Khmer Times

It’s almost Khmer New Year, and passengers are already lining up for the revival of the country’s passenger rail services – an eight-day trial operation by Royal Railway from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville to coincide with the celebrations and the exodus of people from the ...

Cambodia’s schoolchildren could soon attend class in unusually luxurious buildings if Prime Minister Hun Sen has his way. Yesterday the premier granted the government’s entire stockpile of illegally-felled timber – some of which is highly sought after rosewood – to the Ministry of Education to ...

Foreign Minister Hor Namhong met with South Korean Vice Foreign Affairs Minister Kim Hyoung-zhin at the ministry yesterday morning to discuss bilateral relations between the two countries, as well as a host of regional issues, according to ministry spokesman Cham Sounry. ...

Malaysian-owned Sunway Hotels & Resorts will spend $223 million in a redevelopment and expansion plan on its hotels in Malaysia, Cambodia and Vietnam within three years, according to Malaysian media. ...

Mong Reththy, known as the king of agriculture in Cambodia for his role running the large Mong Reththy Group, aims to expand the Kingdom’s mango market to Europe. ...

The Cambodian Construction Association yesterday urged authorities to plan and develop more satellite cities as the population in the capital increases rapidly, straining services and infrastructure. ...

The Commerce Ministry announced in a letter yesterday that it would push the deadline for companies to register themselves on its new online portal system back to June 30, after the majority of companies operating in the Kingdom failed to register by the original deadline ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has agreed to legally protect nearly 1 million hectares of the Kingdom’s forest land, including the Prey Lang forest. Speaking during the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport’s annual meeting at the Institute of Technology of Cambodia, Mr. Hun Sen said he ...

ASX-listed Emerald on Wednesday announced that it had signed a farm-in and joint venture (JV) agreement with fellow-listed Renaissance Minerals to earn a majority interest in a Cambodian gold project. ...

The Royal Group conglomerate has signed off on a $10 million loan from the Bangkok-based Export-Import Bank of Thailand (EXIM Thailand) for the construction of a five-star hotel and resort in Koh  Rong Island. ...

In a ceremony on Tuesday, the Ministry of Health appointed a new advisor – the Swiss Dr. Beat Richner, founder of the Kantha Bopha Hospital and Foundation. His hospitals have treated more than 15 million children since the first one opened in 1991 and Minister ...

More than 300 former workers at the Win Shingtex (Cambodia) factory, a supplier for US retail giant JC Penny, filed a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s cabinet yesterday morning asking the government to intervene after the workers had their wages and benefits cut as ...

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will continue its support for the Kingdom’s food security and agricultural sector, while also helping with market research to assist the export of Cambodian milled rice and geographically-protected pepper products, Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Chum Sounry said ...

Cambodia’s agriculture sector will benefit from a grant of $35 million by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), with some of the money also going towards public health and education. ...

Singapore-based SingMeng Telemedia yesterday announced a new suite of network and services to expand its coverage in the Kingdom, where it has invested $100 million.​​ ...

The government took steps to shore up the rice sector yesterday, saying it would remove the current value added tax [VAT] on milling machines in the country and shut down companies importing rice from neighboring countries and rebranding it as Cambodian during an emergency meeting ...

The Ministry of Environment has proposed the government establish nearly one million hectares of newly protected forest, an area that will include the Prey Lang forest, according to ministry spokesman Sao Sopheap.​ ...

A cache of anti-tank weapons, including mines and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) were discovered by authorities near the Cambodia-Thai border in Oddar Meanchey province’s Trapaing Prasat district on Tuesday, according to officials. ...

State-owned Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA), one of three companies listed on the stock exchange, will pay out more than $3 million in dividends for 2015 on April 18, a 50 percent increase on 2014, reflecting its improved performance, company officials said. ...

A truck transporting corn from Battambang to Prey Vang province was seized by forestry officials on Monday evening after hundreds of turtles and pythons were found stashed inside, according to officials. ...

Representatives of employers from Cambodia’s industrial sector called for changes to the contentious draft union law yesterday. They criticized the government’s enforcement of strike regulations while requesting changes to the law that include higher thresholds for forming unions and more powers for dissolving unions. ...

Sun Chanthol, the Minister of Commerce, was in Bangkok yesterday telling Thai business leaders and investors about the benefits of doing business in the Kingdom. ...

Korea will provide a $13.3 million concessional loan to renovate the Stung Siem Reap Phase II flood mitigation project after a deal signed yesterday between the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the Korea Export and Import Bank. ...

The government said yesterday it had no plans to ban the import of second-hand cars, despite concerns Cambodia lags behind other ASEAN countries on the issue and over safety and consumer protection. ...