IMF reviews Cambodia’s economy
Cambodia’s economic growth is predicted to expand by 5.3 percent in 2023 and six percent in 2024, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after concluding a mission in the country. ...
Meas Molika
https://kiripost.com/stories/imf-reviews-cambodia-economy
Cambodia’s economy projected at 6.6 pct in 2024: PM
Cambodia is expected to see a 6.6-percent rise in its economy in 2024 from 5.6 percent in 2023, the country’s Prime Minister Hun Manet said here on Tuesday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501466941/cambodias-economy-projected-at-6-6-pct-in-2024-pm/
Fronts of Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam reinforce cooperation
The Presidents of the Solidarity Front for the Development of Cambodian Motherland (SFDCM), the Lao Front for National Construction (LFNC), and the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) gathered at their 5th conference in Vientiane on April 9. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501470539/fronts-of-cambodia-laos-vietnam-reinforce-cooperation/
More participatory five-year disaster risk reduction action plan endorsed
In a plenary session on July 5, the Council of Ministers reviewed and endorsed the National Action Plan for Disaster Risk Reduction (NAP-DRR) with more participatory preparedness, well mainstreamed with new technology. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501518380/more-participatory-five-year-disaster-risk-reduction-action-plan-endorsed/
SMEs policy and regulation
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The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a major economic shock in Cambodia, having a spillover on Cambodian micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and small household farmers’ survival and business continuity.1 Digital technologies are crucial during the pandemic, in which the owners of SMEs should focus ...
Fish farming and aquaculture
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Fish farmers operating cage culture, Cambodia. Photo by O. Joffre/WorldFish, taken on 3 October 2009. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Aquaculture production has grown significantly. In 2012 it stood at 74,000 tonnes, or almost 11 percent of total fishery production. By 2016 it had grown to ...
ODC staff trained on podcast production for social accountability
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On 25 October 2023, ODC and Internews collaborated to deliver training on podcast production for social accountability under a project titled “Innovations for Social Accountability in Cambodia (ISAC)“. The training was designed to build the capacity of the ODC team to produce high-quality podcasts that ...
Mitigation
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Together, fighting climate change. Photo by 350.org, taken on 12 October 2010. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.Clean Development MechanismThe Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), defined in Article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol, allows a country with an emission-reduction or emission-limitation commitment under the Kyoto Protocol to ...
Inflation dips in November
The Kingdom’s inflation rate fell month-on-month in November for the first time all year, dropping 0.7 per cent from October, according to National Institute of Statistics data. However, year-on-year inflation in November increased 5.7 per cent, the NIS reported. “We see that we got a bigger supply ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011122653610/Business/inflation-dips-in-november.html
Vietnamese military bank to open doors today
Vietnam’s Military Commercial Joint-Stock Bank (MB Bank) will open its doors in Phnom Penh today, becoming the fourth Vietnamese bank to set up operations here and bringing the total number of commercial banks in Cambodia to 31. Nguon Sokha, general director of the National Bank of ...
World Bank expects strong growth in 2012
The World Bank yesterday predicted gross domestic product to grow 6.5 percent this year, though it said that economic conditions could sour if the economies of Cambodia’s largest export markets in the US and Europe deteriorate. In an economic report outlining prospects for all of the ...
Firms, gov't discuss $50m banana farm plan
Plans for a 5,000-hectare banana farming project in Koh Kong province, proposed last year by an Australian and a Japanese company, look set to go ahead, with state news agency Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP) yesterday reporting that the project would cost $50 million. Last Friday, the ...
Hundreds Protest Against Land Clearing by Pheapimex Co
About 300 villagers in Pursat province’s Krakor district yesterday protested to stop the powerful Pheapimex Company from clearing their farmland after armed military police arrived in the area to guard the firm’s government-awarded land concession, villagers said. The company used two excavators and nine bulldozers to ...
Kingdom exports to Japan regain double-digit growth
The Kingdom’s exports to Japan rebounded in the first half of the year, jumping from single-digit growth last year to 19 per cent, new figures from the Japanese External Trade Organization (Jetro) showed. During the first half of last year, Cambodian exports to Japan grew ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-exports-japan-regain-double-digit-growth
Royalties concern forest activists
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said in the first three quarters of this year, Cambodia earned $5.7 million in royalties from forest produce – an increase of nearly $2 million compared to the same period last year when it earned $4 million. The ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/royalties-concern-forest-activists
Officials probe border land dispute
Cambodian and Thai joint authorities on Monday reviewed a disputed area where the Thais removed cassava trees of two Cambodian farmers in Banteay Meanchey province’s Svay Chek district last week. The Cambodian side was represented by Major General Chhun Mao, deputy commander of the Royal ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50579694/officials-probe-border-land-dispute/
Cambodian army backs business group in land dispute, defying government order
Cambodia’s military is backing a powerful company in its seizure of land in Preah Vihear province, guarding bulldozers sent to destroy villagers’ crops and defying government orders not to get involved in land disputes, Cambodian sources say. Speaking to RFA’s Khmer Service on Wednesday, one village ...
Richard Finney
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/army-03062019164901.html
Press release on the Grade 12 examination result
On 09 September 2019, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport issued a press release on the examination result of the Grade 12 examination which happened on August 19-20, 2019. There are 79,052 successful candidates, accounting for 68,62% (was only 67,07% in 2018). Among the ...
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport
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 ...
Kun Kourchettana
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mobile-money-transfer-heats