A weekend storm battered buildings in Banteay Meanchey province’s Thma Pouk district, leaving hundreds affected by damage to houses and schools across the area. Deab Chhun, Thma Puok district deputy governor, said strong winds and rain swept through Komrou, Thmor Puok and Phoum Thmey communes at href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/storm-pounds-b-meanchey/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

As news broke yesterday evening that the Thai political situation had evolved from martial law to a full-blown coup d’etat, Cambodian government officials said they hoped the army’s takeover would be transitional and dismissed any concerns that tensions could rise on the Cambodia-Thailand border. ”We wish href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-keeps-cool-after-coup-in-thailand/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Sgnoun Vita can’t communicate with most of her kindergarten students. She teaches them colours and numbers, but can’t understand their questions or chatter. Most of Vita’s students at the Kater Primary School in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district speak Jarai, one of Cambodia’s 24 ethnic minority languages. A href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/classroom-talk-remains-barrier/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Education is drafting two sub-decrees on private educational institutions aimed at improving regulation of the nation’s vast body of private schools. The sub-decree on Organization and Management of Private Schools and sub-decree on Categorization of Private Schools have been sent to a range href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/private-schools-to-face-tougher-regulations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Formation of the National Silk Board (NSB) has been delayed due to a lag in coordinating ministries to create the industry body, according to the spokesman of Ministry of Commerce. The former minister of commerce, Cham Prasidh, said in June last year that he was aiming href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/national-silk-board-delayed-as-ministries-fail-to-coordinate/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Bankrupt telecommunications company Mfone yesterday handed out the final instalments of unpaid wages to former employees. More than 1,000 former Mfone staffers received the remaining 30 per cent of their unpaid wages after the telecommunications firm filed for bankruptcy in February 2013. Since then, workers have href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mfone-staff-paid-final-wages/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of Cambodians hoping to migrate to Japan to work in the electronics industry yesterday protested outside an NGO that they claim conned them out of up to $200 each with promises of jobs. About 100 protesters – out of a total of 300 who are href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/demonstrators-say-jobs-in-japan-promised/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is projected to receive 4.6 million international visitors this year, an expected rise of 10 percent from 4.2 million last year, Minister of Tourism Thong Khon said Saturday. “In the first six months of this year, more than 2.2 million foreigners visited Cambodia, up 5.2 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-expected-to-greet-4-6-mln-foreign-tourists-in-2014-minister/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

More than 1900 people were killed in 4300 cases of accidents in 2013, which showed higher figures than the year 2012. This requires urgent attention by commuters, and officers in charge. The figures were made known at a training course on 20-21 January 2014, which was href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/traffic-accidents-kill-1900-people-in-2013/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Beginning this year, all public schools will be required to conduct regularly scheduled forums designed to function as a sounding board between teachers, parents and students, officials said yesterday. The meetings will encourage dialogue about what is and isn’t working in Cambodian schools, Education Minister Hang href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/forums-to-help-guide-learning/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s trade volume with Asean member states reached US$4.16 billion last year, up 12 percent from US$3.71 billion in 2012, Xinhua news agency reported. In the Commerce Ministry’s report released Wednesday, Cambodia exported products equivalent to US$482 million to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-trade-with-asean-hit-us4-16-billion-last-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The number of Cambodian rural households with access to latrines increased from 23 to 33 per cent in 2013, a Ministry of Rural Development report released yesterday says. Chreay Pom, director of the ministry’s rural health care department, said that last year, the ministry constructed about href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/latrine-numbers-up/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The number of mobile subscribers in Cambodia topped 20 million last year, surpassing the country’s population by about 5 million. Internet users also jumped, according to a report released Wednesday by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. The report fails to say how many Cambodians own href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mobile-users-top-20-million-internet-usage-still-rising/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Economic growth and increasing investment in construction have facilitated sales of paint this year. Thas Chantrea, sales manager of Jotun Cambodia, said his company’s sales of paint products from Thailand and Malaysia saw an increase of 50 per cent in the first quarter of this year href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/paint-sales-grow-with-investment-in-the-construction-sector/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition CNRP’s campaign for the May 18 council elections rolled through these northwestern provinces Wednesday, with party leaders Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha casting aside their promises last week to refrain from attacks on the ruling CPP. A growing cavalcade moved across Battambang province and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-northwest-cnrp-resumes-campaign-attacks-on-cpp/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Twenty-two Chinese higher education institutions jointly held a one-day education exhibition here on Thursday with an aim to boost education cooperation between China and Cambodia and to attract more Cambodian students to study in China. The 2nd edition of China Higher Education Exhibition is held at href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-universities-jointly-hold-education-exhibition-in-cambodian-capital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia had exported 213,530 tons of fresh and dry cassava in the first three months of 2014, down 13 percent compared with 245,440 tons over the same period last year, according to the figures provided by the Commerce Ministry on Sunday. However, the country saw a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-cassava-export-drops-13-pct-in-q1/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

In the wake of last month’s Thai military coup, an uneasy quiet has fallen over official checkpoints in Oddar Meanchey province, leading many on this side of the border to fear for their livelihoods. Sitting on a motorbike in the queue for O’Smach international border checkpoint href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bordering-on-despair/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The number of road fatalities in Cambodia has risen to 1,170 so far this year, up 11 percent compared to the same period last year, according to a latest report by the Interior Ministry’s Public Order Department on Wednesday. Some 2,600 cases of road accidents have href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/road-fatalities-in-cambodia-rise-to-1170-in-six-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A group of civil society organizations will petition King Norodom Sihamoni today, calling on the king to withhold his signature from three judicial laws that they say will entrench the ruling CPP’s control of the courts and jeopardize citizens’ constitutional freedoms. Despite concern raised by local href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngos-to-petition-king-over-judicial-laws/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...