Fisheries urged to hook international market access
Businesses and producers seeking to export their fisheries products internationally are encouraged to submit an application with the FiA for registration and approval to sell their goods globally. ...
Yatt Malai
https://kiripost.com/stories/fisheries-urged-to-hook-international-market-access
WCS finds endangered stork nests in Keo Seima
The Wildlife Conservation Society has found seven nests of the globally-threatened Lesser Adjutant Stork in Mondulkiri province’s Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary. Sot Vandoeun, WCS’ wildlife monitoring team leader, said on Tuesday that it is the first time that WCS has found the bird’s nest in ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50534472/wcs-finds-endangered-stork-nests-in-keo-seima/
Payment card gains traction
MasterCard, the plastic payment-card brand of global financial services firm MasterCard Worldwide, has been present in the Kingdom since 2001, but until recently it was relatively unknown to most Cambodians. However, there are signs its signature debit and credit cards are poised for robust growth ...
Cam McGrath and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/payment-card-gains-traction
Cambodia urged to join TPP
The Cambodian government needs to take stock of its economic place within ASEAN, and globally, to continue its growth trajectory given the anticipated ratification of a major international trade pact expected to erode the competitiveness of the Kingdom’s biggest industrial sector, US Ambassador to Cambodia ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-urged-join-tpp
Vertiv announces rebranding
Vertiv, formerly known as Emerson Network Power, officially announced its new branding on Wednesday in Cambodia to tap more markets in the country’s fast developing economy.Vertiv is a global provider of infrastructure technologies for vital applications in data centres, communication networks, and commercial and industrial ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38734/vertiv-announces-rebranding/
Maybank offers share trading platform
Maybank Cambodia recently purchased an online stock and share trading platform to allow its premier wealth customers access regional and global markets. Cythia Liaw, Maybank Cambodia CEO, said Friday that the trading platform – KE Trade – was developed by Singapore-based Maybank Kim Eng, the fully ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31414/maybank-offers-share-trading-platform/
Aviation sector calls for government aid
The country’s main airport company, Cambodia Airports, has called for a “global and comprehensive plan” to aid the ailing aviation industry. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50703133/aviation-sector-calls-for-government-aid/
Agriculture sector must prepare now for climate change
Agricultural priorities for establishing food security in the face of a global climate crisis were the subject of regional workshop on Monday. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50967731/agriculture-sector-must-prepare-now-for-climate-change/
Cambodia-China trade volume up 38 pct
Trade between Cambodia and China have increased by 38 percent compared to the same period last year. This trade increase took place against the backdrop of a compounded global crises. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501100887/cambodia-china-trade-volume-up-38-pct/
Kingdom last in Asean graft, critics claim ‘bias’
Released on Tuesday, Transparency International’s 2018 global Corruption Perceptions Index ranked Cambodia 161 out of 180 countries – the same ranking it held in 2017. But Cambodian government officials responded to the news by saying they cared little about the ranking, with some other observers ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/kingdom-last-asean-graft-critics-claim-bias
Bitter market for local coffee
The Kingdom’s once-promising home-grown coffee industry has been laid low by adverse weather and fierce global competition, with the total area under coffee cultivation cut in half over the last three years as desperate farmers switch to other crops, a senior official at the Ministry ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/bitter-market-local-coffee
City hall to add 600 security cameras throughout the capital
Despite a slew of global investment banks slashing their oil price forecasts this week, KrisEnergy —the Singaporean oil and gas firm with a controlling stake in Cambodia’s most promising offshore oil reserve, Block A—remains committed to helping Cambodia produce its first drop of oil, a ...
Tej Parikh
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/krisenergy-committed-to-cambodias-block-a-105341/
Rubber prices could rise
Rubber prices on the global commodities market are expected to rise to $2,500 per ton due to the improved state of the world economy and efforts by four major rubber producing countries – Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia – to cut back supply, according to ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32511/rubber-prices-could-rise/
QR codes could prove to be a digital alternative to cash for Cambodia
Global payments giant Visa is the first international financial firm to announce the roll out of a payment solution in Cambodia for quick response codes, or QR codes, those pixelated black and white squares designed to be read by a smartphone camera that have begun ...
Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/qr-codes-could-prove-be-digital-alternative-cash-cambodia
Hong Kong's Pacnet expands to Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar
Hong Kong technology company Pacnet says it’s expanding its virtual private network (VPN) services to Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. In a statement released Wednesday, the company said the expansion involved global internet protocol VPN services based on multi-protocol label switching (MPLS). ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=OTg3YWUwNmRhYWJ
Cassava alliance association formed to promote exports
Cambodia-China Cassava Alliance Association (CCCAA) was officially formed Thursday to promote exporting agricultural products to China and global markets. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501512160/cassava-alliance-association-formed-to-promote-exports/
Land Is Life, and It’s Slipping Away
Nean Narin, a humble man and father of three children, says his family is going hungry. Narin lives in the village of Boeung Kak, situated on the edge of Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh. For years, he and other villagers relied on the Boeung Kak Lake ...
Wildlife Alliance celebrates annual World Ranger Day
Wildlife Alliance on Wednesday commemorated “World Ranger Day” with a call to support the Kingdom’s forest rangers. World Ranger Day is celebrated globally every July 31 to mark the accomplishments and work done by rangers in the name of conservation and to honour those killed ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wildlife-alliance-celebrates-annual-world-ranger-day
NBC set to hold annual meet highliting agricultural issues
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) is set to hold the 6th Annual Macroeconomic Conference at the end of this year, which will focus on the Kingdom’s agriculture sector challenges. The conference on Agriculture Sector in a Rapid Structural Transformation and Uncertain Global Trade Environment ...
Sorn Sarath
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nbc-set-hold-annual-meet-highliting-agricultural-issues
Ministry pushes support of ecotourism
The Tourism Ministry on Monday released a joint statement with relevant stakeholders in the tourism sector to support and promote ecotourism and community-based tourism in Cambodia. Tourism Minister Thong Khon said at a tourism conference that ecotourism and community-based tourism were growing regionally and globally with ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29420/ministry-pushes-support-of-ecotourism/