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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 ...

About 200 vendors from Phnom Penh's Tomnup Market gathered in front of the Appeal Court yesterday morning to protest an earlier ruling by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court that paved the way for the market's reconstruction. ... In 2011, the market's owner, New Rich Cambodia ...

The number of licensed pawnshops in the country has surged since the government began registering them in 2010, leaving some pawnbrokers claiming revenue losses of 30 to 50 percent due to oversaturation in the market. Ly Seng Cheng, a pawnbroker at the Khlaing Rum Sev pawnshop ...

Revenue growth in the advertising sector increased just 4 percent to $24.1 million during the first quarter of the year compared to the same period in 2011, as mobile phone operators struggling to make a profit in an oversaturated market were forced to cut their ...

The price of Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority shares have fluctuated only US$0.04 during the past 12 days of trading. The low price and a lack of liquidity on the market may account the low volume of shares traded, insiders said, which averaged at 55,773 during ...

The Credit Guarantee and Investment Facility (CGIF), an agency set up by Asean+3 and the Asian Development Bank to help develop local-currency bond and cross-border bond markets in the region, has started to operate, says chief executive Kiyoshi Nishimura. He said the CGIF will fill in ...

Garment and footwear exports from Cambodia increased 15.29 percent to $1.29 billion in the first three months of the year compared to the same period in 2011, according to figures released yesterday by the Ministry of Commerce. While exports to the European Union rose 46.76 percent to $376.14 million in ...

Frontier and emerging economies such as Cambodia present companies with a specific set of challenges and risk, both real and perceived, beyond those found in more developed markets. A risk category getting ever- increasing attention is that of “social risk”, roughly defined as the risk of ...

Sellers have dominated the Cambodia Securities Exchange for the last seven days of trading, and the downward trend for the single stock, Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority, was expected to continue into next week, experts said. PPWSA closed down 4.6 per cent yesterday at 7,250 riel ...

The Cambodia Securities Exchange has seen a sharp decrease in action this week, with trading volume yesterday falling to 3,453 shares, down nearly 100 per cent from Monday. Despite the drop, which was accompanied by a strong shift from institutional to retail investors, experts have stressed the time ...

Heightened global food and fuel prices continued to inflate Cambodia’s market in September, and experts said flood damages would elevate costs further toward the end of the year. Year-on-year inflation hit 6.7 per cent in last month, up 1 per cent from August, according to data ...

Cambodia has officially opened a stock exchange, which economists say will provide a chance for the development of the country and job creation. However, they warn that mismanagement of the bourse could also lead to economic woes. “When this stock market goes well, it will ...

Rubber exports from Cambodia increased 84 percent in the first six months of 2011 compared to the same period last year, according to figures released by Camcontrol, the government's import-export inspection agent. Cambodia exported 21,511 tons of rubber, worth $102 million, during the first half ...

Meat prices on Phnom Penh’s markets have seen large gains over the first half of the year, according to figures from the Ministry of Commerce’s Trade Promotion Department. ... Economics Institute of Cambodia Senior Researcher Neou Sieha said yesterday that meat prices had seen significant increase ...