Kingdom in quest of perfect rice
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon on August 9 urged farmers across the country to increase the cultivation of fragrant rice to promote the industry in the Kingdom. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-quest-perfect-rice
Prasac borrows $1.5m from German company
Assets of Cambodian Microfinance Institution Prasac reached US$210 million with the combination of newly borrowed $15 million from Germany’s Deg-Deutsche Investitions Und Entwicklungsellschaft Mbh (DEG), officials said during the signing ceremony. The seven-year agreement at an annual interest rate of 5.5 per cent would help Prasac ...
Advanced Bank of Asia loans MFI $2m
The Advanced Bank of Asia (ABA) last week loaned PRASAC Microfinance Institution US$2 million to support the rapid growth of the microfinance loan industry. The domestic loan was chosen to “diversify our funding sources” because of a large reliance on overseas capital which moves many of the jobs created ...
Hun Sen to protect peace
Prime Minister Hun Sen has vowed to protect peace and people’s lives as long as he leads the Kingdom. Mr Hun Sen wrote on his Facebook yesterday saying that no one or group would be allowed to stage a coup or start a colour revolution ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50536177/hun-sen-to-protect-peace/
NBC survey shows riel perceptions
The central bank released its first-ever national study yesterday on perceptions and usage of the riel and foreign currencies in Cambodia, which aimed at not only understanding existing trends, but also at steering future financial legislation to boost the circulation of Cambodia’s national currency. ...
Kali Kotoski and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nbc-survey-shows-riel-perceptions
Stunting in children down 7 percent since 2010, survey finds
The number of children in the country who are stunted—leaving them physically smaller and mentally weaker than their properly nourished peers—dropped by 7 percent between 2010 and 2014, according to a nationwide survey released Tuesday. ...
Maria Paula Brito
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/stunting-in-children-down-7-percent-since-2010-survey-finds-79053/
ICRC offers prisons help
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is willing to offer assistance in future prison building projects, and in the preparation of prison management policies that are in line with international standards, the National Police website said on Tuesday. According to the website, the ICRC ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30054/icrc-offers-prisons-help/
Basic Concerns Remain Priority in Rural Areas
Roads, bridges, schools, sanitation and other forms of basic infrastructure are still top priorities for many rural citizens of Cambodia. Comfrel has done a study of issues that voters are concerned with and found that infrastructure is a key area. Traditionally the rural areas have ...
Businesses up, reveals survey
Cambodia increased the number of business enterprises it had to 513,759 companies at the end of March last year, up from the 463,363 enterprises accounted for in 2011, according to the final results of the 2014 Cambodia Inter-Censal Economic Survey. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/businesses-reveals-survey
Cambodia's tax revenue totals $683 million
The Cambodian government collected $683 million in taxes over the first 11 months of this year, according to data from the General Department of Taxation released last week. An economist said the increase in domestic tax revenue emphasised that Cambodia still has room for improvement in ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012121160203/Business/tax-revenue-totals-683-million.html
Australian plan to send refugees to Cambodia short-sighted: report
Australia’s plan to resettle refugees in Cambodia may be a win-win opportunity for the two countries but is also short-sighted, according to the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. In a commentary posted Tuesday, the center’s Asian program said Australian prime minister Tony Abbott was ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=N2I3MzhiYTk2YWU
Tax exemption offered to SMEs
A two-year income tax exemption is being offered to small and medium-sized enterprises that register with the Ministry of Economy and Finance before the end of 2018. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35749/tax-exemption-offered-to-smes/
Push to transform bright female students into future gov’t leaders
As a child growing up in a poor family in Banteay Meanchey, Yang Leaphea struggled to imagine a world outside her province. She turned to her desperately under-resourced local library, but found few books there to expand her horizons. All that changed when the intelligent daughter ...
Holly Robertson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/push-to-transform bright-female-students-into-future-govt-leaders-66806/
Grasslands present dilemma
A week after British researchers released a study warning that the nation’s grasslands would soon be lost if drastic action was not taken to protect them, some agricultural experts have called for moderation, noting that the intensive rice cultivation blamed for the grasslands’ destruction is ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032664676/National/grasslands-present-dilemma.html
Rabies still a public health hazard in Cambodia: WHO
PHNOM PENH, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) — The World Health Organization ( WHO) said Friday that rabies was still a public health hazard in Cambodia and called for broad vaccinations for dogs to prevent the disease. “Rabies is highly endemic and a noticeable disease in Cambodia, ” ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/health/2013-09/27/c_132756196.htm
No Change to Reserve Requirement
Cambodia has decided not to increase its reserve requirement for banks to tackle inflation, National Bank of Cambodia Director General and spokeswoman Nguon Sokha said yesterdayThe Kingdom’s reserve-requirement rate for banks stands at 12 percent, meaning 12 percent of total deposits at banks must be ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011081851125/Business/no-change-to-reserve-requirement.html
World Bank Sees Challenges to Government Income Target
Cambodia appears unlikely to meet its target of becoming a high middle-income nation by 2030 and years of gains it has made reducing poverty could be erased by even a modest shock to the economy, according to the latest World Bank data. World Bank senior country ...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/world-bank-sees-challenges-to-government-income-target-45405/
Traffic deaths still plague Kingdom
Despite an increase in traffic law enforcement and awareness, traffic deaths continued to plague the country during the first six months of 2018. A National Police general department of traffic and public order report published yesterday said that 1,633 traffic accidents lead to 930 deaths ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50508968/traffic-deaths-still-plague-kingdom/
To court students, vocational programs get a makeover
One slickly produced television ad tells students “to join the community of minds that craves to learn,” as three teenagers assemble an electrical circuit board. “Better Skills! Better income!” a group of students shout in unison, fists raised. ...
James Reddick
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16768/to-court-students--vocational-programs-get-a-makeover/
Dry season rice crop jeopardized
The Center for Study and Development of Agriculture (Cedac) is calling on the government and microfinance firms to issue low-interest loans for flood-stricken farmers in order to save this year’s dry season rice harvest. Floods have destroyed 10 percent of the rainy season rice crop and ...