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Industry Minister Receives Global Entrepreneur 1%
AKP Phnom Penh, October 02, 2025 -- H.E. Hem Vanndy, Minister of Industry, Science, Technology & Innovation, has received a delegation from the Association of Global Entrepreneur 1% Club, led by its President, Mr. Heang Vuthea, to discuss...

A Multi-Art Event Concludes the Chakto Program in Phnom Penh
Fouad Boussouf, choreography mentor, is photographed with senior dancers during a workshop of the NGO Cambodian Living Arts. Photo provided PHNOM PENH — Coming up with an art production that will fascinate people—whether music, comic strip or...

Interview of the Week: Thomas Bianco, Country Manager, Cambodia - Cigar Divan Cambodia, The Pacific Cigar Company
03 October, 2025 Posted by: EuroCham Cambodia For this week’s interview, Communications Officer Henry Henderson sat down with Thomas Bianco, Country Manager, Cambodia - Cigar Divan Cambodia, The Pacific Cigar Company, the company behind Cohiba...

Cambodia Charts Path to Clean Energy Economy at Annual Summit
Under the theme “Unlocking a Clean Energy Economy”, Clean Energy Week held from October 2 to 9, brings together stakeholders to showcase how clean energy will drive Cambodia's economic competitiveness and industrial growth. Photo: provided PHNOM...
Clean Energy Week 2025 Convenes in Phnom Penh
AKP Phnom Penh, October 2, 2025 -- Clean Energy Week 2025 kicked off in Phnom Penh on Oct. 2, highlighting how clean energy can drive Cambodia’s economic competitiveness and industrial growth. This year’s event features exhibitions, panel...
Cambodia approves investment projects worth 7.8 bln USD in first 9 months of 2025
PHNOM PENH, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia attracted fixed-asset investment of 7.8 billion U.S. dollars in the first nine months of 2025, a year-on-year rise of 47 percent, said a Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC)'s report released on...
Cambodia Hosts Forum to Bolster Trade and Investment Ties wi...
AKP Phnom Penh, October 02, 2025 -- The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) convened a high-level forum on Thursday to strategise on sustaining and expanding trade and investment relations with the United States. The event, titled...

Avoiding Another Sihanoukville: Why Cambodia’s Coastal Provinces Must Transform Into A Blue Economy Hub
This photo taken on September 26, 2022 shows a motorist passing a building previously shut down by the police, in Sihanoukville in Preah Sihanouk province. Photo by AFP Cambodia’s coastline, once a lifeline for generations of fishing and farming...

Operation Cambodia: Prithviraj Sukumaran enters Tharun Moorthy’s Operation Java
It is raining announcements and this one is big! Prithviraj Sukumaran has entered Tharun Moorthy’s Operation Java franchise, it has just been announced officially. The upcoming film’s title was revealed to be Operation Cambodia or Operation Java...
Across China: China's high-quality, sustainable cashmere industry weaves warmth for world
HOHHOT, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- As autumn brings cooler temperatures to the Northern Hemisphere, demand for cashmere sweaters climbs. On a ranch in Erdos City, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, white Albas cashmere goats amble from...

Fashion Titans Shift 20% of Production from China
Zàijiàn. Goodbye. U.S. giants are beginning to disengage from sourcing in China, the world’s great textile factory. So far this year, American fashion has taken 20% of the production it made a year ago in the country from the Asian giant, in an...

BIC Group: From Phnom Penh upstart to ASEAN financial force
When BIC Group opened the doors of its fledgling bank in Phnom Penh in August 2018, few would have imagined that within less than a decade it would become one of Cambodia’s most ambitious conglomerates, with activities stretching from high-street...

Financial inclusion at the heart of Cambodia’s development strategy
Financial inclusion at the heart of Cambodia’s development strategy Access to timely, affordable and legally protected formal financial services contributes to household economic growth by linking people to economic activity, says a senior...

Plan aims to facilitate Vietnam-Cambodia trade
Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Bui Thanh Son has signed Decision No. 2164/QD-TTg, approving the implementation plan for the bilateral trade promotion agreement between the governments of Vietnam Cambodia for the 2025 - 2026 period. The plan...

ADB cuts Cambodia’s growth outlook to 4.9% in 2025, 5% in 2026
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has revised its growth forecast for Cambodia from 6.1 per cent to 4.9 per cent for 2025 and from 6.2 per cent to 5 per cent for 2026, reflecting economic challenges related to geopolitical tensions with Thailand...

Making Cambodia pay for border row
What I am covering today is a sensitive issue that all economic research houses, both government and private, avoid talking about. That is the economic impact of the border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia. These research houses widely...
Taiwan ready to will resist pressure from Washington to move half of chip production to US
More News 02 Oct 2025 | 8:31 AMNew York, Oct 2 (UNI) Private payrolls plunged in September, complicating the picture for the US economy as policymakers and investors struggle to assess the state of the labor market amid a government shutdown. see...
Cambodian Agriculture Minister Attends 47th ASEAN Ministers...
AKP Manila, October 01, 2025 -- Cambodia’s Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries H.E. Dith Tina (4th R, Pic. 1) poses for a group photo with his ASEAN counterparts, prior to the 47th ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry Meeting...
IndiGo to launch first India-Cambodia direct flight from Nov 13 onwards
More News 01 Oct 2025 | 9:30 PMKolkata, Oct 1 (UNI) Nissan Motor India recorded consolidated sales of 10,500 units in September 2025, reflecting a 9.3 percent year-on-year growth over September 2024. see more.. 01 Oct 2025 | 9:20 PMHyderabad, Oct...
Phnom Penh Hosts China-Cambodia Commodity Trade Fair 2025
AKP Phnom Penh, September 29, 2025 -- Phnom Penh is hosting the China-Cambodia Commodity Trade Fair 2025 from Sept. 28 to 30 at the Koh Pich Convention and Exhibition Centre. Organised by Cambodian Frank Inman Exhibition Co., Ltd., the three-day...