Exports rise in value, lower imports
Cambodian total export values amounted to $5.9 billion, a year-on-year increase of 11.7 percent in the first five months of this year. The value of Cambodia’s total imports amounted to $8.1 billion, a decrease by 1 percent in the same period, compared with 2019, according ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50749966/exports-rise-in-value-lower-imports/
Press release: The Kingdom of Cambodia is among the first countries to receive COVID-19 vaccine, AstraZeneca from COVAX
On 03 March 2021, the Ministry of Health issued a press release stating that the Kingdom of Cambodia is among the first countries to receive COVID-19 vaccine, AstraZeneca from COVAX. The 324,000 doses of vaccine, which arrived on 02 March 2021 is the first total ...
Ministry of Health
Press release on the soft launch of Bakong Touris App
On 19 August 2024, the National Bank of Cambodia issued a press release on the soft launch of Bakong Touris App on their official website. According to the press, H.E. Dr. Chea Serey, Governor of the National Bank of Cambodia, presided over the soft launch ...
National Bank of Cambodia
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated a dataset on "Commune/Sangkat budget in 2023"
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated a dataset on “Commune/Sangkat budget in 2023” in Sangkat Ou Chrov and Ou Reusey. This dataset shows the expenditures and revenues in 2023 of each commune in the targeted communes/Sangkat under the Innovation for Social Accountability in Cambodia (ISAC).= >Please ...
Press release on the outcome of the meeting of the National Council on Minimum Wage
On 6 September 2024, the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training issued a press release on the outcome of the meeting of the National Council on Minimum Wage on their official social media site. According to the press, the National Council on Minimum Wage resumes ...
Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training
Strung Treng flood rescue efforts continue through elections
As the nation was in an election mood on Sunday, authorities revealed more than 1,400 families were impacted by floods in Siem Pang and Sesan, Strung Treng province after the collapse of a hydropower dam in southern Laos on Monday evening. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strung-treng-flood-rescue-efforts-continue-through-elections
Voting goes on quietly in Takeo
The election in Takeo province’s 1,585 polling stations went smoothly on Sunday, though it was relatively quiet compared to the 2013 national polls and the 2017 commune council elections, officials from the provincial election committee (PEC) and participating political parties said. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/voting-goes-quietly-takeo
Authorities bust illegal fishing
At least 1,843 cases of illegal fishing were busted by the authorities in the last eight months and 19 out of 89 perpetrators were imprisoned by the court, said a report on the overall result of fisheries crimes cracked down nationwide. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-bust-illegal-fishing
Big investments can succeed in Cambodia - Nagaworld
NagaWorld has just celebrated its 21st anniversary since its inception on May 1, 1995, and sited near the beautiful Mekong River in the capital city of Phnom Penh, NagaWorld is the biggest integrated entertainment resort in the Mekong region. ...
Khmer Time Team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25642/big--investments-can-succeed--in-cambodia---nagaworld/
Government admits to issues in obtaining drug care
The government marked World Drug Day on Sunday by setting fire to almost 1.5 tons of confiscated drugs in a schoolyard in Phnom Penh. Officials conceded that efforts to curb usage were failing, pointing to a lack of public knowledge and participation. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-admits-to-issues-in-obtaining-drug-care-114644/
Driver error leading cause of road traffic accidents in Cambodia
Human error is the leading cause of road traffic accidents in Cambodia and young people on motorcycles make up the largest number of deaths on the nation’s roads, where 1,108 fatalities were recorded in the first six months of 2016. ...
Dy Khamboly
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/driver-error-leading-cause-of-road-traffic-accidents-in-cambodia/3395621.html
Federation sees opening on digital path
Cambodia’s young, tech-enthusiastic population is a gateway to accessing the global market digitally, according to the ICT Federation of Cambodia, with its president – Steven Path – estimating that the information and communication technology sector is already nearing about $1 billion in sales. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24307/federation-sees-opening-on-digital-path/
Cost of state healthcare announced
According to a Labor Ministry prakas, or official statement, both employers and employees will be responsible for paying 1.3 percent of an employees’ monthly salary to the government for state-supplied health insurance guaranteed to all workers under the Labor Law. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26176/cost-of-state-healthcare-announced/
Teachers push for higher wages, rural schools with books
Teachers are demanding that their salaries be raised to 1.5 million riel (about $270) per month next year, and are warning the government that if this does not happen, they will continue protesting “like a headache that will not go away.” ...
Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16536/teachers-push-for-higher-wages--rural-schools-with-books/
Sar Kheng paying traffic cops bonus out of own pocket
Interior Minister Sar Kheng has been paying traffic officers daily bonuses directly from his own pocket since January 1, information he revealed on Friday at a ministerial meeting on the transparent disbursement of traffic fine revenue, officials said yesterday. ...
Bun Sengkong and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-paying-traffic-cops-bonus-out-own-pocket
Two await trial for breach of court order in land dispute
Two women were arrested on Friday for allegedly breaching a court order related to an ongoing dispute over 1,000 hectares of land they live on along with 165 other families in Kompong Speu province’s Phnom Sruoch district. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-await-trial-for-breach-of-court-order-in-land-dispute-109794/
Workers ask for help after factory closed
About 1,000 workers and employees of the Victco Handbags Cambodia Industrial factory, an Adidas supplier before it abruptly suspended operations earlier this year, marched in Kampong Speu’s Samrong Tong district to the provincial hall yesterday morning to deliver a petition. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25286/workers-ask-for-help-after-factory-closed/
Families to receive land titles
Prime Minister Hun Sen has decided to cut land from an economic land concession (ELC) and a rubber plantation to grant land titles to more than 1,000 villagers in Tbong Khmum province’s Memot district, according to the Land Management Ministry. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28859/families-to-receive-land-titles/
In wage protest, hundreds of garment workers block road
More than 1,000 garment workers from a factory in Kandal province’s Takhmao City blocked a public road on Wednesday in protest over unpaid wages that have left them struggling to afford food and pay their rents, a union official said. ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-wage-protest-hundreds-of-garment-workers-block-road-129890/
NGOs help six more workers to repatriate from Malaysia
NGOs in Cambodia and Malaysia are working with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to repatriate six of the 30 Cambodians who sought shelter at the country’s embassy after the Malaysian government started mass arrests of undocumented migrant workers on July 1. ...
Zsomber Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngos-help-six-more-workers-to-repatriate-from-malaysia-132923/