The annual Royal Ploughing Ceremony, traditionally held in May, has been cancelled in light of the pandemic, the National Committee for Organising National and International Festivals announced. NCONIF secretary-general Chhin Ketana said yesterday, “The government has decided to cancel the celebration of this year’s Royal ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government has approved 53 new garment and footwear factories, worth an estimated Us$338 million, during the first half of this year, compared with 38 last year valued at $180 million, despite the increase in the number of strikes affecting the industry. Officials and industry ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials from four government bodies along with a personal adviser to Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday urged two Us government-funded radio stations to be more professional and law-abiding during a closed-door meeting at the Council of Ministers. While little information was forthcoming regarding the content of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The roughly 40ha of land in Mondulkiri province’s sen Monorom town where the late King Father Norodom sihanouk historically presided over the royal “Vegetation” ceremonies to plant pine trees will soon be transferred to state property and protected. Provincial governor svay sam Eang said citizens ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian rice exports to the Us could face full tariffs after a lobby group called for the imposition of full tariffs on the crop. Currently, the Kingdom’s rice enjoys some tax-protection under what is known as the Generalised system of Preferences (GsP)-eligible commodities list. However, ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the Khmer folktale “Phnom Chiso Temple,” a Hindu priest gives blessings to a Khmer prince, saying: “May you be as strong as an ant, as mighty as a ghost and as decisive as a woman.” Following this as an example, after fishery communities were ss='cambodia-color'>...

Super high-Speed 5G technology iS ready to roll out acroSS Cambodia with the infraStructure enabling the technology already in place acroSS the Kingdom&rSquo;S five major citieS, Say obServerS.&nbSp; With SucceSSful teSting having occurred and the number of people with 5G-enabled deviceS growing daily, the only SS='cambodia-color'>...

Local researchers and fishermen along the Tonle sap and Bassac Rivers have shared their concern over plastic waste in the Kingdom’s rivers. Project manager of Wonders of the Mekong Chea seila told Khmer Times on Monday, that she had found a dramatic amount of plastic waste this ss='cambodia-color'>...

The SecuritieS and Exchange CommiSSion of Cambodia (SECC) on January 5 approved in principle a handful of applicationS for licenceS. In a preSS releaSe on the minuteS of an SECC meeting led by chairman and MiniSter of Economy and Finance Aun Pornmoniroth, the SecuritieS regulator SS='cambodia-color'>...

US ambaSSador to Cambodia Patrick Murphy Said the Kingdom&rSquo;S MiniStry of Health haS proven itSelf to be remarkably well-prepared for itS miSSion to prevent the Spread of Covid-19 Since the earlieSt dayS of the pandemic, making it one of the leading countrieS in the region SS='cambodia-color'>...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and its partners on Friday warned of an alarming decline in breastfeeding rates in Cambodia, calling for immediate action to reverse this downward trend. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government is aiming to boost the sale of carbon credits by expanding the scheme to all protected areas in Cambodia, according to Ministry of Environment spokesman Neth Pheaktra. The ministry is currently preparing an additional REDD+ project on 1.19 million hectares of land, which ss='cambodia-color'>...

Most parts of the Run Ta Ek development site in siem Reap province’s Banteay srei district – which has been allocated for those willing to relocate from the protected Angkor Archaeological Park – have already been cleared, and the developers are well underway with the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kampot provincial governor Mao Thonin offered a former battlefield turned banana plantation as an example of one of the province’s great success stories. “Once the site of immeasurable suffering, it is now a popular tourist attraction, while also producing up to 2,500 tonnes of export ss='cambodia-color'>...

Chinese investors and business people are keen to return to Cambodia following the opening of China’s borders and Cambodia, on its part, is ‘China Ready.’ The bonhomie between the business communities of the two countries came to the fore once again at a forum organised ss='cambodia-color'>...

A baby gaur was rescued by Wildlife Alliance on January 6 after being found trapped by a snare in Kampong speu province’s Oral district. The Ministry of Environment said that the calf had suffered injuries to its right front leg and had been sent to the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A total of $53.46 million in loans have been disbursed to 346 tourism-linked businesses through state-owned small and Medium Enterprise Bank of Cambodia Plc’s (sME Bank) $150 million Tourism Recovery Co-Financing scheme (TRCs) as of April 30, since the loans began to be offered in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Capfish-Capture, a project organized by the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), is giving technical and financial support to small and medium-sized enterprises (sMEs) in Cambodia’s fishing industry to promote compliance with international food safety standards, allow sMEs to upgrade their machinery, connect sMEs with microfinance ss='cambodia-color'>...

Vietnam’s Unicorn Ultra (U2U) ecosystem, an All-in-One platform for potential builders, opened its representative office in Cambodia to introduce, build and develop products applying block chain, artificial intelligence (AI), and Big Data. ss='cambodia-color'>...