CAMBODIA – Local pork producers and agriculture officials are pressing ahead with plans to boost the local industry by improving processing facilities, cutting feed prices and cracking down on smuggling. This year, the government set up additional border inspection points to stem the illegal flow of animals entering the country and is providing free veterinary [...]
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Cambodia’s small and medium enterprises struggle to secure funding
January 27th, 2009 
Cambodian News Expanding or modernising a small enterprise is made at a cost that few Cambodian entrepreneurs can afford, often deprived from any access to the funds that would allow them to launch various projects. Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) annually provide nearly a third of Cambodia’s gross domestic product but are still seen as the poor [...]
Cambodian retailers shaken by the after-effects of land speculation and economic crisis
January 12th, 2009 Cambodian News In the middle of town or on the outskirts, in shopping centres or on little public market stalls, the sad diagnostic made by sellers is the same: for a few months now, business has been desperately slow. Already weakened by the consequences of the world economic crisis, Cambodia is experiencing the after-effects of several months [...]
Vietnam-Cambodia trade hit US$1.7 billion in 2008
January 12th, 2009 Cambodian News Two-way trade between Vietnam and Cambodia hit nearly US$1.7 billion in 2008, an increase of US$400 million from a year earlier, according to the Vietnamese Trade office in Phnom Penh. Of the total figure, Vietnam exported US$1.45 billion worth of goods to Cambodia, the office said on January 10. Between 2004-08, the volume of Vietnamese [...]