Cambodian News

AN GIANG — Rice is still being illegally imported daily from Cambodia into the southwestern border province of An Giang.
Duong Su Market in Tinh Bien District’s An Nong commune is the largest granary of smuggled rice from Cambodia in An Giang Province.
Nguyen Anh Nghia, a farmer in the district, said that every day up to [...]

VietNamNet Bridge – Representatives from 14 central and west African countries have established direct ties with rice exporters in Viet Nam, Cambodia, and Laos through a three-day meeting that began yesterday in HCM City.
The rice buyer-seller conference has been organised under the framework of a programme to promote trade between French-speaking countries in Africa and [...]

The Asian Development Bank and government announced success on Friday for emergency food assistance that was widely criticized by villagers as unfair.
The ADB and government undertook a $40-million emergency food distribution between Oct. 29 and Nov. 5, handing out nearly 120,000 tons to 68,000 poor families in 200 communes around the Tonle Sap lake and [...]

Hundreds of families from Banteay Meanchey and Pursat provinces protested Monday against unfair distribution of millions of dollars in emergency food aid.
“It is hurtful when we are the real poor and we cannot get rice aid,” said Prak Chuop, a villager in Bantey Meanchey, who joined other protesters in front of provincial headquarters.
Local authorities have [...]

The government will prepare a reserve rice stock of 2 million tons for export overseas in 2009 in an effort to prevent price shocks and shortage rumors, officials said Thursday.
Prime Minister Hun Sen in April ordered a temporary ban on rice exports, as a perceived domestic shortage of the staple drove prices in Cambodia’s markets [...]

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 19 — Rains across Cambodia are bringing relief to farmers in areas that were suffering from drought, allowing them to start planting rice, national media reported Friday, citing government officials.
The drought in Cambodia was over and all farmers had enough water to plant rice, Chan Sarun, Minister of Agriculture, was quoted by [...]

If London wants to help a city abroad, it won’t be in Cambodia.
Well, not in Battambang District, anyway.
Instead, the district in eastern Cambodia with about one million people is twinning with the municipality of the County of Kings in Nova Scotia — population 47,000.
“It would have been a partnership to assist other cities (abroad) with [...]

Phnom Penh – A delegation from the Brunei Finance Ministry met with Cambodian Finance Minister Keat Chhon to discuss importing Cambodian rice and seed, local media reported Wednesday.
The delegation, headed by Brunei Finance Ministry Permanent Secretary Dato Paduka Haj Ali Apong, had not reached any firm agreements on the amount of rice and seed Brunei [...]

Today, a new charity was launched to provide rice for Cambodia, and its organisers cleverly called it Rice For Cambodia.
The charity aims to encourage Cambodians to grow and harvest rice, and then send it to America and Australia, where Americans and Australians can then buy it and send it back to Cambodia for the people [...]

PHNOM PENH, Aug 22 (Reuters) – Kuwait has agreed to give Cambodia loans totaling $546 million to develop agriculture, build hydro-power facilities and construct roads, a Cambodian foreign ministry official said on Friday.
This is the second-biggest aid pledge ever received by Cambodia, after aid and loans totaling $601 million offered by China last year.
“This [...]