Archive for Facts & Figures

Cambodia landmines facts and figures by Halo Trust

There are approximately 2.5 million landmines across the country. The number coupled with other unexploded ordinance (UXO) is responsible for some 63,000 Cambodians.
No figures as to how much of the land has been de-mined or how many of the landmines have been cleared but Tim Porter of Hal Trust, one of the three de-minig organizations [...]

Infrastructure, raw materials important for Cambodia’s textile

High-tech manufacturing equipment and ability to produce its own raw materials are essential to make Cambodia a more competitive garment producer in the world market, according to a $395 report by Research And Market.
The excerpt from the “Prospects for the Textile and Garment Industry in Cambodia” mentioned that the country’s garment Industry has evolved to [...]

185 girls raped in 4 months in Cambodia

Non-government Organization officials stated that within the period of four months from January to April 2008, 185 girls and women were raped, Kampuchea Thmey, one of the most leading Khmer language newspaper in Cambodia, reported today.
The figure is similar to that for the same period in 2007. Of the 185 rape victims, 13 were under [...]

Malaysia biggest investor in Cambodia

The report from the Development Council of Cambodia revealed that Malaysia has been Cambodia’s biggest investor for 14 consecutive years totalling US$2.19 billion, Malaysia’s Ambassador to Cambodia told Malaysian National News Agency May 29.
With investments of [U]S$1.761 billion, China ranked second, Datuk Adnan added.
“Among the business carried out by Malaysian companies are power generation, textile [...]

Approximately 250,000 jobs necessary to bring unemployment down

An average of 250,000 entered the Cambodian job market every year from 2003 to 2007 while only an average of 150,000 new jobs were created, Sok Hach, director of the Economic Institute of Cambodia (EIC), has told The Cambodia Daily, according to Xinhua.

Vietnam ranks third on number of tourists visiting Cambodia

“Vietnam ranks third following the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Japan on the number of tourists visiting Cambodia in the first quarter of this year,” VietNamNet Bridge wrote May 5 in its news article More Vietnam tourists keen on Cambodia tourism (Link last visited May 6), following a visit by Cambodian Minister of Tourism.
In January [...]

Cambodia now 6th largest garment exporter in world

The news report came as a great surprise to me when I received it from a friend in Nagoya. Below is the whole report I would like to quote for our discussion.
PHNOM PENH, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) — Cambodia has become the sixth largest garment exporting country in the world, the Chinese-language newspaper the Commercial Daily [...]

10% owns 90% of Cambodian land!

“We’re moving toward possibly about 10 percent of the population owning 90 percent of the land in Cambodia,” said Naly Pilorge, director of the nonprofit Cambodian League for Promotion and Defense of Human Rights.