Cambodia-Vietnam trade reaches $4.6 billion in the first seven months of 2024
Cambodia’s trade relations with Vietnam have seen significant growth in the first seven months of this year, with the total trade volume between the two neighbouring countries reaching over $4.6 billion. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501542137/cambodia-vietnam-trade-reaches-4-6-billion-in-the-first-seven-months-of-2024/
New charter covers all media, content creators, MMO activities
Cambodia’s first “Charter for Professional Journalism” is designed to elevate journalistic ethics and standards across all forms of media, including content creators and those involved in make-money-online (MMO) activities. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hong Raksmey
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-charter-covers-all-media-content-creators-mmo-activities
Funan Techo Canal to boost trade, bring in investments
Cambodia Monday celebrated the commencement of the highly anticipated Funan Techo Canal project, a massive infrastructure initiative that will play an important role in transforming the country’s economic landscape. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501535770/funan-techo-canal-to-boost-trade-bring-in-investments/
MoE underscores success of environment initiatives
The Ministry of Environment has underscored the success of the “Green sprouts” initiative and ongoing efforts to preserve Cambodia’s natural resources since the new government assumed office in August of last year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501551974/moe-underscores-success-of-environment-initiatives/
Employers propose $2 increase to minimum wage, workers seek up to $10
Employers’ representatives have proposed a $2 increase to the monthly minimum wage for the Kingdom’s factory workers in 2025, while workers’ representatives called for raises of $6, $7 or $10. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/employers-propose-2-increase-to-minimum-wage-workers-seek-up-to-10
Cambodia-China trade enjoys robust growth in first eight months of 2024
Cambodia’s trade with China enjoyed robust growth of 24.5% in the first eight months of this year, said an official report released on Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501556881/cambodia-china-trade-enjoys-robust-growth-in-first-eight-months-of-2024/
Shaping the leaders of tomorrow
In a lush, gated compound 12 kilometres south of central Phnom Penh, the young minds that will one day lead Cambodia are being shaped – or at least that’s what one philanthropic foundation, which is investing millions of dollars in a unique, long-term project, hopes. “When ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/shaping-leaders-tomorrow
GMAC head sets clothing export goal
Cambodia is set for a 30 per cent increase in garment exports this year, according to Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) president Van sou Ieng. The sector was heavily dependent on foreign buyers, which were increasing their orders as the global economy recovered, he ss='cambodia-color'>...
Owners seek compensation
Residents and business owners are seeking compensation from Vattanac after its construction project alongside Phnom Penh’s riverside sisowath Quay damaged buildings. Pop Café, Edelweiss, the Foreign Correspondents Club (FCC), and others are having insurance claims adjusters in to inspect the buildings in order to determine ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011072650623/National-news/owners-seek-compensation.html
Tycoon lands surprise
Mong Reththy, former advisor to Prime Minister Hun sen has said that investors should use local residents on their land concessions rather than evicting them and hiring outsiders. According to a Us diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks Mr. Reththy is “Hun sen’s Money Man” and ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011072850694/National-news/tycoon-lands-surprise.html
Exchange officials explain IT system
Stock exchange officialS were conducting a five-day workShop on the IT SyStem that will allow trading,&nbSp; SecuritieS and Exchange CommiSSion of Cambodia director-general Ming BankoSal Said yeSterday. The workShop, held in conjunction with the Cambodia SecuritieS Exchange, would alSo Seek feedback on the SyStem&rSquo;S functionality SS='cambodia-color'>...
Villagers protest for more flats
More than 100 Borei Keila villagers took to the streets yesterday to demand that Phanimex Company owner suy sophan honour a contract signed in 2003 that promised housing for 1,776 families in exchange for land. The protesters, holding banners, statues of the spirit and a pig’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Strikers ordered back to work
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court ordered on Tuesday that workers striking at Cambo Handsome 1 return to work within 48 hours and banned them from striking in front of the garment factory, in the capital’s Dankgor district. seang sambath, president of the Federation of Friendship Unions, ss='cambodia-color'>...
SAP sees growth in shipments
Sihanoukville AutonomouS Port Saw a 10 per cent year-on-year Shipment increaSe in the firSt 11 monthS of the year, according to data provided by the Port&rSquo;S general director. The Shipment of cargo acroSS the port during the time period reached 2.2 million tonS, a 9.94 per SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011121353314/Business/sap-sees-growth-in-shipments.html
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 ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011122653610/Business/inflation-dips-in-november.html
Preah Vihear families seek top-level intervention
Families continuing to defy eviction orders in Preah Vihear fear police and authorities will use violence to remove them from their homes this week, villagers told the Post yesterday. Representatives of svay Chum village in Choam Ksan district’s Kantuot commune trekked to Phnon Penh on Friday ss='cambodia-color'>...
Premier orders review of marine dredging
Prime Minister Hun sen has order a review of dredging operations and the impacts that they have on Cambodia’s islands and beaches. Freshwater dredging has also been ordered to go under review, with the Prime Minister calling for the Minister of Water Resources and Meteorology ss='cambodia-color'>...
Forest on the auction block
Almost 30,000 hectares of a wildlife sanctuary in Oddar Meanchey, siem Reap and Preah Vihear provinces have been reclassified as state private land for agricultural development, drawing sharp criticism from rights groups. Four sub-decrees signed by Prime Minister Hun sen on July 22 reclassify land ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011080950943/National-news/forest-on-the-auction-block.html
Danish Firm Opens Warehouse in Capital
DANISH logiStic giant Damco haS opened a 6,000-Square-metre warehouSe facility in Phnom Penh in reSponSe to the Kingdom&rSquo;S growing importance aS an emerging market, the company Said in a Statement. Damco Company (Cambodia), which iS part of international conglomerate AP Moller-MaerSk Group, Said manufacturerS have increaSingly SS='cambodia-color'>...
44 Faint at Phnom Penh Garment Factory Chim Ly
Forty-four garment workers on Friday fainted at the Chim Ly garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Dangkao district, a police official said yesterday. Kambol commune police chief Phan Phoeun said that at first only a few workers fainted, then others followed suit “because they saw other ss='cambodia-color'>...