SSEZ trade volume hits $2B in 10 months
The volume of imports and exports handled at the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) totalled $2.069 billion in the first 10 months of 2022, marking a 17.09 per cent rise year-on-year from $1.767 billion, according to statistics posted by the operator at the weekend. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ssez-trade-volume-hits-2b-10-months
10 new Covid cases in Cambodia
The Ministry of Health on June 29 reported 10 new Covid-19 cases, eight of which were detected in the community and the others on inbound travellers. ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/10-new-covid-cases-cambodia
PPAP revenue dips 14% to $10.77M in four months
The Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) posted total revenue of $10.77 million for the first four months of this year, down 14 percent from its revenue of $12.53 million for the same period in 2022. ...
Adur Pradeep
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501291770/ppap-revenue-dips-14-to-10-77m-in-four-months/
Improved infrastructure leads to boom in apartments, condos
Infrastructure development and new condominium and apartment construction growth are boosting land prices in Toul Tompong and Deoum Thkov communes, and in Chamkarmon district by as much as 30 per cent. Kuy Vat, president and CEO of Vtrust Group, said that increased land prices in Boeung ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/improved-infrastructure-leads-boom-apartments-condos
Small pig farmers edged out
Cambodia’s small family-run pig farming businesses seem to be roughing it out in an unpredictable market with fluctuating pork prices while facing stiff competition from the illegal flood of cheap imported live pigs from neighboring countries. To add salt to their wounds, the high price ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28905/small-pig-farmers-edged-out/
Boat pilots seek share of tourism profits
The owners of the boats that ferry customers to the floating villages on Tonle Sap Lake have seen their profits increase as gas prices fall and ticket prices rise. But one group has not profited from the lake’s tourism boom: the men who pilot the ...
Jonathan Cox and Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22344/boat-pilots-seek-share-of-tourism-profits/
Open Development Cambodia published a new dataset and new map layer of Land price for immovable property tax in Phnom Penh
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has added a new dataset and new interactive map layer of “land price for immovable property tax” in Khmer and English. This dataset and map layer contains the geographical representation for the price of land per square meter for the calculation ...
Villagers Protest High Electricity Charges
About 200 people from Siem Reap’s Angkor Chum district protested outside the district governor’s office on Friday, calling for private electricity company Duong Narin to lower its prices and asking the state electricity authority to connect to their area, protesters said yesterday. The residents of ...
India’s rice dump may impact local exports
With the Indian government set to inject five million tonnes of rice in to its domestic market, Cambodia’s rice producers fear that any spillover into the global rice trade may impact local exports. David Van, acting secretary-general of a newly established Cambodia Rice Federation, said ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/india%E2%80%99s-rice-dump-may-impact-local-exports
Experts push for agricultural insurance
Experts are pushing for agricultural insurance to be employed in the near future to help strengthen the agriculture sector, particularly the rice sector with its plummeting prices and limited access to foreign markets. Sok Puthyvuth, president of the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF), said on Friday that ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32993/experts-push-for-agricultural-insurance/
Don’t increase garment workers’ rent, says pm
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday urged landlords not to indiscriminately increase the price of rent in light of the upcoming hike in the wages of garment workers next year. Speaking at the inauguration of the Coca-Cola factory in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone, the ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32799/don---t-increase--garment-workers-----rent--says-pm/
Despite Ban, Operators Offer Bonuses
Two of the country’s largest mobile phone operators are again offering attractive deals on calls, despite the Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia’s (TRC) recent order to mobile operators to follow the government’s minimum prices for calls and to scale back customer promotions. On Sunday, Smart, which is ...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/despite-ban-operators-offer-bonuses-49483/
Cambodia: A rising star with a falling reputation?
Cambodia’s reputation as a standard-bearer for apparel workers’ rights is wearing thin – and yet the country is a rising star when it comes to attracting foreign investment and increasing exports. There are many reasons to deter brands and retailers from sourcing clothing in Cambodia. The Kingdom ...
http://www.just-style.com/analysis/a-rising-star-with-a-falling-reputation_id117944.aspx
Water firm calm despite cut
Revenue from the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority – the first listed company on the Cambodian stock exchange – will be cut 800 million riel ($200,000) per year as the company implements a concession plan to lower water prices. The plan was passed after the government ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/water-firm-calm-despite-cut
A protest economy emerges
By 10am, Siv Lin, the owner of a mobile food stall facing Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park, had prepared all the rice, pork, eggs and vegetables needed to serve yesterday’s regular lunch crowd. It was a normal day. But on September 7, when thousands of opposition Cambodia ...
Hor Kimsay and Anne Renzenbrink
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/protest-economy-emerges
Farmers and workers carry on as Chinese transplants drive up land prices
The rural southwestern province of Koh Kong, previously off the international community’s radar screen, has drawn the global spotlight. That’s because a massive runway stretching approximately 3,200 meters appeared suddenly at a resort being developed by a Chinese company in this otherwise out-of-the-way province, about a ...
Tomoya Onishi
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Cambodia-s-China-built-runway-irks-US-but-locals-have-other-concerns
Cambodia rice meets Thai and Vietnam demand as global price spikes
Global rice prices hit a 15-year high in September, rising 30 percent year-on-year (YoY), according to an investor’s note by BMI, which quoted the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) All Rice price Index report. ...
Thang Sinorn
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-rice-meets-thai-and-vietnam-demand-as-global-price-spikes
Gov’t rolls out 10th round of relief measures
The government has rolled out the 10th round of economic relief measures to manage the impact on key sectors from Covid-19 and the ongoing recovery process, and bolster economic growth during and after the crisis. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-rolls-out-10th-round-relief-measures
Cambodia’s agricultural exports up over 47 percent in first 10 months
Some 4,221,153 tonnes of agricultural products, besides milled rice and paddy rice, have been exported to foreign markets during the first ten months of this year, despite the global COVID-19 crisis. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50963305/cambodias-agricultural-exports-up-over-47-percent-in-first-10-months/
World Vision assist 174,000 children in capital, 10 provinces
In the past year, the Disaster Management Programme of World Vision International (Cambodia) reached 208,985 people, including 174,798 children. Its January 8 report said the programme had provided food and supplies, as well as child protection awareness, to the people of 39 communes in Phnom ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/world-vision-assist-174000-children-capital-10-provinces