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PPWSA closes higher after a week down
For the first time in weeks, Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority yesterday closed up 4.35 per cent, a sign the stock was stablising after a rough opening, insiders said. After an eight-day price decline, PPWSA – the sole listed company on the Cambodia Securities Exchange – ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012050956046/Business/follow-up-ipos-still-on-track.html
Cambodian stock exchange begins trading
The formerly state-owned Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority, the only stock on offer, has floated 13 million shares or 15 per cent of the company. ...
PPWSA stock to list today
Investors, along with the next two companies expected to list on the Cambodia Securities Exchange, will watch carefully this morning the action on the country’s first initial public offering, nine months after the CSX officially opened. After a book-building process that was 17 times over-subscribed, Phnom Penh ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012041855632/Business/ppwsa-stock-floats-today.html
Cambodia Finally Starts Stock Trading
Nine months after Cambodia’s stock exchange was officially launched, the country’s first share started trading Wednesday, with the initial public offering of state-owned Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority. PPWSA’s stock, priced at 6,300 riel (US$1.57), jumped 48% to 9,300 riel, according to the data from the ...
http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2012/04/18/cambodia-finally-starts-stock-trading/
Cambodia Joins Stocks Party
Cambodia tapped into the growing global interest in Southeast Asia with the start of trading in the sole stock at its gleaming new stock exchange on Wednesday. Ordinary Cambodians and local businesses scrambled to buy into the country’s first initial public offering—of shares in a local ...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304331204577351551608365784.html
Cambodia May Lure Up to 10 IPOs a Year, Korea Bourse Says
Cambodia’s stock market, which is set to open next week after several delays, may be able to lure five-to-10 initial public offerings a year, according to Korea Exchange Inc., the Cambodian government’s partner in the bourse. State-owned Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) will start trading ...
PPWSA edges closer to IPO
As expected, the book-building phase for Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority’s initial public offering was significantly oversubscribed, the estimate being 17 times. Interested investors had the opportunity to bid at a price no lower than 4,050 riel a share, and at a maximum of 6,350 riel ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012032855274/Business/ppwsa-edges-closer-to-ipo.html
PPWSA settles on IPO price
A price has been set for Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority’s initial public offering, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia, after what was reported to be a significantly oversubscribed book-building process. PPWSA will sell for 6,300 riel, or US$1.57, a share, putting the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012032755267/Business/ppwsa-settles-on-ipo-price.html
Share Price Set for Stock at City Water Authority
Shares of the state-owned Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) will trade at 6,300 riel, or $1.57, when the firm launches its initial public offering (IPO) on the Cambodian bourse on April 18, PPWSA announced yesterday. The price puts the company at the top of the ...
Cambodia's first IPO nears
Cambodia’s first initial public offering is fast approaching, and demand is expected to be robust. Bookbuilding, the process during which bids are taken and a price set for shares, ended last Wednesday for Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA). The final offering price will be announced ...
http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/economics/284959/cambodia-first-ipo-nears
Exchanges provide windows to economies
Stock market a good choice for long-term investors Stephen Hsu, a native of Taiwan, runs Phnom Penh Securities, one of a dozen underwriters licensed by the SECC to prepare companies for IPOs on the CSX and to engage as an intermediary with the public for trading ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/Special-Reports/exchanges-provide-windows-to-economies.html
PPWSA stock offering slated to outperform
The Kingdom’s first initial public offering is fast approaching, and demand is expected to be robust. Book-building, the process during which bids for the IPO are taken and a price is set for shares, ended yesterday. The final offering price is expected before the subscription for ...
The Kingdom’s first IPO
The long awaited first security listing on the Cambodian Securities Exchange became a reality on February 23 with the Security Exchange Commission of Cambodia’s “in principle” approval of Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority’s (PPWSA) “disclosure document for public issuance of equity securities”. This is effectively a ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012030854926/Business/the-kingdoms-first-ipo.html
Cambodian water utility to price IPO on 18 April
Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority is gearing up to price an initial public offering of up to $24 million on 18 April, making it the first stock to be traded on Cambodia’s fledgling stock exchange. Huy Vatharo, an executive director at underwriter Tong Yang Securities, ...
http://www.globalwaterintel.com/news/2012/9/cambodias-water-utility-price-ipo-18-april.html
Stock Trading to Start Next Month With Water Authority IPO
The Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) will become the first publicly traded company on the Cambodian Stock Exchange (CSX) when trading begins on April 18, Ming Bankosal the general director of the Securities and Exchanges Commission of Cambodia said yesterday. “We are planning on ...
PPWSA sets an IPO date
Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority aimed to raise US$20.4 million in a long-awaited initial public offering scheduled for mid-April, the company said yesterday during its first pitch to investors. “We’ve targeted trading for the 18th of April,” said Han Kyung-tae, managing director of Tong Yang ...
Unclean Water Costs $450M A Year, New UN Report Says
Poor sanitation costs Cambodia $450 million a year due to health costs resulting from water-borne diseases such as diarrhea, according to a new report by the UN Environment Program. The report follows data released last week by the World Bank that found that 75 percent ...
Caution: Work Ahead
Émile Coué was a French psychologist who introduced a method of self-improvement based on optimistic autosuggestion. “Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better,” was his mantra. He died in 1926 and probably never visited Cambodia, but his spirit has been hovering over ...