Commerce ministry pushes ASEAN-Japan economic relations
A Cambodian official has requested that Japan consider increasing cooperation and support for the least developed ASEAN countries through the provision of technical assistance and training, saying that Cambodia would benefit from the vision and strategy for the growth of ASEAN-Japan economic integration over the ...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/commerce-ministry-pushes-asean-japan-economic-relations
Fish tale: A million released
A million fish formed the front line of the conservation fight yesterday, when Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries officials released them in Kampong Thom provincial waters, celebrating the launching of a national aquaculture institute. Yesterday’s celebration of National Fish Day in Baray district marks the official start ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013070266609/National/fish-tale-a-million-released.html
Cambodian goods to be certified
The Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy (MIME) will begin promoting the Institute of Standards of Cambodia (ISC) certifications by the end of 2012 in an effort to educate people about certified goods, according to ministry officials. The program is in order to boost consumer confidence ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012070657245/Business/cambodian-goods-to-be-certified.html
Mechanics school on the way
A new auto-mechanics training school at the National Polytechnic Institute of Cambodia (NPI) that aims to train select Cambodian youth and support a shortage in the labour market officially commenced construction yesterday. In partnership with the Ministry of Labour, joint sponsors the Korean International Cooperation Agency ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mechanics-school-way
U.S. Democracy promotion group holds political debate in Battambang
Local residents in Battambang town took part in a political debate organized by U.S. Democracy promotion group, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) on Monday ahead of local elections early next month. Attendees asked prospective candidates questions related to citizen’s concerns over unemployment, migration, ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/us-democracy-promotion-group-holds-political-debate-in-battambang/3867567.html
China hugely contributes to world economy, says Cambodian scholars
China has greatly contributed to the development of the world economy, even though it is still a developing country, scholars in Cambodia said Sunday. “China helped other Asian economies to recover from the Asian financial crisis in 1997, assisted the Eurozone to recover from the ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1O1mABr
15 foreign investments were approved in October
Fifteen foreign investments worth $344 million were approved by the government’s investment board in October, most of which were in the garment industry, according to data obtained this week ...
First 10 months of year's exports up 32.9 percent
Exports from Cambodia increased 32.9 percent to $3.7 billion during the first ten months of this year compared to the same period in 2010, according to data released by the Ministry of Commerce yesterday. Milled rice exports saw the biggest increase with a 161.5 percent jump ...
Trade deficit grows once more
Cambodia’s trade deficit with the rest of the world continued to widen last year to $5.2 billion, as the Kingdom’s imports outstripped its exports once again, a National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) report released on Saturday said. The NBC figures revealed that the Kingdom imported $18.8 ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/trade-deficit-grows-once-more
Embracing a place called home
Before this past September, Nov Borom, a 52-year-old mother of five, lived with both a tenuous housing situation and HIV. But through a collaboration of several NGOs who sought to provide Cambodia’s most vulnerable people with housing able to withstand the region’s rainy season and floods, ...
Sean Teehan and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/embracing-place-called-home
World Bank projects 7% Cambodian growth rate
The World Bank has projected the Kingdom’s economic growth will reach seven percent this year, slightly up from its 6.9 percent projection in April, due to solid garment exports and a resilient construction sector. The World Bank’s “Cambodia Economic Update October 2016” highlighted solid garment export ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30444/world-bank-projects----7--cambodian-growth-rate/
Poverty reduction a mixed success, as countryside rates remain high
Cambodia’s efforts to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger have yielded mixed results, despite the government’s claim it has reduced the poverty rate ahead of a UN deadline. But many people remain near the poverty line, vulnerable to natural disasters, such as flooding, that could put ...
Men Kimseng,
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/poverty-reduction-a-mixed-success-as-countryside-rates-remain-high/2640700.html
Largest MFI Prasac gets loan boost for coffers
Cambodia’s largest microfinance institution, (MFI) Prasac, has received a $60.5 million loan to strengthen its capacity in offering broader financial services in the country. On Friday, Prasac signed the agreement for the syndicate loan – provided by more than one lender – with the Netherlands Development ...
Ancient temples of Cambodia's Angkor civilization incorporated into Google Street View in effort to boost tourism
The spectacular temples of Cambodia’s Angkor civilization have been incorporated into Google’s Street View, a boost to the impoverished country’s tourism industry that also adds urgency to efforts to preserve the sprawling historic site. The Internet giant said in a statement Thursday that Street View now ...
New York Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/cambodia-angkor-civilization-google-street-view-article-1.1744354
Trade body, MFI hatching plans to fund rice sector
The Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) and AMK Microfinance Institution Plc are brainstorming plausible approaches to jointly channel finance into the rice sector. ...
May Kunmakara
https://phnompenhpost.com/business/trade-body-mfi-hatching-plans-fund-rice-sector
MFIs downplay debts
Two of the leading microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Cambodia said yesterday that they have identified a relatively small fraction of borrowers who were affected by flooding and would provide relief on their repayment schedules if necessary. The comments come after both Prime Minister Hun Sen and ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mfis-downplay-debts
Health progress lauded
Cambodia’s progress in reducing maternal mortality was recognised internationally this week at the 67th World Health Assembly in Switzerland. Efforts to increase the number of skilled birth attendants and an increase in the number of 24-hour emergency centres available to pregnant women were both credited with ...
Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/health-progress-lauded
Report calls for foreign teacher trainers, higher salaries
Cambodia must significantly increase teachers’ salaries and import the best teacher trainers from abroad in order to combat a continuously widening gap between the skills employers are looking for and those the country’s graduates are able to provide, a new report says. Facing the worst student-teacher ...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/report-calls-for-foreign-teacher-trainers-higher-salaries-67184/
Body notes ‘significant’ anti-laundering strides
An inter-governmental anti-money laundering group has stopped monitoring Cambodia after it said the Kingdom had made “significant progress” toward fighting financial crimes. ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/body-notes-significant-anti-laundering-strides
$30M credit guarantee scheme for rice inked
The state-owned Credit Guarantee Corporation of Cambodia (CGCC), Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) and participating financial institutions (PFIs) signed an agreement on the $30 million Rice Export Guarantee Scheme (REGS) to help millers stockpile rice for milling, processing, exporting and making local value-added products. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501487226/30m-credit-guarantee-scheme-for-rice-inked/