The price of Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) stock increased slightly to KHR 6,400 (US$1.57) on July 2 and remained at that level until July 5, while general trading volumes stayed between 10,000 to 12,000 shares except on July 2, when the volume dipped to just 2,200. The price increased ...

The price of Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) stock varied only slightly between June 14 to June 21-hovering between KHR 6,600 (US$1.62) and KHR 6,700 (US$1.64). The relative stability tells investors that the stock is approaching its fundamental price, which experts say is between KHR 4,050 (US$0.99) and KHR 6,350 (US$1.56). ...

Price levels picked up during the first half of 2012 but will likely cool down in the second half of the year due to changes in energy Prices and major food related items. Therefore, the inflation rate has been upwardly adjusted by 30 basis points to 4.8 percent ...

As election data trickled in on Sunday evening and a fear set in borne of uncertainty and a beefed-up police presence, demand for basic commodities surged, food prices briefly rose, and some banks saw an expected rise in withdrawals. Sales of rice jumped from their normal ...

Adidas, the sportswear company, is facing an investigation over claims that Cambodian workers are being paid £10 a week in basic wages to make official merchandise for the London Olympics. It is one of the 2012 Games’ largest sponsors, believed to have invested £100 million, and ...

A group of 12 Cambodians has developed a new video game for the iPhone that just two weeks after its release has become Cambodia’s most-downloaded game in Apple Inc.’s online store. Since it was released on November 30, “Asva the Monkey” has had more than 3,000 ...

A U.S.-listed gaming company is set to open its second casino in Cambodia next month, the company said as it announced its revenues had grown to more than $20 million in 2012. Entertainment gaming Asia Inc. (EGA), which is backed by Macau-based Melco International Development Limited ...

The Consumer Price Index increased by a total of 7.1 percent in June 2011 compared to the same period last year at the same time. Ministry of Economy and Finance expects that inflation would go down to 6.5 percent at the end of this year ...

CAMBODIA’S prices were 7 percent higher at the end of June compared to the month in 2010, according to National Institute of Statistics official Sim Ly yesterday. Although the organisation was still preparing to release the official figures, Sim Ly said the figures would also ...

Meat prices on Phnom Penh’s markets have seen large gains over the first half of the year, according to figures from the Ministry of Commerce’s Trade Promotion Department. Economics Institute of Cambodia Senior Researcher Neou Sieha said yesterday that meat prices had seen significant increase ...

Rubber growers and exporters in Cambodia stalled exports as rubber prices continued a sharp decline that companies attributed to flooding in Thailand and economic turmoil in Europe. Heng Sreng, general director of Long Sreng International Co Ltd and owner of Boeung Keth Rubber Plantation in Kampong ...

The government claims not to have issued a single permit to export Siamese rosewood since it agreed to strict new trade rules for the exceedingly rare trees, and says it will look into a U.N.-managed database that states otherwise.   ...

Road users can expect to pay up to 500 riel ($0.12) more per liter of fuel due to the increase in global crude oil prices after the government last March pegged local prices to that of the international market, a Commerce Ministry official said yesterday. ...

Rising oil prices fuelled a month-to-month inflationary increase of 5.4 per cent through February and March, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics. Factors such as sanctions on Iranian oil, as well as floods that depleted Cambodian crops last year accounted for the rise ...

The price of Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority shares have fluctuated only US$0.04 during the past 12 days of trading. The low price and a lack of liquidity on the market may account the low volume of shares traded, insiders said, which averaged at 55,773 during ...

Cassava plantings in Battambang province dropped more than 18 per cent in the first half of the year compared to the same period in 2011, according to agriculture officials. The decease is a result of that previous year’s yield fetching a low price and farmers ...

Commercial Gambling Management Commission of Cambodia (CGMC) has organised a workshop to disseminate information about the Law on the Management of Integrated Resorts and Commercial Gambling to authorities at all levels as a basis for their cooperation with all relevant institutions for higher efficiency in ...

Global food prices fell 1 per cent or two points in the October 2012 Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) Food price Index released on October 7, 2012. The index averaged 213 points, compared to September’s revised level of 215 points. According to the FAO, the decrease ...

Cambodia’s milled rice exports increased by more than seven per cent year-on-year during the first 10 months of 2011, while international demand for the grain drove up rice prices by nearly 200 per cent, commerce officials said. The Kingdom exported more than 136,000 tonnes of milled ...

Some commercial banks could increase loans to the agricultural sector this year, according to industry insiders who cited improvements in the sector and a rise in crop prices. Cambodian farmers lack the capital needed for inputs such as seeds and fertiliser, while domestic rice millers often ...