Ministry: SMEs vital to economy, but 95% not registered
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are key factors in the Kingdom’s industrial sector growth, but around 95 per cent of Cambodia’s SMEs have not been properly registered, the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft said on Friday. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ministry-smes-vital-economy-95-not-registered
Announcement on the international investment and trade exhibition
On 23 February 2021, the Ministry of Commerce released an announcement on the international investment and trade exhibition, organized by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in cooperating with the China International Chamber of Commerce which will take place from 27-29 April 2021. This fair aims to ...
Ministry of Commerce
Update on the treatment of COVID-19 Delta patients (confirmed by the laboratory or in suspected cases) to respond to the new evolution of the spread of COVID-19 and to live in a new context
On 05 October 2021, the Ministry of Health issued a press release on the update on the treatment of COVID-19 Delta patients (confirmed by the laboratory or in suspected cases) to respond to the new evolution of the spread of COVID-19 and to live in ...
Ministry of Health
Cambodian embassy in Thailand denies extortion allegations
Cambodia’s embassy in Thailand has denied allegations that officials from the embassy were extorting Cambodian employers and migrant workers in Thailand by demanding bribes for fake passports and pushing along applications to legalize a person’s working status. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22694/cambodian-embassy-in-thailand-denies-extortion-allegations/
Talks with Cambodia renew hope for deal on overlapping claims area in gulf, electricity cooperation on the cards
The Energy Ministry will hold discussions with Cambodia about cooperation in electricity and The overlapping petroleum-claims area in The Gulf of Thailand during The current official visit to Phnom Penh by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Tanasak Patimapragorn. ...
Wartcharapong Thongrung
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Talks-with-Cambodia-renew-hope-for-deal-on-overlap-30242369.html
Industrial sector grows, but still reliant on garment factories
The government released a summary of The country’s industrial sector over The past five years, showing a marked increase in growth across a wide variety of indicators. The report, released by The Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts (MIH) last week, lacks specific data but shows a ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/industrial-sector-grows-still-reliant-garment-factories
GDT requires tax invoice amounts shown in local riel
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) has ordered that all taxpayers show The total amount of Their tax invoices in Cambodian riel. The change will come into effect on April 1. The GDT instruction issued on Monday indicates that tax invoices are required to show ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gdt-requires-tax-invoice-amounts-shown-local-riel
Labor minister to face lawmakers’ questions
Labor Minister Ith Sam Heng has agreed to appear before lawmakers today to answer questions about ongoing minimum wage negotiations for garment workers, a controversial draft union law and other pressing labor issues, according to the opposition CNRP. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/labor-minister-to-face-lawmakers%e2%80%88questions-69768/
‘Tsunami’ of Tobacco-Linked Deaths Predicted
The government must act now in order to avoid a “tsunami” of tobacco-related deaths in The coming years, according to The co-author of a new report on smoking that appears in The Journal of The American Medical Association on Wednesday. Research for The study, Smoking prevalence ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tsunami-of-tobacco-linked-deaths-predicted-50317/
Putting hospitals on lockdown
The government plans to extend The country’s still-limited capacity to treat ailing prisoners by building more secure rooms inside provincial hospitals. As part of The General Department of Prisons’ 2014-2018 strategic plan, The Ministry of Interior hopes to have rooms specifically designated for prisoners in each ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/putting-hospitals-lockdown
Lifespan of ELCs slashed by gov’t
The government has declared leases on plantations will be limited to 50 years, slashing The length of some existing concessions in half, though neiTher ministry responsible for overseeing The move would confirm The legal basis for doing so.The decision was announced in a press release ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lifespan-elcs-slashed-govt
Union complains of spate of illegal garment factory firings
Union leader Pav Sina on Tuesday said garment factories around the country illegally fired dozens of his local representatives last year, far more than in 2013, and urged the government to help get their jobs back. Mr. Sina’s Collective Union of Movement of Workers (CUMW) is ...
ELC earnings underwhelm
The Cambodian government earned about $80 million leasing economic land concessions and forests to private companies over The last three years, according to a report from The Ministry of Economy and Finance released last week. The January report, signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen, found that ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/elc-earnings-underwhelm
Rice Trader Claims Being Wrongly Fined Bad Scale to Measure Her Truck
A rice trader on Monday filed a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Unit, Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cabinet and three ministries alleging that officials in Kompong Cham province had wrongly fined her for an overweight truck after using improperly weighted scales. Saing Darlin had her truck impounded ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/rice-trader-claims-being-wrongly-fined-bad-scale-to-measure-her-truck-49631/
Psychology department sees decrease in students
The Royal University of Phnom Penh’s department of psychology has seen a decrease in students and its dean has blamed a lack of human resources and decreased interest in The subject. Phan Chan Pov, dean of The psychology department at The university, said There are ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50544908/psychology-department-sees-decrease-in-students-2/
Government establishes working group to tackle faintings
Health Minister Mam Bun Heng yesterday announced the formation of a working group to address mass fainting, a day after the premier raised the issue at a meeting with garment workers, though relevant officials had few details on the group’s objectives. ...
Kuoch Masy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-establishes-working-group-tackle-faintings
Fines up after new rule: gov’t
The announcement last month that traffic cops will collect 70 per cent of fines They give out has already seen enforcement increase, according to a senior official at The Interior Ministry.Speaking yesterday, General Run Roth Veasna, director of The ministry’s Department of Order, said tickets ...
Charles Parkinson and Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fines-after-new-rule-govt
Government to open embassies in Ankara, Sofia
The Cambodian government will open an embassy in The Republic of Turkey next year, a statement issued by The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday. ...
Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-open-embassies-ankara-sofia
Minister urges officials to speed up ID scheme
Officials responsible for issuing new identity cards, which every adult will eventually need, must get a grip on the task and speed up, the Ministry Of Interior said yesterday.In an “instruction” to staff, Interior Minister Sar Kheng said the number Of new ID cards issued ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-urges-officials-speed-id-scheme
Ghosts in the machine
Private firms say costs, delays and bureaucratic red tape have increased since an obscure private company took over the government’s work-permit application and issuance system in September. the Ministry of Labour announced in August that it had outsourced work permit application processing to E-Solutions (Cambodia) Co ...
Kali Kotoski and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ghosts-machine