Cambodian PM to visit Vietnam to boost bilateral ties
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen will pay a three-day official visit to Vietnam from Dec. 26 in order to further enhance ties and cooperation between the two neighbors, according to a news statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday. The visit plan came at ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-12/23/c_132989051.htm
King’s role in talks up for debate
King Norodom Sihamoni would welcome a role as mediator in talks between the Cambodia National Rescue Party and Cambodian People’s Party, an adviser to the Royal family has said. Om Daravuth, an adviser to the office of Queen Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk, said that the ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/king%E2%80%99s-role-talks-debate
Cambodian PM warns to fire opposition's deputy leader from post in parliament
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen warned to dismiss opposition’s deputy leader Kem Sokha from his current post of the first vice-president of the National Assembly after the latter repeatedly told his supporters that he was seeking ways to depose the prime minister and ministers. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-09/09/c_133630916.htm
Election groups call for access to reform talks
More than two months after the ruling CPP and opposition CNRP agreed to discuss sweeping reform to the election system, civil society groups working on electoral reform in the country called Tuesday for more transparency in talks between the parties as they hammer out the ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/election-groups-call-for-access-to-reform-talks-69363/
Cambodia says focusing on maintaining growth, poverty alleviation
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Thursday that his government has mainly focused on retaining a sustainable economic growth and setting out strategies to ensure the gradual alleviation of poverty, according to a spokesman. Poverty rate in Cambodia has declined to 19.8 percent in 2011, ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141204/cambodia-says-focusing-maintaining-growth-poverty-alleviatio
Cambodia OKs controversial election laws
Cambodian legislators approved two controversial election laws on Thursday that were promptly condemned by rights groups as undemocratic for their restrictive provisions — including a ban on NGOs from criticizing political parties during election campaigns. The laws, which were unanimously approved, received backing from both the ...
Aljazeera America News Staff
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/3/19/cambodia-approves-controversial-election-laws.html
Without new skills, Cambodian workers face challenges in ASEAN
With Asean integration growing closer, Cambodia’s workers will need new skills if they are to compete in an open region, labor experts say. Cambodia’s industry brings in billions of dollars for the economy and employs more than 600,000 workers, but it will not be able ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/without-new-skills-cambodian-workers-face-challenges-in-asean/2847736.html
Vietnam, Cambodia conduct joint field inspection on border incident
A Vietnam-Cambodia joint working group on Thursday made a field inspection in the area between border marker 202 and 203 at Binh Bac village, Binh Hoa Tay commune, Moc Hoa district in Vietnam’s Long An province where a violent incident caused by some Cambodian extremists ...
Thanh Nien News Staff
http://www.thanhniennews.com/politics/vietnam-cambodia-conduct-joint-field-inspection-on-border-incident-48083.html
Travel competitiveness: Philippines improves to 74th
The ranking of the Philippines has improved from 82nd in 2013 to 74th in the latest World Economic Forum (WEF) Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2015. In terms of air transport infrastructure, the Philippines scored 2.77 versus Singapore’s 5.26 and Cambodia’s 2.1. ...
Ted Torres
http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2015/07/22/1479635/travel-competitiveness-philippines-improves-74th
Website names no longer as easy as 'ABC'
For English speakers, it’s easy to take for granted opening a web browser and typing in a URL. But what do people do when their languages have Chinese characters or Vietnamese tone markers? Such needs are greatest in the developing world, where English is less ...
Lien Hoang
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/website-names-no-longer-as-easy-as-abc/2931391.html
Cambodia receives seven tons of medical supplies from China
Cambodia received seven tons of medical and preventive supplies from China in a bid for the fight of coronavirus disease in the Kingdom. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/711827/cambodia-receives-seven-tons-of-medical-supplies-from-china/
Riel effort to help local currency
The governor of the National Bank of Cambodia, the nation’s central bank, Chea Chanto, has opened his heart about the future of the domestic currency and the dollar. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50709853/riel-effort-to-help-local-currency/
Over 100 construction workers stage protest over missing wages
More than 100 workers at a construction site in Preah Sihanouk province’s Sihanoukville protested and demanded four month’s worth of missing wages. ...
Timber baron branches into fuel
Timber baron Try Pheap, who has previously been accused of running large-scale illegal timber operations in protected forest areas and making millions off the Kingdom’s natural resources, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony last Friday to launch a new business venture, PAPA Petroleum Co Ltd. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/timber-baron-branches-fuel
PM orders distribution of two million masks
Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered the Ministry of Health and Phnom Penh City Hall to distribute two million masks to poor communities in Phnom Penh. ...
Khann Chan Virak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50782061/pm-orders-distribution-of-two-million-masks/
Tuberculosis infects 13,000 Cambodians within first half of 2020
Thirteen thousand tuberculosis cases have been recorded during the first half of this year, the National Center for Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control (CENAT) said yesterday. ...
Som Kanika
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50746780/tuberculosis-infects-13000-cambodians-within-first-half-of-2020/
Ministry shares 2020 agri-export numbers
The Kingdom exported $4.037 billion in agricultural products in 2020, according to data from the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50800406/ministry-shares-2020-agri-export-numbers/
Cambodia-South Korean bilateral trade recovering
Bilateral trade between Cambodia and South Korea has started to recover following a decline in 2020 from the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50814996/cambodia-south-korean-bilateral-trade-recovering/
Cambodia successfully vaccinates one million people nationwide
As of 11 April 2021, Cambodia has vaccinated 1 million armed forces, civil servants, and civilians nationwide, according to a press release. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50837407/cambodia-successfully-vaccinates-one-million-people-nationwide/
Siem Reap authorities start imposing fining those who do not wear masks
The Deputy Governor of Siem Reap Province, yesterday led a joint force of the provincial police, military police and health officials to fine traders who do not wear masks as well as improper wearing of the masks at the Central Market in Siem Reap. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50871578/siem-reap-authorities-start-imposing-fining-those-who-do-not-wear-masks/