Ministry to recruit 300 more rangers
The Environment Ministry has started it’s process of recruiting 300 new forest rangers to work in select provinces next year in a bid to fill staff shortages and reduce deforestation. Ministry spokesperson Sao Sopheap said yesterday that the existing 960-strong ranger workforce was insufficient to guard ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32907/ministry-to-recruit-300-more-rangers/
Ministry says most NGOs ignore tax requirements
Only 200 of some 5,000 domestic NGOs have submitted required banking details to the Interior Ministry, its spokesman said on Monday, as the government steps up enforcement of tax requirements on organizations that may have racked up huge unpaid bills. ...
Hang Sokunthea and Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-says-most-ngos-ignore-tax-requirements-133324/
PPSEZ plans bookbuild for scaled-back IPO
Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ), the private firm that operates Cambodia’s most developed industrial park, will hold a bookbuild for investors later this month for an initial public offering it hopes will raise up to $11.6 million for expansion and debt repayment, according to ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ppsez-plans-bookbuild-scaled-back-ipo
National Strategy for Informal Economic Development to achieve three goals at once
The launch of the National Strategy for Informal Economic Development 2023-2028 will achieve three goals at the same time, i.e. alleviating poverty and social inequality, strengthening social and economic resilience, and boosting economic growth. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501374642/national-strategy-for-informal-economic-development-to-achieve-three-goals-at-once/
Profits sink in Q1 for capital industrial park
Listed industrial park operator Phnom Penh SEZ reported revenue of $1.46 million for the first quarter of 2017, a decline of $1.72 million, or nearly 54 percent, compared with the same period last year, according to a filing yesterday on the Cambodia Securities Exchange. ...
The Phnom Penh Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/profits-sink-q1-capital-industrial-park
Companies warned over slow development of ELCs
Provincial government officials in Stung Treng have warned companies granted economic land concessions (ELCs) in the province to fulfil their promised development plans or face losing their rights to the land. Touch Thea, director of the Stung Treng provincial department of agriculture, said the call for ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/companies-warned-over-slow-development-elcs
Companies lag on listing rules
Adding its name to a rapidly growing list of private companies, Tonlesap Airlines is gearing up for an initial public offering on the Cambodia Securities Exchange. And like many of these companies, the listing is still years off as Tonlesap prepares the tax And financial information ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012083058376/Business/companies-lag-on-listing-rules.html
Cambodia’s export to RCEP member countries increases by 11 percent in first quarter
Cambodia’s exports to the member countries of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) totaled $1.956 billion in the first three months of this year, up 11 percent over the same period last year, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501069684/cambodias-export-to-rcep-member-countries-increases-by-11-percent-in-first-quarter/
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/
Cambodian Vtrust plans CSX floating
Local real estate company Vtrust Property Group plans to engage an underwriter in as little as two years to help it list on the Cambodia Stock Exchange, the company’s chairman, Kuy Vat, said yesterday. The company is now preparing the necessary documents on its business, corporate ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032764710/Business/cambodian-vtrust-plans-csx-floating.html
Voting rules changed for police, army
Less than one week after refusing to create a way for migrant workers to vote in the coming elections, the National Election Committee (NEC) yesterday asked the Interior Ministry to urgently intervene and allow National Police units and Royal Cambodian Armed Forces to vote near ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31324/voting-rules-changed-for-police--army/
Press Release on the halt of the operation of the National Democratic Institute
On 23 August 2017, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release to stop the operation of the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in Cambodia and to expel its foreign staff from the Kingdom within seven days after the official notification of ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Pich Sros raises dam issues
Cambodian Youth Party (CYP) president Pich Sros on Tuesday raised four issues faced by residents of Kampong Speu and Takeo provinces regarding dam constructions and submitted his report to the Minister of Water Resources and Meteorology Lim Kean Hor. Sros told The Post that the ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pich-sros-raises-dam-issues
Cash handout programme 80% complete
Minister of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation Vong Soth confirmed on Thursday that the implementation of the Cash Transfer Programme For Poor and Vulnerable Households During Covid-19 had been implemented for more than 80% of the over 560,000 families. The programme was introduced one ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cash-handout-programme-80-complete
Rice farmers seek funding, blaming change in seasons
The Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) has asked the Agriculture and Rural Development Bank (ARDB) to release more funds and requested an extension to the loan cycle repayments, blaming an adjustment in the harvest season. ...
Sorn Sarath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50757893/rice-farmers-seek-funding-blaming-change-in-seasons/
Gov’t: No Chinese goods skirting US tariffs at SSEZ
No Chinese goods have been found to be exported from Cambodia to the US to avoid US-imposed tariffs on China, a Ministry of Commerce statement said on Sunday. US embassy spokesman Arend Zwartjes previously told The Post on Thursday that the US Department of Homeland ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gov%E2%80%99t-no-chinese-goods-skirting-us-tariffs-ssez
Cambodia's first IPO nears
Cambodia’s first initial public offering is fast approaching, and demand is expected to be robust. Bookbuilding, the process during which bids are taken and a price set for shares, ended last Wednesday for Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA). The final offering price will be announced ...
http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/economics/284959/cambodia-first-ipo-nears
Sihanoukville to welcome four new industrial parks
The coastal province of Preah Sihanouk will soon be home to four more special economic zones, bringing the total number of industrial parks there to nine, the prime minister said Saturday. ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50661037/sihanoukville-to-welcome-four-new-industrial-parks/
Activists call for transparency at Buddhist Institute
The activist Independent Monk Network has called on the Ministry of Cult and Religion to release paperwork proving that an agreement it struck with NagaCorp to help construct an electricity substation at Phnom Penh’s Buddhist Institute does not involve the selling of any of the ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activists-call-transparency-buddhist-institute
Announcement on incentive mechanisms for voluntary business registration in the information and broadcasting sector
On 3 May 2024, Ministry of Commerce has decided to offer incentives for businesses registering voluntarily in the information and broadcasting sector. These incentives include a three-year exemption from public service duties for registered businesses and fine exemptions for businesses that have been operated but ...
Ministry of Commerce