With acknowledgment to BNG Legal www.bnglegal.com/ Unfortunately, many organizations only become aware of the Labor Law once a problem arises. The organization needs to fire an employee, or is inspected by the Labor Inspector, and suddenly realizes its contracts and practices don’t conform with the Law. The Labor Law almost certainly applies if your organization [...]

Some longer term residents complain that things have gotten expensive here over the last decade and, comparatively speaking, this is true. But renting a house or apartment in Phnom Penh is still a steal compared to just about anywhere else in the world right now. This can be a very satisfactory situation if you’ve just [...]

Published 22 February 2011 The idea of a Special Economic Zone is to create a ‘hot house’ environment – a fenced-in enclave separate from the norms of the rest of the economy – that is conducive to rapid economic growth. The goal is to increase foreign direct investment typically by multinationals, using tax holidays, duty-free [...]

Published 3 March 2011 It can be argued that Capitalism is far less a prescription than a description of how humans behave when they undertake economic activity under normal circumstances. Create the right (regulatory) environment and let people get on with it and Capitalism is the result. With any luck, prosperity is the eventual outcome. [...]

9th June 2012 The first Market Focus we ever ran in Property Report back in 2004 was on Phnom Penh. The headline was ‘Colonial restoration bargains in the Wild East’ and looked at the frenzy of redevelopment of elegant but faded French villas that was going on all over town. Nigel Ghotbi, an Anglo-Cambodian property [...]

In general, employers are obligated to register all local and foreign employees with the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training (MLVT) or the Department of Labour and Vocational Training (DLVT). The appropriate labour office for registration depends on the number of employees hired by the employer; if the employer has 100 employees or less, an [...]

Like most expats, you probably don’t want to be tied down to a contract and the hassle of installing a phone line or fibre cable in your home or business because you may well be unsure how long you are planning on staying there, or are just put off by all the hassle and expense. [...]

Getting business cards printed up here in Phnom Penh is cheap but it can be a very time-consuming business – plus you may not always get what you want. Quick and Easy Business Cards aims to make the process seamless as well as painless. Email the information you want displayed on your card, plus any [...]

Published 7 February 2011 Cambodia’s garment industry, the country’s biggest industrial employer, has been the main engine of the Kingdom’s prodigious economic growth since the 1990s, accounting for 70% of Cambodian exports in the first six months of 2010 and up to 90% in recent years. As of July, there were 297,000 workers employed in [...]