Cambodia’s trade volume up 20 percent in first half of 2022
Cambodia’s total trade volume was valued at $27.2 billion in the first half of 2022, up 20 percent from 22.6 billion dollars over the same period last year, according to an official report released on Tuesday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501111765/cambodias-trade-volume-up-20-percent-in-first-half-of-2022/
Press release on the submissions and receipt of applications for registration of political party agents, national and international observers for the 7th National Assembly Election 2023
On 03 February 2023, National Election Committee has posted a press release on the submissions and receipt of applications for registration of political party agents, national and international observers for the 7th National Assembly Election 2023 on their official website.According to the press release, the ...
National Election Committee
Press release on the outcome of the plenary session of the Council of Ministers on 28 April 2023
On 28 April 2023, the Office of the Council of Ministers issued a press release on the outcome of the plenary session of the Council of Ministers at the Peace Palace under the high presidency of Samdech Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of ...
Office of the Council of Ministers
Press release on telephone conversation between Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo HUN SEN, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, and His Excellency Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine
On 29 May 2023, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on telephone conversation between Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo HUN SEN, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, and His Excellency Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine.at the outset, ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Press release: Cambodia, China prepare for people-to-people exchange year in 2024
On 31 October 2023, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release: Cambodia, China prepare for people-to-people exchange year in 2024 on their official website.According to the press release, His Excellency Sok Chenda Sophea, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Press release: Samdech Thipadei Prime Minister to pay an official visit to Singapore
On 17 June 2024, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release regarding the Samdech Thipadei Prime Minister’s official visit to Singapore on their official website. According to the press, Samdech Moha Borvor Thipadei Hun Manet will lead a high-level delegation to ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Statement of Textile Apparel Footwear and Travel goods Association in Cambodia (TAFTAC) on CENTRAL’s report and Clean Clothes Campaign’s statement
On 24 June 2024, the Textile Apparel Footwear and Travel goods Association in Cambodia (TAFTAC) issued a statement on CENTRAL’s report and Clean Clothes Campaign’s statement on their official social media site. According to the statement, TACTAC is shocked and disappointed at the bias and subjective ...
Textile Apparel Footwear and Travel goods Association in Cambodia
Press release: Japanese Foreign Minister to pay an official visit to Cambodia
On 1 July 2024, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release regarding Japanese Foreign Minister to pay an official visit to Cambodiaon their official website.According to the press, at the invitation of His Excellency Sok Chenda Sophea, Deputy Prime Minister ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Press Release on the outcomes of the meeting between Cambodian and Thai labour ministers seeking solutions for Cambodian workers
On 07 July 2017, the Royal Government of Cambodia issued a press release following a meeting between H.E. Ith Sam Heng, Minister of Labor and Vocational Training and Head of Commission for Provision of Lawful Status to Cambodian Migrant Workers and H.E. Sirichai Distakul, Thai ...
Royal Government of Cambodia
Hun Sen’s Land Titles Receive Rare Praise From Germany
Since Prime Minister Hun Sen announced an ambitious new plan some 10 months ago to make nearly half a million families official land owners, hardly a week goes by that a rural community does not complain of local officials trying to scam the project. But when ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sens-land-titles-receive-rare-praise-from-germany-17312/
Government Ties CNRP to Bombings, ‘Terrorist’ Group
A package of documents and DVDs sent from the Ministry of Interior to foreign embassies and NGOs this week uses speeches made by opposition leaders Kem Sokha and Sam Rainsy, criminal acts that have occurred since the election and a letter from an alleged terrorist ...
Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/government-ties-cnrp-to-bombings-terrorist-group-41431/
Startup Promises a Future for Former Boeng Kak Residents
In mid-August, on day seven of production at the Coco Khmer social enterprise, the team experienced a setback. Temperatures in the fermenting room must remain between 35 and 40 degrees to produce the organization’s virgin coconut oil, but the temperature on that rainy day refused to ...
Devon Geary and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/startup-promises-a-future-for-former-boeng-kak-residents-41532/
Despite Ban, $1.5M of Cambodian Sand Turns Up in India
A huge haul of river sand dredged in Cambodia has been quarantined at the southern Indian port city of Cochin since its arrival in April despite a ban on sand exports instituted by Prime Minister Hun Sen in 2009. India’s Deccan Chronicle newspaper reported on Tuesday ...
Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/despite-ban-1-5m-of-cambodian-sand-turns-up-in-india-46753/
Illegal wood exports to China tripled in 2013
Cambodia’s exports of protected rosewood and other high-value timber to China more than tripled last year, according to U.N. figures cited in a new report that blames lax law enforcement across the Mekong region and skyrocketing demand in China for pushing some species to the ...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/illegal-wood-exports-to-china-tripled-in-2013-58593/
Toll may lose rail rights
A company with ties to one of China’s top state-owned firms will look to push Toll Royal Railways and its local partner Royal Group of Companies out of a 30-year railroad concession with pledge to invest nearly US$850 million to revamp existing lines and build an additional ...
Job Announcement: Administrative Assistant and Web Development and IT Officer (21 Oct 2020)
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is an open data website, the first of its kind in Southeast Asia. The open data movement is based on the simple premise that data collected for public interest should be publicly available without restrictions. Information or data in the public ...
Volunteers and Interns
Phy Linna, Royal University of Phnom PenhEditor-Research Intern, July-September 2024Linna is a third-year student majoring in Environmental Sciences at the Royal University of Phnom Penh. Linna joined Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) in July as Editor-Researcher intern. Linna is very interested in studying climate change and ...
Striving to save the forest, Prey Long villagers launch patrols
For the several hundred villagers who have been camping and patrolling in a remote part of the jungle in northern Kompong Thom for several days as part of their campaign to save Prey Long forest, the strain is starting to show. Human rights workers say that ...
IMF says Cambodian economy to grow 6.5 per cent, but warns of risks
Cambodia’s economy is expected to grow 6.5 per cent in 2012, up from 5.75 per cent last year, the International Monetary Fund said in its annual review, adding that government policies to boost the investment climate were paying off. However, in its assessment, which was released ...
National products chase GI recognition
A lack of funds would prevent Cambodia registering some of the country’s specialty products as geographic indications (GI), a form of international recognition that has boosted the sales of other domestic products such as Kampong Speu palm sugar. The government would like to see Siem Reap ...