For ‘police’ vehicles, no tax, no problem
Prime Minister Hun Sen has quashed an attempt by the Ministry of Finance to collect back taxes owed on 470 police vehicles, granting them tax-exempt status after a request from the Ministry of Interior. the request, dated September 8, was approved on Tuesday. ...
Mech Dara and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-vehicles-no-tax-no-problem
CSOs urge government to drop internet gateway sub-decree
A joint statement signed by 63 Cambodian civil society organisations (CSOs) released Friday requested the government immediately repeal the recent sub-decree on the Establishment of a National Internet Gateway, citing the potential for restrictions on internet users’ freedoms and privacy. ...
Brian Badzmierowski
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50816453/csos-urge-government-to-drop-internet-gateway-sub-decree/
MoU signed to strengthen Cambodia’s SME sector
The European Chamber of Commerce and Cambodia Women Entrepreneurs Association (CWEA) have united to promote a sustainable ecosystem for entrepreneurs and SMEs while also boosting Cambodia’s exposure as a foreign investment destination. ...
Mao Sreypich
https://kiripost.com/stories/mou-signed-to-strengthen-cambodias-sme-sector
Financial leniency urged for buyers of boreys, condos
The government on March 22 issued a plea to developers of borey gated-communities and condominiums in Cambodia to ease some of The financial pressure facing customers to pay monthly installments until The end of March 2022, in light of The Covid-19 pandemic. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/financial-leniency-urged-buyers-boreys-condos
Tonle bassac dredging necessary, say officials
In order to aid waterway transport, sand-dredging – largely banned since a 2011 decree – will soon begin reappearing at dozens of locations along the Tonle Bassac river, a spokesman from the Ministry of Mines and Energy confirmed yesterday. ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tonle-bassac-dredging-necessary-say-officials
Gov’t misses deadline for new price list
Nearly three weeks after releasing an official price list for basic public services such as the production of passports and ID cards aimed at combating corruption, Interior Ministry officials Monday admitted that the new prices were not yet being applied. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-misses-deadline-for-new-price-list-82223/
Telecoms operator educates the masses
Telecoms operator Metfone, a subsidiary of Vietnam’s Viettel Group, has deployed a digital education system in Siem Reap, approaching a total of 3,000 schools nationwide. In a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signing ceremony yesterday, Siem Reap’s 10 Makara 1979 High School became the latest education ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50757705/telecoms-operator-educates-the-masses/
UNESCO list request could help dolphins
The ministries of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and Environment, as well as The World Wide Fund for Nature Cambodia (WWF Cambodia), will request The Anlong Kampi Irrawaddy dolphin conservation area in Kratie province be added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unesco-list-request-could-help-dolphins
FAO kicks off capacity building aimed at a strengthened agricultural data landscape in Cambodia
The Food and Agriculture Organization of The United Nations (FAO) has kicked off a weeklong provincial level training workshop aimed at strengThening national capacity on analysis and interpretation of agricultural statistics and data. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501344402/fao-kicks-off-capacity-building-aimed-at-a-strengthened-agricultural-data-landscape-in-cambodia/
Elderly call for cash payment health support
Nearly 200 representatives of the elderly in Cambodia called on the government to consider prioritising the provision of cash allowances to the elderly to help address their health-related concerns post-pandemic. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/elderly-call-cash-payment-health-support
Local bond market on the horizon
The government is preparing legislation to regulate The establishment of a corporate bond market that would give local companies a new debt instrument to raise capital for Their operations or expansion. ...
Brian Ng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/local-bond-market-horizon
Government spokesman summons student over Facebook post
Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan has summoned a student from the country’s top state journalism school for a meeting at his office after she used a post on her Facebook page to question the sense of a guest lecture he delivered last week. Mr. Siphan ...
Alex Willemyns and Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-spokesman-summons-student-over-facebook-post-58460/
Defense Ministry official asks for military-plate tax exemption
A Defense Ministry official has requested that vehicles bearing Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) license plates be exempt from paying the country’s road tax, noting that a recent increase in inspections by tax officials could hurt “military officers’ feelings.” ...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/defense-ministry-official-asks-for-military-plate-tax-exemption-77590/
CNRP Requests Migrant Worker Draft Agreement
The opposition CNRP has written to The embassies of Singapore and Malaysia requesting copies of draft agreements with The Cambodian government on sending migrant workers to The countries that They say They were not privy to. A Ministry of Labor official last month said The government ...
Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-requests-migrant-worker-draft-agreement-48622/
Input on NGO law over: gov’t
The government will not consult civil society groups on The latest iteration of a draft law that will regulate non-governmental organisations and associations, a senior Interior Ministry official said yesterday. Meas Sarim, deputy director-general of The General Department of Local Administration at The Ministry of Interior ...
Chhay Channyda and Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/input-ngo-law-over-gov%E2%80%99t
EU Alleges Up to 30% of Cambodia Rice Imports Mixed With Vietnam Rice
The Alliance of Rice Producers and Exporters of Cambodia (ARPEC) has proposed a “Code of Conduct” for rice exporters of The country to prevent contamination of rice from oTher origins in rice exports to EU member countries. Under The Everything But Arms (EBA) trade ...
Oryza
http://oryza.com/news/eu-alleges-30-cambodia-rice-imports-are-mixed-vietnam-rice
Kampong Chhnang villagers demand return of tractors
Farmers and the authorities in Svay Rompear commune, Kampong Leng district, Kampong Chhnang province said they would continue to seek court permission to recover five tractors that authorities had impounded on March 26, ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampong-chhnang-villagers-demand-return-tractors
Japan firms see fresh potential in Kingdom
A delegation of more than 30 Japanese businesspeople yesterday met with the Council for the Development of Cambodia to discuss investment opportunities in the Kingdom, after seeing what they said were vast improvements in domestic legal and tax regulations. However, no definite decisions had yet ...
Ministries: Join BFC or lose export privileges
Two ministries on February 22 ordered factory owners and directors in the textile, garment, bag and travel-goods export sectors to register with Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) and obtain certification on working conditions. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ministries-join-bfc-or-lose-export-privileges
Authorities warn union leader
Police on Friday warned labour union leader Pav Sina that if he continues to lead protests – thereby violating the rules of a court order – he will be arrested. the Collective Union of Movement of Workers leader was called to the Choam Chao commune police ...
Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-warn-union-leader