Ministry mulls Alibaba deal to boost int’l sales
The government is exploring the idea of entering into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group to shore up international online sales of Cambodian products.Minister of Commerce Pan sorasak on February 14 chaired a first key meeting of an ad-hoc working ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ministry-mulls-alibaba-deal-boost-intl-sales
Google, NEC discuss election cooperation
Google Asia-Pacific’s singapore Office wants to cooperate with the National Election Committee (NEC) to prevent the spread of misinformation or ‘fake news’ that may affect the July national elections, said an NEC press release. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/google-nec-discuss-election-cooperation
Cambodia faces serious tax crimes, says Kong Vibol
Tax, economic, financial and money-laundering crimes have become major impediments in Cambodia’s march to progress said Kong Vibol, Director General of the General Department of Taxation (GDT) on Thursday. Internal tax authorities have been seriously facing tax crimes, he observed. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501261473/cambodia-faces-serious-tax-crimes-says-kong-vibol/
Press release on the memorandum of understanding (MoU) on "Cross-border QR code payment cooperation" between the National Bank of Cambodia and UnionPay International Co.,Ltd
On 10 July 2023, the National Bank of Cambodia issued a press release on the memorandum of understanding (MoU) on “Cross-border QR code payment cooperation” between the National Bank of Cambodia and UnionPay International Co.,Ltd.This MoU aims to promote efficient and secure cross-border QR Code ss='cambodia-color'>...
National Bank of Cambodia
Hun Sen: Remember the past, but look to the future
As the Kingdom looks back 45 years, while also gazing towards 2050, former Prime Minister Hun sen, who remains president of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), has offered several recommendations that should be implemented in 2024. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Raksa
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-remember-the-past-but-look-to-the-future
Maternal and child health
The number of mothers who died in labour has nearly halved over four years, from 182 fatalities in 2011 to 100 in 2015.1 Deaths among children have also dropped, although they remain comparatively high, and the prevalence of underweight newborns is high compared to many ss='cambodia-color'>...
Last days of a valley damned
Yong Yim’s voice rises to a high-pitched quiver when she talks about a planned dam in the Areng Valley that would inundate land her family has inhabited for hundreds of years to form what amounts to a giant battery. Now they are staring at ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara, David Boyle and Danson Cheong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013020861238/National/last-days-of-a-valley-damned.html
Sar Kheng Warns of ‘Trouble’ if Negotiations Stall
Interior Minister sar Kheng on Monday warned of “trouble” if opposition leader sam Rainsy does not return to the negotiating table to hammer out a solution to a stalemate between the CPP and the opposition over irregularities during the July 28 national election. Mr. Kheng made ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Daily
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/sar-kheng-warns-of-trouble-if-negotiations-stall-38401/
Demining Rats Get All Clear to Begin Testing
The battle against landmines could soon have an unlikely new weapon after a pioneering Belgian NGO signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the government on Monday to begin testing teams of sharp-sniffing rodents in Cambodia, with the goal of pitching them into the ongoing ss='cambodia-color'>...
Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/demining-rats-get-all-clear-to-begin-testing-47951/
Impoverished Cambodians for sale
Many Cambodian women arrive in South Korea or China for marriage, only to find themSelveS being choSen aS miStreSSeS, Say labour rightS activiStS. While young Cambodian men, who travel to Thailand to work on fiShing boatS, often fall prey to drug abuSe. LoSS of land, debt, SS='cambodia-color'>...
Michelle Tolson
http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/01/impoverished-cambodians-sale/
Bailed Garment Workers Speak of Injustice Ahead of March
In the weeks that 17-year-old garment worker Yon Chea languished in prison, he spent hours staring out of the window at a concrete wall, certain that he would never see his home or his family again. The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday morning granted ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara and Alice Cuddy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/bailed-garment-workers-speak-of-injustice-ahead-of-march-51759/
Stability, growth require job creation
Cambodia is entering a new phase of economic growth in which the development of a skilled workforce will be critical to social stability and regional competitiveness, government officials and economists said Thursday at the 2014 Cambodia Outlook Conference. Delivering the keynote speech at the conference, Prime ss='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/stability-growth-require-job-creation-53317/
Government Hopes for Chevron Offshore Oil Deal This Year
The Cambodian government expects U.s. oil major Chevron Corp. CVX +0.77% to begin developing the country’s first offshore oil field early next year, and hopes the nation will become a regional hot spot for oil and gas investment, a government official said Wednesday. Cambodia has vast untapped oil and gas resources ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443507204578020023711640726.html
Open Development Cambodia has added two new features of Veal Ou Kdey and Phnom Raing community forestry to Community forestry profile page
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has just added two new features of Veal Ou Kdey and Phnom Raing community forestry to Community forestry profile page, thereby expanding the profile page to contain a total of 339 community forests in Cambodia. Published with comprehensive documentation, the profile ss='cambodia-color'>...
Australia supports Cambodia's economic recovery through the Mekong-Australia Partnership
On 18 August 2021, Australian Embassy in Cambodia issued a media release on the support of Australia towards Cambodia’s economic recovery through the Mekong-Australia Partnership. COVID-19 has caused major disruptions for Cambodia’s economic development, meaning Cambodia will need to find new sources for sustainable and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Australian Embassy in Cambodia
ODC participated in BarCamp ASEAN 2018
Barcamp ASEAN 2018 took place on October 20-21, at InStitute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC), Phnom Penh, Cambodia. ThiS BarCamp ASEAN 2018 broke the world&rSquo;S largeSt BarCamp record having over 8,000 participantS, 60 exhibitorS, over 95 SpeakerS on 85 topicS and 1,000 companieS and organizationS. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Adaptation
UN’s Bali Climate Change Conference. Photo by Oxfam International, taken on 4 December 2007. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Climate change is a continuing problem. In southeast Asia, Cambodia is one of the countries that is most affected and underprepared. As it is a developing country, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Government
Cambodia is set up as a multi-party democracy under a constitutional monarchy. The King serves as the head of state and the Prime Minister is the head of the Royal Government of Cambodia. Norodom sihamoni,53 the King, was crowned in 2004 after the abdication of ss='cambodia-color'>...
‘Rice Dubai 2011’ Sees Dubai as Thriving Re-export Market
DUBAI — The Founding Committee of Rice Dubai 2011 is led by a businessman in Dubai, Dr Faisal Ali Mousa who will lead a core delegation to Cambodia in the first week of september to explore the possibilities of the Royal Government of Cambodia entering ss='cambodia-color'>...