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Cambodia to prioritise ASEAN in foreign policy

Cambodia’s state-owned news agency Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP) recently published an article, forecasting the foreign policy of the Royal Government for the seventh term under the leadership of new Prime Minister Hun Manet. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501349068/cambodia-to-prioritise-asean-in-foreign-policy-media/

Cambodia’s new PM launches strategy to boost growth, maintain sustainability

Cambodia’s newly-elected Prime Minister Hun Manet on Thursday launched the “Pentagonal Strategy-Phase I 2023-2028” during the first cabinet meeting. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501349026/cambodias-new-pm-launches-strategy-to-boost-growth-maintain-sustainability/

PM to expand membership of the Supreme Consultative Council

Prime Minister Hun Manet has laid out his recommendations to expand the scope of membership for the Supreme Consultative Council (SCC) to ensure a vibrant and constructive environment. ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501348697/pm-to-expand-membership-of-the-supreme-consultative-council/

Cambodian Red Cross brings smiles to nearly 56,000 poor families

The Cambodian Red Cross (CRC) has helped 55,359 vulnerable families in its efforts to reduce poverty across the country in the first seven months of the year. ...

Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501348690/cambodian-red-cross-brings-smiles-to-nearly-56000-poor-families/

AI making new waves to policymaking challenges

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is capable of creating a new wave of challenges before the policymakers, opined a subject expert, highlighting the need for great caution amid governments, businesses and individuals facing increased cyber security risks. ...

Sreekanth Ravindran
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501348542/ai-making-new-waves-to-policymaking-challenges/

Siem Reap hosts regional training course on “Exchange Rate Policy”

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) has been hosting a training course of “Exchange Rate Policy” with the participation of 34 representatives from central banks and monetary authorities of 12 countries in Asia Pacific Region. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501348464/siem-reap-hosts-regional-training-course-on-exchange-rate-policy/

Digital learning in Ratanakiri to get drop-outs back to school

Plan International in cooperation with Ratanakiri’s provincial department of Education, Youth and Sport conducted teaching sessions for 5,400 drop out students to attend school and access formal education through the project “Enhancing Quality Learning for Out of School Children in Northeastern Cambodia (EQUAL)” by accessing ...

Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501348210/digital-learning-in-ratanakiri-to-get-drop-outs-back-to-school/

Siem Reap to build light rail line from Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport to Siem Reap city

Siem Reap will build a light rail line from Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport to Siem Reap city, according to a consultation meeting between relevant institutions and China Metro to collect information and data for the study of the light rail project by the Ministry of ...

Gov’t to use tech to fructify economic agenda

The new government under the leadership of Prime Minister Hun Manet will make use of optimum technology to push forward its socio-economic policy agendas to transform the rectangle into Pentagon Strategy, said a statement. ...

Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501348057/govt-to-use-tech-to-fructify-economic-agenda/

Reforms improve education quality benefitting 500,000 students in Cambodia

Almost half a million students—52 percent of them girls have benefited from the improved school operations, learning facilities, and capacities of teachers and school leaders this project yielded. The project also formed the backbone of the country’s distance teaching and learning program or efforts during ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501348492/reforms-improve-education-quality-benefitting-500000-students-in-cambodia/

Acleda Bank to expand KHQR beyond ASEAN

Acleda Bank Plc plans to expand the KHQR system to non-Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries, said a senior bank official. ...

Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501347404/acleda-bank-to-expand-khqr-beyond-asean/

Lao PM extends congratulations to Cambodia’s new PM

Lao Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone has sent a congratulatory message to Cambodia’s new Prime Minister Hun Manet. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501348435/lao-pm-extends-congratulations-to-cambodias-new-pm/

Cambodia attracts three million international tourists in seven months

Cambodia recorded some 3.03 million international visitors in the first seven of 2023, a sharp increase of 308 percent from 743,459 over the same period last year, a Ministry of Tourism’s report showed on Wednesday. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501348457/cambodia-attracts-three-million-international-tourists-in-seven-months/

Roles of Deputy Prime Ministers farmed out

The new government has outlined the job responsibilities and division of responsibilities of the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Senior Minister in charge of special missions to ensure efficient governance. ...

Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501348056/roles-of-deputy-prime-ministers-farmed-out/

New gov’t to strive hard to achieve upper-middle, high-income goals

Moments before Mr Hun Manet was sworn in as the new Prime Minister, his predecessor Mr Hun Sen said that he expects the new government to take Cambodia out of its least-developed country status and achieve the upper-middle-income and high-income in 2030 and 2050 respectively. ...

Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501347405/new-govt-to-strive-hard-to-achieve-upper-middle-high-income-goals/

Course on ‘identifying human trafficking victims’ opens

Interior Ministry Secretary of State and Permanent Vice-Chair woman of the National Committee for Counter Trafficking Chou Bun Eng opened a new training course yesterday in Phnom Penh focusing on “Identification of victims of human trafficking to provide appropriate services.” ...

Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501348063/course-on-identifying-human-trafficking-victims-opens/

Vietnamese PM invites Cambodia’s new PM to visit Vietnam

Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam Pham Minh Chinh has invited Kitti Tesaphibal Bindit Hun Manet, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, to pay an official visit to Viet Nam at a suitable time. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501348471/vietnamese-pm-invites-cambodias-new-pm-to-visit-vietnam/

US Department of Commerce issues final determination on Circumvention of Solar Cells and Modules from Cambodia

On August 18, 2023, the Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) announced its final determination that certain solar cells and modules exported from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam are circumventing the antidumping (“AD”) and countervailing (“CVD”) orders on imports from China after conducting its investigation for over ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501348478/us-department-of-commerce-issues-final-determination-on-circumvention-of-solar-cells-and-modules-from-cambodia/

New govt planning more state aid

While fresh aid is being planned for the impoverished through the social security fund, the incoming administration will keep up the practice of giving allowances to expectant mothers and young children. ...

Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501348213/new-govt-planning-more-state-aid/

190 Municipal-District Administration implements Sub-National Administrative Investment Fund

From 2017 to the present, 190 municipal and district administrations across the country have implemented sub-national administrative investment funds (SNIF). This is according to Dr. Keo Bengvath, the Royal Government delegate in charge of the Director General of the General Department of Finance and Sub-National ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501347987/190-municipal-district-administration-implements-sub-national-administrative-investment-fund/

Cambodia’s parliament elects woman as president for 1st time in history

Khuon Sudary was elected on Tuesday as the president of Cambodia’s National Assembly for a new five-year term, becoming the first woman to hold this top post, according to the state-run National Television of Cambodia (TVK). ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501347712/cambodias-parliament-elects-woman-as-president-for-1st-time-in-history/

Be aware of increasing Telegram hackers

The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications on Monday, issued a notification on the prevention of deception via Telegram by hackers. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501347748/be-aware-of-increasing-telegram-hackers/

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