Korea ratifies Free Trade Agreement
The Korean National Assembly has ratified a free trade agreement with Cambodia that will boost the Kingdom’s exports in a raft of areas. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhorn Raksmey
https://kiripost.com/stories/korea-ratifies-free-trade-agreement
US pledges $25mn in aid to improve food security
Anthony Blinken, Secretary of State of United StateS, Said yeSterday that the US will aSSiSt Cambodia with $25 million to improve the country&rSquo;S food Security SyStem under HarveSt III project, which will be launched next week. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Yim Sreylin
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501125942/us-pledges-25mn-in-aid-to-improve-food-security/
UNICEF sees progress in Cambodia for improvement of child rights
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday that progress has been made in Cambodia in the protection of child rights. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501265354/unicef-sees-progress-in-cambodia-for-improvement-of-child-rights/
Gender inequality in remote areas needs to be addressed
The Ministry of Women’s Affairs and NGOs are voicing concerns about the need to improve gender equality in remote areas among youngsters. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Yim Sreylin
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501214941/gender-inequality-in-remote-areas-needs-to-be-addressed/
PM Hun Sen urges attention to boost tourism
Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday called on all stakeholders to pay high attention and do their best to boost the country’s tourism sector. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501246669/pm-hun-sen-urges-attention-to-boost-tourism/
PM Hun Sen urges attention to boost tourism
Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday called on all stakeholders to pay high attention and do their best to boost the country’s tourism sector. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501246669/pm-hun-sen-urges-attention-to-boost-tourism/
40 families of pepper growers form agri-community in Tbong Khmum
Forty families of pepper growers in Memot’s Tbong Khmum province have volunteered to form a modern agriculture community, said an official of the Agriculture Ministry. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501510869/40-families-of-pepper-growers-form-agri-community-in-tbong-khmum/
MLVT opens foreign employee quota applications for 2025
Cambodia’s chief regulator of the human resources industry, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training (MLVT), has officially commenced the application process for business enterprises operating in the Kingdom to apply for their respective ‘foreign employee quotas’ in 2025. ss='cambodia-color'>...
James Whitehead
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501553289/mlvt-opens-foreign-employee-quota-applications-for-2025/
Green tourism corridor planned for Phnom Kulen National Park
Ministry of Environment plans to launch a green tourism corridor at Preah Jayavarman-Norodom Phnom Kulen National Park in Cambodia’s siem Reap province. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501475539/green-tourism-corridor-planned-for-phnom-kulen-national-park/
Association a shoe-in
Cambodia has approved the creation of a footwear association under the umbrella of the Garment Manufacturers’ Association in Cambodia. 37 of the country’s 38 footwear factories agreed to the creation of a representative body for their industry. The footwear industry is said to have exported ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011070750242/Business/association-a-shoe-in.html
Tourism driving total investment approvals
The high number of approved projects in the tourism sector is a sign of optimism according to Minister of Tourism Thong Khon. Due to emphasis on areas beyond Angkor Wat, Cambodia’s GDP could largely be a result of tourism. The current 57 projects are worth ss='cambodia-color'>...
French financing: Cambodian MFI fetches $5m loan
Hattha Kaksekar Limited, one of Cambodia’s largest microfinance institutions, has received a Us$5 million loan from a French development organisation in order to meet rising demand among its client farmers. PROPARCO, which is a joint venture between the French Development Agency and public and private shareholders, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Gathering of youths makes case for forests
Cambodia’s National Youth Congress called on the government yesterday to act to protect the country’s natural resources from illegal traders. About 100 young people from 30 colleges in Phnom Penh, Kratie and Kampong Thom Chhnang provinces attended a discussion about protecting natural resources – with a ss='cambodia-color'>...
March called off as governor listens
The march of a thousand villagers in Ratanakkiri province’s Lum­phat district, planned for yesterday, was cancelled after provincial authorities promised to help settle their long-running land dispute. Adhoc coordinator in Ratanakkiri Pen Bunnar said the provincial governor had appealed to villagers in a meeting over the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Banking Sector Sees Strong Growth in 2011
Earnings from two of Cambodia’s banks have shown growth within the sector for the first six months of 2011. Acleda Bank and Cambodian Public Bank Plc, have had their profits rise to $21.7 million and $13.4 million respectively. The banks have grown as a result ss='cambodia-color'>...
Final factory shooting victim files complaint
The last of three workers shot during a protest in svay Rieng province’s Manhattan special Economic Zone on February 20 filed a complaint yesterday against sole suspect and former Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith. sam sameth, 40, the mother of 18-year-old Keo Near, said she filed ss='cambodia-color'>...
Maybank steers for untapped markets
Maybank will bet on what it said was Cambodia’s low bank-penetration rate for future growth as it transitions from a branch of its Malaysian parent into a locally incorporated subsidiary. With 34 licenced banks operating in a market with Us$4.07 billion in loans in 2011, analysts ss='cambodia-color'>...
Storm levels Kampong Thom homes
Nine villagers were injured and about 270 homes damaged when a storm ravaged Kampong Thom province’s sandan district on Friday, police said yesterday. sandan district governor sim Vanna told the Post that gale-force winds and heavy rain had swept across the region, leaving a trail of ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012040955509/National-news/storm-levels-k-thom-homes.html
Kingdom ranks second for FDI from VN
The Kingdom ranked second in the first half of the year for overseas Vietnamese investments, receiving about $32 million of the total $263 million outflow from the eastern neighbour. The Vietnamese General statistics Office (GsO) said from January to June this year, that country’s businesses ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-ranks-second-fdi-vn
Philippines congratulates Cambodia on peaceful election
The Philippine government congratulated Cambodia for holding a peaceful and orderly election on July 29, saying that it is committed to working with a new government. In the statement issued on August 5, Foreign Affairs secretary Alan Peter s. Cayetano said that the Philippine government ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50520944/philippines-congratulates-cambodia-on-peaceful-election/