Cambodia’s tourism growth to reach 20%
Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism is projecting sizeable growth for the industry this year, according to Director General Tith Chantha. ...
Certificate of origin issuance poised to be decentralised
The Ministry of Commerce has intensified its decentralisation policy and shifted its responsibility for issuing certificates of origin (COs) to provincial commerce departments, it said on Monday. To promote the Kingdom’s agricultural exports, the ministry announced a pilot launch from November 1 in three border ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/certificate-origin-issuance-poised-be-decentralised
Sam Al issues work plan to tackle Preah Sihanouk problems
Minister of Environment Say Sam Al laid out a work plan on Friday to address the issues of security, social order, construction management and the environment in Preah Sihanouk province. Sam Al said Preah Sihanouk, “an important economic pole in Cambodia”, is currently facing “complicated ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sam-al-issues-work-plan-tackle-preah-sihanouk-problems
Kingdom boasts less time to file trademark
While still relatively small, the number of trademark applications has grown in Cambodia and the country’s low volume means that the Kingdom boasts among the fastest times in Southeast Asia for registering a trademark, a government adviser told a business workshop yesterday. ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-boasts-less-time-file-trademark
Smoother path for agro exports
The ministry of Agriculture plans to establish five regional food safety inspection offices near the country’s borders to facilitate the flow of cross-border agricultural trade, reducing the time it takes Cambodian exporters to deliver shipments of agricultural products to foreign markets, a ministry official has ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/smoother-path-agro-exports
Exports up 20% in H1 on Europe purchases
Cambodian exports saw a nearly 20 per cent increase for the first half of the year, as garment shipments to the European Union led the way in making up for a decrease in exports to the United States, according to a new Ministry of Commerce ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exports-20-h1-europe-purchases
Health Ministry calls for end to on-duty carousing
The Ministry of Health has issued a warning to provincial bosses, telling them to guarantee that staff members are not drinking and gambling on the job because it can “affect” the provision of care and emergency services for patients. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/health-ministry-calls-end-duty-carousing
Firms required to re-register online
More than 50,000 companies registered with the Ministry of Commerce will be required to re-register when the ministry rolls out its online registration system next month, a government official said yesterday. ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/firms-required-re-register-online
Cambodian mangoes could soon roll to Seoul
The Ministry of Agriculture signed a memorandum of understanding with South Korea yesterday to export Cambodian mangoes and expand its short list of export destinations, a ministry official said. ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodian-mangoes-could-soon-roll-seoul
Cambodia’s oil imports up 64 pct in 2015
Cambodia imported 2.55 million tons of petroleum in 2015, up 64 percent from 1.55 million tons in the year before, according to the data of the Ministry of Commerce. ...
Hellenic Shipping News Team
http://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/cambodias-oil-imports-up-64-pct-in-2015/
Fighting child labour
While Cambodia marginally stepped up efforts to combat child labour in 2014, a lack of resources and corruption remain massive impediments to the fight, according to a report released by the United States Department of Labor last week. It attributed those improvements largely to beefed-up ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fighting-child-labour
Chinese arrivals to jump to 2M by 2020
Cambodian tourism authorities are formulating strategies to carve a larger share out of the Chinese outbound tourism market and have set a target of drawing over 700,000 Chinese visitors this year, and up to 2 million a year by 2020. ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chinese-arrivals-jump-2m-2020
Sports, fitness curriculum planned for junior high
The government this week agreed to partner with an NGO to create a new national physical education curriculum for junior high schools, the education minister said on Friday. ...
Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sports-fitness-curriculum-planned-for-junior-high-98923/
Kingdom rice production to top 9.2 million tonnes
Cambodia’s total rice production this year will exceed 9.2 million tonnes, according preliminary estimates of rice harvested in 24 provinces and compiled by the Ministry of Agriculture. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-rice-production-top-92-million-tonnes
Deaths in childbirth plunge
The number of mothers who died in labour has nearly halved over the past four years, down from 182 fatalities in 2011 to 100 this year, the ministry’s research commission into maternal mortality revealed yesterday.The dramatically reduced death rate was largely due to improvements in ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/deaths-childbirth-plunge
4,000 unlicensed health care providers: ministry
The Ministry of Health yesterday issued a tally of illegal health-service providers in the country, saying there were nearly 4,000 such facilities as of August. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/4000-unlicensed-health-care-providers-ministry
Petrol prices should reflect drop in import costs: gov’t
Local petroleum retailers responded to a government deadline yesterday by agreeing to adopt a flexible pricing mechanism to reflect fluctuations in global oil prices, but there will not be any immediate price reductions, according to a Commerce Ministry spokesperson. ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/petrol-prices-should-reflect-drop-import-costs-govt
Drought hits 234,695 hectares of paddy fields in Cambodia
Persisting dry conditions have affected approximately 234,695 hectares of rice seedlings in 16 Cambodian provinces and cities, according to a report released by the Ministry of Agriculture on Sunday. ...
Xinhua team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16505/drought-hits-234-695-hectares-of-paddy-fields-in-cambodia/
Appeal Court hears kidney trafficker case
The Court of Appeal yesterday heard the case of three organ traffickers convicted of convincing relatives to travel to Thailand to have their kidneys sold between 2012 and 2014. ...
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/appeal-court-hears-kidney-trafficker-case
Gov’t weighs requests for pardons
The Ministry of Interior is reviewing a list of more than 700 inmates eligible for pardons or reduced sentences during the upcoming Water Festival. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-weighs-requests-pardons