French Scholar ‘Shocked’ Over Damage to Riverside Home
Leaning over the railing on the roof of the Khmeroyal Hotel along Phnom Penh’s Sisowath Quay, 54-year-old scholar and long-time Cambodian resident Oliver de Bernon peered across at his crumbing riverfront apartment yesterday. Residents of the block between streets 178 and 184 on Sisowath Quay ...
Cambodian-Thai border crossing suspended
The Royal Government of Cambodia has decided to temporarily suspend traffic through the Cambodian-Thai border, except for the transportation of goods and special cases. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50903680/cambodian-thai-border-crossing-suspended/
Phnom Penh authorities take stern administrative measures against COVID-19 surge
Phnom Penh municipal authorities are taking stern administrative measures to combat and prevent the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50904390/phnom-penh-authorities-take-stern-administrative-measures-against-covid-19-surge/
Hun Sen: No triple-shot of AstraZeneca Covid jab
Prime Minister Hun has reminded civil servants and government officials as well as the general public who have already received first and second doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines that they should not use that vaccine again for their third, booster shot. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-no-triple-shot-astrazeneca-covid-jab
Flood relief efforts continue in Kampong Speu province
Minister of Water Resources and Meteorology Thor Chetha and Kampong Speu provincial governor Vei Samnang conducted an inspection of the flood-affected area in Kong Pisei district’s Snam Krapoeu commune. They also distributed humanitarian aid from the Cambodian Red Cross (CRC) provincial branch to 120 affected ...
Kim Yutharo
https://phnompenhpost.com/national/flood-relief-efforts-continue-kampong-speu-province
Tourism, housing sectors on recovery path
The tourism and housing industries in Cambodia are showing signs of recovery this year, according to the ASEAN+3 Regional Economic Outlook. ...
Adur Pradeep
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501221252/tourism-housing-sectors-on-recovery-path/
Japan to Give $840,000 To Demining Projects
Japan signed an agreement Thursday with the Japan Mine Action Service (JMAS) to provide $839,363 to deining projects in Battambang province, which will benefit about 5,500 residents. Together with the Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC), which will receive almost half of the donations from Japan, JMAS ...
European Lawmakers Press for Probe of Land Concessions
Lawmakers from the European Union (E.U) are again urging the block’s trade commissioner to investigate Cambodia’s Economic Land Concessions (ELCs) over a raft of alleged rights abuses and consider revoking the duty free access their owners currently enjoy to member states. Going mostly to industrial ...
French investors plan tram system for Phnom Penh
French companies are considering plans to invest in a tram system providing comfortable public transport for residents of Phnom Penh, an official said Friday Kuy Koung, spokesman for Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, said the project was discussed during a meeting between Foreign Minister ...
Tourism Sector Faces Dearth of Skilled Labor
With the number of tourists visiting the country increasing rapidly, hotels are coming under strain due to lack of skilled chefs and waiters in the industry, according to hotel managers. In the first six months of 2012, international visitors reached 1.75 million, a 26.8 percent ...
PM urges US to drop tariffs
Prime Minister Hun Sen urged policymakers in Washington to expand its preferential treatment of goods imported from least-developed countries (LDCs) including Cambodia by increasing the amount of goods permitted duty- and quota-free access to the US market.“Cambodia would like to request that the US provide ...
Cam McGrath and Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pm-urges-us-drop-tariffs
Cambodia faces further economic headwinds with AMRO downgrading economic growth to 2.7 Percent
The ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO), in its release revealed the shared common situation of the ASEAN + 3 nations economic growth prospects for this and next year amid headinds caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50710810/cambodia-faces-further-economic-headwinds-with-mro-downgrading-economic-growth-to-2-7-percent/
Priority groups on Thai border get third Covid booster doses
The seven Cambodian provinces bordering Thailand have begun vaccinating frontline workers including medical staff and military personnel with third booster doses, as the Kingdom’s vaccination drive reaches over 50 per cent of its total population of 16 million. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/priority-groups-thai-border-get-third-covid-booster-doses
Cambodia’s Delta Variant infections cross 400
Cambodia’s total number of COVID-19 infected people identified to have been hit by the more severe and highly contagious delta Variant of SARS-CoV-2 strains is believed to have crossed 400. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50913454/cambodias-delta-variant-infections-cross-400/
Lack of sufficient stocks of AstraZeneca vaccines may impede third dose for all, says PM Hun Sen
Prime Minister Hun Sen said no third or booster dose will be administered for those who have been vaccinated with AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine yet. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50912645/lack-of-sufficient-stocks-of-astrazeneca-vaccines-may-impede-third-dose-for-all-says-pm-hun-sen/
Search for suspected ‘Delta’ variant at Phnom Penh market
The COVID Research Subcommittee says that a search operation for suspected ‘Delta’ variant infection is currently unDerway in Deum Kor market, between Mao Tse Tong Boulevard (St. 245) and Monireth Boulevard (St. 217), in Khan Tuol Kork, Phnom Penh after after a Delta Kovid-19 virus-positive ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50907691/search-for-suspected-delta-variant-at-phnom-penh-market/
Cambodian border provinces facing Thailand unite to combat Delta Variant
Faced with the daunting tasks of receiving thousands of returning Cambodian migrant workers from Thailand, provinces bordering Thailand are uniting to share resources, facilities and information to tackle the inflow of migrants seamlessly and efficiently. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50918260/cambodian-border-provinces-facing-thailand-unite-to-combat-delta-variant/
P Sihanouk, Oz infrastructure programme talk smart-city development
A Preah Sihanouk provincial deputy governor on April 28 met with a policy adviser at Australia’s flagship infrastructure programme in Cambodia for talks on plans to transform the province into a model multi-purpose special economic zone (SEZ) by 2030, and other smart-city development initiatives. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/p-sihanouk-oz-infrastructure-programme-talk-smart-city-development
Cambodia’s GDP growth likely 5.3% this year, say ADB, AMRO
Two international organisations have forecast Cambodia’s economic growth to be around 5.3 per cent this year as the economy continues to be impacted by lower than expected expansion in the industrial and agriculture sector in the first half (H1), stemming from the regional and global ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodias-gdp-growth-likely-53-year-say-adb-amro
Villagers Ask Chinese Embassy to Intervene Against Dam Investors
Communities threatened by the planned construction of three hydropower dams in Stung Treng and Ratanakkiri provinces will today submit to the Chinese Embassy a petition demanding that the embassy intervene against Chinese companies investing in the dams. The petition, to be presented in Chinese, Khmer and ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-ask-chinese-embassy-to-intervene-against-dam-investors-49144/