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Economy and Finance
Housing loans affected by COVID-19 granted relief
Home improvement loans and housing loans are among the loans that are being granted relief through loan restructures from banks and microfinance institutions (MFIs). The directive aims to ease the burden of loan borrowers whose incomes are reduced and have difficulty paying back due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a directive statement issued on 27 March, the National Bank of Cambodia requires ban...
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Sihanoukville’s economic crisis a painful adjustment toward sustainable development
Sihanoukville, once dubbed the Macao of Cambodia, is currently facing a crisis. Unfinished construction projects are scattered everywhere around the city; numerous local citizens have been left unemployed; and most noticeably, there has been a massive decline in property rental price, leaving many house owners in debt. These issues have been mainly caused by the crackdown on illegal online gamb...
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Construction in context of COVID-19 stable for Q1 2020, says MLMUPC
A spokesman for the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, H.E. Seng Lot, said that the construction sector in Cambodia in the context of COVID-19 has not decreased. The statistic was announced during a press conference on "Progress and Continuing Direction of the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction" at the Office of the Council of Ministers on 16 Ma...
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Cambodia will need 50,000 houses per year
Cambodia will need around 50,000 houses a year in order to supply the growing population, according to researchers’ predictions. "At present, we are responding to the housing supply for the private sector by constructing houses to fulfill the needs of the people,” said H.E. Seng Lot, Ministry of Land Management spokesperson, at a press conference organized by the Royal Government Spokesperson U...
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2015-2025 IDP action plan will double Sihanoukville’s potential
Sihanoukville is being transformed into a multi-purpose special economic zone following the principles of the Special Administrative Zone, according to the 4th point of the Ministry of Economy and Finance Press Release on Progress of 2015 – 2025 IDP Implementation. The Industrial Development Policy (IDP) represents a comprehensive vision of the Royal Government of Cambodia to embark on a “new e...
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PM postpones construction projects to fight against COVID-19
Construction projects scheduled to start in 2020 must be postponed due to COVID-19, according to Samdech Techo Hun Sen's speech on 3 March 2020 at the 2019 Annual Review Conference and the 2020 Ministry of Health's Continuing Direction. “Any construction sites that have not been built must be suspended, except for foreign-funded or Cambodia's budget contribution,” Samdech Hun Sen said of the pr...
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Gov’t calls for property developers to join with stamp duty tax exemption
The government has called on property developers to lower the cost of housing given that property tax on properties worth less than US$70,000 will be exempted from tax duty for a year in 2020. On the morning of 02 March 2020, H.E Kong Vibol, Director General of General Department of Taxation, urged all property developers to join with government's one-year tax relief strategy. "Property develop...
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Experts: EBA withdrawal, COVID-19 opportunities for long-term investment
Local real estate experts suggest that the EBA withdrawal and COVID-19 epidemic are not significant problems for Cambodia, but rather good opportunities for property investors with long-term vision. According to Ms. Grace Rachy Fong, CEO of Century 21 Cambodia, Cambodia has been doing very well in putting this under control, as seen by only one case reported so far. “Amid this low number of ...
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PM Hun Sen vows to speed up oil production by 2020
Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen has pledged to accelerate the first oil production in Cambodia from the Apsara oil field by 2020 but has yet to provide a specific date. Samdech Hun Sen made the statement during a press conference regarding the latest updates in Cambodia on 24 February. "I have not yet announced the specific time for extracting the first drop of oil, but we have to speed up th...
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Offshore Block D oilfield agreement signed
The Ministry of Mines and Energy has signed an offshore Block D oilfield agreement with Cambodia Resources Energy Development Co. The oil agreement was agreed in December last year and the company is scheduled to start exploration for oil in the Block D in 2020, according to H.E. Cheap Sour, Director-General of Petroleum at Ministry of Mines and Energy. The agreement signing allows the company ...
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