Cambodian Economy Reviews

Investment fell from $4.42 billion in mid-2008 to $1.22 billion for the same period this year, the Council for the Development of Cambodia reported. Officials say the economic downward shares the blame with an overall decrease in a large number of high-dollar projects in 2008. “But through mid-2009, there have been no such kind of [...]

Since 2007, the global financial crisis has affected the international trade, and cooled down car sales. In addition, the impact of financial crisis also hit hardly the decrease in the demand for tyres and also affected the Cambodia’s rubber production exports to international markets. According to the Cambodia Economic Watch, the rubber sector is expected [...]

THE National Rice Millers Association (NRMA) announced Wednesday that it exported its first 3,460 tonnes of milled rice to France in the first quarter of 2009, which officials said marked an important step in the expansion of rice exports. “We expect that the NRMA will be able to export 12,000 tonnes of milled rice to [...]

CELLCARD Mobitel, Cambodia’s leading mobile phone company by market share, is planning to launch BlackBerry handsets in the Kingdom within the next few months, Royal Group’s chief financial officer said Monday. Mark Hanna told the Post that the Royal Group – which owns a 38.5 percent stake in Mobitel – has been in negotiations with [...]