Cambodia's economic growth forecast to reach 7.2% in 2014, 7.5% next year – World Bank
Cambodia’s economic growth is forecasted to reach 7.2 percent in 2014, and 7.5 percent next year according to a report by World Bank on Monday. The report said Cambodia’s garments continue to be the key engine of growth, followed by construction. The poverty rate continued to ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodias-economic-forecasted-to-reach-72-pct-in-2014-75-pct-next-year:-world-bank-7444
Cambodia’s milled rice exports up 1.2 per cent in first nine months this year
Cambodia’s milled rice export hit 269,370 tonnes in the first nine months of 2014, up 1.2 per cent from 266,123 tonnes over the same period last year, according to latest official data. ...
Far Eastern Agriculture News Staff
http://www.fareasternagriculture.com/crops/agriculture/cambodia-s-milled-rice-exports-up-1-2-per-cent-in-first-nine-months-this-year
Droves of up to 2,000 migrant Cambodian workers flee Thailand
More than 2,000 Cambodian migrants have reportedly returned back to their home country at Chong Chom border crossing in Surin due to the closure of worker camps. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50894041/droves-of-up-to-2000-migrant-cambodian-workers-flee-thailand/
Customs revenues reaches $2.295 billion in 2021
Approximately $2.295 billion was collected as customs revenue in 2021, about 97.1 percent of the yearly plan, according to the data from the General Department of Customs and Excise (GDCE). ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501023830/customs-revenues-reaches-2-295-billion-in-2021/
Australia commits to deliver one million out of 2.35 million Pfizer doses next month
Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Marise Payne has confirmed that Australia will provide the first one million of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines that it has pledged to Cambodia to be delivered by the end of this year. This shipment will be the first towards a ...
Yim Sreylin
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50967730/australia-commits-to-deliver-one-million-out-of-2-35-million-pfizer-doses-next-month/
Nearly 2 million people in Phnom Penh vaccinated against Covid-19
As of May 27, nearly 2 million people in Phnom Penh have been vaccinated against Covid-19 in accordance with the Royal Government’s determination that all Phnom Penh residents will be vaccinated against Covid-19 by June 2021. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50864514/nearly-2-million-people-in-phnom-penh-vaccinated-against-covid-19-as-of-may-27/
CMAC destroys 2,000 cluster munitions in first half of year
Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) officials have estimated that between 26 and 30 million cluster munitions were used in Cambodia during the war. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-destroys-2000-cluster-munitions-first-half-year
Six listed firms post Q2 recovery
Six companies with securities listed on the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) reported a recovery in business performance in the second quarter of this year over the early days of the health crisis, on the back of the rapid pace of the Covid-19 vaccination programme in ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/six-listed-firms-post-q2-recovery-0
Q1 Hungary trade reaches $2.23M
Cambodia and Hungary on May 27 reaffirmed their vows to strengthen and further develop economic and trade cooperation after a reported dip in trade last year pinned on the global Covid-19 crisis. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/q1-hungary-trade-reaches-223m
2nd rescued giant stingray returned to river’s depths
The Mekong River Wonder project – in collaboration with the Inland Fisheries Research and Development Institute (IFREDI) – released a gigantic freshwater stingray back into the river, after it was caught by fishermen on May 22 in Koh Preah commune of Stung Treng province’s Siem ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/2nd-rescued-giant-stingray-returned-rivers-depths
Insurance premiums rise to $81 million Q2
Despite the impact on incomes due to global economic uncertainties, the Kingdom’s insurance industry has performed well so far this year, with insurance premiums growing 6.3 per cent to $81.2 million in the second quarter of 2023 from $76.3 million in the corresponding period last ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/insurance-premiums-rise-81-million-q2
Ratanakkiri Hydropower Dams Deemed Economically Viable
Two massive hydropower dams planned for the Mekong’s tributaries in Ratanakkiri province have been deemed economically viable by two feasibility studies conducted by a pair of giant Chinese conglomerates, a provincial industry, mines and energy official said yesterday. Despite the feasibility studies having been completed, ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ratanakkiri-hydropower-dams-deemed-economically-viable-23116/
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new topic page on “SDG 2 Zero hunger” and “SDG 10 Reduced inequalities”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes 2 new topic pages on “SDG 2 Zero hunger” and “SDG 10 Reduced inequalities”, which are two of the 17 goals of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in both Khmer and English languages. Through ODC’s new topic pages on ...
$2.3B of projects greenlit in January
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) approved final registration certificates for 25 projects in the first month of 2022, with total registered capital of nearly $2.3 billion and expected to create 23,175 jobs. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/23b-projects-greenlit-january
Cambodia 2022 first half customs income at $1.2 billion
The General Department of Customs and Excise earned $1,293 million in customs income in the first half of this year, representing 50.1 percent of the financial plan for 2022. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501108599/cambodia-2022-first-half-customs-income-at-1-2-billion/
H2 inflation to fall below 5%: NBC boss
Average year-on-year inflation for the second half (H2) of 2022 will fall below five per cent, on the back of improvements in economic activity, as gross domestic product (GDP) grows around five per cent over the period, National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) governor Chea Chanto ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/h2-inflation-fall-below-5-nbc-boss
NSSF membership rises to more than 2 million individuals
The total number of members enrolled in the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) of the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training (MLVT) has risen to more than two million individuals. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501521102/nssf-membership-rises-to-more-than-2-million-individuals/
CCHR and CIVICUS condemn the Cambodian government’s rejection of key recommendations during its 2nd Universal Periodic Review
Today, 26 June 2014, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) and CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance, condemn the Royal Government of Cambodia’s (the “RGC”) decision to reject key recommendations on the human rights situation in the Kingdom of Cambodia put forward by United ...
Cambodian center for Human Rights (CCHR)
Government pledges $2billion fund for economy
The government has announced they have prepared an emergency reserve fund of between $800million and $2billion to aid the Kingdom’s economic recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50700267/government-pledges-2billion-fund-for-economy
SECC launches excellence programme 2
The Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia (SECC) launched here on Nov. 23 the “Excellence Programme 2” to help small- and medium-sized enterprises prepare for stock market listing. ...
Chea Vannak/AKP
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50785547/secc-launches-excellence-programme-2/