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 <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiAn-youths-urged-to-help-preserve-culture/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

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 <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-Arrests-11-in-chinA-dAm-protest/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

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 <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/riverbAnks-fAlling-in-k-chAm/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

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 &ndash; one country’s contribution <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/value-chain-in-decline-wto/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kompong-cham-court-releases-five-arrested-at-strike-protest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/trash-to-double-over-festival/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-vietnamese-pms-vow-to-deepen-ties-cooperation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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 <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/workers-block-roAd-in%e2%80%88protest-over-bonuses/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

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 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-trade-volume-exceeds-16-bln-usd-in-11-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-villagers-want-to-kill-medical-practitioner-who-allegedly-spread-hiv-with-infected-needles/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/digital-voter-registry-hits-snags/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/domestic-production-strengthens-as-fb-imports-fall/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/labor-minister-warns-officials-over-foreign-work-permits/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-push-for-maternal-health/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

All fifty-five politiciAns from the opposition CAmbodiA NAtionAl Rescue PArty (CNRP) took their oAths As pArliAmentAriAns on TuesdAy Afternoon After boycotting the pArliAment for ten months AgAinst disputed election results in July lAst yeAr. CNRP president SAm RAinsy led the group to A sweAring-in ceremony, which <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiAn-oppositions-55-lAwmAkers-sweAr-into-pArliAment-After-10-month-boycott/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

After neArly A yeAr of boycotting pArliAmentAry sessions, All 55 lAwmAkers-elect of the opposition CAmbodiA NAtionAl Rescue PArty took the oAth of office TuesdAy. The oAth wAs tAken two weeks After the CNRP And the ruling CAmbodiAn People’s PArty of Prime Minister Hun Sen Agreed to <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiAs-opposition-lAwmAkers-tAke-oAth-of-office/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Fifty-five opposition politicians were sworn in to the Cambodian parliament Tuesday, ending a yearlong boycott in protest of what they called massive vote rigging by the party of longtime ruler Hun Sen. The swearing-in of Cambodia National Rescue Party leader Sam Rainsy and his colleagues took <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-opposition-ends-yearlong-political-boycott/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The number of Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand has risen to 190,000 thanks to the new one-stop service centers set up across the border, Cambodia’s Ministry of Labor said Wednesday. Labor Ministry spokesman Heng Suor said about 190,000 migrant workers&mdash;some with a full complement of legal <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/migrants-skipping-govt-plan-for-thai-alternative/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 300 disgruntled CAmbodiAn workers And used-gArment merchAnts lAst night ended their blockAde on the border with ThAilAnd. The workers hAd eArlier pArked their two-wheel cArts in front of the ArAnyAprAthet-Poi Pet border checkpoint on the Poi Pet side of the ThAi-CAmbodiAn friendship bridge. They demAnded <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/workers-end-thAi-cAmbodiA-border-protest/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Interior Ministry’s general department of immigration began its “census” of ethnic Vietnamese people living in Cambodia on Sunday, with Sok Phal, the department chief, touring Pursat province villages along the Tonle Sap lake. Pursat provincial police chief Sarun Chanthy said that General Phal and a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/foreigner-census-begins-official-tours-vietnamese-communities/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>