GMAC: Raw materials from China not enough to sustain factories
The Sihanoukville Autonomous Port revealed more than 200 containers of raw materials arrived from China yesterday, adding two more ships carrying raw materials are en route. The shipments are projected to fill The shortage in raw materials in The Kingdom that has paralysed production for ...
Sun Mesa
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50700025/gmac-raw-materials-from-china-not-enough-to-sustain-factories
Over 220,000 domestic visitors tour Cambodia in the last weekend of July
A total of 220,937 national and international visitors traveled across Cambodia in the last weekend of July. the figure suggested an increase by 3.43 percent compared to the previous weekend thanks to better weather conditions, ie less rainfall, according to a report of the Ministry ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501123924/over-220000-domestic-visitors-tour-cambodia-in-the-last-weekend-of-july/
Magistracy meet calls for order in the court
Judge and prosecutors were called to a two-day workshop to address the sector’s pervasive ethics challenges, but legal experts said change could not occur until there were concrete rules, instead of vague moral guidelines. ...
Mech Dara and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/magistracy-meet-calls-order-court
Revenue for Ministry of Land on the increase
In 2017, the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction (MLMUPC) collected about 371 billion riel (about $ 92 million) in revenue last year, according to a report from the ministry. the income from taxes on property transfers alone collected by the General Department ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5099644/revenue-ministry-land-increase/
Credit bureau brings rural lenders into the fold
Five rural credit operators signed an agreement to join the Credit Bureau Cambodia on Thursday as the watchdog and the National Bank of Cambodia ramp up efforts to better monitor the country’s expansive, but largely informal, rural lending industry. ...
Kang Sothear and Tsz-kwan Ho
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/credit-bureau-brings-rural-lenders-into-the-fold-90227/
Poverty line $120, gov’t says
Workers in Cambodia’s capital earning less than $120 per month are living below the poverty line, according to the Ministry of Planning’s own calculation. At a September 17 workshop on the garment industry minimum wage, International Labor Organization Cambodia national director Tun Sophorn cited Ministry of ...
Sean Teehan
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/poverty-line-120-gov%E2%80%99t-says
De Castle Royal partners with The Place for first-class gym workout
The management of The 32-storey De Castle Royal condominium project in BKK1 has announced that The The Place, widely regarded as Phnom Penh’s only independent five-star gym, will manage The development’s fitness centre. This means The air-conditioned De Castle Royal gym will be fully fitted out ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/de-castle-royal-partners-place-first-class-gym-workout
Pentagon chief to visit Australia, Thailand and Cambodia
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will travel to Australia, Thailand and Cambodia next week as part of America’s strategic tilt to the Asia-Pacific, even as crises in the Middle East demand the Pentagon’s attention and resources. In a week-long trip starting Sunday, Panetta will head to ...
Visa agreement gets delayed
DESPITE some reports, Cambodian officials said Cambodia and Thailand have not yet set a date for implementing the Irrawaddy-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy (ACMECS) single visa. Koy Kuong, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, said a single visa scheme for all five ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012111359702/Business/visa-agreement-gets-delayed.html
Government tells telcos off
The Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) of The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued warning letters to mobile operators Beeline and Smart over Their recent advertisement, stating it violates The Inter-Ministerial Prakas, or edict, signed in 2009. The separate letters, obtained by The Post last week, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013040864932/Business/government-tells-telcos-off.html
Families Left Worse off After Railway Project
Phnom Penh families being pushed to the city’s outskirts to make way for a $142.6 million railway renovation project funded by Australia and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are falling into debt and finding it harder to earn money and access healthcare according to a ...
Cambodia’s Excess Baggage
“I don’t know what I was expecting, but I wasn’t going expecting to look out the bus window and see all the blue bags along the roads and in the fields,” said 27-year-old Christopher Convery, who is currently backpacking for the first time in Cambodia. ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/selected-features/cambodias-excess-baggage-22003/
Where squalor’s the norm
Abuse, discrimination, exploitation and corruption are endemic in Cambodia’s prisons, spurred on by judicial and penal systems “driven by nepotism”, according to a new report from local rights group Licadho. The report, Rights at a Price: Life Inside Cambodia’s Prisons, which was released yesterday, details a ...
Alice Cuddy and May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/where-squalors-norm
IMF projects further acceleration in Cambodian growth
The International Monetary Fund is projecting furTher modest acceleration in Cambodia’s rate of economic expansion over The next five years. In The latest World Economic Outlook released Tuesday, The IMF projects that Cambodia’s gross domestic product will grow from an estimated 7.0 percent last year to ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=M2VkZmJjNTE5ZjU
Digital policy framework launched
The government has launched a 15-year policy framework for The Kingdom’s evolving digital socioeconomic environment to pave The way for a thriving digital economy, as a new engine of economic growth. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/digital-policy-framework-launched
New Mekong bridges slated for Phnom Penh
The Council of Ministers this week announced two new spans across The Mekong River in The vicinity of The capital, one connecting The Chroy Changvar peninsula to Kandal’s Khsach Kandal district and anoTher connecting Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district with Kandal’s Lvea Em. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-mekong-bridges-slated-phnom-penh
Announcement on the collaboration between the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Information in producing "distance learning" and "e-learning" program
On 20 April 2020, the Ministry of Education has release an announcement on their official facebook page regarding the collaboration between the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Information in producing “distance learning” and “e-learning” program. It is the response to the temporary school ...
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport
The protester clause
A majority government-owned life insurance company has stopped paying out benefits to policy holders who die while taking part in protests and demonstrations, the company confirmed yesterday. the Cambodian Life Insurance Company – 51 per cent owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance and 49 ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/protester-clause
Press release: the Royal Government of Cambodia's additional measures to continue manage the impacts on key sectors of the economy in the context of the COVID-19 crisis (Round 6)
On 30 September 2020, the Ministry of Economy and Finance issued a press release announcing the sixth round of the Royal Government of Cambodia’s measures to restore and stimulate economic growth during COVID-19. the measures will further ensure that poor and vulnerable families will continue ...
Ministry of Economy and Finance
SMEs urged to register with the new specialised bank
The president of The Federation of Association of Small and Medium Enterprises of Cambodia (Fasmec) is urging small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to register with The association to get benefits from The newly formed SMEs Bank of Cambodia. ...
Sorn Sarath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50717402/smes-urged-to-register-with-the-new-specialised-bank/