Local brokers still manipulate prices: farmers

Farmers have expressed concern over local brokers’ manipulation of the market during harvest season, reducing buying prices for farmers who have no access to actual market rates. While some farmers have already completed their harvests, others have left their fields barren, fearing brokers will reduce ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/Business/local-brokers-still-manipulate-prices-farmers.html

Less palm sugar due to production delay

Kampong Speu palm sugar production is projected to decrease slightly this year due to a late start, though prices are expected to rise thanks to the sugar’s growing popularity following its geographical indication certification. Despite the drop in production, Hong Hoeung, director of Kampong Speu Palm ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/Business/less-palm-sugar-due-to-production-delay.html

Few S'pore-owned businesses in Cambodia: business owners

PHNOM PENH: There are about a hundred Singapore-owned businesses in Cambodia, mainly located in the capital, Phnom Penh. Many, who set up shop there, feel the numbers have stayed low because there is a perception that the country is not safe. In 2011, Singapore invested close ...

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/economicnews/view/1254251/1/.html

Multiple Skills Needed To Compete in a Future Asean, Economist Says

Young Cambodians must develop diverse workplace skills if they are to compete in an integrated Asean, a leading economist and adviser to the government says. “We have to make sure we are able to do multiple things if others are able to do just one,” the ...

http://www.voacambodia.com/content/multiple-skills-needed-for-asean-competition/1603984.html

Optimism as Cashew Season Gets Under Way

As the cashew-harvesting season in Cambodia’s northeastern provinces begins, farmers are expecting a good crop due to favorable weather conditions last year, an official said yesterday. ...

http://www.cambodiadaily.com

MTZ to set up Belarus-Mekong joint venture in Cambodia

Minsk Tractor Works (MTZ trademark) will make a monetary contribution to the authorized capital of a private company Belarus-Mekong that is being set up in Cambodia. Upon the suggestion of the Industry Ministry of Belarus, the Belarusian company will transfer 32 million Cambodian riels (about ...

http://news.belta.by/en/news/econom?id=706786

Food, beverage imports rise

Cambodia spent about $200 million on food and beverage imports to supply the domestic market last year – an increase of more than 10 per cent from the previous year, official data from the Ministry of Commerce show. Government officials and representatives of the private sector ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013021361334/Business/food-beverage-imports-rise.html

Minimum wage may rise for Cambodian garment workers

The Cambodia’s Ministry of Labour has scheduled a meeting on February 26 with representatives of various unions to discuss the new minimum wage for garment workers in the country. However, the Ministry expects the various workers’ unions to agree on what the new wage should ...

http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/apparel-news/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=120969

Belarus eyes enhanced trade, investment ties with Cambodia

Belarus announced its firm stance to promote bilateral cooperation with Cambodia in trade, investment and tourism for mutual benefits, Vladimir Andreichenko, Chairman of the Belarus Parliament, said Monday. He expressed Belarus’s desire to operate a direct flight to Cambodia. He suggested that the two countries ...

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-02/11/c_132164406.htm

Philippines seeks closer ties with Cambodia

Philippines Vice President Jejomar Binay says Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen supports the signing of agreements between Manila and Phnom Penh in rice trading and in fighting transnational crime. Cambodian officials have also expressed interest in launching direct flights between Manila and Phnom Penh. ...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-02-09/an-philippines2c-cambodia-seek-stronger-ties/4510270?section=business

Cheap gas for Cambodians rationed

Heavily subsidized prices for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and natural gas for vehicles (NGV) in Thailand draw dozens of cars daily from Cambodia to refill their tanks in this Thai border town. But complaints that too many Cambodians are getting a free ride, or rather a ...

http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/335137/curbs-placed-on-cambodian-cars-refilling-gas-in-thai-border-town

Japan’s commerce with Cambodia up

Bilateral trade volume between Cambodia and Japan amounted to $641 million last year, up 25 percent compared with $512 million a year earlier, a report by the Japan External Trade Organization showed Thursday. On the investment side, Japanese firms have begun to focus their ...

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/760900.shtml

Investment Or Imperialism? Tracking China's Big Ambitions In Cambodia

A few years ago this scene would have played out in China. More specifically, it would have played out in a Chinese coastal region to which millions of rural folks had arrived looking for work. A huge hangar, piles of fabrics of all colors at both ...

http://www.worldcrunch.com/business-finance/investment-or-imperialism-tracking-china-039-s-big-ambitions-in-cambodia/cambodia-china-investment-corruption-development/c2s10857/#.URRx2PLEPXQ

Longan farmers in Pailin plan factory

A co-operative of longan farmers in Pailin plans to build a processing factory to increase export capacity as output and demand rise. Meas Loeurn, the co-operative’s leader, told the Post on Wednesday rising demand from China was prompting growing numbers of farmers to cultivate the fruit. “During ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013020861252/Business/longan-farmers-in-pailin-plan-factory.html

Akra co-op signs first rice mill agreement

American business group Akra, led by Cambodian-born former US ambassador to the United Nations, Sichan Siv, has signed an agreement with a rice mill under a new co-operative structure it says puts ownership and profits back in to the hands of Cambodian producers. Akra’s managing director ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013020861251/Business/akra-co-op-signs-first-rice-mill-agreement.html

Another Taiwan Bike Maker to Move to Cambodia

It’s no finalized yet as contracts still have to be signed, but it looks as if another bike maker from Taiwan is setting up shop in Cambodia. It will the 4th one which is to benefit from the duty and quota free status Cambodia made ...

http://www.bike-eu.com/Sales-Trends/Business-trends/2013/2/Another-Taiwan-Bike-Maker-to-Move-to-Cambodia-1168375W/

Cambodia's inflation rate fell to 3 per cent in 2012

Cambodia’s inflation rate fell to an annual three per cent last year, down from 4.9 per cent a year earlier, according to data from the National Bank of Cambodia released in late January. Chea Chanto, the bank’s governor, told an annual meeting in late January that ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013020761219/Business/cambodia-s-inflation-rate-fell-to-3-per-cent-in-2012.html

Local cashew nut exports increasing

Cambodia’s cashew-nut exports increased sharply from 443 tonnes in 2011 to 4,453 tonnes last year, according to the Ministry of Commerce. But observers say these figures do not reflect reality, as a large percentage of exports had not been recorded. An expert in cashew nut production, ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013020661205/Business/local-cashew-nut-exports-increasing.html

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