His Excellency Dato’ Sri Ismail Sabri bin Yaakob, Prime Minister of Malaysia, will lead a high delegation to pay an official visit to the Kingdom of Cambodia
On 21 February 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on His Excellency Dato’ Sri Ismail Sabri bin Yaakob, Prime Minister of Malaysia, will lead a high delegation to pay an official visit to the Kingdom of Cambodia from ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Tourism turmoil continues
Cambodia Association of Travel Agents president Ang Kim Eang yesterday released a statement denying all allegations of wrongdoing against him by some members of the association’s board who have called for his resignation. Last Wednesday, 11 of CATA’s 15 board members signed and thumb-printed a petition ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011122753627/Business/tourism-turmoil-continues.html
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport and Metfone singed a MoU to renew the agreement to provide free internet to schools nationwide
On 05 July 2016, at Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) has a MoU signing to renew the agreement between the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) and Metfone, the Kingdom’s leading telecommunications company, to provide free internet to schools nationwide with the attendance ...
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport
PP residents urged to use public transport
Minister of Public Works and Transport Sun Chanthol has urged Phnom Penh residents to use the capital’s existing public transport services rather than private vehicles, as it is leading to increased traffic congestion. He also called for the city’s public bus system to be expanded, with ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pp-residents-urged-use-public-transport
Innovation and inspiration are the basis of BarCamp
BarCamp Phnom Penh, a technology conference at the University of Puthisastra, promises to attract industry professionals from ASEAN countries, the US, Germany and other countries around the world later this month, Be Chantra, lead organiser of the conference, says. Be Chantra says BarCamp Phnom Penh is ...
Slain Journalist's Mobile Phone Yields Clues
Police investigating the murder of a journalist whose battered body was discovered in Ratanakkiri province on Tuesday have unearthed key clues to who may have carried out the killing, an official said yesterday. Hang Serei Odom, 42-who had written exposes on the involvement of powerful people in forest ...
Strategy for ventures: convince yourself
One of the two partners who have created Cambodia’s leading food and beverage company, with 22 outlets, says business is not merely about money, but more about finding a need and serving the need. Kouch Sokly says entrepreneurs need to find out what the market needs ...
Slow is good: The real estate market’s slower current growth is better in the long run, experts say
While the Cambodian real estate market has still not fully recovered from its steep decline during the 2008-2009 economic crisis, its slower but steady growth is more sustainable than the rapid ascent seen in the years leading up to the fall, experts say. although growth ...
Agriculture Sector
A better outlook for the price of Cambodian major crops, especially cassava and soybeans, drives the upward revision of growth of the other crops subsector. This in turn leads to a marginal upward revision of growth of the agriculture sector to an annualized rate of 4.6 percent, from 4.5 percent in our January ...
Massive strike nearing: union
The Free Trade Union has vowed to stage a mass strike in the garment and footwear industries if its demands for an extra US$30 per month of bonuses for workers are not met, union president Chea Mony said yesterday. The union sent a letter to Minister ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012062556997/National-news/massive-strike-nearing.html
More Investment Needed To Process Crops
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday said more investment in agriculture was needed to ensure that Cambodia can process its crops and add value to agricultural produce being exported abroad. Speaking at the inauguration of a new cargo port in Kandal province, Mr. Hun Sen said there was an ...
China's Taiwan opens 2nd bank in Cambodia
Taiwan Cooperative Bank, one of the leading banks in China’s Taiwan, officially commenced business in capital Phnom Penh on Thursday, bringing the number of commercial banks in the kingdom to 33. Taiwan Cooperative Bank is the 2nd bank from China’s Taiwan in Cambodia after the Mega ...
Final push to finish line
For a month now, the campaign has grown increasingly frenetic. Supporters have poured into the streets by the tens of thousands for ruling and opposition party rallies alike. On motorbikes and by the truckload, campaigners have overrun cities large and small, chanting party slogans. Today, that ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/final-push-finish-line
Hundreds in Long Beach protest election results in Cambodia
Chanting in Khmer and gripping homemade signs, a group gathered Monday to protest recent Cambodian election results. The rally aimed to bring awareness to what many Cambodian immigrants believe is a corrupt voting system. More than nine million people were eligible to vote in the July 28 ...
MFIs downplay debts
Two of the leading microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Cambodia said yesterday that they have identified a relatively small fraction of borrowers who were affected by flooding and would provide relief on their repayment schedules if necessary. The comments come after both Prime Minister Hun Sen and ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mfis-downplay-debts
Cambodian, Thai firms form business alliance
SBI Royal Securities, a subsidiary of Japanese-based SBI Holdings, has concluded a basic agreement to form a business and capital alliance with one of Thailand’s leading securities firms, in a move that could attract more investment from Cambodia’s northern neighbour. The agreement with Thailand’s Finansia Syrus ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodian-thai-firms-form-business-alliance
Kubota enters Cambodia
Siam Kubota Corporation (SKC), a leading farm truck maker, has partnered with Group Lease to enter the agriculture machine market in Cambodia. Mitsuji Konoshita, chief executive of Group Lease, said the partnership with SKC is a bid to extend leasing service to Kubota’s clients in ...
Nuntawun Polkuamdee
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/368267/kubota-enters-cambodia
Cambodia, US Extend Artifacts Trade Agreement
Cambodia and the U.S. have signed an extension to a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that imposes strict import restrictions on artifacts dating from the Bronze Age to the end of the Angkor Empire. Hab Touch, director-general for tangible heritage at the Ministry of Culture and ...
Simon Henderson
https://cambodia.opendevelopmentmekong.net/wp-admin/post.php?post=34061&action=edit&message=1
US reports long list of human rights concerns in Cambodia
The U.S. State Department on Friday released a damning assessment of the conduct of Cambodia’s elections and also took note of the “arbitrary and possibly unlawful” killing of a bystander by government forces and other human rights concerns in a report on human rights around ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/us-reports-long-list-of-human-rights-concerns-in%E2%80%88cambodia-53386/
With eight in prison, parties set to resume talks
With at least eight opposition officials facing controversial charges of “leading an insurrection,” opposition leader Sam Rainsy is set to meet face-to-face with Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday morning for the first time since September in what he has described as “final talks” to ...
Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/with-eight-in-prison-parties-set-to-resume-talks-64603/