Khmer Times

Prime Minister Hun Sen will lead a high-level delegation to pay an official visit to the Lao PDR on Feb. 13-14, to further tighten the relations and cooperation between the two neighboring nations. ...

More than one million vehicles had travelled on Cambodia’s first-ever expressway connecting the capital Phnom Penh and the deep-sea port province of Preah Sihanouk in the first three months since its inauguration on October 1 last year. ...

The Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) has set export targets for the nation at 750,000 tonnes of milled rice in 2023 and one million tonnes by 2025. This represents an over 50 percent increase compared to the export figure in 2022. ...

Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia Hun Sen, who is also the old friend and good friend of the Chinese people, paid a three-day official visit to China after the Chinese New Year. ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen received multiple assurances of Chinese economic and political support during a meeting Friday in Beijing with Chinese President Xi Jinping. ...

Cambodia and China have signed 12 bilateral cooperation agreements to further deepen their comprehensive strategic partnership. ...

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) and the Japan-Cambodia Association and Japanese investors in Cambodia are considering possibility in silk manufacturing partnership. ...

The China-Laos-Thailand round-trip train, an extension of the China-Laos Railway, was successfully launched on Tuesday. The new efficient, stable cold chain channel is expected to inject new impetus into trade between China and member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. ...

Cambodia’s exports to the European Union (EU) last year were worth $4.045 billion—a more than 25 per cent hike from the $3.229 billion registered in 2021, according to the ministry of commerce. Cambodia-EU trade was worth $4.857 billion last year, rising by 15.9 per cent ...

APSARA National Authority in collaboration with the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties of Japan is working to complete the restoration of the central tower of the West Top Temple in the next four to five months, announced the authority’s news release yesterday morning. ...

Cambodia and France have agreed to promote bilateral cooperation in all fields. The agreement was made during the meeting between Prak Sokhonn, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Cambodia and Bertrand Lortholary, Director for Asia and Oceania of the Ministry ...

Ministry of Justice and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) have discussed more cooperation on judicial sector. ...

Cambodia and Japan have pledged to boost further economic and investment cooperation as they mark this year the 70-year anniversary diplomatic establishment between the two countries. ...

Over past years, mutual trust and support between Cambodia and China have largely consolidated bilateral relations, Cambodian experts have said. ...

Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Dith Tina welcomed a large Japanese company that plans to set up a factory in Cambodia to process cashew nuts. ...

The National Assembly (NA) yesterday approved one law on clean water management and another one on public financial management in the extraordinary session of its sixth mandate with 107 lawmakers in response to the growing economy and challenges in the country after they had been ...

A feasibility study for a further rebuild of the 382 km line from Phnom Penh to Poipet on the Thai border was submitted to the government on January 24. ...

The restoration work on the Takav Gate in the western part of Angkor Thom temple in the famed Angkor Archeological Park in northwest Cambodia’s Siem Reap province has been 100 percent completed, the Apsara National Authority (ANA) said in a news release on Wednesday. ...

Cambodian officials have undertaken a week-long training on artifact conservation, protection and restoration and documenting theft. ...

After two years of implementation of the National Social Assistance Funds (NSAFs), authorities have decided to delist nearly 50,000 families across the country. ...

Political parties of Cambodia have announced their respective manifestos for the upcoming 21-day National Election campaigns across the nation, highlighting their past achievements and making promises to gain people’s support, local media reported. ...

Trucks loaded with Vietnamese durians lined up for customs inspections recently at the China and Vietnam Youyi Pass, a border crossing located in a natural gap between a series of steep cliffs and hills covered in conifers and bamboo on the border of the two ...

In the early days of this year, Hoa Phat Group secured many orders to export its steel products to the US, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong (China), and Cambodia. ...

Cambodia exported a total of 670,000 tonnes of raw cashew nuts worth $1.07 billion last year to the international market, with 98.5 percent of its raw cashew nuts worth $1 billion being shipped to Vietnam. ...