Cambodia exports 149,464 tons of rice in January-March 2015; up 77% from last year
Cambodia exported around 149,464 tons of rice the first three months of 2015, up about 77% from around 84,331 tons exported during the same period in 2014, according to data from the Secretariat of one Window Service for Rice Export formality (SOWS-REF). Cambodia exported 387,061 ...
Oryza News Staff
http://oryza.com/22283/cambodia-exports-149464-tons-rice-january-march-2015-77-last-year
First agricultural insurance tested in Cambodia
Cambodia’s first pilot program to insure farmers against rice crop loss launched last week in five provinces. ...
Un Raksmey and Igor Kossov
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13276/first-agricultural-insurance-tested-in-cambodia/
GDT strives to unfold tax intricacies: official
A senior tax official pledged to facilitate all tax issues for Japanese investors currently investing or doing business in Cambodia to ensure things go smoothly, as part of a broader effort to create productive feedback channels, and improve transparency and operational efficiency, according to the ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gdt-strives-unfold-tax-intricacies-official
146 Japanese investment projects registered at CDC
The Council of the Development of Cambodia (CDC) approved 146 Japanese qualified investment projects (QIP) as of October with a total investment capital of $2.853 billion. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50970276/146-japanese-investment-projects-registered-at-cdc/
Minister: Swiss SDC Kingdom’s ‘key partner in development’
Minister of Labour and Vocational Training Ith Samheng said the activities of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in Cambodia over the past decade demonstrate its commitment and long-term partnership with the Kingdom. The SDC is an important donor that has assisted Cambodia’s ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-swiss-sdc-kingdoms-key-partner-development
CHRC, OHCHR discuss human rights situation in Cambodia
The Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) yesterday met Roeuida El Hage, Representative of Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to Cambodia to assess the human rights condition in Cambodia and to strengthen the cooperation between the two human rights organisations. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501089869/chrc-ohchr-discuss-human-rights-situation-in-cambodia/
Safety First: Lao Airlines Flight to Shanghai Heads Back to Vientiane’s Wattay Airport For Brake Check
Mechanical investigations have followed after a brake system warning led to a Lao Airlines flight from the capital to China’s city of Shanghai returning to Vientiane’s Wattay International Airport Sunday.The aircraft conducted loops above the Nam Ngum Reservoir to burn up fuel before attempting its landing at Vientiane’s Wattay ...
The Laotian Times
KBank’s Lao unit helps finance Bangkok Chain group for construction of hospital in Vientiane
As part of its continual support for investment in Laos, Kasikornthai Bank Ltd, Lao PDR, has offered a financial facility to Bangkok Chain Hospital (BCH), a listed Thai company, for the construction of the 254-bed Kasemrad International Hospital Vientiane, which is scheduled to be operational ...
The Nation
https://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/Corporate/30371310
Nam Theun 2 To Donate LAK 1 Billion For Relief, Recovery Efforts In Flood-hit Provinces
(KPL) The Nam Theun 2 Power Company Limited has committed one billion kip to relief and recovery efforts in the flood hit provinces of Khammuan, Savannakhet, Saravan, Xekong, Attapeu and Champassak.The flooding caused by storms between late August and early September is the worst for the six central and southern provinces ...
KPL News Desk
http://kpl.gov.la/En/Detail.aspx?id=48229
Local Man Opens Rakhine’s First Garment Factory ‘to Stop Migration to Other Regions’
A local entrepreneur in Rakhine has started what he says is the area’s first garment factory in a bid to prevent people emigrating from the impoverished state.Keep reading ...
BCEL One Heart Makes Donation For Flood Victims Easier
(KPL) Banque Pour Le Commerce Exterieur Lao Public, mostly known as BCEL, has launched a corporate social responsibility project called BCEL one Heart to raise funds for flood victims in Attapeu and other charity purposes.More ...
KPL
Makerbox Becomes First Public Community Makerspace in Laos
The Makerbox Lao (MBL) is the first public “maker space” in Laos, allowing members and visitors to enjoy a co-working space, as well as state-of-the-art facilities for experimentation and discovery around science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) at the space. The space will host ...
Laotian Times
South Korea fund to provide nearly US$44 million for water supply projects in Laos
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – South Korea’s Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF) has agreed to provide low interest loans worth almost US$44 million to support water supply development projects in Champassak and Saravan provinces in southern Laos.This was decided at a meeting between representatives of EDCF ...
News Desk
Blindness increase a concern
At a workshop on Monday, government officials and civil society organisations expressed concern over the increase in the number of people suffering from blindness and visual impairments, with blindness being the most common form of disability in the Kingdom. The workshop on the “Marrakesh Treaty”, ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/blindness-increase-concern
Draft law on monitoring transactions passed
The Senate on Tuesday approved a proposed new law to track the flow of money locally and from abroad and across all areas to combat tax avoidance, with special attention given to the private sector and civil society organisations. ...
Mech Dara and Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/draft-law-monitoring-transactions-passed
Legal Cambodians may return, says Thailand
Thai officials said Tuesday they will take back Cambodian workers who re-enter the country legally. The statement follows a mass exodus in recent weeks of tens of thousands of Cambodians amid rumors of a crackdown on undocumented workers. Koy Kuong, a spokesman for Cambodia’s foreign Ministry, told ...
Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voanews.com/content/thailand-says-legal-cambodian-workers-can-return/1939085.html
Cambodia promotes rice to international buyers
Cambodia held the 4th rice forum on Tuesday with an aim to promote milled rice to local and international buyers, an organizer said. Potential buyers from China, Singapore, Nigeria, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Iraq, South Africa, the United States, Italy, Poland, Germany, India, and Myanmar were ...
Asean-China Center News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2014-10/23/c_133737454.htm
UNICEF supports education, clean water programmes
UNICEF has provided more than 36 billion kip (US$4.4 million) to fund education and clean water programmes in some 100 targeted schools across the country. The money will be used to finance early childhood education, primary education as well as water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) ...
Sihanoukville authorities close canal to transfer flow of polluted water
Local authorities on Tuesday decided to close a canal at Sihanoukville’s Sokha Beach following the completion of four facilities in Preah Sihanouk province designed to treat wastewater before it reaches the sea. Four more facilities are still under construction. The first four water treatment plants, ...
Thais to set up maize plant
THAI agribusiness giant Charoen Pokphand (CP) Foods is setting up a new silo and drying plant for maize in Pailin province. The exact investment cost is not known. According to a newspaper report in The Nation, the plant, together with a planned feed-meal plant in Laos, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013030561742/Business/thais-to-set-up-maize-plant.html