The year 2024 has brought new challenges and opportunities for the Kingdom’s luxury tourism sector. This segment of the industry, according to business insiders, is witnessing a tremendous transformation in the country with a greater number of travellers preferring it along with sustainable tourism. Over the years, Cambodia has also seen a rise in the […]

An official report released on Monday said Cambodia exported products worth $21.57 billion in the first 10 months of 2024, up 16 per cent from $18.59 billion in the same period last year. The General Department of Customs and Excise report said the main exported items included garments, footwear, travel goods, bicycles, car tires, and […]

The State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA) has announced the addition of six new flight routes connecting Cambodia to various destinations during the peak season of tourism starting this month. The new routes are Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville-Phu Quoc by Cambodia Air, Siem Reap Singapore by Air Asia Cambodia, Phuket-Siem Reap by Air Asia Thailand, Bangkok-Siem Reap […]

Three tyre factories in the country are capable of processing around 200,000 tonnes of Cambodian rubber latex annually, said Khun Kakada, Deputy Director General of the General Directorate of Rubber of Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), recently. The three factories are Cart Tire Co., Ltd., located in Bavet City, Svay Rieng Province, General […]

Cambodia welcomed 4.8 million foreign tourists in the first nine months of this year, marking a 22% year-on-year increase while the Philippines attracted only 4.08 million visitors. Thailand topped the list of foreign tourist arrivals to Cambodia from January to September, with 1.52 million visitors, followed by Vietnam (973,000) and China (607,000), according to a […]

His Excellency Huot Hak, Minister of Tourism, visited and chatted with business people to get to know and see the food service, entertainment places and souvenir shops in Pub Street, Siem Reap Province yesterday. All images: AKP

Large amounts of International and National tourists visited Cambodia’s iconic Angkor Temple complex at the weekend. All images: AKP

Text description provided by the architects. Situated on Preah Sihanouk Ave, linking the northern route that leads to Angkor Wat, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and downtown of Siem Reap, Angkor Market is a two-story red brick building, surrounded by a century’s worth of cultural heritage Raffles Grand Hotel d’Angkor, Angkor National Museum and Amansara Resort. […]

Cambodia has earned over $1.5 billion from paddy and milled rice exports in the first ten months of this year, a report from the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) showed yesterday. From January to October of this year, the Kingdom exported 502,029 tonnes of milled rice to 66 foreign countries and territories, earning $376 million, stated […]

Cambodian businesses are eager to strengthening relations with the US during the upcoming Donald Trump Administration. Shortly after president-elect Trump gave his victory speech in New York on Wednesday afternoon in Cambodia time, Prime Minister Hun Manet led the country to congratulate him. Mr Hun Manet in a Facebook post said that the great victory […]

Malis Angkor, the certification mark for Cambodian Premium Aromatic Rice, won the World Best Rice for the 6th time from the World Best Rice Competition on Thursday (Nov. 7) during the World Rice Conference 2024 held in Manila, the Philippines. The competition is organised by the International Commodity Institute (ICI) and the Rice Trader of […]

17 prominent private companies from Yunnan Province have pledged to explore Cambodia’s emerging tourist destinations, promote joint marketing activities, organize collaborative events, and develop new tour packages aimed at attracting more Chinese tourists from Yunnan to Cambodia, particularly to Siem Reap. Huot Hak, Minister of Tourism, met with the companies for a work discussion on […]

Sharing the border with Cambodia, the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai of Vietnam is striving to develop its border trade infrastructure connections with Ratanakiri province of Cambodia, aiming to strengthen economic links and make import-export turnover on par with the great potential of both countries.

A highlight of this scheme is the annual border market […]

Cambodian Independence Day is celebrated annually on November 9th, marking the country’s declaration of independence from French colonisation in 1953. As a Cambodian, “Independence Day” resonates deeply with me. Growing up, I was always captivated by the vibrancy of the celebrations in my hometown. The streets were decorated with flags, music filled the air, and […]

The Ministry of Commerce (MoC), in collaboration with stakeholders in the cashew sector, held a technical meeting on “Creating the Cambodian Cashew Collective Mark” to promote Cambodian cashew products to the global market. The meeting was led by Reach Ra, Secretary of State of the Ministry of Commerce and Permanent Deputy Chairman of the Inter-Ministerial […]

A total of 30 new investment projects and one production expansion project, with a total investment of $226 million were approved by the government in October this year. Of them, nearly 54 percent of the investment capital came from Chinese investors, according to the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) on Tuesday. Local investors […]