Monday, 14 June 2010
Nguon Sovan
The Phnom Penh Post
NBC to off-load additional US$7 million to stabilise struggling local currency
AN additional US$7 million will be put up for sale by the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) this month in the organisation’s latest attempt to stablilse the value of the riel, it was announced Friday.
Banks, private companies and money lenders will be able to use riel to buy seven separate lots of $1 million from NBC.
Bidding on the first sale begins today with the last sell-off scheduled for June 30, according to an announcement signed by the bank’s Secretary General Sum Saniseth and released Friday.
The intervention, aimed at taking supplies of local currency out of the real economy thereby increasing demand for the devalued riel, follows the sale of $10 million carried out by NBC over the last three weeks.
So far, its attempt to revalue the riel has had a small but positive affect.
According to Ly Hour Exchange, the largest money changer in Phnom Penh, one greenback was worth 4,252 riels Sunday, a slight improvement on the 4,265 riels per dollar recorded a week earlier.
This strengthening interrupts a slide that has seen the riel depreciate to record lows.
Its value has fallen 1.47 percent over the past two months, from 4,190 riels per US dollar in mid-April, according to Ly Hour.
The riel “has gradually begun to appreciate after the central bank’s interventions”, said Sieng Lim, the owner of Ly Hour Exchange, on Sunday.
She believes the riel will stabilise when the harvest season begins in September.
It is the NBC’s policy to intervene when the riel depreciates to more than 4,200 riels per US dollar by dipping into its foreign reserves to buy in riel currency.
As of May, according to NBC data, the bank held $2.5 billion worth of foreign reserves.
According to last year’s annual report, in 2009 the NBC put 32 lots of currency worth $54 million on the market to ensure that the riel remained valued at between 4,000 and 4,200 per US dollar.
Cambodia has an estimated $500 million worth of riels in circulation.
Last week, Kang Chandararot, president of Cambodia Institute for Development Study, praised NBC’s interventions.
He said that the riel’s depreciation was the result of a strengthening US dollar – which has been affected by the weakened euro – and a reduced inflow of dollars into Cambodia through trade and investment.
Tal Nay Im, director general of the NBC, and Secretary Genearl Sum Saniseth did not reply to repeated calls for comment Sunday.
AN additional US$7 million will be put up for sale by the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) this month in the organisation’s latest attempt to stablilse the value of the riel, it was announced Friday.
Banks, private companies and money lenders will be able to use riel to buy seven separate lots of $1 million from NBC.
Bidding on the first sale begins today with the last sell-off scheduled for June 30, according to an announcement signed by the bank’s Secretary General Sum Saniseth and released Friday.
The intervention, aimed at taking supplies of local currency out of the real economy thereby increasing demand for the devalued riel, follows the sale of $10 million carried out by NBC over the last three weeks.
So far, its attempt to revalue the riel has had a small but positive affect.
According to Ly Hour Exchange, the largest money changer in Phnom Penh, one greenback was worth 4,252 riels Sunday, a slight improvement on the 4,265 riels per dollar recorded a week earlier.
This strengthening interrupts a slide that has seen the riel depreciate to record lows.
Its value has fallen 1.47 percent over the past two months, from 4,190 riels per US dollar in mid-April, according to Ly Hour.
The riel “has gradually begun to appreciate after the central bank’s interventions”, said Sieng Lim, the owner of Ly Hour Exchange, on Sunday.
She believes the riel will stabilise when the harvest season begins in September.
It is the NBC’s policy to intervene when the riel depreciates to more than 4,200 riels per US dollar by dipping into its foreign reserves to buy in riel currency.
As of May, according to NBC data, the bank held $2.5 billion worth of foreign reserves.
According to last year’s annual report, in 2009 the NBC put 32 lots of currency worth $54 million on the market to ensure that the riel remained valued at between 4,000 and 4,200 per US dollar.
Cambodia has an estimated $500 million worth of riels in circulation.
Last week, Kang Chandararot, president of Cambodia Institute for Development Study, praised NBC’s interventions.
He said that the riel’s depreciation was the result of a strengthening US dollar – which has been affected by the weakened euro – and a reduced inflow of dollars into Cambodia through trade and investment.
Tal Nay Im, director general of the NBC, and Secretary Genearl Sum Saniseth did not reply to repeated calls for comment Sunday.
can we go back to honoring and using khmer riel again in cambodia? leave all other foreign currency at the international level only. when in cambodia, we all should advocate the use of the khmer riel, please! have some pride in khmer and cambodia for a change, would ya? love not hate, no more bias toward cambodia, ok! seeing is believing. don't buy into opposition rumors and others' who have a negative tone on our beloved cambodia. cambodia is cambodia, that's how it is, really, as long as we don't be like the stupid KR regime; i think we are fine. rule of law please!
ReplyDeleteTotally agree with 11:36 Pm !!!
ReplyDeleteNowaday, Khmer people don't appreciate its own money "riel". It's very frustrated to see your own beloved country values "dollar" instead of "riel". Come on folks, why don't we use more " riel " in any restaurants, stores, or shopping mall. Let put "riel" first then "dollar". Please try to appreciate your country first then comes something else.
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Committed:
Tortures
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Executions
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Mass Murder
Genocide
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Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
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Human Abuses
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Attempted Murders
Attempted Murder on Chea Vichea
Attempted Assassinations
Attempted Assassination on Sam Rainsy
Assassinations
Assassinated Journalists
Assassinated Political Opponents
Assassinated Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Assassinated over 80 members of Sam Rainsy Party.
"But as of today, over eighty members of my party have been assassinated. Countless others have been injured, arrested, jailed, or forced to go into hiding or into exile."
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Executed over 100 members of FUNCINPEC Party
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Murdered 3 Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered Ros Sovannareth
Murdered Hy Vuthy
Murdered 10 Journalists
Murdered Khim Sambo
Murdered Khim Sambo's son
Murdered members of Sam Rainsy Party.
Murdered activists of Sam Rainsy Party
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Murdered Innocent Women
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Illegally use of remote detonation bomb on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
Lightning strike many airplanes, but did not fall from the sky. Lightning strike out side of airplane and discharge electricity to ground.
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Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Removed Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country.
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Injustice
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Bring Foreigners from Veitnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
Use Dead people's names to vote for Cambodian People's Party.
Disqualified potential Sam Rainsy Party's voters.
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11:36! look at Euro! we just ahead of the game!
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4:00am,
ReplyDeleteSTOP POSTING THAT SHIT. Use your fucken brain and write something up, insted of posting the same shit in every blog.
Brainless fool!
it's a mystery why the Govt will not start insisting on the use of KHR and stop the widespread circulation of the USD. If it only costs 10-20 cents to produce a USD 100 banknote guess who is making the killing? certainly not the Khmer government. also it's about time the National Bank of Cambodia gets a bit more efficient and stop lumping its exchange rate with its monetary policy.
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