Cambodia’s agricultural commodities target China as a key export destination
China is an increasingly important export destination for Cambodia’s agricultural commodities, thanks to the Cambodia-China Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA), which went into effect on January 1, 2022. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501200944/cambodias-agricultural-commodities-target-china-as-a-key-export-destination/
One year on, RCEP, CCFTA give momentum to Cambodia’s trade growth in post-pandemic era
One year on, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade deal and the Cambodia-China Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA) have injected a vital impetus to Cambodia’s trade growth in the post COVID-19 pandemic era, an official and experts said. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501208233/one-year-on-rcep-ccfta-give-momentum-to-cambodias-trade-growth-in-post-pandemic-era/
China importers urged to buy from Cambodia
The head of the apex Cambodia trade body has asked importers operating in the southern Chinese region of Guangxi to take advantage of the Cambodia-China Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA) and buy produce made in the Kingdom, particularly items on which concessions have been granted. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/china-importers-urged-buy-cambodia
Cambodia-China trade likely to touch $15 billion by 2025
The bilateral trade between Cambodia and China is expected to reach $15 billion by 2025, a top official said. The trade figure between both nations touched $11 billion in 2022. ...
Adur Pradeep
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501351943/cambodia-china-trade-likely-to-touch-15-billion-by-2025/
SSEZ trade volume hits $2B in 10 months
The volume of imports and exports handled at the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) totalled $2.069 billion in the first 10 months of 2022, marking a 17.09 per cent rise year-on-year from $1.767 billion, according to statistics posted by the operator at the weekend. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ssez-trade-volume-hits-2b-10-months
PM Hun Sen says bilateral FTA with China boosts Cambodia’s exports
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Thursday that the Cambodia-China Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA), which took effect on Jan. 1, 2022, has given a boost to the kingdom’s exports to China. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501305373/pm-hun-sen-says-bilateral-fta-with-china-boosts-cambodias-exports/
GDCE: Tax revenue reduction offset by investment
Cambodia is a signatory to 10 free trade agreements (FTA) which cost the Kingdom over $400 million in lost tax revenue each year. This is nonetheless recovered by the growth of investment and export markets, said the General Department of Customs and Excise of Cambodia ...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gdce-tax-revenue-reduction-offset-investment
Local officials urged to work with everyone regardless of politics, religion
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng on Wednesday instructed police officials and local authorities to serve the people without considering political affiliations or religion. In the handover ceremony of 1,646 motorbikes to police stations nationwide, Kheng told police officials that they must serve the people regardless ...
Rice Federation raises alarm about Vietnam’s FTA with EU
The Cambodia Rice Federation yesterday raised fresh concerns about the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (FTA), after an online rice-industry portal said the deal will scrap import duties on about 80,000 tons of rice from Vietnam per year and that this could start this year. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21216/rice-federation-raises-alarm-about-vietnam---s-fta-with-eu/
Forced marriages turn women into slaves: report
About 55,000 Cambodians are victims of forced marriage in Cambodia and they comprise 22 percent of the estimated 256,800 people in modern slavery in Cambodia, according to an Australian NGO’s findings cited in the Global Slavery Index report released yesterday. ...
Sonny Inbaraj Krishnan and Srey Kumneth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25615/forced-marriages-turn-women-into-slaves--report/
PM warns of media anarchy
Prime Minister Hun Sen warned the media yesterday that he was determined to maintain social order, citing US President Donald Trump’s exclusion of some news outlets from a White House briefing. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35929/pm-warns-of-media-anarchy/
Poll watchdog body launched
As commune elections approach, civil society groups and Cambodian NGOs have announced plans for a situation room and more than 20,000 observers at polling stations across the country. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35867/poll-watchdog-body-launched/
Election campaigners told to watch tongues
Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sar Kheng has urged political parties, politicians and activists to refrain from making controversial comments in the run-up to the commune elections. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37237/election-campaigners-told-to-watch-tongues/
Social media shows election day muscle
Illustrating a rapidly changing information network in Cambodia, social media played a major role yesterday, as images and videos that appeared to depict fraudulent election activity went viral on Facebook and Twitter. Videos of voters washing off the supposedly indelible security ink used to identify those ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/social-media-shows-election-day-muscle
Labor Ministry denies it has stopped recognizing unions
The Labor Ministry in a statement Thursday insisted that unions were still free to register as entities recognized by the government, a day after a ministry spokesman said that union registration had been effectively suspended for the foreseeable future. free Trade Union (FTU) president Chea Mony ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/labor-ministry-denies-it-has-stopped-recognizing-unions-53319/
Workers take contract demands to ministry
About 200 garment workers marched from Phnom Penh’s Wincam garment factory to the Ministry of Labor on Thursday to press their demands for short-term contracts and better benefits. The Korean-owned factory’s 800-plus workers have been protesting since June 11 to demand that the factory change their ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/workers-take-contract-demands-to-ministry-61956/
Workers demand bonus increase, labor laws
About 7,000 workers protested in front of the Wing Star Shoes Co. Ltd. factory in Kompong Speu province on Monday, demanding that the company raise their bonuses by $5 and properly enforce a number of labor laws, a union official said. The strike comes ten months ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/workers-demand-bonus-increase-labor-laws-54431/
Hun Sen says civil servants to get tax break
Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Thursday that civil servants making less than 800,000 riel, or about $200, a month will be exempt from paying income taxes, just days after the Finance Ministry sent a very different message to the country’s garment workers. ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-says-civil-servants-to-get-tax-break-69534/
Cambodia-Korea bilateral trade worth $659 million in first 10 months of 2022
Cambodia-Republic of Korea (ROK) bilateral trade rose by 4 percent to $659 million in the first ten months of this year, compared to the same period last year. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501206988/cambodia-korea-bilateral-trade-worth-659-million-in-first-10-months-of-2022/
Australia to help develop FTA portal to promote trade, investment
Australia’s Ambassador to Cambodia Pablo Kang and Minister of Commerce Pan Sorasak jointly launched two publications: “Cambodian Crops with Prospects for the EU and RCEP Markets” and, “Cambodia and Unlocking Global Markets by Leveraging Free Trade Agreements”. ...
Sok Sithika
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501216671/australia-to-help-develop-fta-portal-to-promote-trade-investment/