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Farmers propose lower tax on agriculture imports
The Cambodian Farmer Community (CCFC) has asked the government to intervene and solve the high price of agriculture products for poor farmers and lower the tax on agriculture imports and find a way to help farmers produce fertilizers and pesticides locally rather than using all ...
Yin Soeum
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50913318/farmers-propose-lower-tax-on-agriculture-imports/
Cambodia to host 27th ASEAN Transport Ministers’ meeting in November
Cambodia has scheduled to host the 27th ASEAN Transport Ministers’ Meeting on Nov. 10-11, 2021. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50913385/cambodia-to-host-27th-asean-transport-ministers-meeting-in-november/
Government promises countrywide mobile and internet coverage by 2027
Cambodia is on track to have telephone antennas in all communes and districts across the Kingdom by 2027, according to Telecommunications Minister Chea Vandeth. ...
Michael Firn
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50913294/government-promises-countrywide-mobile-and-internet-coverage-by-2027/
Kingdom will have a say in the global tax reform process
A major global tax overhaul that will set a tax floor of 15 percent has the ability to level the playing field when attracting international investments from technology companies and increase the Kingdom’s coffers. ...
Husain Haider
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50913195/kingdom-will-have-a-say-in-the-global-tax-reform-process/
Siem Reap airport remains open for flights amid COVID-19 crisis
Siem Reap International Airport on Sunday served an Airbus-330 flying from Basel –Switzerland for a rest-stop and the aircraft headed to Hong Kong later on the same day. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50913397/siem-reap-airport-remains-open-for-flights-amid-covid-19-crisis/
Sinking feeling: CAA making a splash over aquaculture as sector flounders
Aquaculture production could experience a marginal decline this year as discouraging prices and other market forces prompt farmers to reduce the amount of juvenile fish used to stock their ponds, or go as far as to temporarily halt operations, according to the Cambodian Aquaculturist Association ...
Gov’t rebuts UN rights experts’ claims of targeting ‘defenders’ as baseless
The government has refuted the concern made by five United Nations human rights experts who reported that Cambodian authorities are “targeting, threatening and criminalising” human rights defenders, saying the concern is “baseless”. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50912504/govt-rebuts-un-rights-experts-claims-of-targeting-defenders-as-baseless/
Imports of fertilisers, pesticides over 900K tonnes
Cambodia imported 47,409 tonnes of pesticides and 858,632 tonnes of agricultural fertilisers in the first five months of 2021, a “sharp increase” year-on-year, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries reported on August 9. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/imports-fertilisers-pesticides-over-900k-tonnes
SSEZ handles $1.2B in goods
The value of imports and exports passing through the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) reached $1.185 billion in the first seven months of 2021, an increase of 44.51 per cent year-on-year, the operator reported. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ssez-handles-12b-goods
Hun Sen: No triple-shot of AstraZeneca Covid jab
Prime Minister Hun has reminded civil servants and government officials as well as the general public who have already received first and second doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines that they should not use that vaccine again for their third, booster shot. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-no-triple-shot-astrazeneca-covid-jab
Kingdom in quest of perfect rice
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon on August 9 urged farmers across the country to increase the cultivation of fragrant rice to promote the industry in the Kingdom. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-quest-perfect-rice
Modernised government services goal of digital plan
The Ministry of Interior’s “digital government” working group has been discussing a draft master plan for information and communication technology (ICT) in accordance with the master plan of the national government – called e-government – to modernise public services. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/modernised-government-services-goal-digital-plan
Cambodia has successfully vaccinated 8,396,613 people or 83 percent of the targeted 10 million people against COVID-19
Within six months of starting the vaccination campaign against COVID-19, Cambodia has successfully vaccinated more than 83 percent of the initially targeted 10 million people against COVID-19. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50913435/cambodia-has-successfully-vaccinated-8396613-people-or-83-percent-of-the-targeted-10-million-people-against-covid-19/
Cambodia’s Delta Variant infections cross 400
Cambodia’s total number of COVID-19 infected people identified to have been hit by the more severe and highly contagious Delta Variant of SARS-CoV-2 strains is believed to have crossed 400. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50913454/cambodias-delta-variant-infections-cross-400/
Ex-district police chief under probe over land encroachment in KK
Sre Ambel district authorities in Koh Kong province are investigating a case involving a former district police chief who is allegedly encroaching on forest land in Dang Peng commune’s Veal Pouch village. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ex-district-police-chief-under-probe-over-land-encroachment-kk
Indigenous people in Cambodia play vital role in organic rice production development
Indigenous people play a very vital role in the development of safe (organic) agricultural products and sustainable, according to Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF). ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50912652/indigenous-people-in-cambodia-play-vital-role-in-organic-rice-production-development/
Gia Lai province in Vietnam to boost trade links with Cambodia’s border provinces
Border trade infrastructure between Gia Lai province and Cambodia’s localities sharing the same border line will be developed to promote goods trading and exchange activities under a programme to develop Vietnam’s border trade infrastructure to 2025, with a vision to 2030. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50912806/gia-lai-province-in-vietnam-to-boost-trade-links-with-cambodias-border-provinces/
Ministry will launch a new COVID rapid test kit for only $ 2 soon
The Minister of Post and Telecommunications Chea Vandeth said that the Ministry will launch a Rapid Test soon for only $ 2, which is easy to use and high quality. ...
Khmer Time Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50912405/ministry-will-launch-a-new-covid-rapid-test-kit-for-only-2-soon/
Appeal Court upholds convictions over Sihanoukville building collapse in which 28 died
Phnom Penh Appeal Court yesterday upheld the convictions of four Chinese nationals and a Vietnamese man who were jailed from two to three years each last year in connection with the deadly collapse of a seven-storey building in Sihanoukville on June 23 2019. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50912604/appeal-court-upholds-convictions-over-sihanoukville-building-collapse/
Patients tested with Delta variant not allowed for ‘home hospitalisation’
All patients tested with the Delta variant are not allowed to be treated at home, but at designated COVID-19 treatment centres or hospitals depending on the patients’ real health situation. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50912965/patients-tested-with-delta-variant-not-allowed-for-home-hospitalisation/
Kingdom’s 2021 salt production will meet domestic demand
Domestic salt production can supply domestic demand this year, relieving Cambodia of the need to engage in imports according to Kampot province’s department of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50911832/kingdoms-2021-salt-production-will-meet-domestic-demand/
Associations set to liaise on training, financial support to businesswomen
Three associations have entered into a partnership to boost financial inclusion and raise awareness about tools, products and services among women entrepreneurs. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/associations-set-liaise-training-financial-support-businesswomen
USAID donates $4 million for Covid fight in Kingdom
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) on August 9 announced an additional $4 million in urgent Covid-19 assistance for Cambodia. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/usaid-donates-4-million-covid-fight-kingdom
Cashew exports increase 345% in January-July 2021
The Kingdom exported 866,207.77 tonnes of cashew nuts in the first seven months of 2021, a 345.29 per cent year-on-year surge, with Vietnam as the main buyer, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries reported. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cashew-exports-increase-345-january-july-2021