A controversial draft law to regulate unions is set for debate at the National Assembly, despite protests by union leaders, who say the new law will make it even harder for workers to bargain for rights, fair wages and proper working conditions. More than 3,000 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/draft-law-on-unions-ready-for-debate-at-national-assembly/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

 In September 2015, a Facebook page bearing the name of Prime Minister Hun Sen notched up its millionth “like.” Until then, the long-serving Cambodian leader had denied ever using social media, making fun of political rivals, like opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who were active online. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/with-connectivity-boom-cambodias-political-battles-shift-online/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Early this month Prime Minister Hun Sen stated that his administration was moving toward e-government, praising the efforts made by the Ministry of Commerce, under the leadership of Minister Sun Chanthol to make services like commercial registration available online. He also urged all ministries to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-embarks-on-e-government/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Apsara Authority has called on tourists playing Pokémon Go to be careful when playing in the Angkor Archaeological Park and to respect all signs in the temples. Due to concerns over potential accidents happening to those playing the game, the Apsara Authority issued a statement href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pokemon-go-warning-in-temple-complex/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The 42nd Asean Council on Petroleum members’ meeting will be held in Siem Reap next month, a senior government official told Khmer Times. The meeting, which will include representatives from the national petroleum companies of the nine other Asean members, plus Cambodia’s Ministry of Mines and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/oil-meeting-in-siem-reap/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ) ‒ a listed company on the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) ‒ reveled on Friday that by 2020, 50 percent of the company’s revenue would be generated by sales of services. This new target was made after PPSEZ informed the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ppsezs-rethink-after-sharp-profit-fall/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Eleven Cambodian environmental campaigners received “moniseraphon” medals from the government last month in recognition of their work to support the nation, according to a sub-decree signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen. But Buntenh, the founder of the Independent Monk Network for Social Justice, and social media href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/awards-for-environment-defenders/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

In an effort to appease rice farmers and stimulate rice millers to purchase fragrant rice currently being harvested across the country, the government announced that it had found $27 million to pay for emergency measures. The Ministry of Economy and Finance released a statement on Friday href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/27-mil-to-help-rice-sector/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Immigration minister Peter Dutton has met Cambodia’s strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen to salvage a $55 million agreement with the impoverished nation to resettle more refugees from Nauru.Only days after declaring it had no plans to resettle more than four refugees who arrived in June, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-agrees-to-resettle-more-refugees-from-nauru/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Pork sales at local markets have taken a hit following the recent outbreak of blue-ear pig disease as fears have spread among consumers that the meat is not fit for human consumption, pork vendors said yesterday.First identified in Siem Reap in mid-August, Porcine Reproductive and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/outbreak-turns-consumers-away-from-pork/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The first rainfall this year did not arrive until early June to Pursat, a province located in the northwest of the country, where land looked bare and thirsty at the height of the planting season. The devastating drought, which the government has described as the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/desperate-times-for-cambodias-farmers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Half of a Kuoy ethnic community forest in Stung Treng province – for which villagers are seeking official recognition – has been logged in the past three years for private commercial gain, according to recently returned environmental activist twins Chum Hout and Chum Hour. Seven href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ethnic-minority-forest-being-gutted-activists/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Rice millers in the country will now be able to access the government’s promised emergency loan of $20 million to purchase paddy rice from farmers in a bid to prevent rice prices from falling further, the Rural Development Bank (RDB) announced yesterday. Rural Development Bank CEO href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rice-millers-can-now-get-20-mil/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A few weeks ago, OPP.Today explored the issue of why Singapore developers want to strengthen overseas sales, after repeated government market cooling measures have hit both foreign and domestic demand for Singapore property. What is clear is that Singapore developers are looking for new sources href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/now-add-cambodia-to-the-list-of-singapore-developer-targets/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Five aspiring Cambodian pilots attended their first class yesterday of a 16-month flight-training program by Viet Flight Training (VFT) that will qualify them to be commercial airline pilots, making them among the first Cambodian nationals to earn their wings in decades.The five students are the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/more-cambodians-join-pilot-training/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday appeared to take a veiled swipe at the United States, insinuating that they were responsible for the decades of bloody civil war that engulfed Cambodia.Speaking ahead of today’s 24th anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords, which paved the way for href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-reflects-on-civil-wars-origin/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Hear The World Foundation, which is an initiative of the Switzerland-based Sonova Group, on Friday donated 150 sets of hearing aids to a Cambodian charitable organization in order to help children with hearing loss. Sarah said the value of the 150 hearing aids, hearing aid href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/swiss-foundation-donates-hearing-aids-to-disadvantaged-cambodian-children/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Education is working with NGOs to draft a policy document to protect schoolchildren from abuse at the hands of educators and fellow students, an NGO specialist told the Post yesterday.More than 40 government and non-government representatives gathered in the capital on Friday href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/child-protection-in-schools-under-review/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Ending their almost two-month boycott of parliament, opposition lawmakers yesterday joined their ruling party counterparts at the National Assembly in unanimously passing three laws.The plenary session, attended by 68 Cambodian People’s Party parliamentarians and 34 from the opposition Cambodia Nation Rescue Party, was by and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-ends-boycott-makes-quiet-return-to-na/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia suffers from one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world, with an average of one percent of the country’s forest lost each year. But in an initiative funded by USAID Supporting Forests and Biodiversity (SFB), Winrock International hopes to help solve the problem href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/the-environmental-web-tool/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...