Cambodia attracted fixed-asset investment of 9.2 billion U.S. dollars in the first 10 months of 2025, a year-on-year increase of 67 percent, said a Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) report on Friday.
The Southeast Asian country approved 575 investment projects during the January-October period this year, up 66 percent from 346 projects over the same period last year, generating about 401,000 jobs, the CDC said.
Those investment projects had been mainly focused on the areas of garment and non-garment manufacturing industries, infrastructure, agriculture and agro-industry, and tourism, the report said.
China is still the top foreign investor in the kingdom, accounting for 52.38 percent of the total investment amount, the CDC said, adding that other foreign investors were from Singapore, Vietnam, the British Virgin Islands, Britain, the United States, the Cayman Islands, Samoa, and Bermuda, among others.
Cambodian Ministry of Commerce's Secretary of State and spokesperson Penn Sovicheat said the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and Cambodia's bilateral free trade agreements with China, South Korea, and the United Arab Emirates are key factors in attracting foreign direct investment.
"New investments will bring about new capital, technologies and employment opportunities for our Cambodian people," he told Xinhua.