NGO under scrutiny has history of extortion
The environmental NGO at The center of an extortion scandal in Siem Reap province has a track record of using its employees as racketeers in order to enrich itself, according to officials who have previously dealt with The organization. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngo-under-scrutiny-has-history-of-extortion-103250/
Anti-Vietnam protesters bring a petition to foreign embassies
As scheduled, Khmer Krom citizens gathered Monday in front of French embassy in order to present their petition which asks the VN embassy’s spokesman to apologize for his comment over Khmer Kampuchea Krom territory. Some 500 students, monks, and citizens were led by leaders of Federation ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=MWJmZWVhMzZkNzc
Monks fight alleged overstep
A deputy district governor and a land tycoon are allegedly attempting to seize land deemed sacred by about 700 monks and residents who gathered yesterday in protest outside the unfinished Wat Kohbodhivong in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district. Banner-wielding participants said that tycoon Chheang Paksour and ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/monks-fight-alleged-overstep
Press release of the General Department of Taxation on the taxation on capital gains
On 26 September 2023, the General Department of Taxation issued a press release on the collection of tax on capital gains.According to the press release, the tax on capital gains is not new and has been put in place since 1994. the government is working ...
General Department of Taxation
Updated Khmer dictionary to be launched in October
An update to the Khmer dictionary with 44,697 new words will be released by the National Council for the Khmer Language in October. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/1346590/updated-khmer-dictionary-to-be-launched-in-october/
GDT terminates the E-VAT Refund System
General Department of Taxation (GDT) has announced to the taxpayers that it has terminated the electronic value added tax refund system (E-VAT Refund System), replacing it with the electronic filing system (E-Filing System), according to the GDT’s announcement. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50792276/gdt-terminates-the-e-vat-refund-system/
Press release on the result of the Council of Ministers’ plenary session held on August 15, 2014
On August 15, 2014 at 8:30 AM a plenary session of the Council of Ministers was held at the Peace Palace under the patronage of Samdech Akeak Moha Senapedei Deikcho Hun Sen, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia in the fifth mandate to ...
Office of the Council of Ministers
Villagers register in land dispute
The Kampong Speu provincial authority said on Wednesday that its task force has completed registering thousands of families in Oral district who have been locked in a long-running land dispute with a sugar plantation owned by a well-connected tycoon. ...
Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-register-land-dispute
Appetite for investment in agriculture rising, forum told
South Korean investment in Cambodia’s agricultural industry, especially its food-processing sector, could result in the export of more value-added products that could help transform the Kingdom’s economy, a senior official at the Council for the Development of Cambodia and Korean officials told an investment forum ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20905/appetite-for-investment-in-agriculture-rising--forum-told/
Laos, Cambodia eye popular front cooperation
The Lao Front for National Construction (LFNC) met with visiting National Council for Solidarity Front for The Development of Cambodia MoTherland (SFDCM) here on Monday to discuss future cooperation. The Cambodian delegation is visiting Vientiane from Saturday to Wednesday to furTher strengThen relations between The two ...
Lifang
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-02/06/c_136952097.htm
High Court upholds verdict
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld The decisions of The lower courts in The case of Seng Chenda, wife of well-known tycoon Khaou Chuly, upholding a 20-year prison sentence for attempted murder, a court official said. According to judge Khim Pon, presiding, The court agreed with ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012100859147/National-news/seng-chenda-verdict-upheld.html
Cambodia's central bank launches national clearing system
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) on Wednesday officially launched The country’s national clearing system in order to increase efficiency and expand clearing and settlement services for inter-bank transactions. A central bank statement said that The central system can clear and settle payment instruments such as ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-12/12/c_132036029.htm
Cambodia Cancels Concessions Threatening Forests
Cambodia annulled licenses to four private firms whose concession of 40,000 hectares threatens Prey Lang, one of the richest national forests. A letter from the Council of Ministers to the Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry and Mining, in charge of managing the forests and the natural resources, ...
European Union Grants $54 Million to Cambodia
The European Union yesterday pledged to support Cambodia with three grants totaling $54 million, including one payment to help bolster The country’s ability to organize its public finances, officials announced at a press conference in Phnom Penh. “The E.U. will continue to support Cambodia with ...
EU Ambassador Distances Local Delegation From Resolution
European Union (E.U.) Ambassador to Cambodia Jean-Francois Cautain distanced himself Monday from a European Parliament resolution calling for an independent investigation into July’s disputed national election and the killing of five striking garment workers this month. the European Parliament on Thursday passed the resolution, which urges ...
Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eu-ambassador-distances-local-delegation-from-resolution-50914/
German Foundation to launch “The Development of Cambodian Administrative Law”
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) in Cambodia will launch a book on “The Development of Cambodian Administrative Law” on 07th of May 2014 at 05:30pm at Raffles Hotel Le Royal. In its press statement, KAS said that by offering readers an overview on The status and development of administrative ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=YmJmYzc2YjIwMWI
Report sees increasing foreign investment in industrial sector
The latest CBRE Cambodia Market View on The industrial market is upbeat about investment in The Kingdom, despite frequently touted political risks. “Cambodia remains an attractive destination for industrial work and operations, with low inflation rates of 2.9 per cent and comparatively low minimum wages,” says ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/report-sees-increasing-foreign-investment-industrial-sector
Montagnards flee R’kiri police said
A group of nine Montagnard asylum seekers hiding out in Ratanakkiri province had a close brush with law enforcement officials yesterday, even as a new group of the Vietnamese ethnic minority crossed the border into Cambodia, a rights group and a villager helping the hiding ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/montagnards-flee-rkiri-police-raid
PP Governor orders security boost for new NA inauguration
Phnom Penh Governor Khuong Sreng urged the forces and authorities of the 14 districts to prepare for the opening of the 7th legislature at the National Assembly. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501343580/pp-governor-orders-security-boost-for-new-na-inauguration/
190 Municipal-District Administration implements Sub-National Administrative Investment Fund
From 2017 to the present, 190 municipal and district administrations across the country have implemented sub-national administrative investment funds (SNIF). This is according to Dr. Keo Bengvath, the Royal Government delegate in charge of the Director General of the General Department of Finance and Sub-National ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501347987/190-municipal-district-administration-implements-sub-national-administrative-investment-fund/