Businesses warned not to increase holiday rate
With Khmer New Year arriving next week, Prime Minister Hun Sen has warned tourism-related businesses against increasing service prices during the three-day holiday. Speaking at a graduation ceremony for students at Vanda Institute of Accounting in Koh Pich yesterday, the prime minister appealed to hotels, guesthouses, ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/businesses-warned-not-increase-holiday-rate
Livestock law near approval
A draft law on animal health and production is expected to be approved by the December 2015 Asean Economic Community (AEC) deadline, government officials say. Soun Sothoeun, deputy director of animal health and production at the Ministry of Agriculture, said on Friday that the new law ...
Chan Muyhong
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/livestock-law-near-approval
Transparency boosting Cambodia factory improvements
Transparent reporting of garment factory compliance in Cambodia is continuing to help to improve conditions for workers, according to a new report. In its third online transparency report, the International Labor Organization (ILO’s) Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) programme said two of the 13 factories in the Low Compliance group had ...
Michelle Russell
http://www.just-style.com/news/transparency-boosting-cambodia-factory-improvements_id123308.aspx
At unveiling of s-21 Stupa, ambassador calls on youth
At a ceremony to inaugurate a new stupa at Phnom Penh’s Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum on Thursday, German Ambassador Joachim Baron von Marschall urged young Cambodians to be less reluctant to speak openly about the Khmer Rouge era, noting that it was Germany’s youth in ...
Aun Pheap and Maria Paula Brito
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/at-unveiling-of-s-21-stupa-ambassador-calls-on-youth-80841/
Internet subscribers rose 30 pct last year
The number of internet subscribers in Cambodia increased significantly last year, reaching a total of 5.02 million by December 2014, up 30 per cent from the end of 2013. In 2014 there were 1.16 million new internet subscribers, joining the 3.86 million existing subscribers at the ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/internet-subscribers-rose-30-pct-last-year
Cambodia’s Hun Sen slams ASEAN-splitting TPP
On April 19, the 24th World Economic Forum on East Asia kicked off in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta. One of the main events was a conversation on “East Asia in the New Global Context,” which featured two heads of state – Cambodian prime minister ...
Prashanth Parameswaran
http://bit.ly/1J4FSoA
Power bill spikes raise alarm
Seemingly arbitrary increases in electricity prices are raising eyebrows in Phnom Penh, as residents’ bills are showing marked-up charges despite unchanged usage patterns – and frequent blackouts. Citizens are lodging complaints with the state-owned electricity company Electricite du Cambodge (EdC), claiming that their bills are rapidly ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/power-bill-spikes-raise-alarm
Almost half of Cambodian youth fear unemployment
Almost half of Cambodia’s youth named future employment as their biggest worry, a new study by a local coalition of youth groups shows.Asked about their major worry in life, 49 percent of respondents aged between 15 and 35 said that not being able to find ...
Denise Hruby
http://www.aa.com.tr/en/economy/571449--almost-half-of-cambodian-youth-fear-unemployment
Taps still dry at Pailin prison
A new provincial prison in Pailin’s Sala Krao district still has no running water supply six months after it accepted more than 100 prisoners, local officials say.The prisoners arrived in early March after being transferred from their former prison – an old movie theatre in ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/taps-still-dry-pailin-prison
Single rice brand stirs the pot
The Agriculture Ministry and the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) are at odds over the branding of Cambodia’s premium jasmine rice that would help differentiate it from similar varieties sold by Thailand.The CRF is working on a new brand name that it hopes will help distinguish ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/single-rice-brand-stirs-pot
Royal Palace to temporarily hold off visitors
The Royal Palace Ministry yesterday announced the temporary closure of one of the Kingdom’s most iconic buildings amid fears of new Coronavirus infections. ...
Som Kanika
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50703245/royal-palace-to-temporarily-hold-off-visitors/
Further fiscal woes for tourism sector
The Government on Tuesday announced the suspension of the annual Khmer New Year celebration, in a bid to stop the spread of the Novel Coronavirus. ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50710647/further-fiscal-woes-for-tourism-sector/
Senate posed to sign off on 1,000 mW power project
The Senate will convene today for an extraordinary session to discuss the approval of three new power plants which will cumulatively generate nearly 1,000 mW. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50708399/senate-posed-to-sign-off-on-1000-mw-power-project/
All pagodas ordered to cancel KNY celebrations
Cambodia Monk Committee has asked all pagodas across the country to cancel the Khmer New Year celebrations in a bid to contain the coronavirus pandemic. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50710991/all-pagodas-ordered-to-cancel-kny-celebrations/
Cambodia continues to attract FDI with another $21 million in investments and 3,500 jobs
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has given the approval for five new investment projects with a total investment capital of $21.3 million. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50715348/cambodia-continues-to-attract-fdi-with-another-21-million-in-investments-and-3500-jobs/
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
Real estate firm ready for CSX listing
Bonna Realty Group will prepare to list on the Cambodia Securities Exchange, the company’s president said this week. The real estate firm joins a small but growing group of private companies that say they are gearing up for initial public offerings on the new exchange. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012070657246/Business/real-estate-ready-for-csx.html
Cambodia’s COVID-19 community outbreak increases to 14, tally now at 323
Cambodia’s Ministry of Health this morning announced eight new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the tally thus rose to 323. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50787651/cambodias-covid-19-community-outbreak-increases-to-14-tally-now-at-323/
Cambodia to focus more on greener building projects
The Ministry of Environment is currently drafting a new guideline on boosting greener development, in line with efforts to have sustainable and eco-friendly environments. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50909697/cambodia-to-focus-more-on-greener-building-projects/
World Bank lowers GDP growth forecast
The World Bank has revised its economic forecast for Cambodia down to 2.2 per cent this year, from a higher expectation of four per cent in April amid a rapid rise in new daily coronavirus infections and deaths, spurred by the more transmissible Delta variant. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/world-bank-lowers-gdp-growth-forecast