{"asset":"news","key":"1651","locale":"en","id":"news:1651:en","entityId":"news:1651","canonicalUrl":"https://www.kps-tv.com/en/news/detail/1651","state":"ready","title":"Cambodia registers 491 projects worth about $7.2 billion in first eight months of 2025","summary":"The Council for the Development of Cambodia said 491 projects were registered in January–August 2025, with about $7.2 billion in investment and 340,000 jobs.","body":"The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) said in a September 3, 2025, announcement that it registered 491 investment projects in the first eight months of the year. Investment totalled about US$7.2 billion, with 340,000 jobs to be created.\nThe council said the 491 projects registered in the first eight months of 2025 totalled about US$7.2 billion in investment. Compared with the same period in 2024, the number of projects rose by 204, or about 71 percent, while investment increased by about US$2.5 billion, or about 50 percent.\nIn August 2025 alone, the council registered 51 projects worth about US$608 million, with the potential to create 27,000 jobs. Cambodian investors accounted for the largest share of investment, at 45.48 percent, followed by investors from China, Singapore, the United Kingdom and elsewhere.\nAugust’s 51 approvals took registrations to nearly 500 in the first eight months of 2025, compared with just over 400 in all of 2024.\nPreah Sihanouk Provincial Television; by: ចិន្តា ទីទិ","contentScope":"full","proof":{"publishedSourceRevision":"1","publishedWorkingVersionId":"18645","languageVersionId":"18951","visibilityVersion":"2","versionToken":"a1.t5MeL7nwJN_LTa6gQUH6VfOjkik1xulY3FTX4tqvZV4"},"availableLocales":["zh","en","km"],"attributes":{"sourceLocale":"km","translationKind":"machine","nodeId":"12","authorText":"","sourceName":""},"references":[],"links":[],"publishedAt":"2025-09-04T04:14:10Z"}