Over 150 poor urban families were forcibly evicted from central Phnom Penh in Cambodia at the weekend. The vast majority of them have been left homeless. Cambodian security forces and demolition workers carried out the evictions of 152 families from Dey Kraham community in the early hours of Saturday. At around 3am, an estimated 250 [...]
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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 [...]
Oknha Mong Reththy: introducing Cambodian pork meat in Cambodia
January 27th, 2009 Cambodian News The small scale of pig farms, high pig-food prices, the often steep fees charged by slaughterhouses, smuggling of pigs from Vietnam undermining competition or the prices of pork meat, volatile and unpredictable as a consequence. Reasons for the weakness in the Cambodian pig industry are aplenty, as the country currently has to import the majority [...]
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Tags: Agriculture, Cambodia, Cambodian farmer, Mong Reththy, Phnom Penh, Pige raising, Small business, SMEs 
No Comments »One arrested in Cambodian bomb plot
January 8th, 2009 Cambodian News PHNOM PENH, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) — One of the two suspects wanted in connection with Friday’s foiled bomb plot in downtown Phnom Penh has been arrested, English-language daily newspaper the PhnomPenh Post on Thursday quoted a minister as saying. The police detained the suspect following a detailed probe, said government spokesman and Information Minister Khieu [...]