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Kun KanhaExperienced

Asked: February 13, 2021In: Lifestyles

What should you not wear in Cambodia?

Right off the bat, what to wear in Cambodia may seem like a ridiculous question. After all, you’re there for a great time as a visitor. Shorts and tanks tops all the way right? Wrong. As with any other country, you should always be aware of cultural differences and the norms of dressing and behavior before you visit. While it is not wrong to wear what you choose, you stand to offend the locals, whose country you have chosen to visit and admire. Read through this quick guide on what not to wear in Cambodia so you know just what to pack for the trip of a lifetime.

1. Cover up your shoulders and upper arms not to short

This means no tank tops, no straps, and not even t-shirts with sleeves too short cover your knees no above-knee shorts or skirt. To be completely safe, wear ankle-length pants or skirt, apparently sometimes people get turned away for not covering their lower legs too

2. Footwear do not wear in house or temple

When visiting the Buddhists temples in Cambodia, or entering a government building or someone’s home, tourists are expected to dress smart and more conservatively. Women are expected to wear a knee-length skirt or pants, and are able to wear a t-shirt or a blouse with either long or short sleeves. All visitors to sacred sites should remember to remove their shoes and hat, and completely avoid wearing any clothing with religious imagery such as depictions of Buddha or Hindu gods.

3. Do not wear hat

The feet are considered to be the dirtiest and least sacred part of the body. You will see almost every tourist and local in Cambodia wearing flip flops on a daily basis and that’s because it’s customary to slip your shoes off when entering a place—not just someone’s house or a hostel. You’ll be expected to take your shoes off at temples and many restaurants, too.

What should you not wear in Cambodia

4. Do not wear black clothes

If you wish to wear black clothes, do not wear when you are invited to join wedding or engagement and pagoda. Black clothes only allow on death ceremony.

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Kheang SreyphinExperienced

Asked: February 13, 2021

Where can I buy clothes in Cambodia?

Not only a country that is rich in both culture and tradition, but Cambodia is also known as a great country for shopping. There are plenty of markets in Cambodia where is your best shopping destinations including in provinces and Phnom Penh, which provide you the inexpensive and good quality of clothes and many more. In Cambodia, you can either do shopping offline or online that you can settle on your most preferable one. Have no ideas in finding swag clothes, cute clothes and fancy dresses while doing shopping in Cambodia as it’s your first time traveling to this country, here are some of places that are good for shopping destinations where you can buy anything you want, and guide you to your shopping target.

1. Russian Market (known as Toul Tom Poung Market)

Toul Tom Poung market is located in Phnom Penh. This market is not only best known for handmade souvenirs, and jewelry, but it’s also good for offline shopping. Mostly, Russian market sells the factory and brand name clothing, which are made from Cambodia, and exported from foreign countries such as Thailand, Hong Kong, and Korea. The cost of clothes is affordable, and the fabric is also pleasant. One particular thing is that all types of stuff as well as clothes and dresses in this market is fixed price. You can bargain the price with sellers if you think the original price is kind of expensive for you. Russian market is one of the best place to go for the clothing, but please be well-prepared of hot and sweaty time of digging through tons of clothes to seek for what you are looking for.

2. AEON MALL 1 & 2

Aeon Mall is one of the luxurious and biggest shopping mall in Cambodia that has many branding stuff. There are a lot of brand clothing shops including Asian brands, and Western style. If you are a brand clothing lover, you should spend your money and time there, and you will enjoy your shopping moment without sweaty because it has the air conditioners everywhere. The cost of clothes is kind of expensive as it’s a branding one, but if you think you can afford it, it won’t be expensive for you. All types of clothes and dresses are not fixed prices.

3. Beoung Keng Kong Market

Beoung Keng Kong Market is also one of the best shopping destinations where is located in Phnom Penh. There are tons of factory clothes, which were manufactured by locals, and many second hand clothing. You can also discover many beautiful women and men clothing based on your styles. The fabrics are truly gorgeous, and the price is cheap and affordable.

4. Pub Street

Pub street is located in Siem Reap province, and it’s the nightlife hub of the town. Tourists around the world who come to Siem Reap province will not miss this place because they can chill their time there. Pub Street is not only popular for clubs, but it’s also notable as one of the best shopping destination. You can find out many traditional and casual clothes with inexpensive prices if you don’t want to go to the local markets.

6. Central Market (known as Psa Tmey)

Central Market is the oldest market and the Art Deco landmark of Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. It’s the most popular one among other markets in Phnom Penh where you can dig the load of clothes with fixed prices. One serious thing about this market is that you will be lost if you’re not familiar with this market, which mean you won’t be able to find the parking lot. So please be careful with this, and don’t shopping alone.

Besides this, if you don’t want to do offline shopping as because it’s waste time, and exhausted, you can prefer online shopping instead by only dropping your order. There are hundreds of online store websites, or you can discover many online shopping name in Cambodia by searching them on social media platform as well as on Facebook or Instagram.

Where can I buy clothes in Cambodia

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Vanvutha LeangExperienced

Asked: February 13, 2021In: Make Money

How do I dissolve a business in Cambodia?

The closure of business in Cambodia requires more effort than opening one, however, business owners must operate completely to avoid further implications. You couldn’t just shut down a company unofficially because further risks remain high to destroy you. Without the ...Read more

The Council for Development of Cambodia had warmed business owners to legally and formally close the business no matter what. However, business owners cannot escape from a legal entity, even a ghost company, since the Ministry of Commerce always make annually declaration to ensure all business owners are cleared their duties.

Therefore, “there’s a will there’s a way”.

The following steps will guide you to closure a business in a proper way according to Chapter L of the Law on Commercial Enterprises:

Step 1: Proposing a director or shareholders to readily dissolve or liquidate the company.

Step 2: When the proposal of the intent to dissolve is passed by a two-thirds majority vote, the company require to address a Certificate of Intent to Dissolve by sending it to the Director of the Company. From that time on, the company must completely cease all procedures of the company.

Step 3: The company must send notice of intent to dissolve to creditors, immediately and publish a statement for two weeks in a newspaper.

Step 4: It then must collect its property, distribution to shareholders, and anything important to liquidate the business. In addition, the MoC will issue the certificate of dissolution, which meant that the process and obligations are still ongoing, including the official audit performed by the Department of Taxation, somehow costly.

The procedure for the dissolution of business in Cambodia requires much time and money, but you must complete all requirements, in case you would like to avoid the worst implications for yourself and your future business.

How do I dissolve a business in Cambodia

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Vanvutha LeangExperienced

Asked: February 12, 2021In: Make Money

How do I register my business in Cambodia?

The way to register a business in Cambodia is simply straightforward, you just need to follow the guideline of the Ministry of Commerce through the legal procedure. Registration for business now, you can conduct through the online system, which makes it easy to do. However, the Moc gives you only 15 days to complete the application, otherwise, your documents will be eliminated from the system and you need to restart all over.

Before you decide to conduct registration, you must consider the type of business to run. There are several kinds of business out there in Cambodia, including sole proprietorship, private limited company, public limited company, a foreign company, or partnerships.

All of which require registration differently, so it’s worth understanding the procedure. In this article, you will understand the process of registration for each of those.

A. Sole Proprietorship (sole trader)

The type of enterprise, that business entity owned and run by only one person without legal distinction between owner and business.

To register:

Step 1: To register, you need to log in as a registered user of the MoC website and choose “Incorporate a Sole Proprietorship”.

Step 2: Filling general information, address and contacts information, and owner information.

B. Private Limited Company/ Public Limited Company/Foreign Company

All type of business is different from each other:

Public Limited Company refers to a company that opens publicly sell shares on the stock market.
Private Limited Company refers to companies that do not sell shares on the stock market and it limited the shareholders to the only maximum of 50 people.

To register:

Step 1: To register, you need to log in as a registered user of the MoC website and choose “Incorporate private limited company or public limited company”.

Step 2: Filling general information, address and contacts information, director information, and share and shareholders information.

C. Partnerships

It’s a kind of business that is owned and operated by several individuals.

To register:

Step 1: To register, you need to log in as a registered user of the MoC website and choose “Incorporate private limited company or public limited company”.

Step 2: Filling general information, address and contacts information, partner information, and manager information.

According to this process, registration is quite simple for entrepreneurs and business people to register. I hope this information will help people who would like to run a business understand this simple procedure.

More info, visit: https://www.businessregistration.moc.gov.kh/starting-a-business-2/register/

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Vanvutha LeangExperienced

Asked: February 11, 2021In: Make Money

What are the best businesses to start in Cambodia?

Starting a business in Cambodia consider as the right choice for a businessman to earn more profits and revenue due to many advantages, however, to which business to start remains miserable. Talking about the Cambodian economy, a market opportunity is rated ...Read more

Phnom Penh Capital, Cambodia

Starting a business in Cambodia consider as the right choice for a businessman to earn more profits and revenue due to many advantages, however, to which business to start remains miserable.

Talking about the Cambodian economy, a market opportunity is rated in high number, made business people more convenience to choose which is best and suitable for the current situation in Cambodia.

There are numerous market opportunities out there that will make it hard to choose which one to start since the gap of those opportunities remains tight.

However, in this article, I will derive simple information for you in each business opportunity to make you clearly understand to which you would like before you decide to start a business in Cambodia.

1. Real Estate

Most people in Cambodia nowadays undoubtedly focus on investment in real estate since the sector provides a high chance of profit. The issue of choosing the right house to live in poses a threat of owning debt to most locals and foreigners in Cambodia.

Generally speaking, to which location has the potential for development, the chance of increasing the price of those properties will be high. The same case has happened to the properties in Cambodia and this case has made people buy a secondhand house or seeking a house that remains at a low price.

Real Estate Business in Cambodia

In Cambodia, people often buy a house, located in a good place with a low price and they can sell it to other owners at a high price, so they can earn easy profit for themselves. In addition to this, it’s not the only house that on the trending list, but also lands.

2. Investing in Agriculture

Most Cambodian people still practice the traditional method of producing products from agriculture, including using animals, like the ox, rather than tractors, led to a lack of supply and spend much amount of time as well.

Investing in Agriculture in Cambodia

Therefore, the investor should think about the possibility of huge profits to invest in the agriculture sector in various ways in Cambodia.

3. Beverage and Fast-Food Franchises

The franchise sector remains in small amounts in Cambodia which give investor or business owner big opportunity to invest their money into it.

There are only several most profitable franchisees out there in the world that make it possible to open in Cambodia, including 7-Eleven, Dunkin’, Planet Fitness, Taco Bell, and many more.

Beverage and Fast Food Franchises in Cambodia

Just to notice, people in Cambodia love to spend their money on new things and trending things, so there will be worth thinking about those high probabilities of huge profit.

4. Transportation sectors

Cambodia is a developing country and most people don’t have their vehicle that brings them to long-distance, so invest in transportation is worth consideration for the investor.

In Cambodia, most taxi drivers, buses, and other private transportations remain in low standard to treat their customers. There are numerous complaints from customers to certain transportation service, including put people overcapacity, losing stuff, running slow, and so on so far.

Transportation sectors in Cambodia

However, there are also good transportation companies out there in Cambodia, but only a few companies that receive fewer complaints. So, it can indicate that the competition regarding this sector is low, but the profitable opportunity is high.

These four sectors are the opportunities for investors and business owners to decide which best and suitable for Cambodian society at present. The need for good business is to treat customers as their customers.

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What should you not wear in Cambodia?

1. Cover up your shoulders and upper arms not to short

2. Footwear do not wear in house or temple

3. Do not wear hat

4. Do not wear black clothes

Where can I buy clothes in Cambodia?

1. Russian Market (known as Toul Tom Poung Market)

2. AEON MALL 1 & 2

3. Beoung Keng Kong Market

4. Pub Street

6. Central Market (known as Psa Tmey)

How do I dissolve a business in Cambodia?

How do I register my business in Cambodia?

A. Sole Proprietorship (sole trader)

B. Private Limited Company/ Public Limited Company/Foreign Company

C. Partnerships

What are the best businesses to start in Cambodia?

1. Real Estate

2. Investing in Agriculture

3. Beverage and Fast-Food Franchises

4. Transportation sectors