Stock market rings in PPAP
Shares in Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) debuted on Cambodia’s sleepy stock exchange yesterday morning, ending the day at 5,140 riel ($1.28), down 1.15 per cent from the 5,200 riel opening price, after a lukewarm session of sideways trading that dashed some investors’ hopes for ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/stock-market-rings-ppap
Interactive: Few arrests in timber smuggling crackdown
Suspected timber smugglers have gotten off the hook in the vast majority of busts that have followed Prime Minister Hun Sen’s January call for a crackdown on the illegal timber trade, a Post analysis has revealed. In the wake of the prime minister’s creation of ...
Daniel Nass
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/interactive-few-arrests-timber-smuggling-crackdown
Top Cambodian officials are going into quarantine after Hungarian Foreign official tested positive COVID-19
On 04 NOvember 2020, the Ministry Of FOreign Affairs and InternatiOnal COOperatiOn (MFAIC) Of CambOdia annOunced On its Official FacebOOk page that all the tOp CambOdian Officials are gOing intO quarantine after Hungarian FOreign Minister Peter SzijjartO, whO visited the cOuntry On Tuesday and signed ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Mr. BUN Tharum
Mr. BUN Tharum is currently a communications lead at InSTEDD iLab Southeast Asia, a locally run innovation lab focused on the sustainable design and development of technologies for social good. A blogger and self-claimed digital diplomat in Cambodia since 2004, Tharum initiated the first technology ...
NBC head underscores value of women’s access to finance
Unlocking greater access to formal finance for Cambodian women will play a strategic role in the process of the Kingdom’s economic development, National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) director-general Chea Serey said on Monday. She said this at the Training on the Trainers (ToT) Programme on Financial ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nbc-head-underscores-value-womens-access-finance
Joint statement: Suspension on loan repayments and interest accrual to help Cambodian borrowers
On 06 April 2021, CambOdian YOuth NetwOrk and civil sOciety grOups issued a jOint statement requesting the ROyal GOvernment tO directly intrOduce measures tO all micrOfinance institutiOns (MFI) and banks tO suspend all lOan repayments and interest accrual fOr at least three mOnths in Order ...
Cambodian Youth Network
Rapid COVID-19 antigen test for all leaders and officials of the Ministry of Justice
On 05 August 2021, the Ministry Of Justice issued a nOtificatiOn On rapid COVID-19 antigen test fOr all leaders and Officials Of the Ministry Of Justice.Pursuant tO the general guidelines fOr the management and use Of the COVID-19 antigen test and the ROyal GOvernment Circular ...
Ministry of Justice
Organizing the 3rd meeting of the joint working group on cooperation between the Royal Government of the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Euro-Asian Economic Commission
On 06 September 2021, the Ministry Of COmmerce issued a press release On Organizing the 3rd meeting Of the jOint wOrking grOup On cOOperatiOn between the ROyal GOvernment Of the KingdOm Of CambOdia and the EurO-Asian EcOnOmic COmmissiOn.The meeting was Organized tO further strengthen friendship ...
Ministry of Commerce
The second dissemination workshop on the organization of the Economic and Commercial Mission of La Francophonie in Cambodia (MECA)
On 07 February 2022, the Ministry Of FOreign Affairs and InternatiOnal COOperatiOn issued a press release On the secOnd disseminatiOn wOrkshOp On the OrganizatiOn Of the EcOnOmic and COmmercial MissiOn Of La FrancOphOnie in CambOdia (MECA).Within the framewOrk Of the EcOnOmic and COmmercial MissiOn Of ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Reminder of COVID-19 vaccination, first and second doses (base dose) and third dose or booster dose
On 01 March 2022, the Ministry Of Health issued a nOtificatiOn On the reminder Of COVID-19 vaccinatiOn, first and secOnd dOses (base dOse) and third dOse, bOOster dOse.In Order tO increase the immunity Of individuals as well as tO increase the immunity in the cOmmunity ...
Ministry of Health
CHRC report progress with human rights talks with UN
The Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) has announced the “success” of recent human rights dialogue between the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) and the UN office at Geneva. It noted that the talks had made a significant contribution to the implementation of a ...
Samban Chandara
https://phnompenhpost.com/national/chrc-report-progress-human-rights-talks-un
Rosy official forecasts fail to lift freshwater fishermen’s hopes
While river fishermen are claiming to have had smaller catches this season, experts are predicting that this year’s freshwater fish yields will be double that of previous years. Heng Kong, director of the Inland Fisheries Research and Development Institute at the Fisheries Administration (FiA), predicted that ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rosy-official-forecasts-fail-lift-freshwater-fishermens-hopes
Data Literacy Training: training opportunity for local journalists working on social accountability
Open DevelOpment CambOdia (ODC) is pleased tO annOunce a fOur-day Data Literacy Training On SOcial AccOuntability frOm 22-23 and 29-30 June 2023. This training is suppOrted by USAID CambOdia thrOugh FHI 360.Interested candidates may register at: https://fOrms.gle/EDDh2mRsZUk4wQks7Deadline Of applicatiOn: 16 June 2023 ...
Open Development Cambodia
Joint press release: Rare birds population show signs of increase
On 11 January 2023, WOrld Wide Fund fOr nature CambOdia has pOsted a jOint press release On rare birds pOpulatiOn shOw signs Of increase On their Official website. AccOrding tO the press, in 2022, fOr the fOurth year in a rOw, the census cOunts shOw higher ...
World Wide Fund for nature Cambodia
Training opportunity on data literacy for local journalists
Open DevelOpment CambOdia OrganizatiOn (ODC) is pleased tO annOunce a fOur-day Data Literacy Training On SOcial AccOuntability frOm 23-24 and 30-31 May 2024. This training is suppOrted by USAID CambOdia thrOugh FHI 360.Interested candidates may register at: https://bit.ly/49NkXOZ?r=qrDeadline Of applicatiOn: 07 May 2024 ...
Open Development Cambodia Organization
Cambodia to return to former glory
Kuala Lumpur (The star /ANN) — A country once torn apart by war is emerging as a key investment destination for small and medium enterprises. It was once home to a great civilization. In the 12th century, the Khmer empire was South-East Asia’s largest. Angkor was ...
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=NDRhOTI5NzA0Y2E
SDG 18 Cambodia mine/ERW free
Cambodia has added an 18th goal to its localized version of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – “End the negative impact of mines/ERW and promote victim assistance”.1 The SDGs were adopted by all United Nations member states in 2015 as a universal call to action ...
Data contribution
Criteria for data submissionThe following criteria is outlined as requirements of a response to call for data contribution:ThemeThe dataet must:be related to Cambodia.be related to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).FeaturesContributors must have permission to submit and share the dataset upon an open platform. All ...
Chinese Firms Foresee Industrial Hub in Preah Vihear
Preah Vihear province – The residents of this sleepy district, on the edge of the Boeng Per Wildlife Sanctuary, grow rice, casSava and cashew nuts. But in a few short years, Chinese investors enviSage that Rovieng will be rapidly transformed into an industrial town. ...
As Phnom Penh Grows, So Does Its Sewage Problem
Since 1998, Phnom Penh’s population has doubled to more than 2 million. High-rise buildings have popped up in the city’s center and housing developments have been hastily erected. Yet the city’s antiquated, decades-old drainage system has undergone little improvement in that time and experts say the ...