Cambodian Economy Reviews

MH Bio-Energy Cambodia, which is the Cambodia’s first biofuel plant located in Kandal province, is set to reopen in October after closing earlier this year because of the high crops prices. The plant started operating in Cambodia in November 2008 by investing initially US$30 million. The plant was closed temporarily in April 2010 due to [...]

Thai Embassy’s Foreign Trade Promotion Office (FTPO) released statistics by showing that international trade between Cambodia and Thailand has increased more than 80 percent during the first four months of 2010, compared to the same period last year. During April 2010, the bilateral trade was estimated to total USD$386 million alone. Exchanged goods with neighboring [...]

Kampot province in southern Cambodia has long been famous for the quality of its pepper. During the French colonial era, thousands of acres of the spice were grown there. But under the Khmer Rouge regime in the late 1970s, the province’s pepper plantations were uprooted to make way for rice. However, a local company is [...]

Import-export broker Be Vanthon, 36, is busying entering data into a computer. He smiles and says, “This new system saves me a lot of time and makes our work easier and smoother.” He continues. “I can do it three times as fast as before, when I had to fill in all documents by hand. It [...]