Direct flights to Japan coming
Asia Atlantic Airlines, a Thai airline owned in part by Japanese tourism firm HIS Co, will launch scheduled flights between Cambodia and Japan this September, according a statement published by the airline on June 26. As of September 2, Asia Atlantic will run three weekly flights ...
Annie Lee
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/direct-flights-japan-coming
Maids forced into debt bondage in Singapore
In August last year, the government launched a pilot project that sent 220 women to work as maids in Singapore, the first major effort to open up a new market for Cambodia’s domestic workers after the government halted sending maids to Malaysia due to persistent ...
Matt Blomberg and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/maids-forced-into-debt-bondage-in-singapore-63194/
PPCBank bond trades on secondary market
In a first for the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX), a listed bond were traded on the secondary market on November 24, data from the bourse show. As a result, South Korea-owned Phnom Penh Commercial Bank Plc’s (PPCBank) first bond offering (PPCB23A) on the CSX saw ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ppcbank-bond-trades-secondary-market
Tourism recovery roadmap drafted
The Ministry of Tourism has drafted a strategy to serve as its roadmap to rehabilitate and promote the tourism industry during and after the Covid-19 crisis. A meeting between the National Tourism Development Committee and relevant stakeholders on December 24 agreed to divide the 2020-2025 ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tourism-recovery-roadmap-drafted
Cambodia’s Mekong water levels to drop due to power grid maintenance in China
The water outflow at Jinghong hydropower station in China’s Yunnan province is dropping due to power grid maintenance during 5 – 24 January, leading to changes in river water levels along the Mekong River in Thailand, Lao PDR, and Cambodia, according to a press release ...
Allowing workers to take one day off before and after the election day, keeping wages and other benefits the same
On 24 May 2022, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training issued a notification on allowing workers to take one day off before and after the election day, keeping wages and other benefits the same.The ministry strongly hopes that all factory owners or directors, as ...
Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training
Press release on Cambodia’s Foreign Ministry to hold Annual Conference to review global geopolitics, regional issues, economic diplomacy and institutional reform
On 24 February 2023, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on Cambodia’s Foreign Ministry to hold Annual Conference to review global geopolitics, regional issues, economic diplomacy and institutional reform.The goal is to take stock of diplomacy achievements and to ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Key features of Cambodia’s new Law on Taxation
The new Law on Taxation was promulgated on 16 May 2023 by virtue of Royal Kram No. NS/RKM/0523/004 (“Law on Taxation”) on an urgent basis and therefore has come into force from 17 May 2023. The Law on Taxation abrogates the old law on taxation ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501296712/key-features-of-cambodias-new-law-on-taxation/
Press statement by Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller on national election in Cambodia
On 24 July 2023, the U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh issued a press statement by Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller on national election in Cambodia.The United States looks forward to a continued partnership with the Cambodian people to support their aspirations for a more prosperous, democratic, and ...
U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh
Government announces end of COVID-19 relief fund
The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) of the Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans, and Youth Rehabilitation has announced that the cash support programme for poor and vulnerable families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic will finish on April 24, 2024. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501479422/government-announces-end-of-covid-19-relief-fund/
Cambodia’s trade with Vietnam rises nearly 25%
Neighbouring Vietnam has consolidated its position as the second biggest trade partner of Cambodia after China with trade volume between the two rising by 24.5 percent to reach $2.32 billion in the first three months of this year (Q1, 2024), compared to the same period ...
Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501474739/cambodias-trade-with-vietnam-rises-nearly-25/
Press release on land disputes between Memot Rubber Plantation Co Ltd and residents in Kratie province
On 24 October 2018, at the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, Minister of Land Management together with the representatives of the Ministry of Interior, Kratie Provincial Administration, and the protesting representatives on regarding to land disputes in the concession area, where the ...
Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction
Cambodian king visits Vietnam to cement bilateral ties
Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni began a 3-day state visit to Vietnam starting on Monday at the invitation of Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang, local media reported. The visit, the fourth made by Cambodian king since he came to the throne in 2004, will likely elevate further ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-09/24/c_131869525.htm
Flood money runneth over
Flooding this year cost the government significantly less than expected due to better preparation and lower water levels than in previous years, first vice president of the National Committee for Disaster Management Nhim Vanda announced yesterday. The NCDM could not yet report the precise amount spent on flood ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012103159481/National-news/flood-money-runneth-over.html
Boeng Kak Women Meet US Ambassador for Women’s Affairs
Five women from the Boeng Kak lake community met with the U.S. ambassador-at-large for women’s affairs on Saturday in Siem Reap City, asking the U.S. to intervene in their case and put pressure on the Cambodian government to stop violence against women. Meeting on the sidelines ...
Tourism Industry's Growth Offers Job Creation For Local Labor Force
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia is trying to boost the tourism industry after its contribution to economic growth and offering job creation as ASEAN economic integration 2015 is moving and the free flow of workforce mobilization has been needed to help ensure steady growth. Cambodia’s tourism sector, in 2011, offered 350,000 direct jobs and millions of ...
Clinton Discusses Boeng Kak Prisoners With Hor Namhong
The U.S. has called on the Cambodian government to give fair legal treatment to the 13 women recently jailed for demonstrating against their evictions from the Boeng Kak area, according to a U.S. State Department spokeswoman. Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong met with U.S. Secretary of ...
Cheap gas for Cambodians rationed
Heavily subsidized prices for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and natural gas for vehicles (NGV) in Thailand draw dozens of cars daily from Cambodia to refill their tanks in this Thai border town. But complaints that too many Cambodians are getting a free ride, or rather a ...
Cambodia growth to continue, but development faces shortfalls
Despite steady economic growth in recent years, Cambodia remains one of the least-developed countries in the Asia-Pacific region and faces the challenge of diversifying its economy and moving up the production value chain, the U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) ...
Lauren Crothers, P. 20
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British trade minister to visit Cambodia next week
British minister for trade and investment Lord Green would visit Cambodia next Monday in order to boost bilateral trade and investment ties, according to a media statement from the British Embassy to Cambodia on Wednesday. Mark Gooding, British Ambassador to Cambodia, said trade between UK ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-06/05/c_132433361.htm