Cambodian imports from Thailand plunged by 35% between June and November 2025, reaching USD 1.25 billion compared to much higher levels the previous year.

It’s a breath of hope sweeping across the region today. After several weeks of deadly clashes around the disputed border between Cambodia and Thailand, the two countries have signed a new ceasefire agreement, effective since noon on 27 December 2025.

In a symbolic and practical gesture, the first shipment of Chinese humanitarian aid arrived Sunday in Cambodia, marking Beijing’s firm commitment to consolidating the fragile ceasefire between the Kingdom and Thailand.

The 28th of December holds a singular place in the Cambodian calendar. Much more than a day of commemoration, it embodies a decisive turning point in the recent history of the kingdom: the return to peace, the end of an era of fratricidal fighting, and the reconstruction of a wounded nation.

The Thailand and Cambodia signed an immediate cease-fire on December 27, 2025 along their contested border, bringing a provisional end to three weeks of bloody confrontations that left at least 47 dead and nearly a million civilians displaced on both sides.

In a context of deteriorating humanitarian conditions linked to the conflict between Cambodia and Thailand, Pung Kheav Se, founder and CEO of Canadia Group, along with its two principal entities, Overseas Cambodian Investment Corporation (OCIC) and Canadia Investment Holding (CIH), made a donation of 3 million dollars intended to support personnel operating in border areas and displaced civilians in seven affected provinces.

The UN has a comprehensive set of mediation mechanisms to intervene peacefully between Cambodia and Thailand, based on the United Nations Charter (Chapters VI and VII), in order to prevent the escalation of the 2025 border conflict around Preah Vihear and other disputed areas.

With over twenty years of experience in tourism and gastronomy development, Arnaud Darc has been observing from Phnom Penh the evolution of a sector vital to the national economy. In his analysis of 2025, he makes a clear assessment: Cambodian tourism hasn’t undergone a collapse, but a brutal exposure of its structural fragilities.

Into the Light: The Retrieved Paintings of Phnom Penh’s Silver Pagoda — the exhibition at the Preah Srey Içanavarman Museum of the Economy and Money (SOSORO) of the National Bank of Cambodia — is shining with remarkable success.