Philippines Foreign Affairs Secretary tests positive for COVID-19, to skip Asean meetings in Cambodia
Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo is skipping the foreign ministers’ meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Tuesday after he tested positive for COVID-19 last Sunday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501123963/philippines-foreign-affairs-secretary-tests-positive-for-covid-19-to-skip-asean-meetings-in-cambodia/
BRI helps address ‘infra deficits’ in Cambodia
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a global infrastructure development strategy adopted by China, has helped address infrastructure deficits in Cambodia, said an economist. ...
Adur Pradeep
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501162000/bri-helps-address-infra-deficits-in-cambodia/
Cambodia’s poverty rate halved in 2019
Rising non-farm earnings, such as tourism, garment and construction sectors, helped to cut Cambodia’s national poverty to 17.8 percent from 33.8 percent between 2009 and 2019, the World Bank’s latest poverty assessment report for Cambodia stated. ...
Kiripost staff writers
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodias-poverty-rate-halved-in-2019
Power line markers reveal looming path of destruction in Prey Lang
In early March, Auon Seap noticed a group of unknown men approach his farm on a koyun, an elongated tractor mostly used for farming or logging. Strangers are not so common in his village on the northeastern edge of the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. ...
Keat Soriththeavy and Danielle Keeton-Olsen
https://vodenglish.news/power-line-markers-reveal-looming-path-of-destruction-in-prey-lang/
Vietnam, Cambodia take pride in young generations: Vice President
Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan emphasised the pride of the Vietnamese and Cambodian Parties and States in young generations at a reception for a visiting delegation of the Cambodian Union of Youth Federations in Hanoi on October 25. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501175120/vietnam-cambodia-take-pride-in-young-generations-vice-president/
Cement material exploration rights offered in Kampot
The government has issued an open invitation to apply for a 155ha mineral exploration licence in northern Kampot province that officials claim has great investment potential for cement production. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cement-material-exploration-rights-offered-kampot
German President visits demining site in Siem Reap
During his official visit in Cambodia, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and First Lady Elke Büdenbender yesterday paid a visit to a landmine field being cleared by the Halo Trust in Siem Reap province’s Puok district. ...
Taing Rinith
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501238752/german-president-visits-demining-site-in-siem-reap/
Kampong Speu governor courts investors in Hong Kong
Kampong Speu provincial governor Vei Samnang has pledged to attract more investment to his province. Samnang announced that he would lead a provincial delegation to Hong Kong later this month to discuss business opportunities in the Kampong Speu. ...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kampong-speu-governor-courts-investors-hong-kong
Tbong Khmum Provincial Court questioned two community representatives in connection with encroachment on state land
Two community representatives in Memot district were questioned by the Tbong Khmum Provincial Court in connection with allegations of illegal encroachment on state land as they allegedly did not act as alleged. ...
Cambodia earns nearly $21 million in taxes from e-commerce
Cambodia’s General Department of Taxation (GDT) made e-commerce value-added tax (VAT) income of $20.9 million from the operations of electronic goods and services in the first quarter of 2023, a GDT report said on Monday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501278795/cambodia-earns-nearly-21-million-in-taxes-from-e-commerce/
Cassava prices swell in northwest border areas
Cassava prices have seen a marked on-year increase in areas near the Thai border, as the harvest reaches 85-90 per cent, according to industry insiders. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cassava-prices-swell-northwest-border-areas
German investors satisfied with investment environment in Cambodia
German investors are satisfied with Cambodia’s investment environment which to them is very open and favourable. The satisfaction was underlined by a German business delegation led by Frank-Walter Steinmeier, President of the Federal Republic of Germany during a meeting here at the Peace Palace on ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501239869/german-investors-satisfied-with-investment-environment-in-cambodia/
Microfinance sector plays important role in economic development: NBC
The microfinance sector in Cambodia has been playing an important role in contributing to economic and social development, especially the reduction of poverty in rural areas, said a senior official at the National Bank of Cambodia. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501268058/microfinance-sector-plays-important-role-in-economic-development-nbc/
CDC okays $103.3M in new projects
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) on April 17 announced that it approved five new investment projects with a cumulative capital commitment of $103.3 million, which are expected to generate a total of 1,168 jobs. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cdc-okays-1033m-new-projects
Bun Rany calls for further investment in midwifery
President of the Cambodian Red Cross Bun Rany released a statement ahead of International Day of the Midwife on May 5, calling for continued investment in midwifery, to ensure the present and future health of the Cambodian people. ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bun-rany-calls-further-investment-midwifery
In closing arguments, prosecution frames NagaWorld gatherings as incitement, union leaders claim lawful strike
NagaWorld union leader Chhim Sithar and eight union co-defendants requested acquittal for their lawful strike during Wednesday closing statements, while prosecutors compiled a collage of evidence to portray the labor struggle as an act of incitement. ...
Rice exports total 637,004 tons in 2022
Cambodia exported more than 637,000 tons of rice last year, with nearly half going to China, official data showed on Friday. ...
Seng Mengheng
https://kiripost.com/stories/rice-exports-total-637004-tons-in-2022
Call for UK to invest in Cambodia’s agriculture sector
Cambodia has called on the UK to consider investing in the processing of agricultural products after noting it is an important market for Cambodia’s agricultural products and manufacturing. ...
Chhorn Raksmey
https://kiripost.com/stories/call-for-uk-to-invest-in-cambodias-agriculture-sector
PPSP’s profits decline in Q4 last year, but rise on annual basis
The consolidated net profits after tax of the Royal Group Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSP) of the conglomerate Royal Group of Companies have decreased 95.21 percent to about $0.18 million in the last quarter of 2022 compared to over $3.82 million in the same ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501240205/ppsps-profits-decline-in-q4-last-year-but-rise-on-annual-basis/