Preah Sihanouk clean water suppliers warned
Preah Sihanouk provincial governor Kuoch Chamroeun warned he would revoke the business licences of water companies that do not collaborate with relevant officials to expand their reservoirs. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-sihanouk-clean-water-suppliers-warned
Japanese firms in Cambodia biomass and solar power venture
According to Japan’s The Mainichi News, the company, a renewable energy producer Aura Green Energy Co. has teamed up with another Japanese partner to launch a hybrid power generation business in 2021, with the aim of securing the country’s power supply stability. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50717991/japanese-firms-in-cambodia-biomass-and-solar-power-venture/
Sharp drop in wages sent back to Kingdom
Cambodia is to join the ranks of declining overseas worker remittances this year after the World Bank projected global remittances will decline sharply by about 20 percent in 2020 because of the economic crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic and consequent business shutdowns ...
Sorn Sarath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50717705/sharp-drop-in-wages-sent-back-to-kingdom/
Higher budgets and more skills ‘needed to embrace digital transformation’
Cambodia is at risk of “getting left behind” if it doesn’t invest more in a digitally skilled workforce as local companies look to improve their business process and customer experience through “digital transformation”, according to a panel discussion on an industrywide survey. ...
Harrison White
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50765233/higher-budgets-and-more-skills-needed-to-embrace-digital-transformation/
Ministry works on digital agriculture challenge
The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) together with the Techo Startup Centre and relevant stakeholders yesterday launched an inception workshop to disseminate information about a rural challenge and to discuss expectations of its intended digital platform under the Sustainable Assets for Agriculture Markets, Business ...
Sok Chan and Jason Boken
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50744903/ministry-works-on-digital-agriculture-challenge/
Public ‘OK’ with removal of small-dollar banknotes
As the deadline draws close for commercial banks and microfinance institutions to send back smaller dollar banknotes to the National Bank of Cambodia without a service charge, businesses are seeing an increase in the use of the riel transactions with no real complaints from shoppers. ...
Jason Boken
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50757036/public-ok-with-removal-of-small-dollar-banknotes/
High oil tax ‘a burden’ on development
The high-rate of special tax of 10-25 percent on oil for production is one of the burdens facing the advancement of manufacturing industries in Cambodia that have a target to increase added-value by using machinery in the production chain, according to the Japanese Business Association ...
Sorn Sarath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50764153/high-oil-tax-a-burden-on-development/
‘Allied action required for digital shift’
Cambodia continues to face a multitude of challenges as digital payments and solutions graduate from a niche business to a key segment in the Kingdom’s development strategy, according to National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) assistant governor Chea Serey on March 17. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/allied-action-required-digital-shift
Delayed new casino confirms opening target
Century Entertainment has confirmed the opening target and relocation of a new casino to Dara Sakor. The project had been delayed since January. The delay was down to pandemic related business conditions including logistics problems in the delivery of essential equipment. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50812067/delayed-new-casino-confirms-opening-target/
ABC: No shortage in capital for lending
CAMBODIA’s financial sector will not face a shortage of cash to lend to local enterprises and accelerate business anytime soon, according to Association of Banks in Cambodia (ABC) president In Channy. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/abc-no-shortage-capital-lending
USAID-funded online export platform boosts Cambodian exports to MENA markets
The Cambodia Pepper and Spices Federation (CPSF) in collaboration with USAID-funded Feed the Future Cambodia Harvest II “Harvest II” launched on Monday the “Virtual Export Mission to the Middle East and North Africa”, a new digital export programme aiming to provide significant assistance and expertise ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50939326/usaid-funded-online-export-platform-boosts-cambodian-exports-to-mena-markets/
CCF inspections uncover near-50% fuel fraud rates
Officials from of the General-Directorate of Consumer Protection, Competition and Fraud Prevention (CCF) inspected fuel businesses at 101 locations nationwide and revealed 46 sellers had cheated customers by selling regular fuel as super gasoline. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ccf-inspections-uncover-near-50-fuel-fraud-rates
Mine, energy sector air snags
The far too frequent inspections of mining sites by the different sets of authorities and exceedingly high costs of the equipment required to supply electricity to mining- and energy-related businesses remain a couple of the predominant issues hobbling the sector. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mine-energy-sector-air-snags
SME Bank mulls unsecured loans for SMEs
The state-owned Small and Medium Enterprise Bank of Cambodia Plc (SME Bank) plans to waive collateral requirements for new loans to qualifying local small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) soon, to reduce the barriers and obstacles that limit their access to the necessary cash to fund ...
Hom Phanet
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sme-bank-mulls-unsecured-loans-smes
Diversification key to economic growth: World Bank
Cambodia was among the Greater East Asian countries hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. However meaningful steps to spur domestic investment, greater productivity among businesses and workers, and a more diversified export portfolio will be key to regain sustained economic growth, according to the World ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/diversification-key-economic-growth-world-bank
Digital infra success boosting Cambodia’s growth potential
The scale of progress in the Kingdom’s digital infrastructure has played a critical role in boosting the country’s growth potentials, senior telecom executives told a visiting delegation of Singapore Business Federation (SBF) on Thursday as they visited Huawei Cambodia office at Exchange Square. ...
Sreekanth Ravindran
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501336935/digital-infra-success-boosting-cambodias-growth-potential/
MEF calling for loans to SMEs with no collateral
The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) and Credit Guarantee Corporation of Cambodia Plc (CGCC) are encouraging banks and microfinance institutions (MFI) to use credit guarantee mechanisms to boost financial inclusion and help expand small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) by issuing loans to businesses that ...
Hom Phanet
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mef-calling-loans-smes-no-collateral
Only $54M of SME Bank’s $150M tourism loans taken
Loans worth $54.2 million were approved by state-owned Small and Medium Enterprise Bank of Cambodia Plc (SME Bank) for 350 businesses under the Tourism Recovery Co-Financing Scheme (TRCS) as of August 31, 2023. ...
Hin Pisei
https://phnompenhpost.com/business/only-54m-sme-banks-150m-tourism-loans-taken
NGO seeks exchange of plastic waste from Tonle Sap Lake for rice
The BambooShoot Foundation is looking for companies, philanthropists or business associations that will exchange more than 10 tonnes of plastic waste from the Tonle Sap Lake for 3.5 tonnes of rice. The NGO wants to use the rice to reward the 350 families from Peam ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-seeks-exchange-plastic-waste-tonle-sap-lake-rice
Implementation of new income, salary tax come into effect
All organisations and institutions associated with the Royal Government of Cambodia have started implementing the new taxes on the annual income of individuals and sole proprietorship businesses and monthly salaries of resident employees from January 1, 2023, following a new sub-decree issued on September 28, ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501213229/implementation-of-new-income-salary-tax-come-into-effect/