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Cambodia plans to be gem and jewelry market supply in Southeast Asia region, commerce minister said at the fourth Cambodia gems and jewelry fair 2012 at Koh Pich (Diamond Island Center) on June 14. He adds: Ministry of Commerce is continuing its efforts to monitor and ...

While the Kingdom’s biggest industrial pig farming company is seeing steady growth as the nation’s population and hunger for pork grows, small pig farmers are having a hard time of it in the face of fluctuating prices and lower cost imports from Thailand, according to experts and insiders who came to a recent ...

More than 200 people in Cambodia’s eastern Svay Rieng province were hospitalized after eating imported vegetables from Vietnam that were not properly washed or cooked, the French-based Pasteur Institute of Cambodia has confirmed after running tests. The case has highlighted an already acknowledged need for more domestic vegetable production and less dependency on imported produce. The ...

Cambodia so far has not feared for creating ASEAN economic community 2015 and deeper ASEAN and East Asia regional integration as the region will have free flow of goods, worker mobilization, finance and investment,” trade minister Cham Prasidh said on June 12. His announcement was made during the workshop of ASEAN economic community 2015. “We ...

Cambodia recorded a trade deficit in equivalent to 1.1 billion US dollars in the first five months of this year, according to a report of the Commerce Ministry on Saturday. During January-May period this year, the report showed that the country’s total import and export value ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen, in his capacity as Asean chairman, will lead a delegation to Mexico on Monday and Tuesday to attend the Group of 20 summit, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. Foreign Minister Hor Namhong will join Mr. Hun Sen at the summit, which ...

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 ...

Large quantities of cheap green bean exports from Thailand are driving down prices of the product in Kompong Cham province by as much as 40 percent compared to the same period last year and forcing farmers to grow other crops, officials and farmers said yesterday. The ...

U.S. Ambassador to Asean David Carden met with judges and Justice Ministry representatives from all 10 Asean countries in Phnom Penh yesterday to discuss the importance of fighting against corruption and upholding the rule of law for foreign investors. “Cambodia will prosper if outside investment comes ...

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that she will take part in next month’s meeting of Southeast Asian nations and regional powers in Cambodia.

Clinton met in Washington with Cambodia’s foreign minister, Hor Namhong, as the developing nation prepares to host this year’s ...

More than 70 judges and judicial officials from ASEAN member states attended a US-supported ASEAN workshop in Phnom Penh yesterday to discuss legal and judicial cooperation, the protection of investors and the state of the rule of law in the region.   ...

“Two-way trade volume between Cambodia and Japan reached over $513 million in 2011 and it will be expected to increase further for 2012, a senior official from JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization) here said on Friday. Kiyotaka Doho said: Japan’s exporting to Cambodia was worth about $205,430,000 and it was increased about 129.8% for year-on-year. And ...

Police in Phnom Penh yesterday afternoon began rounding up homeless people as part of the city’s preparations for next month’s Asean Foreign Ministers Meeting, officials said. “We collect them because we don’t want them to affect foreign tourists as we prepare for the arrival of the ...

Milled-rice exporters have called on the government to continue its efforts in reducing electricity and transportation costs, two of the main obstacles facing the government’s goal of exporting 1 million tonnes of milled rice by 2015. At a working group on rice exports on Friday, 40 ...

The Kratie Provincial Court yesterday issued a search warrant for the home of Chum Vuthy, a man who allegedly trades in luxury wood, in Kratie City, provincial police said. Mr. Vuthy had been transporting a load of illegal lumber from Stung Treng City to Vietnam and ...

The cargo of merchandises including clothes, agriculture products, construction, electronics and other products through the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) has increased 10 percent in the first five months of this year in comparison to the same period last year, according to PPAP’s statistics. ...

Phnom Penh Autonomous Port plans to buy a rice-polishing machine from China, and will also look to build a rice storage facility in Kandal province. These moves, officials said, were intended to push along Cambodia’s rice trade during a period of uncertainty for the industry. Facilities ...

Stevia Nutra Corporation — (The Company), an Agro-Management company focused on stevia agronomics is pleased to announce that it has successfully acquired 50 acres of prime agricultural land in Cambodia for its new innovative Stevia Propagation Centre (SPC). The property is located just outside the town ...

The falling price of gold on international markets is leading to high sales of the precious metal in Cambodia as consumers fear prices could continue to tumble, gold traders said yesterday. Gold on the international market traded at $1,632.90 per troy ounce in New York yesterday ...

A sharp increase in garment factory strikes this year has raised eyebrows among industry insiders, who say the disputes could lead to a decrease in year-on-year export growth. The Arbitration Council, which hears work-related disputes such as factory strikes, saw claims nearly double during the first ...

The real growth rate of the service sector has been revised upwardly by half a percentage point against our previous prediction to 5.4 percent year-on-year in 2012, on the back of higher growth expected in the local trade and transport subsectors. The growth outlook of this sector in 2013 is quite ...

Cambodia and the United States on Friday reconfirmed the good bilateral ties as president Barack Obama plans to visit Cambodia in November and this year, Cambodia chairs ASEAN. The two sides welcomed the improved ties between Cambodia and America, Koy Kuong, spokesman at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation said ...

Local rice miller Mega Green said it planned to export about 240 tons of milled rice to the Chinese market by the end of June – a second round of test exports to Cambodia’s northern neighbour. Renne Outh, owner of Mega Green Imex Cambodia, told the ...

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 ...