ASEAN set to become Asia’s next low-cost manufacturing powerhouse
ASEAN is poised to become Asia’s next low-cost manufacturing powerhouse as wages in China’s Pearl River Delta (PRD) factory belt continue to creep up, said an economist. ...
Malaymail Online News Staff
http://bit.ly/1dKKOCm
ASEAN countries extend foreigners’ leasehold periods
Countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are taking steps to extend leasehold periods granted for foreign individual or companies for land in a bid to boost investment. The Thai government recently approved 99-year leases for state land for industrial and commercial use ...
Gulf Times News Staff
http://bit.ly/1SXnPEe
Sweden’s “feminist foreign policy” stirs up Cambodia
In the last three months, three Cambodian ministers have visited Stockholm. Dozens of mid-career Cambodians travel yearly to Sweden for short term training programs. And Sweden doles out $25 million in foreign aid annually, earning this nation of 10 million people a seat at the ...
James Brooke
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12130/sweden---s----feminist-foreign-policy----stirs-up-cambodia/
Central bank seeks to promote Riel use
Cambodia’s central bank is seeking to promote the use of the riel and wean the Kingdom’s economy off its dependence on the US dollar, a senior banking official said on Tuesday. Speaking at a luncheon organized by the British Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia (BritCham), Chea ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12117/central-bank-seeks-to-promote-riel-use/
Q1 investments zoom
Recent data for the first quarter show that $2.87 billion was invested in Cambodia during the first three months, a staggering 573 per cent increase from the same period last year, according to data released by the Council for Development of Cambodia on Friday. The Kingdom ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/q1-investments-zoom
NGO boss out on lack of evidence
The director of a Phnom Penh children’s NGO arrested over allegations of abuse was released from police custody on Wednesday due to a lack of evidence, police said yesterday. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-boss-out-lack-evidence
Ministry warns Pursat officials about fishing
The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has urged authorities in Pursat province to take action against illegal fishing in the Tonle Sap after a video posted online showed a group of men hauling in huge catches from the former Fishing Lot 6, an important ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-warns-pursat-officials-about-fishing
US extends GSP for Thailand
The United States has agreed to renew its Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) for Thailand until the end of 2017, the Commerce Ministry revealed on Wednesday. The reinstatement order happened on Monday. It is valid four years and five months. As the tariff privilege takes retroactive ...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/news/609744/us-extends-gsp-for-thailand
Traffic deaths up from 2014
Traffic deaths in Cambodia during the first six months of 2015 increased from the same period last year, though the total number of road accidents in the Kingdom plummeted, according to traffic police data. A total of 1,229 traffic deaths were recorded this year out ...
Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/traffic-deaths-2014
Heavy rain expected to boost rice growing
As Thailand braces for a drop in rice production owing to rainfall shortage because of the El Niño effect, officials say that Cambodia is less likely to be affected by the weather pattern as they expect rainfall to cover the Kingdom this week, encouraging the ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/heavy-rain-expected-boost-rice-growing
Drought-inducing El Nino won't affect Cambodia rice production, say officials
Cambodia is less likely to be affected by the El Nino weather pattern and the country is expected to receive rainfall this week, the local sources quoted the spokesman of the Ministry of Water Resource and Meteorology. ...
Oryza News Staff
http://oryza.com/23142/drought-inducing-el-nino-not-affect-cambodia-rice-production-say-officials
In search of export market for mangoes
Cambodia is seeking to export its mangoes to South Korea, according to a senior official at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Contacted yesterday, deputy MAFF director Hean Vanhorn said that a ministry representative would meet with a South Korean agriculture delegation today to discuss ...
Sok Chan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/search-export-market-mangoes
Illegal fishermen busted
Authorities in Koh Kong province arrested 26 Vietnamese nationals on Tuesday after they found the group illegally living and fishing off of King Island in Kiri Sakor district. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-fishermen-busted
Despite drought, crops will come – but at a cost
This year is no different from last year and many of the previous years for the residents of Krong Stung Sen in Kampong Thom province. Rain has been scarce, and rice growers must pay to pump water from the state-owned ditches into their rice paddies. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13457/despite-drought--crops-will-come-----but-at-a-cost/
Seafood, tourism, rice top Russia’s trading wish list
Russia is looking to up its investment in agricultural products, mainly rice and seafood, and the tourism sector in the Kingdom, after Russian Minister for Communications and Mass Media Nikolay Nikiforov met with Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol last week. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/seafood-tourism-rice-top-russias-trading-wish-list
Defence chief vows to 'control' democracy
Echoing remarks by Prime Minister Hun Sen last week, Minister of Defence Tea Banh called on the military yesterday to be ready to suppress any attempt at a “colour revolution”, telling soldiers that agitators were fomenting such a revolution at that very moment. ...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/defence-chief-vows-control-democracy
Competition is tough: GMAC
A report released yesterday by the Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia claims that the Kingdom is having difficulties competing against its neighbours due to low productivity, increasing wages and labour strife. ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/competition-tough-gmac
Approved projects reach $3 billion in first half
Cambodia has approved more than $3 billion in investment projects in the first half of the year, nearly double the total value signed up in the whole of last year, the latest data from the Council for the Development of Cambodia shows. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/approved-projects-reach-3-billion-first-half
Cambodia tourist target under challenge
A Cambodian plan to attract 5 million tourists to the country in 2015 is hanging in the balance despite a rise in the first half of this year. Cambodia set 5 million tourists as the target this year, an increase from 4.5 million last year. ...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asean/654708/cambodia-tourist-target-under-challenge
Expert warns CPP, CNRP maps cede territory to Vietnam
The head of a research team investigating the demarcation of Cambodia’s borders yesterday called for changes to the Kingdom’s constitution to avoid losing land to Vietnam. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/expert-warns-cpp-cnrp-maps-cede-territory-vietnam