Animal feed lucrative but demand not being met
The production of animal feed may be lucrative for family-run businesses, but production is failing to meet the local market’s demand, said industry experts.
Ros Limhy, National Agriculture adviser for the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries’ Tonle Sap Poverty Reduction and Smallholder Development project, and
PH may tap Cambodia rice buffer stocks
The Philippines may decide to choose Cambodia to supply some of the rice it needs to boost its buffer stocks, Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala said on Friday.
Alcala said the government still has to buy 120,000 metric tons of rice to fill the 500,000 metric tons
http://business.inquirer.net/58969/ph-may-tap-cambodia-rice-buffer-stocks
UK to open investment office
The United Kingdom Trade and Investment Office would establish a permanent branch in Phnom Penh in the expectation that economic ties between the two countries would continue to grow, Cambodian and UK officials said yesterday.
Bilateral trade has risen by 300 per cent during the past
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012051856232/Business/uk-to-open-investment-office.html
Boeung Kak 13 held without charge
Thirteen women hauled into police vehicles during a demonstration at Boeung Kak lake on Tuesday were being held without charge at Phnom Penh police headquarters last night.
About 70 Boeung Kak villagers rallied outside Phnom Penh municipal court yesterday in support of the arrested women, who
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052456371/National-news/b-kak-13-held-without-charge.html
Government Creates 4 New Fishing Conservation Areas
In an effort to increase fish stocks, the Ministry of Agriculture on Wednesday adopted a sub-decree to create four conservation areas in Kandal, Kompong Cham, Prey Veng and Takeo provinces where all fishing activities will be prohibited.
Signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on April 6,
Chut Wutty slaying witness questioned
Another witness to the fatal shootings of environmental activist Chut Wutty and military police officer In Rattana was questioned at Koh Kong Provincial Court yesterday.
Bou Orn is the third employee of logging company Timbergreen – a firm Chut Wutty was investigating for alleged illegal logging
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012061456797/National-news/shooting-witness-questioned.html
Officials named after blocking volunteers
Authorities in Stung Treng province have released the names of five government officials whom they arrested on Tuesday in Samki commune for interfering with a corps of youth volunteers sent to measure land as part of the prime minister’s national initiative to grant property to
Drought hits 11 provinces in Cambodia: spokesman
Drought has been hitting 11 out of the 24 cities and provinces in Cambodia and affecting tens of thousands of hectares of rice seedlings, Keo Vy, spokesman and chief of the Cabinet of the National Committee for Disaster Management, said Thursday
The drought-hit provinces are Kampong
Work restarts at Xayaburi dam in Laos -project leader
Work has resumed on a controversial $3.5 billion dam across the Mekong River in Laos, its Thai developer said on Thursday, contradicting Laotian assurances it had been suspended following protests over its environmental impact.
Laos agreed in December to suspend the Xayaburi dam project and said
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/08/16/thailand-laos-xayaburi-idUKL4E8JG0Y420120816
Toll Royal Railways expands
Toll Royal Railways signed two freight logistics agreements with Siam Concrete Group and United Logistics and Distribution at their offices in Phnom Penh’s Central Railway Station yesterday.
SCG Cambodia contracted TRR for the transport and warehousing for bagged cement from Touk Meas in Kampot province to
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012101259265/Business/toll-royal-railways-expands.html
ACLEDA Bank Plc. Extends Mobile Financial Services to New Segments with Mobiliti Reach from Fiserv
A leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, today announced that ACLEDA Bank Plc. (ACLEDA), the largest bank in Cambodia, has extended its ACLEDA Unity mobile banking and payments service to new, untapped consumer segments using Mobiliti Reach™ from Fiserv.
The bank, which has
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/10/28/acleda-bank-plc-extends-mobile-financial-services-/
Potential seen for National Road 4
Land prices along National Road 4 still have the potential to rise, despite the relocation of a number of factories to National Road 3, property experts say.
The price of land goes from $100 to $300 per square metre from Chaom Chao cycle to the
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/Real-Estate/potential-seen-for-national-road-4.html
Cambodia attracts 2.05 bln USD investment projects in 11 months last year
Cambodia had issued licenses to 146 domestic and foreign investment projects with the total investment of 2.05 billion U.S. dollars in the first eleven months last year, showed a report of the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) released Tuesday.
During the period, the
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2013-01/23/c_132123007.htm
Hun Sen Calls on G-8 to Stabilize Food Prices
Going back on an earlier promise not to make any more public speeches before next month’s commune elections, Prime Minister Hun Sen gave the opening address at a two-day conference on food security and nutrition in Phnom Penh yesterday.
At the event, organized by the Council
After Threats to Cut Pay, Garment Workers Strike
Nearly 2,000 workers at the Gawon Apparel Co. garment factory in Kandal province’s Takhmao City protested in front of the factory yesterday after they were informed that they would lose pay for any days missed during the commune election, which takes place Sunday, union representatives
Ahead of High-Level Meetings, City Sweeps More Than Streets
Authorities in Daun Penh district have rounded up more than 120 so-called homeless people, drug users and sex workers ahead of next week’s high-level meetings for Asean and international delegates in Phnom Penh, a district official said yesterday.
Phnom Penh City Hall has also focused
Millions Threatened by Dam in Stung Treng
More studies should be conducted on the controversial Lower Sesan 2 dam in Stung Treng province in order to understand its potential social and environmental effects, Conservation International (C.I.) said in a statement.
The Lower Sesan 2-as well as other dams planned for the Sesan, Srepok
China seen as potential market for Cambodia’s exports
The Commerce Minister said yesterday that China is a potential market for Cambodia’s garment exports and some other agricultural products while the traditional big markets of Europe and the United States are experiencing an economic slowdown.
Cham Prasidh said at the sidelines of the Cambodia-China Trade
Cambodia to face mass return of nationals working in Thailand
Thai and Cambodian labour officials will facilitate the re-employment in Thailand of more than 160,000 Cambodian workers who will possibly be deported to their home country after the nationality verification process ends next Friday, a senior Thai official said today.
The process involves 222,430 Cambodian
http://www.pattayamail.com/news/cambodia-to-face-mass-return-of-nationals-working-in-thailand-19104
Hun Sen Appeals for Kep's Vines to Be Tamed
Prime Minister Hun Sen appealed yesterday for developers and landowners in Kep City to build fences around their neglected properties to prevent vines from creeping onto the street of the coastal resort.
Since much of the land in Kep City is owned by investors who live
