NBC asks financial institutions to be flexible with flood affected borrowers
The National Bank of Cambodia has asked financial institutions to implement flexible measures for borrowers who have been affected by flood, in a bid to ease the burden on financial flow and contribute to restoring families’ economic standards. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501170557/nbc-asks-financial-institutions-to-be-flexible-with-flood-affected-borrowers/
Conference throws spotlight on key role of banks
The 9th NBC Annual Macroeconomic Conference 2022 kicked-off today, highlighting how financial institutions, particularly banks, continue to be crucial participants in funding the real economy and supporting recovery. ...
Seng Mengheng
https://kiripost.com/stories/conference-throws-spotlight-on-key-role-of-banks
Kampong Speu governor courts investors in Hong Kong
Kampong Speu provincial governor Vei Samnang has pledged to attract more investment to his province. Samnang announced that he would lead a provincial delegation to Hong Kong later this month to discuss business opportunities in the Kampong Speu. ...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kampong-speu-governor-courts-investors-hong-kong
Tax system to be updated to make payment easy, evasion tough
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) during a meeting on Tuesday announced a work plan for this year with an emphasis on developing a system that will make paying taxes easy and evasion difficult. ...
Hong Sovannary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501255720/tax-system-to-be-updated-to-make-payment-easy-evasion-tough/
GDT earns nearly $540 million in January-February
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) has collected $539 million as tax income in the first two months of this year, representing 15 percent of the national budget plan 2023. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501256139/gdt-earns-nearly-540-million-in-january-february/
Taxation law may take effect in ‘next 2-3 months’: GDT
The new Law on Taxation may be promulgated as soon as “in the next two or three months”, replacing the 1997 original, aiming to bring the Cambodian tax regime more in line with current and anticipated international standards and economic environment, as well as to ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/taxation-law-may-take-effect-next-2-3-months-gdt
Government collectS more than $2 billion in taxes in H1
According to the online revenue management system of the General Department of Taxation, in the first half of 2023, taxes collected totalled 8,393.17 billion riels or approximately $2.072 billion. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501324387/government-collects-more-than-2-billion-in-taxes-in-h1/
Public transport touted as congestion solution
Public transport has been proposed by several key ministries and institutions as the optimal solution to reduce environmental pollution, alleviate traffic congestion, and decrease costs. They suggest it will make bus and other public transport services more efficient and practical. ...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/public-transport-touted-congestion-solution
Cambodia collects $3 billion as tax income in ten months
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) has collected $3,06 billion as tax revenue in the first ten months of 2023. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501393833/cambodia-collects-3-billion-as-tax-income-in-ten-months/
Cabinet pass draft Royal Decree on out-of-court mediation body
Prime Minister Hun Manet has approved a draft Royal Decree on the establishment, organisation and functioning of the new National Authority for Out-of-Court Mediation, one of the four agenda items passed during an October 27 Cabinet meeting. ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cabinet-pass-draft-royal-decree-out-court-mediation-body
Tax collection up 4.49 percent to $3.6 billion
Cambodia increased its tax collection by 4.49 percent year-over-year to $3.6 billion in 2023. We exceeded our target (101.13 percent) with this year’s collection, said the General Department of Taxation (GDT) at the Ministry of Economy and Finance. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501428582/tax-collection-up-4-49-percent-to-3-6-billion/
December taxes fall by 10.3%
The General Department of Customs and Excise collected approximately $201.4 million of tax revenue in December 2023, which was less than the planned 12.25 percent target. ...
Mao Sreypich
https://kiripost.com/stories/december-taxes-fall-by-103
GDT tax collection falls in Q1
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) collected taxes totalling $1.18 billion during the January-March period this year, down 11.9 percent from $1.34 billion collected in the first quarter of 2023. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501493907/gdt-tax-collection-falls-in-q1/
ERW victims increase by 67% in first six months of 2024
In the first six months of 2024, there have been 35 casualties from mines, unexploded ordnance (UXOs), and explosive remnants of war (ERWs), an increase of 67% compared to the same period in 2023 when there were 21 victims. ...
Som Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501517980/erw-victims-increase-by-67-in-first-six-months-of-2024/
Police Train at Freedom Park as Protesters Target Hun Sen’s House
As hundreds of riot police conducted protest suppression drills in Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on Monday morning, Prime Minister Hun Sen’s mansion in the center of the city was the focal point of a demonstration by some 2,000 garment factory workers. Municipal police, along with 16 ...
Aun Pheap and Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-train-at-freedom-park-as-protesters-target-hun-sens-house-2-45638/
Companies warned over slow development of ELCs
Provincial government officials in Stung Treng have warned companies granted economic land concessions (ELCs) in the province to fulfil their promised development plans or face losing their rights to the land. Touch Thea, director of the Stung Treng provincial department of agriculture, said the call for ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/companies-warned-over-slow-development-elcs
Banks spared flooding woes
Cambodia’s banks should be largely spared the heavy damages already seen in many parts of the Kingdom’s economy, officials said yesterday, though microfinance lenders will feel some impact. Minister of Economy and Finance Keat Chhon last week revised downward the government’s gross domestic products for 2011 ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011101952199/Business/banks-spared-flooding-woes.html
Cambodian rice output grows in 2011 despite floods
Cambodia’s total paddy rice output reached 8.4 million tonnes in 2011, up from 8.25 million tonnes last year, according an initial assessment by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Provincial MAFF officials from across the Kingdom met in Phnom Penh on Saturday, when data was ...
Courts systematically used to ‘threaten’ villagers, NGOs say
The government failed to evaluate social and environmental impacts before granting economic land concessions to private companies, while officials and company staff used the courts to intimidate residents during land disputes, representatives of NGOs said at a conference in the capital yesterday. “The courts are not ...