Khmer Times
Farmers propose lower tax on agriculture imports
The Cambodian Farmer Community (CCFC) has asked the government to intervene and solve the high price of agriculture products for poor farmers and lower the tax on agriculture imports and find a way to help farmers produce fertilizers and pesticides locally rather than using all ...
Yin Soeum
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50913318/farmers-propose-lower-tax-on-agriculture-imports/
Cambodia to host 27th ASEAN Transport Ministers’ meeting in November
Cambodia has scheduled to host the 27th ASEAN Transport Ministers’ Meeting on Nov. 10-11, 2021. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50913385/cambodia-to-host-27th-asean-transport-ministers-meeting-in-november/
Government promises countrywide mobile and internet coverage by 2027
Cambodia is on track to have telephone antennas in all communes and districts across the Kingdom by 2027, according to Telecommunications Minister Chea Vandeth. ...
Michael Firn
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50913294/government-promises-countrywide-mobile-and-internet-coverage-by-2027/
Kingdom will have a say in the global tax reform process
A major global tax overhaul that will set a tax floor of 15 percent has the ability to level the playing field when attracting international investments from technology companies and increase the Kingdom’s coffers. ...
Husain Haider
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50913195/kingdom-will-have-a-say-in-the-global-tax-reform-process/
Siem Reap airport remains open for flights amid COVID-19 crisis
Siem Reap International Airport on Sunday served an Airbus-330 flying from Basel –Switzerland for a rest-stop and the aircraft headed to Hong Kong later on the same day. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50913397/siem-reap-airport-remains-open-for-flights-amid-covid-19-crisis/
Gov’t rebuts UN rights experts’ claims of targeting ‘defenders’ as baseless
The government has refuted the concern made by five United Nations human rights experts who reported that Cambodian authorities are “targeting, threatening and criminalising” human rights defenders, saying the concern is “baseless”. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50912504/govt-rebuts-un-rights-experts-claims-of-targeting-defenders-as-baseless/
Cambodia has successfully vaccinated 8,396,613 people or 83 percent of the targeted 10 million people against COVID-19
Within six months of starting the vaccination campaign against COVID-19, Cambodia has successfully vaccinated more than 83 percent of the initially targeted 10 million people against COVID-19. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50913435/cambodia-has-successfully-vaccinated-8396613-people-or-83-percent-of-the-targeted-10-million-people-against-covid-19/
Cambodia’s Delta Variant infections cross 400
Cambodia’s total number of COVID-19 infected people identified to have been hit by the more severe and highly contagious Delta Variant of SARS-CoV-2 strains is believed to have crossed 400. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50913454/cambodias-delta-variant-infections-cross-400/
Indigenous people in Cambodia play vital role in organic rice production development
Indigenous people play a very vital role in the development of safe (organic) agricultural products and sustainable, according to Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF). ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50912652/indigenous-people-in-cambodia-play-vital-role-in-organic-rice-production-development/
Gia Lai province in Vietnam to boost trade links with Cambodia’s border provinces
Border trade infrastructure between Gia Lai province and Cambodia’s localities sharing the same border line will be developed to promote goods trading and exchange activities under a programme to develop Vietnam’s border trade infrastructure to 2025, with a vision to 2030. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50912806/gia-lai-province-in-vietnam-to-boost-trade-links-with-cambodias-border-provinces/
Appeal Court upholds convictions over Sihanoukville building collapse in which 28 died
Phnom Penh Appeal Court yesterday upheld the convictions of four Chinese nationals and a Vietnamese man who were jailed from two to three years each last year in connection with the deadly collapse of a seven-storey building in Sihanoukville on June 23 2019. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50912604/appeal-court-upholds-convictions-over-sihanoukville-building-collapse/
Patients tested with Delta variant not allowed for ‘home hospitalisation’
All patients tested with the Delta variant are not allowed to be treated at home, but at designated COVID-19 treatment centres or hospitals depending on the patients’ real health situation. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50912965/patients-tested-with-delta-variant-not-allowed-for-home-hospitalisation/
Kingdom’s 2021 salt production will meet domestic demand
Domestic salt production can supply domestic demand this year, relieving Cambodia of the need to engage in imports according to Kampot province’s department of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50911832/kingdoms-2021-salt-production-will-meet-domestic-demand/
Rains on the way for Cambodia from southwest monsoon
The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology has issued a weather alert for the next 7 days. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50912899/rains-on-the-way-for-cambodia-from-southwest-monsoon/
Indigenous people express concern about land rights
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples was celebrated yesterday as indigenous people living in Cambodia expressed their concern about their land rights and economic, cultural, political and natural resources’ rights. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50912600/indigenous-people-express-concern-about-land-rights/
Lack of sufficient stocks of AstraZeneca vaccines may impede third dose for all, says PM Hun Sen
Prime Minister Hun Sen said no third or booster dose will be administered for those who have been vaccinated with AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine yet. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50912645/lack-of-sufficient-stocks-of-astrazeneca-vaccines-may-impede-third-dose-for-all-says-pm-hun-sen/
US Embassy in Cambodia issues alert for vaccination campaign in Phnom Penh for the unvaccinated
The Ministry of Health has announced the continuation of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign for residents in Phnom Penh. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50912659/us-embassy-in-cambodia-issues-alert-for-vaccination-campaign-in-phnom-penh-for-the-unvaccinated/
AstraZeneca vaccine booster dose in Phnom Penh to start on Thursday
The Commission on Covid-19 Vaccination has announced that administration of the AstraZeneca booster shots for frontline workers will commence in Phnom Penh from Thursday, August 12 and it will last until September 10. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50912698/astrazeneca-vaccine-booster-dose-in-phnom-penh-to-start-on-thursday/
Korea welcomes back Cambodian workers
Cambodia is now one of six major countries sending workers under the Employment Permit System (EPS) policy to work in Korea which is now welcoming back migrant workers from abroad after the Covid-19 pandemic. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50912793/korea-welcomes-back-cambodian-workers/
Ministry will launch a new COVID rapid test kit for only $ 2 soon
The Minister of Post and Telecommunications Chea Vandeth said that the Ministry will launch a Rapid Test soon for only $ 2, which is easy to use and high quality. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50912405/ministry-will-launch-a-new-covid-rapid-test-kit-for-only-2-soon/
Japan continues to support Cambodia’s clean water projects
Japan has committed to continue its support on clean water projects in Cambodia with more projects to be approved by the Japanese government this year. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50911726/japan-continues-to-support-cambodias-clean-water-projects/
Cambodia to boost Asean-EU ties
Cambodia has committed to promote Asean-EU cooperation with the Asean foreign ministers on Friday supporting the EU’s proposal for a commemorative summit in Brussels next year to mark the 45th anniversary of Asean-EU relations. ...
Sar Socheath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50911664/cambodia-to-boost-asean-eu-ties/
Kingdom’s 2021 salt production will meet domestic demand
Domestic salt production can supply domestic demand this year, relieving Cambodia of the need to engage in imports according to Kampot province’s department of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50911832/kingdoms-2021-salt-production-will-meet-domestic-demand/
MoU aims to improve organic output, capacity building for farmers
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries today signed a memorandum of understanding with Lexmin Pty Ltd Cambodia in anticipation of a string of changes anticipated to impact the agriculture industry. ...
Husain Haider
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50910404/mou-aims-to-improve-organic-output-capacity-building-for-farmers/