Economic outlook positive, ease of doing business still lagging: ADB
Cambodia’s economic outlook remains positive and the economy is forecast to grow at a robust 7 percent this year and next year, according to a report released by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday. Growth in exports, strong foreign direct investment, growing tourist arrivals ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/economic-outlook-positive-ease-doing-business-still-lagging-adb
Government to form on Sept 6, says PM
After paying a courtesy call on the King and visiting the chairman of the Constitutional Council, caretaker prime minister Hun Sen on Wednesday rescheduled the date on which a new National Assembly will be formed. The Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) president also directed his ire ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-form-sept-6-says-pm
Ministry suspends licences of 90 mining companies
The Ministry of Mines and Energy has suspended the licences of 90 mining companies across Kampong Speu province for a week for failing to properly repair and water roads, tormenting residents with clouds of dust. Yos Monirath, General Department of Mineral Resources director-general at the ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-suspends-licences-90-mining-companies
Private companies warned on beach access
The government has vowed to crack down on coastal hotels and resorts that have restricted public access to beaches or constructed illegal encroachments within 50 metres of the shoreline.Tourism Minister Thong Khon warned yesterday that his ministry will give private companies a deadline to remove ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/private-companies-warned-beach-access
PM calls for drought aid preparations
Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on local authorities and government ministries to be ready to distribute water to farmers around the country due to the ongoing shortage in the Kingdom’s reservoirs. He added that if people had trouble contacting local authorities, individual farmers should ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-calls-drought-aid-preparations
Helping Cambodia move up
The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) opened its office in the capital in September 1993. Today, the AFD provides direct funding in the field of agriculture and agro-industry, infrastructure development, manufacturing sector and vocational training. Since 1993, the AFD has given grants of more than ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25546/helping-cambodia--move-up/
PM backs China’s key role
Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday that China has been playing a critical role in contributing to the development of the Cambodian economy through direct investment and helping to develop infrastructure. In 2016 trade reached about $4.8 billion of which exports from Cambodia amounted to ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37454/pm-backs-china---s-key-role/
Jump in fainting cases in 2017 for garment workers
The National Social Security Fund of the Ministry of Labour said more than 1,600 workers fainted in 22 factories in 2017, an increase of more than 400 from the previous year. According to a Facebook post that published the conclusion of the 2017 annual results and ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106532/jump-fainting-cases-2017-garment-workers/
Deal for yuan trade with China in works
Officials in Cambodia and China’s Guangdong province are cooperating to establish trade using yuan instead of US dollars, part of the two countries’ increasingly close economic relationship. The suggestion to use yuan directly, instead of using US dollars as an intermediary currency, was made by ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/deal-yuan-trade-china-works
Canadian Aid for Communal Land Titles to End in March
Canadian funding for ethnic minority communities in the process of applying for communal land titles will run out in March, and other donors have not yet signed up to take over the task, officials from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), which currently provides the ...
Defence homes in on assumptions of rank
During the final day of testimony by Sar Kimlomouth at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday, the defence team for co-accused Khieu Samphan sought to weaken the ties between their client and the Ministry of Commerce, within which Sar Kimlomouth, a former banker within Democratic Kampuchea, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/KRTalk/defence-homes-in-on-assumptions-of-rank.html
Hong Kong calls for hike in imports
After a visit to Phnom Penh last week, John C Tsang, finance secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, took to his blog to call for more direct imports of Cambodian rice, which he says comes through a third country. In a post on June ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013070266597/Business/hong-kong-calls-for-hike-in-imports.html
Acid services reduced
With acid attacks in steep decline – not a single attack has been recorded so far this year – the only organisation working directly with acid survivors on the ground is scaling back its services by 75 per cent. Cambodian Acid Survivors Charity (CASC) is no ...
Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/acid-services-reduced
Instability delays CAA launching new routes
Cambodia Angkor Air (CAA) will delay the launch of its planned direct flights to Beijing, Tokyo and Singapore due to unrest in neighbouring countries, the airline said yesterday. Originally slated to open the new routes before the end of the year, tensions in Thailand and Vietnam ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/instability-delays-caa-launching-new-routes
Cambodia faces nightmarish situation of contact tracing for close contacts of COVID-19 victims
Ministry of Health officials, aided by other related agencies are on a manhunt for those who may have come into direct contact with a group of five COVID-19 victims. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50711625/cambodia-faces-nightmarish-situation-of-contact-tracing-for-close-contacts-of-covid-19-victims/
Government to investigate illegal Mondulkiri land grabs
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng issued a directive on Thursday establishing an inter-ministerial working group to study illegal forest land occupation and encroachment of protected areas in Mondulkiri province. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-investigate-illegal-mondulkiri-land-grabs
Quarantines waived for recovered Covid patients
The Ministry of Health has waived the 14-day quarantine requirement for Covid-19 patients who have fully recovered from the disease, according to a directive issued by Minister of Health Mam Bun Heng on October 26. ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/quarantines-waived-recovered-covid-patients
PM asks VN to resume flights
Phnom Penh has asked Hanoi to resume direct flights between Cambodia and Vietnam to boost tourism between the two countries now that the Covid-19 outbreak appears to be waning. ...
Hom Phanet
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pm-asks-vn-resume-flights
PM Hun Sen welcomes investment plan on clean energy production in Cambodia
Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, spoke highly of the investment direction of Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group and Soma Group on clean energy production in Cambodia. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501204963/pm-hun-sen-welcomes-investment-plan-on-clean-energy-production-in-cambodia/
PM talks tourism with Laotian Premier during visit
Launching direct flights linking Cambodia and Laos was top of the agenda during a two-day official visit by Prime Minister Hun Sen to the neighboring nation . ...
Seng Mengheng
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-pm-talks-tourism-with-laotian-premier-during-visit