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Cambodia gears up to host Mekong Tourism Forum

About 150 tourism leaders from across the Greater Mekong Region will gather in Sihanoukville for this year’s Mekong Tourism Forum, hosted by Cambodia ...

Marissa Carruthers
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-gears-up-to-host-mekong-tourism-forum

Cambodia’s manufacturing output reaches $15 billion in 2022

Cambodia’s manufacturing output hit $15.8 billion in 2022, a remarkable increase of 83 percent year on year, the Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation (MISTI)’s report showed on Tuesday. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501247369/cambodias-manufacturing-output-reaches-15-billion-in-2022/

CDC unveils 27 projects in Jan-Feb

The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) notices issued year-to-February 28 reveal that it has greenlit 27 new private investment projects – 19 in textile-related sectors – worth a cumulative $198.2 million, which are expected to generate a total of 39,914 jobs. ...

Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cdc-unveils-27-projects-jan-feb

PM Hun Sen urges attention to boost tourism

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called on all stakeholders to pay high attention and do their best to boost the country’s tourism sector. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501246669/pm-hun-sen-urges-attention-to-boost-tourism/

Final cash support for Siem Reap tourism workers

The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training will make the final cash support payment to 129 tourism workers in Siem Reap province whose employment contracts were suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic. ...

Chea Sokny
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/final-cash-support-siem-reap-tourism-workers

PM Hun Sen urges attention to boost tourism

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called on all stakeholders to pay high attention and do their best to boost the country’s tourism sector. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501246669/pm-hun-sen-urges-attention-to-boost-tourism/

Push to promote ecotourism

The Minister of Tourism is calling on tour operators to push the Kingdom’s ecotourism communities to boost the sector as two ecotourism destinations receive the ASEAN Ecotourism Standard Award. ...

Seng Mengheng
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-push-to-promote-ecotourism

Monkeys in Angkor posing a risk to tourists

The number of monkeys living in Angkor resort area has increased and are becoming a risk to tourists. According to APSARA National Authority, the monkeys no longer enter the forest in search of food but instead wait for food from humans and sometimes snatch food ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501243550/monkeys-in-angkor-posing-a-risk-to-tourists/

Cambodia urges Thailand to expedite construction of border admn facility

The Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MPWT) of the Royal Government of Cambodia has urged its Thailand counterpart to expedite the construction of its administrative building at the Steung Bat-Ban Nong Ian International Border and prepare relevant documents so that both parties can open ...

Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501242859/cambodia-urges-thailand-to-expedite-construction-of-border-admn-facility/

A cruise ship visits Sihanoukville with 500 multinational tourists

Nautica, a cruise ship sailing under the flag of the Marshall Islands, in on a day-long visit in Cambodia. The cruise ship with 535 tourists of 36 different nationalities on board docked at Sihanoukville Autonomous Port yesterday  morning. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501244026/a-cruise-ship-visits-sihanoukville-with-500-multinational-tourists/

Tourism development underway in Kampong Chhnang province

The government has allocated over 600 hectares of land in Phnom Aural wildlife sanctuary in Kampong Chhnang province to a private company for development. ...

Son Minea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501242843/tourism-development-underway-in-kampong-chhnang-province/

Trapaing Sangke community wins two ASEAN ecotourism awards

The Trapaing Sangke Community of Kampot province has received two awards from the ASEAN Community, the ASEAN Standard Tourism Community Award and the ASEAN Standard Tourism Community Guesthouse Award. ...

Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501241630/trapaing-sangke-community-wins-two-asean-ecotourism-awards/

Sihanoukville to inject life into abandoned buildings

There are 400 abandoned  buildings in Sihanoukville and authorities want to do something about the eyesore. Preah Sihanouk Governor Kuoch Chamroeun said Sihanoukville has 1,006 high-rise buildings of which 359 were unfinished and abandoned. ...

Son Minea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501240334/sihanoukville-to-inject-life-into-abandoned-buildings/

Improve labour conditions or face fines

In a push to improve conditions for workers, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training has issued a warning to establishments nationwide. The ministry will take legal action against any enterprise that is negligent or refuses to improve working conditions. Enterprises must ensure the safety, ...

Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501240208/improve-labour-conditions-or-face-fines/

PM talks tourism with Laotian Premier during visit

Launching direct flights linking Cambodia and Laos was top of the agenda during a two-day official visit by Prime Minister Hun Sen to the neighboring nation . ...

Seng Mengheng
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-pm-talks-tourism-with-laotian-premier-during-visit

Cambodia clears 9 investment plans in garment, footwear, travel goods

The Cambodian Investment Board under the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) recently approved investment proposals for 11 more companies, creating 11,000 jobs. The companies will have a total investment of $57.3 million. Nine of these are in the garment, footwear and travel goods ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501239855/cambodia-clears-9-investment-plans-in-garment-footwear-travel-goods/

Authorities aided alleged union-busting at Puma-supplying factory

In October 2022, Bora believed forming a union at his Takeo province shoe factory would help him and his colleagues gain better benefits. ...

Jack Brook, Sovann Sreypich, and Phin Rathana
https://cambojanews.com/authorities-aid-alleged-union-busting-at-puma-supplying-factory/

Cambodia, Japan eye silk manufacturing partnership

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) and the Japan-Cambodia Association and Japanese investors in Cambodia are considering possibility in silk manufacturing partnership. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501236413/cambodia-japan-eye-silk-manufacturing-partnership/

Restoration work of West Top Temple to complete soon

APSARA National Authority in collaboration with the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties of Japan is working to complete the restoration of the central tower of the West Top Temple in the next four to five months, announced the authority’s news release yesterday morning. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501236392/restoration-work-of-west-top-temple-to-complete-soon/

Restoration work on Angkor Thom’s Takav Gate completed

The restoration work on the Takav Gate in the western part of Angkor Thom temple in the famed Angkor Archeological Park in northwest Cambodia’s Siem Reap province has been 100 percent completed, the Apsara National Authority (ANA) said in a news release on Wednesday. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501235640/restoration-work-on-angkor-thoms-takav-gate-completed/

Hoa Phat receives many orders to export steel in January, including Cambodia

In the early days of this year, Hoa Phat Group secured many orders to export its steel products to the US, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong (China), and Cambodia. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501234931/hoa-phat-receives-many-orders-to-export-steel-in-january-including-cambodia/

High hopes for Cambodia’s tourism boom after comeback of Chinese tourists

Cambodia has pinned high hopes for its tourism recovery after Chinese tourists gradually returned to the Southeast Asian nation. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501234924/high-hopes-for-cambodias-tourism-boom-after-comeback-of-chinese-tourists/

Cambodia welcomes Chinese tourists without any health-related restrictions

Outbound tourism by Chinese citizens, which had been suspended for nearly three years, has gradually resumed since China optimized its COVID-19 response and entry-exit policies on January 8. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501234105/cambodia-welcomes-chinese-tourists-without-any-health-related-restrictions/

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