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Cambodian, Chinese companies ink two business deals
Two business agreements were signed between 21 companies from East China Fujian province and their Cambodian counterparts at a business matching meeting here Sunday. Of the two agreements signed between the two sides, one was between China’s Fuzhou Yifeng Rice Company and Cambodia’s Mekong Oryza ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141214/cambodian-chinese-companies-ink-two-business-deals
BCD Travel expands into Cambodia
BCD Travel is expanding its Asia-Pacific operations with a new office in Cambodia in partnership with Tonle Travel. BCD Travel now has offices in 18 countries in the Asia-Pacfic region. ...
Kate Youde
http://www.citmagazine.com/article/1325953/bcd-travel-expands-cambodia
Presence of Vietnamese goods limited in regional market
Many types of Vietnamese goods have faced strong competition of imported products from nations in the Southeast Asian region, while local businesses have met difficulties in broadening the presence of their products in these markets. For the last ten years, many businesses in Ho Chi Minh ...
Thuy Hai
http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/Business/Economy/2014/12/111809/
Wah Seong subsidiary inks deal to sell green power in Cambodia
Wah Seong Corporation Bhd’s strategy to develop a portfolio of renewable energy and power plants in the region is taking off after it inked an agreement with Cambodia. The company said on Monday its indirect subsidiary had signed a power purchase agreement with Baitang (Kampuchea) Plc ...
The Star News Staff
http://www.thestar.com.my/Business/Business-News/2014/12/08/Wah-Seong-inks-deal-to-sell-green-power-in-Cambodia/?style=biz
Borey 999 investors anxious
The news that tycoon Thong Sarath is wanted for questioning over the murder businessman Ung Meng Cheu, has sent a wave of nervousness through investors who have money tied up with the fugitive property developer. A cabinet deputy chief at the Ministry of Defence, Sarath ...
Sum Manet and Hin Pisei
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/borey-999-investors-anxious
BCD Travel picks Tonle Travel as partner for Cambodia foray
BCD Travel is venturing into Cambodia by tying up with Tonle Travel, a local corporate travel and inbound tour specialist with whom it has already enjoyed a working relationship of more than four years. ...
TTG Asia News Staff
http://ttgasia.com/article.php?article_id=24263
ADB unveils 800 mln USD investment plan for Cambodia
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced Monday that it would provide over 800 million U.S. dollars in concessional finance to Cambodia over five years to support the Southeast Asian nation in economic development and poverty reduction. ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=255836
Coca-Cola plans factory expansion in Cambodia
American solf drink maker Coca-Cola plans to invest additional US$ 100 million for factory expansion in Cambodia from 2014 to 2018, according to Martin Jansen, the Regional Director, Bottling Investment Groups for China and Southeast Asia. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/coca-cola-plans-factory-expansion-in-cambodia-7745
Grand Twins revenue plunges
Grand Twins International (GTI), one of two listed firms on the Cambodian Stock Exchange, has blamed third-quarter revenue losses on garment-worker demonstrations in December and January. On November 21, GTI posted a 40 per cent decline in revenue to $10.9 million for the three-month period ending ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/grand-twins-revenue-plunges
Hitachi looks to set up SEZ in Kandal province
Japanese conglomerate Hitachi on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with three major companies to conduct a feasibility study on the potential development of a new special economic zone (SEZ) in Kandal province, said the CEO of one of the signatories. ...
Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/hitachi-looks-to-set-up-sez-in-kandal-province-72712/
China's ZTE will build 4G LTE project in Cambodia
Chinese telecom device maker ZTE Corporation has won the bid for 4G LTE project construction from Southeast Asia Telecommunications Holdings Limited. At the same time, ZTE Senior Vice President Zhang Renjun and Southeast Asia Telecom Group Chairman Zuo Huazheng signed a memorandum and strategic cooperation agreement ...
China Tech News Staff
http://www.chinatechnews.com/2014/11/18/21136-chinas-zte-will-build-4g-lte-project-in-cambodia
CITS to open Cambodia's first non-airport duty-free shop
China International Travel Service Group (CITS) will open a duty-free shop (DFS) in Cambodia next month, the first non-airport DFS in the country, it announced on Sunday. ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=252924
Gov't audit shows Vietnam Rubber Group missing millions
Contentious plantation giant Vietnam Rubber Group reportedly “lost” nearly $391 million of state funds over five years, including $22.75 million from a rubber plantation in Cambodia, an official investigation into the firm’s dealings has found, according to Vietnamese media. Hanoi’s anti-corruption body, the General Inspectorate, last ...
Daniel Pye and May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-audit-shows-vietnam-rubber-group-missing-millions
New lotto company enters a shrinking industry
A Hong Kong company is hoping to attract a sizeable slice of Cambodia’s lottery market with the opening of outlets in Phnom Penh and around the country next month, according to the CEO of the firm’s local subsidiary. EGame Solutions, the parent company of Cambodian Mark ...
George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/new-lotto-company-enters-a-shrinking-industry-72046/
Cambodia, Japan trade up
Cambodia is quickly becoming a hub for Japanese exports, according to the latest figures from the Japan External Trade Agency, JETRO. The state-run agency’s latest trade figures show Cambodia exported more than $584 million worth of locally made products to Japan over the first nine months ...
Hor Kimsay
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-japan-trade
Cathay Pacific to start freighter service to Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Cathay Pacific Airways has announced the extension of its freighter network with the launch of new services to Cambodian capital city Phnom Penh. ...
LBR Freight Air News Staff
http://air.logistics-business-review.com/news/cathay-pacific-to-start-freighter-service-to-phnom-penh-cambodia-041114-4426296
New companies registered in Cambodia jump 36 pct in 9 months
Cambodia has issued operating licenses to 3,025 new companies in the first nine months of 2014, up 36 percent over the same period last year, the Ministry of Commerce said on Tuesday. Foreign companies were 1,335, an increase of 20 percent, as local registrations saw a ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141104/new-companies-registered-cambodia-jump-36-pct-9-months
Donaco in negotiations to buy Cambodian casino business
Donaco International Ltd has signed an exclusive term sheet to acquire “a significant gaming and hospitality business in Cambodia”, the company said. It did not provide further details on the acquisition target. ...
GGRAsia News Staff
http://www.ggrasia.com/donaco-in-negotiations-to-buy-cambodian-casino-business/
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
Campu Bank sees gains in first 9 months
Cambodia Public Bank (Campu Bank), a subsidiary of the Malaysian Public Bank Group (PBB), posted strong gains during the first nine months of the year. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/campu-bank-sees-gains-first-9-months
Cambodia tax system worse off
Cambodia’s taxation system fell five places on the World Bank’s 2015 Doing Business index (DBI). The index, which tallied up 230 business reforms from 189 economies, showed the ease of paying taxes in Cambodia has declined from position 85 in 2014 to 90 this year. Cambodia’s ...
Eddie Morton
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-tax-system-worse
Starting a business in Cambodia is getting harder, report says
Almost every aspect of starting or operating a business in Cambodia is becoming more difficult, according to a World Bank report released Wednesday. “Starting a business in Cambodia requires 11 procedures, takes 101.0 days, costs 139.5 percent of income per capita and requires paid-in minimum ...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/starting-a-business-in-cambodia-is-getting-harder-report-says-71343/
CamKo struggles to move beyond crash
From the start, the project seemed impossibly ambitious: A $2-billion South Korean satellite city—complete with condominiums, office space, luxury villas, a shopping mall, health clinics, banks and an airport—on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. Claiming the land was not properly appraised, and that the decision ...
George Styllis and Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/camko-struggles-to-move-beyond-banks-collapse-71320/
Poor electricity and labor force hurting economy, report says
The World Bank and Asian Development Bank issued a report on Tuesday, urging Cambodia to improve its electricity supply and workforce in order to be competitive. Intermittent electricity, informal payments and a low-skill labor force are all major constraints to doing business in Cambodia, the ...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/poor-electricity-and-labor-force-hurting-economy-report-says/2499227.html