Teachers will receive their base salaries and additional benefits in a single package starting later this month, in an effort to simplify the payment process and avoid confusion, Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron said Wednesday. Health, risk and rural bonuses will all be folded into teachers’ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-simplifies-teacher-salary-payments/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Despite ongoing protests over the minimum wage in the garment industry and the political deadlock that lasted well in to July, Cambodia registered over 3,000 new businesses from January to September this year. The latest data from the Ministry of Commerce reveal there were 3,025 newly <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/steady-rise-for-business-registration-in-kingdom/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 100 human rights activists, youths and Buddhist monks marched on streets here on Friday in the latest round of protests against a refugee deal that Cambodia signed with australia last month. Under the deal, australia will send refugees, who intend to seek asylum in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodians-launch-fresh-rally-against-aussie-refugee-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A senior officiAl of the CAmbodiAn government on SAturdAy welcomed Chinese Premier Li KeqiAng’s pledge of 3.09 billion U.S. dollArs Aid to the GreAter Mekong Subregion (GMS) member countries, sAying the offer is essentiAl for socio-economic development And poverty reduction. The offer includes 1 billion <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-welcomes-chinese-premiers-pledge-of-over-3-bln-usd-Aid-to-gms-countries/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Two election experts from the European Union (E.U.) joined the CNRP and CPP on Friday in separate meetings held to discuss how voter registration will be managed in future elections, presenting four possible options. although the parties agreed on which option they preferred&mdash;a new voter list <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eu-joins-election-reform-talks-parties-still-divided-over-ids/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Korea Forest Service (KFS) has been working to promote overseas partnership with Southeast asia countries by aiming to expand afforestation by 1 million hectares by 2050 from 314,000 hectares in 2013. It established relations with Indonesia to collaborate in planting trees on 700,000 hectares, and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/herald-interview-kfs-seeks-to-boost-youth-employment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Bangkok Bank’s international business this quarter is expected to witness a slowdown due to global market uncertainty, while Vietnam, which is an important market for BBL, has been sidelined by currency woes. Cambodia has some 40 banks, 10 of which are foreign. Given the size <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mixed-outlook-in-asean-for-bbl/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

President Choummaly Sayasone told Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni last week that Laos highly values the bilateral relations and cooperation it enjoys with Cambodia. Leaders of the two countries have maintained regular contact and exchanged visits. The two neighbours have cooperated in a broad range of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lao-president-hails-relations-with-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Following talks with indigenous villagers over the weekend, which saw promises of jobs and English language lessons, there are high hopes that a foreign company looking to extract gold in Ratanakkiri will be awarded the first-ever mining licence in the province. Representatives of Mesco Gold met <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/community-mulling-mining-cos-proposal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Rolls-Royce officially launched its showroom in Cambodia yesterday, with both government and the luxury-car maker forecasting a rosy sales outlook for the high-end vehicle. In June, Rolls-Royce appointed HGB Group Co Ltd, the distributor for Mazda and Kia vehicles in Cambodia, to be the official dealership. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rolls-royce-opens-showroom/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Nine Prey Lang forest activists received suspended one-year prison sentences at Kampong Thom Provincial Court yesterday and were ordered to pay $1,250 to a businesswoman whose hectare of cassava they were accused of uprooting, the defendants’ lawyer said. Yong Panith &ndash; who represents Mao Thea, 37; <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/activists-sentenced/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 90 villAgers continued to demonstrAte outside the Kompong ChhnAng provinciAl court WednesdAy, cAlling for the releAse of two men from prison And protesting the summoning of Another eight over clAshes lAst month with workers from the powerful KDC compAny. The rAlly cAme After About 200 <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/villAgers-protest-Arrests-over-lAnd-dispute/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

In spite of international laws and Cambodia’s own legal code, pre-trial detention in the country is becoming more prevalent among child offenders than adults, according to data compiled by a trial monitoring project. The notes are compiled from trial monitoring of 2,558 cases from 2009 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/alarming-rate-of-cambodian-juveniles-held-in-pre-trial-detention/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The newly established National Commercial arbitration Center (NCaC) may have been set up to al­low businesses to settle disputes outside the court system, but it still needs support from judges and court officials to do its work effectively, its president said on Friday. Speaking at <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-arbitration-center-president-calls-for-court-systems-support/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh’s Wat Samakki Raingsey, under scrutiny by City Hall for alleged “anti-government acts,” on Friday requested three commissions of the National assembly to accompany municipal officials to a planned inspection of the pagoda on Tuesday afternoon. “I sent the letters to request the first commission <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/monks-ask-commissions-to-join-city-hall-inspection/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An AustrAliAn teAcher chArged with sexuAlly Abusing six young boys clAimed during the first dAy of his triAl At the Phnom Penh MunicipAl Court TuesdAy thAt An Anti-pedophile NGO frAmed him. George MoussAllie, 52, A former English teAcher At the AmericAn PAcific School in Phnom Penh, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/former-teAcher-denies-child-sex-Abuse-chArges/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Falling crop yields, damage to infrastructure and heat-related illnesses brought on by climate change could cost the four Southeast asian countries of the lower Mekong River basin $34 billion per year, researchers say. a report released on Monday found that climate change could cost Cambodia, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/floods-storms-and-heat-projected-to-cost-se-asia-34-bln-per-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Taiwan’s outbound property investments are likely to increase significantly in 2015 amid growing interest in overseas markets and a slowdown in the domestic market, an investment consulting firm in Taipei said Saturday. Taiwan’s property investors are also looking at opportunities in emerging markets, including Vietnam <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/taiwans-2015-overseas-property-investments-likely-to-grow-sharply/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Vietnam has gained a substantial share of Hong Kong’s rice market at the expense of Thailand, resulting from fierce competition over the past 10 years. Thailand’s market share in the first month of this year was up to 65.1 per cent versus Vietnam’s 26.3 per <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vn-sees-success-in-seizing-hk-rice-market-from-thailand/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Poor governance and uneven distribution of wealth to rural communities are both behind Cambodia’s poor record of girls’ education, an expert says. Despite the country’s high economic growth rate in recent years, few opportunities are available in rural areas, which leads to girls dropping out of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/poor-governance-at-root-of-cambodias-education-problems-expert-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>