CMA: Loan restructures increasing
Restructured loans at member institutions of the Cambodia Microfinance Association (CMA) totalled about $1.5 billion as of April, according to the organisation. ...
Brian Badzmierowski
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50859588/cma-loan-restructures-increasing/
South Korea lends $52.2M for road renovation
South Korea has loaned Cambodia $52.54 million to renovate the 63.5km-long National Road 21, which connects the provinces of Kandal and Svay Rieng, according to a statement yesterday by the Ministry of Finance ...
China donates hardware to support 2019 census
The Chinese government yesterday handed $2.5 million worth of cars, motorbikes and other equipment to the government to facilitate the 2019 census. Chinese Ambassador Xiong Bo presided over the handover at the Interior Ministry. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50536929/china-donates-hardware-to-support-2019-census/
Ministry of Information to establish E-archive next year
Cambodia’s Ministry of Information is planning to create an e-archive in early 2016 with an estimated cost of some US$5 million, according to the State News Agency-AKP. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/ministry-of-information-to-establish-e-archive-next-year-9046
Muhibbah’s profits rise on Cambodian activities
Malaysian conglomerate Muhibbah Engineering Bhd reported that revenue declined 7.5 per cent last year, but gross profit increased in part due to its stake in the company that operates Cambodia’s three international airports. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/muhibbahs-profits-rise-cambodian-activities
Over 83 pct of Cambodia's urban dwellers have access to clean water: minister
More than 83 percent of Cambodia’s urban residents have currently access to clean water, up from only 60.5 percent in 2012, Minister of Industry and Handicraft Cham Prasidh said on Thursday. ...
Shanghai Daily Team
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=331482
Battambang farmers protest plummeting rice prices
Attempting to call attention to the havoc low rice prices are wreaking on their livelihoods, hundreds of farmers in Battambang’s Sangke district took to the streets yesterday, symbolically pouring rice onto National Road 5. ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/battambang-farmers-protest-plummeting-rice-prices
Rice husk power plant deal signed
Cambodia’s Soma Group yesterday signed a US$3-million deal with Indian company Ankur Scientific, the largest biomass-to-energy company in India, to construct a 1.5-megawatt rice husk power plant in Kampong Cham province. ...
European Union aid
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The EU Ambassador to Cambodia, Carmen Moreno, shook hands with Prime Minister Hun Sen at Peace Palace on December 2, 2019. Photo from Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Facebook page.European Union (EU) has been one of Cambodia’s biggest trading partners and a major development partner since ...
HANG Visith
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Investment Data Research OfficerVisith is a Data Researcher at Open Development Cambodia (ODC). At ODC, he is responsible for the desk research and data collection on foreign investment from multi-languages sources and translates it. Under the direct supervision of Data Research and GIS Specialist and ...
Crackdown on illegal fishing in Tonle Sap
Pursat provincial police and fishery administration officials cracked down on a large scale illegal fishing operation along Tonle Sap lake and seized equipment including over 5,300 fishing nets in Kandieng district’s Raing Til commune. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50524750/crackdown-on-illegal-fishing-in-tonle-sap/
PM touts free bus tickets for New Year
Prime Minister Hun Sen announced yesterday that all people can ride the public bus for free in Phnom Penh, and from the capital to the provinces along National Roads 1 and 5, for Khmer New Year. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50298150/pm-touts-free-bus-tickets-for-new-year/
Kingdom’s debt grows to nearly $6 billion
Cambodia’s national debt stood at $5.8 billion at the end of 2016, totalling nearly a third of GDP, according to the latest debt bulletin released by the Ministry and Economy and Finance earlier this month. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-debt-grows-nearly-6-billion
‘Life Skills’ course in the works
A new school course would teach children from grades 5 to 12 for the first time about LGBT issues, sex and gender-based violence, as part of a proposed Ministry of Education curriculum. ...
Leonie Kijewski and Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/life-skills-course-works-1
UN’s IFAD examines farming programs
A UN agricultural development body presented a report evaluating their commitment of over 20 years and $189.5 million to Cambodia’s rural farmers yesterday, finding both positives and negatives in their partnership with the government. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/uns-ifad-examines-farming-programs
Cambodia arrival of the first Australia's unwanted refugees imminent
Four refugees detained in the tiny Pacific island of Nauru are set to arrive in Cambodia as part of a controversial agreement that has so far cost Australian taxpayers $55.5 million. ...
Lindsay Murdoch
http://bit.ly/1GjMn6N
Cambodia tax revenue exceeds target by 24 percent to reach $2.78 billion, says PM
The Cambodian government got $5.07 billion in revenue from tax and customs in 2021, Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Monday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501000317/cambodia-tax-revenue-exceeds-target-by-24-percent-to-reach-2-78-billion-says-pm/
FAO says world food prices to reach record high in March, Cambodia expects 3.5 percent hike in Q1
Cost of food in Cambodia increased 2.78 percent in December of 2021 over the same month in the previous year, according to the National Institute of Statistics of Cambodia. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501055959/fao-says-world-food-prices-to-reach-record-high-in-march-cambodia-expects-3-5-percent-hike-in-q1/
Press release on the official visit of Japanese Foreign Minister KAMIKAWA to Cambodia from 5 to 6 July 2024
On 6 July 2024, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release regarding the official visit of Japanese Foreign Minister KAMIKAWA to Cambodia from 5 to 6 July 2024 on their official website. According to the press, His Excellency SOK Chenda ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Cambodia’s stateless Vietnamese
Up to 750,000 Vietnamese people are believed to be living in Cambodia, about 5 percent of the country’s population, but no one knows for sure. They are almost universally stateless. Few qualify for Cambodian citizenship. ...
Michele Penna
http://www.asiasentinel.com/society/cambodia-stateless-vietnamese/