural areas in the provinces of Pursat and Battambang have been suffering from water shortages. Canals, streams and ponds have dried due to high temperatures during this year’s dry season. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50700262/rice-farmers-struggle-during-drought-season
PM encourages malaria response amid pandemic
Prime Minister Hun Sen appealed for the continued efforts to eliminate malaria in the Kingdom despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The call was made in a statement issued yesterday ahead of the World Malaria Day on April 25. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50713137/pm-encourages-malaria-response-amid-pandemic/
Officials to fetch water to Tamao Mountain National Park amid dry season
Many wildlife animals living in the Phnom Tamao National Park and Wildlife Rescue Center is facing the shortage of water during this dry season, yet the officials have fetched water from other places to supply the thirsty animals, according to the Forestry Administration. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://bit.ly/2JCWJEe
New GDP prediction is not optimistic
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has predicted that the real economic growth of Cambodia will reach 2.3 percent this year and will be around 5.7 percent in 2021, according to the newly released report on ADB’s flagship annual economic publication titled, Asian Development Outlook 2020. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50709859/new-gdp-prediction-is-not-optimistic/
Kampong Speu authorities, NGO confronted in timber truck raid
The Kampong Speu provincial Forestry Administration and environmental watchdog ACNCIPO attempted to seize 20 home-made trucks and nearly 20 cubic metres of timber from the Phnom Aural Wildlife Sanctuary on Saturday but were stopped by over 100 people who gathered in groups to resist the ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampong-speu-authorities-ngo-confronted-timber-truck-raid