Six months since the central bank launched its FAST payment system, a new scheme to provide instant riel-denominated fund transfers between financial institutions and their clients, the bank recorded a total fund transfer of 10 billion riel ($2.5 million) as of end-2016. ...

Opening a bank account from the comfort of your home is possible today thanks to e-KYC services in Cambodia. ...

The Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAS) launched a book building process yesterday to determine what price to offer in an initial public offering (IPO), before it is listed on the Cambodia Securities Exchange late next month. ...

DBD Engineering Plc, a local multi-purpose engineering and construction firm, went public via initial public offering (IPO) on the Cambodia Securities Exchange’s (CSX) Growth Board on September 6. ...

The Ministry of Public Works and Transport has expressed its support a pre-feasibility study on the use of electric buses in Siem Reap town and province. The case study, which was prepared by the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), will be used as model for ...

Efforts to integrate of Southeast Asia’s economies are beginning to bear fruit, experts say, although there is some way to go before the goal of turning the region into a single market and production base can be reached. ...

The two-day official state visit to the Kingdom, that started yesterday, by Vietnam’s new President Tran Dai Quang marks a new milestone for bilateral trade and investment between the two close neighbors that would also have a multiplier effect of attracting overseas capital into the ...

Research released on Monday in the Journal of Archaeological Science may lead to whole chapters of Cambodia’s history being rewritten. ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has kicked off a weeklong provincial level training workshop aimed at strengthening national capacity on analysis and interpretation of agricultural statistics and data.  ...

Cambodia’s population has risen to 14.68 million, up nine percent over the last five years, according to the intercensal population survey. The survey conducted by the Planning Ministry’s National Institute of Statistics showed 7.12 million of the population are males and 7.56 million females, Xinhua news ...

The Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Food Safety and Best Practices Training Programme with b. Consulting Cambodia. ...

After graduating from Setec Institute in Phnom Penh in 2014 with a degree in information technology, Chhit Chanmony, 23, is confident in her ability to build a website using various scripts. ...

Dr. Hun Manet, Prime Minister of Kingdom of Cambodia, received separate courtesy calls from CEOs of two private companies in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 16. ...

The Centre for Policy Studies yesterday urged the government to consider reducing tax on some imported agriculture equipment to support farmers and increase the rate of modernisation. CPS director Chan Sophal said during a Cross Talk discussion with Khmer Times yesterday that recently the agriculture ...

Witnessing the merger between PRASAC Minority Depository Institution (MDI) and Kookmin Bank Cambodia, the Governor of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) Chea Serey expressed hope to see more consolation happening in the industry to boost its resilience and efficiency. ...

Customs officers along Cambodia’s border have been instructed to increase their efforts to properly inspect and tax products coming into the country, which has increased the cost of imports and led to a rise in retail prices for a host of goods, government officials, businessmen ...

Cambodia, in its role as Asean chair, has decided that the thorny issue of the South China Sea will not be on the agenda at next month’s Asean Summit in Phnom Penh, CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap announced yesterday. “Cambodia is a neutral country, and based on ...

Minister of Civil Service Hun Many is committed to reforming and strengthening the public administration effectively and efficiently, as well as promoting and modernising public institutions in line with the Pentagon Strategy. ...

Almost one in every 100 children in Cambodia is living in a residential care institution, a number far higher than previous estimates, according to a new report in the British Medical Journal. ...

Amid reports of the emergence of the Zika virus in Myanmar and the discovery of the first birth defect believed linked to the virus in Vietnam, two researchers with Phnom Penh’s Pasteur Institute have concluded that Cambodia is at high risk of its own Zika ...