Economy and commerce

Cambodia: Economic Performance and Reform Update

The Cambodian economy has continued its high growth path as real GDP expanded by 6.9 percent in 2011 and is expected to grow by 6.6 percent in 2012, report from world bank said this week. Cambodia has been one of the fastest growing countries in the world over the past ten years, ...

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Cambodia-India Trade Values $85 Million In 2011

Cambodia-India trade valued $85 million last year while Cambodian exports amounted $12 million and imports from India were worth $73 million, an official said Friday. ...

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The potential of Cambodia

Whenever you build a structure, you always start with a plan that exists first as an idea and then makes its way to paper and then usually a model: and this is true of ships or skyscrapers. Then comes the construction process when you bring in ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052856411/Business/the-potential-of-cambodia.html

Cambodia Officially Starts Trading Life Insurance

Cambodia on May 21 officially started to trade life insurance for first time in history with hope of supplementing social security and growth of insurance development in the kingdom. At the inauguration ceremony at 21st floor of Canadia Tower in Phnom Penh, His Excellency, Aun Porn Moniroth, secretary of state of finance ministry said: “it ...

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More Chinese firms weigh local investment

Six companies from China’s Guangzhou city and Guangxi province met with Kim Sithan, Cambodia’s secretary of state at the Ministry of Commerce, yesterday to discuss investment in the country Heavy machinery, fertiliser and chemical companies expressed interest in Cambodia’s agricultural sector ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052556376/Business/more-chinese-firms-weigh-local-investment.html

Conservation Efforts Boost Crab Production

Improved quality coupled with growing international demand has sent crab prices escalating over the past year, officials said on Wednesday. In some provinces, the price has jumped as much as 66 percent during the past 12 months. Lang Kery, chief of the Koh Kong provincial Fishery Administration’s ...

Silk producers look to sew up EU market ties

Cambodia’s silk producers say they must cut costs in order to continue reaching troubled European markets, the primary target for the Kingdom’s sericulture products. Insiders said Cambodian companies must start producing their own silk for the industry to survive. Silk craftspeople import some 400 tonnes of silk ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052556377/Business/silk-producers-look-to-sew-up-eu-market-ties.html

Factory Says Buyers Will Go to Burma if Protests Continue

A representative of a factory that produces clothing for international clothing brands H&M, Gap and Levi Strauss warned yesterday that its buyers will place orders elsewhere if the strike for higher wages and benefits in its two factories continues. An official at the American Center for ...

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World Bank outlook for Cambodia positive

The World Bank’s biannual report on Cambodia was largely positive given dire economic prospects in Europe, which economists agreed were closely tied to the Kingdom’s key export sectors. The report, released yesterday, predicted 6.6 per cent growth in gross domestic product Manufacturing is predicted to slow slightly this year, ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052456354/Business/world-bank-outlook-for-cambodia-positive.html

Sihanoukville port on track for stock float

The Sihanoukville Autonomous Port was making every effort to speed up preparations for its listing on the Cambodia Securities Exchange, the port’s chief executive officer, Lou Kim Chhun, said this week. The company would list 15% of it’s stock to begin with, and would ‘study ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052456348/Business/sihanouk-ville-port-on-track-for-stock-float.html

SECC sets minimum capital requirement

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia (SECC) has set a minimum capital requirement for securities firms A statement from the SECC, released yesterday, said that securities underwriters are required to hold a minimum of 40 billion riel of their shareholder’s equities It also requires securities firms to maintain ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052456352/Business/secc-sets-min-capital-requirement.html

China seeks to expand trade, investment ties with Cambodia

China sees Cambodia as one of the potential trade and investment partners among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and pledges to boost closer economic ties between the two countries, said a senior Chinese official on Tuesday. Wan Jifeisaid that his visit to Cambodia ...

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90883/7389759.html

China OKs Kingdom rice

After more than a year of speculation on Cambodian rice exports to China, a rice exporter this week said China has granted the Kingdom permission to ship milled rice northward. Despite a growing stack of quasi-agreements for exports, regulatory issues have plagued the prospects of tapping ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052456355/Business/china-oks-kingdom-rice.html

Thai-Cambodia agricultural zones set for establishment

Cambodia and Thailand have agreed to set up specialised agricultural export zones along the border inside Cambodia in a bid to curb any suspension of cross-border trade from Thailand, as well as to achieve a 30 per cent increase in bilateral trade year-on-year, commerce official ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052456351/Business/thai-cambodia-agricultural-zones-set-for-establishment.html

World Bank Raises GDP Outlook for 2012

The World Bank yesterday raised Cambodia’s gross domestic product outlook for 2012 by 0.1 percent to 6.6 percent, saying that last year’s flooding and the global economic slowdown did not affect Cambodia’s economy as much as first expected. According to the World Bank’s East Asia and ...

Trade with Malaysia up as exporters look East

Bilateral trade between Cambodia and ASEAN member state Malaysia rose by 34 per cent year on year in 2011 to US$319.5 million compared to the year before, according to data from the Embassy of Malaysia in Phnom Penh released yesterday. Experts noted the nearly 100 per ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052356319/Business/trade-with-malaysia-up-as-exporters-looks-east.html

International interest in Cambodian sugar

Sweet news for Cambodian palm-sugar farmers: 10 international companies are keen to import their produce, one of the Kingdom’s signature products. Sam Saroeun, president of the Kampong Speu Palm Sugar Promotion Association, said that after an exhibition in South Korea earlier this month, several international importers ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052356317/Business/international-interest-in-cambodian-sugar.html

Rail looks for new funding

It’s a nearly 300-kilometre stretch of rail in disrepair. More than 60 bridges – some crumbling, some dotted with landmines at the base – lie on the line between the towns of Bat Deong, northwest of Phnom Penh, and Sisophan near the Thai border. The ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052356314/Business/rail-looks-for-new-funding.html

Credit in Banking Sector Surpasses $4B in 2011

Loan disbursals in Cambodia’s banking sector increased by 33 percent to more than $4 billion last year, as credit to the housing market and agricultural sector saw the largest amount of growth, the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) said in its annual report, released yesterday. While ...

Capital port delayed until early next year

Quashing hopes of opening the Phnom Penh Port for the high trade season that begins in July, the port’s director said the pace of construction would push the official launch date into next year. ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052256294/Business/capital-port-delayed-until-early-next-year.html

Standards out for tourism officials

Housekeeping and front offices at hotels around Cambodia are set to change as the country prepares to adopt regional standards that all ASEAN nations are trying to put in place. The draft document on housekeeping and front-office standards, and related training courses, had been finalised by Tourism ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052256295/Business/standards-out-for-tourism-officials.html

Cambodia, Thailand to Partner on Border Zone

In an effort to bolster bilateral trade, Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh and his Thai counterpart, Boonsong Teriyapirom, agreed in Bangkok on Sunday to establish a special economic border zone, Thai media reported yesterday. Though it remained unclear when or where the zone would be set up, ...

First life insurance company launches in Cambodia

The Kingdom’s first life insurance company, Cambodian Life, launched yesterday, courting a market almost entirely unfamiliar with the service. Industry insiders said demand for the products would need time to grow. The establishment of Cambodian Life in the Kingdom would develop confidence in the market and ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052256297/Business/life-insurance-opens-doors.html

Gold vendors rally to free compatriots

Three Banteay Meanchey gold vendors accused of buying stolen goods were arrested yesterday then released four hours later after about 200 fellow gold sellers demonstrated on their behalf outside Mongkol Borei district police headquarters. The district governor personally intervened and mediated the release, district police chief ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052256300/National-news/gold-vendors-rally-to-free-compatriots.html

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