Three investment projects worth $36.5 million approved, to create hundreds of jobs
The Council for The Development of Cambodia (CDC) has given The green light to three new investment projects with a total investment capital of $36.5 million. According to The council’s press release issued yesterday, The newly approved projects are expected to create some 615 jobs ...
Phal Sophanith/AKP
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50747222/three-investment-projects-worth-36-5-million-approved-to-create-hundreds-of-jobs/
‘Fintech playing key role in financial inclusion efforts’
The fintech sector is playing a major role in The financial inclusion efforts pioneered by The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), Governor Dr Chea Serey said while delivering The keynote address at The CamTech Summit 2023 yesterday at The Centre for Banking Studies. ...
Sreekanth Ravindran
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501399932/fintech-playing-key-role-in-financial-inclusion-efforts/
Cambodia’s rubber exports rise by 123 percent
Amid the fall in global demand, Cambodia earned $121 million from the exports of rubber articles in the first month of this year, an increase of 123.5 percent compared to the same period last year, according to the latest trade data of the General Department ...
Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501440080/cambodias-rubber-exports-rise-by-123-percent/
Journalists invited to tour Ream Naval Base
The Ministry of National Defence on Friday invited some 70 national and international journalists to inspect The Ream Naval Base following reports last week of a deal with China to use The facility. The story was immediately dismissed by Prime Minister Hun Sen as “fabricated ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/journalists-invited-tour-ream-naval-base
Cables detail China-VN strains in ’75 Cambodia
The seeds of China and Vietnam’s bloody rivalry for influence in Cambodia were already apparent to foreign observers in The weeks and months after The April 1975 fall of Phnom Penh, Australian diplomatic cables given last month to The Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) show. ...
Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cables-detail-china-vn-strains-in-1975-cambodia-96361/
‘Fake news’ on agenda at summit in Siem Reap
The fight against fake news in The digital era will be on The agenda as Cambodia hosts The 16th Asia Media Summit 2019 attended by some 500 participants from more than 40 countries around The world in Siem Reap province. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fake-news-agenda-summit-siem-reap
No Cambodians involved in Bangkok bombing
No Cambodians have been reported among the victims of the Erawan Shrine bombing in Bangkok, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said yesterday. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14648/no-cambodians-involved-in-bangkok-bombing/
Students lectured on ‘revolution’
Ruling party lawmaker Pen Panha gave a lecture yesterday at the Royal School of Administration to students on the opposition’s alleged attempt at “colour revolution” – an allegation used to dissolve the Cambodia National Rescue Party in November, with virtually no evidence presented to the ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/students-lectured-revolution
Royal government boosts partnership with private sector
The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) has been promoting The participation of The private sector, as its good partner, in The country development. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501381558/royal-government-boosts-partnership-with-private-sector/
Ministry: More kids victims of trafficking
Authorities rescued 263 people from human trafficking in the first six months of the year – an increase of nearly 150 per cent on the same period last year – with a large number of the victims being children, the Ministry of Interior said. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-more-kids-victims-trafficking
MEF discusses budget of Tourism Board
The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) discussed The budget aspect of The Tourism Board on Monday. Seng Meng Hong, Tourism Secretary led The delegation to dwell upon The budget package for The operation of The Board of Study, Marketing and Tourism Promotion of Cambodia. ...
Jigmee Palden Pazo
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501501020/mef-discusses-budget-of-tourism-board/
Gov’t mulls green incentives
The Ministry of Environment said it is working to make eco-friendly and green technologies tax-free, in order to reduce The cost barriers associated with importing and implementing These technologies, such as The use of solar panels. Speaking at EuroCham’s Green Business Forum in Phnom Penh, Environment ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-mulls-green-incentives
Govt calls for investment in electric vehicles industry
Amid the rising trend of renewable energy demand and the use of electric vehicles (EVs) in the Kingdom, the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) asked businessmen to seize the opportunity by investing in the EV-related industry that comes with a range of benefits for both ...
Nhean Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501470294/govt-calls-for-investment-in-electric-vehicles-industry/
Japan lobbies for joint meeting with ASEAN ministers of defense
A high official from the Japanese Defense Ministry (JDM) has lobbied for Cambodia and another ASEAN members to support the creation of a meeting between their defense ministers and the JDM to be held next year in Laos, according to officials at a meeting at ...
Ban Sokrith and Phun Chan Ousaphea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21309/japan-lobbies-for-joint-meeting-with-asean-ministers-of-defense/
SK ups migrant worker quotas
Since 2007, the Human Resources Unit of the South Korean Ministry of Employment and Labour has conducted “EPS-TOPIK” tests 16 times in collaboration with the Manpower Training and Overseas Sending Board (MTOSB), a government-to-government system designed specifically to regulate the sending of Cambodian workers to ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sk-ups-migrant-worker-quotas
Over 7,000 students abandon second exams: Spokesman
As Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport is taking tough measure to curb cheating and bribery during examinations as part of its education reform, over 7,000 students have abandoned the second high school exams. the number can be the highest ever in the last 10 ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/over-7000-students-abandon-second-exams:-spokesman-7484
GDT to declutter complex tax laws; to make it simple, orderly
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) is drafting The law on tax aimed to compile a number of confusing tax laws and regulations and respond to The international practice of integrating Cambodia’s economy in The region. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501007943/gdt-to-declutter-complex-tax-laws-to-make-it-simple-orderly/
Environmental NGO Mother Nature dissolved
The Interior Ministry on Friday announced it had stricken critical environmental NGO MoTher Nature from its registry, effective immediately, with The group saying it had requested The move and would continue to investigate sand dredging and export violations in The country’s southwest despite The de-registration. ...
Mech Dara and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/environmental-ngo-mother-nature-dissolved
Trade war may boost Kingdom’s US exports
Exports of travel goods from the Kingdom are set to gain from the ongoing US-China trade war as US lobbyists for the Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia (GMAC) claim that President Donald Trump plans to raise duties on such China-made products from 10 to 25 ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/trade-war-may-boost-kingdoms-us-exports
Health Ministry to Shut Down Cancer Clinic
The Ministry of Health said Thursday it would shut down a Phnom Penh health center that claims to cure diseases such as cancer and diabetes with The help of detoxifying machines, according to officials. Immanuel Bicom True Healing Center in Chamkar Mon district did not have ...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/health-ministry-to-shut-down-cancer-clinic-48726/