SEARCA launches agricultural innovation plan
A regional centre of an inter-government treaty organisation focusing on agricultural research and education kicked off the implementation of its 11th five-year plan to push agricultural innovation in Southeast Asia, including Cambodia. ...
Nika/AKP
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50749262/searca-launches-agricultural-innovation-plan/
Farmers get veg safety tips
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon emphasised the importance of training farmers on integrated land and nutrient management procedures for safe vegetable production after more than 300 farmers received the training on July 29. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://phnompenhpost.com/national/farmers-get-veg-safety-tips
Data Science Certificate Programme of UNESCO launched in Cambodia
Ministry of Post and Telecommunication and the South Korean Embassy in Cambodia on Friday launched UNESCO UNITWIN Cambodia Data Science Joint Certification Programme that aims to develop information and communication technology (ICT) in Cambodia. ...
Cambodia’s manufacturing output reaches $15 billion in 2022
Cambodia’s manufacturing output hit $15.8 billion in 2022, a remarkable increase of 83 percent year on year, the Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation (MISTI)’s report showed on Tuesday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501247369/cambodias-manufacturing-output-reaches-15-billion-in-2022/
Study shows dengue can be spread back to mosquitoes
A groundbreaking new study on human transmission of the dengue virus conducted in Kompong Cham province has shown that the virus can be spread back to mosquitoes by asymptomatic carriers, who are actually more infectious than those displaying symptoms. ...
Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/study-shows-dengue-can-be-spread-back-to-mosquitoes-99911/
Inter-Ministries Boost Local Animal Feed Industry
Inter-ministries have started to boost the local animal feed industry to supply domestic demand, and thus to make the country self-reliant on animal feed. ...
Chea Vannak/AKP
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50751600/inter-ministries-boost-local-animal-feed-industry/
Maruhan inks a deal with microfinance firm
Mahuran Japan Bank and the Seilanithih Microfinance Institution have signed an agreement to work together, according to a statement yesterday. Maruhan general manager Onishi Shizuo said the agreement would benefit both parties. “By joining forces with us, Seilanithih will be able to expand the size of ...
Cambodian Stock Exchange Set to Launch
The Cambodian Stock Exchange(CSX) has prepared its initial public offerings in a symbolic launch, though no public trading was offered. Finance Minister Keat Chhon and his South Korean partners hold a 49 percent stake in exchange. Two state-owned companies will go public including: the Phnom ...
City Hall considering relocating warehouses
Speaking at a pagoda inauguration on Saturday, Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong said City Hall is looking to move warehouses and automobile repair shops out of the city centre to the outskirts to reduce pollution and traffic congestion – a move Hun Sen’s sister Hun ...
Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/city-hall-considering-relocating-warehouses
Businesses asked to relocate
The Phnom Penh Municipal Hall has requested owners of factories, enterprises, warehouses and garages to relocate to the outskirts along the capital’s third ring road, which is still under construction and expected to be completed by 2021. It said the facilities’ locations in the city ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/businesses-asked-relocate
Micro-lender Plans to Become Commercial Bank
Amret, one of the largest micro-finance institutions (MFIs) in the country, has announced that it is making plans to raise the capital required to become a full commercial bank by 2015, an official at the institution said yesterday. Chea Phalarin, CEO of Amret, said the decision to expand ...
Inflation rose by 1.8 per cent in January
Inflation in the Kingdom increased by 1.8 per cent in January compared with the same period the year before. Higher costs for food and fuel were the main drivers, official data from the National Institute of Statistics (NIS) show. Khin Song, deputy director general of the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032264619/Business/inflation-rose-by-1-8-per-cent-in-january.html
H5N1 Avian Influenza: Cambodia Reports 22nd Case In Girl From Battambang Province
The Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Kingdom of Cambodia has announced a new human case of H5N1 avian influenza, according to a ministry press release Wednesday. The case is a 6-year-old girl from Romdoul village, O Romdoul commune, Phnom Preuk district, Battambang province confirmed positive ...
Robert Herriman
http://www.theglobaldispatch.com/h5n1-avian-influenza-cambodia-reports-22nd-case-in-girl-from-battambang-province-38291/
Report Says More Than 10 Percent of Children Are ‘Laborers’
More than 10 percent of children in the country aged between 5 and 17 work as laborers, with more than 5 percent engaged in “hazardous labor,” a situation that must be addressed by the government, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said in a report released ...
Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/report-says-more-than-10-percent-of-children-are-laborers-48198/
Institute land not leased: gov’t
Responding to reported fears among staff that the destruction of a wall at Phnom Penh’s Buddhist Institute could herald the piecemeal sale of the grounds to adjacent casino operator NagaCorp, the government yesterday chalked the alarm up to a simple misunderstanding. According to the Ministry of ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/institute-land-not-leased-gov%E2%80%99t
Sonando Fans to Stage Protest for TV License
Mam Sonando, owner of the popular Beehive Radio station, and his supporters will defy a government ban on public gatherings and start daily protests against the Ministry of Information’s rejection of Mr. Sonando’s request for a relay station and a TV station, Mr. Sonando’s assistant ...
Kuch Naren and Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sonando-fans-to-stage-protest-for-tv-license-50686/
Cambodia business embraces Facebook advertising
With an average of 1,100 additions every day, a new user joins Facebook in Cambodia every two minutes, according to estimates from social media marketing and advertising agency Social Media Plus. Founder of Social Media Plus Anthony Galliano said more and more companies operating in Cambodia ...
Chevron offer ends Caltex station strike
Employees of Caltex petrol stations in Phnom Penh are returning to work today after management offered to raise salaries by $20 a month and not withhold pay for time missed during the strike, which started earlier this month. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chevron-offer-ends-caltex-station-strike
Troubling contrasts in ASEAN
Some of these ASEAN economies are not like the others. Singapore is 80 times richer than Myanmar and its population lives 20 years longer than Cambodia’s, while Myanmar ranks 50 places behind Cambodia in terms of global competitiveness, according to a wide-ranging analysis from the World ...
Joe Freeman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/troubling-contrasts-asean
‘Only paying lip service’
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday accused the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party of hypocrisy, claiming that although the CNRP has pushed garment workers to strike for no less than a $160 minimum wage, party leaders pay their own bodyguards, drivers and cooks half that. Opposition leader ...
May Titthara and Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98only-paying-lip-service%E2%80%99