Politics & Security
Thai court set the removal clock at finality, not at the ruling date
The Court of Appeal ordered the Office of the Prime Minister on 11 June to remove material it found had…
Business & Economy
US goods enter Cambodia duty free under a decree predating the trade deal
For US exporters whose goods sit in the 9,712 staged lines, and for the Cambodian importers who clear them, the…
Politics & Security
The ceasefire’s return clause turns on a line Cambodia and Thailand have not agreed
More than 20,000 Cambodians are still displaced, and the clause both governments signed returns them to areas within their own…
Business & Economy
Five months after Cambodia’s bad-loan rules, the central bank’s list names no buyer
For a borrower whose loan has been graded sub-standard, doubtful or loss, a sale would hand every creditor right to…
Politics & Security
UNESCO’s property file for Prasat Preah Vihear lists no Committee decision since 2011
Cambodia's culture ministry says more than 560 damaged locations have been documented at Prasat Preah Vihear and that people living…
Business & Economy
The ministry’s published monthly figures allocate Cambodia’s 2026 fresh-durian exports to China entirely from April onward
For the farms and packing houses on China's approved list, the year's counted access ran from April to 24 July,…
Business & Economy
The new US tariff covers the Cambodian textiles the directed quotas would exempt
A memorandum the President signed on 23 July and published on 28 July 2026 directs two sets of tariff-rate quotas…
Business & Economy
MinebeaMitsumi’s own documents show the Pursat plant operating and no solar start announced
MinebeaMitsumi's commitment is that its Cambodian plants run on 100 percent renewable power generated in-house. The company's own notices record…
Cambodia
Business & Economy
Cambodia’s published readings of its restructured loan book count different things
For the borrowers whose fees, interest and repayments were waived under the 2025 guidelines, the waivers expired in March and May, and what falls due now is not stated in...
Business & Economy
Imports carried most of Cambodia’s first-half trade growth with RCEP members
The ministry put the bloc at 63.9 percent of Cambodia's first-half trade, a figure counting imports and exports together. Its own reporting separates the measures: 61.53 percent of trade and...
Cambodia
Chinese Huione Pay User Reported Deported After Detention on a Police Public-Order Ground
A Chinese user of the defunct payment app Huione Pay was deported on 16 July, an anonymous fellow protester told Kiripost, three days after police detained him following a protest...
Analysis
Cambodia zeroes the import duty on a finished electric car
On 1 April, under Sub-Decree No. 52, the import duty on a finished electric passenger car entering Cambodia fell to zero, from 15 percent on standard models and 35 percent...
Politics & Security
Politics & Security
ASEAN ministers reaffirmed support for full implementation of the December Cambodia-Thailand statement
The Cambodia-Thailand border gets one paragraph in the 59th AMM communique. It endorses in full the December ceasefire statement, whose third measure sends the land boundary back to a commission...
Politics & Security
Thai wall’s finished section stands inside the stretch the two countries’ survey teams worked in November
Thailand has finished the first 1.3 kilometres of a permanent wall between Boundary Pillars 52 and 54, inside the segment the two countries' joint survey teams worked from 8 to...
Politics & Security
A year after the border conflict, Cambodia’s displaced are counted as people, as families and as camp residents
Cambodia's Ministry of Interior recorded 28,460 civilians still displaced on 15 June. In the five days to 24 July three official figures were put before three audiences, counting people, families...
Politics & Security
Three accounts of Cambodia’s scam-crackdown report differ on the casinos and the dates
Cambodia's cabinet endorsed a one-year report on the technology-fraud crackdown on 24 July. The government's own statement, Xinhua's account and the Phnom Penh Post's describe the same 195-casino review three...
Southeast Asia
Business & Economy
AMRO raised its 2026 inflation projections for Cambodia and Korea in July
Cambodian households buying the basket the index measures are the class the projection lands on. What has been measured is Phnom Penh prices 7.2 percent higher over the twelve months...
Politics & Security
ASEAN ministers reaffirmed support for full implementation of the December Cambodia-Thailand statement
The Cambodia-Thailand border gets one paragraph in the 59th AMM communique. It endorses in full the December ceasefire statement, whose third measure sends the land boundary back to a commission...
Politics & Security
Thai wall’s finished section stands inside the stretch the two countries’ survey teams worked in November
Thailand has finished the first 1.3 kilometres of a permanent wall between Boundary Pillars 52 and 54, inside the segment the two countries' joint survey teams worked from 8 to...
Politics & Security
A year after the border conflict, Cambodia’s displaced are counted as people, as families and as camp residents
Cambodia's Ministry of Interior recorded 28,460 civilians still displaced on 15 June. In the five days to 24 July three official figures were put before three audiences, counting people, families...
World
Cambodia
IFC board directs its own watchdog to suspend microfinance consumer-protection complaints, halting Cambodia cases pending a policy discussion
The IFC board rejected its own ombudsman's finding that the bank breached its sustainability policies in Cambodia, then directed the watchdog to suspend every financial-consumer-protection complaint about microfinance and take...
Business & Economy
Three years into RCEP, the export gains to the bloc gathered in a few members; the largest gainer, Cambodia, saw one of the fastest rises in its reliance on the bloc for imports
Asia Global Institute data put Cambodia's exports to the bloc up 120.9 percent between 2022 and 2025, the most of any member, while eight members' exports to the bloc fell....
Business & Economy
World Bank’s IFC watchdog chief resigns after board declines to accept her Cambodia microfinance finding
Janine Ferretti will leave the World Bank's IFC and MIGA watchdog on 1 August, a day after the IFC board declined to accept her office's finding that IFC broke its...
Politics & Security
China adds MP Materials and USA Rare Earth to its export-control list in answer to the Pentagon blacklist
China's Commerce Ministry placed MP Materials, USA Rare Earth and eight other US firms on its export-control list on Monday, answering the Pentagon's latest blacklist of Chinese companies. Analysts read...
Explainers
Business & Economy
A $643m brewing deal counts Cambodia as a place to sell, not a place to build
A place on a regional corporate map can mean a mandate, where capital and higher-value production are anchored in the country, or access, where the country supplies demand and hosts...
Explainers
Cambodia Names the Timor Sea Chairman and the Hague Academy’s Secretary-General to Its Gulf Conciliation
Peter Taksøe-Jensen steered the convention's only finished compulsory conciliation to a signed treaty; Jean-Marc Thouvenin argues law of the sea before the international courts. The objection raised most loudly against...
Cambodia
Three Partners, One Week: Cambodia’s Institutional Tempo During the Border Crisis
Cambodia signed institutional agreements with the United States and France and issued its UN Human Rights Council record within seven days, compressing the multilateral architecture it has built during the...
Cambodia
Cambodia’s Multilateral Machine: Seven Institutional Tracks in One Border Dispute
Cambodia has built parallel institutional engagement across seven international bodies during the Thai border dispute, creating the most extensively documented small-state position in any active Southeast Asian territorial conflict.
Analysis
Analysis
Cambodia zeroes the import duty on a finished electric car
On 1 April, under Sub-Decree No. 52, the import duty on a finished electric passenger car entering Cambodia fell to zero, from 15 percent on standard models and 35 percent...
Analysis
Korea’s KDIC moves to sell debt on stalled Cambodia project after 15 years
South Korea's deposit insurer has opened bidding to sell its Camko City claims and set an August deadline. The record establishes the procurement and the debt, not a Cambodian asset...
Analysis
Cambodia’s tourism register shows no guides, while Kep pricing complaints lack visible consumer-protection action
Two laws reach the moment a visitor in Cambodia pays a guide or a vendor. A live search of the Ministry of Tourism's public licence list returned 128 current entries...
Analysis
Asia’s markets sorted three ways in the first half of 2026. The one force that reaches Cambodia runs through the dollar, into the countdown to graduation
Two shocks and one rule sorted Asia's markets in early 2026. The same dollar and rate path reach Cambodia where the league tables cannot show it.
Analysis
Cambodia’s banks carry strong capital over a worsening loan book, and the World Bank projects the bad-loan ratio to keep climbing now that forbearance has expired
The World Bank's June update records bank capital and liquidity well above their floors and a non-performing ratio that reached 8.9 percent in 2025, the reading taken while the National...
