Ministry invites exporters to expo in east China
The Ministry of Commerce has invited businesses that wish to export to China to join a three-day virtual and in-person expo set to be held in eastern China’s shandong province from April 27-29. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ministry-invites-exporters-expo-east-china
Families face water shortage as Banteay Meanchey river dries up
More than 4,000 families in an urban area of Banteay Meanchey province’s Mongkol Borei district are facing clean water shortages as the Mongkol Borei River has dried up due to farmers over-pumping water to irrigate their dry-season rice crops, officials said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-face-water-shortage-banteay-meanchey-river-dries
Chevron plans to increase Caltex petrol stations to 100
The government has welcomed Chevron (Cambodia) Ltd’s plan to nearly triple its network of Caltex petrol stations in the Kingdom to 100, according to a senior official at the Ministry of Mines and Energy on February 28. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chevron-plans-increase-caltex-petrol-stations-100
Music to our ears as Spotify dominates the local charts
The battle for the hearts (and ears) of Cambodian audiophiles is heating up. During its inaugural week in the Cambodian market, music streaming app spotify has already rocketed to the top of the nation’s download charts. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Husain Haider
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50820672/music-to-our-ears-as-spotify-dominates-the-local-charts/
Regional produce given trademarks of local geography
The Ministry of Commerce is pressing on to register some of the Kingdom’s more renown products as collective trademarks and grant them domestic geographical indication (GI) to provide them with added exposure on the international market. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/regional-produce-given-trademarks-local-geography
Dry season rice crops have bumper Q1, exports decrease by 33 per cent
Yields for this year’s dry-season crops, especially rice, increased significantly in the first quarter of 2021, though exports decreased compared to the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dry-season-rice-crops-have-bumper-q1-exports-decrease-33-cent
Q1 garment exports valued at $2.4 billion
Cambodia’s garment product exports contracted in the first quarter financial period as hundreds of factories remained closed temporarily because of COVID-19 in Phnom Penh and Takmao city, Kandal province. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50850644/q1-garment-exports-valued-at-2-4-billion/
More bird species to be released into Angkor park
The APSARA National Authority (ANA) planS to releaSe 11 birdS from three rare SpecieS into the Angkor Archaeological Park&rSquo;S foreSt and callS on the public to take care of all animalS in the park. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-bird-species-be-released-angkor-park
50 percent of nationwide vaccinations expected by late 2021
The Ministry of Health’s Vaccination Committee chairwoman Or Vandine told Khmer Times yesterday that the nationwide vaccination rate is about 22 percent with more than two million people inoculated. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mao Chanvireak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50860333/50-percent-of-nationwide-vaccinations-expected-by-late-2021/
Teachers, parents urged to promote online education
The Ministry of Education, Youth and sport continues to advise teachers and parents of students to encourage study through e-learning by accessing lessons from the ministry’s website and social media. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/teachers-parents-urged-promote-online-education
Swiss gov’t pledges $58M development grant over 2022-25
The SwiSS government on June 3 pledged up to 52 million francS ($58 million) in grantS for the Kingdom&rSquo;S development over the next four yearS, the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) Said in a Statement. &nbSp; SS='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/swiss-govt-pledges-58m-development-grant-over-2022-25
Single Portal enters second year
More than 6,000 businesses with over $2.6 billion in capital have been registered with the government’s online Business Registration Platform in just one year since its launch, according to the Ministry of Economy and Finance. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/single-portal-enters-second-year
Floating home owners urged to come ashore
The Boribor district authorities in Kampong Chhnang province have dismantled more than 100 fish farming cages that were floating in the portion of the river running through his district before relocating the owners to land for the rest of this year’s rainy season. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://phnompenhpost.com/national/floating-home-owners-urged-come-ashore
Nat’l Covid-19 campaign kicks off
World Health Organisation (WHO) representative to Cambodia Li Ailan said Cambodia has had one of the most successful campaigns to vaccinate its people against Covid-19 in the WHO’s entire western-pacific region. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/natl-covid-19-campaign-kicks
Cashew, pepper firms have shot to sell products on Alibaba.com
Growers and suppliers of cashew nuts and geographical indication- (GI) certified Kampot pepper will soon have a chance to sell their products to Chinese consumers through the e-commerce platform Alibaba.com, according to the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s Entrepreneurship Development Fund (EDF) on August 3. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cashew-pepper-firms-have-shot-sell-products-alibabacom
K Speu villagers protesting mystery land encroachers
About 35ha of Toap Mean community forest land in Kampong speu province’s Thpong district has been encroached on by unknown individuals who fenced off and planted crops on 30ha of the land. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/k-speu-villagers-protesting-mystery-land-encroachers
Modernised government services goal of digital plan
The Ministry of Interior’s “digital government” working group has been discussing a draft master plan for information and communication technology (ICT) in accordance with the master plan of the national government – called e-government – to modernise public services. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/modernised-government-services-goal-digital-plan
MRC Secretariat CEO urges deeper engagement during Friends of the Mekong Ministerial meeting
The Friends of the Mekong should play a more critical role in realising the objectives of the Basin Development strategy for the Mekong River Basin 2021-2030, a transformative blueprint for improving the state of the basin over the next decade, the Mekong River Commission (MRC)’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50914250/mrc-secretariat-ceo-urges-deeper-engagement-during-friends-of-the-mekong-ministerial-meeting/
CDC approves $71 million in new investments to create 9,500 jobs
Eight new projects worth $71.4 million have been approved by the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). The new projects will create over 9,500 jobs at a critical juncture in the Kingdom’s economic recovery. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Michael Firn
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50906237/cdc-approves-71-million-in-new-investments-to-create-9500-jobs/
Thai border reopened for workers – many with Covid
In the two days following the government’s reopening of border crossings with Thailand, more than 2,300 migrant workers have returned through checkpoints in four provinces and hundreds of them have tested positive for Covid-19, according to authorities. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thai-border-reopened-workers-many-covid