Sihanoukville, the coastal city and only deep sea port of Cambodia, is no longer a sleepy, undeveloped town for backpackers. This is a fact that should be welcome. 

Sim Vireak is Strategic Advisor of the Asian Vision Institute (AVI) based in Phnom Penh.

Business groups in Cambodia are uniting to provide training for promising start-ups in the country in a bid to help new entrepreneurs prepare themselves for the market. The incubation program will run for three months.

“The reduction of electricity rates will make people happy. They will welcome the effort to lower electricity rates . . . even if the rates for the water and the prices of other goods are the same,” Hun Sen said at the time.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen reaffirmed last month that his government fully supports Beijing’s ‘One China’ policy, a diplomatic nod to the notion that Taiwan is a breakaway Chinese province rather than an independent state.