NagaWorld Profits Jump in First Half of 2012
Net profits at NagaCorp Ltd., owners of Phnom Penh’s only licensed casino, jumped 38 percent to reach $52.4 million in the first half of 2012 compared to the same period last year, the company said in its most recent financial report. The casino generated a total ...
Cambodia's Economic Growth Expects To Be 7% In 2012
“Cambodia’s economic growth will stand about 7 per cent this year,” director general of National Bank of Cambodia His Excellency Chea Chanto said. He adds: “Cambodia is trying to diversify its economies to boost the growth.” At the same time, the report from World Bank said: ...
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
Cambodia sees 22 pct rise in garment export in 11 months
Garment industry, Cambodia’s largest foreign currency earner, reported a 22 percent surge in exports in the first 11 months of 2013, according to figures from the Ministry of Commerce on Thursday. The Southeast Asian nation exported apparel products in equivalent to 5.07 billion U.S. dollars during ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-12/19/c_132981486.htm
Cambodia's banking sector stable despite ongoing political row over poll results
Cambodia’s banking sector remains stable with steady growth in business operations even though political tension between the ruling party and the opposition party over election results is still going on, Central Bank’s chief said Friday. “The banking sector has been developing soundly, in terms of ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-08/23/c_132657163.htm
Cambodia's rubber export up 32 pct in first half of 2013
Cambodia has seen a 32 percent rise in dry rubber exports in the first six months of the year, according to the figures of the Ministry of Commerce on Tuesday. Revenues from the exports valued at 76.5 million U.S. dollars during the first half of ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-08/20/c_132647504.htm
Cambodia expects double growth in rice exports this year: minister
Cambodia was expected to export as much as 400,000 tons of milled rice in 2013 thanks to rising demand on international markets and the country’s efforts in developing rice industry, Agriculture Minister Chan Sarun said Tuesday. “We project that Cambodia can export up to 400,000 tons ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-08/27/c_132667860.htm
Thai rice failure hitting Cambodia
While last year was full of good news for Cambodian rice exports, which hit a record-breaking 378,800 tons, 2014 is getting off to a much slower start. Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s controversial pledge to pay farmers above market rates for their rice is coming ...
Chan Muy Hong and Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/thai-rice-failure-hitting-cambodia
Circulation of riel rises 33%
The share of riel in circulation in the Kingdom grew by about 33 per cent year-on-year by last year’s end as deposits in riel increased by 37 per cent, said the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) 2019 Review and 2020 Outlook report. The report noted ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/circulation-riel-rises-33
U.N concern over Cambodia law on the management of the nation during state of emergency
On 9 April, UN experts sent a communication expressing concerns over Cambodia’s draft law on the management of the nation during state of emergency. According to the independent experts, if adopted as is, the law may restrict the right to freedom of expression, right to ...
Special Rapporteur Cambodia
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
Australia ambassador says optimistic about ‘free, fair’ July general elections
Outgoing Australian ambassador Pablo Kang expressed confidence that the 7th parliamentary election, scheduled for July 23 this year, will go smoothly with the participation of many political parties. Kang met with Minister of Interior Sar Kheng at the ministry headquarters on January 9, as he ...
Japan to provide $50M for Phnom Penh power project
The Japanese government has agreed to provide eight billion yen (about $50 million) in financing the Phnom Penh City Electricity Transmission and Distribution System Expansion Project. ...
Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501520191/japan-to-provide-50m-for-phnom-penh-power-project/
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated the map features of "Road and railway networks in Cambodia (2012 & 2024)" dataset
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated the map features of “Road and railway networks in Cambodia (2012 & 2024)” dataset. These road networks are produced by Open Street Map. ODC’s map and data team extracted the data in vector format. Moreover, the polyline data of railway ...
Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) updated an existing profile page on “Forest cover”
Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) updated an existing profile page on “Forest cover” adding forest cover dataset 2023 in Cambodia. => Please click here to go to profile page on “Forest cover”. ...
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) published a new dataset on "Power generation in Cambodia”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) published a new dataset on “Power generation in Cambodia”. This power generation in Cambodia dataset is extracted from the Mekong Infrastructure Tracker database, which builds on existing data to present a comprehensive source of information on energy, transportation, and water infrastructure ...
Cambodia's first IPO nears
Cambodia’s first initial public offering is fast approaching, and demand is expected to be robust. Bookbuilding, the process during which bids are taken and a price set for shares, ended last Wednesday for Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA). The final offering price will be announced ...
http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/economics/284959/cambodia-first-ipo-nears
Malaria money sits idle
Millions of dollars of aid money granted to Cambodia by the Global Fund to combat malaria have been left sitting in a bank account for more than a year, official documents seen by the Post show.The money remains untouched because the National Malaria Centre (CNM) ...
Jamie Elliott
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/malaria-money-sits-idle-0
Establishment of 18 natural protected areas under the management of Ministry of Environment
On 9 May 2016, Prime Minister of Cambodia Hun Sen signed on sub-decree on the establishment of 18 natural protected areas (NPA), with a total land area of 2,674,503 hectares, to be under the management and conservation of Ministry of Environment. Prey Lang, one of the 18 ...
Ministry of Environment
PP-SHV Expressway on track for completion in early 2023
The construction of the $1.9 billion Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway, which broke ground at the end of March, is on track to be completed by early 2023, Ministry of Public Works and Transport spokesman Vasim Sorya said on Monday. The 190km high-speed highway linking the capital ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pp-shv-expressway-track-completion-early-2023