MoC says registration online will boost rank
Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol said yesterday that his ministry was initiating reforms that would see Cambodia’s ease of starting a business ranking leap from the current 184 to 21. He said the government would also need to make changes to the Company Registration Law, reduce ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/moc-says-registration-online-will-boost-rank
‘Samdechs’ not getting their due, ministry says
The Ministry of Information yesterday issued a letter urging all media outlets to use The royally bestowed title “samdech” when referring to those who hold The honorific, including King Norodom Sihamoni and Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/samdechs-not-getting-their-due-ministry-says
Acleda to issue new ATM cards
Acleda Bank will issue new ATM, debit and credit cards to all its customers nationwide with the new bank logo, in compliance with an order issued by the Council of Ministers, said the bank’s CEO yesterday. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35668/acleda-to-issue-new-atm-cards/
SIM card ownership down by nearly 12%
The number of mobile phone subscribers nationwide decreased by 11.5 per cent over The last year in what regulators are describing as a rebalancing after The market reached a saturation point, pushing well beyond 100 per cent penetration. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sim-card-ownership-down-nearly-12
SMEs urged to register at Taxation Department
Cambodia’s small- and medium-size enterprises should formalise their accounts and register with the Taxation Department to avoid the risk of unpredictable tax collection in the future, industry insiders said at a tax seminar in Phnom Penh yesterday. ...
Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/smes-urged-register-taxation-department
Commerce chamber suggest Hungary open commercial office
The Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC) has requested that The Hungarian government examine The possibility of establishing a commercial office in The Kingdom to expand Cambodia-Hungary trade and investment cooperation. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/commerce-chamber-suggest-hungary-open-commercial-office
Cambodian rat meat: A growing export market
A unique harvest is under way in the rice fields of Cambodia where tens of thousands of wild rats are being trapped alive each day to feed a growing export market for the meat of rural rodents. Popularly considered a disease-carrying nuisance in many societies, the ...
Kevin Doyle
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-28863315
Property tax app: Convenience, transparency and efficiencies
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) has announced that payment of property tax is now possible via mobile phone through The “GDT Taxpayer App”. The announcement was issued on March 11 and signed by Kong Vibol, minister attached to The Prime Minister and director-general of ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50824752/property-tax-app-convenience-transparency-and-efficiencies/
Ministry, NGOs Meet Over Trafficking Report
Ministry of Interior officials held a closed-door meeting Monday with NGO representatives to contest Cambodia’s recent downgrade on the U.S. State Department’s Global Trafficking in Persons Report, which the ministry will discuss in a meeting with the U.S. Embassy this week. the annual report, released last ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-ngos-meet-over-trafficking-report-32932/
Vietnam to host annual trade fair in October
Vietnam will host its seventh annual trade fair in Cambodia during the second week of October of this year, the Department of Economics in the Vietnam Ministry of National Defense (MOD) announced in Ho Chi Minh City last week. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/vietnam-host-annual-trade-fair-october
Government unit publishes 132-page treatise on threat of ‘colour revolution’
The Council of Ministers released a no-holds-barred book about its efforts to root out a purported foreign-backed “colour revolution” in Cambodia yesterday, lashing out at superpowers like The United States for supposedly trying to cause “immeasurable catastrophe” in The country. ...
Mech Dara and Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/government-unit-publishes-132-page-treatise-threat-colour-revolution
Over 70% fail Cambodian national exam (Updated)
In 2012 and 2013, more than 80 percent of the Grade 12 high school students taking the national exam passed it. In 2014, 70 percent failed. the difference? This year cheating was not tolerated. ...
Terry Fredrickson
http://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/easy/429538/over-70-fail-cambodian-national-exam
Loan growth risks up for debate
Bank deposits and loans during the first half of this year grew significantly as compared with the same period in 2014, with loans alone increasing over 30 per cent, drawing mixed reactions from industry insiders on the risks of this rapid credit growth. ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/loan-growth-risks-debate
MEF and USAID launch transparency initiative
USAID and the US Treasury Office Of Technical Assistance (OTA) have launched a joint initiative with the Ministry Of Economy and Finance (MEF) to improve fiscal transparency and accountability in the management Of public finances, according to a press release issued yesterday. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mef-and-usaid-launch-transparency-initiative
Joint CCC-Matrade agreements
The Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC) will for The first time sign bilateral cooperation agreements with Malaysia’s External Trade Development Corporation (Matrade) to pave The way for businesses in both countries to carry out matching activities, like events and expositions. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27631/joint-ccc-matrade-agreements/
More money needed to probe thumbprints
A senior Interior Ministry official tasked with investigating the 170,000 thumbprints submitted in support of a CNRP petition to the king said on Thursday he had received samples of the prints but would be unable to proceed with his work without more money. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-money-needed-to-probe-thumbprints-113912/
Việt Nam, Cambodia’s bilateral trade surged 30% in 2017
Bilateral trade between Việt Nam and Cambodia last year surged 29.7 per cent against the previous year to nearly US$3.8 billion, the General Department of Customs reported. of the total, Việt Nam’s export turnover to this market was $2.77 billion, rising 26.1 per cent against the ...
Viet Nam News
http://vietnamnews.vn/economy/422484/viet-nam-cambodias-bilateral-trade-surged-30-in-2017.html#q1s8ssWTMd4ceTep.97
Water plan for schools on tap
At nearly half of the Kingdom’s primary schools, students have to make a daily choice between drinking contaminated water or going thirsty, a dilemma the government hopes to soon banish with new minimum sanitation and safe water standards. the guidelines, which have yet to be finalised ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/water-plan-schools-tap
PM pats GDT chief on back after record tax revenues
Prime Minister has congratulated General Department of Taxation (GDT) chief Kong Vibol on a job well done after the agency last year collected revenues equivalent to 122.54 per cent of the target set by the annual financial management law, in the “highest surplus of all ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pm-pats-gdt-chief-back-after-record-tax-revenues
Profit-tax revenue leads first half surge
Cambodia’s tax department collected $829 million in tax revenue during the first half of the year, 18 per cent more than during the same period a year earlier, led by surge in profit-tax revenue, according to government data released late on Tuesday. ...