Cambodia’s petrol bill topped $440 million at the end of the first quarter, up 11 per cent from $397 million during the same period last year, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce. The data show Cambodia imported a total of 453,000 tonnes of petroleum href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/imports-of-petroleum-on-the-rise-last-quarter/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prince Norodom Ranariddh, son of the beloved late monarch Norodom Sihanouk, officially inaugurated a newly-formed royalist party on Friday in order to prepare for the contest in the 2018’s general election. The inauguration of the Community of Royalist People Party ( CRPP) was held at href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-prince-ranariddh-launches-newly-formed-royalist-party/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Private equity firm Leopard Capital announced Monday that it is putting its controlling interest in Cambodian beer company Kingdom Breweries up for sale as part of the fund’s requirement to exit its investments before a 2016 expiry. Leopard Cambodia Fund, an investment fund managed by Leopard href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdom-breweries-up-for-sale/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Military police joined forces with the Fisheries Administration in Kompong Thom province on Friday to arrest six men and confiscate four bulldozers being used to clear protected flooded forest in Stong district’s fisheries conservation area, officials said Sunday. District military police commander Khun Bunho said that href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/six-arrested-for-bulldozing-flooded-forest-area/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) are intra-state legal mechanisms which encourage foreign investment. This is particularly so as they provide foreign investors with Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanisms to enforce investment protections through international arbitration against the host state before a neutral tribunal. Cambodia has signed over href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bilateral-investment-treaties-offer-investment-protection-through-arbitration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

About 200 villagers and monks marched to the Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court on Tuesday to call for the release from jail of two villagers and protest the summoning of eight more to appear before the provincial court. The villagers are embroiled in a long-running land dispute href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-take-kdc-protest-to-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A national seminar on youth and cultural development was held here Monday with an aim to encourage young people to help safeguard, preserve and develop national culture, officials said. The two-day event brought together 700 participants, including culture officials, artists, archeologists, historians, and youths, said Culture href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-youths-urged-to-help-preserve-culture/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in western Cambodia have detained 11 activists after they tried to stop further studies for a planned Chinese-built dam. About 30 local villagers and environmental activists in the Areng Valley went to the area Monday to protect barricades they had erected earlier this year to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-arrests-11-in-china-dam-protest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Amid a recent spate of riverbank collapses in Kampong Cham province that have so far damaged three properties, authorities are advising the owners of nearly 40 houses to move their structures. Yesterday’s collapse in the province’s Kampong Cham commune destroyed the Khyol Tonle restaurant in front href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/riverbanks-falling-in-k-cham/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is one of only two economies worldwide to have declined in global value chain (GVC) participation since 1995, according to the World Trade Organization’s latest study. The WTO’s World Trade Report 2014, released Monday, shows Cambodia’s overall percentage of GVC participation – one country’s contribution href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/value-chain-in-decline-wto/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Kompong Cham Provincial Court on Monday released five of the 10 people who were arrested Saturday after clashes between police and about 1,000 sacked workers from the Taiwanese-owned Juhui Footwear factory. The protest on Saturday turned violent when Juhui Footwear administrative director Teng Sambath href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kompong-cham-court-releases-five-arrested-at-strike-protest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The heaps of fly-covered refuse known to accumulate around the capital are set to grow a whole lot worse as millions of visitors arrive for the upcoming Water Festival and tax the city’s overburdened trash collector. More than two million additional people are expected to crowd href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/trash-to-double-over-festival/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen met with his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Tan Dung and the two leaders vowed to further enhance relations and cooperation for mutual benefits, a senior Cambodian official said Tuesday. For the investment side, Dung said there have been 134 Vietnamese investment href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-vietnamese-pms-vow-to-deepen-ties-cooperation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

About 2,000 workers from the Ghim Li garment factory blocked traffic Monday on National Road 4 in Phnom Penh’s Pur Senchey district, demanding the Singaporean-owned factory raise their bonuses and reinstate an employee the workers say was improperly sacked. The workers said they plan to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/workers-block-road-in%e2%80%88protest-over-bonuses/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s trade volume with foreign countries rose by 16 percent year on year in the first eleven months of 2014, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce on Tuesday. The country exported products in equivalent to 7.05 billion U.S. dollars, up 12 percent year-on-year href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-trade-volume-exceeds-16-bln-usd-in-11-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian authorities have put into protective custody an unlicensed health worker who villagers are threatening to kill, believing he used contaminated needles that spread HIV to more than 100 people. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen called for calm on Thursday in Roka, a remote village in western href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-villagers-want-to-kill-medical-practitioner-who-allegedly-spread-hiv-with-infected-needles/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Pilot tests for Cambodia’s new computerised voter registration system are off to a rough start after one commune refused yesterday to participate in the trials. The $17 million system, which uses computers to record voters’ thumbprints and photos, and issues voter card printouts, was slated to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/digital-voter-registry-hits-snags/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Food and beverage imports to Cambodia have fallen over the past 12 months, marking a notable shift in domestic production and the public’s recognition of the “Made in Cambodia” brand, officials say. Cambodia spent around $223 million on food and beverage imports to supply the domestic href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/domestic-production-strengthens-as-fb-imports-fall/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Labor Minister Ith Sam Heng on Thursday warned officials processing work permits for foreign workers to adhere strictly to all the relevant rules and regulations or risk an unwanted visit from the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU). The government has recently started enforcing a longstanding but largely ignored href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/labor-minister-warns-officials-over-foreign-work-permits/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The government on Saturday announced a plan to decrease the number of maternal deaths in the Kingdom by 50 per cent in the future by promoting countrywide pregnancy-related preventative measures among women. In the recently released preliminary results of the 2014 Cambodia Demographic and Health href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-push-for-maternal-health/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...