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Brighton Mining Group to acquire Cambodian gold mining assets
- 19 September 2011
- Proactive Investors
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Brighton Mining Group (ASX: BTN) has completed negotiations for the acquisition of a major interest in gold mining assets held directly or indirectly by Brighton Mining Limited (BML), boosting its concession holdings in Cambodia. These include the interest of BML in the Cambodian concessions held by ...
Chinese company given license to go for gold in Kratie
- 14 September 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
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- Chinese mining company Hing Yuan Hanng Yeak / gold resources / Kbal Damrei commune / Kratie Province / mining / Ministry of Industry Mines and Energy / Sambor district
The government has given a Chinese mining company the right to extract gold from 28 square km of land in Kratie province’s Sambor district, a provincial official said yesterday. On July 5, the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy granted Hing Yuan Hanng Yeak Co Ltd ...
U.S.-Cambodia Looking for Investment Possibilities to Boost Economic Ties
- 1 September 2011
- Xinhua News
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Phnom Penh– A group of U.S. investors from the U.S.-ASEAN Business Council on Thursday visited Cambodia to observe investment opportunities and to boost trade and investment ties between U.S. and ASEAN member countries. The group consisted of 11 U.S. firms led by Frances Zwenig, the Counselor ...
Japan Helps Cambodia Despite Difficulties
- 24 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
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Japan on August 15th loaned Cambodia a package of US$ 53.3 million for the West Tonle Sap Irrigation and Drainage Improvement and a grant aid of US$ 0.7 million to improve education equipment of the Department of Geo-Resources and Geotechnical Engineering of the Institute of ...
China’s ‘No Strings’ Aid Increasingly Attractive
- 24 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
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The timing couldn’t have been better. After a week in which one NGO was suspended and others warned to “readjust their work,” and the World Bank was finally forced to reveal that it had stopped loaning to Cambodia, the government announced over the weekend that ...
Deals With China Inked
- 22 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
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Cambodia agreed to acquire Chinese-made Z-9 helicopters for US$195 million in one of 26 memorandums of understanding agreed by the two countries on Saturday. Cooperation was pledged in sectors such as energy, mining, agriculture and road construction, as well as defense spending and aid. The ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011082251177/Business/deals-with-china-inked.html
Economic Census Sheds Light on Businesses
- 9 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
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The Ministry of Planning yesterday released the preliminary results of the 2011 economic census, which found that Cambodia has a total of 503,008 businesses nationwide, of which nearly 20 percent are based in Phnom Penh. The census, which began on March 1 and was financed ...
World Bank stops funds for Cambodia over evictions
- 9 August 2011
- Reuters
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The World Bank said on Tuesday it had stopped providing loans to Cambodia and would not resume lending until the government did something to help hundreds of families facing eviction from land around a lake in the country’s capital, Phnom Penh. “The World Bank’s last ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/09/cambodia-worldbank-idUSL3E7J920D20110809
Cambodia, N Korea Look to Forge Trade Ties
- 1 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agriculture and fishing
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North Korea and Cambodia have attempting to increase trade between the two nations with Cambodia exporting rice and North Korea exporting knowledge. North Korea is set to share its knowledge of small scale hydropower and mining expertise in exchange for rice, beans and corn imports. ...
‘Encouraging’ gold prospects in Kratie
Initial yields from deposits in Kratie province have prompted Indochine Mining Limited to announce that they were ‘encouraging.’ Results from the drilling will be released in two weeks. The drilling was focused on two target sites within Kratie province. ...