E-commerce set to boom
E-commerce in the Kingdom would boom during the coming years as a result of technological developments and young Cambodians being eager to gain skills in new technology, a gathering of business people heard during “E-biz Tuesday”, a monthly meeting for discussion on Cambodia’s e-commerce industry. According ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012110859633/Business/e-commerce-set-to-boom.html
Cambodia's construction continues strong growth in H1: minister
Investments in Cambodia’s construction sector have continued to grow sharply in the first six months of the year thanks to sound economic growth and investors’ trust in the country’s political stability, Im Chhun Lim, the country’s Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, said ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/810044.shtml#.Ui69otKBmN8
Malaysia Says No Draft Agreement on Maids Yet
Malaysia has not yet received a draft agreement aimed at protecting Cambodian migrant domestic workers from abuse, but the government is pressing Cambodia to lift its two-year moratorium on sending maids, a Malaysian official said Wednesday. In October 2011, Prime Minister Hun Sen imposed a ban ...
Dene-Hern Chen and Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/malaysia-says-no-draft-agreement-on-maids-yet-46399/
Royal Group makes deal during PM’s official visit
A Royal Group subsidiary has signed a deal with two Vietnamese firms to import fertiliser, a senior official with the company said yesterday. Among several deals agreed to during Prime Minister Hun Sen’s trip to Vietnam this weekend, Nitrogen Chemicals and Fertilizer Cambodia Ltd, the subsidiary ...
Chan Muy Hong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/royal-group-makes-deal-during-pm%E2%80%99s-official-visit
Anti-Corruption Unit Reports on Health Sector Bribe Case
The government’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Tuesday delivered its latest report on its review of allegations of massive bribe taking inside the Health Ministry leveled by the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria in November. officials on Wednesday were mum about the review, however, ...
Khy Sovuthy and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/anti-corruption-unit-reports-on-health-sector-bribe-case-49863/
Minister warns of poor checks at Thai border
Labor Minister Ith Sam Heng said Monday that Thai border officials may be letting Cambodian migrant workers back into Thailand with incomplete paperwork, opening them up to the same risks both countries have been trying to avoid since a mass exodus of Cambodian workers over ...
Phorn Bopha and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/minister-warns-of-poor-checks-at-thai-border-62852/
Drought continues to hurt rice farmers
Farmers in provinces across the Kingdom are feeling the effects of drought after a month of dry weather in which an estimated 10,000 hectares of rice seedlings were destroyed and 135,000 hectares left at risk, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. A report from ...
China may fund Cambodia-Vietnam rail
Cambodia was in discussions with the Chinese government on funding for a 250-kilometre stretch of rail line between Phnom Penh and Vietnam, in what Cambodian officials yesterday called a move away from a “complicated” Asian Development Bank loan. Va Sim Sorya, director general at the Ministry ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012061356758/Business/china-to-fund-cambodia-rail.html
Press release on agreement to meet between MLUPC and representatives to seek solution in land disputes
On 24 May 2018 Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction agreed and met with the representatives of household in land disputes with Union Development Co.,Ltd located in Botum Sakor district and L.Y.P.SEZ in Kiri Sakor district, Koh Kong province. The meeting aimed to ...
Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction
Cambodia stands ready to ensure peace, prosperity and cooperation in Asia
Cambodia stands ready to ensure peace, prosperity and cooperation in Asia, said SOK Soken, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MFAIC). ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501053607/cambodia-stands-ready-to-ensure-peace-prosperity-and-cooperation-in-asia/
Cambodia, EuroCham discuss mine action cooperation
Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) and the European Chamber of Commerce of Cambodia (EuroCham Cambodia) have discussed a cooperation on mine clearance in Cambodia. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501047244/cambodia-eurocham-discuss-mine-action-cooperation/
Peppercorn exports sprout 457% to nearly 28K tonnes
Cambodia shipped out about 27,730.07 tonnes of peppercorn – both geographical indication- (GI) branded Kampot pepper and non-GI cultivars – in the first 11 months of 2021, up 456.53 per cent year-on-year, with Vietnam as the top buyer, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries ...
Hom Phanet
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/peppercorn-exports-sprout-457-nearly-28k-tonnes
Ministry of Health releases statistics at annual congress
The Ministry of Health held its 41st annual congress to promote public health on Tuesday, attended by more than 500 officials from the ministry, local authorities and 25 provincial and municipal health departments. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-health-releases-statistics-annual-congress
Information Ministry to establish a code of conduct for journalists
The Ministry of Information will establish a code of conduct for journalists throughout the country to enhance the value and the quality of journalism in Cambodia and to join the government in increasing the quality of human resources through the dissemination of factual information with ...
Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501362339/information-ministry-to-establish-a-code-of-conduct-for-journalists/
Cambodian-Chinese Media Urged To Collaborate In Combating Fake News
Minister of Information of Cambodia Neth Pheaktra has called on Cambodian and Chinese journalists to work together to protect the integrity of international news by combating fake news and information interference to promote the building of a Community of Common Destiny for humanity. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501394385/cambodian-chinese-media-urged-to-collaborate-in-combating-fake-news/
More Japanese investments on industry and agro-processing sought
Cambodian Minister of Commerce Pan Sorasak has encouraged Japanese investors to invest in the fields of industry and agricultural product processing in Cambodia. The call was made when he received a delegation of Japanese Business Association of Cambodia (JBAC) at the ministry Thursday. In the ...
Chea Vannak/AKP
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50741042/more-japanese-investments-on-industry-and-agro-processing-sought/
Meeting with ministry sought to talk LANGO amendments
Ministry of Interior officials will meet to discuss the internationally condemned Law on Associations and Non-governmental Organisations (LANGO) with representatives of the Cooperation Committee for Cambodia (CCC), officials said yesterday following a letter sent by the group to Interior Minister Sar Kheng last week. ...
Lay Samean and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/meeting-ministry-sought-talk-lango-amendments
Mixed outcomes in HIV fight
While the rate of HIV infections has consistently plummeted among pregnant women, the number of homosexual, bisexual and transgender men with the disease has yet to be curbed by current intervention methods, according to findings revealed in a behavioural study on HIV prevalence, released yesterday. ...
Rebecca Moss and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mixed-outcomes-hiv-fight
CCF enforces ban on Covid-19 antibody rapid test kits
Officers from the Directorate-General Of Consumer Protection, Competition and Fraud Repression (CCF) launched a campaign on June 29 to enforce the Ministry Of Health ban on the sales Of Covid-19 antibody rapid test kits in markets and pharmacies across the capital. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ccf-enforces-ban-covid-19-antibody-rapid-test-kits
Nuclear power plant planned
The Cambodian and Russian governments have signed several Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) to help build a nuclear power plant in the Kingdom, despite previous statements saying the opposite and with no timeline as to when such a plant would be built, according to the Ministry ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25333/nuclear-power-plant-planned/