News

• 04 April, 2021
• Posted by: EuroCham Cambodia

This press review is a compilation of recent articles released in March divided by date & sectors:

31/03/21

• Growth & Business - MoC responds to UN study citing negative RCEP impact on revenue – Khmer Times
• Growth & Business - COVID won’t hold us back, ASEAN meeting agrees – Khmer Times
• Policy against COVID 19 - Sub-decree outlines Covid measures – Phnom Penh Post
• Covid-19 - ‘Nearly $2B allocated for Covid’ – Phnom Penh Post

30/03/21

• Covid-19 - Mass vaccination drive: PM sets target to inoculate one million people per month – Khmer Times
• Trade - Vietnam-Cambodia trade up 64 percent in two months – Khmer Times

29/03/21

• Energy - Bidding opens for new 40 mW solar project – Khmer Times
• Growth & Business - Digital entrepreneurship for women given a boost – Khmer Times
• Banking & Finance - ‘Riel-ing’ in loans is key to de-dollarisation – Khmer Times
• Covid-19 - World Bank: East Asia and Pacific to recover unevenly – Khmer Times
• Transportation & Infrastructure - Logistics, transportation scrutinised at 40th ASEAN meeting – Khmer Times
• Banking & Finance - $200M credit guarantee scheme launched – Phnom Penh Post
• Tourism - Ministry seeks tourism skills course providers – Phnom Penh

28/03/21

• Covid-19 - Gov’t rolls out eighth round of relief measures – Phnom Penh Post
• Trade - Duty-free access to Vietnam for 31 tariff lines – Phnom Penh Post
• Covid-19 - Covid in Kingdom hits ‘critical point’ – Phnom Penh Post

27/03/21

• Manufacturing - Five investment projects valued at $1.29 billion approved – Khmer Times

26/03/21

• Banking & Finance - De-dollarisation is ultimate goal of the Royal Government – Khmer Times
• Tourism - International tourist arrival figures for 2020 decline by 80 percent – Khmer Times

25/03/21

• Banking & Finance - Riel benefits: CSX index helps to build currency confidence in Kingdom – Khmer Times
• ICT - Turning on the taps to help payments flow freely – Khmer Times
• Energy - ADB green projects gain $300 mn – Khmer Times
• ICT - 5G development on a roll in Cambodia – Khmer Times
• Agriculture - Cambodian rice price up on international market – Phnom Penh Post
• ICT - MPTC strengthens quality of telecommunication services – Khmer Times

24/03/21

• Tourism - 2021 tourism licence renewal fees and penalties waived – Khmer Times
• Agriculture - Drive to improve agricultural value chains across ASEAN – Khmer Times
• Banking & Finance - De-dollarisation finds willing and eager base in rural communities – Khmer Times
• Growth & Business - Ministry to launch new jobsite to boost employment – Khmer Times
• ICT - Telecoms firms pressed to up services as internet use swells – Phnom Penh Post

23/03/21

• ICT - Number of registered internet subscribers increases in 2020 – Khmer Times
• Growth & Business - Council approves nearly $70 million in new investments – Khmer Times
• Energy - 60MW solar station in Battambang hooked to grid – Phnom Penh Post

22/03/21

• Growth & Business - Prime Minister announces three-day Khmer New Year holiday – Khmer Times
• Banking & Finance - MEF and NBC call on real estate developers to ease clients’ financial burdens - Khmer Times
• Growth & Business - $8M to civil servants, military for holidays – Phnom Penh Post

21/03/21

• Agriculture - Garlic becoming potential cash crop in Mondulkiri – Khmer Times
• Policy Against Covid-19 - Schools on pause amid Covid – Phnom Penh Post
• Policy Against Covid-19 - Capital’s internet cafes close as virus spreads – Phnom Penh Post
• Covid-19 - Officials: Nobody immune from Covid – Phnom Penh Post

19/03/21

• Covid-19 - Bank chief seeks to counter February 20 Coronavirus effect – Khmer Times

18/03/21

• Growth &Business - Mixed outlook on the economy – Khmer Times
• Real Estate & Construction - ‘Pandemic fuels demand for management of property’ – Khmer Times
• ICT - MPTC, Microsoft agree to promote digitalisation in Cambodia – Khmer Times
• Banking & Finance - Key signing heralds capital markets interconnection – Khmer Times

17/03/21

• Tax - Tax dept rejects request for delay in returns – Khmer Times
• Growth & Business - Economic forecast for 2021 projects 3.5 percent GDP growth – Khmer Times
• Banking & Finance - NBC’s director-general: Promoting financial inclusion – Khmer Times
• Covid-19 - Ad-hoc commission on vaccination process formed – Khmer Times
• Covid-19 - Vaccinated must remain cautious – Khmer Times
• Real Estate & Construction - Outbreak wracks land lot market – Phnom Penh Post

16/03/21

• Growth & Business - Insiders report Feb 20 incident’s huge toll on restaurant chains – Khmer Times
• Banking & Finance - Nation’s financial sector is ‘weathering pandemic’ – Khmer Times
• Policy Against Covid-19 - PM urges against travel to stave off transmissions as Covid cases soar – Phnom Penh Post
• Growth & Business - Retail sector feels pinch of Covid-19 outbreak – Phnom Penh Post
• Banking & Finance - Kingdom joins ASEAN securities plan – Phnom Penh Post

15/03/21

• Real Estate & Construction - Phase one of Phnom Penh National Park expected to be completed next month – Khmer Times
• Policy Against Covid-19 - Hun Sen urges ban on gatherings – Phnom Penh Post
• Agriculture - Ministry bans all live chicken importation – Phnom Penh Post

14/03/21

• Tax - Property owners told to pay tax through new app – Phnom Penh Post
• Real Estate & Construction - Real estate insiders say Feb 20 incident hurt market – Khmer Times
• Growth & Business - Preparation for the 3rd Cambodia-Eurasian Economic Commission meeting underway – Khmer Times

12/03/21

• Trade - China ratifies the world’s largest free trade deal – Khmer Times
• ICT - Study urges help for youths to engage in the digital economy – Khmer Times
• ICT - Serious concerns raised over the National Internet Gateway – Khmer Times
• Energy - Three solar power stations now ready to connect to grid – Khmer Times
• Tax - International Business Chambers request GDT to extend tax deadline amid outbreak – Khmer Times

11/03/21

• ICT - Social commerce revolution demands digital marketing skills – Khmer Times
• Agriculture - Progress updated on fresh mango exports to China – Khmer Times
• Growth & Business - Deadline nears for postal firms to apply for permits – Phnom Penh Post
• Policy Against Covid-19 - Law on Covid-19 control takes effect – Phnom Penh Post

10/03/21

• Policy Against Covid-19 - Sub-decree for Covid control law finalized – Phnom Penh Post
• Growth & Business - Cambodia ready to host 40th ATF in January 2022 – Khmer Times
• Agriculture - Brazilian pork given access to Cambodian market amid ASF outbreak – Khmer Times

09/03/21

• Policy Against Covid-19 - PM asks Senate to approve draft law on measures to prevent COVID-19 spread soonest – Khmer Times
• Policy Against Covid-19 - Gatherings suspended: PM orders immediate ban on gatherings due to C-19 rise – Khmer Times
• Growth & Business - Gender equality vital to boosting economic output – Khmer Times
• Growth & Business - Kingdom to chair ASEAN during critical pandemic recovery period – Khmer Times
• ICT - Cost and effect of a National Internet Gateway – Khmer Times
• Energy - Cambodia chalks up five oil wells – The Phnom Penh Post

08/03/21

• Agriculture - Container shortage, rising shipping costs takes bite out of mango exports – Phnom Penh Post
• ICT - ISPs revel in ministry’s legal threat to unlicensed telcos – Phnom Penh Post

07/03/21

• Trade - Kingdom-US trade hits $614M – Phnom Penh Post

04/03/21

• Growth & Business - EU pledges $510 million to Cambodia in 2021-2027 – Khmer Times
• Covid-19 - Factory building shut down, 716 workers screened of whom 40 quarantined – Khmer Times
• Agriculture - Certified non-rice agricultural exports rise – Khmer Times
• Transportation & Infrastructure - EVA Air flights between Taipei and Phnom Penh to resume – Khmer Times
• Agriculture - Paper mill lifts Kampot’s hopes – Phnom Penh Post

03/3/21

• Transportation & Infrastructure - Border Market in Kampot province to break ground – Khmer Times
• Transportation & Infrastructure - Dara Sakor International Airport ‘to open mid-2021’ – Khmer Times
• Tourism - Angkor Resort receives over 4,000 tourists in first two months – Khmer Times
• Banking & Finance - CMA members restructure $1.4B in loans – Phnom Penh Post
• Real Estate & Construction - Sihanoukville real estate cautiously forges on – Phnom Penh Post

02/03/21

• Transportation & Infrastructure - Logistics industry insiders hopeful but they see little change for now – Khmer Times
• Trade - Trade with EU valued at $3.8 billion in 2020 – Khmer Times
• Trade - Ministry invites exporters to expo in east China – Phnom Penh Post

01/03/21

• Policy against COVID 19 - Gym clubs temporarily closed in capital and provinces – Khmer Times
• Policy against COVID 19 - New hope in C-19 crisis as US approves single-shot vaccine – Khmer Times
• Transportation & Infrastructure - Japan chips in for vessel system – Phnom Penh Post
• Growth & Business - CDC gives nod to 16 projects worth $700M last month – Phnom Penh Post