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Board of CRF seeks a double term
Just a month since their election, the leaders of the nation’s apex rice industry have cast a motion to extend their terms – a move some have greeted with suspicion. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/board-crf-seeks-double-term
Rice taskforce created, again
The Ministry of Commerce set up a new taskforce on Friday to address challenges faced by the Kingdom’s struggling rice industry and assess demands made by members of the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF), who have decried the ineffectiveness of an earlier taskforce set up by ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-taskforce-created-again
Gloomy forecast for Cambodia's rice sector
An industry analyst has issued a dire forecast for Cambodia’s rice sector, claiming the long-grain “white gold” that has been credited with lifting millions of Cambodia’s farmers out of abject poverty, and which seems a natural fit for the Kingdom’s agrarian workforce, is on a ...
Cam McGrath and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gloomy-forecast-cambodias-rice-sector
Rice Federation to vote for president on July 2
FWith voting set to take place on July 2 to elect the next president of the Cambodian Rice Federation (CRF), the organisation has pledged to further strengthen its mandate, while rice millers and exporters claim they have lost confidence in the organisation’s ability to achieve ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-federation-vote-president-july-2
‘Angkor Malis’ brand name yet to satisfy
With the Cambodian Rice Federation (CRF) ready to adopt “Angkor Malis” in June as the official brand name for the Kingdom’s premium varieties of jasmine rice, exporters said that inconsistent English to Khmer translations need to be corrected. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/angkor-malis-brand-name-yet-satisfy
Illegal rice imports still pouring across border
More than a month has elapsed since the government vowed to strengthen its borders to halt illegal imports of rice, yet little has been done to stem the flow of illicit rice shipments flooding into Cambodia from its foreign neighbours and undermining the export efforts ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/illegal-rice-imports-still-pouring-across-border
CRF to register ‘Angkor Malis’ brand and logo
The Cambodian Rice Federation (CRF) will officially register the name “Angkor Malis” in June as the umbrella brand for the Kingdom’s premium varieties of fragrant rice, a representative said yesterday. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/crf-register-angkor-malis-brand-and-logo
Changes rolled out to prop up rice sector
The government took steps to shore up the rice sector yesterday, saying it would remove the current value added tax [VAT] on milling machines in the country and shut down companies importing rice from neighboring countries and rebranding it as Cambodian during an emergency meeting ...
Sok chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23419/changes-rolled-out-to-prop-up-rice-sector/