Rural electrification aims to be complete by 2023
The Ministry of Mines and Energy has announced a 2023 target date for the electrification of the Kingdom’s rural villages. Victor Jona, director-general of energy and spokesman for the Ministry of Mines and Energy, said the 2023 target date will see electrification having been delivered ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50802348/rural-electrification-aims-to-be-complete-by-2023/
CBC wins consumer credit reporting award
Independent financial information provider Credit Bureau (Cambodia) Co Ltd (CBC) scooped an award for “Excellence in Consumer Credit Reporting”, CBC said in a January 5 press release. UK-based “reputed international business magazine” Global Business Outlook (GBO) honoured the locally-owned CBC for its “exceptional performance” in Cambodia’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cbc-wins-consumer-credit-reporting-award
Domestic salt industry feeling the pinch of the pandemic
A local salt producer says that her company’s exports have been stuck in stasis by the COVID-19 pandemic and tough competition among local producers is making things even tougher. Thaung Thyda, the founder of Thaung Enterprise, says her company was focused on exports but with ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50803231/domestic-salt-industry-feeling-the-pinch-of-the-pandemic/
CRF: Bumper 2021 for organic rice
Cambodia exported 11,200 tonnes of organic milled rice to international markets in 2020, a slight 1.2 per cent increase over 2019, according to the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF). While the milled-rice export sector by and large chalks up 2020’s lacklustre growth performance to the ongoing ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/crf-bumper-2021-organic-rice
Families locked in Kandal land row seek compromise
Most of the 329 families from seven villages with crops planted on state land in the Chamkar Barang area of Tuol Prich commune in Kandal province’s Ang snuol district have refused to accept the inter-ministerial settlement policy that seeks to relocate them to make way ss='cambodia-color'>...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-locked-kandal-land-row-seek-compromise
GDT collected $2.7B in tax revenue in 2021
The Minister of Economy and Finance’s General Department of Taxation (GDT) collected 11.402100 trillion riel ($2.781 billion) in tax revenue in 2021, 24% more than the plan of $538 million. However, this revenue is slightly less when compared to the same period of year 2020 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Sithika
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501015758/gdt-collected-2-7b-in-tax-revenue-in-2021/
Cambodia skilfully marketed during 43rd ASEAN Summit
Prime Minister Hun Manet said last saturday that he along with the top officials from public and private sector institutions promoted various sectors of Cambodia’s economy during 18 bilateral and multilateral meetings out of the 34 on-the-sidelines meetings during the 43rd AsEAN summit and Related ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501357932/cambodia-skilfully-marketed-during-43rd-asean-summit/
Jan-Jun investment capital hike raises trade, production hopes
The nearly 160 per cent surge in investment capital behind a slew of new large-scale investment projects outside of Cambodia’s special economic zones (sEZ) reported for the first half of 2022 has fanned optimism for a boom in production and exports – underpinned by favourable ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/jan-jun-investment-capital-hike-raises-trade-production-hopes
Union calls for NSSF registration for every construction worker
Trade unions are working to educate construction workers and their employers on the benefits of the Kingdom’s social protection systems. Various stakeholders met on March 3 for the final review of the 2023-2027 occupational safety and health master plan, while one union revealed that less than ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Sokny
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/union-calls-nssf-registration-every-construction-worker
Stung Pursat I dam ‘in 2026’
South Korean-owned SPHP (Cambodia) Co Ltd&rSquo;S under-conStruction $231 million, 80 megawatt (MW) Stung PurSat I hydropower dam iS Scheduled to be commiSSioned and operational in 2026, according to PurSat provincial governor Khoy Rida. SS='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara and Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/stung-pursat-i-dam-2026
Exports near $11.5B on May-Jun lift
The value of Cambodia’s total goods exports in the first half of the year reached $11.464 billion, up more than 0.75 per cent on an annual basis from $11.379 billion and up nearly 3.25 per cent from $11.104 billion in the second half of 2022, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exports-near-115b-may-jun-lift
Siem Reap tourism vendor loans to be more accessible in 2024
The Small and Medium EnterpriSe Bank of Cambodia Plc. (SME Bank), loan termS for touriSm vendorS in Siem Reap Province will be looSened from the beginning of 2024 to encourage more uptake of fundS excluSively by Siem Reap-baSed entitieS to bolSter the Sector&rSquo;S return to SS='cambodia-color'>...
James Whitehead
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501418092/siem-reap-tourism-vendor-loans-to-be-more-accessible-in-2024/
Cambodia urges ADB to expand investment to combat climate change and natural disasters
Thor Chetha, Minister of Water Resources and Meteorology, highlighted the Ministry’s priority of strengthening the forecasting system, early warning system, and early warning to vulnerable people to be vigilant as needed to reduce natural disasters and economic losses, and urged the Asian Development Bank to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501488991/cambodia-urges-adb-to-expand-investment-to-combat-climate-change-and-natural-disasters/
Monitors Say Ink Test Was for Transparency, Not Turmoil
Election monitors say a test of election ink that found it easily washable, and therefore a concern for fraudulent voting, was made in the spirit of transparency, and not to create “turmoil” ahead of sunday’s polls. The election watchdog Comfrel on Friday tested the ink, provided ss='cambodia-color'>...
Gems in the rough in Ratanakkiri
“These are the best quality stones,” Lat Yun says with a grin. Nestled in his outstretched hand are three unassuming rocks. “I don’t know what they’re called, I just know they’re the best.” The gemstones of Ratanakkiri are a mineral called zircon, but in Cambodia, they ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gems-rough-ratanakkiri
Prosecutors Meet to Discuss Treatment of Incarcerated Minors
The judiciary has signed off on a new set of guidelines designed to regulate the work of prosecutors in many areas, including the rights of minors in the judicial system. Ouk savuth, general director of the Court of Appeal, signed off on the guidelines on August ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prosecutors-meet-to-discuss-treatment-of-incarcerated-minors-41526/
Year's crime ranged from brutal to bizarre
Law and order in Cambodia this year has been a strange mix of the brutal and the bizarre. From horrific murders to the police’s decision to deliver crystal meth to phony hostage-takers during a bank heist, crime has continually made headlines in a year when the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shane Worrell and Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/years-crime-ranged-brutal-bizarre
Life as Living Nightmare Along National Route 6a
Two years after Prime Minister Hun sen broke ground on a Chinese-funded project to widen National Road 6a in order to expand its capacity as a major trade and tourism thoroughfare, life for the tens of thousands of families living along the 50-km stretch of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/life-as-living-nightmare-along-national-route-6a-51156/
Reforestry Claim ‘A Stretch’
The government reforested 80,693 hectares of land between 2008 and 2012 as part of its efforts to combat deforestation, a recent agriculture ministry report says, but these seemingly impressive statistics were reached by counting rubber trees and other agricultural crops as adequate replacements for forests. The ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara and Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/reforestry-claim-%E2%80%98-stretch%E2%80%99
Lead-up to poll saw SLCs spike
Prime Minister Hun sen’s 2012 ban on the allocation of economic land concessions was supposed to halt the unpopular practice of turning over large swaths of property to developers. And going by the numbers last year, it worked. But in the vacuum, according to local rights ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lead-poll-saw-slcs-spike