Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Monday that the cabinet is not obliged by any law to seek suggestions from the civil society. The premier made comments at a graduation ceremony of Asia European University in response to non-government organizations which condemned the approval on April href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-cambodia-has-no-law-to-require-the-government-to-send-draft-law-to-ngos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) will invest $1.3 million in a water treatment plant in Kep province to supply clean water to more than 1,000 households there, the company’s head said last week. Speaking at the announcement of PPWSA’s 2013 results in Phnom Penh href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/clean-water-in-pipeline-for-kep/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Bilateral trade volume between Cambodia and the United States had amounted to 845 million U.S. dollars in the first three months of 2014. The number saw a 11-percent rise from 758 million U.S. dollars over the same period last year, figures release by the U.S. Department href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-u-s-trade-up-11-pct-in-q1/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Independent union leader Ath Thorn said Sunday he had collected enough money from supporters to pay most of his $25,000 bail to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, and would deliver it to the court Monday. The court has charged Mr. Thorn, president of the Coalition of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-leader-ready-to-pay-bulk-of-bail/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have never been higher, but Association of Southeast Asian Nations member countries are still failing to curb emissions created by heavy deforestation, according to a new report. Forest land in ASEAN countries declined by more than 6 per cent href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/deforestation-plagues-asean/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) will partner with the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) to bolster technical knowledge and potential investment into Cambodia’s nascent stock market. An agreement between the two financial institutions was signed in Phnom Penh yesterday at the CSX office, a deal that will href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/csx-gets-help-from-thailand/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh City Hall on Monday banned Wat Samakki Raingsey from hosting a public forum on Wednesday to mark the 65th anniversary of the official granting of Kampuchea Krom to the State of Vietnam. The Khmer Kampuchea Krom Community (KKKC), which advocates for the ethnic minority href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kampuchea-krom-forum-banned-by-city/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The number of inmates who died in the country’s prisons in the first quarter of the year dipped to nine from 15 during the same period last year, a rights group and the prison department said. From January to April, nine prisoners—five men and four women—reportedly href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nine-inmates-die-in-1st-quarter-drop-from-same-period-in-2013/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The governor of Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district Wednesday ordered the private firm heading a $3-billion real estate project on the peninsula to temporarily stop pumping sand onto land being contested by about 40 local families, but urged the families to reconsider the compensation on href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/developer-ordered-to-halt-work-on-disputed-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers caught in a land dispute with an agribusiness firm in Kompong Speu province Wednesday attempted to reclaim farmland they say is theirs, but were thwarted by provincial authorities, who appeased them by promising to measure the land again. About 250 families in Phnom Sruoch district href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-agree-to-remeasuring-of-disputed-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The 23-year-old son of the director of rural development in Pailin province is under investigation by police after photos of the young man hunting protected wildlife went viral on social media, police said Monday. Soeu Longdy, deputy Tuol Lvea commune police chief, said his officers questioned href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/officials-son-questioned-over-hunting-photos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian people consider Vietnam a big friend that supported and provided valuable assistance for Cambodia during the course of history, the King said while receiving outgoing Vietnamese ambassador Ngo Anh Dung in capital Phnom Penh on July 18. He appreciated Dung’s contributions to cementing bilateral relations href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/king-sihamoni-hails-cambodia-vietnam-ties/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Commerce Minister asked officials at all border checkpoints to prevent and crackdown on expired products. Son Chanthol, the Commerce Minister, made such comments during a meeting Tuesday with officials from Department of Commerce, Chamber of Commerce, and checkpoints in Banteat Meanchey province. He also asked his officials href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/commerce-minister-calls-on-checkpoint-officials-to-crackdown-on-expired-goods/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The progress in the project to build the Belarus tractor assembly plant in Cambodia was discussed in a meeting between Belarusian Ambassador to Russia Igor Petrishenko and Ambassador of the Kingdom of Cambodia to Russia Thay Vanna, BelTA learnt from the press service of the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/construction-of-belarus-tractor-assembly-plant-in-cambodia-nearing-completion/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s rice exporters are eager to sell more of their goods in the United States and tap into the world’s largest economy. Speaking at the International Export Market Research for Cambodian Rice seminar in Phnom Penh yesterday, Song Saran, CEO of Amru Rice Cambodia, one of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-turns-to-cambodia-rice-market/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s trade deficit expanded to almost half a billion dollars during the first three months of the year, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Commerce. Between January and March, Cambodia’s exports reached $1.99 billion, up 19 per cent compared to the same period href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/trade-deficit-prompts-call-to-diversify-exports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Construction on Cambodia’s $2.3 billion oil refinery has been set back again, this time due to planning delays, the project’s local partner, Cambodia Petrochemical Company (CPC), confirmed yesterday. The landmark oil refinery was slated to begin construction in December 2013 following a $1.67 billion loan from href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/planning-delays-oil-refinerys-progress/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Despite Vietnamese state-owned companies withdrawing funding from projects outside of their core business, the $20 million expansion of the Vietnamese-backed Cho Ray Phnom Penh Hospital remains on track, the hospital’s head said yesterday. In July 2012 the Vietnamese government requested that state-owned enterprises withdraw investment in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnamese-funding-curbs-will-not-delay-hospital-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is a promising target for Taiwanese entrepreneurs seeking cheap labor without risking the social unrest that has surged through Vietnam, according to an economics professor in Taiwan cited in our Chinese-language sister paper China Times. Riots have broken out in Vietnam against China’s oil rig href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-may-present-safer-base-for-taiwanese-businesses/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

About 30 former employees of now-defunct mobile operator Mfone protested Tuesday outside the office of the company’s liquidator, demanding pay promised to them and more than 1,000 other employees after the operator collapsed last year. Mr. Darin said he was paid 70 percent of his href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/former-mfone-employees-demand-severance-pay/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...