Cambodia’s insurance industry sees slight growth in first 5 months of 2024
An Insurance Regulator of Cambodia (IRC) report showed on Monday that Cambodia’s insurance industry recorded a gross premium of $150 million in the first five months of 2024, up 1.2 percent from $148.1 million over the same period in 2023. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501511655/cambodias-insurance-industry-sees-slight-growth-in-first-5-months-of-2024/
Cambodia and France exchange two MoUs on trade and education
Dr. Hun Manet, Prime Minister of Cambodia, presided over the opening ceremony of the three-day France-Cambodia Business Forum, held at the Sofitel Phokeethra Phnom Penh this morning. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501519296/cambodia-and-france-exchange-two-mous-on-trade-and-education/
ERW victims increase by 67% in first six months of 2024
In the first six months of 2024, there have been 35 casualties from mines, unexploded ordnance (UXOs), and explosive remnants of war (ERWs), an increase of 67% compared to the same period in 2023 when there were 21 victims. ...
Som Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501517980/erw-victims-increase-by-67-in-first-six-months-of-2024/
Luxury tourism slowly on the rise
A helicopter flight tour to Preah Vihear is just one part of the 10-day Cambodia Immersion for Millionaires Tour launched this week. The cost per person? $25,000. According to Christopher Gramsch, sales manager for organiser Khiri Travel Cambodia, there is increasing demand among high-spending travellers and ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013042565220/Business/luxury-tourism-slowly-on-the-rise.html
Innovation and inspiration are the basis of BarCamp
BarCamp Phnom Penh, a technology conference at the University of Puthisastra, promises to attract industry professionals from ASEAN countries, the US, Germany and other countries around the world later this month, Be Chantra, lead organiser of the conference, says. Be Chantra says BarCamp Phnom Penh is ...
Delegation to investigate maid trade in Singapore
Seng Sakada, director-general of the Labor Ministry’s labor department, will lead a delegation to Singapore on Saturday to study the ministry’s pilot program to send domestic workers to the city-state, a recruitment agency director confirmed Wednesday. The team will investigate the success of the program, which ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/delegation-to-investigate-maid-trade-in-singapore-64816/
Cultivate ‘cooperative spirit” in money-laundering fight: Sar Kheng
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng on January 6 told working groups at relevant ministries and institutions to cultivate their “cooperative spirit” to more effectively prevent and combat money laundering and related offenses. ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cultivate-cooperative-spirit-money-laundering-fight-sar-kheng
Firm to study proposed gas pipeline routes
The Council of Ministers has granted Petrochemicals (Cambodia) Refinery Ltd permission to conduct two feasibility studies to explore the viability of onshore and offshore gas pipelines, according to a document released yesterday. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/firm-study-proposed-gas-pipeline-routes
Chinese corners opened in Cambodia to boost language learning
The Confucius Institute of the Royal Academy of Cambodia on Tuesday launched Chinese Corners at the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts and the Royal University of Fine Arts. ...
Ecns.cn News Staff
http://www.ecns.cn/2015/07-15/173177.shtml
Cambodia Delays US Military Aid
Cambodia postponed U.S.-backed military assistance programs immediately after the July 28 national election, officials of both countries confirmed Tuesday, in a move that analysts said reflects a strain in relations after years of strengthening military ties. The U.S. has in recent years expanded training and other ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-delays-us-military-assistance-39509/
Cyber bill raises concerns
Cambodia’s highly secretive draft law on cybercrime, which has never been released publicly, seeks to criminalise online content that “slanders or undermines” government agencies, ministries or officials or affects “political cohesiveness”, a copy obtained by the Post reveals. The law, which was first announced in May ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cyber-bill-raises-concerns
Cambodia’s Defense of Rights Record at UN Review Slammed
Foreign donors should push Cambodia’s government to end its human rights abuses as part of its bid to maintain political control of the nation, a rights group said Wednesday, after Phnom Penh allegedly snubbed recommendations by foreign governments to improve the country’s rights record. Representatives of ...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/review-07022014161641.html
Flyovers, subway on the drawing board for Phnom Penh
The Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) and Phnom Penh municipality are cooperating to undertake a study on major new projects for the city – two flyovers and a subway, each of which it is hoped would ease the city’s ever worsening traffic congestion. Touch Samnang, project ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/flyovers-subway-drawing-board-phnom-penh
Gender-based pay gap persists: Oxfam study
Asia’s economic success has been carried on the shoulders of poor women, whose higher load of work has been unequally compensated and undervalued, according to an Oxfam report released on Tuesday. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gender-based-pay-gap-persists-oxfam-study
Banking with a positive spin
A banking sector initiative launched yesterday aims to advise Cambodia’s financial sector on best practices for sustainable lending while capitalising on the growing pool of international funds that could flow into green and socially responsible projects. The Sustainable Finance Initiative will conduct two years of ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/banking-positive-spin
Ministry Cancels Telco Limits
An often flouted and publicly unpopular restriction forbidding Cambodia’s telecoms from offering lucrative mobile phone promotions was scrapped on Sunday, just two weeks after it was introduced. In a letter from the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPTC), signed by Minister So Khun, it announced a ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050765438/Business/ministry-cancels-telco-limits.html
Mondolkiri, Kompong Thom Face Climate Threat
Mondolkiri and Kompong Thom provinces could suffer some of the most extreme effects of climate change in the Lower Mekong Basin region, such as a high incidence of flash floods and droughts by 2050, according to a new study. Analyzing temperature and rainfall from 84 provinces ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mondolkiri-kompong-thom-face-climate-threat-17224/
Gov’t orders halt to Koh Pich expansion
The owner and developer of Koh Pich in Phnom Penh has been ordered by the government to scale back its expansion of the island, according to the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology. According to a statement posted to the ministry’s website on Wednesday, the Overseas ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-orders-halt-to-koh-pich-expansion-60029/
Big opposition gains
The ruling Cambodian People’s Party saw its ironclad grip on the National Assembly weaken dramatically, dropping 22 seats in winning 68 of 123, with the opposition the beneficiary and the CPP’s royalist coalition partners winning none at all in an election rife with alleged irregularities. Though ...
Wing to process business registry fees
The Ministry of Commerce has tapped Wing (Cambodia) Ltd Specialised Bank to be the fourth financial institution designated to handle payments for companies incorporated using the ministry’s online registration system. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/wing-process-business-registry-fees