Cambodia's trade with ASEAN hit US$4.16 Billion last year
Cambodia’s trade volume with Asean member states reached US$4.16 billion last year, up 12 percent from US$3.71 billion in 2012, Xinhua news agency reported. In the Commerce Ministry’s report released Wednesday, Cambodia exported products equivalent to US$482 million to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) ...
Bernama News Staff
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v7/wn/newsworld.php?id=1019495
Cambodian PM expresses deep sympathy over earthquake tragedy in China
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has expressed his deepest sympathy to the victims and members of the bereaved families in a massive earthquake in China’s southwestern Yunnan Province. “I feel extremely saddened to learn about the loss of hundreds of lives, many injuries and colossal damages ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-08/05
6 break out of Ratanakkiri prison
Six inmates busted out of Ratanakkiri Provincial Prison in the wee hours of yesterday morning, police said, adding another incident to a string of embarrassing escapes at the facility over the past two years. According to a post on the National Police’s website, authorities in Ratanakkiri’s ...
Chhay Channyda
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/6-break-out-ratanakkiri-prison
Cambodian court jails 4 more activists
The Cambodia’s Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday convicted four additional protesters of obstructing public officials and sentenced each of them to one year in prison, a rights group said. The four convicts were arrested on Tuesday while joining a protest in front of the ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-11/12/c_133785374.htm
Joint statement between Ministry of Economy and Finance and National Bank of Cambodia
As a result of the meeting dated on 27 January 2015, the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the National Bank of Cambodia condemn some humanitarian non-governmental organizations and associations that are lending money to people without licenses and registration at the bank, and ordered ...
Ministry of Economy and Finance and National Bank of Cambodia
Advanced Bank of Asia loans MFI $2m
The Advanced Bank of Asia (ABA) last week loaned PRASAC Microfinance Institution US$2 million to support the rapid growth of the microfinance loan industry. The domestic loan was chosen to “diversify our funding sources” because of a large reliance on overseas capital which moves many of the jobs created ...
Tax official defogs capital gains
A General Department of Taxation (GDT) official on February 22 listed some of the assets that would be exempt from capital gains tax once it comes into force in January 1, 2022 and shed light on some of the finer subtleties of the tax. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tax-official-defogs-capital-gains
MRC raises alarm over declining river water levels
The Mekong River Commission (MRC) on Friday raised the alarm about declining river water levels causing a negative impact on river transport, fish migration, agriculture irrigation and river weed collection. ...
Rhea Mae Soco
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50813971/mrc-raises-alarm-over-declining-river-water-levels/
PM: Use more Cambodian products
Prime Minister Hun Sen on April 1 appealed to Cambodians’ sense of patriotism to use more local products and called on producers to provide an extra dose of care in their operations to win over consumers. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pm-use-more-cambodian-products
Vietnam, Cambodia discuss land border issues
Vietnam and Cambodia on July 28 agreed to maintain the strict implementation of signed agreements on border and border marker management, and step by step solve the remaining work of their land border demarcation and marker planting. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50903598/vietnam-cambodia-discuss-land-border-issues/
Imports of fertilisers, pesticides over 900K tonnes
Cambodia imported 47,409 tonnes of pesticides and 858,632 tonnes of agricultural fertilisers in the first five months of 2021, a “sharp increase” year-on-year, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries reported on August 9. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/imports-fertilisers-pesticides-over-900k-tonnes
Disused stone quarry shut due to residual chemicals
Bati district authorities in Takeo province have called on the public to avoid visiting a stone quarry on Chambab Mountain in Tnort commune as the pit is contaminated with chemical residue from trinitrotoluene (TNT) used to break up rocks. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/disused-stone-quarry-shut-due-residual-chemicals
Afforestation project launched
The Forestry Administration signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Asian Forest Cooperation Organisation (AFoCO) on March 7 to launch a project on afForestation along with sustainable agriculture and community Forest management. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/afforestation-project-launched
Garment workers protest factory’s move, fear shutdown
Around 300 garment workers from Canteran Apparel gathered on Veng Sreng Street in Chaom Chao commune’s Trapeang Thleung village of Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district on April 19 to protest recent actions by the owner of the business. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/garment-workers-protest-factorys-move-fear-shutdown
Press Release: NEC completes inspection and verification of the results of the 5th mandate Commune/Sangkat Council Election 2022
On 15 June 2022, NatiOnal ElectiOn Committee has posted a press release On the complete inspectiOn and verificatiOn of the results of the 5th mandate Commune/Sangkat Council ElectiOn 2022. The press release has stated that the review team did not find any errors in the calculatiOn ...
National Election Committee
Government relocates Yangon squatters
The Yangon divisional government plans to relocate squatters and provide them with temporary housing, said Yangon Chief Minister Phyo Min Thein on 25 May at a press conference. He warned against trespassing and living on vacant, private or government land from 25 May onward, and said that people ...
Pattaya floods
Tropical depression Vamco pounded many areas of Thailand, especially the eastern region, with rain and gusty winds on 16 September. In Pattaya, pumps were brought in to battle the sudden flood and people were evacuated to safety. The storm was downgraded to a low pressure ...
Chile to boost exports by targeting Asian middle class
Chile, one of the major trading nations in South America, has relied heavily on exports of minerals, mainly copper. As falling copper prices have taken a toll on the nation’s economy, it is shifting its focus to exports of agricultural, forestry and fishery products, as ...
‘This is mine’, man says as Preah Sihanouk authorities tackle ‘chaotic’ land issues
As Preah Sihanouk provincial governor Yun Min held an emergency meeting on Tuesday, The Post spoke to those involved in what the authorities have labelled “chaotic” land grabbing in the province. Min held a Unit Command Team emergency meeting on taking action against land grabbers in ...
Death toll rises to 9 after dam collapse in Laos, 122 remain missing
Nine people were confirmed dead while 122 others were still missing after a dam collapsed, triggering flash flood in southern Laos on Monday, a provincial official said on Sunday. []However, if they subtracted the number of rescued villagers from the total population of these affected villages, ...