Education institutions to churn out skilled workforce to meet demand
Cambodia needs a skilled workforce to meet the market demands of today and tomorrow and this is seriously lacking and becoming a major concern, especially when it is much needed to keep pace with the national growth and developments. ...
Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501056226/education-institutions-to-churn-out-skilled-workforce-to-meet-demand/
High school diploma exams go ‘smoothly’
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport said the first day of the high school diploma exams, which kicked off on December 27, went smoothly although over 4,000 registered candidates were absent and automatically failed the test. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/high-school-diploma-exams-go-smoothly
No Change to Reserve Requirement
Cambodia has decided not to increase its reserve requirement for banks to tackle inflation, National Bank of Cambodia Director General and spokeswoman Nguon Sokha said yesterdayThe Kingdom’s reserve-requirement rate for banks stands at 12 percent, meaning 12 percent of total deposits at banks must be ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011081851125/Business/no-change-to-reserve-requirement.html
Investment from Vietnam hits a dry patch: CDC
Vietnamese investors shied away from the Cambodian market during the first half of the year as the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) failed to register a single qualified investment project (QIP) from Vietnam during that period for the first time in its 22-year ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/investment-vietnam-hits-dry-patch-cdc
Joint visa for Thailand and Cambodia in limbo
Despite the fact that the Chairman’s Statement of the recently wrapped 21st ASEAN Summit welcomed progress on regional “connectivity”, a long-awaited joint visa for Thailand and Cambodia remains stalled. Koy Kuong, spokesman at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday that there is still no progress ...
Land Concessions Signed After Hun Sen Ordered Moratorium
According to documents published in the latest Royal Gazette, Prime Minister Hun Sen signed off on three land concessions covering more than 20,000 hectares last month, 11 days after a moratorium on the granting of such concessions was announced. On May 7, Mr. Hun Sen signed ...
First crop of stevia is successful: company
Stevia Nutra Corporation, a Canadian agro-company, said in a press release on Friday that the initial growing season of stevia, commonly known as sweetleaf, in Cambodia was successfully completed. The first harvest of high-quality stevia leaves has now commenced and samples have been prepared for testing ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013031861981/Business/first-crop-of-stevia-is-successful-company.html
Cambodia begins first agricultural census
Cambodia’s first-ever agricultural census is under way, tasked with addressing the lack of reliable statistical information on one of the Kingdom’s most crucial economic sectors. The census is being taken by the government with assistance from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in two ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013041165027/Business/cambodia-begins-first-agricultural-census.html
Credit growth in Cambodia's banking sector slightly up in 1st two months
Cambodia’s banking industry recorded a slight increase in lending in the first two months of this year after a sharp rise last year, according to a consolidated data provided by the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) on Saturday. The data showed that the kingdom’s 33 commercial ...
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2013-04/28/c_132347546.htm
New MFI To Launch Operations
A new microfinance institution (MFI), ORO Financecorp Plc, is set to open in Cambodia, according to the director-general of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC). Cambodia already has 35 registered MFIs, according to a recent report by the Cambodia Microfinance Association (CMA). Last week, the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050765436/Business/new-mfi-to-launch-operations.html
Cambodia has shortage of capable human resource
The number of people seeking for jobs has been on the rise each day. However, companies, organizations and institutions are relentlessly complaining that human resource is both scarce and of low quality. Many students who have just graduated for about a year or two say they ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=14&token=OTNiZWMzYWFjMzU
PTT offers $960 mln to buy out Sakari to increase coal assets
Thailand’s top energy company, has offered to buy out Singapore-listed Sakari Resources Ltd for $960 million as the oil and gas firm expands into coal to meet rising regional demand for the fuel On Aug. 13, Sakari announced a joint venture with the Royal Group of ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/27/sakari-ptt-idUSL3E8JR02420120827
Sugar Firm Offers Defense After Call for Probe of EU Trade Links
The director of a CPP senator’s sugar plantation accused of stealing land from hundreds of families said Wednesday that most locals were happy with the new jobs the plantation has generated, a week after a visiting European Union parliamentarian renewed calls for an investigation of ...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sugar-firm-offers-defense-after-call-for-probe-of-eu-trade-links-51545/
Two years after offer, US yet to clean up war-era chemicals
Government officials on Thursday said they are still waiting for the U.S. Embassy to make good on a 2012 offer to clean up several barrels of the riot control agent CS that were dropped on Cambodia during the U.S.’ war with Vietnam and which the ...
Zsombor Peter and Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-years-after-offer-us-yet-to-clean-up-war-era-chemicals-64930/
Institutions link to boost tourism
The Royal Academy of Cambodia (RAC) and Ministry of Tourism have agreed to team up to boost tourism in the Kingdom. Both institutions will soon sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to that effect. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50720709/institutions-link-to-boost-tourism/
Social Work to shape Kingdom
Social work, long-established in developed countries but unheard-of in Cambodia, could be set to change the face of child protection in the country as interest in the field grows. Last week, a hundred potential social workers from around the country came to Phnom Penh for an ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012092558885/Lifestyle/social-work-to-change-cambodia.html
Indochine raises A$5.5m, sells 85% of Cambodia gold assets
ASX-listed Indochine Mining has completed the first part of a A$26.3-million capital raising, and has signed a deal with fellow-listed Capital Mining to dispose of an 85% shareholding in its wholly owned subsidiary, which owns gold assets in Cambodia. Earlier this month, the precious metals developer ...
Esmarie Swanepoel
http://www.miningweekly.com/article/indochine-raises-a55m-sells-85-of-cambodia-gold-assets-2013-10-08
Requirements for the public offering of equity securities in Cambodia
Generally, funds can be obtained from banks and other financial institutions, fund management companies, family members, friends or a securities market by issuing equity and/or debt securities. This article will outline the requirements, mechanisms, procedures and approval for the public offering of equity securities. ...
Inflation Report To Be Delayed Official Says
With prices creeping upward and the central bank looking to take monetary action to fight inflation, the government has suspended the publication of the monthly Consumer Price Index, an official at the Ministry of Pallning said yesterday. Sam Saroeun, deputy director of the statistic department ...
Oil dispute flares up
Secret meetings between high-ranking Thai and Cambodian officials to solve the demarcation of disputed offshore petroleum resources took place during the administration of Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, the Cambodian National Petroleum Authority revealed yesterday. In a statement some commentators described as “coordinated attack” by ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011083151353/Business/oil-dispute-flares-up.html