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Garment, footwear exports on the rise

The total value of exports from the Kingdom’s garment and footwear industry increased sharply this first quarter by 39.1 percent to some $2 billion compared to about $1.5 billion in the same period last year, according to figures released by the Ministry of Commerce. ...

Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26220/garment--footwear-exports-on-the-rise/

German MP calls for reform

Prime Minister Hun Sen told a visiting German federal minister that there was no political crisis in Cambodia, despite recent government action depicting the contrary, and claimed that opposition leader Kem Sokha was being sought by police because of an individual fault that could not ...

Ven Rathavong And Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26183/german-mp-calls-for-reform/

EU calls for release of officials

The European Union (EU) has called on the government to release the Adhoc, National Election Committee and United Nations officials who have been charged and imprisoned over the sex scandal involving acting opposition party president Kem Sokha. ...

Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24681/eu-calls-for-release-of-officials/

Expect even stronger investment flows from EU, US in 2016: economists

Several new trade pacts will help Vietnam attract more foreign investors next year as the country will become more open and better connected to some of the world’s largest markets, economists say. ...

Ngan Anh
http://www.thanhniennews.com/business/expect-even-stronger-investment-flows-from-eu-us-in-2016-economists-57387.html

EU, Vietnam sign free trade deal

The EU and Vietnam on Wednesday signed a free trade deal that removes nearly all tariffs between Europe and the Southeast Asian nation. EU exports to Vietnam, meanwhile, are dominated by high-tech products including electrical machinery and equipment, aircraft, vehicles and pharmaceuticals. ...

AFP News Staff
http://www.thanhniennews.com/politics/eu-vietnam-sign-free-trade-deal-55555.html

Businesses foresee challenge from EU-VN trade deal

Industry insiders say that the looming Vietnam-EU free trade agreement, which gives Cambodia’s neighbour duty-free exports to the European market, may not have and immediate impact, but will potentially eat into similar advantages the Kingdom enjoys in the longer-term.​ ...

Ananth Baliga and Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/businesses-foresee-challenge-eu-vn-trade-deal

Everything But Arms treaty under scrutiny after bicycle trade problems

The European Union is increasingly scrutinising abuse of its Everything But Arms treaty with Cambodia, underscoring both the importance of the zero-tariff agreement to the Kingdom’s economy and the potential for its misuse. In Cambodia’s rice sector, fears that cheap rice from neighbouring countries is ...

Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/everything-arms-treaty-under-scrutiny-after-bicycle-trade-problems

Time to revisit an ASEAN-EU FTA?

On May 19, 2015, the European Union (EU) adopted a Joint Communication: The EU and ASEAN: a partnership with a strategic purpose. The communication calls for taking “trade relations with ASEAN to a different level and working towards an ambitious region-to-region free trade agreement (FTA) ...

Ji Xianbai
http://bit.ly/1AP2O8P

Myanmar poses threat to Cambodian rice exports to European Union, say exporters

Cambodian rice exporters are expressing concern that the country’s rice exports to the European Union (EU) under the Everything But Arms (EBA) agreement have been facing a stiff competition from Myanmar, which also exports rice to the EU under the EBA agreement, according to local ...

Oryza News Staff
http://bit.ly/1AJVI5M

Rice lobby, EU discuss Italian trade complaint

A visiting delegation from the European Union met with the Cambodia Rice Federation yesterday to discuss concerns raised by Italian rice producers, who say duty-free Cambodian rice imports are undercutting the Italian market. Sok Puthyvuth, president of the Cambodia Rice Federation, said yesterday that the purpose ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/rice-lobby-eu-discuss-italian-trade-complaint

More funds to fight climate change

The European Union yesterday pledged an additional €6 million to the Cambodia Climate Change Alliance Programme, as the 10-year plan, first implemented in 2010, entered its second phase of development. ...

Rebecca Moss
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/more-funds-fight-climate-change

CRF calls to tighten code of conduct

The Cambodian Rice Federation has pushed for the full implementation of a code of conduct which bars Cambodian firms from exporting cheap rice from neighbouring countries under its own name. The code of conduct sought to reassure the European Union that Cambodia was not flouting the ...

Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/crf-calls-tighten-code-conduct

EU seeks negotiation on timber agreement

As Vietnam and Laos negotiate to enter a European Union trade agreement aimed at improving forestry governance, the EU – one of the world’s top timber importers – is urging Cambodia to join the scheme. ...

Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/eu-seeks-negotiation-timber-agreement

EU hires experts to help gov’t compensate evictees

The European Union (EU) said this week that it has hired a pair of consultants to help the government design a system for compensating the thousands of families believed to have had their homes or farms illegally confiscated by the country’s private sugar plantations. ...

Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eu-hires-experts-to-help-govt-compensate-evictees-76567/

Appeal aired: EU hears out groups from Battambang

The European Union will speak to Cambodia’s government on behalf of two communities in Battambang involved in land disputes, according to the rights group Adhoc. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/appeal-aired-eu-hears-out-groups-battambang

EU to support agriculture sector and improve education in Cambodia

The European Union has announced new funding of EUR410 million under its bilateral cooperation with Cambodia over the period 2014-2020 to continue its support to Cambodia’s progress. ...

RTT News Staff
http://www.rttnews.com/2434240/eu-to-support-agriculture-sector-and-improve-education-in-cambodia.aspx?type=gn&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=sitemap

EU funding to the Kingdom rises threefold

The European Union’s delegation to Cambodia will almost triple its funding to the Kingdom over the next five years because the bloc’s aid policy has shifted its focus to least developed countries. Jean-François Cautain, ambassador for the European Union’s delegation to Cambodia, announced the EU would ...

Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eu-funding-kingdom-rises-threefold

Cambodia to begin rice exports to various countries

Cambodia’s minister of commerce has announced that the country will step up efforts to export rice to Africa, Middle East and the European Union. In his three-day visit to Kuwait in December 2014, Chanthol aimed at opening new avenues for Cambodian-made agricultural goods to enter ...

Far Eastern Agriculture News Staff
http://www.fareasternagriculture.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4483:cambodia-to-start-rice-export-to-various-countries&catid=1083&Itemid=98

European Union agrees to investigate Cambodian sugar industry

The European Union has agreed to investigate forced displacement claims in relation to Cambodia’s troubled sugar industry. The move could see thousands of villagers compensated for illegally confiscated land and loss of earnings. The Clean Sugar Campaign – which has been calling on the EU to ...

Kate Hodal
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/10/european-union-cambodia-sugar-industry-human-rights

EU trade commissioner visits Cambodia to boost ties

The European Union (EU) Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht started his visit to Cambodia on Tuesday to bolster bilateral trade link. De Gucht held talks with his Cambodian counterpart Sun Chanthol and both sides agreed to further promote bilateral trade relations for mutual benefits, Ken Ratha, ...

Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-03/18/c_133195945.htm

IMF says Cambodia's strong outlook subject to 'considerable' risks

Cambodia’s strong economic growth and foreign investment are subject to “considerable” downside risks, the International Monetary Fund has warned. A staff report released in Washington late Tuesday said “economic activity remains strong driven by robust exports, with garment exports helped by preferential access to European Union.” At ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=M2FjYzE4NzRmYzQ

World Bank says Cambodian political uncertainty has 'Unclear' impact

The World Bank said Monday that the impact of Cambodia’s political uncertainty was “unclear” but left its growth forecasts unchanged for this year and next year.  “The Cambodian economy remains robust amidst a challenging global economic environment,” the bank said in its East Asia and Pacific ...

The Cambodia Herald Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=OTBjN2JiMjBlMzI

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