Untreated cleft palate rates world's highest, says report
Cambodia has the highest rate of untreated cleft lip and palate in infants, out of more than 100 low- and middle-income countries, a new global study has found. ...
Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/untreated-cleft-palate-rates-worlds-highest-says-report
Cambodia's economic status raised to lower-middle income
The World Bank has officially revised the status of Cambodia’s economy, moving it up a rung from the low-income bracket into lower-middle income territory – a reclassification that economists expect will lead to a scale-back of foreign aid and preferential trade access over the coming ...
Cam McGrath and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodias-economic-status-raised-lower-middle-income
Silver coins for ASEAN
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), or Central Bank, has issued ASEAN Commemorative Coins to mark the establishment of the ASEAN Community on December 31, according to its statement on Friday. ...
Xinhua team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18905/silver-coins-for-asean/
IFC offers Acleda Bank $50M for SME lending
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) will provide a $50 million syndicated loan to Acleda Bank to boost lending to small and medium enterprises, of which at least half will support women-owned enterprises, it said yesterday. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ifc-offers-acleda-bank-50m-sme-lending
Kingdom's economy to remain stable: ADB
Cambodia’s economy is expected to remain stable this year as uncertainty surrounding China’s economic slowdown appears to ease, and backed primarily by strong performance in garment and footwear manufacturing, as well as construction, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said yesterday. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-economy-remain-stable-adb
Cambodia-Laos trade
Laos has asked Cambodia to increase trade and investment in its northern neighbor as bilateral trade between the two countries is small and has plenty of room to expand. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26568/cambodia-laos-trade/
Current assets in Cambodia's banking system rise to 25.6 bln USD by June
Current assets in Cambodia’s banking and financial institutions had risen to 25.6 billion U.S. dollars by June 2016, an increase of 21.3 percent in the last 12 months, according to the biannual report of the National bank of Cambodia (NBC), or the central bank, on ...
XINHUA
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=332556
World Bank economists grilled over pervasive rural debt
The head of Transparency International Cambodia used the release of a World Bank economic report yesterday to press the lender’s economists on rural indebtedness and their claim that the country’s strong GDP growth was helping the country’s poor. ...
Brendan O’Byrne
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/world-bank-economists-grilled-pervasive-rural-debt-129932/
Commerce Minister calls for self-reliance
As Cambodia continues its impressive economic development and reaches higher stages of industrialisation and social well-being, there is an urgent need to prepare for future cutbacks in international development assistance, the Commerce Minister said on Friday. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5096663/commerce-minister-calls-self-reliance/
HKL gets $15 million to grow MFI operations
Cambodian microlender Hattha Kaksekar Ltd (HKL) has secured a $15 million cash injection to expand its business operations from its parent company, Thailand’s Bank of Ayudhya, Hout Ieng Tong, president and CEO of HKL, confirmed yesterday. ...
The Phnom Penh Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hkl-gets-15-million-grow-mfi-operations
New rules for digital payments
The central bank has issued new regulations governing the licensing of payment services providers (PSPs), requiring that all firms providing online services to accept electronic payments have at least $2 million in registered capital, a move expected to increase the stability of the sector and ...
Hor Kimsay and Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-rules-digital-payments
WB: Cambodians still vulnerable
While the World Bank commended Cambodia for its strong economic growth and efforts to reduce poverty over the past two decades, it, however, cautioned yesterday that the agriculture and garment sectors posed challenges which could make that growth unsustainable. “An overview of the past two decades, ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33166/wb--cambodians-still-vulnerable/
Slowdown in GDP growth projected for 2019
The World Bank on Thursday forecast a slight dip in the country’s economic growth rate by 2019 amid declining foreign investment, rising inflation and a slowdown in the expansion of garments manufacturing, and advised improvements to infrastructure and training to keep the economy on its ...
Matt Surrusco
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/slowdown-in-gdp-growth-projected-for-2019-128024/
Channy: Banking will stay strong, with or without EBA
Association of Banks in Cambodia president In Channy on Tuesday said the Kingdom’s Banking sector will remain strong and not be directly affected by the potential suspension of its access to the EU’s “Everything But Arms” (EBA) trade agreement. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/channy-banking-will-stay-strong-or-without-eba
World Bank reports strong export growth, warns of potential ‘EBA’ withdrawal
The World Bank on Wednesday released an update to the biannual “Cambodia Economic Update”, which showed that the economy grew by 7.5 percent in 2018, but could drop to 7 percent this year. The updated growth numbers are the same as the ones released in ...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/world-bank-reports-strong-export-growth-warns-of-potential-eba-withdrawal/5185964.html
Cambodia tax system worse off
Cambodia’s taxation system fell five places on the World Bank’s 2015 Doing Business index (DBI). The index, which tallied up 230 business reforms from 189 economies, showed the ease of paying taxes in Cambodia has declined from position 85 in 2014 to 90 this year. Cambodia’s ...
Eddie Morton
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-tax-system-worse
Cambodia gets 18-mln-USD ADB loan for ferry terminal development
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved an 18-million-U.S. dollars loan to build a ferry terminal and other infrastructure in Cambodia’s southern Kampot province to open up new opportunities for tourism, the Bank said on Tuesday. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141125/cambodia-gets-18-mln-usd-adb-loan-ferry-terminal-development
Oil plunge a boon for developing nations: WB
Oil-importing nations such as Cambodia should be first in line to benefit from the oil-price decline provided they swiftly enact reforms to reinvest savings into strengthening fiscal policy and human capital, according to the World Bank. ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/oil-plunge-boon-developing-nations-wb
Cambodia's GDP per capita to hit 1,130 USD in 2014: PM
Cambodia’s GDP per capita is expected to reach 1,130 U.S. dollars this year, an estimated increase of 8 percent from 1,043 U.S. dollars last year, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday. ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=235977
Railroad protesters lobby ADB
About 50 villagers who live near railway lines in Phnom Penh gathered outside the Asian Development Bank yesterday morning to again demand more detailed information about what will happen to them during forthcoming phases of a Bank-funded railway rehabilitation project. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Kevin Ponniah
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/railroad-protesters-lobby-adb