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By Stew Post • Jan 24, 2023
With the FATF’s on-site inspection concluded, Cambodia’s reputation as a destination for foreign investment hangs in the balance, but deeply rooted corruption could undermine whatever progress the international watchdog finds
By Andrew Haffner • Jun 22, 2020
Cambodia has enacted a sweeping new legal approach to construction since the deadly Sihanoukville building collapse that killed 28 workers and their family members. But with legislation in hand, has anything changed for the labourers building the Kingdom a year on?
By Andrew Haffner • Jan 23, 2020
Foreign investors rode a hot streak in Sihanoukville until the gambling game collapsed last summer. Now, with the boomtown at risk of going bust and the city decaying around them, long-term residents, local businesses and construction workers are picking up the pieces
By Andrew Haffner • Nov 13, 2019
A wave of casino-driven Chinese tourism to Cambodia is creating new challenges for the community networks that child protection groups have spent years setting up
A Chinese-funded property boom in Cambodia’s Sihanoukville is casting the city’s meth addicts to the margins
By Andrew Haffner • Oct 18, 2019
Since Prime Minister Hun Sen announced a ban on online gambling, tens of thousands of Chinese nationals have left Sihanoukville on Cambodia’s coast. But the road to rebuilding seems a long one indeed
By Kevin Livingston • Oct 17, 2019
Long accused by its critics of serving as a Vietnamese puppet, Cambodia's government now stands condemned of trying to serve two masters
By Paul Millar • Oct 10, 2019
Buried amid the noise of Cambodia’s real estate boom, the Kingdom’s construction workers are still struggling for access to a steady wage and basic social protections
By Paul Millar • Sep 13, 2019
The Kingdom's open economy has been hailed as a triumph of the free market. But as growing foreign investment in the Kingdom’s real estate sector threatens to price locals out of the market, the time has come to ensure that economic growth serves all Cambodians, not just a wealthy few
By Paul Millar • Aug 21, 2019
The discovery of 1,600 tonnes of illegal plastic waste in a Cambodian port is just the latest example of wealthy nations heaping their trash on countries ill-equipped to handle it
By Paul Millar • Jul 24, 2019
From our print archive: In the 18 months leading up to 2008, almost half of Cambodia had been leased to foreign speculators – and many who fled the Khmer Rouge are homeless once more
By Cathy Scott-Clark, Adrian Levy and Peter Harris • Jun 25, 2019
As dozens of casinos set up shop in Cambodia each year, they stand to make millions annually – but the Kingdom has yet to rake in its fair share of the industry’s rising profits
By Robin Spiess • Jun 03, 2019