Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday summonsed three senior leaders of Cambodia’s largest independent garment union for questioning over claims they embezzled money meant to be paid to workers in compensation following an industrial dispute, a court official has said. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-bosses-called-in/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Lawmakers from the european Union (e.U) are again urging the block’s trade commissioner to investigate Cambodia’s economic Land Concessions (eLCs) over a raft of alleged rights abuses and consider revoking the duty free access their owners currently enjoy to member states. Going mostly to industrial ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/european-lawmakers-press-for-probe-of-land-concessions/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday questioned three senior officials from the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (CCAWDU) who stand accused of embezzling $92,929. Speaking after questioning under the court’s deputy prosecutor ek Chheng Huot, union president Ath Thorn denied siphoning off the ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ccawdu-leaders-deny-corruption-during-questioning-at-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

PHNOM PENH: FishEriEs Administration and FAO launch thE IncEption Workshop on Micro and Small EntErprisE DEvElopmEnt to AchiEvE Food SEcurity, Food SafEty and SElf REliancE for Urban Poor in Phnom PEnh, citing that it will hElp local community. At thE workshop, H.E. Kao Sochivy, dEputy dirEctor gEnEral of fishEriEs dEpartmEnt said: “urban food sEcurity projEct Ef='https://opEndEvElopmEntcambodia.nEt/nEws/partnErs-hElp-urban-food-sEcurity-projEct-in-phnom-pEnh/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian government officials have called on the US-ASeAN Business Council to help finalise implementation of the Kingdom’s first e-commerce law by year’s end. However, US-ASeAN Business Council councillor Frances Zwening said Google did not provide an “in-depth response” to the request for assistance, but added ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minister-wants-e-trade-by-end-of-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Anti-logging activists wrote to the United Nations yesterday to call for the monitoring of a lawsuit in which they accuse hundreds of officials in Kampong Speu province’s Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary of illegal deforestation. The Natural Resource and Wildlife Preservation Organization (NRWPO) listed 241 officials it ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/activists-seek-un-monitors/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Milled rice exports have seen dramatic growth this year as the sector begins to take advantage of duty-free exports to european countries, an official and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said. Thon Virak, director of state-owned rice exporter Green Trade, said Tuesday that in ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/milled-rice-exports-rise-in-the-first-four-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

PHNOM PENH: Cambodia is trying to boost thE tourism industry aftEr its contribution to Economic growth and offEring job crEation as ASEAN Economic intEgration 2015 is moving and thE frEE flow of workforcE mobilization has bEEn nEEdEd to hElp EnsurE stEady growth. Cambodia’s tourism sEctor, in 2011, offErEd 350,000 dirEct jobs and millions of Ef='https://opEndEvElopmEntcambodia.nEt/nEws/tourism-industrys-growth-offErs-job-crEation-for-local-labor-forcE/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A local representative of controversial online start-up incubator Rocket Internet said the company would invest “millions” in Cambodia as it launched a new online retail store yesterday, in what market insiders call a trend toward increasing e-commerce in the Kingdom. The site, shop.com.kh is offered in ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rocket-internet-launches-e-commerce-site-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Motorbikes, vegetables, iPhones, artwork, or even land on which to build a house – a quick browse through website 7Makara.com gives the impression of a Cambodian eBay or Amazon. The difference, however, is that you can’t complete the transaction from the convenience of your bedroom. In ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/moving-towards-e-commerce/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

More than 55,000 people have joined an online petition set up by a pair of French nongovernment groups urging the european Union (e.U.) to immediately launch an investigation into local sugar plantations accused of illegally evicting hundreds of Cambodian families. At the center of the dispute ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/petition-for-investigation-into-sugar-trade-gains-support/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A district-level environment Ministry official in Ratanakkiri province on Wednesday claimed that he had no way to determine the legality of logging operations by firms with private land concessions inside the province’s Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary. The claim by Chou Sopheak, director of Lumphat district’s environment department, ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/official-says-legality-of-sanctuary-logging-unknown/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The head of a construction firm that was involved in a massive land swap with Siem Reap’s provincial government in 2010 defended the deal on Friday saying orders for the move of government offices and civil servants—which is now being reversed—came directly from the national ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/contractor-says-senior-official-approved-siem-reap-land-swap/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 moto-taxi and tuk tuk drivers who are part of a little-known workers union submitted a letter to the U.S. embassy and the european Union Delegation yesterday, asking them not to intervene in the case of Boeng Kak activist Yorm Bopha. It is not ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-tells-eu-us-to-not-inspect-activist-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Kompong Cham provincial governor Lun Lim Thai on Tuesday ordered authorities to step up long-running efforts to reduce the smuggling of unprocessed rubber resin from the province into Vietnam. Those smuggling resin to processors across the border should be more actively pursued and instead forced to ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/governor-seeks-curb-in-rubber-resin-smuggling/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

While Cambodia has made considerable strides in its banking sector, it still lags behind countries in the region in the areas of e-banking and access to services, industry experts attending the Fifth Banking and Microfinance Conference at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh said yesterday. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/room-for-improvement-in-cambodias-bank-sector/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Manulife, one of the world’s leading life insurance companies, now opened its office in Cambodia after seeing that growth of midlle class of total population. Manulife financial corporation was based in Canada. Manulife Financial on June 28 announced the official opening of its head office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and its ceremony was presided over by H.e. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/life-insurer-manulife-opens-its-office-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Australian Senate yesterday urged the Cambodian government to run free and fair national elections next year without the “harassment or intimidation” of opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who remains in self-imposed exile avoiding an 11-year jail sentence. The appeal comes only days after the european Parliament ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/australian-senate-pushes-for-fair-elections-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Health formally launched the Kingdom’s first digital hospital service, using the new Peth Yoeung system, on Thursday at Preah Ang Duong Hospital in Phnom Penh following a successful one-month trial. Peth Yoeung, an innovative web-based hospital operating management system for the digital ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/e-hospital-system-launched/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Members of the National election Committee (NeC) met with government figures and representatives of NGOs in Phnom Penh yesterday to discuss the electoral registration process, ahead of a new electronic system set to be rolled out next year. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/talks-over-e-registration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...