World Bank Sees Challenges to Government Income Target
Cambodia appears unlikely to meet its target of becoming a high middle-income nation by 2030 and years of gains it has made reducing poverty could be erased by even a modest shock to the economy, according to the latest World Bank data. World Bank senior country ...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/world-bank-sees-challenges-to-government-income-target-45405/
Traffic deaths still plague Kingdom
Despite an increase in traffic law enforcement and awareness, traffic deaths continued to plague the country during the first six months of 2018. A National Police general department of traffic and public order report published yesterday said that 1,633 traffic accidents lead to 930 deaths ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50508968/traffic-deaths-still-plague-kingdom/
Korean electronics giant sees growth in Cambodia
LG Electronics has identified Cambodia as the emerging market in ASEAN with the greatest potential for increasing sales and is expanding its business here, a senior executive of the South Korean company told Khmer Times last week at the LG Innofest 2016 Asia in Seoul. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21715/korean-electronics-giant-sees-growth-in-cambodia/
Industry 4.0: Executives on how ‘smart factories’ will impact Cambodia
The next industrial revolution will introduce “smart factories” in which computers and robotics communicating wirelessly will handle physical processes with very little input from human operators, leaving few job opportunities for unskilled workers, executives of German industrial giants said during a briefing in Phnom Penh ...
Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/industry-40-executives-how-smart-factories-will-impact-cambodia
To court students, vocational programs get a makeover
One slickly produced television ad tells students “to join the community of minds that craves to learn,” as three teenagers assemble an electrical circuit board. “Better Skills! Better income!” a group of students shout in unison, fists raised. ...
James Reddick
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16768/to-court-students--vocational-programs-get-a-makeover/
Open Development Cambodia updates a dataset on “Digital Elevation Model from SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) in Cambodia”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updates a dataset on “Digital Elevation Model from SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) in Cambodia” by adding a new interactive map layer. This bilingual dataset of the SRTM V3 has a high resolution of 30 meters and allows for downloads.=> Please ...
Plans set for Silk Research Centre at RUPP
Cambodian silk producers will be soon able to get quality silkworms from a breeding centre at the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), thanks to a specialised team that is seeking to increase professionalism in the Kingdom’s silk industry. ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/plans-set-silk-research-centre-rupp
First-ever FDI survey identifies $20B in capital inflow
Foreign direct investment (FDI) to Cambodia over a 20-year period – from 1994 to 2014 – is estimated to have reached $19.2 billion and was heavily weighed by inflows of capital from China, according to the first-ever comprehensive survey on FDI, released yesterday. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/first-ever-fdi-survey-identifies-20b-capital-inflow
MFIs watch rice loans
The country’s financial institutions are closely monitoring loans that have been made to rice farmers, who say that this year’s fall in rice prices will affect their ability to make repayments, industry officials said yesterday. Last year, farmers were paid around 840 riel ($0.21) per kilogram ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30035/mfis-watch-rice-loans/
Not enough high-quality jobs, group warns
Cambodia does not have enough productive or high-quality jobs available and most employment is informal, which will prevent Cambodians from rising out of poverty, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said Monday at a workshop in Phnom Penh. To help solve the issues affecting the labor market, ...
Exports to Japan rise sharply
Cambodia’s total exports of garments and footwear to Japan increased sharply in the first half of the year, according to latest figures from the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO). ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28319/exports-to-japan-rise-sharply/
Region agrees on new standards for rubber
Rubber industry experts and government officials from ASEAN member countries gathered in Siem Reap yesterday to agree on harmonised standards for rubber products that would facilitate cross-border trade. The Asean Consultative Committee for Standards and Quality (ACCSQ) Rubber-Based Product Working Group (RBPWG) agreed to 61 harmonised ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/region-agrees-new-standards-rubber
Beijing 'Coordinated' With Cambodia to Influence Asean Meeting
A Chinese academic with close ties to China’s state security apparatus has claimed that Beijing coordinated with the Cambodian government to influence the outcome of the Asean meeting in Phnom Penh, according to the Financial Times. In an interview with the Financial Times on Wednesday, Chen ...
Cambodia's 2012 unemployment rate stands at 2.7 pct: survey
Unemployment rate in Cambodia stood at 2.7 percent in equivalent to 202,300 persons aged 15 or older in 2012, according to the first-ever Cambodia Labor Force Survey Report released on Thursday. Conducted by the National Institute of Statistics and the International Labor Organization (ILO), the survey ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/131128/cambodias-2012-unemployment-rate-stands-at-27-pct-survey
H5N1 Avian Influenza: First Human Case Reported In Cambodia In 2014
After reporting 26 human H5N1 avian influenza cases in 2013, by far the most of any country, the Kingdom of Cambodia has announced their first case of the lethal bird flu on 2014, according to a Ministry of Health press release Feb. 4. The case is a 5-year-old ...
The Global Dispatch News Staff
http://www.theglobaldispatch.com/h5n1-avian-influenza-first-human-case-reported-in-cambodia-in-2014/
Cambodia unveils U.S.-aided defense strategic plan
The Cambodian Ministry of Defense on Tuesday launched a U.S.-aided strategic planning manual with an aim to assist Cambodian strategists to design standardized and effective defense strategic plans. Major Gen. Phat Vibolsopheak, chief of international relations department at the Defense Ministry, said the 17-page instruction manual ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140603/cambodia-unveils-us-aided-defense-strategic-plan
National Police planning to establish its own newspaper
The Ministry of Interior’s National Police plans to establish its own Khmer-language newspaper to provide the public, for a fee, with accurate information on security and crime in Cambodia and to promote awareness about traffic laws and the dangers of drugs, the National Police spokesman ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/national-police-planning-to-establish-its-own-newspaper-60701/
Institute feeling crowded
Construction work at the site of Phnom Penh’s Buddhist Institute by Hong Kong-listed casino operator NagaCorp has caused concern among staff that the large development is driving away students. In recent days, a wall separating the Institute from Hun Sen Park in Chamkarmon district’s Tonle Bassac ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/institute-feeling-crowded
Survey seeks info on Cambodian business health
Starting later this month, 10,000 small and medium-sized businesses will be queried as part of a Japanese government-backed economic census intended to take a snapshot of activity across the private sector. Beginning on February 23 and running through to March 31, Cambodia’s National Institute of Statistics ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/survey-seeks-info-cambodian-business-health
Students compete in counseling competition
About 30 law students on Friday participated in the seventh Client Counseling Competition to put their newly acquired professional skills into practice and compete for a trip to the international competition in Puerto Rico in April. “We created the case based on this year’s theme, ...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/students-compete-in-counseling-competition-52970/