In a plenary session on July 5, the Council of Ministers reviewed and endorsed the National action Plan for Disaster Risk Reduction (NaP-DRR) with more participatory preparedness, well mainstreamed with new technology. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/more-participatory-five-year-disaster-risk-reduction-action-plan-endorsed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government has launched a strategic plan to combat all forms of human trafficking over the next five years. The goal is to gradually reduce and ultimately eliminate human trafficking. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/national-strategic-plan-to-fight-human-trafficking-launched/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia Monday celebrated the commencement of the highly anticipated Funan Techo Canal project, a massive infrastructure initiative that will play an important role in transforming the country’s economic landscape. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/funan-techo-canal-to-boost-trade-bring-in-investments/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The special economic zone owner-operator has recorded zero land sales in the second fiscal quarter with revenue down 82 percent. a share buyback is underway to raise the stock price, which has fallen nearly 20 percent since its IPO price. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ppsp-suffers-net-loss-in-q224-amid-robust-share-buyback/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Employers’ representatives have proposed a $2 increase to the monthly minimum wage for the Kingdom’s factory workers in 2025, while workers’ representatives called for raises of $6, $7 or $10. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/employers-propose-2-increase-to-minimum-wage-workers-seek-up-to-10/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two tyre manufacturing factories, with a total investment of $686 million, were approved by the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) in august, creating 3,459 jobs. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/two-new-tyre-plants-approved-in-august-3500-jobs-created/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The countries of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) have voiced their support for Cambodia’s proposed draft of the Phnom Penh Joint Statement on the Prevention of Plastic Pollution in the region. The statement calls for collective efforts to adopt a community-based approach that engages and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gms-support-for-cambodias-plastic-prevention-proposal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Commercial banks are providing more loans for vehicle purchases, leading to a jump in car sales this year, according to dealers. While the improved domestic economy and effects of the March disasters in Japan on its competitors had improved sales figures of Great Wall vehicles, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/growth-in-vehicle-sales-fuelled-by-bank-loans-dealers-say-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Dredging in Kompong Cham province along the Mekong river is being cited as the cause for the collapse of the river bank and the force behind more than a dozen families having to leave their homes. an area of approximately 20 meters y 200 meters <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mekong-dredging-blamed-for-riverbank-collapse-lost-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Residents and business owners are seeking compensation from Vattanac after its construction project alongside Phnom Penh’s riverside Sisowath Quay damaged buildings. Pop Caf&eacute;, Edelweiss, the Foreign Correspondents Club (FCC), and others are having insurance claims adjusters in to inspect the buildings in order to determine <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/owners-seek-compensation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Crocodile farmers are feeling the pinch after a year of volatile crocodile prices and market demand. Despite the spike in crocodile prices late last year &ndash; which followed on the heels of worrying lows between 2005 and 2007 &ndash; demand for the live exports of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/crocodile-farmers-plagued-by-volatile-market/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A CAmbodiA migrAnt worker who wAs At times threAtened At knifepoint, tied up or punched in the heAd by her employer yesterdAy reveAled her chilling experience of the lAbour recruitment industry.  Following her testimony viA video link, broAdcAst At SAm RAinsy PArty heAdquArters, opposition pArliAmentAriAn <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mAid-nightmAres-retold/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Another worker fAinted At the M&Amp;V InternAtionAl MAnufActuring Ltd gArment fActory in Kompong ChhnAng yesterdAy morning, spArking “hysteriA” And resulting in 10 workers hAving to return home to rest, A union officiAl sAid. Two mAss-fAinting incidents occurred At the fActory, which produces clothes for outfitter <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Another-worker-fAints-At-mv-gArment-fActory/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Stock exchange officials were conducting a five-day workshop on the IT system that will allow trading,  Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia director-general Ming Bankosal said yesterday. The workshop, held in conjunction with the Cambodia Securities Exchange, would also seek feedback on the system’s functionality <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/exchange-officials-explain-it-system/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Flooding has affected 90,303 families and flooded 83,007 houses nationwide, while 13,402 families have been evacuated so far from inundated areas, Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith said Monday. Citing data from the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM), Mr Kanharith also said in a posting to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minister-says-floods-affect-90303-families/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Bilateral trade between China and Cambodia is on track to reach $2 billion by the end of this year, its highest level ever, an official at the Chinese Embassy in Phnom Penh said. Jin Yuan, economic and commercial counselor at the Chinese Embassy, said during a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/trade-with-china-to-hit-2-billion-this-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Visitor arrivals to Cambodia saw a year-on-year increase of 15 percent in the first nine months of 2011, reaching more than 2 million people, according to new figures released by the Tourism Ministry yesterday. The figures showed that, from January to September, arrivals by air increased <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tourist-arrivals-grow-15-in-first-nine-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court ordered on Tuesday that workers striking at Cambo Handsome 1 return to work within 48 hours and banned them from striking in front of the garment factory, in the capital’s Dankgor district. Seang Sambath, president of the Federation of Friendship Unions, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/strikers-ordered-back-to-work/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Families continuing to defy eviction orders in Preah Vihear fear police and authorities will use violence to remove them from their homes this week, villagers told the Post yesterday. Representatives of Svay Chum village in Choam Ksan district’s Kantuot commune trekked to Phnon Penh on Friday <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/preah-vihear-families-seek-top-level-intervention/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

How did the floods affect the industry late last year? Of course, we were worried when the floods began because many people were affected. When the floods continued, we did a survey and found that just about 10 per cent of MFI borrowers were affected. But <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-top-micro-manager-interview/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>