Cambodia’s exports surge 22.7% in first two months
Cambodia’s international trade recorded a growth of 19.2 percent in the first two months of this year compared to the same period last year and reached $8.12 billion. While exports surged 22.7 percent to reach $3.98 billion, imports grew by 16.1 percent to reach $4.13 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501454157/cambodias-exports-surge-22-7-in-first-two-months/
Cambodia’s tourism earns $3.04 billion revenue in 2023
Cambodia’s tourism earned gross revenue of $3.04 billion in 2023, up 115 percent from $1.41 billion in a year earlier, according to a Ministry of Tourisms report released on February 12, 2024. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501439009/cambodias-tourism-earns-3-04-billion-revenue-in-2023/
Korean firm plans to invest in Kingdom’s clean energy sector
A delegation from Hyuckjin Energy Plant Engineering, a company that deals with environmentally specialized businesses with high-tech and ecotechnology is keen on converting Cambodia’s waste into clean energy, using about 100 tonnes of waste to create 25 megawatts of electricity per day. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Nhean Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501487848/korean-firm-plans-to-invest-in-kingdoms-clean-energy-sector/
Cambodia’s homestay market projected to grow at 8.22%
The homestay market in Cambodia is projected to surpass $59.3 million in earnings this year and in the next four years, it will surge to $81.34 million. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Jigmee Palden Pazo
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501489136/cambodias-homestay-market-projected-to-grow-at-8-22/
Vietnam earthquake shakes Ratanakiri, raises concern for Cambodia’s disaster readiness
Minor tremors were felt in Ratanakiri province last sunday after a 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck a nearby province in Vietnam, raising concerns among locals about Cambodia’s preparedness for similar seismic events. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ly Rosslan and Seoung Nimol
https://cambojanews.com/vietnam-earthquake-shakes-ratanakiri-raises-concern-for-cambodias-disaster-readiness/
Insight: Land conflict, impunity dims Cambodia's awakening
Cambodia’s transformation from war-torn basket-case to one of Asia’s most promising emerging economies is being overshadowed by a backwards lurch in human rights and land policies that critics say are entrenching poverty. ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/12/us-cambodia-protests-idUSBRE8AB17J20121112
Sihanoukville Runs Dry During Water Crisis
A water shortage in the tourist town of sihanoukville has led authorities to advise scores of businesses to dig their own wells as only 50 percent of local demand is currently being met after high temperatures dried up the water supplier’s only reservoir. On March ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sihanoukville-runs-dry-during-water-crisis-16609/
Cambodians Abroad Sent Home $256M Last Year
Cambodian migrant workers sent home $256 million last year, according to a report from a U.N. agency and the World Bank, which was released in Bangkok yesterday. The report from the bank and Rome-based International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD), titled sending Money Home to Asia, ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/cambodians-abroad-sent-home-256m-last-year-25574/
Coal-fired power plant to come online in S’ville this month
A 135-megawatt coal-fired power plant will start producing energy this month in the coastal province of Preah sihanouk, according to a high-ranking energy official. The plant is seen as an important element in the government’s strategy to deal with the current energy shortage. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50666710/coal-fired-power-plant-to-come-online-in-sville-this-month/
PM seeks Japan’s help in developing blockchain tech
Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday met a Japanese delegation at the Peace Palace to discuss strengthening bilateral cooperation, especially in the development of blockchain technology. In the morning, Mr Hun sen met with the delegation headed by Kozo Yamamoto, a member of the House of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50680516/pm-seeks-japans-help-in-developing-blockchain-tech
Australian government provides $10 million for Cambodia’s landmine clearing
Australian government provided $10 million for landmine clearing in the Kingdom. The aid was announced when new Australian Ambassador to Cambodia Pablo Chiho Kang today met with Foreign Affairs Minister Prak sokhonn at the ministry. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Call for female bail review after prisoner’s baby dies
The Ministry of Interior’s General Department of Prisons spokesman Nuth savna announced that it is conducting investigations into the death of a five-month-old baby who had been living with her mother in Correctional Centre II (Prey sar). ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/call-female-bail-review-after-prisoners-baby-dies
Japan aid to improve Kingdom’s agriculture, health and youth sectors
The Japanese government today donated a total of $890,471 for the development of irrigation systems, maternal and child healthcare, and youth capacity building in the Kingdom. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Fifty houses bulldozed overnight as S’ville land dispute escalates
Fifty families claiming ownership of 5ha in Koki village, Bit Traing commune, in Prey Nop district, Preah sihanouk province, on Monday protested on the site over claims that Ouk sineth and his associates illegally encroached on their land, bulldozing their homes and crops during the ss='cambodia-color'>...
1,000 containers with raw material offer relief to Kingdom’s factories
Prime Minister Hun sen on saturday announced the arrival of 12 ships containing more than 1,000 containers of raw materials from China at sihanoukville Autonomous Port to supply struggling garment factories in the Kingdom. ss='cambodia-color'>...
MoUs boost finance access for SME’s
The Agriculture and Rural Development Bank (ARDB) has signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) with the Cambodia Food Manufacture Association (CFMA) to disburse $50 million in loans from the government to small- and medium-sized enterprises (sME) for business expansion and productivity. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mous-boost-finance-access-smes
EU to contribute to nation’s new water treatment plant
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has said it secured a 12.7 million euro (nearly $14 million) grant from the European Union for the construction of the Bakheng Water Treatment Plant and its 500 kilometres of distribution network in Phnom Penh. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50724747/teu-to-contribute-to-nations-new-water-treatment-plant/
Has Cambodia’s economic boom imploded?
Cambodia’s economic rise starkly contrasts the political chaos that reached a climax in November 2017 with the dissolution of the Cambodia National Rescue Party — the country’s only major opposition party — and the detention of its leader, Kem sokha. Prime Minister Hun sen has ss='cambodia-color'>...
Heidi Dahles
http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2018/01/16/has-cambodias-economic-boom-imploded/
Cambodia’s hotels and international flights to reopen shortly
Hotels and international flights forced to close due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Cambodia are expected to reopen this month Clais Chenda, President of Cambodia Hotel Association, said that some hotel owners confirm they will resume operations shortly and international flights are expected to commence ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50731349/cambodias-hotels-to-reopen-shortly/
Cambodia’s hotels and international flights to reopen shortly
Hotels and international flights forced to close due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Cambodia are expected to reopen this month. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50731349/cambodias-hotels-to-reopen-shortly/