Myanmar, Cambodia seek investors for rice business
Two Southeast Asian countries not particularly known for large agricultural exports, Myanmar and Cambodia, have both declared that they want to participate in the global rice business by intensifying rice farming and milling across their respective countries with the help of foreign investors, including from ...
Arno Maierbrugger
http://www.gulf-times.com/eco.-bus.%20news/256/details/426906/myanmar,-cambodia-seek-investors-for-rice-business
S. Korean-funded roads opens to traffic in Cambodia
Roads built with low-interest policy loans from South Korea have opened to traffic in Cambodia, the finance ministry said Monday. The roads near the Vietnamese border in the Southern part of Cambodia, are part of a broader infrastructure project undertaken by Phnom Penh to meet ...
Yonhap News Agency Staff
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/business/2015/06/29/0503000000AEN20150629005200320.html
Mine clearance project for 2022 discussed with an eye clearly set on 2025 for a mine free Cambodia
Cambodia, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Australia, the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), and New Zealand have discussed the action plan for Clearing for Result Phase IV (CfRIV)-Mine Mine Action for Human Development project for 2022. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50990664/mine-clearance-project-for-2022-discussed-with-an-eye-clearly-set-on-2025-for-a-mine-free-cambodia/
KOICA hands over seven vehicles to education ministry
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) handed over this morning seven vehicles to the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MoEYS), under the project for establishment of the incubation system between university and industry in Cambodia and home-grown school feeding programme. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501090865/koica-hands-over-seven-vehicles-to-education-ministry/
Migrant workers boost national economy
While improving their livelihood, Cambodian migrant workers, including those in the Republic of Korea (RoK), have significantly contributed to boosting the national economy. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501274997/migrant-workers-boost-national-economy/
Press release: Signing of MoU on development cooperation between Republic of Korea and 5 ASEAN Countries during the Investment ASEAN 2019
On Monday Afternoon 25th November 2019 in Busan, Republic of Korea, H.E Chhieng Yanara, Minister Attached to the Prime Minister, has signed on behalf of the Royal Government of Cambodia on MoU on Development Cooperation between Republic of Korea and 5 ASEAN countries such as ...
The Council for the Development of Cambodia
Fake Orphanage Ordered Closed After Alleged Migrant Scam
The Ministry of Interior has suspended the operation of an orphanage after it found that its director had colluded with a recruitment agency to cheat migrant workers out of an alleged $600,000, officials said Tuesday. “The Ministry of Interior temporarily suspends all activities of Our Friends ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fake-orphanage-ordered-closed-after-alleged-migrant-scam-51114/
Japan to support more pro-environment initiatives
The Environment Ministry yesterday said Japan renewed its desire to support pro-environment initiatives in Asean countries, including Cambodia. Asean Plus Three countries (China, Japan and South Korea) are currently here attending the 15th Asean Ministerial Meeting on Environment. Japan expressed its desire to support the initiatives ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50649708/japan-to-support-more-pro-environment-initiatives/
Protest at Pursat’s monkey business factory
More than 100 striking workers at the Vanny Bio-Research company in Pursat town agreed to go back to work yesterday after mediators promised to find an adequate resolution to their demands for a wage hike. The company breeds and cares for 30,000-40,000 monkeys they sell to ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27154/protest-at-pursat---s-monkey-business-factory/
Workers say ASEAN integration won’t bring them home
When Asean more closely integrates economically later this year, more goods and services will flow freely between member states.But that will likely mean a greater outflow of Cambodian workers abroad, and not the reverse, workers say. That includes travel to countries outside Asean, like South ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/workers-say-asean-integration-wont-bring-them-home/2947051.html
Machinery Imports Soar Through First Six Months
Sihanoukville Autonomous Port has seen an increase of 520 percent in the amount of construction machinery being imported. According to Chea Sambath, director of the port’s planning and statistics department, the increase is as a result of the increased investment in roads, hydropower dams and ...
Medicine smugglers jailed
After being found guilty yesterday, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court handed four men prison sentences and fines for their involvement in a smuggling ring, which brought more than two and a half tonnes of illegal cold medicine into the Kingdom from South Korea. Both men ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012032055129/National-news/medicine-smugglers-jailed.html
National carrier expands routes
The Kingdom’s national flagship carrier Cambodia Angkor Air is now setting its sights to fly to international destinations in an interline agreement with South Korea-based Jin Air. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between Cambodia Angkor Air and Jin Air late last week paves the ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25814/national-carrier-expands-routes/
Cambodia has 2.36 million registered automobiles, motorcycles
Cambodia has currently had 2.36 million registered automobiles and motorcycles, according to the figures of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport on Friday. The country has 377,660 cars, buses, and trucks, and 1.98 million motorcycles, said the figures. Vehicles are mostly purchased from Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/828641.shtml#.UpwIytKBlmM
Maiden landing at beachside airport
Sihanouk Ville International Airport received its first international flight this week, a landing the industry hopes will open up the coastal resort destination to more foreign tourists. A flight by South Korea-based Skywings Asia Airlines, an international charter carrier, arrived from Seoul on Tuesday. One hundred ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/maiden-landing-beachside-airport
PPCBank raises $10M, lists first corporate bond on CSX
South Korea-owned Phnom Penh Commercial Bank Plc (PPCBank) on Tuesday officially listed its first corporate bond on the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX). ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ppcbank-raises-10m-lists-first-corporate-bond-csx
Migrant workers receive aid
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) visited migrant workers returning from Thailand at a quarantine centre in Prey Veng province. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/migrant-workers-receive-aid
Cambodian delegation attends South Korean Green network conference
Cambodia calls on South Korea to expand bilateral cooperation, including private investment in waste management and recycling, carbon credit projects, green financing and human resource development. ...
Posts ministry offers rapid test kits at cost from S Korea, China
The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications has announced that it will distribute two types of Covid-19 antigen rapid tests from South Korea and China, which will be made widely available at cost price. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/posts-ministry-offers-rapid-test-kits-cost-s-korea-china
China's investment in Cambodia reaches 8.8 bln USD
PHNOM PENH– Cambodia has received 8.8 billion U.S. dollars of investments from China from 1994 to July 2011, making China the leading country in the investments in the country, according to the reports from the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) on Tuesday. The ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-09/06/c_131104903.htm