MENA market peppered with potential: CPSF
The Cambodian Pepper and SpiceS Federation (CPSF) haS been connecting with 25 local exporterS to explore and foSter new avenueS to delve into the Middle EaStern and North African (MENA) marketS, a whole world of diverSe cuiSineS that are rich in SpiceS and rely heavily SS='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mena-market-peppered-potential-cpsf
GDP reports 73 per cent of inmates now vaccinated
The Ministry of Interior’s General Department of Prisons (GDP) has vaccinated over 73 per cent of the 37,000 inmates throughout the country as of August 5 and is continuing to vaccinate prisoners in seven remaining provinces with the Us-donated Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 jabs. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gdp-reports-73-cent-inmates-now-vaccinated
Ethics committee refutes statement by Reporters Without Borders
Club of Cambodian Journalists (CCJ) secretary-general Puy Kea, who is also the speaker of the Information Ministry’s Monitoring Committee for Journalism Ethics told Khmer Times yesterday that the creation of the committee is not to put pressure on print or social media, as Reporters Without Borders ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phnom Chambap visit-ban violators to be fined $250
Despite a ban on visiting Phnom Chambap mountain in Takeo province’s Bati district due to the danger of contaminated water and to prevent the spread of Covid-19, people still stubbornly visit the place, and the authorities have started issuing fines of $250 per person. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mao Chanvireak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50918845/phnom-chambap-visit-ban-violators-to-be-fined-250/
Ministry onboards Cambodia Post to e-marketplace
The Ministry of Commerce plans to integrate state-owned Cambodia Post’s transportation system into CambodiaTrade.com, looking to make the distribution and delivery process easier, faster and safer for small- and medium-sized enterprises (sME) and consumers that buy merchandise on the e-marketplace. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ministry-onboards-cambodia-post-e-marketplace
Central bank sells $130M over five September forex auctions
The National Bank of Cambodia held five currency auctions from september 2-21 and sold $130 million on the foreign exchange (forex) market, meant to stabilise the riel’s fluctuations against the greenback, shore up economic activity during the ongoing health crisis and power a faster economic ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/central-bank-sells-130m-over-five-september-forex-auctions
Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam and Thailand strategy for post pandemic era refined
With the Covid-19 pandemic expected to leave long-term impacts on global investment patterns and consumer behaviour, the CLMVT countries are counting on closer economic cooperation within southeast Asia to help them benefit from each other’s strengths. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50926312/cambodia-laos-myanmar-vietnam-and-thailand-strategy-for-post-pandemic-era-refined/
CCHR to launch its human rights education platform: free of expression
On July 11 2021, Cambodian Center for Human Rights issued a media alert on launching its Human Rights Education Platform: Freedom of Expression, with three online modules related to freedom of expression in order to build the public’s knowledge on the right to freedom of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodian Center for Human Rights
Occupiers of disputed land receive ‘conditional titles’
The government has issued conditional land title receipts to 326 families occupying disputed state-owned land at the “Chamkar Barang” area in Tuol Prich commune of Kandal province’s Ang snuol district. It is also looking into a policy settlement while the provincial governor investigates and identifies ss='cambodia-color'>...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/occupiers-disputed-land-receive-conditional-titles
Eight month exports valued at 11.08 bn
Cambodia’s exports in the first eight months this year saw a decrease, official figures showed. Its exports were worth $11.086 billion, inching down 5.3 percent compared with the same period last year, according to a study by the Ministry of Commerce. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50934036/eight-month-exports-valued-at-11-08-bn/
Man lands in court over sexual assault at quarantine site
A suspected in an alleged sexual assault against a minor at a quarantine centre in Banteay Meanchey province’s O’Chrou district has been sent to court, while a similar case against an adult woman at the same centre was dropped after the accused negotiated compensation with ss='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/man-lands-court-over-sexual-assault-quarantine-site
MoE plans Bokor eco-tourism
The Ministry of Environment on Monday has approved five small-scale eco-tourism development plans in Preah Monivong Bokor National Park. These new eco-tourism projects in Kampot province’s Prek Tnort commune will create more employment opportunities for the local population, offering sustainable livelihoods and improving the local ss='cambodia-color'>...
Son Minea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50959591/moe-plans-bokor-eco-tourism/
Preah Sihanouk launches training programme for drug addicts
The National Centre for Voluntary and Community-based Treatment service and Rehabilitation for Drug Addicts based in Preah sihanouk province’s stung Hav district on October 22 launched the first vocational training course to equip addicts with skills before their reintegration back into society. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-sihanouk-launches-training-programme-drug-addicts
Thailand seeks to reopen Tha Sen and Ban Nong Ian border checkpoints to boost trade with Cambodia
Thailand’s Commerce Ministry is aiming to speed up talks with Cambodia to reopen additional checkpoints with neighbouring Cambodia to boost trade between the two nations. . ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50971487/thailand-seeks-to-reopen-tha-sen-and-ban-nong-ian-border-checkpoints-to-boost-trade-with-cambodia/
Cambodia is studying to reduce the tax rate for electric cars by 50% to encourage people to use
In an interview with CNBC on the current plans, connections and future of transportation in Cambodia on November 12, 2021, sun Chanthol, Minister of Public Works and Transport, said that the launch of Electric vehicles (EVs) are in the early stages of development in Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50970057/cambodia-is-studying-to-reduce-the-tax-rate-for-electric-cars-by-50-to-encourage-people-to-use/
Cambodia receives medical equipment and medicines from China to fight C-19
China’s Ministry of Defence yesterday handed medical equipment and traditional medicines to its counterpart in Cambodia to further accelerate the fight against the Covid-19, which currently is very much under control in the Kingdom with more than 88% of the population double vaccinated. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Yim Sreylin
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50976095/cambodia-receives-medical-equipment-and-medicines-from-china-to-fight-c-19/
Pileated gibbon study underway
The Wildlife Conservation society Cambodia Programme (WCs) Biodiversity Team, in collaboration with the Preah Vihear provincial Department of Environment, have initiated a six-month research project that involves a survey of pileated gibbons in the northern province’s Phnom Tbeng Natural Heritage Park. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pileated-gibbon-study-underway
Pfizer jabs arrive from Oz to boost frontliner safety
A total of 783,000 doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccines out of a promised 2.3 million doses from the Australian government arrived in Cambodia on the evening of December 26 and were received directly by Prime Minister Hun sen at the Phnom Penh International Airport. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pfizer-jabs-arrive-oz-boost-frontliner-safety
Hun Sen to visit Myanmar Jan 7-8
Prime Minister Hun sen has announced that he will undertake a two-day visit to Myanmar on January 7-8 in an effort aimed at restoring normality to AsEAN proceedings by finding a way to calm the crisis there and bring the country back into the fold ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-visit-myanmar-jan-7-8
Huge swathes of land returned to state by evicted encroachers
Kampong Thom provincial authorities have determined that over 10,000ha of flooded forestland located in three different areas near the province’s Tonle sap Lake shoreline have been illegally encroached upon, with more than 200 families having already returned in excess of 2,000ha of misappropriated land back ss='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/huge-swathes-land-returned-state-evicted-encroachers