Cambodia improves in WEF global competitiveness ranking
Cambodia, which has shed its status of ‘sick man of Asia’ is becoming more competitive economically, and the world is starting to notice it. The 2019 Global Competitiveness Report, which was released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Oct 8, ranked Cambodia 106th out of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Jose Rodriguez T. Senase
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50650070/cambodia-improves-in-wef-global-competitiveness-ranking/
Kingdom aiming for direct internet access
Cambodia is aiming to no longer rely on Vietnam and Thailand for bandwidth and access to the international internet gateway. Prime Minister Hun sen during a cabinet meeting on Friday told Post and Telecommunication Ministry officials to look into how the Kingdom can have its own ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50654936/kingdom-aiming-for-direct-internet-access/
Youths encouraged to become engineers
Senior government officialS Said yeSterday that Cambodia needS about 35,000 engineerS between 2018 and 2020 to Serve in Several SectorS. Pich Sophorn, Secretary of State at the Labour MiniStry and alSo vice chairman of the Board of EngineerS Cambodia, Said yeSterday at the board&rSquo;S annual SS='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50484406/youths-encouraged-to-become-engineers/
Leading Chinese textile maker starts to build huge factory in Cambodia
Shenzhou International Group HoldingS, a leading ChineSe clothing manufacturer, on WedneSday broke ground for the conStruction of a new 150-million-U.S.-dollar garment factory here after operating in the country for 14 yearS. Lt. Gen. Hun Manet, deputy commander-in-chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed ForceS, and ChineSe SS='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhua
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-03/06/c_137873415.htm
EBA fact-finding team to arrive in upcoming weeks: EU Ambassador
A fact-finding mission sent by the European Union will arrive in Cambodia late this month or early April, European Union Ambassador George Edgar announced this week. During a meeting Tuesday, the EU Ambassador told Minister of Commerce Pan sorasak that an EU delegation is scheduled ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50584565/eba-fact-finding-team-to-arrive-in-upcoming-weeks-eu-ambassador/
Youths band together to clean ‘filthy’ Boeung Trabek canal
Inspired by their affection for the environment, a desire to have a clean and beautiful city, and wanting to send a message to people to stop littering, a group of some two dozen volunteer youths have taken to picking up trash day and night from ss='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/youths-band-together-clean-filthy-boeung-trabek-canal
Disputants seek responses
Representatives of families embroiled in a land dispute with Union Development Group (UDG) on Monday gathered in front of the Ministry of Environment in a bid to bring about a speedy solution to the ongoing case. The villagers from Koh Kong province’s Koh sdech and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/disputants-seek-responses
EU visit: Workers, unions and politicians express EBA fears
Workers, union leaders and politicians have expressed fear over the consequences of losing access to the EU’s “Everything But Arms” (EBA) agreement – something analysts have described as “manageable”. A team from the European Commission and European External Action service is currently in Cambodia for ss='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eu-visit-workers-unions-and-politicians-express-eba-fears
Warehouse space shortage brought to light
The Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC) recently noted that investors are facing difficulties finding warehouse space to rent at special economic zones in the country. CCC’s vice president Lim Heng told Khmer Times that the rapid rise of investment going into the country has left little warehouse space ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50621941/warehouse-space-shortage-brought-to-light/
Smart Axiata accounts for 1.5 per cent of GDP
Smart Axiata Co Ltd, the Kingdom&rSquo;S leading mobile telecommunicationS operator, contributed nearly $374 million to the Cambodian economy laSt year, accounting for 1.5 per cent of groSS domeStic product (GDP), itS CEO ThomaS Hundt Said on WedneSday. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/smart-axiata-accounts-15-cent-gdp
Kingdom lays out the welcome mat for renewable energy investment
The government welcomes investment from Germany in the Kingdom’s solar and renewable energy sector as local demand for electricity continues to rise between 15 to 20 per cent annually, Ministry of Mines and Energy official Victor Jona said on Tuesday in Phnom Penh. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-lays-out-welcome-mat-renewable-energy-investment
Yields from fishing take a dive
Exports of fresh fish and fish products fell significantly during the first nine months of the year, raising concerns about businesses and families operating in the Kingdom’s fisheries sector.Fresh and frozen fish export shipments fell 21 per cent during the first nine months of the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/yields-fishing-take-dive
Banking with a positive spin
A banking sector initiative launched yesterday aims to advise Cambodia’s financial sector on best practices for sustainable lending while capitalising on the growing pool of international funds that could flow into green and socially responsible projects. The sustainable Finance Initiative will conduct two years of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/banking-positive-spin
Kampot pepper defying drought fears
The increased cultivation area of Kampot pepper has offset losses due to drought, with farmers of the premium quality peppercorn estimating that production could reach 80 tonnes in the coming harvest, nearly 40 per cent more than last season. The association’s 242 members have planted ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kampot-pepper-defying-drought-fears
Rural latrine access on the rise, gov’t finds
The Ministry of Rural Development on Friday announced that more than half of Cambodians now have access to improved sanitation such as latrines.According to the ministry’s statement, 47 per cent of Cambodians now lack access to improved sanitation, compared to 89 per cent in 1990.The ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rural-latrine-access-rise-govt-finds
Trying to stop ‘the wind of freedom’ from reaching Cambodia
The victory of Aung San Suu Kyi&rSquo;S movement in Burma after yearS of military rule and repreSSion iS already Starting to unnerve autocratS nearby. LaSt week, Sam RainSy, an oppoSition leader in Cambodia, declared that the democratS&rSquo; “reSounding” victory “haS created panic among the laSt SS='cambodia-color'>...
Increasingly, Cambodian women seeking higher education abroad
Cambodian women face many obstacles to success in education, including domestic violence and sexual violence, but an increasing number of them are seeking higher education and more work skills.More than 50 percent of Cambodia’s population is female, and many see the new generation as a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ten Soksreinith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/increasingly-cambodian-women-seeking-higher-education-abroad/3086134.html
Mobile money transfer heats up
True Money, a new entrant to Cambodia’s growing mobile money-transfer market, said yesterday it will start operations across the Kingdom from January 1, with the first phase focusing only on local transfers, according to a company official.The money-transfer service, which comes under the Thailand-based Charoen ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kun Kourchettana
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mobile-money-transfer-heats
Grenade attack injures three people in Phnom Penh
At least three people were injured in a grenade attack on street 163 in Phnom Penh’s Boeung Keng Kang III commune at about 7:40pm yesterday evening, police said. The victims did not appear to be the intended targets of the grenade, which was tossed under a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya, Mech Dara and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/grenade-attack-injures-three-people-phnom-penh
PM: China will open markets
Prime Minister Hun sen said yesterday that China gave assurances that it will grant greater access for Cambodia’s agricultural products to enter its markets. “It is my mission to ensure that domestic goods, especially agricultural products, can be exported to China in greater quantities. I just ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29640/pm--china-will-open-markets/