Ministries urge safe handling of poultry to prevent bird flu spread
In preparation for the lunar new year this month, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries have called for hygienic practices and sanitary inspections for the transportation of poultry and pigs to prevent the spread of any instances of bird ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministries-urge-safe-handling-poultry-prevent-bird-flu-spread
Howard Johnson opens in Sihanoukville
New York Stock Exchange- (NYSE) listed hotel franchiser Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Inc (WH) has opened its first hotel in the Kingdom – the Howard Johnson Plaza by Wyndham Blue Bay Sihanoukville, WH said in a February 18 press release. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/howard-johnson-opens-sihanoukville
Lockdown opens a window for e-commerce
With authorities tightening security to prevent community transmission in Phnom Penh and Kandal province’s Takhmao town, e-commerce activity, cashless payments and delivery services have logged a notable rise, swiftly becoming new features of the digital world in Cambodia. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/lockdown-opens-window-e-commerce
Financial institutions see jump in lockdown-era digital transactions
Financial institutions (FI) logged a sudden spike in digital transactions during lockdown, adding further to the upward momentum fuelled by rising fears triggered by a spike in new Covid-19 cases found in connection to the February 20 community transmission. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/financial-institutions-see-jump-lockdown-era-digital-transactions
Cambodia “Preparing To Welcome Back Foreign Tourists In Q4”
A new video released by the Ministry of Tourism seems to indicate that Cambodia is preparing to welcome back tourists in the 4th quarter of 2021, in a move designed to “revive Cambodia’s tourism industry hit hard by the global COVID-18 crisis” ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50860697/cambodia-preparing-to-welcome-back-foreign-tourists-in-q4/
Zhen Tai garment factory workers claim non-payment of April wages
Garment factory workers have demanded that their employer, Zhen Tai garment factory, pay them a portion of their monthly wages and their Khmer New Year holiday bonus for the period when Phnom Penh and Kandal province’s Takmao town had been in lockdown. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/zhen-tai-garment-factory-workers-claim-non-payment-april-wages
Smart installs 68 Siem Reap base stations
Smart Axiata Co Ltd has installed 68 new base stations in Siem Reap province as part of its $90 million investment plan to expand and improve its network across the country in 2021, the telecoms operator said in an April 27 press release. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/smart-installs-68-siem-reap-base-stations
Cambodia’s digital economic and society policy for 2021-2035 launched
The Kingdom has officially announced the implementation of its “Digital Economy and Social Policy Framework of Cambodia 2021-2035” policy. It identifies the digital sector as a new model of economic growth responsive and resilient to changes in economic structure, development and international trade. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50877443/cambodias-digital-economic-and-society-policy-for-2021-2035-launched/
Tbong Khmum enforces curfew
After the government imposed nationwide Covid-19 restrictions to stem the new coronavirus Delta variant, Tbong Khmum province has begun enforcing them with a night-time curfew effective through August 12. ...
So Visal
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tbong-khmum-enforces-curfew
Delta in check, extension of capital curfew unlikely: Chhe
The Phnom Penh Municipal Administration has no plans to extend its nighttime curfew as the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 – the pathogen that causes Covid-19 – is now largely under control and new infections are low in number, a senior official said. ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/delta-check-extension-capital-curfew-unlikely-chhe
Jabs could swell 2022 GDP by 6%: think-tank
Cambodia’s “well-strategised and rapidly-executed” Covid-19 vaccination programme are set to underpin economic growth that may top six per cent next year, eclipsing the preponderance of regional and global peers, according to a new report from consulting firm Mekong Strategic Partners Co Ltd (MSP). ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/jabs-could-swell-2022-gdp-6-think-tank
COVID-19 leads to $3.6 billion financing flow losses for Cambodia last year
COVID-19 has led to financing flow losses of $3.6 billion for Cambodia, accounting for 19.8 percent of the country’s total financing flows in 2020, said a new report by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) released on Friday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50895602/covid-19-leads-to-3-6-billion-financing-flow-losses-for-cambodia-last-year/
Kep plans prison intended to be a ‘place of education’
The Kep Provincial Administration, through the General Department of Prisons (GDP), has requested that 5ha of land be designated as state private property to be used for the construction of a new provincial prison in Andong Sar village of Damnak Changaur district’s Poang Teuk commune. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kep-plans-prison-intended-be-place-education
On the right track to generating carbon credits
The 43 new sites identified by the Ministry of Environment and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Greening Prey Lang for the supply of carbon credits will bring positive environmental, community and biodiversity impacts to Cambodia besides having no deforestation and degradation of protected ...
Son Minea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50920930/on-the-right-track-to-generating-carbon-credits/
Korea’s KB Kookmin Bank says completes acquisition of Prasac
South Korea’s KB Kookmin Bank, New York-listed KB Financial Group Inc’s (KB) commercial banking unit, on October 20 announced the completion of the acquisition the remaining 30 per cent interest in Prasac, Cambodia’s largest microfinance institution, as it expands its business into the Kingdom’s financial ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/koreas-kb-kookmin-bank-says-completes-acquisition-prasac
Investment law to guide recovery, FTA uptake
The new Law on Investment will be a crucial tool as the Kingdom pushes ahead with post-Covid-19 economic recovery plans, and help lay the groundwork to maximise benefits from free trade agreements (FTA), according to Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC) president Kith Meng. ...
Hom Phanet
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/investment-law-guide-recovery-fta-uptake
PM: Nightclubs and KTVs cannot open until 30th of November at earliest but weddings permitted
Speaking today at the opening of the new $28 million office building of the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, PM Hun Sen has made a far reaching speech discussing, amongst other topics, further developments in the ‘reopening’ of Cambodia ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50966755/pm-nightclubs-and-ktvs-cannot-open-until-30th-of-november-at-earliest-but-weddings-permitted/
Cambodia Omicron cases pass 1,000 total
Cambodia recorded another jump in Omicron cases today. Todays official daily new COVID case total (diagnosed by PCR test) was 46 – all the Omicron variant – bringing the COVID case total to 121,484 cases. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501018496/cambodia-omicron-cases-pass-1000-total/
Information ministry plans media terminology ‘E-book’
The Ministry of Information is to establish an “E-Book” to register more than 200 new terminologies related to media and news, all of which have been approved by the National Council for Khmer Language at the Royal Academy of Cambodia. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/information-ministry-plans-media-terminology-e-book