Minister urges China telecoms to build digital infrastructure
Newly appointed Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Chea Vandeth urged two Chinese telecom giants – China Communication Construction Co Ltd (CCCC) and Huawei Technologies Co Ltd – to further invest in the Kingdom’s telecommunications infrastructure in a move to bring Cambodia into the full realm ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/minister-urges-china-telecoms-build-digital-infrastructure
Traffic fine increase gets green light
Nearly a year after being signed into law, Cambodia’s new traffic code is just weeks from finally being enforced.National Police chief Neth savoeun yesterday said that drivers have had plenty of notice, and the time for implementation has come. As of January 1, fines for ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/traffic-fine-increase-gets-green-light
UN officials blocked from visiting villages near dam
Since Sunday, Military Police and provincial police officialS have been&nbSp;Stopping outSiderS from entering&nbSp;SeSan diStrict&rSquo;S Srekor and Kbal Romea villageS aS 200 people &ndaSh; moStly ethnic minoritieS from all over Cambodia &ndaSh; continued to gather in defiance of the blockade for a SerieS of eventS, including SS='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly and Martin de Bourmont
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-officials-blocked-visiting-villages-near-dam
Future bourse potential touted
The lacklustre performance of Cambodia’s stock exchange, which has attracted only four companies since it launched in 2011 and whose stocks see days without a single trade, is expected to turn a corner soon, capital markets experts said during a panel discussion yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/future-bourse-potential-touted
Peacekeeper killed in Central African Republic
Cambodians at home and abroad yesterday mourned the passing of peacekeeper Im sam, who was shot to death during a guerrilla ambush in Central African Republic. He was the Kingdom’s first peacekeeper to ever be killed in combat, officials said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/peacekeeper-killed-central-african-republic
PM pushes voter registration amid claims of inaction
The National Election Committee (NEC) and all political parties should urge citizens – including those overseas – to register to vote, Prime Minister Hun sen said yesterday, even as a prominent opposition lawmaker accused the government of offering “nothing” to enfranchise Cambodia’s thousands of migrant workers. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara, Bun Sengkong and Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-pushes-voter-registration-amid-claims-inaction
Few takers for emergency rice loans
With the Kingdom’s main rice harvesting season wrapping up, just a fraction of a government emergency loan package that aimed at giving millers the liquidity they needed to purchase rice paddy duringthe harvest cycle has been disbursed, leaving the government and private sector divided on ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/few-takers-emergency-rice-loans
Planning ministry hands out cash to 420,000 poor families in Kingdom
The Ministry of Planning has identified 20,000 more poor families in the country, bringing the total to over 580,000, while over 420,000 of them have received the government’s cash assistance. In the meantime, many social security cards from families not deemed to be poor have ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/planning-ministry-hands-out-cash-420000-poor-families-kingdom
Trimmer 2021 budget: Government plans 50 percent drop in spending
Amid the outbreak of the coronavirus the government plans to trim the 2021 state budget to around $4 billion, accounting for about a 50 percent drop from this year’s state budget, including an 11.3 percent drop for social affairs and 6.4 percent for general administration. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50734167/trimmer-2021-budget-government-plans-50-percent-drop-in-spending/
BirdLife pilots buffalo breeding project to cut down on hunting
BirdLife International Cambodia is testing a new buffalo breeding project by giving farmers female buffalo to breed as an alternative to hunting. The project aims to put an end to hunting in the Boeung Prek Lpov Protected Landscape in Takeo province’s Koh Andet and Borei Cholsar ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/birdlife-pilots-buffalo-breeding-project-cut-down-hunting
‘Viable’ Boeung Kak option floated
More than enough vacant plots exist within Boeung Kak lake’s 12.44-hectare concession area to house those denied land permits, a new NGO report says. sahmakum Teang Tnaut claims to have found “a viable and practical” solution for households excluded from the unmarked land the prime minister ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012070357170/National-news/viable-boeung-kak-option.html
TNS launches new office in Cambodia
International market- research company TNs has announced the opening of the company’s first office in Cambodia, and has joined forces with MsD, a Cambodian market and social research firm that is a “long-standing partner”, an official company statement said. Ralf Matthaes has been appointed regional managing ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012062256943/Business/tns-new-office-cambodia.html
Exports climb 20% on $14B worth of Cambodian goods
Cambodia exported $14.1 billion worth of goods in the first nine months of this year, up 20.07 per cent from the same period last year, despite Covid-19’s production-chain disruptions and its impact on global demand, the Ministry of Economy and Finance reported. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exports-climb-20-14b-worth-cambodian-goods
Nutrilatt, parents will head to court over formula effects
The Ministry of Commerce’s General Department of Consumer Protection, Competition and Fraud Repression will send a case involving the parents of 24 infants who were allegedly affected by consuming the milk powder products of Nutrilatt Master LM Co, Ltd to court on November 14. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nutrilatt-parents-will-head-court-over-formula-effects
Blockchain cited as boost to public trust in financial institutions
At this week’s 2020 Global Blockchain Policy Forum, Assistant Governor and Director-General of Central Banking, National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) Chea serey stressed the need for building public trust in financial institutions and how the new Bakong payment system and infrastructure, built on blockchain technology, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Jason Boken
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/783940/blockchain-cited-as-boost-to-public-trust-in-financial-institutions/
Seeds sown for Stung Treng agriculture
Stung Treng provincial authoritieS will work with integrated food-diStribution company Hun Ty Co Ltd to exploit the province&rSquo;S potential for crop cultivation and potentially Set up a proceSSing plant for export down the line, provincial adminiStration SpokeSman Men Kung told The PoSt on November 26. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/seeds-sown-stung-treng-agriculture
USAID One window for citizen project launches civic tech tools connecting citizens to information on one window services
Today, USAID launched telephone and Social media toolS that will provide Cambodian citizenS clear, tranSparent information on public ServiceS available to them through the Royal Cambodian Government&rSquo;S One Window Service OfficeS (OWSO). The toolS were developed by the USAID funded One Window for CitizenS (OW4C) SS='cambodia-color'>...
USAID
Cambodia receives medical aid to combat COVID-19 from UAE
The UAE Tuesday sent an aid plane carrying 5 metric tonnes of medical supplies and testing kits to Cambodia to bolster the country’s efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19. This aid will assist approximately 5,000 medical professionals as they work to contain the virus. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
http://khmertimeskh.com/50759831/cambodia-receives-medical-aid-to-combat-covid-19-from-uae/
CDC approves $31.7M animal farm
As part of the government’s effort to secure private investments for food production, the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) earlier this week approved a $31.7 million investment project by Kang Hwa E&C (Cambodia) Co Ltd to build a commercial animal farm in Kampong ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cdc-approves-317m-animal-farm
Cambodia continues to draw FDI despite loss of EBA with another four investment projects worth $37.6 million
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has given the green light to four more investment projects with a total investment capital of $37.6 million. According to the council’s press release issued Friday, the projects newly approved are expected to create some 6,338 jobs ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phal Sophanith/AKP
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50776597/cambodia-continues-to-draw-fdi-despite-loss-of-eba-with-another-four-investment-projects-worth-37-6-million/