Amru bags rice deals worth almost $10M
Amru Rice Group, one of Cambodia’s largest rice exporters, on Thursday signed a contract purchase agreement with 4,000 organic rice farmers in Preah Vihear province. The agreement effectively means that the company will reserve nearly $10 million to purchase around 30,000 tonnes of organic paddy ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/amru-bags-rice-deals-worth-almost-10m
Cassava in focus of Green Leader, UN deal
Hong Kong-based Green Leader Holding Group and the United Nations Development Progamme (UNDP) signed a cost-sharing agreement on Thursday to implement an $800,000 project on accelerating the cassava market. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cassava-focus-green-leader-un-deal
Ex-inmate alleges drug dealing at two prisons
A former inmate at Kampong Speu and Trapaing Phlong prisons claimed yesterday he witnessed rampant drug dealing at both facilities and plans to file a complaint with the support of NWRPO, a local NGO. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ex-inmate-alleges-drug-dealing-two-prisons
Compensation deal is inked with Borei Keila evictees
After seeing a signing ceremony interrupted by protesters on Tuesday, officials from the joint committee for Borei Keila housing solutions yesterday inked compensation deals with 32 out of 56 evicted families. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/compensation-deais-inked-borei-keila-evicteees
Firetruck fleet set to double with China deal
The Interior Ministry has struck a deal with China to buy 200 firetrucks this year, nearly doubling Cambodia’s current fleet in a bid to better serve the country’s rural reaches, officials said on Monday. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/firetruck-fleet-set-to-double-with-china-deal-108838/
Royal Group gets exclusive steel deal from Posco
Yong Sheng Global Trading, a subsidiary within the Royal Group conglomerate, signed an exclusive partnership agreement with Posco SS-Vina, a Vietnamese-based steel company, for exclusive distribution rights of construction materials on Tuesday. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/royal-group-gets-exclusive-steel-deal-posco
Disney carbon deal follows past emissions credit failure
A $2.6 million deal by Walt Disney Company to preserve nearly 300,000 hectares of eastern Cambodian forest through the purchase of carbon credits will need to overcome past failures to succeed, critics said on Monday. ...
Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/disney-carbon-deal-follows-past-emissions-credit-failure-115898/
World leaders head to Paris for climate deal
Heads of state from nearly 80 countries are heading to Paris (November 30-December 11) to craft a global climate change agreement. The new accord will replace the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change that expired in 2012. ...
Rosanne Skirble
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/world-leaders-head-to-paris-for-climate-deal/3067067.html
Tycoon senator opens up on Thai power deal
Cambodia’s electricity generation reached 2.714 billion kilowatt hours last year, of which 1.851 million KWh was generated by hydro dams and 863.02 million KWh by coal-powered plants. Household access to electricity rose 18.8 percent, compared to 2013, according a report from Cambodia’s Electricity Authority. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19173/tycoon-senator-opens-up-on-thai-power-deal/
More families take deals to vacate dam site
Another 73 families in Stung Treng province have accepted the government’s offer of new land in exchange for the farms they will lose to the Lower Sesan II hydropower dam currently under construction, the second group to take the deal. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-families-take-deals-to-vacate-dam-site-109569/
Disney carbon deal sets stage for more partnerships
Cambodia’s first large-scale private-sector sale of carbon credits was finalised yesterday, with conservationists predicting that it could pave the way for more public-private partnerships, making millions of dollars of funding available for local carbon-based initiatives. US entertainment giant Walt Disney Company has officially purchased $2.6 ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/disney-carbon-deal-sets-stage-more-partnerships
JCBI expands reach in deal with campu bank
Japan-based JCB International (JCBI), a global payment brand and a leading credit card issuer and acquirer, has reached an agreement with Cambodia Public (Campu) Bank to expand the reach of its JCB cards in Cambodia. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17496/jcbi-expands-reach-in-deal-with-campu-bank/
Program to deal with LGBT issues in works
The Ministry of Information says it is working with LGBT rights groups to create a regular radio program that discusses LGBT issues, with the aim of making society more welcoming. ...
Morn Vanntey
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/program-deal-lgbt-issues-works
Police charge major with dealing meth in Battambang
A Ministry of Defence staffer with the rank of major was arrested on Tuesday, allegedly while dealing drugs in Battambang’s Kamrieng district. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-charge-major-dealing-meth-battambang
Gaming firm cashes out of NagaWorld deal
Pan-Asian gaming company Entertainment Gaming Asia Inc (EGA) will sell 670 of its electronic gaming machine (EGM) seats placed at NagaWorld casino in Phnom Penh to an unnamed Cambodian firm for $2.5 million, the Nasdaq-listed company announced on Wednesday. ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gaming-firm-cashes-out-nagaworld-deal
Police sign cooperation deal with UK’s NCA
Cambodia has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) to combat crimes including child and sexual trafficking. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35082/police-sign-cooperation-deal-with-uk---s-nca/
Deal for yuan trade with China in works
Officials in Cambodia and China’s Guangdong province are cooperating to establish trade using yuan instead of US dollars, part of the two countries’ increasingly close economic relationship. The suggestion to use yuan directly, instead of using US dollars as an intermediary currency, was made by ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/deal-yuan-trade-china-works
Rainsy summoned for 'treason' over alleged Montagnard deal
Former opposition leader Sam Rainsy has been summoned from exile to answer a charge of “treason” over an alleged agreement he made with a pro-Montagnard activist. Phnom Penh Municipal Court deputy prosecutor Sieng Sok issued a letter on Thursday to summon Rainsy as a “suspect” ...
Chhay Channyda
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-summoned-treason-over-alleged-montagnard-deal
Sixth refugee arrives from Nauru under controversial deal
Cambodian authorities say the latest refugee to take up the country’s resettlement offer under a controversial deal with Australia arrived in Phnom Penh on Sunday, only the sixth to do so since the deal was struck in September 2014. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sixth-refugee-arrives-nauru-controversial-deal-120305/
Amru Rice signs deal with Preah Vihear farmers
Amru Rice, one of Cambodia’s largest rice exporters, signed a contract farming purchase agreement with 4,000 organic rice farmers in Preah Vihear province, reserving about $7 million to purchase nearly 20,000 tonnes of organic paddy during the upcoming harvest season, according to a press release ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/amru-rice-signs-deal-preah-vihear-farmers