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Airports operator looks to expand
- 31 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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While Cambodia Airports, of which France-based Vinci Group is major stakeholder, sees tourist numbers taking off, eviction issues are gnawing at the company’s image. Emmanuel Menanteau, chief executive of Cambodia Airports, talked to the Post’s Sarah Thust about the expansion plans. How many tourist arrivals do ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013053165965/CEO-Talk/airports-operator-looks-to-expand.html
Cambodia's trade with foreign countries up 25 pct in four months
- 30 May 2013
- Xinhuanet News
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Cambodia’s trade volume with foreign countries had reached 5.12 billion U.S. dollars in the first four months of this year, a 25 percent rise compared with 4.1 billion U.S. dollars over the same period last year, according to a report from the Ministry of Commerce’s ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-05/30/c_132419210.htm
Against the Grain
- 30 May 2013
- China Economic Review
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On the palm-studded plains of Cambodia, rice farmers’ eyes light up with the prospect of sending their crop northward to China. The poor Southeast Asian nation had been trying for several years to export rice to the mainland but only last year did it gain ...
http://www.chinaeconomicreview.com/china-rice-demand-market-import
Thai border SEZs set for discussion next month
- 29 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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In an effort to boost trade activity between Thailand and Cambodia, both countries will discuss plans for two special economic zones along the Thai-Cambodian border next month, according to the secretary of state at the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday. “It will provide us ...
Hor Kimsay and Anne Renzenbrink
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052965902/Business/thai-border-sezs-set-for-discussion-next-month.html
Firms’ Timber Trade Decried
- 28 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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Two firms holding concessions in rapidly disappearing northern forests are amassing stockpiles of tens of thousands of luxury logs cut both within and outside their leases and trucking them on to Vietnam, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights has alleged. CCHR investigators that tracked logging operations ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052865880/National/firms-timber-trade-decried.html
Cambodian police clash with thousands of garment workers, 23 hurt
- 27 May 2013
- Reuters
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At least 23 workers were hurt in Cambodia on Monday when police using stun batons moved in to end a protest over pay at a factory that makes clothing for U.S. sportswear company Nike , a worker and a trade union representative said. Police with riot ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/27/cambodia-garments-workers-idUSL3N0E829T20130527
Cambodia: A rising star with a falling reputation?
- 24 May 2013
- Just-Style
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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
Rice exports to region rising
- 23 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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Cambodian milled rice exports are gradually lessening their dependency on a single market by expanding their shipping destination in Asia, a sign insiders say is good news for the industry. Kim Savuth, president of the Federation of Cambodian Rice Exporters, told the Post yesterday that milled ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052365791/Business/rice-exports-to-region-rising.html
H&M Says Garments Made in Cambodian Factory Without Approval
- 22 May 2013
- Bloomberg
- Economy and commerce / Exports / Trade
- Anna Eriksson / apparel factories / Bangladesh / clothing retailer / construction / Europe / Factories / factory blaze / Factory collapse / factory construction / garment indusrty / garment sector / garments / H&M / H&M garments / H&M spokeswoman Anna Eriksson / health and safety / Hennes & Mauritz AB / HMB / Hong Kong / Sears Holdings Corp / Shoe factories / shoes / Stockholm / Subcontractors / Top World garment factory / unapproved factories / Wal-Mart Stores Inc / Walmart
Hennes & Mauritz AB, Europe’s second-biggest clothing retailer, said some H&M garments were produced without its knowledge or approval at a factory in Cambodia where workers were injured in a partial building collapse this week. A supplier of the Stockholm-based company placed two minor orders with ...
Cambodia launches cassava development project under China, UNDP support
- 21 May 2013
- Xinhuanet News
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Cambodia launched Tuesday the second phase of cassava development project under the support of China and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Cambodia and China signed a Protocol on the Exports of Cambodian Cassava to Chinese Market in December 2010, under which China allowed Cambodia ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-05/21/c_132397799.htm
Cambodia, Vietnam Trade Rises
- 20 May 2013
- The Cambodia Herald
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Two-way trade between Vietnam and Cambodia in the first four months of the year reached nearly US$1.3 billion, a 10 per cent rise over the same period last year. According to the Vietnam Trade Office in Cambodia, Vietnam’s exports to Cambodia fetched over $1 billion while ...
The Cambodia Herald Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=YzA1YWUwMDU3OTh
Cambodia sells more, buys less
- 20 May 2013
- Bangkok Post
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Trade between Thailand and Cambodia went off in a wild divergence in the first quarter of this year. Exports from Cambodia rose 19% to US$102 million (2.9 billion baht) year-on-year, while Thailand’s imports recorded a 4% decline to $1 billion, the Phnom Penh Post reported on ...
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/351002/strong-baht-sends-thai-exports-to-cambodia-down
Investments in Cambodia Up
- 20 May 2013
- The Cambodia Herald
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Vietnam’s investment in Cambodia has increased significantly in the last three years, but a mechanism to encourage and oversee investments in prioritized sectors is needed, according to diplomatic sources. Tan Nguyen Tien, head of the economic section at the Vietnamese embassy in Phnom Penh, said Vietnam’s ...
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=NjA1NjRhYTIxOTd
Cambodia exports to Thailand rise as nations improve economic ties
- 20 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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Cambodia’s total exports to Thailand sharply increased in the first quarter of the year, according to official data from Ministry of Commerce received by the Post last week. Officials said the rise is the result of efforts by both countries to improve trade facilitation and economic ...
Trade Deal Threat Still On Table
- 20 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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The European union’s executive arm has responded to its parliamentarians’ concerns over rights abuses stemming from Cambodia’s economic land concessions, maintaining that, should the need arise, it “will be ready” to withdraw from its preferential trade agreements with the Kingdom. In a joint letter to concerned ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052065716/National/trade-deal-threat-still-on-table.html
EU Won’t Investigate Land Concessions—for Now
- 20 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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The trade commissioner and foreign affairs representative of the European Union (E.U.) have turned down a request from 13 members of the European Parliament that they immediately investigate Cambodia’s much criticized economic land concessions, but said they were monitoring the issue closely. In a March letter ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eu-wont-investigate-land-concessions-for-now-25194/
Hun Sen Hopes for Increased Rubber Exports
- 16 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday that he hoped land being registered to rural families as part of the government’s nationwide land-titling program would be used to cultivate rubber trees in order to help the country compete with Vietnam as the world’s third-largest rubber exporter. ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-hopes-for-increased-rubber-exports-24502/
Bangladesh woes spare Kingdom
- 16 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Exports / Trade
- American Center for International Labor Solidarity / Bangladesh / David Welsh / Factory collapse / factory safety record / garment / Garment Industry / Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia / GMAC / GMAC Chairman Van Sou Ieng / GMAC’s secretary-general Ken Loo / Industrial disaster / Ken Loo / PVH / Rana Plaza / safety standard / Tommy Hilfiger / Walt Disney / Western retailers
A recent string of disasters rocking Bangladesh’s garment industry has highlighted its factories’ shocking safety record, and stoked optimism that giant fashion brands will flock to move their orders to countries like Cambodia. But Cambodia’s garment industry has not experienced any major deluge of business so ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051665643/Business/bangladesh-woes-spare-kingdom.html
Cambodia’s Small Businesses Serve as Backbone of Sustainable Economy
- 15 May 2013
- The Asia Foundation
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Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen announced in late March that the nation was on target to move from the status of a low-income to a lower-middle-income nation by the end of 2013, ranking it the 15th country that obtained high economic growth in the world in the ...
Cambodian PM inaugurates rubber processing plant in far northern province
- 15 May 2013
- Xinhuanet News
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Exports / Investment / Land / Public land lease / Rubber / Trade
- Chinese aid / dry rubber / ELCs / Exports / job creation / Malaysian aid / Ministry of Commerce / Phnom Penh / Prime Minister Hun Sen / processed rubber / rubber / rubber exports / rubber plantations / rubber processing plant / rubber sector / rubber trees / Sesan district / Sopheak Nika Investment Agro-Industry Company / Stung Treng / Stung Treng Province
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday inaugurated a rubber processing plant here, saying the factory would contribute to developing the country’s fast-growing rubber sector. The 7 million U.S. dollar plant, invested by Cambodia’s Sopheak Nika Investment Agro-Industry Company, was built on the area of 9 ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-05/15/c_132384351.htm
Thai restrictions cap cassava exports
- 15 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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Cambodia’s cassava exports reached 245,438 tonnes in the first quarter this year, a 47 per cent decline quarter-on-quarter, from 465,640 tonnes in the final quarter of last year, according to statistics from the Ministry of Commerce released early this month. While most exports went to Thailand, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051565618/Business/thai-restrictions-cap-cassava-exports.html
Cambodia-Japan trade volume up 14% in 3 months
- 14 May 2013
- Xinhuanet News
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Bilateral trade volume between Cambodia and Japan had amounted to 180 million U.S. dollars in the first three months of this year, up 14 percent compared with the 158 million U.S. dollars at the same period last year, a report of the Japan External Trade ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-05/14/c_132381154.htm
Investment and Trade Fair Opens In Koh Kong
- 13 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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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