Phnom Penh, Cambodia The Ministry of Economy and Finance has announced The formation of a Special Tax Audit Unit, designed to address taxpayer concerns more efficiently. This new unit, which holds departmental status, will operate under The General Department of Taxation’s jurisdiction. ...

Environment Minister Say Sam Al met with private firms with land concessions last week to gauge their compliance with government rules and regulations, and adherence to their own contracts. Amid mounting local and international pressure, Prime Minister Hun Sen in mid-2012 ordered a freeze on ...

Cambodian and U.S. senior officials met here on Monday to further promote bilateral ties and cooperation. the meeting was made between Ouch Borith, secretary of state at the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Scot Marciel, visiting principal deputy assistant to the United States Secretary of ...

The Institute of Standards of Cambodia (ISC) and The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) will team up to boost The export of four seafood products that adhere to international standards. Speaking at a workshop at The Ministry of Industry and Handicraft yesterday, ISC director-general Chan ...

Garment and footwear exports earned $3.92 billion over the first eight months of 2014, up more than 7 percent year-on-year, according to new figures from the Ministry of Commerce. the latest numbers show a slowdown after year-on-year earnings for the first six months of the year ...

Cambodia’s population is expected to grow by 22 per cent to almost 19 million by 2030, while infant mortality is slated to decrease and life expectancy to increase, according to a UN report released on Wednesday. ...

The Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC) and more than 60 companies from Vietnam’s souThern provinces held a business forum on Friday to discuss The establishment of a special economic zone (SEZ) along The border of The two countries. CCC vice-president Lim Heng, who presided over ...

Non-Governmental Organizations received green lights from the Royal Government of Cambodia to kick off a draft law on the establishment of a National Independent Committee on Human Rights in Cambodia. Prime Minister of Cambodia tasked the Civil Society Organizations to develop a draft law on the ...

The Council of Ministers on Friday approved a draft law amending three articles in The law on anti-money laundering and The financing of terrorism in order to make Cambodia more investment-friendly. Last month, The National Bank of Cambodia’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), law enforcement officials ...

The Manpower Association of Cambodia and The Association of Cambodian Recruitment Agencies yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with The Thai-Cambodian Relation Association to protect migrant workers in Thailand. ...

A new academic report has urged farmers in the northwest of the Kingdom to change their planting ways if they want to mitigate the detrimental impacts of climate change on their crops. ...

Chinese flag carrier Air China is expected to launch the first non-stop flights from Beijing to Cambodia as early as November this year, officials said yesterday. Director of the Air Transport Department of Cambodia’s State Secretariat of Civil Aviation, Vann Chanty, said that officials from ...

Over 100 families, who live in Kampong Chhnang, filed complaints against a provincial court judge and his group for allegedly threatening to shoot them in land disputes. the residents sued San Sophat, a judge at Kampong Chhnang Provincial Court, his bodyguard, and Hem Dara, a lawyer, ...

The Cambodia-India Joint Committee Meeting on bilateral trade and technology exchange will be held in New Delhi on Friday, The spokesman of The Ministry of Foreign Affairs told reporters yesterday.   ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia (SECC) yesterday warned The public against investing in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, arguing that There is no regulation in place to manage The use of digital coins. ...

Officials have released a public statement warning against a rise in unlicensed lenders they say are dangerously operating outside Of Cambodian regulations and threatening financial stability. In a joint declaration from the Ministry Of Economy and Finance and the National Bank Of Cambodia on Monday, authorities ...

Private sector representatives argued yesterday that Cambodia’s outdated taxation laws do not accurately reflect the Kingdom’s current business climate, urging the General Department of Taxation (GDT) to revise the legal framework to promote private sector growth. ...

A Ministry of Social Affairs official yesterday announced that, starting next year, the government would offer regular payments of 20,000 riel (about $5) to all disabled Cambodians, a benefit that so far has only been available to retired disabled soldiers. In an announcement that coincided with ...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) launched The Basic Education Equivalency Programme (Beep) on Sunday – an internet-based education programme for Cambodian youths in grades seven to nine who have dropped out of school – at The Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC). ...

A new study by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has confirmed that resistance is growing to one of the key drugs being used to fight malaria in Cambodia, a situation likely to worsen and which could lead to a growing caseload in the ...