Khmer Times

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) on Thursday last week disseminated the country’s microfinance industry to local authorities in a district in Kampong Cham province mainly to promote financial literacy, increase financial inclusiveness and enhance protection of banking and financial service consumers, said a release ...

Keeping in mind the national policy 2022-2030, Prime Minister Hun Sen has outlined the government’s new strategies for the development of the agriculture sector to create the fifth economic pole in the northeast part of the country. ...

China is an enormous market for Cambodia and other member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has said. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen expressed his full support to two new varieties of rice recently introduced to the farmers. ...

Two agreements on recruitment of Cambodian workers will be signed before Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim in Cambodia today when he makes a one-day visit to the country. ...

Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport has declared a 29-day public and private school break from April 20 to May 18, while Cambodia hosts the 32nd SEA Games. ...

Cambodia and Indonesia have discussed further cooperation in trade, investment and tourism by promoting the export of Cambodian agricultural products to the Indonesian market. ...

A week after Prime Minister Hun Sen asked the Ministry of Commerce (MoC) and Ministry of Tourism (MoT) to cooperate with each other to work on price labelling, the MoC has set strict rules to initiate legal actions against those businesses that fail to label ...

Tax, economic, financial and money-laundering crimes have become major impediments in Cambodia’s march to progress said Kong Vibol, Director General of the General Department of Taxation (GDT) on Thursday. Internal tax authorities have been seriously facing tax crimes, he observed. ...

Prey Veng is the leading province in Cambodia in terms of rice production for local consumption and export to foreign markets, affirmed Chea Somethy, Governor of Prey Veng province, at a press conference in Phnom Penh yesterday. ...

Cambodia said on Thursday that the “U.S. Department of State’s 2022 Human Rights Report on Cambodia” was downright unfounded, biased, and prejudicial as to its political nature. ...

Cambodian Deputy PM Sokhonn was in Vietnam for an official visit between Monday and Wednesday and to co-chair the 20th Vietnam-Cambodia Joint Commission on Economic, Cultural, Scientific and Technological Cooperation held on Tuesday. ...

Thousands of students across the country are set to benefit from Khmer Digital Literacy Program, a new digital literacy program, to be launched in Cambodia next month. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen lauded the Royal Group’s energy purchase agreement on exporting renewable energy to Singapore via submarine high-voltage transmission, terming it a milestone in the country’s energy development. ...

Cambodian Prime Minister said on Wednesday that China is the largest supplier of raw materials to the kingdom’s garment industry. ...

In the first seven weeks of the year, Cambodia had more than 750 cases of dengue fever, of which two were fatal. The increase was almost three times higher than the same period last year, according to the National Dengue Control Programme (NDCP). ...

A coal-powered electricity plant in Trapeang Prasat district is scheduled to open soon, while the transmission line from Oddar Meanchey to the eastern substation of Siem Reap has been built said Pen Kosal, Governor of Oddar Meanchey Province. ...

Ly Thuch, First Vice President of the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA), presided over the declaration of Takeo as a landmines-free province” this morning. ...

Vietnam and Cambodia agreed to continue maintaining high-level exchanges, consultations, and bilateral mechanisms in the coming time at the 20th meeting of the Vietnam-Cambodia Joint Committee on economic, cultural, scientific and technological cooperation in Hanoi on March 21. ...

The Lancang-Mekong Peace Boat project was launched here in the capital of Cambodia on Tuesday, aiming at promoting peace building and prosperity in the region, officials said. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen said that Cambodia’s annual public debt is below 20 percent of the total national budget, thanks to the implementation of the Public Financial Management Reform Program (PFMRP). ...

Around 7% of schoolchildren stop their education at lower class levels in Oddar Meanchey province every year due to migration of parents, a top official said yesterday. ...

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) organized on Monday a Seminar on Riel, Financial Literacy and Bakong system, as part of the celebration of the 43rd anniversary of reintroduction of Riel, the national currency. ...

The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has approved three new investment projects with a total capital of $16.2 million. ...