Khmer Times

The Government of Japan will provide $186,856 to support the construction of a bridge in Kampong Speu province and the rehabilitation of irrigation facilities in Kampong Cham province, under the framework, the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Project (“KUSANONE” Grant). ...

Cambodia and Japan have exchanged views on promotion of bilateral cooperation, especially in the field of agriculture. ...

About 1.5 metric tons of pork carcasses were seized by Thai Livestock and customs Sunday. The pork had been allegedly smuggled into Thailand’s eastern border province of Sa Kaeo from Cambodia, Thai media  PBS World reported. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen said Cambodia needs a stable investment from Japan to produce more items in the country and then export back to the Japanese market to scale up the level of existing relations between the two countries. He emphasised more infrastructure development and ...

Ninety-nine percent of the registered HIV-positive patients in Cambodia have received free antiretroviral drugs, Prime Minister Hun Sen said in a message marking World AIDS Day on Thursday. ...

A key partnership was established between UNESCO and the APSARA National Authority in August 2022 for the implementation of the project “Promoting sustainable tourism and private sector engagement for inclusive community development in response to the COVID-19 crisis”, with the financial support of the German ...

The Royal Government of Cambodia has decided to release an additional $30 million from its savings for mine and UXO clearance to reach the goal of mine-free Cambodia by 2025. ...

The number of international tourists visiting Cambodia during January-October 2022 rose to 1,575,954, which is an increase of 991.1 percent over the same period of last year, according to a Ministry of Tourism report, released on Wednesday. ...

Australia has a long history working with Cambodia to develop its rice industry, the Australian Embassy in Cambodia wrote on its official Facebook page on Nov. 30. ...

In the 10 months of 2022, Cambodia received more than 1.57 million international tourists, an increase of nearly 1,000 percent, compared to the same period last year. ...

Mao Kolap, vice-president of Cambodian Librarian Associations, said yesterday that Cambodia requires more qualified librarians to match the standards of advanced libraries in other Asean countries. According to a report by the Cambodian Library Association, there are only three graduated librarians, while there are 400 ...

Shares of Charles River Laboratories International Inc. fell in morning trading Wednesday after the non-clinical contract research company warned that supplies of Cambodia-sourced monkeys will likely be challenging for some period of time. ...

More than 140 indigenous families in Sen Monorom commune of Mondulkiri province’s O’Raing district have sought the intervention of Prime Minister Hun Sen Cabinet to resolve their 255-hectare land dispute with a private company. ...

The share of solar power in the total energy mix of Cambodia is poised to rise sharply in the coming decades and can reach 3,155 MW by 2040, bigger than the contribution from locally generated hydroelectricity which is a major source of renewable energy in ...

Topics pertaining to economic and development cooperation between Cambodia and China came up during the 2nd China-Cambodia Economic and Trade Cooperation Forum held last week. ...

Kun Lbokator, Cambodia’s traditional martial art, has just been inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO. ...

Krousar Thmey Foundation has been committed to continue providing cares to disadvantaged children, especially street and abandoned children, said its Founder and President Mr Benoît Duchâteau-Arminjon (Bénito) on November 29. ...

A report released by the World Bank shows that the poverty rate in Cambodia has dropped by almost half between 2009 and 2019, but with the Covid-19 pandemic, the poverty rate has been rising. ...

Dith Tina, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, expressed his commitment to continue working on agricultural reform, despite criticisms. ...

The Kingdom of Cambodia, which is striving to promote the country as a “rice basket” and a major rice exporter, is aiming to ship at least one million tons of rice per year – 2023 onwards – and earn revenue of around $800 million annually ...

The World Bank in a report has estimated that some 460,000 people in Cambodia have fallen below poverty income thresholds since the onset of COVID-19 in 2020. ...

The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts will host a Gala Night Charity Dinner next month to raise funds to support the humanitarian activities of Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital. ...

For Dul Sarath, a 34-year-old vegetable grower in central Cambodia’s Kampong Tralach district, Kampong Chhnang,  a China-funded rural road project has made travel and the transport of produce from farms to town markets easier, saving both time and money. ...

Cambodia is expected to see a remarkable increase in its milled rice export due to the China market, a recovery in demand in the European Union, and the emergence of new markets. ...