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PHNOM PENH—In its home country, the Cambodian riel has long played second fiddle to the U.S. dollar—but a new stock exchange and government de-dollarization policies could bolster it in coming years, policy makers and experts say. Dollars change hands with greater frequency than riel in the ...

Cambodia’s largest bank, Acleda, is looking to get in early on Burma’s economic reawakening with plans to open three microfinance branches in the country as soon as January, the bank’s CEO said yesterday. In Channy said he discussed the plan on Monday with a visiting Burmese ...

Rising oil prices fuelled a month-to-month inflationary increase of 5.4 per cent through February and March, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics. Factors such as sanctions on Iranian oil, as well as floods that depleted Cambodian crops last year accounted for the rise ...

Revenues generated from rubber exports dropped 25 percent to $41 million in the first four months of the year compared to the same period in 2011, as rubber prices on the international market plummeted, according to data released yesterday by the Ministry of Commerce. While rubber ...

Revenues generated by insurance firms increased 40 percent ro $18.9 million between january and June compared to the same period last year, according to data released yesterday by the General Insurance Association of Cambodia (GIAC). Fire insurance continued to reign as the sector’s top earner, accounting ...

About 2,500 workers from the Ocean Garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Pur Senchey  district attempted to march yesterday to the Ministry of Labor with demands to remove a foreign factory manager, who they allege has used violence and made derogatory comments to female workers. As they ...

Cambodia’s trade with Malaysia grows sharply in 1st 4 months of Y 2011 The bi-lateral trade between Cambodia and Malaysia increased by 75% in the 1st 4 months of this year, compared to the same period last year, said a senior commerce official Wednesday. From January to ...

The ties between Cambodia and China in trade, investment and tourism have steadily grown from year to year thanks to good relations between the two countries, Cambodian Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh said Tuesday. “China is one of our key trading partners. The two-way trade volume ...

The Kingdom’s first life insurance company, Cambodian Life, launched yesterday, courting a market almost entirely unfamiliar with the service. Industry insiders said demand for the products would need time to grow. The establishment of Cambodian Life in the Kingdom would develop confidence in the market and ...

A new system of regional appeal courts is moving closer to reality as the Ministry of Justice attempts to resolve the bottleneck of appeals in the justice system, officials said yesterday. Currently, appellants can wait up to five years or more to have their cases heard ...

Cambodia approved a total of $479.68 million in new investment projects between January and June with more than 70 new ventures in the pipeline, according to date released yesterday by the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). Investments in the garment sector continued to dominate new investments, comprising 49 of ...

Four days after requesting permission to get medical treatment outside prison, jailed radio station owner Mam Sonando, who Amnesty International considers “prisoner of conscience”, has yet to receive a reply from prison officials, an associate said yesterday. On Thursday Mr. Sonando requested outside medical treatment for ...

More than 60 monks will march across Pailin province next week in an effort to educate migrant workers on ways to protect themselves from being infected by malaria, health workers and officials said yesterday. Migrant workers are particularly at risk for malaria because they often sleep ...

Vietnam organized the largest- ever trade fair on Thursday, vowing to boost the bilateral trade to $3 billion this year. Speaking at the opening of the 5-day event at Mondial Center, Vu Kim Hanh, chairwoman of the Business Association of High Quality Vietnam Goods, said the ...

A busty woman with a scratchy voice shrieks into an intricate set up of radios, microphones and walkie-talkies, her tone not unlike that of a breathless Flemington race-caller. The woman is in continuous contact with up to 100 men peppered over rice fields fringing Battambang, analyzing the ...

Viettel (Cambodia) Co Ltd expects earnings to rise almost 10 percent to about $280 million in 2012, deputy chief Tran Le Phong said. The Vietnamese operator of the Metfone network expects to pay $60 million in taxes this year, up from $52 million last year ...

PHNOM PENH – Cambodian and Chinese firms on Friday signed a number of memorandums of understanding (MOUs) on business cooperation in the fields of agriculture, mineral resources, food, garment, and electronic products. ...

Cambodia’s inflation rose by 2.2 per cent in August compared to the same month last year, according to the monthly data from the National Institute of Statistics. The increase was due to the rise in food and the fluctuation of gasoline prices. Government officials and economists said the ...

The Phnom Penh Court of Appeal ruled Friday that Beehive Radio owner Mam Sonando should continue serving his 20-year sentence for sedition. On October 1, the radio station owner was sentenced to 20 years in jail and fined 10 million riel in relation to a ...