Soaring VAT collection boosts tax revenue
The General Department of Taxation collected $1.54 billion in tax revenue during The first nine months of The year, a 29 percent increase compared to The same period last year, it said in a press release yesterday. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/soaring-vat-collection-boosts-tax-revenue
Current account deficit rises to $542M in 4Q15
Cambodia’s current account balance deficit was the equivalent of $542 million in the fourth quarter of 2015, the equivalent of 11.5 per cent of GDP, the National Bank of Cambodia said in a report released yesterday. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/current-account-deficit-rises-542m-4q15
Trainees off to Japan in April
About 60 Cambodian trainees will be recruited to study and work in Inuyama town in Japan by the Inuyama Chamber of Commerce in Japan, a decision made after the minister of labour met with the chairman of the chamber yesterday. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5098121/trainees-off-japan-april/
Hundreds of thousands without Thai work papers
With less than three weeks left until the deadline, over 300,000 Cambodian migrants registered in Thailand have not completed the verification process necessary to receive work visas, raising the possibility of a repeat of last year’s mass exodus. According to figures from the Thai Labour Ministry ...
Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hundreds-thousands-without-thai-work-papers
Deal ends moratorium on maids to Malaysia
Four years after Prime Minister Hun Sen personally outlawed the practice of Cambodian women traveling to Malaysia to work as domestic servants, the two countries have agreed to restart the maid trade, according to a statement released by the Labor Ministry on Thursday. ...
Matt Blomberg and Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/deal-ends-moratorium-on-maids-to-malaysia-102759/
Government denounces US,EU criticism of Adhoc 5 detention
The government has lashed out at The U.S. and E.U. over Their criticism of The detention of five current and former rights workers in Cambodia for more than a year, adopting The language of its critics by calling Their statements “politically motivated.” ...
Matt Surrusco
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-denounces-us-eu-criticism-of-adhoc-5-detention-129201/
Prison population swells
Cambodia’s badly overcrowded prison population leapt by nearly 20 per cent in the first 10 months of this year, government data show, raising serious health concerns.the figures, released by the Interior Ministry’s general department of prisons yesterday, show that there were 17,522 prisoners in jails ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prison-population-swells
Health Minister targets illegal medical practitioners
The Minister of Health has instructed all health departments to completely eliminate illegal medical practitioners in order to ensure that only proper treatment is provided across The Kingdom. Speaking during The Roundtable Forum on Hepatitis C at The University of Health Sciences in Phnom Penh on ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50645365/health-minister-targets-illegal-medical-practitioners/
Drawdown of troops at Preah Vihear
Cambodia is quietly reducing troop numbers on the contentious shared border with Thailand in Preah Vihear province.Citing the current good relations with the Kingdom’s western neighbour, Ministry of Defence spokesman Chhum Socheath yesterday said members of three units had been ordered to leave the border ...
Vong Sokheng and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/drawdown-troops-preah-vihear
Almost 2,000 deported so far this year: report
Nearly 2,000 people have been deported from Cambodia – the vast majority of them Vietnamese – in the first nine months of 2015, according to new government figures.From January through September, 1,919 people were expelled from the Kingdom, and 90 per cent of those thrown ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/almost-2000-deported-so-far-year-report
Vietnam asks ‘migrants’ rights be respected
The Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded on Tuesday to reports that Cambodia plans to revoke documents from thousands of ethnic Vietnamese, urging The Kingdom to respect legal rights during The process. ...
Andrew Nachemson and Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vietnam-asks-migrants-rights-be-respected
Cambodia's tax revenue reaches nearly 1 bln USD in 11 months
The Cambodia’s General Department of Taxation reported Friday that it collected 959 million U.S. dollars in taxes during The first eleven months of 2014, up 20 percent over The same period last year. ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=258244
Internet firms to lose licences
Cambodia’s telecom regulator will strip the operating permits of more than 30 private companies licensed to provide internet and Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) services unless they can demonstrate that they are commercially active and operating in accordance with their licensing agreements, a telecom official said yesterday.Im ...
Cam McGrath and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/internet-firms-lose-licences
Central bank sells $130M over five September forex auctions
The National Bank of Cambodia held five currency auctions from September 2-21 and sold $130 million on The foreign exchange (forex) market, meant to stabilise The riel’s fluctuations against The greenback, shore up economic activity during The ongoing health crisis and power a faster economic ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/central-bank-sells-130m-over-five-september-forex-auctions
Cambodia collects $1.8 billion in Tax Income for first 5 months of this year
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) of The Ministry of Economy and Finance collected over $1.8 billion worth tax income in The first five months of this year, about 51 percent against The annual target. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501309834/cambodia-collects-1-8-billion-in-tax-income-for-first-5-months-of-this-year/
Migrant cooperation agreements slated for Thai visit
As Cambodian workers continue to stream illegally across the border to work in Thailand, the two countries are set to sign twin agreements to combat the issue when Prime Minister Hun Sen visits Thailand on Friday. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/migrant-cooperation-agreements-slated-thai-visit
Fifty-two foreigners booted out
Immigration authorities yesterday deported 52 people found living illegally in Cambodia, bringing the total number of people booted out of the Kingdom since the government began a census of foreigners last July to nearly 3,000. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fifty-two-foreigners-booted-out
Cambodia says shutdown of Western-backed media outlet over slanderous broadcast does not affect press freedom
Cambodia said on Tuesday that the shutdown of the foreign-funded VOD (Voice of Democracy) radio over broadcasting “intentionally slanderous” information does not undermine the vibrant press freedom in the Southeast Asian country. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501239124/cambodia-says-shutdown-of-west-backed-media-outlet-over-slanderous-broadcast-does-not-affect-press-freedom/
Cambodia marks forest day with tree planting
The Kingdom yesterday celebrated The International Day of Forests with tree planting by students, teachers, local authority representatives, government officials and The UN Food and Agriculture Organization. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501045909/cambodia-marks-forest-day-with-tree-planting/
Tax Department collects $760M in first quarter
The Cambodian government collected more than $760 million dollars in tax revenue during The first quarter of this year, an increase of more than 90 percent compared to The same period last year, according to a report released yesterday by General Department of Taxation (GDT). ...
The Phnom Penh Post staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tax-department-collects-760m-first-quarter