Bringing Cambodia-Australia ties to a higher level, 70 years on
This year, Cambodia and Australia celebrated the 70th anniversary of their diplomatic relations. Ties were first established in 1952, a year before Cambodia attained its independence from the French. Over the decades, the two countries in the Indo-Pacific have proven to be great cooperative partners ...
Taing Rinith
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501035548/bringing-cambodia-australia-ties-to-a-higher-level-70-years-on/
2nd rescued giant stingray returned to river’s depths
The Mekong River Wonder project – in collaboration with the Inland Fisheries Research and Development Institute (IFREDI) – released a gigantic freshwater stingray back into the river, after it was caught by fishermen on May 22 in Koh Preah commune of Stung Treng province’s Siem ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/2nd-rescued-giant-stingray-returned-rivers-depths
Pursat Ford assembly plant opens
The Kingdom’s first Ford assembly plant was inaugurated on June 16 in Pursat province amid rising demand for brand-new vehicles among Cambodians. The facility is seen as a game changer for the domestic automobile industry, which could bring a wave of investors seeking to cash ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pursat-ford-assembly-plant-opens
China-backed 700MW coal power station online: HSPGC
Huadian Sihanoukville Power Generation Co Ltd (HSPGC), under China’s Huadian Overseas Investment Co Ltd, on December 16 officially put online the “number-two unit” of its 700MW coal-fired HSPGC Power Plant in Preah Sihanouk province, after a successful commissioning test, making it the largest power station ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/china-backed-700mw-coal-power-station-online-hspgc
Three community forestry networks join Canadian biodiversity conference
Representatives of three community networks involved in forests and biodiversity protection are invited to attend the 15th UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal, Canada, on December 7-19, 2022 by considering this involvement as an important motivator for them to continue to protect the forest. ...
Rann Reuy
https://www.postkhmer.com/national/2022-12-13-1734-244662.html
Ground breaks on Battambang water plant
Ground has been broken on a new water treatment plant in Battambang province which will serve the provincial capital. The plant, in Kampong Wat Kor commune’s Seima village of the town, is co-financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Agence Francaise de Developpement- AFD ...
Yuth Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ground-breaks-battambang-water-plant
Gov’t to launch informal economic policy this year
The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) is set to prepare and launch the informal economy policy before the end of 2023 to develop and upgrade the informal sector in a management system under the formal economy, said a top official of the Ministry of Economy ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501230999/govt-to-launch-informal-economic-policy-this-year/
Demand dip drives down int’l rubber sales by 9%
Cambodia netted more than $348 million from the export of rubber latex and wood in the first nine months of 2022, falling by nine per cent year-on-year due to downward pressure on global demand, especially from China and Europe, the latter of which has seen ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/demand-dip-drives-down-intl-rubber-sales-9
250 Families near Ta Mok lake complain to UN to help monitor their land disputes
About 40 people representing 250 families living next to Ta Mok Lake in Sangkat Samrong, Khan Prek Pnov, Phnom Penh, on Monday filed a petition to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia (UN) to request this body to help monitor land disputes and ...
Khut Sokun
https://www.vodkhmer.news/2022/10/03/thousands-of-mobilised-russians-sent-home-unfit-for-military-duty-2/
Preah Vihear irrigation pond project promising
The Sansom Mlup Prey Organisation (SMP) has dug a total of three ponds as part of its pilot project on wildlife-friendly community irrigation ponds in the Kulen Prom Tep protected area in Preah Vihear province, where most residents depend on agriculture and often face water ...
Hong Raksmey
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-irrigation-pond-project-promising
Planning ministry to release 2021 agricultural survey findings early 2023
The Ministry of Planning will announce the results of the Cambodia Agricultural Survey 2021 (CAS2021) early next year, while a working group will begin the 2022 agricultural survey in early October. The CAS 2020 report showed that 57 per cent of household agricultural holdings are ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/planning-ministry-release-2021-agricultural-survey-findings-early-2023
Health ministry signs cataract MoU with China’s GX Foundation
The Cambodian Ministry of Health and the GX Foundation of China signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on September 19 on a project to help eliminate cataract blindness in Cambodia by providing treatment to people in Prey Veng province. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/health-ministry-signs-cataract-mou-chinas-gx-foundation
Lumphat villagers consent to REDD+ project: NatureLife
The residents of 16 villages in Ratanakkiri and Mondulkiri provinces have consented to the launch of the REDD+ project in the Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary. NatureLife announced on May 2 that under the auspices of the BirdLife International Cambodia Programme and the USAID-Green Heritage Project, it had ...
Chea Sokny
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lumphat-villagers-consent-redd-project-naturelife
UN, GGGI and Government of Cambodia announce support to green bond issuers
In March, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), and the Securities and Exchange Regulator of Cambodia (SERC), in collaboration with the Credit Guarantee and Investment Facility (CGIF) and GuarantCo, part of the ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501314877/un-gggi-and-government-of-cambodia-announce-support-to-green-bond-issuers/
Gov’t sticks with 5.6% growth forecast
The government has kept its baseline projection for Cambodia’s economic growth this year at 5.6 percent, which was announced in late January, marking a sharp drop from the 6.6 per cent put forward in October, as the Ukraine conflict and geopolitical unrest caused regional and ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-sticks-56-growth-forecast
Conservationists celebrate new greater adjutant hatchlings
The Angkor Centre for Conservation of Biodiversity (ACCB) in Siem Reap welcomed the birth of two new greater adjutants. They told national news that the two new greater adjutant hatchlings were bred in captivity. The first hatchling hatched on December 24 and the second hatchling ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501224939/conservationists-celebrate-new-greater-adjutant-hatchlings/
S Treng seeks investors for cashew development
In future, Stung Treng province will attract investment in large factories and manufacturing enterprises that will process agricultural raw materials into value-added processed products, particularly cashew nuts, which have been recognised for their commercial potential, officials said. ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/s-treng-seeks-investors-cashew-development
CDC approves $2.9 billion Japanese investment projects
The Council of the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has approved 150 investment projects worth approximately $2.9 billion proposed by Japanese investors in the country as of the end of January this year, according to the figures released in a press release issued yesterday by CDC ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501243067/cdc-approves-2-9-billion-japanese-investment-projects/
Jan-Apr rubbers exports bounce up 38%: GDCE
Cambodia earned $206.728 million from the export of “rubber and articles thereof” in the first four months of 2023, up 38.0 per cent year-on-year from $149.808 million and up 22.7 per cent half-on-half (compared to July-October 2022) from $168.5 million, according to provisional Customs (GDCE) ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/jan-apr-rubbers-exports-bounce-38-gdce
Cambodia promotes water action by all for World Food Day 2023
Cambodia joined countries across the globe to promote water action as part of the country’s 2023 World Food Day commemoration, which took place in Kouloab commune, Chet Borei district in Kratie province. The commemoration event was held under the global theme, Water is Life, Water ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501380934/cambodia-promotes-water-action-by-all-for-world-food-day-2023/