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Cambodia’s first dairy plant
Cambodia’s first dairy factory is being planned for Phnom Penh, as one of the owners, a Vietnam-based dairy company, hopes to tap strong local demand for its products. The 2.7-hectare factory, in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ), would produce condensed milk, yoghurt and UHT ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013042565223/Business/cambodia-s-first-dairy-plant.html
Construction Sector Faces Chronic Labor Shortage
Cambodia’s construction sector is facing a massive labor shortage due to a recent boom in construction projects throughout the country and workers migrating en masse to Thailand in search of higher wages. In 2012, the construction sector expanded rapidly with the total value of approved projects ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/construction-sector-faces-chronic-labor-shortage-19742/
Cambodia's Angkor heritage site greets 694,700 foreign visitors in Q1, up 8 pct
Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temples, one of the world heritage sites, received 694,700 foreign tourists in the first quarter of this year, a 8 percent rise from the same period last year, the statistics of Siem Reap provincial tourism department showed Friday. The top three countries visiting ...
Salt Harvest Below Forecast
The Kep-Kompot Salt Producers Community says salt production fell nearly 50 per cent below forecasts because of early rainfall, which is assumed to end salt harvesting for the year. Prime Minister Hun Sen, however, has stepped in to ensure that price remains stable. Hun Sen ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013041965112/Business/salt-harvest-below-forecast.html
France looks to increase exports to the Kingdom
France said it plans to boost its exports to Cambodia as French foreign direct investment in the country – worth $3.18 million in 2012 – continues to rise, officials said on Wednesday. Among this year’s investments, concessions and construction company group Vinci, the largest building ...
Betargo readies for the contruction of its 18,000t per annum feed mill in Cambodia
Betagro (Cambodia) readies for the construction of its new feed mill in Phnom Penh SEZ. The feed mill is to be constructed in the capital’s Special Economic Zone, located 12km from the city center. The company is investing USD$17.2 million in the new project. The plant construction ...
Cambodia Organizes Real Estate Exhibition
A 3-day Cambodia-Real Estate Exhibition 2013 kicked off [in Phnom Penh] on Monday as the country’s construction sector is rapidly growing in the last couple of years. The event, held at the Diamond Island Exhibition Center, brought together 68 exhibitors who are real estate developers, real ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-04/08/c_132292162.htm
Details murky on Koh Pich dredge
Even as bulldozers slowly pushed freshly dredged sand into the Tonle Bassac yesterday, expanding Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich, developers and officials could say little about the massive project slated to occupy the new space – a 555-metre tower that would be the tallest in Asia, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013040564919/National/details-murky-on-koh-pich-dredge.html
Koh Rong airport plans foggy
Plans are in place for a new $10 million international airport on Koh Rong island, but questions remain as to when construction would commence and when funding would be available. Designs for the roughly 7,200-square-metre airport terminal, which will consist of Khmer- and resort-style architecture, were ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013040564911/Business/koh-rong-airport-plans-foggy.html
Better Recovery for Construction and Real Estate Sector
2012 has been an impressive year for Cambodia’s economic resilience. Among the many sectors that had positively grown are the construction and property development [sic] and they are expected to be among the highest growth achievers in the current year as well. In 2012, the ...
Cambodia's economy to grow by 7 pct in 2013: finance minister
Cambodia’s economy is projected to grow by 7 percent this year, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Keat Chhon said Friday. He said the growth still is contributed by garment exports, tourism, agriculture, real estate and construction. Last year, Cambodia’s GDP per capita was nearly 1,000 ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-03/29/c_132271714.htm
Cambodian Vtrust plans CSX floating
Local real estate company Vtrust Property Group plans to engage an underwriter in as little as two years to help it list on the Cambodia Stock Exchange, the company’s chairman, Kuy Vat, said yesterday. The company is now preparing the necessary documents on its business, corporate ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032764710/Business/cambodian-vtrust-plans-csx-floating.html
Construction begins at bloody eviction site
More than four years after the violent forced eviction of about 800 families from Dey Krahorm in the capital’s high-rent Tonle Bassac commune, small-scale construction is finally beginning on the site. In the past month, the skeletons of a future barbecue restaurant and a beer garden ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032764726/National/construction-begins-at-bloody-eviction-site.html
Bountiful work, but scant wages angers Cambodia
As night falls in Phonm Penh, thousands of weary workers stream from textile factories, reflecting the abundance of jobs created by the clothing industry’s desire for cheap labor. However, as the number of international clothes companies tapping into Cambodia’s workforce grows, so does anger at the ...
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2013/03/17/2003557254
Low pay fuels anger among Cambodia's garment workers
As night falls thousands of weary workers stream from textile factories that fan out across Phnom Penh’s outskirts. The clothing industry’s desire for cheap labour having created an abundance of jobs but as the number of international clothes companies tapping into Cambodia’s workforce grows, so does ...
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1259888/1/.html
Wal-Mart and H&M Pay $200,000 to Cambodian Workers in Historic Settlement
When tales emerge from the retail supply chain, they’re usually tragic, like the alleged sweatshop conditions at the Foxconn (HKG:2038) plants that churn out Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) products, or the 112 Bangladeshi workers who died when their factory, where clothes for Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), Sears Holdings (NASDAQ:SHLD), ...
Sihanoukville land prices largely flat
Land prices in Preah Siahnouk province have risen slightly, by 5 to 10 per cent in early 2013, despite increasing numbers of tourists who have visited Cambodia and travelled to the province. Cheng Kheng, director of the CPL real estate company and president of Cambodian Valuers ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013031461949/Real-Estate/sihanoukville-land-prices-largely-flat.html
Camko City’s potential seen
Property experts say the Camko City project has a great deal of potential, after visiting and studying the satellite city last week. Kim Heang, general manager of Khmer Real Estate Co, said that he is very interested in Camko City because he has seen that it ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013031461948/Real-Estate/camko-city-s-potential-seen.html
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 ...
Limited yarn supply troubles Cambodian silk industry
The silk industry of Cambodia is in rapid decline due to limited domestic supply of silk yarn and high cost of imported raw materials. According to the latest data released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)-Cambodia, the Southeast Asian nation imports 395 tonnes of raw ...
http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/textile-news/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=122102
Cambodia’s Economic Growth Will Help Poverty Reduction
Cambodia economic growth was 7.3 percent in 2012. Agriculture grew by 4.3 percent, crops by 4.9 percent, fisheries by 6.7 percent, industry by 9.2 percent, garment [sector] by 6.9 percent and the service industry by 8.1 percent, said Dr Hang Chuon Naron, Secretary of State ...
Bonna Reality inks deal with Malaysian real estate developer
Bonna Realty Group yesterday signed an agreement with the National 6A Investment, a Malaysian real estate developer, to be an authorised sales agent for a 10-storey condominium that is currently being constructed and is expected to be finished by the end of 2014. The National 6A ...
Cambodian, Chinese entrepreneurs meet to seek business chances
The 2013 China’s Zhejiang and Cambodia matchmaking symposium was held here on Tuesday to seek opportunities to expand business ties between China and Cambodia. Gong Zheng said the Chinese firms are doing businesses in the fields of agriculture, infrastructure development, construction and real estate, mineral ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-03/05/c_132210667.htm
Foreign activists detained
Police arrested five activists from labour-rights group Clean Clothes Campaign yesterday outside the E Garment factory in Kandal province. Neuv Sakhan, deputy director of the Kandal provincial immigration police, told the Post four women and one man, from Norway, Belgium, England and Austria, had been taken ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013030661780/National/foreign-activists-detained.html