Starting a business in Cambodia is getting harder, report says
Almost every aspect of starting or operating a business in Cambodia is becoming more difficult, according to a World Bank report released Wednesday. “Starting a business in Cambodia requires 11 procedures, takes 101.0 days, costs 139.5 percent of income per capita and requires paid-in minimum ...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/starting-a-business-in-cambodia-is-getting-harder-report-says-71343/
Foreign Ministry strikes back at Subedi remarks
Foreign Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong yesterday defended the independence of Cambodia’s judiciary following concerns raised by a UN official about the whirlwind imprisonment of 11 activists arrested for protesting last week. Kuong accused Surya Subedi, the UN’s special rapporteur for human rights, of making a habit ...
Taing Vida
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/foreign-ministry-strikes-back-subedi-remarks
Students knuckle down to prepare for cheating-free exam
Hean Chanthorn, 20, a grade 12 student from Chea Sim Santhor Mok High School in Phnom Penh, says he wakes at 4 a.m. every morning to revise. He heads to school at 6 a.m. and stays there until 7:30 in the evening. After dinner, Chanthorn ...
Leng Sreynich
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/students-knuckle-down-to-prepare-for-cheating-free-exam/2862364.html
CNRP told to raise funds privately
Coming on the heels of the imprisonment of 11 of its activists, the arrests of three more and the rejection of an agreement to hold elections earlier, the Cambodia National Rescue Party has now been ordered to cease fundraising for its recently approved television station ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-told-raise-funds-privately
Law on measures against COVID-19 promulgated
The Law on measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and other deadly infectious diseases was promulgated on Mar. 11. .. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50823956/law-on-measures-against-covid-19-promulgated/
Cambodia-Japan trade tops $1.5B
Trade between Cambodia and Japan reached $1.5094 billion in the first eight months of 2021, up 11.8 per cent year-on-year from $1.350 billion, according to data from the Japan External Trade Organisation (Jetro). ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-japan-trade-tops-15b
Cambodia promotes economic literacy for non-economists
The Royal Government of Cambodia is promoting the economic literacy for non-economists. An 11-day workshop on the topic was conducted recently in hybrid format by professors and experts from Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University (ANU). ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501085151/cambodia-promotes-economic-literacy-for-non-economists/
Sun Chanthol visits Sihanoukville Port Special Economic Zone
Sun Chanthol, Deputy Prime Minister and First Vice President of the Council for the Development of Cambodia, on Sep 11, visited Sihanoukville Port Special Economic Zone. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501358469/sun-chanthol-visits-sihanoukville-port-special-economic-zone/
Thailand urges monitoring of bird flu virus after death of Cambodian girl
An 11-year-old girl has died of bird flu in eastern Cambodia, prompting a call for increased disease monitoring by government health agencies. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501245434/thailand-urges-monitoring-of-bird-flu-virus-after-death-of-cambodian-girl/
Cambodia’s RCEP trade up 14%
Cambodia’s trade with the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) countries rose by 13.98 percent to $11.19 billion, a report from the Ministry of Commerce said. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501489816/cambodias-rcep-trade-up-14/
Cables reveal US positivity
US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks have shown a positive light towards two high-profile court cases in Cambodia. One case concerns the trafficking and physical abuse of an 11 year old girl and was Cambodia’s first case of human trafficking to be prosecuted. The cables ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011071250326/National-news/cables-reveal-us-positivity.html
NEC releases council candidates
The National Election Committee (NEC) issued a press release on Wednesday on the candidates who are to take part in the third-mandate council elections in May. It showed there are a total of 559 candidates for capital and provincial councils and 3,555 for district councils. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-releases-council-candidates
Draft budget due in parliament
The Council of Ministers on Friday approved its national budget draft of about $6.7 billion for 2019, an increase of 11.4 percent over 2018, and NGOs now want to review it before it is sent to the National Assembly for ratification. According to the draft, ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50544913/draft-budget-due-in-parliament/
Construction Revival Behind Import Growth
A 22.8 percent increase in the value of imports to Cambodia this year is partly due to a high demand for construction materials, a Commerce Ministry official said yesterday. In the first 11 months of 2012, total trade in and out of Cambodia reached $12.31 billion, ...
CEDAC sours on honey prices
CEDAC, a domestic agriculture development organisation and the Kingdom’s largest distributor of natural honey, will shrink its purchases of the commodity in the face of rising prices, the company’s president says. Yang Saing Koma said the group would not reach its goal of buying 7,000 ...
Sieam Bunthy, P. 8
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cedac-sours-honey-prices
Semi-skilled builders see wages drop, report says
Real wages for Cambodia’s semi-skilled construction workers fell during the past five years, according to a recent report from market research firm BDLINK Cambodia. A 36 per cent increase in the Kingdom’s consumer price index during the period put semi-skilled workers’ real wages last year ...
Cops allegedly attacked garment strikers
Police have been accused of punching and shoving garment workers from Tai Yang and Camwell factories in Kandal province as the month-long strike over bonuses continued yesterday. Rong Chhun, president of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions, said 11 people had been slightly injured after being attacked ...
Temasek unit opens bank in first Cambodian investment
A unit of Temasek Holdings Private Ltd has opened a new bank in Cambodia with local partners in the first investment by the Singapore state investor in the country, the Straits Times reported on Friday. The bank has 11 branches in seven provinces, with five ...
Eveline Danubrata and Sunil Nair
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/27/singapore-press-idUSL4N0HN05120130927
Cambodia exports to US rise by over 10 pct
Driven by a slowly recovering American economy, Cambodian exports to the US increased 11 per cent in the first quarter of 2014 compared with the same period last year, according to the latest US government data. Cambodian exports from January to March totalled $771 million, up ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-exports-us-rise-over-10-pct
Battambang fire causes over $1m in damage
A fire that ripped through a market in Battambang province’s Phnom Proek district late on Monday night caused somewhere between $1 million and $2 million in damages, according to local officials. The fire, which reportedly started at about 11:30 p.m. and destroyed 244 stalls, was believed to have ...
Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/battambang-fire-causes-over-1m-in-damage-64725/