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Port gives rice exporters a cut in storage costs
In a bid to ramp up rice exports to 1 million tonnes in 2015, the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port announced yesterday that rice stored in its warehouses would not be charge any fees for up to 18 days. ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/port-gives-rice-exporters-cut-storage-costs
Viet Nam to boost textile and garment exports
Viet Nam expects to raise its textile and garment production by 20 per cent in order to boost the sector’s export value by US$4 billion to $28.3 billion this year. Viet Nam also intends to step up its textile and garment exports by 13 per ...
Viet Nam News Staff
http://vietnamnews.vn/economy/266663/viet-nam-to-boost-textile-and-garment-exports.html
Cambodia's rubber exports up 33 pct last year
Cambodia recorded a 33 percent rise in dry rubber exports volume in 2014, but the revenue decreased by 8 percent due to a plunge in global rubber price, according to figures from the Ministry of Commerce on Saturday. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/150207/cambodias-rubber-exports-33-pct-last-year
Cambodia sees rise in trade with U.S.
Bilateral trade between Cambodia and the United States was valued at 3.17 billion U.S. dollars in 2014, a 5 percent rise from 3.01 billion U.S. dollars in 2013, the figures of the U.S. Department of Commerce showed Friday. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2015-02/06/c_133975310.htm
Cambodia unlikely to achieve 1-million-ton rice export by 2015: commerce minister
Cambodian Minister of Commerce Sun Chanthol said Friday that the country is unlikely to achieve its self-imposed target of exporting one million tons of milled rice by 2015 due to lack of milling capacity and funding. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2015-02/06/c_133976076.htm
Cambodia-Thailand trade hits 5 bln USD last year
Trade volume between Cambodia and its neighboring Thailand topped 5 billion U.S. dollars in 2014, an 11 percent increase from last year’s 4.5 billion U.S. dollars, a Cambodian commerce official said Thursday. ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=267098
Palm oil exports up, while profits dip
Exports of crude palm oil from the Mong Reththy company – the Kingdom’s sole producer of the product – increased 16 per cent last year, although prices were down about $200 per tonne from 2013. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/palm-oil-exports-while-profits-dip
Prime minister admits 1 million tonne goal is unlikely for rice sector
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday admitted that the government target of reaching 1 million tonnes of rice exports by 2015 is likely to fail due to a lack of milling capacity and funding. The PM blamed the failure on a lack of investment in rice ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/prime-minister-admits-1-million-tonne-goal-unlikely-rice-sector
Cambodia to begin rice exports to various countries
Cambodia’s minister of commerce has announced that the country will step up efforts to export rice to Africa, Middle East and the European Union. In his three-day visit to Kuwait in December 2014, Chanthol aimed at opening new avenues for Cambodian-made agricultural goods to enter ...
Far Eastern Agriculture News Staff
http://www.fareasternagriculture.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4483:cambodia-to-start-rice-export-to-various-countries&catid=1083&Itemid=98
Cambodia's trade volume exceeds 16 bln USD in 11 months
Cambodia’s trade volume with foreign countries rose by 16 percent year on year in the first eleven months of 2014, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce on Tuesday. The country exported products in equivalent to 7.05 billion U.S. dollars, up 12 percent year-on-year ...
EastDay.com News Staff
http://english.eastday.com/auto/eastday/business/u1ai8467542.html
Cambodia's garment, footwear exports hit over US$6 Billion
Cambodia’s earned more than US$6 billion (about RM21 billion) from exports of garment and leather footwear this year, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported. ...
Bernama News Staff
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v7/wn/newsworld.php?id=1091760
Palm sugar exports see 138pct rise
Kampong Speu palm sugar exports with geographical indication (GI) status have increased in the past year, as international buyers begin to appreciate the Cambodia-specific product. Export volumes of the sugar reached 50 tonnes in 2014, according to Kampong Speu Palm Sugar Promotion Association’s (KSPSPA) president, Sam ...
Chan Muyhong
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/palm-sugar-exports-see-138pct-rise
Cambodia's rice exports reach over 335,000 tonnes in 11 months
Cambodia exported 335,925 tonnes of rice in the first 11 months of the year, up from 332,009 tonnes in the same period last year. ...
Bernama News Staff
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v7/wn/newsworld.php?id=1090939
Cambodia exports over 330,000 tons rice in 11 months
Cambodia exported 335,925 tons of rice in the first 11 months of 2014, up from 332,009 tons shipped in the same period last year, according to a report of Secretariat of One Window Service for Rice Export Formality on Tuesday. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodia-exports-over-330000-tons-rice-in-11-months-7773
Cambodia: Online sales spur China calls for more fruit
Chinese officials have called on Cambodia to increase fruit exports amid an expected rise in domestic demand for fresh produce fuelled by online sales. Feng Bo, deputy major of Ping Xiang city of Guangxi province, last week said fruit imports from ASEAN nations must increase from ...
FreshPlaza News Staff
http://www.freshplaza.com/article/131529/Cambodia-Online-sales-spur-China-calls-for-more-fruit
Cambodia exports over 300,000 tons of rice in during January-October
Cambodia exported 304,788 tons of rice in first ten months of 2014, up from 294,154 tons exported in the same period last year, according to a report of Ministry Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodia-exports-over-300000-tons-of-rice-in-during-january-october-7685
Global rice traders in Cambodia to explore business opportunities
Some 300 rice traders and millers from around 40 countries met here on Wednesday to seek opportunities to expand their rice businesses, officials said. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the World Rice Conference, Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol said the conference was an opportunity for Cambodia ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141119/global-rice-traders-cambodia-explore-business-opportunities
Belarus ratifies set of agreements with Cambodia
The House of Representatives of Belarus ratified a number of Belarusian-Cambodian agreements on 4 November, BelTA has learned. ...
Belarusian News News Staff
http://eng.belta.by/all_news/politics/Belarus-ratifies-set-of-agreements-with-Cambodia_i_77051.html
Garment exports slow, but still up from 2013 - Cambodia Daily
Cambodia’s garment exports have continued to rise but at a slower pace than earlier in the year, according to government data. ...
REUTERS News Staff
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/24/cambodia-press-exports-garment-idUSL3N0SJ1QS20141024
Phnom Penh port expansion seeks funding solution
With construction on the second phase of a new cargo terminal at the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) set to begin in 2016, officials are now looking for ways to finance the project. Hei Bavy, director general for PPAP, said the $20 million expansion will see ...
Chan Muyhong
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/phnom-penh-port-expansion-seeks-funding-solution
Bird’s nest producers eye China market
Edible bird’s nest producers have called on the Ministry of Commerce (MoC) to facilitate the industry’s access to the Chinese market. Nang Sothy, president of the Cambodia Bird’s Nest Federation, said yesterday that the association had requested the MoC to include the delicacy on the list ...
Chan Muyhong
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/bird%E2%80%99s-nest-producers-eye-china-market
Cambodia’s milled rice exports up 1.2 per cent in first nine months this year
Cambodia’s milled rice export hit 269,370 tonnes in the first nine months of 2014, up 1.2 per cent from 266,123 tonnes over the same period last year, according to latest official data. Seventy-seven companies have brokered Cambodian rice for 57 countries and regions around the world, ...
Far Eastern Agriculture News Staff
http://www.fareasternagriculture.com/crops/agriculture/cambodia-s-milled-rice-exports-up-1-2-per-cent-in-first-nine-months-this-year
Cambodian river sand turns up in India—again
Nearly 80,000 tons of Cambodian river sand has been sitting at a seaport in India for nearly two months, the second haul to turn up there in two years, despite a 2009 ban on the export of river sand handed down by Prime Minister Hun ...
Chris Mueller and Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/cambodian-river-sand-turns-up-in-india-again-70164/
Heads meet to save regional rubber industry
Cambodian rubber industry representatives met with Asia’s major exporters of the commodity last week to set a floor price for natural rubber in an effort to salvage an industry suffering from plummeting values. ...
Kang Sothear and George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/heads-meet-to-save-regional-rubber-industry-70004/