Kingdom’s raw cashew output down nearly 16%
The Kingdom’s raw cashew production in the first seven months of the year reached only 620,000 tonnes, a decline of 15.9 percent compared to the same period last year while Vietnam remained the top buyer, importing around 95.32 percent of all raw cashew produced in ...
Nhean Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501346158/kingdoms-raw-cashew-output-down-nearly-16/
Cambodia’s garment exports increases by 18.51% to $7.747 billion in Jan-Oct 2022
The exports of apparel from Cambodia increased by 18.51 per cent year-on-year to $7.747 billion during January-October 2022. This constituted 41.30 per cent of Cambodia’s total foreign income of $18.747 billion during the period under review, according to data from the general department of customs ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501191842/cambodias-garment-exports-increases-by-18-51-to-7-747-billion-in-jan-oct-2022/
US remains Cambodia’s biggest market despite declining exports
The US remained the biggest market for Cambodia with a share of 34.4 percent even though the Kingdom’s exports to the country decreased by 20.2 percent to reach $1.12 billion in the first two months of the year compared to the same period in 2022, ...
Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501255716/us-remains-cambodias-biggest-market-despite-declining-exports/
Jan-Apr exports to Singapore quadruple on-year
Cambodian goods exports to Singapore reached $223.843 million in the first four months of 2023, up 345.7 per cent year-on-year from $50.224 million and up 1,087 per cent half-on-half (compared to July-October 2022) from $18.9 million, according to provisional Customs (GDCE) data compiled in “International ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/jan-apr-exports-singapore-quadruple-year
Union wary of possible crackdown
Preparing for a demonstration expected to draw thousands of garment workers this morning, Ath Thorn, president of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union (C.CAWDU), said yesterday that he feared the possibility of a heavy-handed military police response. About 4,000 workers gathered at SL ...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/union-wary-possible-crackdown
Workers turn models on political catwalk
About 150 garment workers turned out to the Phnom Penh offices of the United Sisterhood Alliance NGO on Sunday to watch a politically charged fashion show entitled “Beautiful Clothes, Ugly Reality.” Aimed to highlight “the income gap between Cambodian garment workers and the selected CEOs of ...
Mech Dara and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/workers-turn-models-on-political-catwalk-59540/
Cambodian transgender activist Sou Sotheavy wins 2014 David Kato Vision & Voice Award
The David Kato Vision & Voice Award has announced that the 2014 award will go to Cambodian transgender activist Sou Sotheavy. Now 75 years old, she has spent the last two decades working to establish a national network of organizations to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, ...
LGBT Weekly News Staff
http://lgbtweekly.com/2014/02/12/cambodian-transgender-activist-sou-sotheavy-wins-2014-david-kato-vision-voice-award/
Rubber prices tumble as industry panics
Cambodia’s steadily declining rubber prices have hit critically low levels that are destined to only get worse as Thailand prepares to offload huge rubber stocks, the secretary-general of the Association for Rubber Development of Cambodia said Thursday. As the price of natural rubber has paralleled a ...
Kang Sothear and George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/rubber-prices-tumble-as-industry-panics-58889/
Free Lunch Comes at a Cost for City Soup Kitchen Founder
Since its first day of operation in early December, the non-profit kitchen “Buckhunger” has provided nearly 22,00 lunchtime meals to hundreds of needy children and adults for free. There is no record of who comes and goes, and no condition to being fed. If you ...
Hun Sen in Tokyo for Meeting With Japanese Prime Minister
Prime Minister Hun Sen was scheduled to meet with Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on Sunday, a day after Japan and the member states of Asean agreed to ensure “freedom of overflight” in the region. The agreement will likely be taken as an affront by ...
Phorn Bopha and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-in-tokyo-for-meeting-with-japanese-prime-minister-49350/
Japan to Open ‘State-of-the-Art’ Hospital in Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh could have its first international-standard medical facility if a Japanese plan to construct a critical-care center equipped with state-of-the-art medical technologies and highly trained doctors, nurses and surgeons goes ahead, according to local officials and Japanese government documents. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced ...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/japan-to-open-state-of-the-art-hospital-in-phnom-penh-48433/
Money machines
The secong Cambodia International Textile and Garment Exhibition from August 17 to 20 aimed to boost the Kingdom’s all-important garment sector by highlighting high-tech machinery which could boost factories’ productivity and bottom lines. Over 2,700 square meters at the Diamond Island Convention and Exhibition Center, the ...
Malaysia - Cambodia trade increases
More than 24,000 Cambodians visited Malaysia during the first half of 2012, while Malaysian arrivals to Cambodia numbered 54,000, an increase of 11.1 per cent compared with the same period in 2011. Ambassador Hussein’s remarks came during the the first three-day Malaysia Travel and Shopping ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012092458862/Business/malaysia-cambodia-trade-increases.html
Rice exports to region rising
Cambodian milled rice exports are gradually lessening their dependency on a single market by expanding their shipping destination in Asia, a sign insiders say is good news for the industry. Kim Savuth, president of the Federation of Cambodian Rice Exporters, told the Post yesterday that milled ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052365791/Business/rice-exports-to-region-rising.html
Mekong forest facing sharp decline: WWF
BANGKOK: Demand for farmland may strip the Greater Mekong region of a third of its remaining forest cover over the next two decades without swift government action, a leading conservation group warned Thursday. Forests are being cleared for commodities such as rubber and rice while illegal logging is decimating ...
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/mekong-forest-facing-sharp-decline-wwf/661574.html
S. Korea's Booyoung to build new town in Cambodia
Booyoung Co., a mid-sized South Korean conglomerate, said Tuesday that it broke ground for one of the largest housing projects in Cambodia, a project Cambodia hopes to spur foreign investments. Booyoung said it will build 40 apartments and seven residential and commercial complexes on 2.7 square ...
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/business/2013/05/07/45/0501000000AEN20130507006500320F.HTML
Toyota to import used cars
Toyota Cambodia unveiled plans yesterday to add second-hand vehicles to its showroom in response to consumer preference for less expensive cars and a competitive grey market full of unauthorised dealers. Kong Nuon, chairman of Toyota Cambodia, the country’s largest car dealer, said that while demand for ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/toyota-import-used-cars
Recovery in large economies gives exports a boost
Aided by the recovery of large economies in the United States, the European Union and Japan, Cambodia’s exports jumped more than 20 per cent during the first half of the year compared with the same period in 2012. Ministry of Commerce data released at the end ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/recovery-large-economies-gives-exports-boost
Drought hits rice exports
Rice exports this year had been flat compared to last year because of the many challenges growers were facing, insiders said this week. The data shows exports were no better than last year for the same period, as exports for the first eight months of ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012082158176/Business/drought-hits-rice-exports.html
Cambodia gains 53 factories this year
The Cambodian government has approved 53 new garment and footwear factories, worth an estimated US$338 million, during the first half of this year, compared with 38 last year valued at $180 million, despite the increase in the number of strikes affecting the industry. Officials and industry ...