A large flock of critically endangered birds arrive in Cambodia in yearly migration
A large flock of critically endangered migratory birds, the yellow-breasted bunting, have arrived at the Boeung Prek Lapouv Protected Landscape in southern Cambodia’s Takeo province during their yearly migration, a conservationist organization said on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501006118/a-large-flock-of-critically-endangered-birds-arrive-in-cambodia-in-yearly-migration/
GDT to declutter complex tax laws; to make it simple, orderly
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) is drafting the law on tax aimed to compile a number of confusing tax laws and regulations and respond to the international practice of integrating Cambodia’s economy in the region. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501007943/gdt-to-declutter-complex-tax-laws-to-make-it-simple-orderly/
NEC hiring officials ahead of commune council elections
The National Election Committee (NEC) has announced its intention to recruit 8,302 short-term contracted officials to serve in 1,652 commune electoral commissions for the June’s commune council elections. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-hiring-officials-ahead-commune-council-elections
New Preah Kossamak Cambodia-China Friendship Medical Building starts operations in Cambodia
The Cambodia-China Friendship Medical Building, a key livelihood project shouldered by state-owned China state Construction Engineering Corp, was officially put into use in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh on March 21. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501049708/new-preah-kossamak-cambodia-china-friendship-medical-building-starts-operations-in-cambodia/
Construction projects without permission face trouble
In response to the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction’s (MLMUP) instruction to get permission before starting construction of a building, construction companies said that it would be difficult to have permission when repairing a small building. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tin Sokhavuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501057397/construction-projects-without-permission-face-trouble/
Khmer New Year celebration lifts economic recovery hopes
Cambodia ended last week’s three-day holiday of Khmer New Year, when 4.58 million people toured nationwide, a positive move benefiting local tourism-related businesses that have been recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501059254/khmer-new-year-celebration-lifts-economic-recovery-hopes/
Students at Battambang orphanage granted scholarships
StudentS from the St. Anne Orphanage were granted ScholarShipS to attend Don BoSco Vithayalai in Battambang, Cambodia, thankS to donor funding from SaleSian MiSSionS, the U.S. development arm of the SaleSianS of Don BoSco. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501081748/students-at-battambang-orphanage-granted-scholarships/
Cambodia sees big jump in number of foreign tourists to famed Angkor
Cambodia’s famed Angkor Archaeological Park received 110,570 foreign tourists in the first eight months of 2022, up 17.6 times compared to the same period last year, said a press statement on saturday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501144320/cambodia-sees-big-jump-in-number-of-foreign-tourists-to-famed-angkor/
Thai-Cambodian ties entering ‘a new era’
Prime Minister srettha Thavisin’s decision to visit Cambodia this week measures the solid relationship between the two countries. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501368946/thai-cambodian-ties-entering-a-new-era/
1,000 unfinished constructions show aftermath of a ‘boom’
Aing Bunath acknowledges that local residents were getting a little greedy during sihanoukville’s online gambling boom in recent years. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://vodenglish.news/1000-unfinished-constructions-show-aftermath-of-a-boom/
Digital incubation brings opportunities to women-owned micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Cambodia
Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MsMEs) constitute the backbone of Cambodia’s economy and account for 99.8 percent of its businesses. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501253352/digital-incubation-brings-opportunities-to-women-owned-micro-small-and-medium-sized-enterprises-msmes-in-cambodia/
Pension scheme possibly rolled out to informal sector by 2025
Cambodia is studying the feasibility of expanding its pension scheme to the informal sector in 2025 to improve people’s well-being. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mao Sreypich
https://kiripost.com/stories/pension-scheme-possibly-rolled-out-to-informal-sector-by-2025
Outcomes of the ASEAN Post Ministerial Conferences Sessions with the Republic of Korea, People’s Republic of China and Japan, and the 22nd ASEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, back-to-back with the 54th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
On 4 August 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on the 0utcomes of the AsEAN Post Ministerial Conferences sessions with the Republic of Korea, People’s Republic of China and Japan, and the 22nd AsEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers’ ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Despite Land Loss, Minorities Back Status Quo
Romam Gvin could be described as a counterintuitive voter. Intuition might lead you to believe that Mr. Gvin blames the government for the loss of his land to the Vietnamese rubber company that now owns everything for as far as the eye can see here in ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/despite-land-loss-minorities-back-status-quo-34786/
New container terminal may not deliver for Cambodia
Shallow draft, lack of rail connectivity, uneaSy relationS with Vietnam, and the general Slowdown may leave LM 17, Cambodia&rSquo;S brand new $28-million container terminal near Phnom Penh, up the Strait. Even if the terminal achieveS the targeted throughput of 110,000 TEUS (it haS moved 70,000 So SS='cambodia-color'>...
Hindu Business Line News Staff
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/logistics/new-container-terminal-may-not-deliver-for-cambodia/article5061737.ece
Resurgent mobile deals could hurt margins, analysts say
‘Top up $2 and get 30 free minutes daily for 20 days. Top up $5 and expand the same offer for a month. And, for a $10 recharge, that half-an-hour freebie lasts 50 days.” Mobile operator Beeline, which announced the promotion in August, called it “another ss='cambodia-color'>...
Anne Renzenbrink
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/resurgent-mobile-deals-could-hurt-margins-analysts-say
New container terminal may not deliver for Cambodia
Shallow draft, lack of rail connectivity, uneaSy relationS with Vietnam, and the general Slowdown may leave LM 17, Cambodia&rSquo;S brand new $28-million container terminal near Phnom Penh, up the Strait. Even if the terminal achieveS the targeted throughput of 110,000 TEUS (it haS moved 70,000 So SS='cambodia-color'>...
Hindu Business Line News Staff
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/logistics/new-container-terminal-may-not-deliver-for-cambodia/article5061737.ece
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 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/government-ties-cnrp-to-bombings-terrorist-group-41431/
Battling dengue on a shoestring
The man leading Cambodia’s seemingly sisyphean attempt to combat dengue fever can be found most days in a weakly lit office inside the Communicable Disease Control Department, which is stacked wall to wall with drooping folders and medical texts. For more than 10 years, the soft-spoken ss='cambodia-color'>...
Amelia Woodside and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/battling-dengue-shoestring
Flooding takes a toll
Ten days ago, Loun somaly, 33, left his house to deliver a deposit to the glass workers he hired to replace a window on his rickety sheet metal-panelled house. Ly sophal, somaly’s tenacious three-year-old son, followed him outside, asking if he could join. But with floodwater ss='cambodia-color'>...