Cambodia’s COVID-19 cases rises to 12
Four new cases of COVID-19 was reported late yesterday, bringing the total number of victims to double digits since the virus outbreak started in late December in Wuhan, China. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50702156/cambodias-covid-19-cases-rises-to-12/
Kingdom records over 12M tourists in seven months
Cambodia received approximately 1.1 million tourists in July, which sums up to a total of over 12 million visitors recorded in the first seven months of the year, a press release of the Ministry of Information (MoI) said. ...
Nhean Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501339214/kingdom-records-over-12m-tourists-in-seven-months/
Minister calls for more reporting on climate change
In the lead-up to the global climate change conference in Paris later this month, Information Minister Khieu Kanharith yesterday urged the media to increase reporting on the effects of climate change in Cambodia so that citizens can be better prepared for it. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17957/minister-calls-for-more-reporting-on-climate-change/
FDI to Cambodia rockets 12% to $3.5 billion in 2019
Cambodia attracted more than $3.5 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) last year, an increase of nearly 12 per cent over 2018, thanks in part to Chinese investors who accounted for half of the investments, a National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) report released last week ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/fdi-cambodia-rockets-12-35-billion-2019
Further $12million prepared for workers suffering suspension
Until now, he said, around 110,000 workers have received their allowances across 344 factories and enterprises. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50731207/further-12million-prepared-for-workers-suffering-suspension/
Adolescents aged between 12 and 17 in Cambodia urged to get vaccinated quickly to achieve herd immunity
A total of 1,573,131 adolescents aged between 12 and 17 have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, of which 383,461 have been fully vaccinated. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50927911/adolescents-aged-between-12-and-17-in-cambodia-urged-to-get-vaccinated-quickly-to-achieve-herd-immunity/
PM: Grade 12 exam still on
Public and private educational institutions across Cambodia reopened their doors on November 1 after being closed since March due to the Covid-19 pandemic, while Prime Minister Hun Sen made it clear that high school diploma exams would be taking place this year and students will ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-grade-12-exam-still
Chinese firm to pump in $12.7B to Cambodia’s agri sector
The Chinese state-owned firm Danong Agricultural Development Group plans to invest $12.7 billion in Cambodia to transform the latter’s agriculture into digital smart agriculture, stock and regional transit hub for agricultural products that will produce different agricultural products to the Chinese market, said an official ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501343619/chinese-firm-to-pump-in-12-7b-to-cambodias-agri-sector/
No closure yet for slain anti-logging fighter Chut Wutty after 12 years, activists call for reinvestigation
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and activists called on the government to reinvestigate the case of anti-logging activist Chut Wutty who was shot dead on April 26, 2012. ...
Self-exiled ‘terrorist’ sets date for return, plans border trip
Political hopeful and self-exiled dissident Sourn Serey Ratha said Monday that he will make his return to Cambodia after spending years abroad on October 1, in time to mark the anniversary of the Paris Peace Agreement with a trip to the country’s contentious border with ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/self-exiled-terrorist-sets-date-for-return-plans-border-trip-93596/
Delegates ‘concerned’ about climate treaty
Cambodia’s government and civil society yesterday expressed worry over the lack of progress on finalising the draft text for an international climate change treaty set to be adopted at UN climate talks in Paris (COP 21) after the final round of negotiations concluded in Bonn, ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/delegates-concerned-about-climate-treaty
Government, ILO cooperation hailed
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday highlighted the joint accomplishments of the Cambodian government and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in helping to bring 1.5 million of the Kingdom’s workers into the formal labour market. The ILO was established in Paris on October 29, 1919, ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-ilo-cooperation-hailed
Government considers a tax on carbon aviation
Cambodia is considering adopting an aviation tax for flights leaving the Kingdom, local media reported yesterday. The announcement came as Environment Minister Say Samal delivered remarks at the COP22 UN Climate Conference in Morocco. The conference comes one year after the historic signing of the Paris ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-considers-tax-carbon-aviation
NGOs to lobby EU for 'urgent action' against Cambodia
The International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) says it has prepared a “briefing paper” ahead of a European Union meeting with Cambodia in Brussels next week. In a statement late Thursday, the Paris-based group said the paper “documents the deteriorating situation in Cambodia and make(s) recommendations ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NWRjNGQ5MWFjMTk
Kingdom buys 5M Chinese vaccines for children 12-17
The government has purchased an additional five million doses of Covid-19 vaccine from China to vaccinate the 12-17 age group in a bid to reopen schools, with their shipments expected in August and September. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-buys-5m-chinese-vaccines-children-12-17
Kingdom inks over $1.2B of concessional loans in Q1-3
Cambodia signed almost $1.22 billion worth of new concessional loans with development partners (DP) in the first nine months of this year – just shy of a four-fold increase from $0.31 billion in the same time last year – of which bilateral DPs accounted for ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-inks-over-12b-concessional-loans-q1-3
Cambodia’s successful school meal program showcased at Global Summit in Paris
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Youth, and Sport of Cambodia, along with representatives from the World Food Programme (WFP), participated in the inaugural Global School Meals Coalition summit held in Paris. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501405468/cambodias-successful-school-meal-program-showcased-at-global-summit-in-paris/
As world grapples with terrorist attacks, Cambodians want more security
In the wake of attacks in Paris and San Bernadino, California, young Cambodians say they are concerned their country is not prepared for similar attacks. Cambodian officials say the government is ready to respond to attacks, though, as the recent mob beatings of two opposition ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/as-world-grapples-with-terrorist-attacks-cambodians-want-more-security/3092417.html
Opposition VP calls for plurality in politics
Kem Sokha, the vice president of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, is currently in Paris. He did not attend a recent dinner with the families of Rescue Party President Sam Rainsy and Prime Minister Hun Sen. But speaking to opposition supporters in France, he ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/opposition-vp-calls-for-plurality-in-politics/2865140.html
Grand Plans for $80-Billion Capital City Fit for a Techo
If Phoeung Sophoan has his way, Phnom Penh’s days as Cambodia’s capital city are numbered. A secretary of state at the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, Mr. Sophoan has big plans for a new 35,000-hectare capital city north of Phnom Penh called “Samdech ...