Government lays out plan for non-tax revenue
The Ministry of Economy and Finance held a workshop yesterday to finalise a draft on a sub-decree managing non-tax revenue sources, part of the government’s attempt to improve its revenue collection. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-lays-out-plan-non-tax-revenue
Cambodia-China tourism pact
A tourism development agreement was signed last week between Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism and China’s Shanghai Spring International Travel Service Group to boost the influx of Chinese tourists to the Kingdom. In announcing the agreement on Saturday, Minister of Tourism Thong Khon said: “The memorandum ...
Chea Vannak and Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30853/cambodia-china-tourism-pact/
Post-Khmer Rouge PM dies
Pen Sovann, Cambodia’s first prime minister after the Vietnamese invasion in January 1979 that swept the Khmer Rouge from power and a serving opposition member of parliament, passed away at his home in Takeo province’s Duan Keo town on Saturday evening aged 80. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31437/post-khmer-rouge-pm-dies/
Spectrum licences up for grabs
The government announced yesterday that it will hold its first public auction for 4G spectrum frequencies, with two licences up for bid on frequencies reassigned after their original licence-holders failed to utilise them. ...
Kali Kotoski and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/spectrum-licences-grabs
GE to help electrify Cambodia
A partnership with General Electric (GE), the Boston-based American multinational conglomerate, will be the best way forward for Cambodia to meet its 2035 goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by three million tons annually and electrifying 100 percent of rural areas, representatives from the company ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32285/ge-to-help-electrify-cambodia/
China to align Asean policy with Cambodia
China is considering setting up an industrial zone in Cambodia and says it will announce new areas of cooperation with Asean nations in line with Cambodia’s industrial development policy. The issues were discussed on Saturday when Commerce Minister Pan Sorasak met Xu Ningning, executive president of ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32729/china-to-align-asean-policy-with-cambodia/
Traders urged to use riel
In an effort to boost the use of the riel, private companies have called on the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) to ensure that all goods worth less than $100 are priced in riel. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36683/traders-urged-to-use-riel/
Government threatens land rights protesters with legal action
The Commerce Ministry has threatened to take unspecified legal “measures” against anyone joining a protest against a sugarcane plantation who does not have a personal claim in the dispute. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-threatens-land-rights-protesters-with-legal-action-127079/
Cassava exports up, prices low
Though the export of cassava from Cambodia to foreign markets increased by more than 50 percent in 2016, compared with previous years, export earnings were still low due to below-market-prices offered by buyers in Thailand and Vietnam. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37174/cassava-exports-up--prices-low/
White Building residents asked to help CPP
Land Management Minister Chea Sophara on Friday reminded more than 200 residents and soon-to-be evictees of Phnom Penh’s iconic White Building to “help us back” by voting in upcoming elections in return for the government negotiating compensation for their properties. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/white-building-residents-asked-to-help-cpp-127793/
Hope grows for three cities to be inducted into UNESCO list
Via the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts and the Ministry of Tourism, the government is progressing with a set of relevant documents as a proposal to UNESCO to induct Battambang city, Kampot city and Kratie city on to the United Nations arm’s World Heritage ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/hope-grows-three-cities-be-inducted-unesco-list
Cambodia’s debt at $5.8 bil
The government signed concessional loan agreements with development partners – both bilateral and multilateral – amounting to about $8.3 billion from 1993 to the end of 2016, official figures show. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37591/cambodia---s-debt-at--5-8-bil/
Construction sector investment falls by 22 percent
Investment capital in Cambodia’s construction industry is off to a dwindling start this year, falling 22.1 percent at the end of the first quarter compared with the same period last year. ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/construction-sector-investment-falls-22-percent
Local coffee sector gets a jolt
Several international and local coffee industry representatives gathered yesterday for the start of a three-day event promoting partnerships and franchising opportunities to satisfy Cambodia’s growing coffee cravings. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/local-coffee-sector-gets-jolt
Families ask ministry to handle land disputes
Families involved in several high-profile land dispute cases in Phnom Penh have asked the Land Management Ministry to take over their cases following the municipal government’s poor handling of their plights. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38754/families-ask-ministry-to-handle-land-disputes/
Non-aligned? Cambodia is neutral: Sokhonn
The minister of foreign affairs maintained yesterday that Cambodia is not allied with China, stating that the Kingdom is “neutral”, despite an apparent diplomatic shift towards the nascent superpower and away from the West. Minister Prak Sokhonn told a crowd of over 200 students at the ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/non-aligned-cambodia-neutral-sokhonn
Government probes NGO behind damning timber racket report
More than a month after confirming its investigation into new reports of rampant timber trafficking between Cambodia and Vietnam, the Environment Ministry remains tight-lipped about what—if any—progress it is making, but says the U.K. NGO that exposed the scale of the problem is itself being ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-probes-ngo-behind-damning-timber-racket-report-131662/
AMRO forsees stable growth ahead
Cambodia’s economic growth is expected to remain stable this year with inflation rising slightly on increases in the costs of global fuel and food prices, the Asean+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) concluded following its annual consultation visit to the Kingdom. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/amro-forsees-stable-growth-ahead
Corn farmers block road over low prices
Hundreds of corn farmers blocked a main road in Battambang province on Thursday, hoping the barricade would persuade Prime Minister Hun Sen to put pressure on traders to raise the dwindling crop prices that are hurting their livelihoods. ...
Leng Len
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/corn-farmers-block-road-over-low-prices-132502/
Government to tap emergency rice fund to help corn farmers
The government will use the untapped funds of an emergency rice loan package to support struggling corn farmers who have protested the low market prices for their crop this season, state officials said yesterday. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-tap-emergency-rice-fund-help-corn-farmers