The number of loan restructuring applications has seen a steep drop over the last three months in an encouraging sign of Covid-19’s loosening grip on the Kingdom, the Cambodia Microfinance Association …
Stopping Cambodia’s Reckless Urban Development
State capture has turned the Cambodian government into an agent of private industrial interests, rather than a defender of citizens’ interests. To protect those at permanent risk of displacement, the …
One million Cambodians under threat from development of vital wetlands – report
New sprawling development near Phnom Penh could prompt environmental catastrophe, including for the capital’s water systems Christopher Knaus Cambodian authorities plan to turn the Tompoun …
Wither tourism? Can Cambodia resuscitate the sector post-Covid-19?
With international tourism annihilated, it is now down to respective governments to resuscitate the sector. Cambodia must do the same but critics are sceptical of its intentions A storm beckons on the …
Cambodia: Foreign money leaves trail of ghost towns
Ate Hoekstra reports. A Chinese hotel and entertainment complex under construction in the Preah Sihanoukville province, Cambodia, November 2017 Ngeth Both guards one of the many newly built high …
Coronavirus pushing Cambodia back into poverty
Cambodia has taken a heavy hit from the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. With firms staring at canceled orders and people losing jobs, fears grow that it could undo the nation’s …
Cambodia will no longer benefit from the European Unions’s preferential trade program
For years, Cambodia and the European Union have been on a collision course over the southeast Asian country’s “serious and systemic violation of human rights”.
EU Trade Sanctions on Cambodia Come Into Force
The European Union reimposed customs duties on many of Cambodia’s exports on Wednesday, suspending its trade arrangement over concerns about human rights.
EU slaps duties on Cambodia exports over rights concerns
The European Union says it’s started to impose customs duties on certain exports from Cambodia again over human rights concerns in the Southeast Asian country …
Cambodia loses EU trade privileges as it rushes FTA with China
PHNOM PENH — The European Union on Wednesday enforced trade sanctions against Cambodia in response to its government’s oppression of political opponents, among other human rights violations.