Deal signed to stimulate rice exports to Mongolia
A rice mill has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a Mongolian business council that aims to see Cambodia export rice to the landlocked country in the near future. ...
Prak Chan Thul
https://kiripost.com/stories/deal-signed-to-stimulate-rice-exports-to-mongolia
Press statement: “Free and independent press is not a license to break the law with impunity” States the Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson
On 14 February 2023, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has issued a press statement related to the revoked license of a foreign-funded media outlet in Cambodia. According to the press statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson is utterly dismayed at and dismissed ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Trafficking victim support workshop held
The Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation and several partner organisations held a February 15 workshop to share details of a circular which described procedures for dealing with the victims of human trafficking. ...
Chea Sokny
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/trafficking-victim-support-workshop-held
Cambodia to construct bridge crossing Mekong river to connect Kandal province to Prey Veng and Svay Rieng provinces
The Royal Government has decided to construct a new bridge across the Mekong River to connect Kandal province to Prey Veng and Svay Rieng provinces. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501246676/cambodia-to-construct-bridge-crossing-mekong-river-to-connect-kandal-province-to-prey-veng-and-svay-rieng-provinces/
SME registration up 1.6% at 43,974 in 2022
The number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) registered at the Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology, and Innovation rose to 43,974 in 2022, a slight increase of 1.6 percent compared to a year ago. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501268091/sme-registration-up-1-6-at-43974-in-2022/
Cambodia’s rubber export up 6.8 percent in Q1
Cambodia exported 65,921 tons of dry rubber in the first quarter of 2023, an increase of 6.8 percent from 61,739 tons in the same period last year, said a General Directorate of Rubber report on Thursday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501277044/cambodias-rubber-export-up-6-8-percent-in-q1/
Tax obligations explained to car dealers
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) held a meeting to discuss the provision of tax services, promotion of tax registration and fulfilment of tax obligations with regard to vehicles, according to an announcement made by the GDT. ...
Mon Sokeo
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-tax-obligations-explained-to-car-dealers
GDT allows taxpayers to adjust annual tax online
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) has issued an instruction on procedures to enable taxpayers who are owners of registered businesses to make online adjustments of their online filing on annual tax on income (ToI E-Filing), a ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501290817/gdt-allows-taxpayers-to-adjust-annual-tax-online/
Cambodia says shutdown of Western-backed media outlet over slanderous broadcast does not affect press freedom
Cambodia said on Tuesday that the shutdown of the foreign-funded VOD (Voice of Democracy) radio over broadcasting “intentionally slanderous” information does not undermine the vibrant press freedom in the Southeast Asian country. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501239124/cambodia-says-shutdown-of-west-backed-media-outlet-over-slanderous-broadcast-does-not-affect-press-freedom/
Ministry, nine schools join verification system
The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications has signed memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with the Ministry of Environment and nine higher education institutions (HEIs). ...
Kim Yutharo
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-nine-schools-join-verification-system
Cambodia collects $1.8 billion in Tax Income for first 5 months of this year
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) of the Ministry of Economy and Finance collected over $1.8 billion worth tax income in the first five months of this year, about 51 percent against the annual target. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501309834/cambodia-collects-1-8-billion-in-tax-income-for-first-5-months-of-this-year/
PM outlines plans to increase education to a full day in 50 primary schools
Authorities have revealed plans to increase primary education from half a day to a full day in 50 schools to increase the level of learning, with calls being made for teachers’ pay to be increased in accordance with the additional time spent teaching. ...
Meas Molika
https://kiripost.com/stories/pm-outlines-plans-to-increase-education-to-a-full-day-in-50-primary-schools
Press statement of the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Kingdom of Cambodia
On 26 August 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press statement of the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Kingdom of Cambodia responding to the end of mission statement of Prof. Vitit Muntarbhorn.The spokesperson ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
CAMBODIA: Study shows school attendance rises with safe water drinking & child hydration
Considered the world’s most valuable fluid, fresh clean water is a commodity that can become a life-and-death issue. Lack of it can also contribute to a child’s absenteeism rate in Cambodia, says a newly released study report by Research Advisor Helen Risebro and Professor Paul Hunter ...
Women News Network (WNN) News Staff
http://womennewsnetwork.net/2014/03/18/cambodia-school-attendance/
Low ranking for rule of law
The World Justice Project yesterday ranked Cambodia 91st out of 99 nations and at the bottom of the barrel regionally in terms of its devotion to the rule of law, despite its midlevel performance in terms of providing order and security. In its annual Rule of ...
Stuart White and May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/low-ranking-rule-law
Private schools to face tougher regulations
The Ministry of Education is drafting two sub-decrees on private educational institutions aimed at improving regulation of the nation’s vast body of private schools. The sub-decree on Organization and Management of Private Schools and sub-decree on Categorization of Private Schools have been sent to a range ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/private-schools-to-face-tougher-regulations-60153/
Six labor unions to hold public forum on minimum wage this weekend
At least six labor unions to be led by Pav Sina, president of the Collective Union of Movement of Workers, will hold public forum at the Freedom Park on October 12 to discuss minimum wage demand for footwear and garment workers. A plan to hold the ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/six-labor-unions-to-hold-public-forum-on-minimum-wage-this-weekend-7464
New system for managing civil servants
The Ministry of Public Function has cooperated with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications to establish a modernised civil servants management system for the Ministry of Health to manage its officials more efficiently. ...
Opposition to question three ministers
Several of the opposition-led commissions in the National Assembly have plans to summon three ministers to clarify several ongoing issues, including the sand exports to Singapore and the murder of political analyst Kem Ley. During a Tuesday evening press conference at the Cambodia National Rescue Party ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31617/opposition-to-question-three-ministers/
Ministry warns media over fake product ads
Media outlets should review the health and agriculture products they advertise, as exposure to unlicensed medicine and insecticides can be fatal, the Ministry of Information has warned. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5079494/ministry-warns-media-fake-product-ads/
