Market for organic products on the upswing
At a public market in front of the Kampong Speu market, a stall selling organic vegetables attracts dozens of housewives and passers by. Many stop to buy the locally grown vegetables, which are here thanks to a new program established by the Cambodian Center for ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/market-for-organic-products-on-the-upswing/3216213.html
New office to attract HK investors
Local investors have welcomed the presence of the Hong Kong Business Association in Cambodia (HKBAC), which officially opened its offices on Monday, as a way of attracting more investors from Hong Kong to Cambodia. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26733/new-office-to-attract-hk-investors/
Cambodia and Myanmar in joint stand on South China Sea dispute
Cambodia and Myanmar have reiterated their support for a peaceful solution to the territorial disputes involving China and several Asean countries in the South China Sea after a meeting between Prime Minister Hun Sen and Myanmar’s newly appointed ambassador to Cambodia. ...
Gov’t preparing to eliminate import duties for ASEAN products
The government is planning to gradually reduce tariffs on most goods imported from other ASEAN member states to zero, putting Cambodia ahead of what is required of it under the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA), officials said. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19589/gov---t-preparing-to-eliminate-import-duties-for-asean-products/
Rice exports miss the mark again
Five years after setting out an ambitious 1 million-tonne milled rice export target, the rice sector fell well short of the mark last year, exporting close to 550,000 tonnes, with industry experts cautiously optimistic over export increases in 2016. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-exports-miss-mark-again
Rice bound for Indonesia?
The Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) hopes to export around 200,000 tons of milled rice a year to Indonesia, which is one of the biggest rice markets In Asean. This comes after the CRF announced late last month that it will not joIn the bid to ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29485/rice-bound-for-indonesia-/
Failures at assembly pile up
National Assembly effectiveness declined last year with prosecutions of opposition lawmakers, partisan passing of laws and many assembly members visiting constituents only to shore up their vote, an election watchdog claimed yesterday. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35719/failures-at-assembly-pile-up/
Don’t punish us: employers
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia has called on international buyers to continue ordering clothes and textile products made in the country over fears the US and the EU could halt preferential treatment for Cambodian exports. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5093735/dont-punish-us-employers/
Minimum wage law talks conclude
A tripartite group consisting of employers, unions and the government finished discussing the draft law on minimum wage yesterday. Labour Minister Ith Samheng said yesterday’s talks were the last public workshop to discuss the draft law on minimum wage after two workshops had already taken place. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/105452/minimum-wage-law-talks-conclude/
Japan donates $1.1 million to tribunal
Japan, the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s largest donor to date, has contributed a further $1.12 million to its international component, the tribunal said on Tuesday in a statement. ...
Mayuri Mei Lin
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32642/japan-donates--1-1-million-to-tribunal/
Rubber prices sag under pressure
The slowdown of regional and global economies, especially in China, US dollar appreciation, unfavourable weather and global stock market speculation have plunged rubber prices, the Association for Rubber Development in Cambodia said. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38599/rubber-prices-sag-under-pressure/
NGO: Low voter registration result of political climate
The Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia yesterday asked the National Election Committee and government to stabilise the current political climate to increase voter registration ahead of next year’s national election. ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5085345/ngo-low-voter-registration-result-political-climate/
Canada praises progress in factory labour conditions
Donica Pattie, Canada’s Ambassador to Thailand, Cambodia and Laos, on Friday lauded Cambodia’s recent advancements in factory labour conditions, which she said might prompt Canada to increase purchases from Cambodian textile manufacturers, according to a high-ranking Cambodian official. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50114733/canada-praises-progress-in-factory-labour-conditions/
CIMB the latest to add local insurer
CIMB Bank, Malaysia’s second-largest, has entered the insurance market via a partnership agreement signed yesterday with Cambodia Life insurance Company (CLIC). in Meatra, director general of CLIC, said that under the partnership, CIMB had received full access to offer their insurance products to customers. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cimb-latest-add-local-insurer
Former councilor arrested for alleged fraud
Interior MInistry police arrested a former Phnom Penh deputy governor and municipal councilor on Thursday for questionIng over allegations of land fraud, but released him the next day, police said Sunday. Chea Sothon, who served as a councilor from 2009 until earlier this year and was ...
Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/former-councilor-arrested-for-alleged-fraud-62744/
Police find cannabis in high place
A joint force of local and provincial police in Kampot on Friday burned down more than 1,000 marijuana plants growing on the side of a mountain, according to an official involved in the operation. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-find-cannabis-high-place
Factories up but new jobs on the decline
Despite a noticeable increase in the number of factory registrations during the first nine months of the year, new job creation has declined, according to the latest government data. Figures from the Ministry of industry and Handicraft released yesterday showed that 149 factories registered during the ...
Hor Kimsay
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/factories-new-jobs-decline
Cambodia sees rise in trade with U.S.
Bilateral trade between Cambodia and the United States was valued at 3.17 billion U.S. dollars in 2014, a 5 percent rise from 3.01 billion U.S. dollars in 2013, the figures of the U.S. Department of Commerce showed Friday. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2015-02/06/c_133975310.htm
Wildlife group raises alarm over Asia's bear trade
At least 2,800 bears in Asia were traded for their parts over the past decade, according to a report issued Thursday by an anti-wildlife trafficking group. The figure was arrived at after analysing nearly 700 bear-related seizures, and it likely represents a fraction of the overall ...
The Nation News Staff
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Wildlife-group-raises-alarm-over-Asias-bear-trade-30241431.html
Former Prime Minister says US blacklisted him
Former Prime Minister Pen Sovann claimed Monday that he has been barred from entering the U.S. because of an assistant who overstayed his U.S. visa more than a decade ago, and paid a visit to the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh in an effort to ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/former-prime-minister-says-us%E2%80%88blacklisted-him-75941/