Cambodian mangoes now gaining popularity across Russian markets
Cambodian mangoes are gaining popularity across Russian markets offering a boost to the Kingdom’s agricultural sector, according to a representative of an agriculture firm that exports Cambodian mangoes to Russia and Central Asia. ...
Sreekanth Ravindran
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501427846/cambodian-mangoes-now-gaining-popularity-across-russian-markets/
CPP secure 504 provincial council seats, KWP take 47
The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) claimed an overwhelming 504 of the 559 capital/provincial council seats on offer in the May 26 elections. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-secure-504-provincial-council-seats-kwp-take-47
Reforming public financial management an ongoing task
Reforming public financial management will not be effective unless there are enough qualified human resources at ministries and institutions, the prime minister said yesterday. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23019/reforming-public-financial-management-an-ongoing-task/
Central bank fines MFI for shady lending
The central bank announced on Friday that it has fined an unnamed microfinance institution (MFI) $100,000 for engaging in non-transparent lending practices. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/central-bank-fines-mfi-shady-lending
Rice Ecosystems
This vector dataset provides the locations of rice ecosystem types in Cambodia, as given by the International Rice Research Institute’s (IRRI) Cambodia-IRRI Rice Project. ...
El Nino may crimp lending to farmers
Lending to farmers will be stricter this year as the El Nino weather phenomenon extends the dry season, executives at microfinance institutes (MFIs) said yesterday. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21905/el-nino-may-crimp-lending-to-farmers/
MFI employee jailed for embezzling $300,000
A former employee of a microfinance institution (MFI) was Tuesday jailed on charges of embezzling some $300,000 from the company, a court official said. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mfi-employee-jailed-for-embezzling-300000-109664/
MFI employee jailed for embezzling $300,000
A former employee of a microfinance institution (MFI) was Tuesday jailed on charges of embezzling some $300,000 from the company, a court official said. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mfi-employee-jailed-for-embezzling-300000-109664/
Millions given for waste management
The government has allocated $5 million across the Kingdom’s 46 sub-districts and towns to help with waste management by national and local institutions. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25476/millions-given-for-waste-management/
Japan foundation office to open in Cambodia
The Japan Foundation, Japan’s cultural exchange institution, will open an office in Cambodia, according to Kao Kim Hourn, a minister attached to Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/japan-foundation-office-to-open-in-cambodia-87451/
New financing will support Cambodia in improving higher education for industrial development
On 26 April 2018, the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved US$90 million in financing to support Cambodia’s efforts in improving the quality of higher education and research in the country and broadening access to higher education for disadvantaged students. Over the next six years, ...
The World Bank
National Strategic Development Plan to combat corruption
The government has introduced the National Strategic Development Plan 2019-23 which will focus on increasing awareness and reinforcing precautionary measures and strategies to crack down and combat corruption. The strategies come in conjunction with the increasing need for ministries and institutions to collaborate with the ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/national-strategic-development-plan-combat-corruption
Press release: The authorization to use China’s Sinopharm vaccine
On 04 February 2021, the Ministry of Health issued a press release informing the authorization on the emergency use of China’s vaccine named “Sinopharm”. Sinopharm vaccine is manufactured by the Beijing Institute of Biological Products Co., Ltd. of the People’s Republic of China, under the ...
Ministry of Health
Japan Loans over $53 Million to Improve Agriculture and Education
Cambodia will receive a concessional loan package of $53.3 million US dollars from Japan to restore the irrigation canal system and another $700,000 dollars grant aid to enhance education materials for minerals resources and topology department of the Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC), the ...
China’s ‘No Strings’ Aid Increasingly Attractive
The timing couldn’t have been better. After a week in which one NGO was suspended and others warned to “readjust their work,” and the World Bank was finally forced to reveal that it had stopped loaning to Cambodia, the government announced over the weekend that ...
Duty-Free Agreements Worry Minister
Duty-free agreements between regional competitors and foreign importers would put the Cambodian garment industry at risk, Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh said last week. Speaking to reporters after a meeting, Prasidh warned that the Kingdom’s garment sector would not be able to maintain its competitive edge over ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060366010/Business/duty-free-agreements-worry-minister.html
Internet to be introduced at 5,000 schools
The Ministry of Education on Tuesday announced an ambitious five-year plan with Metfone to provide internet access to 5,000 state education institutions across the country. ...
Samoeurth Seavmeng and Taylor O'connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/internet-to-be-introduced-at-5000-schools-115056/
PM creates complaints office
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday announced the creation of a sub-national administrative office to collect complaints from concerned citizens and forward them to the appropriate institutions. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35574/pm-creates-complaints-office/
44 staff members for national arbitration center selected
After years of trying to find suitable staff, the Ministry of Commerce on Friday released a list of 44 arbitrators who will be in charge of running the National Arbitration Center (NAC), a body designed to offer businesses a commercial dispute mechanism alternative to Cambodia’s ...
Investment accounts open
Several securities firms are opening accounts, even as the first listing on the Cambodia Securities Exchange are not expected until later this year, company officials said yesterday. The CSX was launched on July 11 without any listed firms, though state-owned Telecom Cambodia, Phnom Penh Water Supply ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011072850678/Business/investment-accounts-open.html