The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) registered 546 investment projects with total capital of approximately US$7.8 billion in the first nine months of 2025. In an October 2 press release, CDC said its Cambodian Investment Board registered 55 projects in September 2025, with combined capital of about US$467 million and the potential to create around 37,000 jobs. Of these projects, 38 were outside special economic zones and 17 were within them.
The 546 projects and approximately US$7.8 billion registered in the first nine months of 2025 represented an increase of 231 projects, or about 73%, and roughly US$2.5 billion, or 47%, compared with the same period of 2024, when CDC registered 315 projects worth about US$5.3 billion. Notably, the number registered in just nine months of 2025 exceeded the total for the whole of 2024 by 132 projects.
Sihanoukville Provincial Television. By: ង៉ែត ពិសាន្ត
