When the clock strikes midnight on NewYear’s Eve, China and 10 Southeast Asian nations will usher in the world’s third-largest free trade area. While many industries are eager for tariffs to fall on everything from textiles and rubber to vegetable oils and steel, a few are nervously waiting to see whether the agreement will mean boom or bust for their businesses.
Exporters nervously await Asian free trade zone
Monday, December 28, 2009
Sam Rainsy’s Letter to the Editor published in The Cambodia Daily, December 28, 2009
Mr. Sam Rainsy raised Mrs. Meas Srey in defiance during the uprooting of the border poles on 25th October 2009. She was latter arrested and is currently in prison.Sam Rainsy’s Letter to the Editor published in The Cambodia Daily, December 28, 2009
FARMERS BEING HELD “HOSTAGE” OVER VIETNAM BORDER CASE
At best scapegoats
PM Abhisit: Hun Sen accusation on planned Cambodia coup won't affect relations between peoples
BANGKOK, Dec 27 (TNA) -- Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said Sunday accusation by his Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen over an alleged plan to stage a coup in Cambodia-- which he denied earlier-- would not disrupt relations between the peoples of the two neighbouring countries.
Cambodia holds Khmer traditional measurement exhibition
PHNOM PENH, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's Reyum Institute has documented more than 130 Khmer traditional measurements and will run a show-casing of the documentation for the public in Phnom Penh from Dec. 28, 2009 to Feb. 2010, official news agency AKP reported on Monday.
According to Research Manager of Reyum Institute Preap Chanmara, Cambodia has long been using a wide variety of measurements for length, height, weight, depth, size, substance and time. Some measurements have been standardized with human body, things, like coconut fruit and tree, and others have been adapted from French measurements; for instance, meter, kilometer, etc.
Chanmara said that sources of the documented measurements include interview with people, written documents, and observation of people's daily interaction.
Different locations may use and understand different measurements. Some locations may use the same measurements for different meanings.
Vietnam and Cambodia reach US$6 billion business deals
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 Vietnam and Cambodia signed investment agreements and contracts worth US$6 billion at a conference held in Ho Chi Minh City on December 26 to promote Vietnamese investment in Cambodia. Under the documents, Vietnam will invest in power generation, food processing, fertiliser production, rubber plantation and bauxite mining in Cambodia. Two-way trade between the two countries has increased significantly in recent years, reaching US$1.7 billion in 2008, up 40% against 2007. Vietnamese businesses have invested in over 60 projects in Cambodia with a total capital of nearly US$900 million. Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his Cambodian counterpart, Hun Sen, co-chairmen of the conference, welcomed a joint initiative to host the conference as a practical move to promote bilateral co-operation in investment and trade. |
New road shortens travel time between Bangkok, Angkor
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday inaugurated a new 150 kilometer road running from Siem Reap to Poipet, on the border with Thailand.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has funded the rehabilitation of National Roads 5 and 6, the central component of a larger 50 million U.S. dollars road improvement project for Cambodia's northwest.
Vietnam visa waivers to last longer in 2010
A deal allowing Cambodian and Vietnamese citizens to cross the border between the two countries without a visa will be extended from January 1 to allow visits of up to 30 days, according to Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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