ASEAN, India look for closer economic cooperation
Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and India on September 16 held the 19th consultation meeting on economic cooperation in Cambodia under the chair of Cambodian Minister of Commerce Pan Sorasak and India’s Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Anupriya Patel. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501152446/asean-india-look-for-closer-economic-cooperation/
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/
Ministry, FAO agree to build delta aquifier sustainability
The Ministry of Environment and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on September 12 signed an agreement on “Enhancing the sustainability of the Trans-boundary Cambodia-Mekong River Delta Aquifer and the Mekong Delta of Vietnam”. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-fao-agree-build-delta-aquifier-sustainability
Cambodian Foreign Minister chairs Informal ASEAN Foreign Minister’s Meeting
Deputy Prime Minister Prak Sokhonn, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation chaired the annual Informal ASEAN Foreign Minister’s Meeting (IAMM), held in New York City, USA on Sept. 22, on the sidelines of the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). ...
Khmer Times Staff
http://khmertimeskh.com/501157040/cambodian-foreign-minister-chairs-informal-asean-foreign-ministers-meeting/
NEC chair asks voters to check list
National Election Committee (NEC) chairman Prach Chan, in a video clip on the NEC’s official YouTube channel, has called on everyone eligible to ensure they are able to vote in next year’s national election. ...
Samban Chandara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-chair-asks-voters-check-list
A cruise ship visits Sihanoukville with 500 multinational tourists
Nautica, a cruise ship sailing under the flag of the Marshall Islands, in on a day-long visit in Cambodia. The cruise ship with 535 tourists of 36 different nationalities on board docked at Sihanoukville Autonomous Port yesterday morning. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501244026/a-cruise-ship-visits-sihanoukville-with-500-multinational-tourists/
New loan agreement standard for financial industry breeds debate
A “Standard of Loan Agreement” for the financial sector is under preparation, and institutions are expected to begin adopting its principles by June. But insiders and observers have expressed differing views on the precise provisions of the instrument, its potential effects on market competition, and ...
Rann Reuy
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-loan-agreement-standard-financial-industry-breeds-debate
Cambodia has 1.3 million migrant workers abroad, while domestic employment rate is over 99 percent
Prime Minister Hun Sen confirmed in a message on the occasion of the 137th anniversary of International Labor Day on May 1, that currently there are about 1.3 million Cambodian workers abroad, while the employment rate in the country remained at 99.3 percent. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501282502/cambodia-has-1-3-million-migrant-workers-abroad-while-domestic-employment-rate-is-over-99-percent/
RCEP will help Cambodia graduate from its least developed country (LDC) status by 2028
Cambodia’s trade with the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) member countries reached $28.4 billion in the first 11 months of 2022, a year-on-year increase of 7 percent, the Ministry of Commerce’s latest report showed on Tuesday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501214449/rcep-will-help-cambodia-graduate-from-its-least-developed-country-ldc-status-by-2028/
Feb 27 dolphin territory fishing ban scrapped to save livelihoods
The government on April 27 issued a new sub-decree reversing its ban imposed in February on all fishing in the Mekong dolphin conservation zone. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/feb-27-dolphin-territory-fishing-ban-scrapped-save-livelihoods
WCS collects 54 royal turtle eggs in ‘last few days’
NGO Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Cambodia on January 19 announced that its turtle conservation team “over the last few days” collected 54 royal turtle eggs laid on an artificial sand bank at the Koh Kong Reptile Conservation Centre (KKRCC). ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wcs-collects-54-royal-turtle-eggs-last-few-days
Rubber exports edge up even as prices drop
Cambodia netted $79.370 million from the export of natural rubber latex and wood in the first two months of 2023, marking a slight increase year-on-year, even amid a decline in prices on international markets for the locally-produced white sap, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rubber-exports-edge-even-prices-drop
Vietnam willing to support Cambodia, says Vietnamese Prime Minister
Cambodian Deputy PM Sokhonn was in Vietnam for an official visit between Monday and Wednesday and to co-chair the 20th Vietnam-Cambodia Joint Commission on Economic, Cultural, Scientific and Technological Cooperation held on Tuesday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501261713/vietnam-willing-to-support-cambodia-says-vietnamese-prime-minister/
Building a China-Cambodia community with a shared future at the start of spring
More than one million vehicles had travelled on Cambodia’s first-ever expressway connecting the capital Phnom Penh and the deep-sea port province of Preah Sihanouk in the first three months since its inauguration on October 1 last year. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501237149/building-a-china-cambodia-community-with-a-shared-future-at-the-start-of-spring/
Bassac-Kampot waterway study to be completed soon
Goods transportation via the Tonle Bassac river to Kampot province’s seaport will boost Cambodia’s inland waterway transport sector on the international stage and bring greater benefits to the national economy as a feasibility study on the project will be soon completed. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501249576/bassac-kampot-waterway-study-to-be-completed-soon/
Timor-Leste buys 4,000 tons of Cambodia rice
Timor-Leste has signed an agreement to buy 4,000 tons of rice from Cambodia for the first time after the two countries signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on rice trade on October 20, according to the Ministry of Commerce (MoC). ...
Yatt Malai
https://kiripost.com/stories/timor-leste-buys-4000-tons-of-cambodia-rice
Cambodia’s Special Economic Zone: Decade of remarkable transformation under BRI
On the occasiOn of the third Belt and Road Forum for InternatiOnal CooperatiOn, an achievement unveiling ceremOny took place in Beijing On Tuesday to mark the development of Cambodia’s Sihanoukville Special EcOnomic ZOne during the past 10 years under the Belt and Road Initiative. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501379750/cambodias-special-economic-zone-decade-of-remarkable-transformation-under-bri/
Ministry, partners launch a tool to understand climate risks
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), a Consultative Group on the International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) on Asian Mega-Deltas (AMD), in collaboration with the General Department of Agriculture (GDA), launched the “Climate Smart Map” (CS-Map), to guide local-level assessment and planning for climate resilience. ...
Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501500241/ministry-partners-launch-a-tool-to-understand-climate-risks/
MRC members see 61 projects along the Mekong River and its tributaries
Cambodia and Thailand have the fewest infrastructure projects on the Mekong or its tributaries among the four member countries of the Mekong River Commission (MRC). According to the commission, there are a total of 61 projects on the tributaries and the main body of one ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mrc-members-see-61-projects-along-the-mekong-river-and-its-tributaries
Govt to address economic challenges, Pornmoniroth says
Aun Pornmoniroth, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance (MEF), yesterday asked the private sector to engage in discussions on major issues such as addressing current economic challenges, revising export tax on copper tax and reassessing overdue interest rates. ...
Nhean Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501570207/govt-to-address-economic-challenges-pornmoniroth-says/