Cambodia, a small Asian “tiger” with big ambitions


Sok Chenda, Secretary General of the Cambodia Development Council. OECD

FOCUS – Phnom Penh is hosting Joe Biden and Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqianq for the ASEAN summit this weekend. The young country is modernizing at high speed.

Phnom Penh will not celebrate the reversal of currents between the Tonle Sap and the great Mekong River. Forgotten this year, the usual Water Festival and boat races on the orange waters that bathe the city where temples with golden roofs alternate with ultramodern towers. Because the capital of Cambodia and its prime minister, Hun Sen, are hosting the ASEAN summit. A major event for the country which this year chairs the association of ten Southeast Asian nations and is counting on it to boost the economy of the small kingdom headed by Norodom Sihamoni, son of the former king. Norodom Sihanouk.

Cambodia can becomea regional hub, a hub“, assure the government and business leaders of this country three times smaller than France, which has only 17 million inhabitants, against 100 million and 70 million for its Vietnamese and Thai neighbors. Cambodia, starting from scratch a little over twenty years ago after the…

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