Fujian investors eyeing P Sihanouk province
During a meeting with Minister of Industry and Handicraft Cham Prasidh on Thursday in Phnom Penh, Fujian Provincial Federation of Entrepreneurs and Enterprises deputy secretary-general Wei Zheng said the association is eyeing potential areas for investment. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/fujian-investors-eyeing-p-sihanouk-province
Cambodia imports 5,000 tonnes of Indian salt
Cambodia imported about 5,000 tonnes of salt from India amid a shortage of stock, Salt Producers Community of Kampot-Kep (SPCKK) co-president Bun Baraing said on Sunday. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-imports-5000-tonnes-indian-salt
GDT collects $2.4B in revenue from taxation in first 10 months
The government collected $2.40 billion in revenue from taxation during the first 10 months of this year – up 28.31 per cent year-on-year from $1.873 billion – a report from the General Department of Taxation (GDT) said on Monday. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gdt-collects-24b-revenue-taxation-first-10-months
ASEAN senior immigration officials discuss cooperation in Cambodia
Senior immigration officials from the ten ASEAN member countries gathered here on Monday to discuss ways to further enhance regional cooperation, according to Chinese News Agency- Xinhua. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/asean-senior-immigration-officials-discuss-cooperation-in-cambodia-8930
Political fraudster appeals sentence
The Court of Appeal yesterday heard the bail request of the former director of the small Khmer Economic Development Party, who had been handed a sentence of two years in prison for defrauding a land buyer out of $150,000 in 2008. ...
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/political-fraudster-appeals-sentence
The knowledge economy
Like many children in Cambodia, Puthea* learned from a young age that good grades don’t come cheap.Before leaving for school, the grade 3 student collects lunch money from his mother along with a bribe he pays to his teacher in exchange for what should be ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/knowledge-economy-0
SIM card crackdown
Anyone who purchased a mobile phone SIM card without providing appropriate ID can expect to see those phone numbers terminated, while any retailer selling SIM cards without collecting identification documents faces arrest, the government announced yesterday. The crackdown, which begins today, will see any retailer ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sim-card-crackdown
Unions’ house divided
A secret ballot yesterday failed to resolve garment union splits over what to demand at upcoming minimum wage talks, with at least one independent union rejecting the majority vote of $158 and vowing to put forward $178.The division came a day after Labour Ministry spokesman ...
Mom Kunthear and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unions-house-divided
ASEAN trade ties could help keep the peace in South China Sea
Experts say maritime territorial disputes over parts of the South China Sea are unlikely to lead to military conflict, after a meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart in Washington in September. ...
Essarayoss Mean
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/asean-trade-ties-could-help-keep-the-peace-in-south-china-sea/3026579.html
Cambodia sends 2nd batch of peacekeepers to war-torn Central African Republic
Cambodia sent the second batch of 216 troops to join a United Nations peacekeeping operation in the Central African Republic (CAR) on Monday, officials said. ...
Xinhua News Agency Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6679674/2015/11/01/cambodia-sends-2nd-batch-peacekeepers-war-torn-central-african-republic
Teachers seek action against principal
Representatives of a large group of secondary school teachers in Kandal province who complained about the allegedly corrupt behaviour of their boss spoke out about the failure of authorities to act on their concerns yesterday. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/teachers-seek-action-against-principal
Cruise tours will be a kind of potential tourism
Cruise tours will be a type of potential tourism, while Sihanouk was placed in the map of ASEAN Cruise Tourism Line, as part the promotional campaign jointly Cruise Southeast Asia – Feel the Warmth, which officially announced on 22 January 2016 at the Tourism Forum ...
Sok Chan
http://bit.ly/1NRCsSY
Government lifts decade-old Snakehead fish farming ban
The government has lifted a decade-old ban on snakehead fish farming following a request from the Ministry of Agriculture last month to once again allow farmers to breed the voracious fish, according to a statement dated Thursday. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-lifts-decade-old-snakehead-fish-farming-ban-112009/
Nearly half of 2016 tax target already collected
In the first four months of the year, the government collected nearly half of its tax revenue target for all of 2016, local media reported yesterday, citing Kong Vibol, director of the General Department of Taxation (GDT). ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nearly-half-2016-tax-target-already-collected
Refugee awaits word on exit
The fate of a Rohingya refugee who has chosen to return home rather than remain in Cambodia as part of a controversial resettlement deal with Australia is now in the hands of the Myanmar government, senior officials from both countries said yesterday.Moe Htet Kyaw, second ...
Charles Rollet and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/refugee-awaits-word-exit
Telecom staff in graft inquiry
The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications has appointed a six-man team to investigate corruption allegations involving two Telecom Cambodia employees and some $230,000 missing from the state-owned company’s accounts. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/telecom-staff-graft-inquiry
Cambodia earns $2 bn from its casino annually
Cambodia’s casino industry has generated a revenue of approximately $2 billion per annum, the country’s central bank chief said here on Wednesday. ...
Business Standard News Staff
http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/cambodia-earns-2-bn-from-its-casinos-annually-115093000332_1.html
Three confess in National Assembly beatings
Three of the alleged attackers in last week’s savage gang-bashing of two opposition lawmakers outside the National Assembly turned themselves in and confessed yesterday, the government announced late last evening.In a statement, Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak listed the suspects as Chay Sarith, 33, and ...
Taing Vida, Chhay Channyda and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/three-confess-national-assembly-beatings
Police reinvestigating case of local journalist killed by mob
Prosecutors in Kompong Speu province have ordered police to reinvestigate the demise of a newspaper reporter who was reportedly bludgeoned to death by an angry mob on Sunday, while the victim’s family and employer cast doubt on the official version of events. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-reinvestigating-case-of-local-journalist-killed-by-mob-107540/
Police in clean up operation
Provincial police seized a large quantity of liquid detergent from an unauthorized chemical manufacturer in Sihanoukville’s capital yesterday. ...
San Bunsim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27218/police-in-clean-up-operation/