IMF trains Cambodian customs officers in investigation techniques
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has provided investigation training for officers of the General Department of Customs and Excise (GDCE) of the Ministry of Economy and Finance. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501520510/imf-trains-cambodian-customs-officers-in-investigation-techniques/
Custodian could spur fund interest
The government is working on legislation that would create a framework for the establishment of a custodian bank in Cambodia, according to securities firms, which claim the absence of this institution could be deterring foreign investors from participating in share offerings on the local stock ...
Brian Ng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/custodian-could-spur-fund-interest
Vehicle registration grows despite flaws in the system
An absence of public transport, improved roads and the economic development of Cambodia’s rural areas was reflected in an increase in vehicle registrations by 7.7 per cent from 2011 to 2012, official data shows. However, as an insider said yesterday, many cars and motorcycles will ...
Pentagon chief to visit Australia, Thailand and Cambodia
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will travel to Australia, Thailand and Cambodia next week as part of America’s strategic tilt to the Asia-Pacific, even as crises in the Middle East demand the Pentagon’s attention and resources. In a week-long trip starting Sunday, Panetta will head to ...
Visa agreement gets delayed
DESPITE some reports, Cambodian officials said Cambodia and Thailand have not yet set a date for implementing the Irrawaddy-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy (ACMECS) single visa. Koy Kuong, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, said a single visa scheme for all five ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012111359702/Business/visa-agreement-gets-delayed.html
Government tells telcos off
The Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued warning letters to mobile operators Beeline and Smart over their recent advertisement, stating it violates the Inter-Ministerial Prakas, or edict, signed in 2009. The separate letters, obtained by the Post last week, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013040864932/Business/government-tells-telcos-off.html
Cambodia Organizes Real Estate Exhibition
A 3-day Cambodia-Real Estate Exhibition 2013 kicked off [in Phnom Penh] on Monday as the country’s construction sector is rapidly growing in the last couple of years. The event, held at the Diamond Island Exhibition Center, brought together 68 exhibitors who are real estate developers, real ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-04/08/c_132292162.htm
Shops to close, limit hours
Many restaurants, shops, supermarkets and tourist sites in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap will operate at a limited capacity or close entirely this Sunday as Cambodians line up at voting stations to elect a new government. Despite the closures, Ang Kim Eang, president of the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/shops-close-limit-hours
Power couple linked to Sinohydro project
Two of the country’s most powerful and politically connected business owners are on the board of governors of the company thought to have brokered a controversial deal between the world’s largest hydropower developer and the Cambodian government, documents obtained by the Post show. Cambodian People’s Party ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/power-couple-linked-sinohydro-project
Boycott of Virak Buntham bus company launched
In the face of growing criticism and calls for a boycott of their services, Virak Buntham bus company has offered compensation to a customer who says he was robbed on a Siem Reap to Sihanoukville sleeper bus. ...
Jack Laurenson
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14989/boycott-of-virak-buntham-bus-company-launched/
Eighth EU-Cambodia Joint Committee concludes in Brussels
The 8th EU-Cambodia Joint Committee was held in Brussels on Thursday, preceded by the subgroups on development cooperation, on trade and on institution building, administrative reform, legal and judicial reform, governance and human rights, the European bloc said in a press release. The two sides ...
RTT News Staff
http://www.rttnews.com/2285917/eighth-eu-cambodia-joint-committee-concludes-in-brussels.aspx?type=gn&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=sitemap
Moto imports jump 55 per cent
IMPORTS of motor scooters reached 264,085 units, with a total value of $139 million in the first 11 months of last year – a 55 per cent jump from 170,380 units worth $86.5 million in the corresponding period of 2011, according to data from the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013022761643/Business/moto-imports-jump-55-per-cent.html
Mental health of trafficking victims overlooked
Survivors of human trafficking in South-East Asia require better access to health services, especially related to mental health, a study says. ...
Mike Ives
http://www.scidev.net/asia-pacific/vulnerability/news/mental-health-trafficking-victims-1.html
Land Rights Worry UN
A mission to examine political rights in Cambodia has been increasingly overshadowed by the Kingdom’s dire land rights situation, the 2012 report from Cambodia’s UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights, published yesterday, shows. Cambodia’s rapporteur, Surya Subedi, conducted two fact-finding missions to Cambodia ...
Grade 12 exam postponed to Dec 27
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport has set December 27 as the new date for high school diploma examination. The Grade 12 exam was originally scheduled for December 6. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/grade-12-exam-postponed-dec-27
Minister asks for export break
Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh yesterday called on the US to allow duty-free entry for Cambodian exports, a benefit the Kingdom already enjoyed with the European Union. The introduction of preferential tax treatment from the US would result in the Kingdom’s share of that country’s ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011090751485/Business/minister-asks-for-export-break.html
Southern provinces important to trade with Cambodia
More than 50 businesses from Vietnamese and Cambodian districts met in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang to discuss how to improve investment cooperation, expand the market and increase exports into Cambodia . According to Deputy Director of the Dong Nai provincial Department of Industry ...
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/business/52377/business-in-brief-13-11.html
DVD Shops Raided by Police At Local Distributor's Request
Police in Phnom Penh yesterday raided nine DVD shops at Tuol Tom Poung market in Chamkar Mon district, confiscating hundreds of illegally reproduced movies at the joint request of the Ministry of Culture and local movie distributor Westec Media Limited. Sao Bunthoeurn, deputy director of ...
CNRP Rallies Garment Workers With Promises of Change
Speaking to hundreds of garment workers yesterday in Phnom Penh, Kem Sokha, deputy president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), appealed to those in attendance to vote for the newly formed opposition party, promising higher wages, social security and free access to schools and ...
Bribery a challenge for Cambodia's tourism sector
The tourism sector has complained about the attempted extortion and bribery by officials at the international border checkpoints that still upset tourists coming into Cambodia. The issue was raised yesterday during a meeting of the Interministerial Committee for Facilitating the Travel and Transport of Tourists and ...