South Korea replaced the UK as the largest investor in Cambodia last year, with about $287 million injected, 12.5 per cent of the total foreign direct investment, according to data from the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). This represents 33 per cent ...

China has overtaken South Korea to become the largest tourist source of Cambodia’s Angkor world heritage site, Cambodia’s state-run Agence Kampuchea Press (AKP) reported on Monday, citing a senior tourism official. ...

On 02 February 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has published a statement of the ASEAN chairman on the Situation in Myanmar on their official Facebook site. According to the statement, ASEAN chairman is deeply concerned over the Myanmar crisis and urge ...

Imprisoned former Ambassador Suth Dina appeared in the Supreme Court yesterday to challenge the procedures of the Appeal Court, where he attempted to get his five-year sentence for “abuse of power” and “unlawful exploitation” overturned in August. ...

THE Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX), the recently established bourse with a single player, will increase the number of trade executions from twice to six times a day, a move that will take effect on March 11. A CSX officer and the managing director of a securities ...

With demand for shopping space in Cambodia on the rise and investor interest growing, the Japanese developer Aeon Mall (Cambodia) Co Ltd last week broke ground on the construction of a US$205-million mall in Phnom Penh. “We are happy to contribute to the development of ...

AFTER finishing in the black every year since its launch in 2009, Cambodia’s flagship airline is forecasting a loss for the first time, in a situation that an industry analyst has described as “not necessarily typical”. Cambodia Angkor Air’s (CAA) loss is projected to span two ...

More than 100 people from two communes in Kratie province’s Sambor district gathered yesterday for a three-day protest in front of the provincial office of Think Biotech, a Korean-owned timber company villagers say is encroaching on their land. As of yesterday evening, 10 armed policemen ...

More than 300 protesters seized two company trucks outside the Kratie office of Korean-owned timber company Think Biotech Co yesterday as protests by villagers who allege land-grabbing continued for a second day. “We have seized the company’s two trucks to ask the company to come ...

Cambodia’s Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn said here on Friday that the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) free trade agreement will be a booster for trade and investment relations between Cambodia and South Korea. ...

On 4 July 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on the outcomes of the second visit of the Special Envoy of the ASEAN Chair on Myanmar to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, on 30 June-02 July ...

Manila–Incoming bird and poultry shipments from countries affected by the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) will be seized and destroyed given concerns of a resurgence, the government said. The Agriculture department last Friday announce heightened surveillance at all ports of entry as well as the ...

PHNOM PENH: the Siem reap international airport announced today that it gained 340,000 passengers for January and the South Korean passengers stand first class. “This is first time in its history, [sic] the statement said. It adds: barely a month after crossing the 2-millionth passenger milestone, ...

The South Korean government has vowed to provide a $3.3 million grant to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to implement a project to boost production of high-value vegetable crops and improve farmers’ livelihoods in the northeastern province of Mondulkiri, according to a senior ...

On 21 January 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on outcomes of the telephone conversation between Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo HUN SEN, Prime Minister of Cambodia, and His Excellency Joko Widodo, President of Indonesia, 21 January ...

Delegates attending a forum on investment and cooperation for the Mekong sub region, held in the central highland province of Dak Lak on November 9, all agreed that Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia need to work on common preferential policies to attract lucrative investments for the ...

Cambodia’s ASEAN economic minister said the official launch of the negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) will lead to potentially forming the biggest single market in the region and is much bigger than the traditional markets of the US and the EU. An economist ...

Cambodia’s GDP is expected to grow by 5.5 percent with a low inflation rate of two percent in 2023, due to external factors and the re-opening of the economy. ...

The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology – through South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport – has granted funds for the construction of a laboratory project at the Techo Sen Institute of Public Works and Transport for the development of road ...

Cambodia and Korea have joined hands to study the legislation of occupational health and safety regulations for employees at factories and business enterprises. The project was initiated on Thursday at the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training when Minister Ith Sam Heng met with Choi Heaeun, ...