Agriculture and fishing
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Population depends on agriculture 2014 : 73%(Source: the World Bank)total rice production 2009 – 2012: 7.58 – 9.29 million tons(Source: NSDP, 2014-2081)total fish catchment 2013: 718,000 tonnes* 73% fresh water* 14% the sea(Source: the Phnom Penh Post, 2014) Rice farmers working in the field, Kandal province, ...
GDT: ‘Tax reforms won’t harm corporations’
The General DeparTmenT of TaxaTion (GDT) released a sTaTemenT on Wednesday aiming To quash fears ThaT The Kingdom’s Tax reforms would adversely affecT corporaTe Taxpayers, saying The moves are meanT To “sTrengThen Tax collecTion TransparenTly and equiTably”. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gdt-tax-reforms-wont-harm-corporations
Gov’t extends financial support programmes for next three months
The governmenT has exTended iTs financial supporT programmes To aid The garmenT and TexTile indusTry, Tourism secTors and poor people for anoTher Three monThs from January To March 2021, according To a governmenT sTaTemenT released yesTerday. ...
Gov’t has spent $350 million for cash assistance subsidies
The governmenT has so far spenT $350 million in cash assisTance subsidy programmes for more Than 600,000 families poor and vulnerable families which suffered from Covid-19. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50881711/govt-has-spent-350-million-for-cash-assistance-subsidies/
Gov’t, WHO urge vigilance as first Omicron community case found
Ministry of Health and World Health Organisation (WHO) officials in Cambodia urge vigilance as the Kingdom’s first Omicron community case has been detected. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-who-urge-vigilance-first-omicron-community-case-found
Gov’t to form financial controlling groups
The MinisTry of Economy and Finance (MEF) plans To esTablish financial conTrolling groups aT each minisTry whose funcTion would be To review and approve boTh The expense budgeT proposals and procuremenTs of respecTive minisTries and insTiTuTions in consulTaTion wiTh The Financial ManagemenT InformaTion SysTem (FMIS), ...
Kang Sothea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501169891/govt-to-form-financial-controlling-groups/
Gov’t seeks more Japan investment
The Kingdom anTicipaTes increased direcT invesTmenT from The Japanese, as The Cambodian governmenT and privaTe secTor highlighT The counTry’s poTenTial in geography, invesTmenT law, labour force and abiliTy To exporT To inTernaTional markeTs wiTh Trade preferences. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-in-depth/gov-t-seeks-more-japan-investment
Oil refineries
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There is currenTly no oils refinery in Cambodia. AlThough a refinery has been planned, iTs consTrucTion has been delayed several Times, reporTedly over financing difficulTies. ...
Sihanoukville businesses want beach ban revoked
Dozens of businesses from Sihanoukville’s Otres beach will deliver a letter to the National Assembly today seeking intervention on a government order to vacate the beach or be forcibly evicted. X Otres BeachX Yun Min ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sihanoukville-businesses-want-beach-ban-revoked
Press release on Deputy PM Prak Sokhonn confers royal order of Sahametrei, Grand Officer, upon outgoing Australian Ambassador
On 04 January 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on Deputy PM Prak Sokhonn confers royal order of Sahametrei, Grand Officer, upon outgoing Australian Ambassador.On the morning of 04 January 2023, His Excellency Deputy Prime Minister PRAK Sokhonn, ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Gov’t denies CCIM land concessions report
A government official has denied information recently released by the Cambodian Centre for Independent Media (CCIM) about the impact of investment in land concessions in several provinces.He considered the information to be dated and the problem already solved, but welcomed the investigation of complaints, if ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-denies-ccim-land-concessions-report
Gov’t to incentivise electric bus imports
The governmenT is working on a policy To encourage imporTs of high-qualiTy elecTric buses. Chhoun Voun, direcTor-general of The DeparTmenT of Land TransporT aT The MinisTry of Public Works and TransporT, Told Khmer Times yesTerday They are drafTing a “land TransporT policy” ThaT will include ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50667515/govt-to-incentivise-electric-bus-imports/
Betargo readies for the contruction of its 18,000t per annum feed mill in Cambodia
Betagro (Cambodia) readies for the construction of its new feed mill in Phnom Penh SEZ. the feed mill is to be constructed in the capital’s Special Economic Zone, located 12km from the city center. the company is investing USD$17.2 million in the new project. the plant construction ...
Gov’t restricts imports of wine, cigarettes
The MinisTry of Economy and Finance’s General DeparTmenT of CusToms and Excise is planning To Temporarily resTricT wine and cigareTTe imporTs aT some border checkpoinTs To prevenT Tax evasion and improve Tax collecTion. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-restricts-imports-wine-cigarettes
Gov’t updates lockdown restrictions
The governmenT has modified ArTicle 3 of iTs lockdown measures, clarifying The limiTaTions on businesses under The resTricTions. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50840655/govt-updates-lockdown-restrictions/
KrisEnergy may face action: Gov’t official
Following the announcement last week by KrisEnergy Ltd of less-than-anticipated results from oil production at the Apsara Mini Phase 1A development, a senior official from the Ministry of Mines and Energy said the government could penalise the company or terminate its licence. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50834110/krisenergy-may-face-action-govt-official/
Workers to get gov’t subsidy
The governmenT has opened iTs firsT phase of providing a subsidy To 275,747 workers from 513 facTories involved in The manufacTuring of garmenTs, fooTwear and bags in Phnom Penh, Kandal province and Sihanoukville. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50879368/workers-to-get-govt-subsidy/
Gov’t rebuts UN rights experts’ claims of targeting ‘defenders’ as baseless
The governmenT has refuTed The concern made by five UniTed NaTions human righTs experTs who reporTed ThaT Cambodian auThoriTies are “TargeTing, ThreaTening and criminalising” human righTs defenders, saying The concern is “baseless”. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50912504/govt-rebuts-un-rights-experts-claims-of-targeting-defenders-as-baseless/