Insurance growing with rising awareness
Growth in the general insurance sector was up 20 per cent for the first six months of the year, as the Kingdom continues to experience high growth and foreign firms pour money into the nascent industry, according to the president of the Insurance Association of ...
Sok Chan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/insurance-growing-rising-awareness
Six women abused as maids, brides return
Six Cambodian women rescued from allegedly abusive conditions in China and Malaysia were returned home yesterday after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs intervened in their cases, officials said. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/six-women-abused-maids-brides-return
Fifty-two foreigners booted out
Immigration authorities yesterday deported 52 people found living illegally in Cambodia, bringing the total number of people booted out of the Kingdom since the government began a census of foreigners last July to nearly 3,000. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fifty-two-foreigners-booted-out
Chinese companies face culture shock in countries that aren’t like China
Faced with slower growth at home and rising labor costs, Chinese entrepreneurs are seeking foreign markets as never before. But as they rush abroad, they are grappling for the first time with unruly trade unions, independent courts and meddlesome journalists. And for many, navigating the ...
Maids back in Kingdom after stint in Malaysia
Two Cambodian maids were repatriated from Malaysia on Saturday after being duped by a broker into taking unlawful and unpaid jobs, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/maids-back-kingdom-after-stint-malaysia
Immigration police fine and arrest immigrants at construction site
The Department of Immigration conducted a raid yesterday on a construction site in the capital near Wat Phnom. In all, officials checked 61 workers for valid permits. ...
James Reddick
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14995/immigration-police-fine-and-arrest-immigrants-at-construction-site/
China brides rescued; alleged brokers busted
Anti-human trafficking police arrested a man and a woman at Phnom Penh International Airport on Tuesday night, as they attempted to send two Cambodian women to be sold as brides in China. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/china-brides-rescued-alleged-brokers-busted
Rubber exports grow nearly 24% last year
The Kingdom’s rubber exports saw a 24 per cent increase over the first 11 months of last year compared to the same period in 2018, data from the General Directorate of Rubber obtained by The Post on Tuesday showed. Pol Sopha, the director-general of the ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rubber-exports-grow-nearly-24-last-year
Government’s study aims to expand rubber revenue
The General Directorate of Rubber announced a joint study on family-owned rubber plantations in three provinces to better understand how growers have responded to the sharp drop in rubber prices over the past nine years. The average cost of rubber has fallen from around $4,600 ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/governments-study-aims-expand-rubber-revenue
Announcement of the General Department of Taxation on taxes on all means of transportation and vehicles for 2020
On 25 May 2020, General Department of Taxation has issued an announcement on the collection of tax on all types of vehicles and transportation for the year 2020. The collection of tax for 2020 start on 01 June till 30 November 2020. ...
General Department of Taxation
The Ministry set the maximum price of gasoline
According to a statement released by the Ministry of Commerce on March 14, the maximum price of gasoline on the market today are determined according to the formula in the Interministerial Prakas-098 signed on 09 March 2016 by Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Economy and Finance and ...
Ministry of Commerce
Tax dispute procedures tightened, onus on taxpayer
Having recently disbanded the so-called estimated tax regime, a flexible scheme that reduced the tax obligations of small and medium enterprises, the General Department of Taxation has issued a new prakas aimed at hastening tax audits and the appeals process, but which also increases the ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tax-dispute-procedures-tightened-onus-taxpayer
Ministry of Information issues a press release on the practice of journalism and clarification on the concerns of some CSOs on press freedom in Cambodia
In a statement issued by the Ministry of Information on 03 November 2020, the government denied all allegations made by the media that the government had cracked down on them. In the statement, the Cambodian government explains as follows:According to the spokesman of the Ministry ...
Ministry of Information
Inclusion of the ODC Website in the U.S. Library of Congress Web Archives
Shapshot of the U.S. Libary of Congress E-mailOn July 24, 2013, the ODC Team received a surprise e-mail from the United States Library of Congress:“The United States Library of Congress has selected your website for inclusion in the Library’s historic collection of Internet materials related ...
UK to make trade preference available to least developed countries
Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) yesterday announced that developing countries which are eligible, like Cambodia, will be able to get trade preference through the United Kingdom’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) from January 1. ...
Sen Davith
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50784702/uk-to-make-trade-preference-available-to-least-developed-countries/
Rape victims failed by corrupt system: report
Countless rape victims, many of them children, have been failed by widespread flaws in Cambodia’s justice system, which have led to a “disturbingly low” number of convictions, a new study by the rights group Licadho has found.In its report, Getting Away With It: The Treatment ...
Alice Cuddy and Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rape-victims-failed-corrupt-system-report
Gov’t produce plan a relative success
A $20 million government agricultural initiative achieved remarkable results in its three years of operation but still fell far short of its target, the General Directorate of Agriculture reported. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-produce-plan-relative-success
Prakas on tax debt management issued
The Ministry of Economy and Finance on November 20 issued Prakas No 962 SHV BrK on Tax Debt Management. The new prakas sets forth rules and procedures relating to tax debt management and aims to ensure a more efficient, effective and transparent collection process. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/prakas-tax-debt-management-issued
Cambodia’s rubber export up 18 percent in H1
Cambodia exported 123,151 tons of dry rubber in the first half of 2020, up 18 percent compared to the same period last year, said a General Directorate of Rubber report on Monday. ...
Xinhua
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50746839/cambodias-rubber-export-up-18-percent-in-h1/
Top rice exporter gets more hi-tech
Amru Rice (Cambodia), one of the country’s leading rice exporters, has scaled up its BlocRice technology project to 500 households in two communities in Preah Vihear province. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50747088/top-rice-exporter-gets-more-hi-tech/