Listed Chinese firm licensed to build another solar park
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) granted a business licence to Chinese panel maker Risen Energy (Cambodia) to build a 60 megawatt (mW) solar farm in Battambang province. ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50726630/listed-chinese-firm-licensed-to-build-another-solar-park/
Gov’t gives $23mil to workers who lost jobs over pandemic
A total of $23 million has been given out to those affected by the closure of businesses in the tourism industry and garment factories due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50800806/govt-gives-23mil-to-workers-who-lost-jobs-over-pandemic/
Tech firms taking larger slice of the nation’s e-commerce pie
Businesses are forging symbiotic platforms to gain a piece of the Kingdom’s growing e-commerce sector, while challenging Facebook’s dominance in the industry. ...
Husain Haider
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50816980/tech-firms-taking-larger-slice-of-the-nations-e-commerce-pie/
PM: Learn new skills and change career
For those in the business of touch or hands-on service, such as that of a masseuse, the future looks bleak with their career on ice due to the Covid-19 pandemic. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50908738/pm-learn-new-skills-and-change-career/
Cambodian PM encourages more investments from Singapore
Prime Minister Hun Sen has urged Singapore to encourage more investors to do business in Cambodia. The encouragement was made during the courtesy meeting between the Cambodian Premier and visiting Singapore Foreign Minister Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, at the Peace Palace Wednesday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501026685/cambodian-pm-encourages-more-investments-from-singapore/
Investment options in securities market at different stages of life
Much like when building a career or successfully running a business, it is important when taking care of one’s investments to know that there are different investment strategies best suited to each stage of life. ...
APSARA Authority controls the water gates to avoid flooding in the temple area
The working team of the Department of Water, Forestry, and Infrastructure Management of the APSARA National Authority on October 4, was busy controlling the water gates to avoid flooding in the Angkor site. ...
Foreign employee quota application for work in Cambodia in 2024 now open
Cambodia has opened the application window for businesses to apply for the foreign employee quota. Under the quota system, only 10 percent of a local company’s workforce can be a foreign employee. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501357470/foreign-employee-quota-application-for-work-in-cambodia-in-2024-now-open/
Credit guarantees to SMEs reach $113 million
The Credit Guarantee Corporation of Cambodia (CGCC) provided credit guarantees of $113.6 million to businesses as their working capital for expansion in the first quarter of this year. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501278434/credit-guarantees-to-smes-reach-113-million/
Incentives await investors spending for skills training
A set of incentives awaits investors who can provide skills development training for employees in their Cambodia businesses, reminded the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) recently. ...
Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501457946/incentives-await-investors-spending-for-skills-training/
Cambodia and France exchange two MoUs on trade and education
Dr. Hun Manet, Prime Minister of Cambodia, presided over the opening ceremony of the three-day France-Cambodia Business Forum, held at the Sofitel Phokeethra Phnom Penh this morning. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501519296/cambodia-and-france-exchange-two-mous-on-trade-and-education/
MEF issues guidelines for sub-decree on informal sector taxation
The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) has issued guidelines and procedures for implementing the sub-decree aimed at encouraging individuals and businesses operating in the informal economy to comply with tax obligations. ...
Mom Kunthea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501544865/mef-issues-guidelines-for-sub-decree-on-informal-sector-taxation/
Agricultural policy and administration
Agriculture in Cambodia accounts for approximately 56% of the labour force. The size of the sector means that policies developed here have a significant impact on the whole country. Agricultural policy and administration is managed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF). There ...
Hun Sen Mute After Initial Election Remarks
Over the past three weeks, a standoff between the long-ruling CPP and newly strengthened opposition CNRP has made for an increasingly tense political environment. But almost entirely missing from the equation has been Prime Minister Hun Sen, whose last public appearance was 18 days ago when ...
Colin Meyn and Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/hun-sen-mute-after-initial%E2%80%88election-remarks-40372/
Indian companies eye bus project partnership with Cambodian gov’t
An international business conglomerate with roots in India and an Indian automaker are looking at partnering with the Cambodian government on a project that will strengthen the Kingdom’s public transportation system and make Cambodia a producer and exporter of electric buses. According to a press release ...
Jose Rodriguez T. Senase
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50637280/indian-companies-eye-bus-project-partnership-with-cambodian-govt/
Sexual harassment at work costs garment industry $89 million a year
Sexual harassment in the workplace could have an indirect cost to the garment industry of up to $89 million per year, said Care Cambodia’s acting country director Jan Noorlander. Speaking at a Business of Women at Work forum yesterday, Mr Noorlander said the organisation was very ...
Ministry floats new law for clean water management
The Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts will propose a new law to improve clean water management in Cambodia. It also warned of crackdowns on clean water supply businesses which are unlicensed or do not have a valid licence. The new law will state the obligations ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-floats-new-law-clean-water-management
Listed firms GTI and PAS post higher Q3 revenue
Two Cambodia Securities Exchange- (CSX-) listed firms – Grand Twins International (GTI) and Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAS) – reported a strong business performance with high revenue in the third quarter of this year. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/listed-firms-gti-and-pas-post-higher-q3-revenue
Radios rounded up in capital
Phnom Penh police yesterday launched a coordinated operation to seize illegal walkie-talkies from tuk-tuk and motorbike taxi drivers, in order to rid the capital of alleged “anarchy”.The campaign is the initiative of the capital’s chief and reportedly comes in response to complaints that drivers’ use ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/radios-rounded-capital
All aboard the gravy train
Cambodians’ growing appetite for fast food and franchised food outlets, and the increasing number of restaurants springing up in the capital and other towns, has become a healthy business for some of the food chains now operating in the Kingdom. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25224/all-aboard-the-gravy-train/