Robust growth in apparel exports to UK from Cambodia registered
Cambodia’s apparel exports of $758.532 million in the first three quarters of this year have already crossed the total exports of $613.344 million in 2021. At this rate, the exports are likely to touch the $1 billion mark by December 2022. The two countries are ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501202268/robust-growth-in-apparel-exports-to-uk-from-cambodia-registered/
Joint project on agri-tech launches in Mondulkiri
The Centre for Excellence on SuStainable Agricultural IntenSification and Nutrition (CE SAIN) &ndaSh; a joint development effort by the MiniStry of Agriculture, ForeStry and FiSherieS, the Royal UniverSity of Agriculture, KanSaS State UniverSity in the US and the US government&rSquo;S USAID development agency &ndaSh; inaugurated SS='cambodia-color'>...
Yuth Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/joint-project-agri-tech-launches-mondulkiri
Kratie villagers return home after filing petitions
Some 100 people repreSenting more than 600 familieS from Kratie province&rSquo;S Snuol diStrict who have a land diSpute with the Memot Rubber Plantation Company returned home yeSterday after Sending petitionS to relevant miniStrieS. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50116387/kratie-villagers-return-home-after-filing-petitions/
Land protesters take disputes to the top
Representatives of 187 families in Kampong Chhnang province and Phnom Penh gathered at the Land Management Ministry and the Prime Minister’s cabinet office yesterday seeking help to resolve their years-long land disputes ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50499594/land-protesters-take-disputes-to-the-top/
Japanese government to keep supporting MRC
The Japanese government has pledged its continued support for the Mekong River Commission’s ongoing efforts to improve irrigation facilities under a four-year $1.4 million project involving Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50510824/japanese-government-to-keep-supporting-mrc/
Number of casinos jumps by 53% in 2018
Cambodia granted 52 licences to casinos last year, bringing the total awarded to 150 at the end of 2018, thanks largely to a surge in gambling businesses in the Kingdom’s Preah sihanouk province. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/number-casinos-jumps-53-2018
Chinese firm plans to invest in cotton if second test a success
Chinese company Jiangsu Lianfa Textile Co Ltd plans to invest in cotton in Pursat province to process fabrics and supply the Kingdom’s garment factories, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chinese-firm-plans-invest-cotton-if-second-test-success
Villagers in Kratie province were poisoned by mining: Industry Minister
Industry Minister Cham Prasidh has said that villagers in Kratie province’s Chetr Borei district were poisoned after consuming water tainted with cyanide which was used for mining operations in Mondolkiri and Kratie province. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Siem Reap families protest over lack of land deeds
Fifty-nine families living in siem Reap’s slor Kram commune protested to urge the authorities to speed up the process of giving them land deeds, saying they have been waiting three years already. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/siem-reap-families-protest-over-lack-land-deeds
Cambodia telecom companies urged to pay overdue regulatory fees
The government has issued a new warning to telecommunications companies that have yet to deliver outstanding payments to the Kingdom’s ministries, giving regulators until the end of the month to settle their debts. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay and Robin Spiess
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-telecom-companies-urged-pay-overdue-regulatory-fees
Visa transactions up 30 percent
Visa Inc, the world’s leader in digital payments, experienced strong growth in Cambodia in 2017 with the number of Visa cards in the country increasing by 65 percent compared to the previous year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50504799/visa-transactions-up-30-percent/
NBC projects real economic growth at 7 pct this year
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) said in its mid-year report the country’s real economic growth will average seven percent this year, with strong contribution from the agricultural, industrial and services sectors. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50511987/nbc-projects-real-economic-growth-at-7-pct-this-year/
KrisEnergy set to review bids for drilling services
Singapore-baSed firm KriSEnergy, which operateS Cambodia&rSquo;S offShore Block A, iS now reviewing bidS Submitted by contractorS for integrated drilling ServiceS and a facilitieS platform. They were Submitted during the Second quarter. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/krisenergy-set-review-bids-drilling-services
Land deal ends Preah Sihanouk province dispute
Forty-two families living in sihanoukville’s Muoy commune, who claim to have a land dispute with a sihanoukville Autonomous Port official Chan Kang, have been given land plots by Preah sihanouk provincial authorities. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50524366/land-deal-ends-preah-sihanouk-province-dispute/
EU a key economic partner in Cambodia: Ambassador
The European Union is a key economic partner in Cambodia, with preferential access to European markets a key element of the Kingdom’s robust growth in recent years, said European Union Ambassador George Edgar. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50539696/eu-a-key-economic-partner-in-cambodia-ambassador/
‘Positive impact’: Prey Lang forest app wins award
Danish researcher Ida Theilade has been bestowed the University of Copenhagen’s Innovation Award 2018 for inventing a smartphone app that can prevent illegal logging and preserve forest resources in the Prey Lang forest. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/positive-impact-prey-lang-forest-app-wins-award
Ministry to meet with NGOs biannually
The Interior Minister plans to meet with top officials from the country’s NGOs twice per year in an effort to address concerns raised by the groups and to gather recommendations for national development. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50544946/ministry-to-meet-with-ngos-biannually-2/
Unexploded ordnance found while excavating land
Thirteen unexploded bombs left over from the civil war were unearthed when a villager was excavating soil to construct a toilet on Friday in Kampong Chhnang city’s Ba’ier commune, according to police. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50116030/unexploded-ordnance-found-while-excavating-land/
Riverbank fails a concern
In response to the latest riverbank collapse in Kandal province’s Mok Kampoul district on December 13, the most recent of a spate across the Kingdom, authorities have moved to prevent more from occurring. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/riverbank-fails-concern
Lorry with illegal wood confiscated
A lorry discovered to be secretly transporting illegally logged wood on Monday was impounded by Kampong Thom provincial authorities, with the vehicle’s driver now in hiding, according to a provincial forestry administration official. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lorry-illegal-wood-confiscated