Vietjet Air, VietnAm’s budget Airline, is set to commence flights between HAnoi And Siem ReAp province on December 15. The service Aims to AccommodAte the surge in foreign tourists to CAmbodiA, home to the renowned UNESCO World HeritAge site Angkor WAt. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/vietjet-lAunches-hAn-sAi-flights/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Authorities in SvAy Rieng province on WednesdAy sAid the lAtest outbreAk of foot-And-mouth diseAse hAd been brought under control by timely treAtment, though their numbers on how mAny cows the contAgious virus hAd infected vAried wildly.MeAs Sok, chief of SvAy Chrum district’s ChhoeuteAl commune, sAid <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/foot-And-mouth-diseAse-hits-cows-in-svAy-rieng/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A civil society officiAl hAs Asked the NAtionAl Election Committee (NEC) to cooperAte with the LAbor Ministry to give public servAnts, privAte sector employees, gArment workers And migrAnt workers five more dAys off After the Phcum Ben festivAl for voter registrAtion. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/officiAl-Asks-to-extend-pchum-ben/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Some 500 supporters of union leader Vorn Pao and 24 others arrested during a string of garment worker protests since November will rally in front of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday on the second day of their trials, a union official said. all 25 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/protest-planned-for-2nd-day-of-garment-protest-trials/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ruling party senator Ly Yong Phat has defied an order endorsed by the Prime Minster to halt his controversial sand dredging activities on the Tatai river in Koh Kong, prompting authorities to request intervention, documents obtained by The Post reveal. The dredging operation on the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tycoons-dredging-tests-locals-patience/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s Ministry of Environment told a Japanese oil company yesterday to better define the location of its initial onshore operations given the potential impact on the local population and environment. The Ministry of Environment has required Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation to specify where <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-questions-oil-assessment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s newly established government panel to investigate minimum wage reform held its first meeting Thursday to lay out a strategy for addressing the hot button issue, as union leaders announced plans to protest to back their demand for monthly salary increases for footwear and garment <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-panel-begins-to-grapple-with-minimum-wage-reforms/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

To counter the growing risk of geopolitics, it is important to have more mutual investments and collaborations between countries and regions to truly achieve global economic prosperity, experts say. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-urges-more-collaborations-between-nations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 2,000 volunteers will be deployed to observe students taking the national exam in august, the anti-Corruption Unit (aCU) said Monday, with the deadline for registration expiring Tuesday. More than 93,000 students are registered to sit the august 4 to 5 exam at 154 exam <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/more-than-2000-register-to-observe-national-exam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Garment Manufacturers association in Cambodia re-elected Van Sou Ieng as chairman&mdash;a position he has held for nearly two decades&mdash;at its annual general meeting on Saturday but approved a new two-term limit on the two-year post. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-association-re-elects-chairman-approves-term-limit/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday questioned three defrocked monks over charges of “joining a criminal association,” an NGO worker said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/defrocked-monks-questioned-at-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In a compound that carries distinctive local features in downtown Phnom Penh, Cambodia, there is a two-storey building surrounded by Saraca dives. It is the headquarters of the Cambodia-China Friendship association (CCFa). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-china-friendship-like-flower-that-never-withers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Work on the $110 million National Road 4 upgrading project in the Kingdom’s main economic corridor could start as early as next year, a Ministry of Public Works official has said. The project, which will affect a more than 200km stretch of road, will take <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-gets-110m-to-restore-national-road-4/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Customs officers along Cambodia’s border have been instructed to increase their efforts to properly inspect and tax products coming into the country, which has increased the cost of imports and led to a rise in retail prices for a host of goods, government officials, businessmen <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/increase-in-customs-taxes-raises-retail-prices-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An officiAl At the SihAnoukville Autonomous Port yesterdAy sAid the stAte-owned firm would miss its tArget of registering with the Securities And ExchAnge Commission of CAmbodiA (SECC) next month, A key step before listing on the country’s nAscent bourse. Ho Hongsik, director of SBI RoyAl <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/sville-port-likely-to-miss-bourse-registrAtion-dAte/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Ten days ago, Loun Somaly, 33, left his house to deliver a deposit to the glass workers he hired to replace a window on his rickety sheet metal-panelled house. Ly Sophal, Somaly’s tenacious three-year-old son, followed him outside, asking if he could join. But with floodwater <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/flooding-takes-a-toll/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Kampot pepper farmers saw a bumper crop this year with harvest levels up more than 36 per cent, but rain shortages have diminished the producers’ chances of exporting their haul. according to Nguon Lay, president of the Kampot Pepper Promotion association (KPPa), more than 30 tonnes <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/puny-plants-perturb-kampot-pepper-producers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Garment Manufacturers association in Cambodia says unions and their demands for higher wages are rattling the country’s industry and could lead to a decline in buyers, factories and jobs. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/buyers-worried-about-union-demands-garment-manufacturers-say/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

CMA CGM Group, the third lArgest contAiner shipping compAny worldwide And number one in FrAnce, is slAted to lAunch the YAngon CAmbodiA Express (YCX), creAting A direct link between MyAnmAr, CAmbodiA, SingApore And MAlAysiA, And industry insiders Are hAiling the service As A promising new <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/shipping-link-with-three-nAtions-All-set/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

To safely dispose of hazardous medical waste, Japan-based Tesna Energy has proposed plans to build a factory in the Kingdom producing incineration machinery. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/incinerator-factory-proposed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>