The number of foreign tourists entering Cambodia through the Kingdom’s three international airports witnessed a sharp 92.5 per cent year-on-year decline in the first seven months of this year, according to the Ministry of Tourism. The airports handled 51,729 international tourists in the January-July period versus the 693,064 logged in the same period last year, […]
Read MoreThe lifting of travel restrictions has resulted in an uptick in commodity prices for rice, despite exports falling more than 23 percent so far this year. Battambang Provincial Agriculture Department Deputy Director In Sovanmony told Khmer Times rice prices had increased in the open market in recent weeks, despite the drop in exports. Farmers were selling the […]
Read MoreThe government has officially launched the Business Registration System on Information Technology Platform (OBR) phase 2. The online ceremony was officiated over by Deputy Prime Minister Aun Pornmoniroth, who is also the Minister of Economy and Finance and the chairman of the Committee on Economic and Financial Policy. The first phase of the OBR was […]
Read MoreGlobal payment network Roxe is trying to persuade the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) to adopt its new Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). It says it will give qualifying central banks free access to the programme, which allows countries to issue secondary or primary sovereign, fiat currencies back by a standardised Bitcoin hashrate. Fiat currencies […]
Read MoreCambodia exported 5.54 million tons of agricultural products in the first eight months of 2021, up 89.7 percent from 2.92 million tons over the same period last year, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon said on Wednesday. Shipped to 66 countries and regions, the Southeast Asian nation earned gross revenue of $3.23 billion […]
Read MoreCambodia’s first 7-Eleven convenience store attracted hundreds of customers on its opening day on Monday, causing queues to form in the remote location despite heavy and prolonged rain at times. The shop is on National Route 6A, Prek Leab village, Prek Leap commune, Chroy Changva district, Phnom Penh, right outside the new borey Peng Huoth […]
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