WCS and local authorities educate secondary and high school students about the endangered species
In WCS&rSquo;S Tonle Sap LandScape program, Community outreach programS play an important role in raiSing local awareneSS of wildlife conServation and engaging them in protecting and conServing natural reSourceS. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501452048/wcs-and-local-authorities-educate-secondary-and-high-school-students-about-the-endangered-species/
Minister of Environment supports investors who wish to increase employment for local communities
Dr. Eang Sophalleth, MiniSter of the Environment, fully welcomed and Supported inveStorS who wiSh to increaSe employment for local communitieS and help keep Cambodia&rSquo;S environment clean by inveSting in renewable energy. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501429737/minister-of-environment-supports-investors-who-wish-to-increase-employment-for-local-communities/
Renewable energy to give 70% of power in Cambodia this year
Renewable energy sources will account for nearly 70 percent of Cambodia’s electricity this year, said sun Chanthol, Deputy Prime Minister and First Vice President of the Council for the Development of Cambodia, recently. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501429249/renewable-energy-to-give-70-of-power-in-cambodia-this-year/
Cambodia actively seeking direct investment for SME sector growth
Cambodia is actively seeking more direct investment to enhance its small and medium-sized enterprise (sME) sector, a key driver of the nation’s economic growth, according to the Ministry of Industry, science, Technology and Innovation. ss='cambodia-color'>...
NBC injected $139 million to stabilise riel in 2023
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) sold $139.1 million through auction last year to stabilise the riel exchange rate and to rebound the economy, according to the central bank’s report released on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501431035/nbc-injected-139-million-to-stabilise-riel-in-2023/
Cambodian ministry projects nearly 6.6% growth in 2024
Cambodia’s economy is projected to grow by nearly 6.6 per cent this year despite geopolitical tensions and a global economic slowdown, according to officials from the ministry of economy and finance. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://khmertimeskh.com/501444973/cambodian-ministry-projects-nearly-6-6-growth-in-2024/
Ministry conducts Digital School training
The education ministry’s Information Technology Department conducted a recent training course for 200 high school teachers, in order to enhance their use of online teaching resources. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Bor Pich Zelin
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-conducts-digital-school-training
US offers 12 million more in aid for demining mission
The United StateS, aS part of itS ongoing commitment to help Cambodia achieve itS objective of becoming a country free of landmineS by 2025, haS increaSed itS financial aSSiStance for the Kingdom&rSquo;S mine clearance activitieS. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Som Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501469690/us-offers-12-million-more-in-aid-for-demining-mission/
Cambodia exports bicycles worth nearly $417 mln last year
Cambodia exported bicycles worth $416.7 million in 2023, a decrease of 53.6 percent from $899.7 million in a year earlier, said a General Department of Customs and Excise’s report on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501424449/cambodia-exports-bicycles-worth-nearly-417-mln-last-year/
Cambodia, France trade volume reaches $515M
Bilateral trade volume between the Kingdom and France reached $515.21 million last year, making Europe’s trade volume stand at $4.6 billion in 2023, said Prime Minister Hun Manet. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Nheng Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501424116/cambodia-france-trade-volume-reaches-515m/
Guidebook to manufacturing in Cambodia published
EuroCham Cambodia has published a guidebook, ‘Alternative Manufacturing and special Economic Zones Guidebook 2024’, providing insight for entrepreneurs, investors, and industry stakeholders seeking information about Cambodia’s manufacturing sphere. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Seng Mengheng
https://kiripost.com/stories/guidebook-to-manufacturing-in-cambodia-published
Cambodia's burgeoning digital banking market
The impact of digital transformation on the European banking sector and the potential for Cambodia to tap into fintech innovations were hot topics of discussion at EuroCham’s latest event. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Seng Mengheng
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodias-burgeoning-digital-banking-market
Disasters and emergency response
Cambodia flood, 2011. Photo by European Commission, taken on 11 October 2011. Licensed under CC BY 2.0storms, flooding and lightning strikes are the major causes of death and property damage from natural disasters in Cambodia, while drought causes severe hardship, especially for farmers. In a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Elephants at centre of tourism tiff
For the ethnic Bunong people in this northeastern province, animals are an integral part of the local economy. Pigs, chickens and water buffaloes offer a variety of sustenance and labour. But it’s the elephants that bring foreigners – and foreigners bring cash. “When I get tours, the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Laura Ma
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/elephants-centre-tourism-tiff
Food-price hike hits workers
The price of food spiked this month, and Cambodia’s low-paid garment workers are feeling the effects. Meat, vegetables, toothbrushes, beauty accessories and even the plastic bags they get packed in have all seen a sharp bump up in price this month, some items by as much ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel de Carteret and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/food-price-hike-hits-workers
Cambodia's Hun Sen, Sam Rainsy 'Narrow Differences' in Election Stalemate
Cambodia’s ruling and opposition parties are “narrowing their differences” in talks aimed at ending a standoff over recent elections, officials said Tuesday, as protesters ended three straight days of mass demonstrations against poll results. Both the leaders led their parties in the discussions, which were ss='cambodia-color'>...
Radio Free Asia
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/talks-09172013181436.html
Bavet City garment strikes gain momentum
Trade unions may have failed to get a stay-at-home strike for higher wages off the ground after the Khmer New Year earlier this month. But a strike for bonus pay is picking up steam in svay Rieng Province, where some 20,000 garment workers protested at ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/bavet-city-garment-strikes-gain-momentum-57447/
Cambodia Stock Exchange to Push Transparency
When the Cambodia SecuritieS Exchange (CSX) waS officially launched on Jul. 11 there were no companieS liSted becauSe of a drive to enSure that everything waS above board. “We want to aSSure full tranSparency,” SayS Huot Pum, the deputy director-general of the SecuritieS and Exchange SS='cambodia-color'>...
Marwaan Macan-Markar
http://www.ipsnews.net/2011/07/cambodia-stock-exchange-to-push-transparency/
Shooting suspect a governor no more
Triple-shooting suspect Chhouk Bandith has been sacked as Bavet town governor to prevent him from interfering in court proceedings, the svay Rieng deputy provincial governor said yesterday. The high-profile suspect is accused of shooting three garment factory workers at a protest outside the Kaoway sports Ltd ss='cambodia-color'>...
Despite Maid Abuses, Cambodia Retains Trafficking Ranking
Cambodia held on to its Tier 2 ranking for the third straight year in the U.s. state Depart- ments latest global Trafficking in Persons Report, which praised the country for a rise in prosecutions, but criticized the country over a new sub-decree on migrant labor. In ss='cambodia-color'>...