Property prices remain flat in Phnom Penh
Despite signs that demand is starting to come back to the real estate sector, an oversupply in the market has kept prices for commercial and residential properties in Phnom Penh flat over the past 12 months, according to data from Bonna Realty Group. Prices for commercial ...
UAE considering Kingdom's rice
Cambodia plans to expand its exports of milled rice and other agricultural products to the United Arab Emirates, Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh said yesterday. The UAE seeks a replacement for the milled rice it would otherwise import from Thailand, where the worst flooding in decades ...
Kingdom's 2011 GDP hits 6.9%
Cambodia’s gross domestic product grew 6.9 per cent year-on-year in 2011, and is set to increase to 6.5 per cent this year, according to preliminary projections from the Ministry of Economy and Finance. Agriculture, which was hit hard by floods last year, climbed 3.3 per cent, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012012754182/Business/kingdoms-2011-gdp-hits-69.html
Workers attack factory
A fourth day of protests by garment workers in Kampong Cham turned unruly yesterday, as nearly 2,000 workers shattered the windows of their factory with stones after briefly blocking National Road 7. The workers blocked the road for about 10 minutes at 9am, before returning to ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012022454711/National-news/workers-attack-factory.html
Trade deficit grows once more
Cambodia’s trade deficit with the rest of the world continued to widen last year to $5.2 billion, as the Kingdom’s imports outstripped its exports once again, a National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) report released on Saturday said. The NBC figures revealed that the Kingdom imported $18.8 ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/trade-deficit-grows-once-more
Elephant found dead in Mondulkiri protected area
An elephant was found dead at a cashew nut plantation in Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary in Mondulkiri province’s Keo Seima district on Sunday. Experts initially thought the elephant may have been poisoned by a chemicals used by locals, but later confirmed it had been shot. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/elephant-found-dead-mondulkiri-protected-area
Cambodian exports to Japan up 8.4 per cent year-on-year
Cambodia exported more than $1.2 billion of products to the Japanese market in the first nine months of this year, up 8.4 per cent on the same period last year, data from the Japan External Trade Organisation (Jetro) shows. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodian-exports-japan-84-cent-year-year
Viet Nam, Cambodia pledge to further co-operative relations
Viet Nam and Cambodia vowed to further tighten the traditional friendship and comprehensive co-operation between the two nations in response to the wishes and aspirations of the governments and people of the two nations. By the end of 2014, Viet Nam had 167 investment projects ...
Viet Nam News Staff
http://vietnamnews.vn/politics-laws/277314/viet-nam-cambodia-pledge-to-further-co-operative-relations.html
Viet Nam, Cambodia pledge to further co-operative relations
Viet Nam and Cambodia vowed to further tighten the traditional friendship and comprehensive co-operation between the two nations in response to the wishes and aspirations of the governments and people of the two nations. By the end of 2014, Viet Nam had 167 investment projects ...
Viet Nam News Staff
http://vietnamnews.vn/politics-laws/277314/viet-nam-cambodia-pledge-to-further-co-operative-relations.html
Sand export figure doubts persist
The chairman of the National Assembly’s corruption commission says a technical explanation from the Mines and Energy Minister over alleged irregularities in sand exported to Singapore is not clear enough. The controversy over the sand exports emerged after about 50 NGOs asked the Ministry of Mines ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33235/sand-export-figure-doubts-persist/
Authorities to reclaim illegally seized land inside sanctuary
Kampong Speu provincial authorities on Friday said they will reclaim more than 2,000 hectares of land inside the Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary, though six officials interrogated earlier this month for allegedly grabbing the land will only be “educated”. Oral district deputy police chiefs Prak Moul and ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-reclaim-illegally-seized-land-inside-sanctuary
Việt Nam, Cambodia’s bilateral trade surged 30% in 2017
Bilateral trade between Việt Nam and Cambodia last year surged 29.7 per cent against the previous year to nearly US$3.8 billion, the General Department of Customs reported. Of the total, Việt Nam’s export turnover to this market was $2.77 billion, rising 26.1 per cent against the ...
Viet Nam News
http://vietnamnews.vn/economy/422484/viet-nam-cambodias-bilateral-trade-surged-30-in-2017.html#q1s8ssWTMd4ceTep.97
In rare move, Hun Sen to hit the campaign trail
Prime Minister Hun Sen has said he will join in with campaigning for his ruling Cambodian People’s Party ahead of local elections next week in an unexpected move for a leader who would normally stay out of the fray.Hun Sen, who has been in power ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/in-rare-move-hun-sen-to-hit-the-campaign-trail/3871121.html
Mondulkiri villages to get REDD+ funds
Twenty villages in Mondulkiri province are set to receive at least $10,000 each as a result of the $2.6 million carbon credit purchase by the Walt Disney Company in 2016, under a scheme meant to protect the Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary, officials said yesterday.203;This would ...
Yesenia Amaro and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mondulkiri-villages-get-redd-funds
Cambodia's garment export reaches 3.54 bln USD in 8 months, up 11%
Cambodia has exported garment and textile products in equivalent to 3.54 billion U.S. dollars in the first eight months of 2012, a 11 percent rise from 3.19 billion U.S. dollars at the same period last year, a report from the Commerce Ministry showed Friday According to ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2012-10/19/c_131916898.htm
Aeon starts building Cambodia mall
Japanese mall operator Aeon Co. broke ground Monday on Cambodia’s first foreign-financed mall. “We are happy to contribute to the development of the local economy because it will create more than 2,000 jobs and we want to stay deeply rooted in Cambodia and we want to ...
Cambodia unveils 1st home-made cars
Cambodia’s Heng Development Company on Monday unveiled the first-ever electric-powered cars manufactured by its factory in Kandal province. The show was made after the firm has completed the construction of a 20 million U.S. dollar car manufacturing plant branded ” Angkor” in Kandal province’s Takhmao district. Speaking ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-01/07/c_132085823.htm
Cambodia’s tourism growth rate slows
Arrivals from Thailand and Laos gained the highest growth rate in May of all Cambodia’s tourist suppliers according to the country’s latest tourism report. Released by the Statistics and Tourism Information Department of the Tourism Ministry, the report showed a slowdown in travel from Thailand during ...
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2012/07/cambodias-tourism-growth-rate-slows/
TV5MONDE extends presence in Mongolia and Cambodia
French-language network TV5MONDE has renewed its carriage agreement with Mongolian power player Sansar Cable LLC. The channel will also be available in Cambodia in all of pay-TV newcomer OneTV’s packages Via Cambodia’s OneTV, TV5MONDE will be available to an estimated 70% of Cambodia’s population, or 8.3 ...
http://www.onscreenasia.com/article/tv5monde-extends-presence-in-mongolia-and-cambodia/10690
Cambodia city port sees 16% surge in shipments in 9 months
Container traffic through Phnom Penh Autonomous Port, Cambodia’s second largest port, increased by 16 percent in the first nine months of this year thanks to increasing import and export activities in garments and construction materials, the port authority said on Wednesday In March last year, to ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2012-10/03/c_131886809.htm