Exports to Thailand increase 9.47% in first five months of 2023
Cambodia’s exports to Thailand hit $480.239 million in the first five months of 2023, up 9.47 percent year-on-year (YoY) from $438.705 million and up to 84.47 percent half-on-half (compared to July to November 2022) from $260.33 million. ...
Yatt Malai
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-exports-to-thailand-increase-947-in-first-five-months-of-2023
Cambodia attracts 268 new FDI’s, which creates more than 307,000 jobs in 2023
Cambodia attracted fixed-asset investment of $4.92 billion in 2023, up 22 percent from $4.03 billion in a year earlier, the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) said in a news release on Wednesday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501417705/cambodia-attracts-268-new-fdis-which-creates-more-than-307000-jobs-in-2023/
Poor Households 2011
This dataset describes the poverty levels (1, 2 or other) covering 4,227 villages in 9 provinces. ...
Poor Households 2010
This dataset describes the poverty levels (1, 2 or other) covering 6,411 villages in 11 provinces. ...
Forest cover
Data on forest cover is essential for effective forest management and conservation. It enables policymakers to make informed decisions about forest management, such as identifying conservation areas, tracking changes in forest cover, and identifying areas at risk of deforestation. The forest cover profile page contains ...
Resettlement Plans Begin for Families Affected by Sesan Dam
Thousand of families that stand to be evicted when construction work on the Lower Sesan 2 Dam begins in 2014 will each receive a 1-hectare plot of land for a home as well as a 5 additional hectares for growing crops, provincial officials said yesterday. Provincial ...
Manufacturing to diversify
While Cambodia seeks to diversify its manufacturing sector and encourage higher-value-added activities, experts say it must be supported by the right mix of government policies. The Asia Development Bank (ADB) says that the sharp increase of foreign direct investment (FDI) from $900 million in 2011 to ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013022561577/Business/manufacturing-to-diversify.html
Cambodia To Become Lower-Middle-Income Nation By End of 2013: PM
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday that the country would move from the status of a low-income to a lower-middle-income nation by the end of this year. “We acknowledge that we are in the status of a low-income country with GDP per capita of less ...
Cambodia's consumer prices decline
Consumer prices decreased month-on-month in May for the first time since statistics were available, Cambodia’s National Institute of Statistics (NIS) data showed. The 1.1 per cent drop, driven largely by lower food and gasoline prices, would be a relief to businesses and shoppers after a period ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012062556991/Business/consumer-prices-decline.html
Cambodia to stop HIV by 2020
During a presentation at the 2013 International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Cambodia showed its new initiative called “Cambodia 3.0” which aims to eliminate new infections of HIV by 2020. Cambodia had one of the fastest growing HIV ...
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=N2U3NjkyZDJiYTM
Polls scaring off new business: ministry
The number of new businesses registering in Cambodia slid 20 per cent in the first half of this year compared with the same time in 2012 as investors fret over putting money into the economy during a potentially instable election year, a senior official said. Data ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/polls-scaring-new-business-ministry
Small rise in Kingdom’s February inflation
Cambodia saw a 1.7 per cent rise in inflation in February compared with the same month the previous year. Prices of food and fuel rose, according to official data from the National Institute of Statistics (NIS). “The increase for all index group of a 1.7 per ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013042365161/Business/small-rise-in-kingdom-s-february-inflation.html
Cambodia exports to Thailand rise as nations improve economic ties
Cambodia’s total exports to Thailand sharply increased in the first quarter of the year, according to official data from Ministry of Commerce received by the Post last week. Officials said the rise is the result of efforts by both countries to improve trade facilitation and economic ...
Court charges four Pailin villagers for violating state property
Pailin Provincial Court on Wednesday charged four villagers with infringing on public property because they cultivated 684 hectares of land that the court says belongs to the state, but which villagers claim to have farmed legally since 1999, a rights worker said. The villagers were arrested ...
Family of Dave Walker says evidence points to murder
Friends and family of Canadian journalist Dave Walker, whose badly decomposed body was found on May 1 in Siem Reap province, have issued new statements accusing the Cambodian and Canadian governments of being complicit in what they say was his murder. According to a statement posted ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/family-of-dave-walker-says-evidence-points-to-murder-58443/
Aiming to boost revenue, farmers turn to pepper
Farmers in Cambodia’s pepper-growing provinces are increasingly turning to produce the profitable crop as the price of rubber on the world market has declined over the past six months, with land used for pepper cultivation doubling in some areas, according to growers. In Dar commune in ...
Kang Sothear and George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/aiming-to-boost-revenue-farmers-turn-to-pepper-65823/
Non-textile industrial exports up 50%
Cambodia earned $1.8997 billion from the export of non-textile-based industrial products in the first half of this year, an increase of 49.9 per cent from $1.2672 billion in the same period of 2020, the General Department of Customs and Excise of Cambodia (GDCE) reported. ...
Hin Pisei
https://phnompenhpost.com/business/non-textile-industrial-exports-50
Kingdom on track for LDC graduation
The UN’s latest evaluation of Cambodia states that the Kingdom has fulfilled the three basic conditions necessary for graduation from least developed country (LDC) status, including a gross national income (GNI) per capita of $1,377 which surpasses the $1,222 threshold, according to Minister of Planning ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-track-ldc-graduation
Cambodia’s trade with China crosses $8 billion
China remained the biggest trading partner of Cambodia in the January to August period this year and the trade between the two countries reached $8.09 billion by the end of last month showing an increase of 1.1 percent compared to the same period in 2022. ...
Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501359586/cambodias-trade-with-china-crosses-8-billion/
Healthcare capacity rapidly upgraded in recent years
The Ministry of Health expanded its capacity and made it easier for people to get healthcare services between 2018 and 2022, with the numbers of health centres increasing from 1,205 to 1,288 and hospitals from 123 to 132. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/healthcare-capacity-rapidly-upgraded-recent-years