Illicit fishballs to be destroyed after seizure
Economic crimes police on Wednesday arrested a woman and seized 3 tons of low-quality fishballs, claiming she had illegally imported the potentially dangerous meat. Kandal province resident Chan Thea, 37, was stopped in Phnom Penh while en route to Battambang—where police believe she was planning to ...
Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/illicit-fishballs-to-be-destroyed-after-seizure-64808/
CCC workshop tackles export issues for domestic SMEs
The Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC) on July 8 advised owners of local small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) to understand and follow the legal procedures for export to streamline the process and reduce compliance issues. ...
Hom Phanet
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ccc-workshop-tackles-export-issues-domestic-smes
Cambodia’s e-commerce market eyes $1.78B by 2025
With the growing reach of the Internet, better access to newer technologies, increasing digitization, and rise in income levels, the e-commerce sector in Cambodia is marching ahead on a firm growth path. ...
Prakash Jha
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501214272/cambodias-e-commerce-market-eyes-1-78b-by-2025/
Minister of Agriculture chaired a meeting to review the implementation process of ELC investment projects
The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Mr. Dith Tina, chaired a meeting to review the implementation of economic land concession investment projects at the ministry on March 16 to provide additional guidance to participate in solving economic land concessions effectively and benefit the national ...
Phnom Penh Post Staff
https://www.postkhmer.com/national/2023-03-17-0245-248103.html
Digital literacy programme underway
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport and partner organisations launched a digital skill capacity building project in the education sector to provide a digital education which will contribute to the Kingdom’s human resource development. ...
Sok Raksa
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/digital-literacy-programme-underway
Land Rights Still Unclear in Pheapimex Dispute
Following a decision in March to give land back to residents of 13 communes in Pursat province from a vast economic land concession belong to the conglomerate Pheapimex, boundaries have yet to be drawn, and ownership of the land still remains unclear, residents and a ...
Cambodia's tax revenues up 17 pct in 11 months
Cambodia’s General Department of Taxation had collected 800 million U.S. dollars of taxes in the first 11 months of the year, a 17 percent rise compared with the same period last year, a press release said Wednesday. The revenues came from tax on profit, withholding tax, ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/131204/cambodias-tax-revenues-17-pct-11-months
Civil Society Groups in Cambodia Suppressed: Report
Local and international civil society groups operating in Cambodia face government-imposed restrictions on their operations and have been significantly hindered in their work in the lead up to Sunday’s general election, according to a recent report by a U.S.-based think tank. ...
Channy Chheng
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/civil-society-groups-in-cambodia-suppressed-report/4495078.html
Japanese Ambassador Airs Concerns Over SEZ Shooting
Japanese Ambassador Masafumi Kuroki yesterday said he hoped the government arrests the gunman behind the Feb. 20 triple shooting of protesting workers in Svay Rieng province, and that safety must be ensured for investors in the special economic zone (SEZ) where the incident took place. ...
Customs' taxing dilemma
Average Cambodians are to pay the price for stamping out corruption in the customs department. Prices for basic goods, such as food and clothing, rose recently after the department was ordered last week to clean up its act and apply the official tax rate, importers told ...
Daniel de Carteret and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/customs-taxing-dilemma
Ministry Releases Data on Trade for 2011
The trade deficit of Cambodia has reached $1.02 billion for the first six months of the year or 48.63 percent according to the Ministry of Commerce. This is as a result of exports increasing 50 percent based on year-on-year data. According to Chan Sophal, president ...
Malaysian firms urged to venture into Cambodia's agri sector
Malaysian companies have been urged to venture into Cambodia’s agriculture sector especially in paddy planting and opening up rubber estates. In making the call, Raja Saiful Ridzuan, Deputy Chief of Mission at the Malaysian Embassy here, said Malaysian firms, with its vast expertise in agriculture sector, ...
http://www.nst.com.my/latest/malaysian-firms-urged-to-venture-into-cambodia-s-agri-sector-1.334244
CPP Abusing State Property, Election Body Says
The ruling CPP is misusing state properties to further its political agenda, said the Committee for Free and Fair Elections (Comfrel) in a report that will be released today. The report said Comfrel monitors had documented 200 instances in which state properties and resources had been ...
Special Economic Zone Strike in Svay Rieng Ends—For Now
An estimated 30,000 garment factory workers will resume work this morning after three days of strike action ended Wednesday when Svay Rieng provincial officials promised to help the strikers achieve their demands from factory owners. The mass strike led the owner of the Tai Seng Special ...
Aun Pheap and Phann Ana
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/special-economic-zone-strike-in-svay-rieng-ends-for-now-49469/
Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone —to Build an International Zone with the Concept of “Win-win”
Data from Cambodia’s custom and excise department shows that from January to August this year, the total number of containers arriving and leaving the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) increased by 22.1% compared with the same period last year. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50767842/sihanoukville-special-economic-zone-to-build-an-international-zone-with-the-concept-of-win-win/
Hundreds of luxury timber logs seized
Ratanakkiri province police seized 285 logs of first-grade timber in a raid at a cashew farm in a remote area of the province yesterday, although no loggers were arrested. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hundreds-luxury-timber-logs-seized
Cambodian parliament ratifies protocol on Cambodia-Vietnam investment agreement
The National Assembly of Cambodia on Thursday ratified a protocol on the investment promotion and protection agreement between the governments of Cambodia and Vietnam. All 64 lawmakers of the ruling party, who were present at the parliamentary session, unanimously approved the protocol as the opposition party’s ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/852568.shtml#.Uz4WwfmSxqU
Low awareness of AEC pact
The Asean Economic Community (AEC) will cut red tape and allow freer trade between the bloc’s 10 member states. But many companies in the region aren’t even aware of the AEC blueprint, a sobering report from the Asia Development Bank has found. The bank also ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/low-awareness-aec-pact
Cambodia garment sector has Asia's highest rate of unionization
Cambodia’s garment sector has the highest rate of unionization of any industry in Asia, Cambodia Federation of Employers and Business Associations Van Sou Leng said Tuesday. “Major efforts are needed to improve the quality of workplace relations,” Van said in a statement posted on the Camfeba ...
The Cambodia Herald
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=NDA0NmM5MWU5YjN
Government aims to reduce TB cases
The Health Ministry and the National Centre for Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control (CENAT) will investigate to find cases of tuberculosis at locations where many people live and in high-risk groups to reduce the rate of sickness and deaths from TB by 2030. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50483343/government-aims-to-reduce-tb-cases/