Construction investment in Cambodia totaled $5.3 billion in 2021, mainly from China, South Korea, and Japan, according to the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction. The ministry also revealed a total of 4,303 construction projects were approved by the government in 2021. ...

China and Hong Kong have emerged as the top export markets for Cambodian milled rice, covering 42.43 percent of total exports worth $77.42 million. The 25 European countries accounted for 37.93 percent of exports worth $71.99 million, according to Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF). ...

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. ...

Australia plans to support the Cambodian Government in developing an Agri-food Industrial Park (AIP) in three main provinces. This initiative is expected to benefit the Cambodian economy by generating $5.1 billion and creating 100,000 new jobs, with 50 percent of these opportunities going to women. ...

Cambodia earned $324 million from the exports of natural rubber and rubber articles in the January to June half-year (H1) period of 2023, an increase of 42.1 percent compared to the same period last year, according to the latest trade data of the General Department ...

Cambodia earned $164.111 million from the export of “furniture, lighting signs, prefabricated buildings” in the first four months of 2023, down 28.82 per cent year-on-year from $230.544 million and down 52.01 per cent half-on-half (compared to July-October 2022) from $341.97 million, according to provisional Customs ...

Cambodia earned $789.75 million from the exports of rubber and articles made of rubber in the January to November period of 2023, recording an increase of 74.5 percent compared to the same period last year, according to the latest trade data of the General Department ...

The total capital of businesses enrolled through the Online Business Registration System (OBRS) via IT Platform phase I – commonly known as Single Portal – had reached almost $10 billion as of January 22, with the number of listed companies increasing to over 32,000, official ...

The exports of garments, footwear and travel goods (GFT) rose by 20.69 percent in the first five months of this year, compared to the same period last year, earning the Kingdom $4.89 billion, according to the trade data released by the General Department of Customs ...

Minister of Commerce Pan Sorasak on Thursday expressed his optimism that garment, textile, footwear and travel goods exports will continue to enjoy strong growth over the next few years. He cited better working conditions and labour compliance as the main drivers of the Kingdom’s industrial ...

For Cambodian farmer In Chanthy, illuminating the rural night used to be tiresome task. His village in Svay Rieng province is not connected to the national electricity grid and to light the dark he would have to take car batteries to a station and pay ...

The UN envoy concluded his six-day visit to Cambodia producing a concrete report, which reflects both the positive and negative aspects of human rights situation in the Kingdom. As for the post-election political impasse, Prof. Surya P. Subedi, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the ...

U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday signed a spending bill that suspends some funding to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government until an independent investigation into last year’s disputed national election is carried out, or until the opposition CNRP ends its boycott of parliament. The bill targets ...

On a farm in Kampong Speu province, Erm Rim is talking to a small crowd of consumers and journalists, explaining the process of growing vegetables using only natural resources. Rim talks on the sidelines of a consumer field trip organised by the Cambodian Center for ...

Brighton Mining Group (ASX: BTN) has completed negotiations for the acquisition of a major interest in gold mining assets held directly or indirectly by Brighton Mining Limited (BML), boosting its concession holdings in Cambodia. These include the interest of BML in the Cambodian concessions held by ...

The Global Fund has threatened to suspend or reduce health grants to Cambodia totalling more than $100 million if the Ministry of Health, the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and STD (NCHADS) and NGO umbrella group MEDiCAM fail to meet a 30-day deadline to return ...

Civil society groups held a workshop in Phnom Penh on Thursday in which government officials and lawmakers were invited to discuss post-election land grabs and land-based conflict, although the ruling CPP failed to turn up to the event. Though incidents of land-grabbing appeared to decrease ahead ...

A coalition of international human rights groups on Wednesday issued a petition to press opposition CNRP leader Sam Rainsy and senior members of the government to publicly condemn and investigate the death threats against local rights group leader Ou Virak, following his criticism of comments ...

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed Australia is working on an agreement with Cambodia that would see refugees currently on Nauru resettled there. But Human rights lawyer David Manne, who launched a successful High Court challenge to the former government’s proposal to resettle refugees in ...

The number of new businesses that registered in the first eight months of the year increased 33% to 2,105 compared to the same period last year, according to data released yesterday by the Ministry of Commerce. Officials said that many of the registrations between January and ...