Cambodia aims at more FTAs to boost economic growth
The government is considering the establishment of more bilateral free trade agreements to access broader markets for Cambodia-made products. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501233025/cambodia-aims-at-more-ftas-to-boost-economic-growth/
Governmentโs clear policy on raising wages, worker benefits
The Secretary of State and Spokesperson for the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training (MLVT) Katta Orn, confirmed on Monday that the government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Hun Manet, has established a clear policy to regularly increase the minimum wage and provide various ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501560877/governments-clear-policy-on-raising-wages-worker-benefits/
Amret gets $245,000 grant from UNCDF
The UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) provided Amret Microfinance Cambodia with a grant of $245,000 to help more women in the Kingdom access financial services and eventually contribute to local community development. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30961/amret-gets--245-000-grant-from-uncdf/
Police Warn NGOs Over Workshops
Kompong Thom provincial authorities have threatened to shut down two NGOs who have been providing free legal education to poor villagers in the province, accusing the groups of fomenting rural unrest against private investors. The NGOs, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights and the Natural ...
USAID announces major accountability initiative
USAID yesterday announced a major initiative to strengthen accountability in public service delivery in five provincial urban areas. ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50672321/usaid-announces-major-accountability-initiative
Join Us: Training opportunity for SMEs and informal economy participants
Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) is excited to announce a full-day training session set on 22 December 2023, in Phnom Penh. The session touches on the business registration process, digital literacy, and digital security, targeting informal economies and SMEs, including women and indigenous peoples, and ...
Open Development Cambodia Organization
About 35% of TB cases โmissedโ
Cambodia continues to shoulder a disproportionate percentage of the world’s tuberculosis victims, with a higher prevalence rate of the extremely contagious respiratory disease than anywhere outside of South Africa, according to the World Health Organization. With the assistance of free screenings and free treatment, the Kingdom ...
Maria Wirth and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/about-35-tb-cases-%E2%80%98missed%E2%80%99
Kingdom set to mark International Day for Biological Diversity
The Ministry of Environment is set to mark the International Day for Biological Diversity on May 22, with a celebration intended to improve cooperation with international partner organisations. The theme of the event is “Our solutions are in nature.” ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-set-mark-international-day-biological-diversity
ICT4 Social Advocacy Meeting
Open Development Cambodia (ODC), in collaboration with the core members of the ICT4D Cambodia Network, InSTEDD and the East West Management Institute (EWMI) held a half-day ICT4 Social Advocacy Network Meeting, funded by the SPIDER – The Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions, on ...
Surrogacy exit rules released, with parents required to provide yearly updates
Parents of children born to surrogate mothers in Cambodia will be required to provide the government with yearly updates of their child’s mental and physical development, according to new guidelines officially disseminated to embassies for the first time yesterday. ...
Kong Meta and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/surrogacy-exit-rules-released-parents-required-provide-yearly-updates
Cambodian migrant workers return from Thailand
Despite the Thai government’s temporary backtracking on its harsh punishments of undocumented migrant workers, hundreds of Cambodians working in Thailand continued to pour back into their home country yesterday. ...
Leonie Kijewski and Yon Sineat
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodian-migrant-workers-return-thailand
IFAD and Cambodia sign historic host country agreement
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) signed a host country agreement earlier this month with the Kingdom of Cambodia, the culmination of almost 20 years of support and investment in rural areas. Since 1996, over 1.2 million poor and disadvantaged rural households have benefitted ...
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Flood death toll up to 30
The National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) has said that 30 people have died so far in several provinces due to flooding triggered by heavy rainfall and the rising Mekong River. The weather-related disaster has forced thousands of families to be relocated to higher ground, ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/flood-death-toll-30
Labor activist seeks aid for migrant workers who may be unable to vote
A labor rights activist has appealed to the government to assist migrant workers in Thailand to cast their votes at the up coming commune council elections.A small number of the roughly 1 million Cambodian workers in Thailand who have managed to register to vote will ...
Men Kimseng
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/labor-activist-seeks-aid-for-migrant-workers-who-may-be-unable-to-vote/3875970.html
NGOs help six more workers to repatriate from Malaysia
NGOs in Cambodia and Malaysia are working with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to repatriate six of the 30 Cambodians who sought shelter at the country’s embassy after the Malaysian GOvernment started mass arrests of undocumented migrant workers on July 1. ...
Zsomber Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngos-help-six-more-workers-to-repatriate-from-malaysia-132923/
PM: Cambodia encourages openness and strengthening of economic integration
Prime Minister Hun Sen has stated that with the subsequent easing of administrative and health measures, Cambodia encourages openness and strengthening of economic integration by promoting investment, trade, by fully implementing free trade agreements. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501081202/pm-cambodia-encourages-openness-and-strengthening-of-economic-integration/
Rubber association to appeal for suspension of export tax
The Association for Rubber Development in Cambodia will submit a letter to the government asking it to suspend export taxes on rubber due to the sharp decline in its price and to prevent more farmers from going out of business, its secretary general, Men Sopheak, ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21034/rubber-association-to-appeal-for-suspension-of-export-tax/
Ministry breaks ground on new tech institute
The Ministry of Education on Monday broke ground on a new Institute of Technology campus in Kompong Speu province’s Thpong district that officials said is being built with funds from the Thai royal family on land partially donated by agribusiness magnate Ly Yong Phat. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-breaks-ground-on-new-tech-institute-91900/
SMEs urged to register with the new specialised bank
The president of the Federation of Association of Small and Medium Enterprises of Cambodia (Fasmec) is urging small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to register with the association to get benefits from the newly formed SMEs Bank of Cambodia. ...
Sorn Sarath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50717402/smes-urged-to-register-with-the-new-specialised-bank/
IOM willing to help with refugee plan
The International Organisation for Migration has told the Cambodian government it is willing to take part in the resettlement of refugees from Nauru if a number of conditions are met. ...
Kevin Ponniah and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/iom-willing-help-refugee-plan