New York, N.Y. — Nguyen Coffee Supply announced the closure of a $2.6 million seed round of funding. The funding will advance Nguyen Coffee Supply’s mission to bring Vietnamese coffee–and the resilient robusta bean–to the masses and support the company’s expanding distribution and product innovation. The seed round will help transform the coffee industry through…
Cambodia is on course to be the next Asian Tiger, and that is good news for America. Ford Motors recently announced that it is building a $21 million assembly plant in the Pursat province of Cambodia. And the recent virtual business summit showcased the ease of doing business in Cambodia experienced by U.S. companies in…
Although the economic crisis unleashed by Covid-19 has driven large international trade declines, Cambodia-US trade seems to have largely eluded the clutches of the pandemic wobbles, worth $2.6549 billion in January-April, an increase of 24.48 per cent over the $2.1327 booked in the same period of 2020. Of that, the Kingdom exported $2.5192 billion, up…
Once considered a luxury, avocados have become part of Americans’ everyday diet. Now, Mission Produce (AVO), one of the world’s largest avocado distributors, wants to do the same for another fruit — mangos. The Oxnard, Calif.-based company’s founder and CEO Steve Barnard tells Yahoo Finance Live that the mango industry is ripe for a leader…
The third-richest man on the planet, Bill Gates, is also one of the largest private owners of farmland in the US. He is known for supporting environmental innovation, but his farming plans have been secretive until now. In January, US magazine The Land Report — which tracks land transactions and produces an annual list of the…
The ag-tech company founded by Larry Ellison, the Oracle founder who owns nearly all of Lanai’s acreage, and Dr. David Agus, a physician and medical researcher, is pioneering tools to produce affordable food in places like Lanai that — despite its history as an agricultural plantation — lack traditional farming essentials like water and fertile…
GE Renewable Energy has secured a 27MW turbine deal in Vietnam for the Phuoc Minh wind farm in the Ninh Thuan region of the country. The contract is for the supply of eight 3MW-137 machines. A consortium of PowerChina Huadong Engineering Corporation, Henste Engineering and IPC Group will provide full engineering, procurement and construction services…
Bilateral trade between the Kingdom and the US amounted to $5.8 billion in the first 10 months of this year, up $972.8 million or 15.9 per cent over the $5 billion registered in the same period last year, data from the US Census Bureau show. This comes amid Covid-19’s continued assault on the world’s largest…
A Hong-Kong based company is now the sole owner of the Four Seasons Oahu. Ko Olina master developer Jeff Stone’s company, The Resort Group, announced today that it has sold its interest in the Four Seasons Resort Oahu to its partner Hong Kong-based Henderson Land Group. Details on a closure date and purchase price were…
Hanoi (VNA) – Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen has shared his pride over the growing bilateral trade between Cambodia and the US despite the COVID-19 pandemic, saying that two-way trade saw an annual hike of 17 percent in the first eight months of this year. In order to attract more investors, especially when…
HONOLULU, June 2, 2020 – Hawaiian Electric has posted details of 16 solar-plus-storage or standalone-storage projects selected in the latest phase of the clean energy transition for Oahu, Maui and Hawaii Island. If all projects are completed as planned, nearly seven points will be added to Hawaiian Electric’s renewable portfolio percentage by 2025. The company…
United States President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he plans to begin stripping Hong Kong of its special trading status, but left many important questions about the city’s future as a financial and commercial hub unanswered. The move will affect “the full range of agreements” the US has with Hong Kong “with few exceptions”,…
Honolulu – Venturing out of a hotel room in Hawaii right now might land you in handcuffs. Just ask one of the roughly 20 people who have been arrested for violating Gov. David Ige’s two-week quarantine imposed on all who arrive in the state or travel between its islands. Hundreds more have been arrested or…
Cambodia exported more than $1.6 billion worth of goods to the US in the first three months of this year, a sharp 42.29 per cent year-on-year increase from $1.1 billion, said a US Census Bureau report. https://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2020/05/07/cambodian-exports-to-us-soar-42-to-us16-billion-in-q1
A Cold War battleground once looked like one of the few winners as the two superpowers vied for dominance. Now it’s bracing for trouble. Early on in the U.S.-China trade war, Vietnam was shaping up as one of the world’s few winners. Investments flowed in and products shipped out of its busy ports in ever-increasing…
