Khmer Times

New procedures for qualifying for the ID poor programme were announced at the Hyatt Regency, Phnom Pehn yesterday that will provide assistance to impoverished people who have come under increasing financial pressure due to the Covid-19 pandemic, natural disasters, and events occurring outside the country. ...

Remittances from Cambodian migrant workers have continued to rise, totalling $2,630 million in 2021, an increase of 11.4 percent compared to 2018, figures from the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training showed yesterday. The remittances are set to increase this year. ...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, the National Representative of the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) is chairing the “28th ASCC Council Meeting” from Oct. 12 to 14 at the Sokha Phnom Penh Hotel, Phnom Penh. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen expressed his hope that the 2nd ASEAN Women Leaders’ Summit will continue to be a platform to inspire and motivate women in the ASEAN region. ...

The number of registered factories and enterprises has seen an increase by 16.8 percent to 15,859 as of July this year, employing 1.54 million workers. ...

National Election Committee (NEC) chairman Prach Chan, in a video clip on the NEC’s official YouTube channel, has called on everyone eligible to ensure they are able to vote in next year’s national election. ...

Cambodia is set to receive more than $14 million in proceeds from the sale of nearly 300,000 barrels of crude oil stolen by the Bahamas-flagged tanker MT Strovolos last year following a payment dispute with the Apsara oil field’s Singaporean developer, KrisEnergy, according to a ...

As the 40th and 41st ASEAN Summits and their sidelines are nearing, senior international affair expert and experienced foreign diplomat float optimism of Cambodia as the host. ...

Cambodia’s inflation has risen to 7.85 percent in June 2022 compared on a year-on-year basis to 7.17 percent the previous month, which was the highest in the last decade, while the value of Riel has fallen 0.07 percent to 4,091 riel per US dollar and ...

A new gold extraction firm Xing Yuan Kanng Yeak Co., Ltd, has started commercial gold extraction operation in its licensed areas in Kratie province, with a capacity of 20 kilogrammes of gold doré a month in the first stage, according to the Ministry of Mines ...

Prime Minister Techo Hun Sen has asked Minister of Education, Youth and Sports Dr Hang Chuon Naron to ensure the education for all. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday morning said that even though Covid-19 new cases are still found in Cambodia, the pandemic will neither affect the ASEAN Summit in November nor the national development. ...

Cambodia imported oil and gas products worth $2.84 billion in the first nine months of 2022, up 66 percent from $1.71 billion in the same period last year, according to a report from the General Department of Customs and Excise on Monday. ...

Park rangers have cracked down on 4,250 cases, including land encroachments, in the first eight months of the year across the nation, according to officials. ...

Cambodia’s foreign trade volume reached $41 billion in the first nine months of 2022, up 18 percent from $34.76 billion in the same period last year, an official report showed on Monday.   ...

Households volunteering to move out of Angkor Archaeological Park to live in Run Ta Ek and Peak Sneng areas in Siem Reap province will receive each Level 1 IDPoor and the same allowance rate as in urban areas. ...

Cambodia has approved 150 fixed-asset investment projects worth about $3.45 billion in the January-September period of 2022, according to the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC)’s report yesterday. ...

The General Department of Customs and Excise (GDCE) collected $2.02 billion in tax income in the January-September period of this year, a 19 percent increase compared to the same period last year. ...

Fishermen living in the northern provinces along the Chaktomuk River – including parts of the capital and neighbouring Kandal province – have resumed fishing after it was suspended from June 1 to September 30. ...

Cambodian investors accounted for more than half of the nearly $3.5-billion value of the projects approved by the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) in the first nine months of this year. ...

Tens of thousands of hectares of rice paddy fields and mixed crops were damaged by floods this year with nearly 30,000 hectares of rice fields destroyed nationwide, the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) has confirmed.   ...

The government on Wednesday approved a new mechanism to intervene in the informal economy by providing cash to Cambodian households who run informal businesses that are affected by inflation by November 2022 amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine and sanctions, said Prime Minister Hun Sen ...

The government has decided to extend by another year, its cash subsidy for the poor programme. ...

The mine clearance project in Thbong Khmum province have so far been about 70 percent complete. ...