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Flooding Claims 250 Lives, as Government Response Continues
The government raised the national death toll from ongoing flooding to nearly 250 on Friday, as Cambodia continues to grapple with its worst flooding in a decade. Continue reading
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FDI soars 250% over last year
Foreign direct investment in the Kingdom soared 250 per cent year-on-year through August even despite the West’s economic woes, Deputy Prime Minister Sok An said yesterday. Continue reading
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investment on the rise nationwide
The dollar figure on government-approved investments in construction for the first eight months of the year increased by 92 per cent compared to the same period in 2010, according to official statistics. The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction approved 1,470 construction projects worth US$881.3 million between January and August, according to ministry statistics released yesterday. The ministry gave the green light to 1,580 projects worth $458.4 million during the same period in 2010. Continue reading
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Phnom Penh Port shipments increase
Freight shipments through Phnom Penh Autonomous Port saw year-on-year growth of 30 per cent in the first nine months of the year, according to official PPAP figures. The total number twenty-foot equivalent units that passed through the port hit 60,810 between January and August, up from 46,955 TEUs in the same period in 2010. Continue reading
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High Floods, Low Funds Keep Some Home for Holiday
With much of Cambodia taking three days off to celebrate Pchum Ben, when the country honors its ancestors and the ghosts who roam the spirit world, some unlucky residents were stuck in the capital. Severe flooding in the provinces and a continued high cost of living meant people living in the city’s margins were not able to return home for the annual festival Continue reading
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Bird Flu Deaths Up; No New Strain Detected
Health officials in Cambodia say they have so far not detected a new strain of the bird flu virus that appeared recently in Vietnam. Bird flu, or avian influenza, has killed at least eight Cambodians so far this year, and the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization warned Cambodian authorities in August that a new strain in Vietnam had the potential of crossing into Cambodia Continue reading
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Port sees revenues increase this year
Sihanoukville Autonomous Port revenues increased more than 16 percent year-on-year in the first eight months of 2011, according to port officials. Cambodia’s largest port generated US$21 million in revenues between January and August, up from $18 million in the same period last year, SAP director general Lou Kim Chhun said yesterday. “We have seen port revenues increase this year, as the number of freight shipments continue to grow, especially agricultural products.” The agriculture products included rice, rubber, textiles, footwear, acacia wood and machinery, he said. Continue reading
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