Economy and commerce
Investment and Trade Fair Opens In Koh Kong
- 13 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Exports / Imports / Investment / Trade
- bilateral trade / Cambodia / Cambodia Southern Provinces / Cambodian-Thai bilateral Trade / Cambodian-Vietnamese Bilateral Trade / Cham Prasidh / Development / domestic companies / Economics / Exports / foreign companies / International products / Investment / Koh Kong / Koh Kong Province / Koh Kong Province Development / Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh / National Product / Product Price / Product Supply / Thai Customs / Thai Excise / Thai Imports / Thai investment / Thai Provinces / Thailand / Trade / Trade Area / Trade fair / Trade Fair Booths / Trade Fair Product / Tripatite Trade Area / Vietnamese exports / Vietnamese Investment / Vietnamese Provinces
The first three-day Koh Kong Investment and Trade Fair 2013 kicked off on Saturday, promoting trade and investment in the southern provinces of Cambodia with neighbours Thailand and Vietnam. “The [fair] is aimed at promoting trade and development in Koh Kong province and other border ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051365565/Business/investment-and-trade-fair-opens-in-koh-kong.html
Boost For Animal Healthcare
- 13 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural commodities, processing and products / Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Animal feed / Economy and commerce / Exports / Imports / Livestock farming / Trade
- Animal Antibiotics / Animal Feed Sector / Animal feeds production / Animal Growth / Animal Health Business / Animal Health Products / Animal Healthcare / Animal Medicine / Animal Vaccination / Antibiotics / Bayer / Bayer Animal Health / Chemical Feed / Chemicals / Commercial Feed / CP Marketing Manager Vannara Roeung / Department of Animal Health Production / Europe / Feed / Feed Mills / Government Funding / husbandry / IFAD / IFAD’s Country Operations Officer / Illegal Imports / Imports / International Fund for Agricultural Development / Khalid Baig / Local Animal Husbandry / local markets / Meng Sakphouseth / Mill / NGO / non-governmental organisations / Nutritional Premixes / Pharmaceutical Manufacturer / pharmaceuticals / public sector / Ros Limhy / Skill of Animal Health Worker / Thai Pharmaceuticals / Thai Vet / Thailand / Vannara Roeung / Veterinarians / Village Animal Health Workers
Cambodia’s promising animal feed sector will soon see support from a big pharmaceutical manufacturer which is now studying local demand for animal healthcare – a nearly untapped market. “We intend to introduce animal health business in Cambodia for our farm products and feed mills,” Khalid Baig, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051365566/Business/boost-for-animal-healthcare.html
CPP Senator Wins Power Transmission Contract
- 13 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Economy and commerce / Energy / Generation and distribution facilities / Hydropower dams / Renewable energy production
- coal / coal-fired power plants / Council of Ministers / CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat / Dams / Electricity / electricity grid / government contract / hydropower / Hydropower dams / KK Power Company / Koh Kong / Kompong Cham / kratie / Ly Yong Phat / LYP Group / LYP Group Co. Ltd. / Mondulkiri / national electricity grid / national grid / Phnom Penh / power lines / power plants / Power Transmission / Power transmission lines / power transmission network / power transmission systems / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Ratanakkiri / Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding Public Company / Stung Treng / Thailand
The government on Friday awarded CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat a $92.21 million contract to install power lines in Cambodia’s eastern provinces, the Council of Ministers said in a statement. During the weekly Cabinet meeting, senior officials including Prime Minister Hun Sen signed off on the ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/cpp-senator-wins-power-transmission-contract-23634/
The canes of wrath
- 10 May 2013
- Southeast Asia Globe
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Exports / Human rights / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Public land lease / Social development / Sugar / Trade
- Agro-Business / agro-business firms / American Sugar Refinery Company / assault / Boycott Blood Sugar campaign / child labor / child labour / compensation / CPP / CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat / criminal activity / Dr Nirun Pitakwatchara / Dr Pung Chhiv Kek / EBA / economic land concession / education / ELC / ELC scheme / EU / EU in Cambodia ambassador Jean-Francois Cautain / Europe / European Parliament / European Union aid / Everything But Arms / Everything But Arms Agreement / Everything But Arms scheme / Everything But Arms Treaty / Exports / farming / forced evictions / Human Rights / human rights violations / illegal possession of land / ILO / International Labor Organisation / International Labour Organisation / Jean-Francois Cautain / Jones Day / Jones Day law firm / Kampong Speu / Kampong Speu Province / Khon Kaen Sugar Industry Public Company Limited / KKP / KKS / KKS industry / Koh Kong / Koh Kong Province / Koh Kong Sugar Industry / Koh Kong Sugar Plantation / KSL / labor / labour / land / Land grabs / Land rights / Land titles / Lawsuits / LICADHO / Licadho president Pung Chhiv Kek / livestock / London / Ly Yong Phat / National Human Rights Commission of Thailand / NGO Equitable Cambodia / NHRC / NHRC commissioner Dr Nirun Pitakwatchara / Nirun Pitakwatchara / Oddar Meanchey / Oddar Meanchey Province / OECD / Omlaing / Omlaing commune / Omlaing sugar plantation / Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development / Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises / PC Law Firm / Phnom Penh Sugar Company / Phnom Penh Sugar director Seng Nhak / Phnom Penh Sugar’s Omlaing plantation / plantation workers / Plantations / preferential trade scheme / protests / Pung Chhiv Kek / razed crops / Rees Broome law firm / Seng Nhak / shootings / subsistence farming / sugar / sugar exports / sugar industry / sugarcane / sugarcane plantations / Taiwan / Tate & Lyle / Tate & Lyle Sugars / Thailand / Thpong district / UK / UK’s High Court of Justice / UN / United Nations / United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights / US / US National Contact Point / Ve Wong Corporation / wages
Satiating the demands of the global sugar industry is big business for Cambodia’s sugarcane plantations. Yet accusations of human rights abuses and land grabs in the Kingdom have left a bitter aftertaste for many on the ground as companies vie for a larger slice of ...
SMC to invest 1.5 billion dollars in Cambodia Airlines
- 10 May 2013
- ABS-CBN News
- Economy and commerce
- Airlines / airplanes / Cambodia Airlines / EADS Group / Kith Meng / Lucio Tan SMC / Neak Oknha Kith Meng / PA / Philippine Airlines / Philippine Airlines president Ramon S. Ang / RGC / Royal Group of Cambodia / Royal Group of Cambodia chairman Kith Meng / San Miguel Corp / San Miguel Corp president Ramon S. Ang / SMC
Diversified conglomerate San Miguel Corp. (SMC) will invest $1.5 billion for its airline venture in Cambodia, its top executive said yesterday. Cambodia Airlines will have about 20 aircraft in its fleet and add as much as $400 million revenues per year to Philippine Airlines (PAL), said ...
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/05/10/13/smc-invest-15-billion-dollars-cambodia-airlines
Work underway on 'catastrophic' Cambodian dam
- 10 May 2013
- DW
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economy and commerce / Energy / Environment and natural resources / Fishing, fisheries and aquaculture / Generation and distribution facilities / Hydropower dams / Renewable energy production / Rivers and lakes / Water resources
- 3S network / 3S rivers / Ame Trandem / Ame Trandem program director International Rivers / Electricity / electricity grid / electricity shortages / Eric Baran / Fish / fish yields / fisheries / food security / hydroelectric dams / Hydropower dams / Hyrdopower / Infrastructure / International Rivers / irrigation / Lower Mekong Basin / Lower Se San 2 Dam / Lower Sesan 2 dam / Mekong river / migratory fish / Mine and Energy Suy Sem / Minister of Industry / national electricity grid / PANAS / PANAS Report / relocation sites / Se Kong River / Se San River / sediment flows / Sesan river / Srekor / Srekor village / Srepok River / Suy Sem / tributary dams / tributary rivers / UN Millennium Development Goals / US journal The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences / US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton / WorldFish / WorldFish senior researcher Eric Baran
Srekor village has stood on the banks of the Se San River in northeastern Cambodia for generations. In a few years it will be gone, submerged along with more than 300 square kilometres of surrounding farmland and forest. For 37-year-old rice farmer Pa Tou, the ...
http://www.dw.de/work-underway-on-catastrophic-cambodian-dam/a-16803423
Opposition Lawmakers Want ‘Social’ Land to Go to Farmers
- 10 May 2013
- Voice of America (VOA)
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Land / Public land lease / Rice
- agri-business / Agriculture & Agri-business / agriculture law / Casino / casino tariffs / ELCs / Farmers / Farmland / moratorium on Economic Land Concessions / moratorium on ELCs / National Assembly / rice / Sam Rainsy Party / Sam Rainsy Party lawmaker Yim Sovann / social land concessions / Vun Chheang
Cambodian lawmakers have passed a new law on agriculture, but critics say the law does not go far enough to protect the country’s farmers. The law passed on Thursday evening, but not before debate at the National Assembly. During the debate opposition representatives called on the ...
Kingdom to reach rice target
- 10 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Exports / Rice / Trade
- Alliance of Rice Producers and Exporters of Cambodia / Alliance of Rice Producers and Exporters of Cambodia secretary / Cambodian Center for Study and Development in Agriculture / Cham Prasidh / DULOG / Europe / European markets / Green Trade / Hun Lak / Indonesia / Indonesian state-owned DULOG / Milled Rice / milled rice export / Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh / paddy rice / Philippines / Secretariat of One Window Service for Rice Export Formality / Yang Saing Koma
Following a considerable increase in Cambodia’s milled rice exports in the first four months of the year, Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh said he was optimistic the Kingdom’s rice exports would reach the 2015 target of one million tonnes. With this year’s export figures notably higher ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051065539/Business/kingdom-to-reach-rice-target.html
Cambodian Parliament Ratifies ASEAN-China Maritime Transport Agreement
- 10 May 2013
- Xinhuanet News
- Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Chinese aid / Economy and commerce / Energy / Exports / Generation and distribution facilities / Imports / Non-DAC members / Trade / Trade policy and regulation
- Agreement on Maritime Transport / ASEAN / ASEAN countries / ASEAN Economics Ties / ASEAN-China Maritime Transport Agreement / Assembly / Assembly Session / Association of Southeast Asian Nations / Brunei / cargo Transport / Chinese aid / Indonesia / international cooperation / International Maritime Transport / international trade / Laos / Malaysian aid / Maritime Development / Maritime Transport / Ministry of Public Works and Transport / Ministry of Public Works and Transport Minister Tram Iv Tek / Ministry of Transportation / Myanmar / National Assembly / Nin Saphon / parliament / Passenger Transport / Philippines / sea transportation / Singapore / Thailand / Trade / Tram Iv Tek / Transportation
The National Assembly of Cambodia on Friday ratified the agreement on maritime transport between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China, saying the agreement is essential to develop trade and economic ties between ASEAN and China. “The agreement aims to facilitate and foster ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-05/10/c_132372924.htm
As Phnom Penh Grows, So Does Its Sewage Problem
- 10 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Infrastructure / Phnom Penh / Pollution and waste / Population and censuses / Rivers and lakes / Transport and shipping / Urban administration and development / Urban sanitation infrastructure / Urban water and sanitation infrastructure / Water and sanitation / Water and sanitation infrastructure and facilities / Water pollution / Waterways and ports
- Boeng Trabek / Boeng Trabek pumping station / Boeung Tampoun / Bonna Realty Group / Bonna Realty Group CEO Noun Rithy / Cambodia Environment Outlook UN report 2008 / construction / Construction projects / De Castle Royal / drainage networks / drainage pipes / drainage project / drainage system / environmental damage / Housing Developments / human health / In Chamkar Mon District / Infrastructure / Japan International Cooperation Agency / JICA / lakes / Ministry of Public Works / Noun Rithy / Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation / Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation deputy CEO Touch Samnang / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh canals / Phnom Penh City Hall / raw sewage / Sewage Problem / Sewage system / shopping malls / Tonle Bassac river / Tonle Sap river / waste management / wastewater treatment plant / water pipes / water pipes network / water waste management / waterwatse / waterways
Since 1998, Phnom Penh’s population has doubled to more than 2 million. High-rise buildings have popped up in the city’s center and housing developments have been hastily erected. Yet the city’s antiquated, decades-old drainage system has undergone little improvement in that time and experts say the ...
Residents Call for Foul-Smelling Factory to Move
- 10 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Economy and commerce / Energy / Environment and natural resources / Generation and distribution facilities
- environmental damage / Factory owner Seng Kanha / human health / ice-making factory / Kilometer 6 commune / Klaing Hout / Kompong Spue / Kompong Spue deputy district governor Ly Rosamy / Kompong Spue District Governor Klaing Hout / Kompong Spue governor Tong Seng / Kompong Spue province / Ministry of Environment / Ministry of Mines Industry and Energy / Phnom Penh / Russei Keo district / Seng Kanha / Tong Seng / waste management
About 100 people protested Wednesday evening outside a Phnom Penh ice-making factory owned by the daughter of deputy Kompong Spue governor Tong Seng, complaining that the factory causes a bad smell and that the health of residents in Russei Keo district’s Kilometer 6 commune was ...
CIMB says Local Investors Bring More Franchises to Cambodia
- 10 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Economy and commerce / Investment / Trade
- Almond Hotel / Australian aid / Burger King / CIMB Bank / CIMB Bank plc / CIMB head of retail financial services Thida Heng / d'Tandoor franchise / Dairy Queen / franchises / Hard Rock Cafe / Hun Kimleng / Imex Pan-Pacific Group / Investment / KFC / Malaysia-based CIMB Bank / Malaysian aid / Malaysian Embassy in Phnom Penh / Malaysian Franchise Association / Malaysian Franchise Association chairman Abdul Malik Abdulla / Malaysian Ministry of Foreign Trade / Malaysian Ministry of Foreign Trade Cooperatives and Consumerism / Malaysian Ministry of Foreign Trade Cooperatives and Consumerism director Mohd Nasir Noryakin / Mohd Nasir Noryakin / Phnom Penh / property investments / Real estate / Saudi Arabia / Secret Recipe franchise / Sok Hong / Sokimex Corporation / Sokimex Corporation chairman Sok Hong / US
The steady growth of franchises from overseas is likely to continue as young, moneyed Cambodians seize the opportunity to bring name brands into the country, a bank official said yesterday. Hoping to help its customers and others invest in franchises, Malaysia-based CIMB Bank yesterday organized ...
Wage Hike Leads To Rent Fears
- 10 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Education and training / Education policy and administration / Exports / Imports / Investment / Social development / Trade / Unions
- Cambodian Confederation of Unions / Cambodian Confederation of Unions president Rong Chhun / CLEC / Community Legal Education Center / Export / garment / Garment factories / garment sector / Garment worker / Garment Workers Accommodation / Kampong Speu / Kandal / Meanchey District / minimum garment wage / minimum wage / Moeun Tola / PCCS Garment Factory / Phnom Penh / Rent Rooms for Garment Wokers / Rong Chhun / Room Rent Cost / Royal Government / Sen Sok district / Transport of Garment Wokers / wage hike / Wokers
Cambodian Confederation of Unions president Rong Chhun yesterday appealed to landlords with properties close to garment factories not to take advantage of the industry’s minimum wage increase by raising rent prices. The minimum monthly salary in the garment sector – Cambodia’s biggest export industry – officially ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051065555/National/wage-hike-leads-to-rent-fears.html
New Kompong Thom Governor Vows to Give Land to Evictees
- 10 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Social development / The poor
- Adhoc / Displacement / ELCs / forced evictions / Kompong Thom / Kompong Thom Province / Kompong Thom provincial governor Uth Sam On / relocation site / rubber / rubber plantations / Tan Bien-Kompong Thom Rubber Development Company
The newly appointed Kompong Thom provincial governor on Tuesday promised more than 500 families who were forcefully evicted by a Vietnamese rubber plantation more than three years ago that they would be given replacement land to farm on early next month. Security forces evicted villagers from ...
Japanese bank to boost local investments
- 10 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Banking and financial services / Economy and commerce / Investment
- BTMU / BTMU’s managing executive officer / Canadia Bank / Canadia Bank chairman / Chea Serey / Chief Executive Officer / general banking supervision / Japanese aid / Japanese Ambassador to Cambodia / Japanese Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ / Japanese Business Association of Cambodia / Japanese companies / Japanese Embassy to Cambodia / Michael Lor / National Bank of Cambodia / Pung Kheav Se / Takami Onodera / Yuji Kumamaru
Japanese Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) signed an agreement yesterday with local Canadia Bank to shore up Japanese growth in Cambodia and to demonstrate its confidence in the Kingdom’s financial sector. BTMU’s managing executive officer, Takami Onodera, and Pung Kheav Se, chairman of Canadia Bank, yesterday ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051065537/Business/japanese-bank-to-boost-local-investments.html
Delta Electronics eyes Cambodia expansion
- 10 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Energy / Generation and distribution facilities / Investment
- Asia / Asian countries / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Asian Development Bank deputy country director Peter Brimble / Bangkok Post / Delta / Delta Electronics (Thailand) / Europe / European countries / Ho Chi Minh City / Japanese car parts supplier / Koh Kong Special Economic Zone / Minebea / Myanmar / Peter Brimble / Phnom Penh / Special Economic Zone / Thailand / Yazaki Corporation
Delta Electronics (Thailand), one of the world’s leading producers of power supplies and electronic components, plans to expand to Cambodia and Myanmar, the Bangkok Post reported on Wednesday. “There is no indication of a specific timeframe for the expansion, but the company sees these countries . ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051065533/Business/delta-electronics-eyes-cambodia-expansion.html
Cambodia Airlines to add planes
- 10 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Investment
- Airbus A321 / Airbus A321s / ATR-72 turboprop planes / Cambodia Airlines / Cambodia Angkor Air / Dash-8 aircraft / Manila / Mark Hanna / Philippine Airlines president / Philippines Airlines / Ramon Ang / Rappler / Royal Group / Royal Group’s Chief Financial Officer Mark Hanna
Cambodia Airlines plans to spend $1.5 billion to acquire up to 22 planes, a move that might see the new airline’s eventual fleet size overtake that of national carrier Cambodia Angkor Air. “We [will be] starting to deploy 16 to 22 aircraft immediately once it’s ready ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051065531/Business/cambodia-airlines-to-add-planes.html
Cambodia's trade with its neighbors slows in Q1
- 9 May 2013
- Economy and commerce / Exports / Imports / Trade
- bilateral trade / Cambodia-Thailand bilateral trade / Cambodia-Vietnam bilateral trade / Exports / Imports / Thai baht appreciation / Thai embassy to Cambodia / Thai Embassy's foreign trade promotion office director Jiranan Wongmongkol / Thailand / Trade / Vietnam Trade Office / Vietnam Trade Office in Cambodia / Vietnam Trade Office in Cambodia trade councilor Tran Tu
Cambodia saw a slow rise in trade volume with Vietnam and a slight decrease with Thailand in the first quarter of this year, according to the figures provided on Wednesday. The figures said Cambodia’s total exports to Vietnam was worth 221 million U.S. dollars during ...
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2013-05/09/c_132370565.htm
Private property, public greed in Cambodia
- 9 May 2013
- The Politico
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Exports / Human rights / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Public land lease / Social development / Sugar / Trade
- American Sugar Refining / Cambodia Daily newspaper / Cambodian Center for Human Rights / Cambodian Center for Human Rights president Ou Virak / CCHR / Chinese aid / Chum Bun Rong / Deputy Director Chum Bun Rong / Displacement / Disputed Land / Domino Sugar / ELCs / forced evictions / Khmer Rouge / Koh Kong / Koh Kong Provice / land compensation / Land Law 2001 / Land-grabbing / Laos / Myanmar / National Land Authority / New York / Ou Virak / Phnom Penh / Prime Minister Hun Sen / sugar / sugar cane / Tate & Lyle / Tate & Lyle sugar / Thailand / The State Department annual Human Rights Report / TTY rubber company / United Nations / United States aid / Vietnam War
Mark Moorstein knew little about Cambodia before he got involved in a lawsuit on behalf of land owners there. But as it’s turning out, the suit could end up affecting most every country in Asia. Moorstein is a land-use lawyer in Northern Virginia who, like many ...
Cambodian PM to visit Macau in September
- 9 May 2013
- Macau Daily Times
- Economy and commerce / Industries / Investment / Tourism / Trade
- Angkor Wat Temple / aviation / Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Keat Chhon / China-Cambodia relations / Chinese aid / Chinese aid / Chinese loans / Economics / Edmund Ho / former Macau Chief Executive Edmund Ho / Global Tourism Economy Forum / Global Tourism Economy Forum chairman Edmund Ho / Infrastructure / Investment / Keat Chhon / Macau / National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference / National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference vice-chairman Edmund Ho / Peace Palace / Phnom Penh / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Second Global Tourism Economy Forum / Siem Reap Province / soft loans / Tourism / Trade / transport
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen will visit Macau in September to participate in the Second Global Tourism Economy Forum. Prime Minister Hun Sen called for more investment in the country by Chinese and Macau entrepreneurs, and direct flights between Cambodia and Macau. According to Xinhua, the ...
http://www.macaudailytimes.com.mo/macau/43622-cambodian-pm-to-visit-macau-in-september.html
Cambodia’s Economic Opportunity
- 9 May 2013
- The Diplomat
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Energy / Exports / Generation and distribution facilities / Rice / Sihanoukville / Social development / The poor / Trade
- agricultural sector / Agriculture & Agri-business / AusAid / bilateral trade / bilateral trade agreements / Cambodia Agricultural Value Chain / CAVAC / Dr. Hang Chuon Naron / electricity prices / EU markets / Exports / GDP / Gross Domestic Product / Infrastructure / Kampong Thom / Kampong Thom Province / Kampot / Kampot Province / Laos / loan portfolio for agriculture / loan portfolios / Milled Rice / Minister of Economy and Finance Secretary of State Dr. Hang Chuon Naron / Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fishery / Ministry of Commerce / Ministry of Economy and Finance / Ministry of Water Resources Management / paddy rice / paddy rice production / Policy Paper on Paddy Production and Rice Export / Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen / RGC / rice / rice export / rice export sector / rice export target / Rice Farming / Rice Policy / rice sector / Royal Government of Cambodia / Sihanoukville Port / Takeo / Takeo Province / Thailand / The Philippines / transport
While significant obstacles remain, the success of the rice sector is a potentially crucial driver in Cambodia’s prosperous and equitable development. Cambodia announced two major bilateral trade agreements recently, with the Philippines and Thailand, that are expected to further expand the country’s rice export sector. ...
http://thediplomat.com/2013/05/09/cambodias-economic-opportunity/
Gold resource in northeastern Cambodia estimated at 1.2 mln ounces
- 9 May 2013
- Global Times
- Economy and commerce / Energy / Extractive Industries / Extractive industries policy and administration / Generation and distribution facilities / Gold / Industrial mining / Minerals and mineral products / Mining
- Australian aid / Australian OZ Minerals Ltd / exploration / exploration licence / gold / gold resource / Kampong Chhnang Province / Keo Seima district / mineral exploration / mining / Minister of Industry Mines and Energy Suy Sem / Ministry of Industry Mines and Energy / mondolkiri / Mondolkiri Province / O'kvau area / Ochhoung area / Pheam Lorp area / Renaissance Minerals (Cambodia) Ltd / Renaissance Minerals (Cambodia) Ltd Managing Director Justin Tremain / Suy Sem / Teuk Pos district
Australia’s Renaissance Minerals (Cambodia) Ltd. unveiled Thursday that it estimated that gold resource[s] at O’kvau area in Cambodia’s Mondolkiri province could be as much as 1.2 million ounces, the firm’s Managing Director Justin Tremain said. Speaking during a meeting with Cambodian Minister of Industry, Mines and ...
Trade with Vietnam increases
- 9 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Cashews / Economy and commerce / Energy / Exports / Extractive Industries / Extractive industries policy and administration / Generation and distribution facilities / Imports / Investment / Iron and steel / Minerals and mineral products / Rubber / Trade
- aquatic products and seafood / bilateral trade / Cambodia / Cambodia and Vietnam bilateral trade / cashew nuts / cereal products / Chinese aid / confectionery / Corn / dried tobacco / Exports / garments / industrial sector / machinery products / made-from-steel products / Meng Saktheara / metal products / Ministry of Industry Mine and Energy director general Meng Saktheara / paddy rice / paper / Phnom Penh / rubber latex / steel / Thailand / Trade / Trade Deficit / transportation vehicles / vegetables and fruits / Vietnam Embassy / Vietnam Trade Office in Cambodia / ផលិតផលកៅស៊ូ
Bilateral trade between Cambodia and neighbouring Vietnam rose more than 10 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter of this year, data from the Vietnam Embassy in Phnom Penh showed. Officials said cross-border trade facilitation by both countries significantly contributed to the growth. But they said ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050965501/Business/trade-with-vietnam-increases-2013.html
Kampong Thom Governor Vows to Give Land to Evictees
- 9 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Rubber
- Adhoc provincial coordinator / economic land concession / ELC / evictee / Kampong Thom / Kompong Thom / Kompong Thom provincial governor / Kraya commune / land eviction / Nhem Sarath / Rubber plantation / Santuk district / Tan Bien-Kompong Thom Rubber Development Company / Uth Sam On / Vietnamese rubber plantation
The newly appointed Kompong Thom provincial governor on Tuesday promised more than 500 families who were forcefully evicted by a Vietnamese rubber plantation more than three years ago that they would be given replacement land to farm on early next month. Security forces evicted villagers from ...