SMEs registration inches up to 443,628 last year
The Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology, and Innovation (MISTI) registered a new growth of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) by 1.43 percent to 44,628 last year, an official report showed. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501444697/smes-registration-inches-up-to-443628-last-year/
Illegal book hawkers warned
Market vendors hawking pirated government textbooks have a month to get their shops in order if they want to avoid an authority-led crackdown, a statement released on Friday by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport warns. Selling or buying textbooks labelled “not for sale” or ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-book-hawkers-warned
Construction of Belarus tractor assembly plant in Cambodia nearing completion
The progress in the project to build the Belarus tractor assembly plant in Cambodia was discussed in a meeting between Belarusian Ambassador to Russia Igor Petrishenko and Ambassador of the Kingdom of Cambodia to Russia Thay Vanna, BelTA learnt from the press service of the ...
BelTA News Staff
http://news.belta.by/en/news/econom?id=739642
Don’t fear climate change, farmers told
Farmers are being encouraged to embrace new techniques in the face of the damaging effects of climate change. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37887/don---t-fear-climate-change--farmers-told/
Over 19,000 businesses registered via IT platform
The number of companies registered through the information technology platform co-developed by multi-ministries has reached 19,072 as of 2 November 2022, according to the figures from the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) yesterday. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501179417/over-19000-businesses-registered-via-it-platform/
University students turning to e-readers for study, private reading
The earliest reading materials were made from clay tablets, stones and tree bark. Before long, scrolls made from an early form of paper appeared in a process of technological advancement that stretches from those ancient materials to the electronic devices that modern humans use to ...
Drug rehabs offer more harm than help
When police brought Manly to his room in the Mundoul Orkas Knhom drug rehab center outside Phnom Penh, he saw blood on the wall. ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13342//
Gov’t to use tech to fructify economic agenda
The new government under the leadership of Prime Minister Hun Manet will make use of optimum technology to push forward its socio-economic policy agendas to transform the rectangle into Pentagon Strategy, said a statement. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501348057/govt-to-use-tech-to-fructify-economic-agenda/
Economist Say GDP to Reach 8.7%
Cambodia’s economic growth is expected to reach 8.7 percent this year as a result of the growth within the garment sector and the increased prices for agricultural products. The Economic Institute of Cambodia (EIC) has said that the garment industry, including the manufacturing of shoes, ...
Farmers biggest source of investment in agriculture
Despite attention from Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and official development assistance, farmers are by far the largest source of investment in agriculture, the State of Food and Agriculture 2012 report by the Food and Agriculture Organization published last week said. Farmers in low and middle income ...
Of Fish, Monsoons and the Future
As the sun rises on Tonle Sap Lake, fishermen head out from floating villages like this one, past half-submerged mangroves and flooded shrub land, to check their nets, much as they have for centuries. Every year, the lake yields about 300,000 tons of fish, making it ...
Chris Berdik
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/science/of-fish-monsoons-and-the-future.html?_r=2
Smart help for innovators
Smart Axiata, one of the leading mobile operators in Cambodia, yesterday officially launched its digital young innovator program SmartStart, aimed at helping young Cambodians develop their innovative digital-related business ideas into actual businesses or products.SmartStart is a nine-month university program initiated to inspire, enable and ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35457/smart-help-for-innovators/
Collaboration a ‘must’ for digital-economy shift: senior official
Collaboration between governments, private sector entities, civil society actors and other development partners is a “must” for Cambodia’s digital socio-economic transformation and to unlock new sources of growth, telecoms ministry secretary of state Sok Puthyvuth said on March 29. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/collaboration-must-digital-economy-shift-senior-official
Tina floats cashew nut shell fuel project
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Dith Tina on February 7 asked Japanese firm Top Planning Japan Co Ltd (TPJ), an exporter of local cashew nuts, to look into converting the shells into fuel, and processing the crop into different food products, as well as ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tina-floats-cashew-nut-shell-fuel-project
Cambodia needs to polish reputation
The chief economist at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia says Cambodia needs to attract greater numbers of multinational companies and treat them well, in order to establish production networks that will transfer technology to smaller Cambodian businesses. In an interview with the ...
Prime minister's website hacked
Prime Minister Hun Sen has threatened to use the full force of the law against the hackers who attacked his website early on Saturday morning. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24690/prime-minister-s-website-hacked/
China firm proposes expressway for capital
A Chinese company has presented an ambitious plan to build an expressway over Phnom Penh in an effort to relieve traffic congestion. ...
May Kunmakara
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/china-firm-proposes-expressway-capital
Cambodia's micro-lenders see 44 pct lending growth last year
Cambodia’s 38 microfinance institutions reported a 44 percent increase in loan disbursements in 2013, according to a report of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), the regulator of banking and finance institutions in the country. The microfinance institutions had lent a total 1.17 billion U.S. dollars ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=199165
Social education platform focuses on learning for Cambodian youth
The homegrown Reachsa app aims to build a community of lifelong learners and inspire young Cambodians to read and share more knowledge online. ...
Sours Thida
https://kiripost.com/stories/social-education-platform-focuses-on-learning-for-cambodian-youth
New tech hub for innovators
A new tech-centered co-working space is challenging the country’s young leaders to find practical ways technology can be utilized to create a positive impact on the day-to-day lives of people. ...
Safiya Charles
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31675/new-tech-hub-for-innovators/