Between Covid-19 and a hard place
Publication date 09 April 2020 | 23:14 | ICT

It’s simply a case of ‘Damned if you do, damned if you don’t!’. The state has put in place soft lockdown measures, possibly to avoid sending the economy into a shockwave but the effects of the virus are already shaking the core of its

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    Publication date 02 April 2020 | 22:08 | ICT

    The morbid effects of the coronavirus has prompted the Kingdom to cut back unnecessary spending, impose fiscal and monetary policies, and sacrifice tax revenue. But are these enough to take it through this rough period?

  • The good and bad of credit growth

    Publication date 27 March 2020 | 02:20 | ICT

    They say all good things must come to an end, perhaps not “the” end. A slowdown in real estate and construction credit growth, in light of the current economic landscape, might not be a bad thing.

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  • Cambodia’s rice bowl remains half full

    Publication date 20 March 2020 | 00:25 | ICT

    The Kingdom’s rice sector, already challenged by climate change, survives under the throes of a symptomatic, disjointed adaptation and mitigation effort.

  • Silence of the cranes

    Publication date 12 March 2020 | 22:46 | ICT

    Cambodia's fast pace construction sector is slowing to a trundle on the back of a construction materials supply disruption from China caused by the Covid-19 outbreak.

  • Fuelling on dirty energy for economic growth

    Publication date 05 March 2020 | 22:42 | ICT

    Cambodia's construction and industry boom has forced it to move fast to meet energy demands, even if that scuppers climate mitigation efforts.

  • Pulling the rug from under the Kingdom’s economy

    Publication date 27 February 2020 | 23:27 | ICT

    For nearly two decades, the Kingdom's gross domestic product recorded exceptional performance, buoyed by foreign investment, grant and robust exports. But Covid-19 and the partial loss of EBA could put an end to the good times.

  • Phnom Penh comes of age, forty years on

    Publication date 20 February 2020 | 22:40 | ICT

    Robust investment is changing Phnom Penh's landscape, slowly erasing the tightly-woven identity of a city ravaged by a series of wars.

  • Message from Japanese Ambassador to Cambodia

    Publication date 18 February 2020 | 10:39 | ICT

    It is a great pleasure to be sharing this message with the Cambodian people on the occasion of the birthday of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan.

  • Confident investors reaping rewards of Kingdom’s blossoming consumer society

    Publication date 18 February 2020 | 10:35 | ICT

    The wave of consumerism spreading across the Kingdom is encouraging more Japanese investors to consider Cambodia as an attractive market in the region to promote their products and services.

  • Jica targets ‘soft components’ as next stage forward

    Publication date 18 February 2020 | 10:31 | ICT

    While Japan’s reconstruction efforts in Cambodia don’t appear to be slowing down even after nearly 30 years, they could take a different direction in the coming years.