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Share PM: Exports hit $16B in 2020 Wed, 30 December 2020 Cambodia's total exports reached $16 billion this year, marking an increase of more than 14 per cent compared to 2019, despite the spread of Covid-19 and the resulting disruption to production and slowdown in global supply chain expansion. The Kingdom’s trade volume with other countries stood at $32 billion, Prime Minister Hun Sen told a live press briefing on December 29, citing preliminary data. This is down from $36.7 billion last year, according to National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) figures. The prime minister noted that exports of t...

Share A view of a container storage yard at a port terminal in Kandal province. Bilateral trade volume between Cambodia and the UK reached $813.22 million in the first 11 months of this year, falling 17.61 per cent from the $987.09 million logged in the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Commerce. Heng Chivoan Ministry calls for exporters to prepare for post-Brexit UK Sun, 27 December 2020 The Ministry of Commerce has informed local manufacturers and exporters that Cambodia had been designated a “least developed country” (LDC) under the UK’s Generalised Scheme of Prefer...

6 Min Read KANDAL PROVINCE, Cambodia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Lon Vanna has been working around the clock for months but she doesn’t sew clothes anymore - she guards the machines in the abandoned garment factory in Cambodia where she once worked. Vanna believes the sewing machines are her only hope for saving her home and land, which she put up as collateral for a loan to feed herself and her ailing parents after the new coronavirus pandemic shuttered the factory in March. “Those machines are my money; they are my life,” Vanna said, pledging to hold them hostage until she receives...

Friday, 18 Dec 2020 08:59 AM MYT Employees work at a factory supplier in Kandal province, Cambodia, December 12, 2018. — Reuters pic Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. KANDAL PROVINCE, Dec 18 — L on Vanna has been working around the clock for months but she doesn't sew clothes anymore — she guards the machines in the abandoned garment factory in Cambodia where she once worked. Vanna believes the sewing machines are her only hope for saving her home and land, which she put up as collateral for a loan to feed herself and her ailing parents a...