Category: Politics

The Minister of Tourism has called on the local authority and business operators in Siem Reap to seize the opportunity of the province’s River Festival to further attract long-term tourists.

The minister, H.E. Sok Soken, gave the advice on Mar. 6 when chairing a review meeting for the preparation of this year’s River Festival in Siem Reap.

The ancient province of Cambodia will host the 8th River Festival for the first time from Mar. 15 to 17 under the theme “River for Peace and Development.”

According to the minister, almost all hotel and guesthouse rooms have been booked.

He urged the working group for the event to prepare well for it, especially in terms of security, cleanliness, city decoration, and quality tourism services.

He called on all business operators to maintain a reasonable price and high quality of their services, as this will attract long-term visitors to the province.

While promoting tourists to Cambodia as well as the provinces that host it, the River Festival also intends to inspire p
ublic engagement in sustainable conservation and development of rivers and their biodiversity in Cambodia.

Source: Agence Kampuchea Presse

Cambodian Minister of Tourism H.E. Sok Soken receives here on Feb. 28 a courtesy call from a delegation of the US-ASEAN Business Council (US-ABC) led by Mr. Jack Myint, Managing Director of US-ABC in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar.

According to the Ministry of Tourism (MoT)’s press release, the two sides discussed the strengthening of cooperation and partnership between public and private institutions to promote investment and development of highly competitive tourism in Cambodia, and diversify Cambodia’s tourism to become a global leading destination.

H.E. Sok Soken highlighted the launch of the Sub-Decree on the revitalisation of the Cambodia Tourism Board, which will become a mechanism for enhancing cooperation through closer partnership between the public and private sectors in promoting Cambodia’s tourism.

H.E. Minister also encouraged private companies that are members of the US-ABC to promote tourism by increasing their engagement and participation with the Cambodia Tourism Board.

The US-ASEAN Business
Council discussed Cambodia’s efforts to achieve economic and tourism goals, especially through promoting the diversification of tourism products, as well as the integration and implementation of digital systems for tourism services in Cambodia in the context of emerging global tourism trends on tourism services payment and digital tourism promotion.

At the same time, Mastercard, VISA and META Facebook expressed their willingness to cooperate with the Ministry of Tourism to facilitate the implementation of the strategic plan “BUILD + 3Ds” and especially facilitate the policies of the Royal Government’s Pentagonal Strategy.

Source: Agence Kampuchea Presse

Prime Minister Samdech Moha Borvor Thipadei Hun Manet this morning emphasised that the Ministry of Civil Service is the centre of public reform of the Royal Government.

At the announcement of winning model public service provision units in the education and health sectors in 2023, Samdech Thipadei Hun Manet said the Royal Government has been conducting the public reform programme and attaining a lot of achievements, while the Ministry of Civil Service is the key to public reform.

On the occasion, Samdech Thipadei Hun Manet responded to some discussions over the National Assembly’s vote of confidence to promote the minister of civil service to Deputy Prime Minister yesterday.

‘No matter who is the minister of civil service, this ministry is responsible for the implementation of reform of the public functions. The ministry has actively assisted the reform process in all institutions, therefore it is necessary to upgrade the key person of this ministry,’ the Premier underlined.

Samdech Thipadei Hun Manet sai
d that the Royal Government of Cambodia will continue its reform programmes in order to achieve the goal of becoming an upper middle-income economy by 2030 and a high-income nation by 2050.

Source: Agence Kampuchea Presse

The Ministry of Health and partners celebrated the National Day of Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health on Feb. 21, targeting Cambodia’s priority of achieving global maternal and child health coverage.

Minister of Health H.E. Prof. Chheang Ra presided over the event taking place in Phnom Penh with the participation of senior representatives from the Cambodian Red Cross, concerned government bodies, and development partners, including the World Health Organisation, UNICEF, UNFPA, and FHI 360.

According to the minister, Cambodia’s newborn, infant, and under-five-year-old child mortality rates have dropped by more than half from 2014 to 8, 12, and 16 per 1,000 live births, respectively, in 2021-2022.

With that, Cambodia has already achieved the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 to end preventable deaths of infants, children under one year of age, and children under five years of age.

Almost all pregnant women receive prenatal care, and 99 out of 100 of them reported receiving the care from trained health wor
kers during pregnancy-a sharp increase from only 30 percent in 2000.

He added that child deliveries in Cambodia attended by trained health professionals increased from 32 percent in 2000 to 99 percent in 2021-2022.

H.E. Prof. Chheang Ra advised all concerned players not to be complacent with the achievement.

He called for joint efforts to further strengthen the quality of maternal, newborn and child health services as well as an effective health care system to ensure healthier population in Cambodia.

Source: Agence Kampuchea Presse

Samdech Moha Borvor Thipadei Hun Manet, Prime Minister of Cambodia, said reform programmes being conducted in the Kingdom are not a revolution.

Addressing the announcement of winning model public service provision units in the education and health sectors in 2023, held at Koh Pich Convention and Exhibition Centre in Phnom Penh this morning, Samdech Thipadei Hun Manet said all the reform programmes are to expand the positive achievements, improve and reduce negative things.

The Premier said that all mandates of the Royal Government have focused on two main goals, first to expand more positive achievements for the people, and second to strive to evaluate, improve, reduce negative things.

‘If we can do these two things together well, the positive results will be larger’, he underlined, reaffirming the efforts to strengthen and expand the achievements for the people , especially at the grassroots level.

Samdech Thipadei Hun Manet mentioned that what is important of the reform is not on paper, but the actual
results on the ground, and particularly at the grassroots level because the main foundation is in the villages, communes, districts.

Source: Agence Kampuchea Presse