Investment policy and regulations
Foreign investors
CDC urges Xiamen investors to tap vast opportunities in Kingdom
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has sought investments from potential investors from China’s Xiamen city of the Fujian province amid the Kingdom setting records in terms of Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) during the current year. ...
Nheng Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501359497/cdc-urges-xiamen-investors-to-tap-vast-opportunities-in-kingdom/
PM to chair business forum in New York
The Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC) and the US Chamber of Commerce will jointly host the Cambodia-US Business Forum in New York next Friday aimed at promoting investment and business opportunities in Cambodia. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501358561/pm-to-chair-business-forum-in-new-york/
Chinese investment in agricultural sector gives fillip to economy
Chinese investment in the Kingdom’s agricultural sector has boosted the national economy and created jobs for local people, said an expert from the Chinese Cambodian Evolution Researcher Association. ...
Nheng Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501359851/chinese-investment-in-agricultural-sector-gives-fillip-to-economy/
China’s CHINT to open $2.5M medium voltage factory
A global smart energy solutions firm, Chinese-owned CHINT Group Co Ltd, is leveraging the Kingdom’s energy production capacity to support the rapid demand growth for medium-voltage power equipment in the country, as well as Thailand, Laos and Myanmar. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chinas-chint-open-25m-medium-voltage-factory
Sun Chanthol visits Sihanoukville Port Special Economic Zone
Sun Chanthol, Deputy Prime Minister and First Vice President of the Council for the Development of Cambodia, on Sep 11, visited Sihanoukville Port Special Economic Zone. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501358469/sun-chanthol-visits-sihanoukville-port-special-economic-zone/
Indian investors urged to consider Cambodia as a “gateway to ASEAN”
In order to take advantage of Cambodia’s potential as a gateway to ASEAN through a number of significant free trade agreements and initiatives that the leaders of the two countries are working on, the Indian ambassador to Cambodia has urged Indian investors to grasp commercial ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501357456/indian-investors-urged-to-consider-cambodia-as-a-gateway-to-asean/
Chinese investors eye range of opportunities across Kampong Speu
Kampong Speu provincial governor Vei Samnang has returned from his fact-finding trip in China as part of his plans to attract foreign investment. While in Henan, China’s third-most populous province, Samnang took to social media to announce that the Henan Federation of Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs – ...
Van Socheata
https://phnompenhpost.com/national/chinese-investors-eye-range-opportunities-across-kampong-speu
Kampong Speu anticipates business boom, 25 factories
Kampong Speu is gearing up for a business boom, with the provincial administration recently revealing plans to set up 25 new factories and enterprises later this year. ...
Kim Yutharo
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kampong-speu-anticipates-business-boom-25-factories
Chinese firm to pump in $12.7B to Cambodia’s agri sector
The Chinese state-owned firm Danong Agricultural Development Group plans to invest $12.7 billion in Cambodia to transform the latter’s agriculture into digital smart agriculture, stock and regional transit hub for agricultural products that will produce different agricultural products to the Chinese market, said an official ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501343619/chinese-firm-to-pump-in-12-7b-to-cambodias-agri-sector/
Cambodia pushes for investment hub status in ASEAN
Investment-friendly tax and investment laws and incentives, as well as the industrial development policy, are geared towards making Cambodia an investment hub and centre for automotive and electronics manufacturing in Southeast Asia. ...
Sangeetha Amarthalingam
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-pushes-for-investment-hub-status-in-asean
Stimulating FDI to strengthen Cambodia’s economy
Despites the ongoing Covid-19 crisis and geopolitical tensions, foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to Cambodia remain stable, attracting $3.6 billion last year, a senior official said on Friday. ...
Prak Chan Thul
https://kiripost.com/stories/stimulating-fdi-to-strengthen-cambodias-economy
China’s Ningbo investors seek opportunities in Cambodia
Around 40 companies are expected to explore investment opportunities in Cambodia this month, thanks to the optimism felt by a delegation of Chinese investors who met with the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) yesterday. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chinas-ningbo-investors-seek-opportunities-cambodia
Chamber of commerce calls for additional SEZ incentives
Representatives of the private sector and economists have encouraged regional developers to establish a private sector development council to invest in regional special economic zones (SEZs), as they called for renewed focus on the development of exiting SEZs. ...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chamber-commerce-calls-additional-sez-incentives
Ratanakiri governor seeks airport investment
Ratanakiri provincial officials have appealed to foreign investors to build a new airport on a 1,400-hectare plot of land in Lumphat district to attract tourism ...
Chhorn Raksmey
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-ratanakiri-governor-seeks-airport-investment
Chinese investors returning: Cambodia should learn the lesson of money laundering risks
The real estate industry in Cambodia has been identified as a high-risk sector for money laundering due to a number of factors. In recent years, the industry has experienced substantial growth, which has attracted foreign investors, particularly from China. This has led to a substantial influx ...
Manghout Ki
https://cambodianess.com/article/chinese-investors-returning-cambodia-should-learn-the-lesson-of-money-laundering-risks
Sihanoukville multi-purpose SEZ master plan reviewed
A meeting at the Ministry of Economy and Finance under the chairmanship of Dr Aun Pornmoniroth, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance, on Wednesday, reviewed and discussed recommendations on the draft report on the second phase of the master plan for the ...
Adur Pradeep
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501256440/sihanoukville-multi-purpose-sez-master-plan-reviewed/
CDC approves $2.9 billion Japanese investment projects
The Council of the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has approved 150 investment projects worth approximately $2.9 billion proposed by Japanese investors in the country as of the end of January this year, according to the figures released in a press release issued yesterday by CDC ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501243067/cdc-approves-2-9-billion-japanese-investment-projects/
Chinese major companies to boost investment in Cambodia
Three Chinese major companies presented multiple investment projects worth millions of dollars to Prime Minister Hun Sen during a meeting in Beijing, a release said today. The companies also plan to invest on water transportation, hospital, sewage treatment, high-speed rail, etc. ...
Hong Sovannary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501236857/chinese-major-companies-to-boost-investment-in-cambodia/
Japan firm chooses Battambang for cashew nut shell fuel project
Japanese firm Top Planning Japan Co Ltd’s (TPJ) apparent interest in investing in facilities in Battambang province to convert cashew nut shells into fuel and process the fibre-rich seeds for export has been greeted with much enthusiasm among local authorities and has dramatically heightened prospects ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/japan-firm-chooses-battambang-cashew-nut-shell-fuel-project
NBC calls for more UK investment, exports
National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) assistant governor Chea Serey on February 7 proposed that British businesspeople ramp up their investments in Cambodia and buy more local goods, to strengthen bilateral economic relations and stimulate recovery in the Southeast Asian country following a downturn linked to ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nbc-calls-more-uk-investment-exports
Trade bodies CBC, IDI team up
The Bangkok-based Cambodia Business Council (CBC) and local Innovation and Development Investors Association (IDI) have joined forces to engage with and attract more investors as well as to improve Cambodian exports regionally and globally. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/trade-bodies-cbc-idi-team
South Korean agency pushes investment in auto-parts, tech
At a recent meeting in Seoul with a Cambodian delegation led by Minister of Commerce Pan Sorasak, Yu expressed his firm belief that the Cambodia-Korea Free Trade Agreement (CKFTA) will boost trade between the two countries. ...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/south-korean-agency-pushes-investment-auto-parts-tech
Cambodia average annual FDI inflows growth at 8.1 percent
Cambodia recorded an average annual FDI inflow growth of 8.1 percent from 2017 to 2021, according to ESCAP’s Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Trends 2022/2023 Country Report for Cambodia. ...
Adur Pradeep
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501222747/cambodia-average-annual-fdi-inflows-growth-at-8-1-percent/
China importers urged to buy from Cambodia
The head of the apex Cambodia trade body has asked importers operating in the southern Chinese region of Guangxi to take advantage of the Cambodia-China Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA) and buy produce made in the Kingdom, particularly items on which concessions have been granted. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/china-importers-urged-buy-cambodia