The Phnom Penh Post
RCAF begins first recruitment drive since onset of pandemic
The Ministry of National Defence will be distributing applications to prospective students from February 1-15 as it looks to recruit a new generation of military trainees to meet the needs of various units of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF). ...
 Samban Chandara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rcaf-begins-first-recruitment-drive-onset-pandemic
Tina calls for land concession database
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Dith Tina recommended that the Technical Secretariat on Economic Land Concessions maintain a database of the companies which received economic land concessions. Regular inter-ministerial meetings should be held to deliver updates on the progress of each of the companies. ...
 Post Staff 
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tina-calls-land-concession-database
Criminal background check process goes digital
To increase the efficiency of criminal background checks, the Ministry of Justice will trial a digital application process from February 6. In a February 3 public notice, the ministry said that moving the process to a digital platform would makes applications faster and easier for the ...
 Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/criminal-background-check-process-goes-digital
Ministry contest encourages women to get involved in digital skills, tech
Minister of Post and Telecommunications Chea Vandeth encouraged female students to join a new digital competition. The format features training, a digital bootcamp and a pitch contest for each team’s finished product. ...
 Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-contest-encourages-women-get-involved-digital-skills-tech
Cambodian exports to ASEAN markets rise 13%
The value of Cambodian trade with the nine other ASEAN countries reached $16.053 billion in 2022 – up 1.4 per cent from $15.838 million in 2021 – accounting for a 30.62 per cent share of the Kingdom’s $52.425 billion in total foreign trade for the ...
 Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodian-exports-asean-markets-rise-13
Customs revenue up 18 per cent for 2022
General Department of Customs and Excise (GDCE) said that they have collected more than $2.69 billion in 2022, an increase of 18.3 per cent over 2021 revenue. In a February 3 annual meeting in Kep province, GDCE director general Kun Nhem said that the figure ...
 Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/customs-revenue-18-cent-2022
Siem Reap tourism worker cash assistance continued
The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training disbursed its 89th cash payment to 3,223 workers employed by 33 different enterprises in the tourism sector located in Siem Reap, according to the ministry statement. ...
 Neang Sokunthea 
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/siem-reap-tourism-worker-cash-assistance-continued
Human rights award ‘not a legal defence’ say foreign affairs ministry
A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation said a US State Department human rights award should be given to a person who advocates for peace, national harmony and reconciliation, not a lawbreaker. ...
 Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/human-rights-award-not-legal-defence-say-foreign-affairs-ministry
Borei Keila residents awarded property titles
The government has announced that it will provide land titles to around 1,200 families living in the eight buildings of the Borei Keila area in Veal Vong commune of the capital’s Prampi Makara district. ...
 Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/borei-keila-residents-awarded-property-titles
Be mindful of informal financing, NBC warns
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and National Police on February 2 issued a joint statement warning of the risks associated with informal financial services, which it said could put borrowers in excessive debt or otherwise upend their lives. ...
 May Kunmakara 
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/be-mindful-informal-financing-nbc-warns
Trade with Malaysia soars 23% to $620M in 2022
The merchandise trade volume between Cambodia and Malaysia totalled $620.373 million in 2022, rising by 23.33 per cent over a year earlier, with Cambodian exports accounting for a 18.03 per cent share, down by 2.11 percentage points on a yearly basis, according to the General ...
 Hin Pisei 
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/trade-malaysia-soars-23-620m-2022
Commercial Court could function ‘as early as 2024’: Justice ministry officials
A Ministry of Justice official said that a Commercial Court could be established and put into action as soon as 2024. Addressing the February 2 “AmCham Business Law Conclave: Critical Updates That You Need to Know for 2023” in Phnom Penh, justice ministry secretary of state ...
 Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/commercial-court-could-function-early-2024-justice-ministry-officials
Expressway services, ramps, updated on Google maps
Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway have upgraded their service by marking all entrances, exits and rest areas on Google maps, for the convenience of travelers. ...
 Post Staff 
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/expressway-services-ramps-updated-google-maps
World Wetlands Day marked with calls to action
The Ministry of Environment and several institutions marked February 2, World Wetlands Day with an event that increased public awareness of the value and the role of wetlands and their current conditions. Presiding over the event in Battambang province, environment ministry secretary of state Srun ...
 Post Staff 
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/world-wetlands-day-marked-calls-action
State revenues from gold production top $15M
Cambodia has netted more than $15 million from gold production as of end-December, which has yielded over 5.3 tonnes of dore bars – a semi-finished product that is smelted at a mine, usually at about 90 per cent purity – since the first commercial gold ...
 May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/state-revenues-gold-production-top-15m
PM pats GDT chief on back after record tax revenues
Prime Minister has congratulated General Department of Taxation (GDT) chief Kong Vibol on a job well done after the agency last year collected revenues equivalent to 122.54 per cent of the target set by the annual financial management law, in the “highest surplus of all ...
 May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pm-pats-gdt-chief-back-after-record-tax-revenues
Bassac sea-link to reach Kampot seaport: ministry
A key study on a proposed waterway link from the Bassac River to the sea in the Kampot-Kep region has been completed, the transport ministry reported, revealing plans for the project to connect to a “seaport” in Kampot province, igniting hopes for a solid pop ...
 Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/bassac-sea-link-reach-kampot-seaport-ministry
Trade bodies CBC, IDI team up
The Bangkok-based Cambodia Business Council (CBC) and local Innovation and Development Investors Association (IDI) have joined forces to engage with and attract more investors as well as to improve Cambodian exports regionally and globally. ...
 May Kunmakara 
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/trade-bodies-cbc-idi-team
Ten new factory approvals means ‘over 20K’ more jobs
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) notices issued in January reveal that it has greenlit 10 new projects worth nearly $100 million, all in the manufacturing industry: eight involved in textiles and two in light bulbs. ...
 Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ten-new-factory-approvals-means-over-20k-more-jobs
Local, Finnish Red Crosses set to assist four provinces
The Cambodian Red Cross (CRC) has signed an agreement with the Finnish Red Cross (FRC) on a programme to promote humanitarian and community health activities in four provinces. ...
 Yuth Vireak 
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/local-finnish-red-crosses-set-assist-four-provinces
India, Cambodia mark 70 years with 70 trees
Indian and Cambodian officials on January 30 planted 70 trees at Jayavarman-Norodom Phnom Kulen National Park in Siem Reap, in a ceremony held to commemorate the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two nations and to inspire people to care for the forest. ...
 Ry Sochan 
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/india-cambodia-mark-70-years-70-trees
Action plan set to safeguard Tonle Sap Lake
An inter-ministerial committee tasked with combating fisheries crimes at Tonle Sap Lake has issued a five-point action plan designed to preserve it as a natural resource for long-term public interests. ...
 Rann Reuy
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/action-plan-set-safeguard-tonle-sap-lake
A grade grads meeting PM
The Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sport said the more than 1,000 students who earned A grades in last year’s high school examinations are set for their February 2 meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...
 Neang Sokunthea
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/grade-grads-meeting-pm
Ministry reminds rubber plantations on fire prevention
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries’ General Directorate of Rubber (GDR) issued four-point fire prevention guidelines to rubber plantation owners, as the autumn sees the trees shedding their leaves. ...
 Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-reminds-rubber-plantations-fire-prevention