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 ...
Australian organic enterprise to offer Cambodian farmers overseas training experience
An Australian organic farming firm is offering jobs to Cambodians. The news came out at a meeting between Lexmin Pty Cambodia CEO Robert K Chelliah and Agriculture Minister Veng Sakhon yesterday. ...
Michael Firn
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50908111/australian-organic-enterprise-to-offer-cambodian-farmers-overseas-training-experience/
E-commerce market critical to Cambodia, CWEA says
The Cambodian Women Entrepreneurs Association (CWEA) said that e-Commerce in Cambodia is set to grow rapidly with the ease of doing business in the Kingdom. Entrepreneurs explained that the e-commerce sector has boomed in the country in recent years thanks to the rapid development of ...
Sok Sithika
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501148275/e-commerce-market-critical-to-cambodia-cwea-says/
Kingdom makes EE labels must for electrical appliances
Cambodia has made energy efficiency (EE) labels issued by the Ministry of Mining and Energy (MME) mandatory for all electrical appliances manufactured, imported or sold in the country through a new regulation. ...
Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501343447/kingdom-makes-ee-labels-must-for-electrical-appliances/
MISTI, MPTC seal deal on digital security
The Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation (MISTI) and the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MPTC) Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on digital security in Phnom Penh. ...
Jigme Palden Pazo
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501520189/misti-mptc-seal-deal-on-digital-security/
MISTI, MPTC seal deal on digital security
The Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation (MISTI) and the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MPTC) Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on digital security in Phnom Penh. ...
Jigme Palden Pazo
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501520189/misti-mptc-seal-deal-on-digital-security/
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/
UN extolls power of tech in goals to development
Private-sector investment into technology can help developing countries meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), representatives said yesterday at a conference, sparking debate on how Cambodian entrepreneurs can incorporate humanitarian goals into core business operations. ...
Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/un-extolls-power-tech-goals-development
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/
U.S.-ABC interested to invest in various sectors in Cambodia
U.S.-ASEAN Business Council (U.S.-ABC) is interested to invest in Cambodia in the fields of energy, industry, health, technology, finance and import-export. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50955248/u-s-abc-interested-to-invest-in-various-sectors-in-cambodia/
Information Minister urges for digital transformation adaptation
Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith has urged officials to adapt to digital transformation to facilitate work in Fourth Industrial Revolution. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501189768/information-minister-urges-for-digital-transformation-adaptation/
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/
First sentence given for facebook comments
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday fined a 29-year-old hairstylist and make-up artist 2 million riel, or about $500, and ordered her to pay 5 million riel, or about $1,250, in compensation to a rival beauty parlor owner she defamed on Facebook. The sentence is ...
Eang Mengleng And Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/first-sentence-given-for-facebook-comments-51649/
Robot factories could threaten jobs of millions of garment workers
The jobs of nearly 90% of garment and footwear workers in Cambodia and Vietnam are at risk from automated assembly lines – or “sewbots” – according to a new report from the International Labour Organisation (ILO). ...
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
Google to map streets of capital, Angkor Wat
People around the world will soon be able to go online and view close-up pictures of Phnom Penh’s streets and the temples of Angkor Wat, Google representatives announced in Phnom Penh. Google Street View is using cars with special 360-degree panoramic cameras to collect the imagery. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/google-map-streets-capital-angkor-wat
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/
Ministry seeks help of ICT sector to end hacks
The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications is calling for the cooperation of all stakeholders in the ICT sector to solve a vulnerability in mobile phone networks that has led to a rise in the number of hacks in the kingdom. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50113853/ministry-seeks-help-of-ict-sector-to-end-hacks/
A grade grads meeting PM
The Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sport said the more than 1,000 students who earned A grades in last year’s high school examinations are set for their February 2 meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...
Neang Sokunthea
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/grade-grads-meeting-pm
Finance ministry prepared to launch ‘CamDL’
The Ministry of Economy and Finance said in a statement that Cambodia Distributed Ledger (CamDL) is a “hybrid permissioned blockchain” designed to provide the public with a platform for testing, understanding, experimenting and developing Decentralised Applications (Dapp), or those in the Web3 space, to solve ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/finance-ministry-prepared-launch-camdl