Occupiers of disputed land receive ‘conditional titles’
The government has issued conditional land title receipts to 326 families occupying disputed state-owned land at the “Chamkar Barang” area in Tuol Prich commune of Kandal province’s Ang Snuol district. It is also looking into a policy settlement while the provincial governor investigates and identifies ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/occupiers-disputed-land-receive-conditional-titles
ANA promotes planting of trees, donates 100K saplings
Every year, the Apsara National Authority (ANA), a state body tasked with managing the Angkor Archaeological Park, gives away more than 100,000 tree saplings to encourage the growth of forest cover in Cambodia, especially in the Angkor area, and has requested members of the public ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ana-promotes-planting-trees-donates-100k-saplings
China’s Foreign Minister to visit Cambodia this weekend
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will pay an official visit to Cambodia this weekend and is expected to preside over the handover ceremony of Morodok Techo National Stadium, built through a $160 million grant from the Chinese government. ...
Sar Socheath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50931915/chinas-foreign-minister-to-visit-cambodia-this-weekend/
SME Bank mulls unsecured loans for SMEs
The state-owned Small and Medium Enterprise Bank of Cambodia Plc (SME Bank) plans to waive collateral requirements for new loans to qualifying local small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) soon, to reduce the barriers and obstacles that limit their access to the necessary cash to fund ...
Hom Phanet
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sme-bank-mulls-unsecured-loans-smes
Kingdom on track for LDC graduation
The UN’s latest evaluation of Cambodia states that the Kingdom has fulfilled the three basic conditions necessary for graduation from least developed country (LDC) status, including a gross national income (GNI) per capita of $1,377 which surpasses the $1,222 threshold, according to Minister of Planning ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-track-ldc-graduation
Progress on 5PC may let SAC attend summit: PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen is scheduled to continue discussions with Myanmar leader General Min Aung Hlaing on January 26, with the former stating in advance that Myanmar would only be invited to send political representation to this year’s ASEAN summit if it has made progress ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/progress-5pc-may-let-sac-attend-summit-pm
Preah Sihanouk police bust 295 for land grabbing
On March 19, the Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court issued arrest warrants for six brokers and placed six others under court supervision after they led nearly 300 people to occupy state land in the South Cardamom Mountains National Park in Cham village of Kampong Seila commune ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-sihanouk-police-bust-295-land-grabbing
Battambang airport to be upgraded into 4C category
The Government has plans to develop the Veal Bek Chan Airport in Battambang city to a 4C category. Soy Sokhan, Secretary of State of the Secretariat of Civil Aviation, and Sok Lou, Battambang Provincial Governor, chaired a working group meeting on the possibility of restoration ...
Sok Sithika
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501048230/battambang-airport-to-be-upgraded-into-4c-category/
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/
Course on ‘identifying human trafficking victims’ opens
Interior Ministry Secretary of State and Permanent Vice-Chair woman of the National Committee for Counter Trafficking Chou Bun Eng opened a new training course yesterday in Phnom Penh focusing on “Identification of victims of human trafficking to provide appropriate services.” ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501348063/course-on-identifying-human-trafficking-victims-opens/
Prime Minister Manet discusses economic collaboration at CAEXPO
Prime Minister Hun Manet would have become one of the four heads of government of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states to attend the 20th China-ASEAN Expo (CAEXPO) on Sunday in the southern city of Nanning, Guangxi region of China. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501361218/prime-minister-manet-discusses-economic-collaboration-at-caexpo/
Only $54M of SME Bank’s $150M tourism loans taken
Loans worth $54.2 million were approved by state-owned Small and Medium Enterprise Bank of Cambodia Plc (SME Bank) for 350 businesses under the Tourism Recovery Co-Financing Scheme (TRCS) as of August 31, 2023. ...
Hin Pisei
https://phnompenhpost.com/business/only-54m-sme-banks-150m-tourism-loans-taken
PM Hun Sen calls for cooperation in digitalisation efforts
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday urged Asean Member States to step up cooperation in the digitalisation efforts and make the wider adoption of the new technology a priority to recover fast the region’s socio-economic development from the clutches of the Covid-19 pandemic. ...
Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501168105/pm-hun-sen-calls-for-cooperation-in-digitalisation-efforts/
Gov’t expects to complete land title exercise this year
The government has issued more than six million land titles over the last five years with the final batch expected to be completed this year. Theng Chan Sangvar, Secretary of State of Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, said yesterday that 6,584,778 land ...
Yim Sreylin
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501138221/govt-expects-to-complete-land-title-exercise-this-year/
Cambodia’s poverty rate halved in 2019
Rising non-farm earnings, such as tourism, garment and construction sectors, helped to cut Cambodia’s national poverty to 17.8 percent from 33.8 percent between 2009 and 2019, the World Bank’s latest poverty assessment report for Cambodia stated. ...
Kiripost staff writers
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodias-poverty-rate-halved-in-2019
Vietnam, Cambodia boost cooperation in culture, art
Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Dao Cuong and secretary of state and spokesman of Cambodia’s Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts Long Ponnasirivath signed a cultural and artistic cooperation programme for the 2023 – 2027 period at a meeting in Ho ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501159301/vietnam-cambodia-boost-cooperation-in-culture-art/
NEC trains staff as election nears
The National Election Committee (NEC) held an April 10 training session on the registration of political parties and candidates for the 7th parliamentary election, with 129 representatives of state institutions, political parties and NGOs in attendance. ...
Kim Yutharo
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-trains-staff-election-nears
PM plans China visit to drum up investment
Prime Minister Hun Sen is scheduled to pay a state visit to China for talks on new infrastructure projects in Cambodia, including the Phnom Penh-Bavet Expressway. The visit will coincide with the 65th anniversary of the two nations’ bilateral relations. ...
Samban Chandara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/pm-plans-china-visit-drum-investment
P Vihear encroachment crackdown imminent
The National Authority for Preah Vihear (NAPV) announced that the national authorities will work with their provincial counterparts to take action against state land encroachment – of part of protected area two – in the third week of this month. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/p-vihear-encroachment-crackdown-imminent
Cambodia, US vow to expand cooperation to boost trade and investment
Cambodia and the United States are committed to further strengthening and expanding cooperation to increase trade and investment. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501320028/cambodia-us-vow-to-expand-cooperation-to-boost-trade-and-investment/