The government will not increase the rate for income tax and other taxes for the next two years, but will instead concentrate on expanding the base for tax collection, taking into account that there are still many individuals and businesses that do not pay tax ss='cambodia-color'>...

Bangladesh is rushing to push forward a draft proposal to form a joint trade commission with Cambodia that is expected to be signed this year, an official from Cambodia’s Commerce Ministry said yesterday. Trade between the two developing nations has been minimal, amounting to just ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on Wednesday urged Pakistan to boost trade and investment between the two countries. The appeal was made during a meeting with Deputy speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan Qasim Khan suri at the Peace Palace in Prampi Makara district’s Mittapheap commune ss='cambodia-color'>...

North Korea wants to boost its ties with the Kingdom started by Late King Father Norodom sihanouk and the Kim Il sung more than 50 years ago. Ri Kil song, North Korea’s deputy foreign minister, conveyed this to Foreign Affairs Minister Prak sokhonn during a courtesy ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on Thursday ordered National Committee for Disaster Management first vice-president Kun Kim to visit O’Chunh Primary school in Teuk Kraham commune’s sen Rung Roeung I village in Choam Ksan district, Preah Vihear province, after images of students studying in tents went ss='cambodia-color'>...

As the Kingdom marks the first anniversary of the inscription of traditional Cambodian dance drama Lakhon Khol on Unesco’s cultural heritage list, the government is preparing to have 10 other forms of tangible and intangible heritage registered with the UN body. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) will soon begin a national payment system that will allow the clearance of checks at all banks within a day, as well as facilitate intra-bank electronic payments, Nguon sokha, director general of the NBC, said yesterday. Through the establishment of the national ss='cambodia-color'>...

The recruitment firm HRD Company had allegedly threatened the mother of two sisters working as maids in Malaysia, pressuring her to withdraw her NGO complaint seeking help in repatriating her daughters or risk having all communication with them cut, a rights group said yesterday. Pov Chhan, ss='cambodia-color'>...

On the fourth and final day of his trial for alleged involvement in a secessionist movement, independent radio station owner Mam sonando told the court on Friday that he had returned to Cambodia from the U.s. to stand the trial because he was innocent. Mr. sonando, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia reported a trade deficit of 34% in equivalent to US$1.51-B in the 1St 7 monthS of thiS year, the report of the Commerce MiniStry Showed ThurSday. During January-July period thiS year, the country&rSquo;S total import and export value waS US$7.45-B, up 15% from US$6.47-B at SS='cambodia-color'>...

With the aim of attracting 25 million international visitors from 2013 to 2015 to Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CVLM) the respective ministers of tourism pushed for greater cooperation in developing the region’s tourism sector on Friday,  according to the Vietnamese Communist Party official news ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Taiwanese bank Cathay United, a subsidiary of Cathay Financial Holding and a listed company on the Taiwan stock Exchange, has purchased a 70 per cent stake in the Cambodia-based singapore Banking Corporation Ltd (sBC), a central bank official said yesterday. The National Bank of Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...

Military officials are attempting to squelch a potential lawsuit from relatives of three people killed Friday when Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) soldiers smuggling wood through siem Reap province drove a military truck, donated by the U.s. government, into the family’s motorbike, police officials said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Social work, long-eStabliShed in developed countrieS but unheard-of in Cambodia, could be Set to change the face of child protection in the country aS intereSt in the field growS. LaSt week, a hundred potential Social workerS from around the country came to Phnom Penh for an SS='cambodia-color'>...

Bloggers from across Asia came together in the Cambodian city of siem Reap this weekend to discuss blogging, technology and Internet freedom at 2012’s Blogfest Asia festival, a gathering of over 160 opinionated and distinctly geeky participants. Tops on the agenda? Internet freedom.  The Cambodian contingent ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government will not allow international airlines to establish domestic services in Cambodia, and the country’s domestic air travel industry is not being monopolised, says an industry leader. These two points were made by Tek Reth samrach, state secretary of the Council of Ministers, in response ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some 300 villagerS from the Andong Trabaek community in Svay Rieng province&rSquo;S RomeaS Hek diStrict will accompany two repreSentativeS who have been SummonSed to the provincial court TueSday to clarify allegationS of illegal logging that villagerS Say were fabricated by ForeStry AdminiStration officialS in order SS='cambodia-color'>...

THAI agribusiness giant Charoen Pokphand (CP) Foods is setting up a new silo and drying plant for maize in Pailin province. The exact investment cost is not known. According to a newspaper report in The Nation, the plant, together with a planned feed-meal plant in Laos, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kampot officials are looking to the Bokor Mountain Resort, a Us$1 billion project that opens today, to drive tourism growth in the burgeoning seaside destination. The provincial Tourism Department said the number of domestic visitors to Kampot had risen 120 per cent to 338,000 in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

While the CPP in Phnom Penh has spent much of the campaign period broadcasting speeches by Prime Minister Hun sen, hosting music concerts and sending well-known comedians into the streets to work the crowds, the sRP has a starker campaign focus. When the sun sets, 10 ss='cambodia-color'>...