Cambodia Omicron cases pass 9,000 as Kingdom records highest daily deaths since November 2021
As PM Hun Sen goes into COVID-19 quarantine, Cambodia today recorded the 22nd consecutive day of the new triple digit ‘Omicron Surge’ as daily case numbers remain high ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501032277/cambodia-omicron-cases-pass-9000-as-kingdom-records-highest-daily-deaths-since-november-2021/
Despite COVID-19 pandemic, Cambodia created more than 150,000 jobs through 195 new investments
The Minister of Labor and Vocational Training said that even in the context of Covid-19 pandemic, Cambodia received and approved 195 new investment projects and 43 production expansion requests that could create more than 150,000 jobs. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50995101/despite-covid-19-pandemic-cambodia-created-more-than-150000-jobs-through-195-new-investments/
Koh Kong cashes in on conservation
Koh Kong province’s mangrove forests have changed from being a source of charcoal to serving tourists who help to protect their biodiversity. The forests have now become a popular destination for Cambodian tourists. Yem Yan, Peam Krasorb commune chief in Koh Kong, said gradually visitors ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051465588/Business/koh-kong-cashes-in-on-conservation.html
Salt imports hit 15K tonnes as stocks dwindle after low yields
About 15,000 tonnes of natural salt imported from India are now in stock to meet local demand, after adverse weather conditions dragged down domestic salt production this year to under 40,000 tonnes, roughly 30,000-60,000 tonnes fewer than estimates for annual nationwide consumption, according to industry ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/salt-imports-hit-15k-tonnes-stocks-dwindle-after-low-yields
Thailand, Japan Donate to Flood Relief Efforts
The governments of Japan and Thailand as well as the Thai community in Cambodia have decided to donate goods and cash totaling about $520,000 to flood relief in Cambodia, officials said Tuesday. The Japanese government will donate about $400,000 in an official ceremony this morning at ...
Denise Hruby and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thailand-japan-donate-to-flood-relief-efforts-45714/
The bank that likes to say less: Cambodia’s greatest commercial success story is not over yet
AN HOUR’S drive south of Phnom Penh, deep in rural Cambodia, Chrek Heang is doing the rounds of his rapidly expanding poultry and fisheries business. Just four years ago he was living, like most of his countrymen, in a small wooden hut with a tin ...
Japan to build $200 m shopping mall in Cambodia
AEON Mall, a Japan’s single-largest shopping mall developer and the largest retailing operator, will invest $200 million to build a four-storey shopping mall here in December, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday. The construction will be begun on December 10, 2012 on the land area ...
Real Estate Market Showing Signs of Recovery
Land prices in Cambodia continued to recover in the last half of 2012, especially in urban areas, following a collapse of the market in 2008, real estate investors say. Keuk Narin, vice president of Asia Real Estate Cambodia, told VOA Khmer that commercial land prices ...
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/real-estate-market-showing-signs-of-recovery/1580588.html
[Herald Interview] KFS seeks to boost youth employment
Korea Forest Service (KFS) has been working to promote overseas partnership with Southeast Asia countries by aiming to expand afforestation by 1 million hectares by 2050 from 314,000 hectares in 2013. It established relations with Indonesia to collaborate in planting trees on 700,000 hectares, and ...
Park Hyong-ki and Lee Kwon-hyung
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20150205000903
Civil servant salaries to increase next month
The Cambodian government announced that it would increase the salaries of low-ranking civil servants to 320,000 Riel per month. The statement was issued by Prime Minister Hun Sen Tuesday. He said, 90,000 civil servants will benefit from the increase which will start in September. Recently the Ministry of ...
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=NmFmZGMzN2U3M2M
Audi opens dealership in capital
Automotive Asia (Cambodia), the only authorised dealer of Audi vehicles in Cambodia, opened its first showroom in Phnom Penh yesterday. The 2,000-square-metre showroom on Monivong Boulevard currently holds just two of the German carmaker’s models, the Q7 and the A8L, with prices ranging between $135,000 and ...
Hor Kimsay
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/audi-opens-dealership-capital
Dengue cases more than double in first six months of this year
In the first six months of this year, there were more than 9,000 reported cases of dengue fever nationwide, an increase of 5,000 from the 4,000 cases for the same period in 2022. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/1334443/dengue-cases-more-than-double-in-first-six-months-of-this-year/
Cambodia sees 9 pct drop in malaria cases in Q1
Cambodia reported 10,000 malaria cases in the first three months of 2014, down 9 percent from about 11,000 cases over the same period last year, a health official said Thursday. ...
ASEAN - China Centre News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2014-04/25/c_133290120.htm
Government payroll to grow
The government will recruit more than 12,000 civil servants and teachers and an additional 20,000 service contractors for 2017, according to an announcement by the Ministry of Public Function. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-payroll-grow
New online vehicle registration proved successful
Thanks to the new online registration system, some 17,000 special number plates of vehicles have been serviced, generating 14,000 million Riel (roughly US$3.5 million) as national income. ...
Lim Nary
http://www.akp.gov.kh/?p=106511
Government plugs rubber switch
The government is seeking intrepid smallholder farmers to pilot a project that would transform 6,000 hectares of cropland in two provinces into a patchwork of small rubber plantations.The Ministry of Agriculture is eyeing 5,000 hectares of land in Ratanakkiri and 1,000 hectares in Battambang for ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-plugs-rubber-switch
Cambodia hosts int'l half marathon at Angkor world heritage site
About 8,000 professional and amateur athletes from 78 countries and regions took part in the 19th Angkor Wat International Half Marathon on Sunday at the complex of Angkor Wat Temple, a world heritage site. Cambodian Tourism Minister Thong Khon, president of the National Olympic Committee, said ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sports/2014-12/07/c_133837828.htm
Following US, EU withdrawal of funding, China to donate huge load of goods to NEC
China will donate more than 30 different kinds of equipment – including 60,000 polling booths and 15,000 ballot boxes – to the National Election Committee (NEC) ahead of next year’s general elections. ...
Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/following-us-eu-withdrawal-funding-china-donate-huge-load-goods-nec
Property prices remain flat in Phnom Penh
Despite signs that demand is starting to come back to the real estate sector, an oversupply in the market has kept prices for commercial and residential properties in Phnom Penh flat over the past 12 months, according to data from Bonna Realty Group. Prices for commercial ...
Thousands of trees planted in Siem Reap, Preah Vihear
The Environment Ministry has planted 40,000 tree saplings in the protected areas of Preah Jayavarman-Norodom National Park in Siem Reap province and Beong Per Wildlife Sanctuary in Preah Vihear province. The tree planting event was held on Friday and Saturday, and involved provincial authorities, monks, and ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50637360/thousands-of-trees-planted-in-siem-reap-preah-vihear/