Cambodian Economy Reviews

Kampot province in southern Cambodia has long been famous for the quality of its pepper. During the French colonial era, thousands of acres of the spice were grown there. But under the Khmer Rouge regime in the late 1970s, the province’s pepper plantations were uprooted to make way for rice. However, a local company is [...]

Import-export broker Be Vanthon, 36, is busying entering data into a computer. He smiles and says, “This new system saves me a lot of time and makes our work easier and smoother.” He continues. “I can do it three times as fast as before, when I had to fill in all documents by hand. It [...]

The Cambodian Ministry of Commerce, together with four of its development partners, launched a $12.6 million Trade Development Support Program (TDSP) on March 23, 2009, aimed at assisting Cambodia to expand its international trade. The program is financed by the European Commission, the Danish International Aid Agency (Danida) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization [...]

Since 2007, the global financial crisis has affected the international trade, and cooled down car sales. In addition, the impact of financial crisis also hit hardly the decrease in the demand for tyres and also affected the Cambodia’s rubber production exports to international markets.
According to the Cambodia Economic Watch, the rubber sector is expected to [...]