Exports of footwear and travel goods buoyed by tariff privileges
Cambodia’s footwear and travel goods exports dramatically increased in the first nine months of this year, thanks to tariff privileges they received from the US under its Generalised System of Preferences (GSP). ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exports-footwear-and-travel-goods-buoyed-tariff-privileges
Organizing a press conference on the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Cambodian and Australian governments on the resettlement of refugees in Cambodia
The Ministry of Interior of the Kingdom of Cambodia has a great honor to inform the local and international media about the press conference which will be conducted on 29 September 2009 at 9:30 a.m. aiming to discuss about the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Cambodian and Australian ...
Ministry of Interior
Amb. Al-Tuwaijri highlights importance of Cambodian Min. visit to Kuwait
Kuwait’s Ambassador to Cambodia Dhrar Al-Tuwaijri Thursday stressed the significance of upcoming visit of the Cambodian Minister of Commerce Sun Chanthol to Kuwait, slated for November 30. The visit reflects development of relationship between the two countries and mutual desire to promote trade and economic cooperation, ...
Kuwait News Agency Staff
http://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2411065&language=en
ID card grace period nearing end
The Ministry of Interior yesterday reminded Cambodians of their obligation to obtain new or replacement national ID cards, a common piece of documentation required for people over 15 years of age and the validity of which had previously been extended to accommodate last year’s national ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/id-card-grace-period-nearing-end
Don't Envy the Chinese, Gov't Tells Europe
The commerce minister yesterday urged European businesspeople in Phnom Penh to invest more in Cambodia and not to envy the Chinese firms now dominating the foreign investment scene. Speaking at the gathering of the European Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia, Minister of Trade and Commerce Cham ...
Cambodia's energy costs deter investors
Cambodia’s infrastructure is deterring highly anticipated investment into the production of raw materials to support its rapidly growing garment sector, experts say. While garment exports rose 10.2 per cent to $5.48 billion last year, the increase of raw materials imported to support this growth increased about ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013020761221/Business/cambodia-s-energy-costs-deter-investors.html
Interior Ministry releases dossier of evidence outlining alleged KNLF bombing 'plot'
The Ministry of Interior released a 14-page dossier of purported evidence against self-exiled political dissident Sam Serey on Wednesday, and government mouthpiece Fresh News leaked audio recordings of alleged associates seeking to buttress Prime Minister Hun Sen’s accusation that Serey was plotting a Khmer New ...
Ben Sokhean and Andrew Nachemson
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/interior-ministry-releases-dossier-evidence-outlining-alleged-knlf-bombing-plot
Hun Sen slaps analyst with $500K lawsuit
Political commentator Kim Sok’s worldly possessions—two iPhones, an iPad and $200 in savings—may soon become Prime Minister Hun Sen’s property after the premier filed a $500,000 lawsuit against the commentator for allegedly claiming that the CPP killed Kem Ley. ...
Kuch Naren and Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-slaps-analyst-with-500k-lawsuit-125114/
Press release on the outcome of the participation of H.E. Bundit Sapheacha Dr Sok Siphana, Senior Advisor to the Royal Government of Cambodia, at the Summit-level Meeting of the NAM Contact Group in response to COVID-19 on post-pandemic global recovery
On 04 March 2023, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on the outcome of the participation of H.E. Bundit Sapheacha Dr Sok Siphana, Senior Advisor to the Royal Government of Cambodia, at the Summit-level Meeting of the NAM Contact ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Community Marks Fifth Anniversary of Violent Eviction
About 150 members of the former Dey Krahorm community in Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon district marked the fifth anniversary on Friday of the day mechanical excavators, security guards and authorities destroyed their homes to make room for a real estate project. Much like on past anniversaries, ...
Khuon Narim and Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/community-marks-fifth-anniversary-of-violent-eviction-51017/
Brands, international unions press Cambodian government on labor issues
Representatives from some of the world’s largest fashion brands and the leader of one of the world’s biggest union organizations met this week with Cambodian officials and local clothing manufacturers to demand better treatment and improve workplace safety for the country’s estimated 600,000 garment workers. Garment ...
Robert Carmichael
http://www.voanews.com/content/brands-international-unions-press-government-on-labor-issues/1923596.html
Project aims to test climate change response strategies
The Ministry of Environment has funded a Cambodia Climate Change Alliance project and selected five schools to test climate change response strategies by planting trees and developing gardens with increased biodiversity. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/project-aims-test-climate-change-response-strategies
Chinese president meets Cambodian PM on ties
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with visiting Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in Shanghai on Sunday. Hun Sen is here to attend the fourth summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) to be held in the eastern Chinese metropolis on ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-05/18/c_133342841.htm
New year holiday brought millions of dollars to Siem Reap, officials say
A three-day holiday in the tourist town of Siem Reap has garnered millions of dollars in economic value, officials said Tuesday. The Angkor Sankranta, held near the famed temples of Angkor Wat, celebrates the Khmer New Year, a lunar holiday that typically falls in April. It ...
Neou Vannarin
http://bit.ly/1JsdBoE
‘Fatal shooting’ did not happen, Thailand says
While Cambodian officials say the Thais have not responded to a request for an inquiry into the shooting death of a man they say illegally crossed the border, Thailand is denying the incident even occurred. Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs last month called for an investigation ...
Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98fatal-shooting%E2%80%99-did-not-happen-thailand-says
Government considers delay of business registration
Fewer than half of Cambodia’s 42,000 registered businesses have met the government’s deadline for reregistering online, prompting the Ministry of Commerce to consider another extension, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/government-considers-delay-business-registration-118856/
De-dollarisation is ultimate goal of the Royal Government
A question and answer session with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance Dr Aun Pornmoniroth in conjunction with the 40th anniversary celebrations of the reintroduction of the riel. ...
Uni team seeks maps of disputed borderline
A new team of border researchers at the Royal Academy of Cambodia yesterday called for relevant stakeholders to submit maps of the disputed Cambodia-Vietnam border, in what it says is an attempt to ensure no political party uses the thorny issue to its advantage in ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/uni-team-seeks-maps-disputed-borderline
Sanctuary ‘protected’
More than 2,000 hectares of the decimated Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary in Ratanakkiri province have been classified by the Ministry of Environment (MOE) as the sanctuary’s first community protected area. Surrounded by three economic land concessions in Kon Mom district, the protected area is populated by a ...
Phak Seangly and Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sanctuary-%E2%80%98protected%E2%80%99
Cambodia urges religious leaders to help stop violence against children
Cambodia on Monday called on all religious leaders to help stop violence against children by making their followers fully aware of children’s rights, officials said. “We urge all religious leaders to use their religious texts and teachings to stop parents from using violence against children and ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/850380.shtml#.UzElCPmSxqU