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Cambodia Offers Rice To Indonesia - Bernama

Indonesia will soon sign a contract to import 100, 000 metric tones of rice from Cambodia over the next 5 years On his part, Hun Sen invited Indonesian Investors to invest in poor harvest businesses such as rice hulling in Cambodia ...

http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v6/newsworld.php?id=690200

Bonsues 'won't' end strikes

A pay rise for the nation’s garment workers is imminent, but if recent strikes are anything to go by, the US$10 monthly increase from September 1 won’t be enough to stop them from walking off the job. Central to the demands of strikers at four garment ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012082858320/National-news/bonuses-wont-end-strikes.html

Indonesia, Cambodia 'to sign rice pact'

Indonesia plans to sign an agreement to import rice from Cambodia if needed to supplement domestically produced supply, Iman Pambagyo, director general of international trade cooperation at the Trade Ministry, said on Tuesday. “The agreement will be similar with the ones Indonesia has with Thailand and ...

http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/309760/indonesia-cambodia-to-sign-rice-pact

Supplier of Gap in Spotlight

Workers striking at Ocean Garment factory say they still fear for their safety after being ordered back to work on Friday, where a manager accused of sexual harassment continues to work. More than 2,500 workers at the Phnom Penh factory – which supplies retail giant Gap ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012082758304/National-news/gap-supplier-in-spotlight-for-sexual-harrassment-allegations.html

Provocative Posters Spark Renewed Protests

More than 2,000 garment factory workers protested Saturday and plan to strike today in support of union organizers who face prosecution in court for alleged “incitement” over demonstrations at the plant, a union representative said yesterday. The workers at Ocean Garment factory began demonstrating on Aug. ...

Money machines

The secong Cambodia International Textile and Garment Exhibition from August 17 to 20 aimed to boost the Kingdom’s all-important garment sector by highlighting high-tech machinery which could boost factories’ productivity and bottom lines. Over 2,700 square meters at the Diamond Island Convention and Exhibition Center, the ...

Fired up

After a day sewing, treating fabrics and ironing, workers steam out of the Maurea Garment Factory in a suburb of Phnom Penh. Unilke some other factories, this one doesn’t have to deal with work slowdowns due to electricity outages of high monthly energy bills since ...

Indonesia Bonding With Cambodia in Trade

Indonesia was involved in advanced talks in Cambodia during the late 1980s. Known as the Jakarta Informal Meeting, Indonesia was trying to help put an end to Vietnam’s invasion of Cambodia, in what some observers called the Third Indochina War (1978-91). Despite these close ties, ...

http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/business/indonesia-bonding-with-cambodia-in-trade/540441

U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk to Visit Cambodia, Meet with Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Ministers

United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk will be in Siem Reap, Cambodia, August 30-31, to participate in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Economic Ministers’ meeting and the ASEAN-U.S. Business Summit. The ten ASEAN countries are key economic and strategic partners for the United States, ...

Cambodia And Vietnam Trade Continues To Grow In 2012

Trade between Vietnam and Cambodia exceeded US$1.9 billion dollars in the first seven months of this year, the High Quality Vietnamese Goods Business Association said yesterday. Speaking at a news conference, an association official said Vietnamese exports to Cambodia came to $1.6 billion in the seven ...

Cambodia's Economic Growth Expects To Be 7% In 2012

“Cambodia’s economic growth will stand about 7 per cent this year,” director general of National Bank of Cambodia His Excellency Chea Chanto said. He adds: “Cambodia is trying to diversify its economies to boost the growth.” At the same time, the report from World Bank said: ...

Strikes lead to cut in orders

Global brands Levi’s and Gap had slashed their orders from the Tai Yang and Camwell garment factories by 20 per cent, the factories’ boss said yesterday, amid the longest strike in the industry’s recent history. Tai Yang Enterprises manager Wu Minghuor said his company had shuttered ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012082458272/National-news/factory-strikes-lead-to-cut-in-orders.html

Vietnam needs more nuts

Cambodian cashew nut traders believe the market price for cashew nuts will increase, as demand from Vietnamese markets increases along with international demand. Vietnam’s domestic enterprise imported nearly 157,000 tonnes of raw cashew nuts in the first seven months of the year, mostly from Cambodia, ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012082458254/Business/vietnam-demands-more-cashew-nuts.html

Southeast Asian Rice Exporters Eye Cartel to Boost Prices

Southeast Asia’s rice-exporting nations are in talks to create a formal alliance aimed at boosting prices and increasing export revenues, a move that could cause tensions with rice-importing nations. An alliance of Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar will aim to share information and cooperate ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444812704577606962232854218.html?reflink=barrons_redirect

Trade With Vietnam Grows Through Seven Months

Trade between Vietnam and Cambodia grew 22.36 percent in the first seven months of the year to reach $1.96 billion compared to the same period last year, a Vietnamese official said yesterday. Vu Thinh Cuong, commercial counselor at the Vietnam Trade Office, said imports from Vietnam ...

Accused Manager Put on Leave; Workers Lodge Complaints

The manager accused of abusing female workers at the Ocean Garment factory in Phnom Penh, and who provoked days of public demonstrations by thousands of workers to have him fired, has been put on leave, while his alleged victims have lodged complaints against him with ...

ASEAN-US business summit next week

United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk, will spend two days, August 30 and 31, in Siem Reap attending the 44th ASEAN Economic Ministers’ meeting and the ASEAN-US Business Summit. He is also scheduled to meet separately with Cambodian leaders and other participating ministers to discuss bilateral ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012082458256/Business/siem-reap-to-host-asean-us-business-summit.html

Rice Exporters Eye Cartel to Boost Prices

Southeast Asia’s rice-exporting nations are in talks to create a formal alliance aimed at boosting prices and increasing export revenues, a move that could cause tensions with rice-importing nations. But any bid by the five countries to drive up prices will be a challenge, given previous ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB30000872396390444812704577606962232854218.html

Clash, charges roil Ocean

More than 2,500 Ocean Garment factory workers jostled with about 100 military police in the capital’s Dangkor district yesterday in their second protest march over the alleged sexual harassment of four female employees. In an inter-governmental ministerial committee meeting on Tuesday, Ocean – which supplies ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012082358244/National-news/sex-charges-roil-ocean-factory.html

Businesses know little of the letter of the law

Cambodia entrepreneurs faced considerable problems when it came to obeying tax laws and other regulations, officials at a seminar about that very subject said yesterday. The VDB Loi company organised the seminar on “New Practices and Preferential Trade Rules” with the co-operation of the General Department of Customs and ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012082358230/Business/businesses-can-benefit-from-cambodian-law.html

Workforce Must Improve to Compete in Asean Bloc

Cambodia’s workforce must quickly improve its skills base if it is to compete with other countries in the region when the Asean bloc becomes a single market in 2015, officials said yesterday at a seminar held in Phnom Penh. When the Asean Economic Community goes ahead in ...

Another mass fainting, but H&M 'not to blame'

The second mass fainting in a month at Kampong Chhnang’s M&V garment factory, a supplier for global retailer H&M, saw 23 women taken to hospital yesterday, bringing the total number of affected workers in August to 67. Noun Sam Ol, president of the Free Trade Union ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012082358238/National-news/another-mass-fainting-more-fingers-pointed.html

Opportunities, challenges for ASEAN

Cambodia will face both challenges and opportunities when the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) combines its 10 countries into a single market for economic development, a move intended for 2015, officials said during a round-table discussion yesterday. Sok Siphanna, an adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012082358243/National-news/cambodians-will-compete-with-asean-countries.html

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