Cambodia may seek tigers from India as it plans to reinstate the big cat in the Southeast Asian nation. The last tiger was sighted in Cambodia in 2007.Representatives from Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand participated in a two day study programme to understand the successful tiger href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-may-seek-indias-help-for-tiger-reintroduction/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) opened its office in the capital in September 1993. Today, the AFD provides direct funding in the field of agriculture and agro-industry, infrastructure development, manufacturing sector and vocational training. Since 1993, the AFD has given grants of more than href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/helping-cambodia-move-up/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

At a conference on the topic of the environment yesterday, civil society groups repeatedly raised the risk of natural disasters and hazards that Cambodia will face if the effects of climate change are not adequately addressed. The one-day conference in Phnom Penh sought to find solutions href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngos-raise-climate-change-risk/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Eighteen local rice export companies are now eligible to carry out milled rice exports to China starting from next month, according to an announcement released on Monday by the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF). The announcement added that the CRF and the Green Trade Company – under href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rice-export-firms-get-go-ahead/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday signed a sub-decree to create “biodiversity conservation corridors”—patches of land connecting Cambodia’s protected areas—putting an additional 1.4 million hectares under the management of the Environment Ministry.This brings Cambodia’s protected areas overseen by the ministry to more than 40 percent href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/environment-ministry-now-controls-40-percent-of-cambodias-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday that China has been playing a critical role in contributing to the development of the Cambodian economy through direct investment and helping to develop infrastructure.  In 2016 trade reached about $4.8 billion of which exports from Cambodia amounted to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-backs-chinas-key-role/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Tourism Ministry has prepared a master plan for the development of the industry in provinces and cities to attract investment in the sector and create more products for tourists. However the country needs growth of at least 10 percent year-on-year to reach the target href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/master-plan-for-tourism-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia and China reached here yesterday six memorandums of understanding (MoUs) in order to further tighten and expand the cooperation between the two countries. The signing ceremony was witnessed by Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen and visiting H.E. Liu Yunshan, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-china-sign-six-cooperation-deals/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Estimates suggest that 0.38 percent of Cambodians have contracted TB, an alarming statistic for a country still recovering from decades of conflict. This rate shows an improvement from the early 2000s, when up to 1.5 percent of Cambodians had the disease. Even so, villagers who live far href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-and-the-wests-common-enemy-tuberculosis/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

China will hold its second military exercise with Cambodia in March focusing on counter terrorism, the Cambodian army said on Wednesday, in another sign of the Southeast Asian country strengthening ties with Beijing. The Royal Cambodian Armed Forces said in a statement the exercise would href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-to-hold-second-military-exercises-with-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The National Social Security Fund of the Ministry of Labour said more than 1,600 workers fainted in 22 factories in 2017, an increase of more than 400 from the previous year. According to a Facebook post that published the conclusion of the 2017 annual results and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/jump-in-fainting-cases-in-2017-for-garment-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Officials in Cambodia and China’s Guangdong province are cooperating to establish trade using yuan instead of US dollars, part of the two countries’ increasingly close economic relationship. The suggestion to use yuan directly, instead of using US dollars as an intermediary currency, was made by href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/deal-for-yuan-trade-with-china-in-works/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Families forced to relocate due to the construction of the Lower Sesan II Dam are asking Stung Treng provincial authorities to register their new village as indigenous collective lands. The 67 families from Sre Ko commune received authorisation to set up the new village on their href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sesan-villagers-seek-land-titles/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh City Hall yesterday said that demonstrations, strikes and protests increased last year when compared to 2016. A report released yesterday said that 2017 saw 1,760 demonstrations, strikes and protests, an increase of 162 compared to 2016. Last year, there were 613 protests by citizens and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/phnom-penh-demonstrations-rise-in-2017/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Rhona Smith, the UN special rapporteur for human rights in Cambodia, who is on a three-day trip to the Kingdom, yesterday voiced her concern about overcrowding in prisons caused by an increase in temporary detentions before trials. Ms. Smith, on her third visit to Cambodia, raised href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/envoy-calls-for-prison-reform/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Up to 10,000 Cambodians seek legal employment abroad every month, according to a Labor Ministry official, and some civil society groups are not pleased with the large exodus of workers from the country. Labor Minister Ith Samheng told reporters on Wednesday that the government sends thousands href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thousands-of-cambodians-going-to-work-abroad-every-month/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The first ever smartphone tax app is set to be launched next year in an effort to make tax payments by companies more transparent. The app developed by the General Department of Taxation (GDT) of the Ministry of Finance and Economy, is a platform for individuals href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tax-app-launched-next-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The central banks of Cambodia and China are in talks to share customers’ credit reports in an effort to boost bilateral private investment, as a response to rising trade between the two countries. The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) director general Chea Serey told Khmer Times href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-cambodia%e2%80%8b-to-share-credit-reports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Pursat provincial police have launched a week-long campaign to crack down on widespread illegal fishing. Authorities say they have confiscated and destroyed many kinds of illegal fishing equipment on the Tonle Sap Lake from Kampon Loung in Krakor district to the Kampong Chhang province border. Pursat deputy href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-launch-blitz-on-illegal-fishing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

After being questioned for more than two hours at the National Assembly yesterday, Environment Minister Say Samal claimed the number of forest crimes decreased in 2016, but acknowledged that some government officials were involved in some of the crimes. A recently released report from the University href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/opposition-questions-minister/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...