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As families reunite for one of Cambodia’s most meaningful holidays, a stilted village on the edge of Tonle Sap Lake is ready to show visitors a side of Siem Reap that most never see. Pchum Ben is a time when Cambodians go home. Families gather, pagodas fill with offerings for ancestors, and the whole country…
Most visitors to Cambodia follow a familiar script. They see a temple, take the photo, eat a good meal, and move on to the next stop. Nothing wrong with that. But a lot gets missed along the way. The farmer who knows exactly when the rice will be ready. The grandmother who still cooks over…
Some dates on the calendar are just days off. September 24th is not one of them. Walk through Phnom Penh this morning and you’ll feel it before you see it. Flags in blue, red and white ripple from balconies and shopfronts. Families linger over breakfast a little longer than usual. Children who would normally be…
Cambodia’s top economic planning body is drafting a sweeping 10-year industrial strategy aimed at weaning the country off its dependence on low-cost, labor-intensive manufacturing and pushing it toward higher-skilled, technology-driven industries. The Supreme National Economic Council is putting together the Industrial Development Policy 2026-2035, a roadmap that would reshape how Cambodia positions itself economically over…
Ask anyone who has spent time on a factory floor what actually changes a workplace, and they rarely say “a new software system” or “a bigger budget.” More often, they talk about the day someone finally listened to them. That, in a sentence, is what Kaizen is about. Kaizen, the Japanese practice of continuous improvement,…
When people think of the Khmer Empire, they often picture Angkor Wat, monumental temples and powerful kings. Yet behind these achievements stood an equally impressive economic system. From the empire’s foundation in 802 CE until the 15th century, Khmer prosperity was supported by productive agriculture, skilled water management, busy local markets and extensive international trade.…
SCAN Industrial Services Cambodia Co., Ltd. has signed a five-year agreement with Cambodia’s Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training to strengthen vocational training and develop a larger pool of skilled industrial workers, the company said. The Memorandum of Agreement focuses on upgrading training standards at the Industrial Technical Institute’s Metal Engineering and Sheet Metal Welding…
Cambodia’s rice sector continued to show strong international performance in the first half of 2026, with the country exporting more than 630,000 tonnes of milled rice to global markets and earning over USD 367 million in revenue. According to a report from the Cambodia Rice Federation, Cambodia exported 630,319 tonnes of milled rice between January…
Most national development strategies are written to be filed, not read. They sit in government archives, cited occasionally in budget speeches, rarely opened by anyone outside a ministry. Cambodia’s Pentagonal Strategy Phase I is different, not because it is perfectly written, but because it is structured in a way that forces accountability. Every pentagon has…
A country that was once described as a killing field is now drawing blueprints for a high-income future. That shift did not happen by accident. In August 2023, the Royal Government of Cambodia released one of the most ambitious policy documents in its post-war history, the Pentagonal Strategy Phase I. It does not read like…
Cambodia’s General Department of Immigration (GDI) has firmly rejected reports circulating on several foreign websites that claimed African nationals with expired immigration waivers had been ordered to leave the Kingdom by 31 May 2026. In a clarification issued on Friday, 29 May, the GDI stated that it had taken note of articles published by foreign…
Today, Cambodia celebrates the 74th birthday of His Majesty King Norodom Sihamoni, and across the country, hearts are turned toward him with love, respect, and quiet prayer. To Cambodians, His Majesty has never been just a King in the formal sense. He has been something closer to family. A gentle presence. A reassuring figure who…
By the time you finish reading this sentence, an artificial intelligence somewhere has already been told how to behave. Not by you. Not by its user. But by a quiet, invisible paragraph slipped into the conversation before you ever typed a word. The Washington Post recently pulled back the curtain on this practice in a…
