EBA scheme in jeopardy after CNRP ruling
In the wake of the dissolution of the Cambodia National Rescue Party last week by the Supreme Court, which effectively removes any viable opposition party from challenging next year’s national elections, the European Union issued a statement seemingly warning that the Kingdom’s preferential access through the Everything ...
Kali Kotoski and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/access-eba-scheme-jeopardy-after-cnrp-ruling
Kingdom slips in TI’s graft index
For the fourth year in a row, Transparency International (TI) has rated Cambodia the country perceived as ASEAN’s most corrupt, and just ahead of North Korea and Afghanistan for the entire Asia-Pacific region.The 2016 Corruption Perceptions Index, which scores and ranks 176 countries and territories ...
Andrew Nachemson and Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-slips-tis-graft-index
Interactive: Few arrests in timber smuggling crackdown
Suspected timber smugglers have gotten off the hook in the vast majority of busts that have followed Prime Minister Hun Sen’s January call for a crackdown on the illegal timber trade, a Post analysis has revealed. In the wake of the prime minister’s creation of ...
Daniel Nass
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/interactive-few-arrests-timber-smuggling-crackdown
Factory suspensions in Phnom Penh total 121
Phnom Penh Municipal Labour Department said as of today, 121 garment factories have suspended their operations in the capital since the pandemic began. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50734544/factory-suspensions-in-phnom-penh-total-121/
Open Development Cambodia published new dataset of Electricity price and coverage areas in Cambodia
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new online resource detailing on Electricity price and coverage areas in Cambodia in both Khmer and English. Together with the information of electricity licensees, coverage areas and prices.=>Please click here to get in to the dataset page of ...
Open Development Cambodia published new dataset of US bombing in Cambodia (1965-1975)
Open Development Cambodia has published a new online resource detailing on US bombing in Cambodia (1965-1975) in both Khmer and English. The spatial data contains information such as date of the bombing, exact location, the number and type of aircraft in the sortie, bombing load ...
Open Development Cambodia published new dataset of Assessment of undiscovered copper resources in Cambodia
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published new online resources on “Assessment of undiscovered copper resources in Cambodia” in both Khmer and English. You can find document in various format such as KML, GeoJSON, SHP, JPEG.=> Please click here to get in to the dataset page ...
Cambodian agriculture in transition: opportunities and risks
The last decade was golden for Cambodian agriculture. The annual agricultural sector growth of 5.3% between 2004 and 2012 was one of the highest in the world, according to a new World Bank report, Cambodian Agriculture in Transition: Opportunities and Risks , prepared with the ...
World Bank News Staff
http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2015/08/19/cambodian-agriculture-in-transition-opportunities-and-risks
New $9M brickworks in Kampot
Kampot province has becomes the home of a new $9 million brickworks that was officially inaugurated on November 22. Equipped with state-of-the-art technology and an automated production line, the factory will be able to turn out 800,000 bricks per day in its initial phase, Kampot ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-9m-brickworks-kampot
Two Chinese firms invest in PPSEZ
Two Chinese-owned manufacturers have decided to invest in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ) despite Covid-19. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/two-chinese-firms-invest-ppsez
Credit guarantee system approved in principle
MINISTER of Economy and Finance Aun Pornmoniroth approved in principle the concept of strategic framework for establishing the Credit Guarantee Corp Cambodia, according to a statement from the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF). ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50748173/credit-guarantee-system-approved-in-principle/
Exports rise in value, lower imports
Cambodian total export values amounted to $5.9 billion, a year-on-year increase of 11.7 percent in the first five months of this year. The value of Cambodia’s total imports amounted to $8.1 billion, a decrease by 1 percent in the same period, compared with 2019, according ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50749966/exports-rise-in-value-lower-imports/
Kantha Bopha Foundation sees decrease in donations
The Kantha Bopha Foundation has reported a 20 percent decrease in donations within the first eight months of this year, compared to 2019. ...
Sok Srey Lux
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50762935/kantha-bopha-foundation-sees-decrease-in-donations/
Ministry works on plan to win in trade
Ministry of Commerce officials are combing over a list of nine products, commodities, services and incentives to develop a trade strategy that maximises the benefits of the newly-inked free trade agreement (FTA) with China. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ministry-works-plan-win-trade
ADB: Investment in human resources critical
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has outlined that the government needs to continue investing in its people through the widening of parameters for programmes such as ID Poor and upskilling workers transitioning into new sectors to achieve a post-pandemic economic recovery. ...
Harrison White
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50798179/adb-investment-in-human-resources-critical/
Japan to assist in Cambodian customs clearance automation
The Japanese government will assist the Cambodian General Department of Customs and Excise of Cambodia (GDCE) in setting up an automated customs clearance system that will speed up cargo clearance time, alleviating congestion problems that slow the process. ...
Jason Boken
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50804464/japan-to-assist-in-cambodian-customs-clearance-automation/
CDC approves eight projects so far in March
Cambodia approved eight investment projects worth over $69 million in the first three weeks of this month that are expected to deliver 5,249 jobs, according to a report from the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cdc-approves-eight-projects-so-far-march
Bovine use in farm work falls
The increasing adoption of machinery in Cambodia drove down the use of bovines as draught power in the agricultural sector to below one per cent last year, a trend a senior official at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries believes will extend into the ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/bovine-use-farm-work-falls
Media in Cambodia thriving despite challenges
Press freedom in Cambodia is steadily declining and is ranked 144 in the world, the director of Cambodia Journalist Alliance (CamboJA), Nop Vy said. ...
Chhun Sunly
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50850693/media-in-cambodia-thriving-despite-challenges/
Exports of crude palm oil up 36% in Jan-May
Cambodia exported 19,916 tonnes of crude palm oil in the first five months of 2021, an increase of 5,246 tonnes or 35.76 per cent compared to the same period last year, according to data from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exports-crude-palm-oil-36-jan-may