The government will scrap its poorly regulated and grossly inefficient estimated-tax regime, which covers mostly small enterprises, and bring all businesses in the Kingdom into the fold of its more-stringent “real” tax regime, leaked documents show.In an unpublished addendum to the 2016 national budget obtained ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has called environmental activists objecting to the construction of hydropower dams in Cambodia “extreme” insisting that such developments would benefit millions of people.His remarks came on Wednesday during the inauguration of a dam located on the Tatay river in Koh Kong ss='cambodia-color'>...

While local petroleum prices have dropped by nearly a quarter of their value since the start of the year, companies operating in the Kingdom’s highly competitive transportation sector insist they have not been able to convert lower fuel costs into higher profits – even when ss='cambodia-color'>...

In recent months Prime Minister Hun sen has made an effort to show that the government has a handle on the voracious deforestation that has ravaged the country’s forests over the years. Yet his speeches and decrees have done little to slow down, much less stop, ss='cambodia-color'>...

As the harvest season of Cambodia’s most important crop kicks off, a crisis is looming as both rice farmers and millers face crippling capital shortages and a promised industry lifeline has yet to materialise. Industry experts said yesterday that these small farmers desperate to pay their ss='cambodia-color'>...

Under Cambodian law, the right to organize is supposed to be ironclad. No employer, government agent or citizen may impede union activity. Inside the walls of Cambodia’s largest special economic zones (sEZs), however, In These Times’ reporters saw a system designed to tightly control the workforce by ss='cambodia-color'>...

Commune offices around the country are bracing for a surge in voter registrations over the Pchum Ben holiday that could become a make-or-miss moment in building the foundation for upcoming elections. After nearly a month of registrations, the National Election Committee reported on Tuesday that 3.5 ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party has called on the United Nations to join an investigation into the beating of two CNRP parliamentarians last Monday, expressing serious doubts the Cambodian People’s Party-led government could conduct an independent inquiry into an incident it was almost immediately ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 150 villagers, enraged by the conviction and imprisonment of three of their community representatives, yesterday destroyed the gates of Ratanakkiri Provincial Court, bursting into the courtroom only to find that the three men had already been sent to jail.The representatives – Chroeung Touch, Em ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a milestone for Cambodia’s nascent mining industry, the government has issued the first commercial mining licence to Mesco Gold, giving the Indian mining firm a green light to extract and process ore at its gold project in Ratanakkiri province, industry sources said yesterday. The landmark ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has announced plans to upgrade a sub-decree on torture prevention to the status of royal decree in order to comply with its international obligations, but observers said yesterday that the proposed changes will do little to bolster the body’s impartiality.The decision was confirmed ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fishing communities along two of Cambodia’s principle rivers say their livelihoods are threatened by droughts that have reduced water levels and devastated fish numbers.“The Tonle sap is 3 metres lower than last year,” Long sochhet, president of the Coalition of Cambodian Fishing Communities, said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

After two deaths to flooding in as many rainy seasons and another close call on Monday, villagers from Khva Village in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor District are demanding action. They say that the cause of the flooding is the extraction of soil nearby by a company ss='cambodia-color'>...

Experts are warning that the Lower Mekong Basin may soon face depleting fish stocks, further erosion of the coastline and rising salinity that will make rice fields uncultivable. An extensive, government- funded study by the Vietnam National Mekong Committee estimates the value of fish from ss='cambodia-color'>...

China and Cambodia agreed to boost their military ties following a meeting between their defense ministers on November 6 in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. Though specifics of the assistance remain unclear, Banh, who is also a deputy prime minister, indicated that it includes telecommunications ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ), the private firm that operateS Cambodia&rSquo;S moSt developed induStrial park, will hold a bookbuild for inveStorS later thiS month for an initial public offering it hopeS will raiSe up to $11.6 million for expanSion and debt repayment, according to SS='cambodia-color'>...

In a bid to increase tourist arrivals and promote sihanoukville as a beach destination, Cambodia Airports, the private company that manages the Kingdom’s three international airports, announced yesterday that it will provide monetary incentives to airlines that bring in foreign visitors to the coastal city.speaking ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Stanford UniverSity Study conducted in Cambodia haS Shed new light on the natural introduction of the poiSon arSenic into groundwater &ndaSh; an eStabliShed problem in Cambodia that could be exacerbated by hydrological development, particularly damS, reSearcherS Say.According to a report on their findingS, publiShed SS='cambodia-color'>...

City Hall yesterday announced the preparation of infrastructure for a controversial road construction project in the Boeung Kak area near the Alserkal Grand Mosque, the largest mosque in the Kingdom, to avoid traffic jams and flooding in the area. The pilot project, inveiled in 2012, plans ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rhona Smith, the UN Special rapporteur for human rightS in Cambodia, will Start her 10-day viSit to the Kingdom today, with planS to meet government officialS, oppoSition party activiStS and civil Society workerS.&nbSp;Am Sam Ath, a Senior coordinator for rightS group Licadho, Said he waS SS='cambodia-color'>...