Tuesday, March 25, 2008Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy
Sar Kheng, vice-prime minister and minister of Interior, declared last week in Siem Reap province that the price of rice in Cambodia is increasing recently because of traders from neighboring countries came over to buy them. Sar Kheng said that there are companies in Thailand and Vietnam that are short in rice for export overseas, so they came to buy them from Cambodia through middlemen, in order to fulfill their overseas rice export contract. No matter how much the price of rice costs in Cambodia, these foreign buyers will buy them so as to fulfill their contracts. Sar Kheng indicated that the activities of major traders who buy rice, are taking place mainly along the northwestern provinces bordering with Thailand, and along the eastern provinces bordering with Vietnam.
