Khmer Times

The General Department of Customs and Excise earned $1,293 million in customs income in the first half of this year, representing 50.1 percent of the financial plan for 2022. ...

The General Department of Customs and Excise (GDCE) has collected some $76 million from import tax and import duties on right-hand drive vehicles and illegal imported vehicles. ...

The number of international tourists to Cambodia soared by 394 percent to 506,762 in the first six months of this year. ...

More than 200,000 families – about 1,000,000 people – have been added to the Ministry of Planning’s poor family list following the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus. ...

China called for upgrading Lancang-Mekong cooperation to deliver more tangible benefits to people in the area and set a good example for regional cooperation, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Monday. ...

Countries associated with the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC), China, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, should make joint efforts to build a stronger Lancang-Mekong economic development belt, said the Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi. ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said here on Wednesday that the government is subsidizing more than $100 million to the state-owned Electricité du Cambodge (EDC) in 2022 to stabilize electricity tariffs. ...

The Special Envoy of the ASEAN Chair on Myanmar Prak Sokhonn has announced to welcome the State Administration Council (SAC) ‘s declaration of Myanmar’s Year for Peace in 2022. ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of the United Kingdom (UK) have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a £107 million (around $134 million) trust fund to support efforts by Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries, including Cambodia, to scale up ...

Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon said that Ministry has identified 131 communities that could potentially be turned into ecotourism communities. ...

Cambodian labour unions have quoted $204-214 as the minimum wage for the textile, garment, footwear, bags and travel goods sectors in 2023—up from this year’s $194—ahead of negotiations this month among worker associations. Bilateral and tripartite talks between government officials, factory owners and workers are ...

A number of 17 local enterprises have received support under the EU-funded Value Chain Investment Support (VCIS) for enhancing safety fishery food production and export. ...

The cabinet on Tuesday approved a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to be signed between the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society of Thailand and the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of Cambodia on cooperation in the suppression of call centres and similar scam gangs, government ...

Khieu Kanharith, Minister of Information, said that in order to fight against the spread of false information people must understand technology and the evolution of society. ...

Cambodia is ready to for the implementation of the “Providing Safe Ground, Creating Smiles” project in three provinces and eight districts. ...

The restoration project of a central terrace of Angkor Wat’s causeway, under the cooperation between the APSARA National Authority and Japan’s Sofia University, is now about 75 percent complete, said the APSARA National Authority in a news release this morning. ...

The Ministry of Economy and Finance and the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) have reached a memorandum of understanding on electronic Know Your Customer (e-KYC) cooperation, aiming to enhance digital verification of customer documents in Cambodia. ...

Cambodia’s market value of e-commerce had increased to $970 million in last year, up 19 percent from 813 million dollars in 2020, according to the Ministry of Commerce’s iTrade Bulletin released recently. ...

A range of cultural and art activities will be held to mark the 55th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Vietnam and Cambodia and their friendship year in 2022. ...

A total of 297,402 national and international visitors toured Cambodia in the first weekend of July. The figure suggested a decline by nearly 7 percent compared to the previous weekend, according to a report of the Ministry of Tourism. ...

Cambodia and Laos are going to hold the 14th Meeting of the Joint Commission for Bilateral Cooperation (JCBC) in Phnom Penh on July 7. ...

Cambodia and Colombia have reaffirmed commitment for both bilateral and multilateral cooperation, especially under the South-South program. ...

SME Bank of Cambodia Plc and several financial partner institutions have announced that applications for credit under the Tourism Restoration Cooperative Project are being accepted from July 1. ...

The market value of e-commerce in Cambodia surged 19 percent to $970 million in 2021 compared to a year earlier, according to the iTrade Bulletin of the Ministry of Commerce. ...