King Father Mementos a Big Business for City's Vendors
Portraits of the late King Father Norodm Sihanouk covered the floor and dozens of coin-sized badges emblazoned with his image were scattered on the sidewalk in front of the Singha Mean printing house yesterday. Kuo Ransiky, the 41-year-old owner of the printshop on Phnom Penh’s street ...
Boat owners complain new port a burden for business
The Phnom Penh Municipality opened a new port for boat operators along the riverside in Daun Penh district yesterday in an effort to regulate operations, keep the river clean, and ensure customer safety. The new port comes three years after City Hall banned boats from docking ...
High Risk Seen in Kingdom’s Business Environment: Report
Corruption, a weak judicial system and the potential for complicity with human and labour rights abuses are key risks for firms looking to invest in Cambodia, a new report [by Maplecroft, a UK-based global risk and strategic consulting firm] analysing investment risk in the Kingdom ...
New Project Aims to Help Small Businesses in Cambodia
A new project by the government and Japan’s aid agency seeks to assist small companies in Cambodia that are in need of specialist advice in order to develop and keep up with competitors in neighboring Asean countries. The aim of the two-year program, called “Strategic Strengthening ...
Simon Henderson and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/new-project-aims-to-help-small-businesses-in-cambodia-41534/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-project-aims-to-help-small-businesses-in-cambodia
Cambodia's new business registrations drop 12 pct in 2013
Cambodia had issued operating licenses to 2,988 new companies last year, down 12 percent from 3, 386 in a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Commerce on Wednesday. Of the 2013 new business registrations, foreign businesses registered 1,448, down 9 percent, while local registrations fell ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2014-01/22/c_133065203.htm
Police Seek Chinese New Year Beer From Local Businesses
With Chinese New Year approaching, the long arm of the law has once again reached out to local businesses in at least one Phnom Penh commune asking for their help to ensure police have enough beer to usher in the Year of the Horse in ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-seek-chinese-new-year-beer-from-local-businesses-51072/
Global rice traders in Cambodia to explore business opportunities
Some 300 rice traders and millers from around 40 countries met here on Wednesday to seek opportunities to expand their rice businesses, officials said. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the World Rice Conference, Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol said the conference was an opportunity for Cambodia ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141119/global-rice-traders-cambodia-explore-business-opportunities
Business hub set to tackle key challenges before listing
The Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone has 77 tenants from nine countries and 80 per cent occupancy, but high electricity costs and corruption remain a drag on profits. The main issue is electricity costs, says PPSEZ chief executive Hiroshi Umaetsu. “If [electricity] goes from 19 ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business-hub-set-tackle-key-challenges-listing
Ahead of ‘clean’ exams, bookshops see fall in business
The owners of bookshops near the Bak Touk High School would usually be doing a roaring trade at this time of year. The grade 12 examinations each August have long been an annual boom time for the shops where students copied cheat sheets for the ...
Leng Sreynich
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/ahead-of-clean-exams-bookshops-see-fall-in-business/2924131.html
Drug slum back in business; police pledge weekly raids
As police prepared to send more than 100 suspected drug dealers and users to court Monday, the notorious Phnom Penh slum where they were arrested in two separate raids last week remained a hive of illicit activity. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/drug-slum-back-in-business-police-pledge-weekly-raids-92388/
FGVH to develop upstream, downstream plantation business in Cambodia
Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd (FGVH) is planning to develop upstream and downstream activities in the plantation sector in Cambodia. Chief executive officer-designate Dr Emir Mavani Abdullah said that apart from marketing its products, including palm oil-based products in Cambodia, FGVH was also planning to set up rubber ...
http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/6/25/business/13283257&sec=business
Businesses know little of the letter of the law
Cambodia entrepreneurs faced considerable problems when it came to obeying tax laws and other regulations, officials at a seminar about that very subject said yesterday. The VDB Loi company organised the seminar on “New Practices and Preferential Trade Rules” with the co-operation of the General Department of Customs and ...
Tax exemption for small businesses
Prime Minister Hun Manet has unveiled plans to scrap taxes for small businesses earning less than 250 million riels, with calls being made to implement the measure and ensure businesses understand it. ...
Kuch sikol
https://kiripost.com/stories/tax-exemption-for-small-businesses
Cambodian Consulate Inaugurated in Lahore
LAHORE: The first Honorary Consul General of Cambodia in Pakistan, Chaudhry Salik Hussain, has said that the Pakistan-Cambodia Business Council will soon be established for cooperation between both the countries. Speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the Cambodian Consulate in Pakistan here on Sunday, he said ...
http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=64050&Cat=2
Length of Time Taken to Export Goods Declines
The time it takes to export goods has fallen 40 percent according to the UN. Southeast Asia has seen an improvement in the average time it takes for trade procedures to be completed, dropping to 19 days, though this is still three times longer than ...
Investment from Vietnam hits a dry patch: CDC
Vietnamese investors shied away from the Cambodian market during the first half of the year as the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) failed to register a single qualified investment project (QIP) from Vietnam during that period for the first time in its 22-year ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/investment-vietnam-hits-dry-patch-cdc
Cambodia's banking industry sees robust growth in 2012
Cambodia’s banking sector has maintained strong and steady growth in terms of loans and deposits in 2012 thanks to better economic performance, a central bank’s senior official said Tuesday. “Our banking system remains robust this year despite economic crisis in Europe and economic slowdown in the ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2012-12/25/c_132062871.htm
Danish company to create new industry in Cambodia
The Danish company Go4 Bunker, which has developed their “Smart bunker system” in partnership with Shenfei Group Co and Maersk Broker K/s, wants to partner with Cambodian companies to develop not only the Cambodian Offshore Marine Fuel Oil Business, but also related Business in connection ...
http://www.scandasia.com/viewNews.php?coun_code=kh&news_id=11271
Cambodia, Colombia ink deal for political consultation mechanism
Cambodia and Colombia on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the establishment of a political consultation mechanism in order to strengthen the bilateral relations and cooperation. The deal was inked between Ouch Borith, Secretary of State of Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Patti Londono, ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-04/08/c_132292534.htm
Cambodia's rice exports up 126 pct in 5 months
Cambodia’s exports of milled rice have sharply increased in the first five months of this year thanks to rising international market demand and country’s rice promotion strategy, an official said Thursday. The country had exported 146,800 tons of milled rice during January-May period this year, up ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-06/06/c_132435784.htm