Announcement on the request for extension the validity of foreigner’s work permits/books in 2021
On 26 March 2021, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training issued an announcement on the request for extension of the validity of foreigner’s work permits/books which has been postponed until 31 May 2021, without requiring fines for foreigners who had foreigner’s work permits/books in ...
Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training
Announcement on the geographical implementation of wearing masks and safety social distancing obligations
On 24 March 2021, the Ministry of Health released an announcement on the geographical implementation of wearing masks and safety social distancing obligations, concerning the further infection of COVID-19 since the community transmission event on 20 February. Those geographical areas are Phnom Penh, Sihanoukville, Kandal, ...
Ministry of Health
Announcement on the provision of allowances to garment and tourism workers whose employment contracts have been suspended
On 31 March 2021, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training released an announcement on the provision of allowances to 9,541 workers of factories in garment and tourism sectors whose employment contracts have been suspended in line with the third round of the Royal Government’s ...
Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training
GDT collects over half a billion dollars in tax revenue from Jan-Feb
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) collected 2.07466 trillion riel, or $512.26 million, in taxes in the first two months of 2022, surging by 22.69 per cent over the same period last year, according to its director-general Kong Vibol on March 14. ...
Hom Phanet
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gdt-collects-over-half-billion-dollars-tax-revenue-jan-feb
Bunong block bulldozers, allege illegal land clearing
Fifty indigenous people in Mondulkiri province on March 15 stopped the clearing of forest land in Sokdom commune’s Laoka village, claiming that the site was reserved for collective land registration of the Bunong indigenous community. They said that clearing the land will result in the ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bunong-block-bulldozers-allege-illegal-land-clearing
ACLEDA reports 20% less net profit in Q1
Mainboard-listed commercial bank ACLEDA Bank Plc’s net profit for the first quarter ended March 31 fell 20 per cent to $35.36 million from $44.10 million last year as a result of widening net impairment loss, interest expense, and general and administrative expenses. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/acleda-reports-20-less-net-profit-q1
Joint venture funds coming to Cambodia ‘by end of Q1’
The Securities and Exchange Regulator of Cambodia (SERC) is set to authorise the establishment of joint venture funds in the first quarter of this year ending March 31, as the underlying regulatory framework nears completion, paving the way for licensed companies to raise money for ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/joint-venture-funds-coming-cambodia-end-q1
‘Single Portal’ registers 22K firms
A total of 22,713 companies, with cumulative “registered share capital” of $6.40 billion, were approved by the six first-phase agencies and successfully registered on the Online Business Registration Platform – also known as the “Single Portal” – as of March 6 at 2pm, the Online ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/single-portal-registers-22k-firms
Press release on Cambodia, Japan to augment peacekeeping and mine action cooperation
On 07 March 2023, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on Cambodia, Japan to augment peacekeeping and mine action cooperation.Both sides expressed satisfaction with the robust bilateral relationship, upgraded to the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership this year. ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Cambodia and China reaffirm their commitment to continue working closely in advancing the MLC cooperation
On 15 March 2024, Meas Kim Heng, Secretary of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and Mekong-Lancang Cooperation (MLC) SOM Leader of Cambodia, received a courtesy call by Chen Cong, Minister-Counsellor of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China to ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501456861/cambodia-and-china-reaffirm-their-commitment-to-continue-working-closely-in-advancing-the-mlc-cooperation/
PPAP revenue rise to $8m, all round growth in Q1’24
Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) posted a 7.1 percent year-on-year revenue hike at $8.1 million for the first quarter ended March 31, 2024 from $7.5 million, with container throughput climbing 20.4 percent to 93,153 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units). ...
Sangeetha Amarthalingam
https://kiripost.com/stories/ppap-revenue-rise-to-8m-all-round-growth-in-q124
After Park Cleared, CNRP Leaders Called to Court
At 11:30 a.m. Saturday, municipal security guards and men in plainclothes, wielding steel bars, metal pipes, batons, sticks and axes, forcibly cleared hundreds of demonstrators from Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park, where the opposition CNRP has been protesting against the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen ...
Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/security-guards-police-clear-freedom-park-50086/
Stability, growth require job creation
Cambodia is entering a new phase of economic growth in which the development of a skilled workforce will be critical to social stability and regional competitiveness, government officials and economists said Thursday at the 2014 Cambodia Outlook Conference. Delivering the keynote speech at the conference, Prime ...
Colin Meyn and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/stability-growth-require-job-creation-53317/
VONG Pisith
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Senior Data Research & GIS Officer /Capacity Building Coordinator Pisith works as a Senior Data Research & GIS Officer /Capacity Building Coordinator at Open Development Cambodia (ODC). He satisfactorily completed Engineering’s Degree of Geo-Resources and Geotechnical Engineering (GGE) from the Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC) ...
RATH Sarath
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Senior Finance and Admin OfficerTransparency, accountability and honesty are Mr. Sarath’s core values. In charge of finance and admin tasks of ODC, Mr. Sarath works closely with all team members to produce the good achievements on: 1. ensure that all financial documents are legally compliant ...
PPWSA stock offering slated to outperform
The Kingdom’s first initial public offering is fast approaching, and demand is expected to be robust. Book-building, the process during which bids for the IPO are taken and a price is set for shares, ended yesterday. The final offering price is expected before the subscription for ...
Strikers fed up with delays
Striking workers planned to set tyres aflame today outside a garment factory that supplies JC Penney in the capital’s Por Sen Chey district, union officials said yesterday on the sixth day of the strike at Hong Kong-owned Win Shing-tex Cambodia Co Ltd. Ath Thorn, head of ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012032355209/National-news/strikers-fed-up-with-delays.html
Ocean Garment strike to end, workers return
More than 50 police officers exchanged heated words with Ocean Garment strikers yesterday afternoon, marching for over an hour to Phnom Penh Municipal Court in support of five worker representatives suspended by the company. Mid-protest, however, the group of more than 2,500 – who have been ...
As Case Delayed, Former Maid Trainee Suffers
When Heng Hak escaped from Phnom Penh maid recruitment center in March 2011, falling several stories in the process, she unwittingly became part of a groundswell-one in a series of mounting cases highlighting severe mismanagment of recruitment agencies, and the abuses incurred by both trainees ...
Garment Workers Continue Tax Deductions Protest
About 600 garment workers of the Top Form factory in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district continued protesting yesterday against new income tax deductions from their pay outside the factory after police blocked them from marching on National Road 5. Workers have been protesting since Friday against ...