Investment options in securities market at different stages of life
Much like when building a career or successfully running a business, it is important when taking care of one’s investments to know that there are different investment strategies best suited to each stage of life. ...
Lawyers vote in wake of damning report
The Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) will hold its eighth election today at its headquarters in Sen Sok district. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16807/lawyers-vote-in-wake-of-damning-report/
Hun Sen: Kingdom always stays strong when aid cut
Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Thursday that under his leadership Cambodia had never fallen after countries withdrew aid, and that the Kingdom would continue to remain strong. Hun Sen was presiding over a ceremony at the Chaktomuk Theatre Hall in Phnom Penh to commemorate ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-kingdom-always-stays-strong-when-aid-cut
Cambodia regulator to cancel inactive telecom licenses
The Telecom Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) has urged 34 domestic telecom operators and ISPs to submit their business performance reports by end-November. The watchdog plans to ensure the companies comply with their licensing agreements, Khmer Times reports, citing Im Vutha, director of regulation at TRC. ...
Telecompaper News Staff
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/cambodia-regulator-to-cancel-inactive-telecom-licenses--1114622
Organizing a press conference on the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Cambodian and Australian governments on the resettlement of refugees in Cambodia
The Ministry of Interior of the Kingdom of Cambodia has a great honor to inform the local and international media about the press conference which will be conducted on 29 September 2009 at 9:30 a.m. aiming to discuss about the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Cambodian and Australian ...
Ministry of Interior
Poll shows wide support for heavily monitored exams
Most Cambodians support the Ministry of Education’s crusade to end corruption on the grade 12 national exam, results from a “snap poll” by the Asia Foundation showed yesterday. The survey polled 500 respondents, including 100 current high school students, and 96 per cent were overwhelmingly in ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poll-shows-wide-support-heavily-monitored-exams
New gas safety rules
As part of a new safety initiative, the Ministry of Mines and Energy will require all petrol station owners to present a certificate acknowledging that their businesses follow risk-prevention protocols. The directive came in response to a series of petrol fires and explosions that damaged property ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/new-gas-safety-rules
CSOs seek input on climate policies
Civil society and government representatives met at the Royal University of Phnom Penh yesterday to discuss how both sides can cooperate to formulate climate change policies that fulfill the Kingdom’s treaty obligations in the wake of the historic climate accord reached in Paris earlier this ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/csos-seek-input-climate-policies
Cambodia scraps pay-to-stay ‘hotel’ prison plans
The Cambodian government is abolishing a controversial “hotel” prison project, according to Ministry of Interior officials. The government had announced earlier this month that it would soon open the new prison facilities, in which inmates can pay to stay. The facilities are said to be ...
Leonie Kijewski
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/cambodia-scraps-pay-to-stay-hotel-prison-plans/4995765.html
Farmers of cassava afraid of losing out to a lack of rainfall
The price for cassava plants is increasing in the Kingdom’s north-western provinces, where the new season started. Due to the lack of rain many were damaged, according to farmers and officials. Sreng Sreang, deputy director of the Pailin longan collective, which planted about five hectares of ...
Protest ban firmly in place on Women’s Day
Freedom Park was placed under lockdown and a march by land rights activists was blocked Saturday morning as Phnom Penh’s security officials were out in force to ensure that peaceful rallies on International Women’s Day could not go as planned. Prime Minister Hun Sen on February ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/protest-ban-firmly-in-place-on-womens-day-53745/
Bubble trouble downplayed
Government officials and industry insiders downplayed concerns about the sustainability of the construction and real estate sector yesterday, although they agreed that closer monitoring of the industry was needed to understand risks to the economy.at a meeting in Phnom Penh yesterday, officials from several ministries, ...
Siv Meng, Ananth Baliga and Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/bubble-trouble-downplayed
Kingdom win Guides conference hosting rights
Cambodia has been awarded hosting rights to the 39th World Conference of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) in 2026, following a successful vote gathering campaign at the 38th conference, held in Cyprus from July 26-31. ...
Samban Chandara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-win-guides-conference-hosting-rights
Announcement on the death of COVID-19 on five Cambodian people
On 21 April 2021, the Ministry of Health issued an announcement on the death of COVID-19 on five Cambodian people, a 63-year-old man, a 52-year-old, and a 61-year-old woman died at Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital, a 66-year-old woman died at Sihanoukville Provincial Referral Hospital, and another ...
Ministry of Health
Joint legal analysis of the draft law on unions of enterprises
Today, CLEC and LICADHO release a legal analysis of the latest draft of the Law on Unions of Enterprises (Trade Union Law) obtained at the end of May, this year. As unions yesterday began a nationwide campaign for a $177 per month minimum wage, the ...
Joint Organizations
Growth in tourist arrivals slows to 5-year low
Growth in tourist arrivals slowed down last year to the lowest rate since the global financial crisis, according to preliminary figures provided by the Ministry of Tourism on Monday. The number of visitors arriving by all modes of transport reached 4.5 million last year, up just ...
George Styllis and Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/growth-in-tourist-arrivals-slows-to-5-year-low-76755/
Tax collection exceeds 22% of plan last year
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) at the Ministry of Economy and Finance collected $3.45 billion as income from taxes in 2022, which is equivalent to 122 percent of the target for the year. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501222609/tax-collection-exceeds-22-of-plan-last-year/
Fertilizer stored at Chinese man’s home seized
Local authorities investigating a house in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kok district confiscated more than 260 containers of fertilizer and insecticide Wednesday morning after neighbors of a Chinese man complained of a noxious smell emanating from his house, which they feared might have been a dangerous ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fertilizer-stored-at-chinese-mans-home-seized-77849/
Court postpones trial over brawl at freedom park
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has postponed today’s scheduled hearing of 11 people, including senior CNRP official Meach Sovannara, who were charged with insurrection and other crimes over a bloody scuffle at Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park in July. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-postpones-trial-over-brawl-at-freedom-park-78508/
NBC issues prakas for riel loans
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) issued a prakas, or directive, last week instructing commercial banks and microfinance institutions to make out more riel loans to their customers, in a bid to promote the use of the national currency. The prakas, which took effect on Thursday, ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32828/nbc-issues-prakas-for-riel-loans/