Bar owners remain in the dark while some call quits
Hospitality groups continue to call on the government to provide an exit strategy from the lockdown of the Kingdom’s bars, clubs and KTV’s – so struggling owners can implement business plans, but some are deciding to quit. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Harrison White
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50737482/bar-owners-remain-in-the-dark-while-some-call-quits/
Rescued wildlife set free in protected area
The Phnom Tamao Zoological Park and Wildlife Rescue Center (PTWRC) and the Pursat provincial Fisheries Administration have released five smooth otters, six dark-grey monkeys and 250 lesser whistling ducks to protected areas in Raingtoel Commune’s Kaoh Ka’ek village in Pursat’s Kandieng district. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rescued-wildlife-set-free-protected-area
Course on boosting hospitality skills
The Ministry of Tourism has launched the second phase of a skills development programme to promote human resource abilities in the Kingdom’s tourism sector. Pak sokhom, the Ministry of Tourism’s secretary of state, said that the programme will provide young people with vocational skills, create ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sorn Sarath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50747286/course-on-boosting-hospitality-skills/
‘Free-trade agreements the future’
Having a free-trade agreement (FTA) with more trade partners would help mitigate the Kingdom’s loss from the European Union’s partial withdrawal of the Everything- but-Arms (EBA) trade status in the future because the country has already completed one with China. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sorn Sarath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50748810/free-trade-agreements-the-future/
ARDB seeks $30M more for SME loans
Agriculture and Rural Development Bank of Cambodia (ARDB) expects to receive an additional $30 million from the government for special-purpose loans to keep the Kingdom’s smaller businesses afloat amid the ongoing economic duress of Covid-19, according to the state-owned bank’s director-general Kao Thach. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ardb-seeks-30m-more-sme-loans
Mondulkiri wind farm passes first test
Xinglan Maritime Energy Co Ltd’s (XME) $200 million 100MW onshore wind power project in Mondulkiri province has passed its feasibility study, promising a fresh gust of wind to swell the sails of the Kingdom’s burgeoning industry, the local Maritime Group said in a press release. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mondulkiri-wind-farm-passes-first-test
Banks need integrated automated payment system
Cambodian banks must integrate automated payment processing, according to sabay Digital Corp’s co-founder Mike Gaertner. Its absence is a gaping hole in the Kingdom’s financial services. As a result, the Kingdom is notably left out of crucial consumer behaviour shaping the 21st century, including subscription ss='cambodia-color'>...
Husain Haider
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50831790/banks-need-integrated-automated-payment-system/
Land disputants beat prosecutor for intervening
Preah Vihear province’s Kulen district administration is investigating a land dispute in Phnom Tbeng II commune’s Kdak village after a provincial court deputy prosecutor, Vuth savy, was beaten while leading a force to stop forest encroachment in the area on March 24. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-disputants-beat-prosecutor-intervening
Cash-strapped workers seek reduction in monthly rates for rental units
Some 200 garment workerS gathered on May 10 on Veng Sreng Street in Stung Meanchey III commune&rSquo;S Damnak Thum Pir village in the capital&rSquo;S Meanchey diStrict to demand that the Phnom Penh municipal authoritieS help facilitate a 50 per cent reduction in monthly rateS for SS='cambodia-color'>...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cash-strapped-workers-seek-reduction-monthly-rates-rental-units
EU and UNIDO to support fisheries sector
With support of the European Union (EU), the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture’s Fisheries Administration (FiA) launched a Value Chain Investment support (VCIs) programme yesterday aiming to support Cambodia’s small, medium and large enterprises in post-harvest fisheries. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50908108/eu-and-unido-to-support-fisheries-sector/
K Speu villagers seek solution to land row
A group of families have demanded Kampong speu provincial authorities expedite the distribution of 54ha of land in Daun Ath village in the province’s samrong district’s skuh commune after they claimed rich and powerful individuals conspired with commune authorities to change ownership by altering the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/k-speu-villagers-seek-solution-land-row
Ministries give lecture on environmental diplomacy
The National Institute of Diplomacy and International Relations (NIDIR) in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment organised a lecture on “Environment Policy and Management in Cambodia” for officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to assist them in understanding the link between ss='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministries-give-lecture-environmental-diplomacy
Strategic National Road 21 stretch opens
A nearly 64km stretch of National Road 21 connecting the Takhmao roundabout in Kandal province’s Takhmao town to the Cambodian-Vietnamese international border checkpoint between Chrey Thom and Vietnam’s Long Binh was formally inaugurated on March 23. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strategic-national-road-21-stretch-opens
Candlelight Party congress issues official policy plans
The Candlelight Party has decided to adopt a seven-point policy plan in the run-up to the June 5 commune council elections. The decision came at the May 15 extraordinary congress of the party in Khmuonh commune’s Anlong Kgan village of the capital’s sen sok district. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/candlelight-party-congress-issues-official-policy-plans
Private trade centres eyed for five cities across China
The Ministry of Commerce plans to set up five Cambodian private business centres in China to step up the Kingdom’s exports to the East Asian giant and maximise use of the bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries, the ministry’s two-day annual meeting ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/private-trade-centres-eyed-five-cities-across-china
PM to meet Xi at Belt and Road Forum
With an eye on Cambodia’s ascent into the upper-middle-income country category by 2030, Prime Minister Hun Manet is slated to rendezvous with Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China during his second trip to the country after taking over as Prime Minister. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Nheng Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501376850/pm-to-meet-xi-at-belt-and-road-forum/
UNICEF partners with China to pilot climate-resilient WASH technologies in Cambodia
Delegates from China and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday started a three-day field visit to Cambodia to conduct a feasibility study for piloting climate-resilient water and sanitation (WAsH) technologies and solutions in the kingdom, said a UNICEF’s press statement. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501351560/unicef-partners-with-china-to-pilot-climate-resilient-wash-technologies-in-cambodia/
Sendai office to bolster Japan ties: CCC
The apex Cambodian business association’s leaders are convinced that their new representative office in the sendai region will materially accelerate the Kingdom’s trade and economic relations with Japan, largely by tapping into the opportunities created by the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sendai-office-bolster-japan-ties-ccc
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. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501214449/rcep-will-help-cambodia-graduate-from-its-least-developed-country-ldc-status-by-2028/
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. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501249576/bassac-kampot-waterway-study-to-be-completed-soon/