Khmer Times

Pursat market to boost local vegetable trade

Farmers in Pursat province are to benefit from a new vegetable market, allowing them to sell their produce for free for the first five years. The market is aimed at boosting sales of chemical-free vegetables for distribution across the country, to reduce reliance on imported vegetables ...

Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38550/pursat-market-to-boost-local-vegetable-trade/

Unions reluctant to join CPP

Some unions seem reluctant to answer the CPP’s call for unionised workers to be allowed to join tomorrow’s launch of campaigning for the June 4 commune elections. ...

Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38522/unions-reluctant-to-join-cpp/

Villagers hit with charges to use local road

Villagers in Mondulkiri province have pleaded with local authorities to intervene after a company behind a nearby rubber plantation began charging them 20,000 riel ($5) to use a local road. Security guards at the Tong Min Group property told villagers from Pech Chreada district’s Pou ...

May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38528/villagers-hit-with--charges-to-use-local-road/

River of waste

In a tributary in Phnom Penh’s Phum Prek Toal district that flows into Boeng Tompun, a mountain of plastic, garbage and waste has built up to the point where it stifles the water from flowing. Embattled residents who live next to the pile of waste ...

Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38505/river-of-waste/

Business centre lure for Chinese

Cambodia is to open commercial centres in China to help Chinese investors understand the potential of Cambodia. The centres will soon be established in some provinces, Prime Minister Hun Sen said on his Facebook page during his trip to the Commercial and Tourism Cooperation Forum in ...

Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38508/business-centre-lure-for-chinese/

New airline plans Thai flights

Cambodia-based JC International Airlines plans to expand direct flights to Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport to tap into the growth of tourists between the neighboring nations after the airline’s launch just two months ago. ...

May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38460/new-airline-plans-thai-flights/

China gives $240m in aid

China has granted $240 million aid to Cambodia under agreements signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on a state visit to Beijing. ...

Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38482/china-gives--240m-in-aid/

Foreign tourist arrivals up 12 percent

Foreign tourist arrivals to Cambodia went up more than 12 percent in the first quarter of 2017, as the country ramped up efforts to improve services and attractions for visitors. ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38458/foreign-tourist-arrivals-up-12-percent/

Cambodia holds back on AIIB loans

Cambodia has yet to set its loan application policies to borrow funds from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) because the country can still get highly concessional rates from development partners, Minister of Economy and Finance Aun Pornmoniroth said. ...

Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38413/cambodia-holds-back-on-aiib-loans/

National rail system in the pipeline

Royal Group, led by prominent businessmen Kith Meng, signed the agreement with China-based Railway 17th Bureau Group and​​ Sino Great Wall International Engineering​​ at the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing. ...

Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38434/national-rail-system-in-the-pipeline/

New skytrain gets investors on track

At the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh on May 5, during an official visit between Cambodian Minister Hor Namhong and Japanese Minister Keiichi Ishii, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and the Tourism Minister in charge of the Water Cycle Policy of Japan, an agreement ...

Ky Kosal
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38437/new-skytrain-gets-investors-on-track/

Ministry predicts stable GDP growth

The government is predicting Cambodia’s gross domestic product will grow at seven percent this year and next. ...

Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38370/ministry-predicts-stable-gdp-growth/

More funds for infrastructure

Cambodia is expecting to gain more capital for its infrastructure development projects through its membership in the Sustainable Development Investment Partnership (SDIP), which can sustain long-term economic growth, according to a senior official. ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38369/more-funds-for-infrastructure/

AirAsia Cambodia to debut soon

Asia’s largest budget airline AirAsia, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, plans to open a subsidiary company in Cambodia to handle an anticipated increase in the number of passengers travelling to Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Sihanoukville from Malaysia. ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38372/airasia-cambodia-to-debut-soon/

PM says veterans will get their land

Prime Minister Hun Sen has asked Land Minister Chea Sophara and the Cambodia Veterans Association to make a success of the social land concession scheme for men and women who have served the nation. ...

Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38295/pm-says-veterans-will-get-their-land/

More foreigners deported

The Interior Ministry announced yesterday it had recently deported 46 foreigners from six countries and was holding 87 it believed had entered Cambodia illegally or overstayed their visas. ...

Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38120/more-foreigners-deported/

Kampot seaport construction to start

Provincial tourism department director Soy Sinol said a construction study of the Asian Development Bank-funded project had been completed.The $18-million tourism seaport is due to come into service by 2019.​   ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38106/kampot-seaport--construction-to-start/

Water plant gets efficiency boost

Japan-based company Metawater will provide its power-saving inverter technology to a water treatment plant in Cambodia’s capital through an arrangement that will help the Japanese government earn carbon reduction credits, according to a Nikkei Asian Review report. ...

Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38104/water-plant-gets-efficiency-boost/

Roadside families protest at City Hall

Nearly 100 residents living along a stretch of land running from a railway in Boeung Kak to National Road 5 have gathered again outside City Hall to demand information about the development of a new road threatening to destroy their homes. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38081/roadside-families--protest-at-city-hall/

Heritage cities to boost tourism

Cambodia wants Unesco recognition for Kampot, Kratie and Battambang cities and hopes they would be considered by the UN organisation to be recognized as World Heritage sites when the kingdom files its application next June.​ ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38062/heritage-cities-to-boost-tourism/

Ivory smuggler insists on innocence

A businessman is appealing his conviction for smuggling more than three tonnes of ivory into Cambodia, the largest haul ever seized. ...

Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38078/ivory-smuggler--insists-on-innocence/

Growth sparks franchise boom

More foreign franchise companies will appear in Cambodian as the rising urban population and surging middle class want to enjoy international brands, an expert in the industry says. ...

Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38064/growth-sparks-franchise-boom/

Chinese buses to hit the roads

Phnom Penh is to get five new bus routes when China donates 100 buses within two months, according to City Hall.​​ ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38033/chinese-buses-to-hit-the-roads/

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