Ministry of Women’s Affairs and National Bank of Cambodia receive the Global Summit of Women 2024 Roundtable Ministerial Award
The Ministry of Women’s Affairs and the National Bank of Cambodia have received the Global Summit of Women 2024 Roundtable Ministerial Award on “projects that have a positive impact on women and girls” through the use of the payment system “Bakong” from the World Women’s ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501487559/ministry-of-womens-affairs-and-national-bank-of-cambodia-receive-the-global-summit-of-women-2024-roundtable-ministerial-award/
NBC, ministry join hands for women’s financial upliftment
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) signed a key agreement with the Ministry of Women’s Affairs on Monday in Phnom Penh for the upliftment of women in financial matters. ...
Jigmee Palden Pazo
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501496418/nbc-ministry-join-hands-for-womens-financial-upliftment/
Anonymous Hacks Government Websites
Anonymous Cambodia, a group of local computer hackers, has claimed responsibility for disrupting at least three government websites since Saturday and vowed additional hacking attacks to protest against July’s “unfair” election, according to the group’s Facebook page and Twitter account. Since Saturday, the hackers have attacked ...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/anonymous%E2%80%88hacks-government-websites-42250/
Securities and Exchange Commission will regulate the Stock Exchange
The laws and regulations that govern Cambodia’s securities market were derived from the Objectives and Principles of the International Organization for Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and the best practices in the region, according to Dr. Ming Bankosal, Director General of the SECC. the SECC which ...
Rice customs fees dropped
The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MoEF) will scrap customs fees for rice exporters from May 1 in an effort to reduce production costs and boost Cambodia’s competitiveness in the sector, according to a letter obtained by the Post. “[The ministry] has agreed to eliminate charges ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-customs-fees-dropped
Juvenile justice law step closer to being reality
Officials from the ministries Of interior, social affairs, and justice met with NGOs on Friday to discuss the latest draft Of a juvenile justice law that has been in the works for more than a decade and which would mean young Offenders’ rights would be ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/juvenile-justice-law-step-closer-to-being-reality-52720/
ICT expo is planned for next month
An information and communications technology (ICT) event will be held from July 5-7 this year, offering sales and networking opportunities amid a surge in ICT growth in the Kingdom. Expected to draw about 100 companies, the Mobile Social Commerce International Conference and Expo at Phnom Penh’s ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060766122/Business/ict-expo-is-planned-for-next-month.html
Hun Sen seeks support for river systems
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Saturday ordered all ministries and relevant institutions to prevent illegal sand dredging, fishing and the cutting down of mangrove trees. Presiding over the 5th River Festival held in Kampong Chhnang province, Mr Hun Sen said that he ordered all relevant ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50587743/hun-sen-seeks-support-for-river-systems/
Ministry urges the establishment of libraries in more schools
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport is pushing for the establishment of libraries in educational institutions across the country to assist students’ with their studies. ...
Ton Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501454167/ministry-urges-the-establishment-of-libraries-in-more-schools/
Bar Association Launches New Code of Ethics: President Spars with Jurists' Organization
The president of the Bar Association of Cambodia has hit back at the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), which called for assurances that the Bar Association’s newly launched Code of Ethics, which was unveiled on Friday, would allow Cambodian lawyers to freely express themselves without ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/bar-association-launches-new-code-of-ethics-17601/
Tax pulled after mutiny
Just one day after the Kingdom’s microlenders mutinied and said they would not implement a government directive requiring all financial institutions to implement a 10 percent value-added tax (VAT) on fees for financial services, the Tax Department announced it would back down and temporarily suspend ...
Kali Kotoski and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tax-pulled-after-mutiny
MoU to support S. Korea investors
The Association of Banks in Cambodia (ABC) and the Korea Federation of Banks (KFB) yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to expand and strengthen cooperation as well as provide support to South Korean investors, especially those in the banking sector who are now investing ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31603/mou-to-support-s--korea-investors/
Tax exemption offered to SMEs
A two-year income tax exemption is being offered to small and medium-sized enterprises that register with the Ministry of Economy and Finance before the end of 2018. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35749/tax-exemption-offered-to-smes/
Prosecutors Meet to Discuss Treatment of Incarcerated Minors
The judiciary has signed off on a new set of guidelines designed to regulate the work of prosecutors in many areas, including the rights of minors in the judicial system. Ouk Savuth, general director of the Court of Appeal, signed off on the guidelines on August ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prosecutors-meet-to-discuss-treatment-of-incarcerated-minors-41526/
Union leader: Workers to hold protest after New Year
Labor union leader expressed pleasure and welcomed the study of minimum wage for footwear and garment factory workers. However, he said that the workers will hold protest after the New Year. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=OGFhNDE1N2Q3ZTZ
Protest blocked: Workers at factory seek full salaries
Police yesterday morning blocked more than 1,000 garment workers as they tried to march from their Por Sen Chey district factory to the Ministry of Labour to plead for intervention. Management at the Ocean Garment factory informed staff on May 24 that it would close for ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/protest-blocked-workers-factory-seek-full-salaries
Int'l youth cultural symposium to kick off in Cambodia next month
Cambodia will host the first International Youth Cultural Symposium (IYCS) from April 12-17 in a bid to exchange culture between Cambodian youth and those from ASEAN and its dialogue partners, an education official said Monday. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1IhJSOy
Foreign lawyers told to register with BAKC
The Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) has announced new requirements for professional foreign lawyers who are working at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) to register with the BAKC for certificates authorising them to practice law in the kingdom, ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/foreign-lawyers-told-register-bakc
CAMBODIA-NORTH KOREA UPDATE BILATERAL AGREEMENTS
Cambodia and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have inked the agreements to expand bilateral trade, technologies, agriculture, industry, investment and the health sector, and both sides also are trying to boost close ties for mutual benefits while both nations’ trading has been reported to be ...
Phnom Penh authorities do not allow the school to reopen if the school does not follow the correct principles
Phnom Penh Governor Khuong Sreng confirmed that the Capital Administration will not allow any educational institution that does not properly comply with the Code of Conduct in reopening of schools in the context of Covid-19 of the Ministry of Education, while public and private schools ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.postkhmer.com/national/2021-09-14-0855-223541.html