The Phnom Penh Municipal Hall has been holding discussions with the Cambodia Trucking association (CaMTa) and major businesses to find an efficient way of relocating factories and warehouses to the outskirts of Phnom Penh. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/capital-businesses-find-ways-to-move-factories-to-suburbs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Labour Ministry on Friday issued a statement asking all factory workers to remain calm and trust that all benefits they are lawfully entitled to will be provided in due time. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/all-benefits-will-be-provided-labour-ministry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than six years after the slaying of Free Trade Union president Hy Vuthy, one of the men convicted of his murder, Chan Sophorn, 35, appeared in court yesterday for a retrial. Sous Sam ath, the judge presiding over the case at the Phnom Penh Municipal <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/convicted-killer-back-on-stand/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Kingdom’s small and medium enterprises have called on commercial banks and micro-finance institutions to lower interest rates on loans, as insiders have said they hamper SMEs’ potential for growth. Many Cambodian SMEs are concerned that the high interest rates offered by banks reduce productivity, according <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/smes-call-for-better-loan-rates/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia airports, a company majority-owned by France’s Vinci Group, officially inaugurated its $26 million new arrivals hall and the extension of its boarding concourse yesterday at the Phnom Penh International airport. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-hall-inaugurated-at-airport-in-capital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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Local farmers believe they won’t be able to produce enough salt this year to meet market demands, with weather conditions in the country being less than favourable, the president of the national salt association said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rain-keeping-local-salt-farmers-from-harvesting/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia exported more than 22,580.68 tonnes of peppercorn &ndash; both geographical indication- (GI) branded Kampot pepper and non-GI cultivars &ndash; in the first seven months of 2021, up 558.19 per cent year-on-year, with Vietnam as the top buyer, according to the Ministry of agriculture, Forestry <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/peppercorn-exports-soar-over-558-in-january-july/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 900,000 garment and footwear workers can now get their salaries through Wing (Cambodia) Limited Specialized Bank after a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed yesterday between the Garment Manufacturers association in Cambodia (GMaC) and the Kingdom’s leading mobile banking services provider. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/workers-get-salaries-winged/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has uploaded a new library resource on​ “Land allocation for Social and Economic Development Project III &ndash; LaSED III”, which a number of environmental and social risk management documents are available to access. Those documents include Environmental and Social Management Framework <a href='https://Opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/new-library-resource-on-land-allocation-for-social-and-economic-development-project-iii-lased-iii/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Overdependence, coupled with loans and the cost of maintaining infrastructure, could leave Cambodia in a “debt trap” to China, an expert said Tuesday, as Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen prepares to attend a summit in Beijing on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s sweeping Belt and Road <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/expert-warns-of-debt-trap-ahead-of-cambodian-pm-visit-to-china-belt-and-road-forum/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Kingdom’s central bank and the Cambodia Microfinance association (CMa) have jointly launched a project aimed at promoting financial literacy, consumer empowerment and consumer protections at the community level. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/central-bank-cma-roll-out-local-level-safe-finance-plan/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Most tuk-tuk drivers have to continuously vie with each other to attract tourists’ attention, but Oung Hour gets it without even trying. as he stands on the sidewalk near the riverside, groups of tourists point at his bright mustard-yellow tuk-tuk, its smooth fiberglass body shaped like <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-futuristic-tuk-tuks-arrive-on-the-streets-of-phnom-penh/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Tourism led a forum on investment in the Kingdom’s tourism sector for the first time on Monday in Siem Reap. a panel of national and international experts from 11 countries led discussions about the development of the industry. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-leads-forum-on-tourism-investment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Rubber producers say the price of local rubber has declined again, blaming a slowdown in the global economy and less demand for rubber. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rubber-prices-fall-again/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called on garment factory owners to reduce the use of short-term employment contracts. Speaking to more than 15,000 workers and employers representing 10 factories in Phnom Penh’s Por Senchey district, Mr Hun Sen said short-term contracts threaten the health of employees. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/call-to-end-short-term-work-contracts/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Garment Manufacturers association in Cambodia (GMaC) on Tuesday urged factories not to suspend shipments of goods that have already been produced as well as those in production.​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/covid-19-brings-chaos-to-textile-industry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s petrol retailers have been ordered by the government to hand over import information and financial records in what looks to be the first steps toward installing fuel-price legislation. The Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) announced publicly yesterday via state-owned media agence Kampuchea Presse (aKP) <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/petrol-firms-told-to-open-books/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Villagers in Kratie province have long feared the proposed Sambor hydroelectric dam and the impact it could have on their subsistence fishing and riverbank agriculture. according to Resilience on the Mekong: a Vulnerability and adaptation assessment in North-East Cambodia, a report released by the World Wildlife <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dams-climate-plague-mekong/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Construction of the Stung Bot border checkpoint in Banteay Meanchey province and a service road which will connect it to National Road 5 is now 80 per cent complete. Experts in the travel sector expect that when the new checkpoint begins operating, it will stimulate <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/stung-bot-checkpoint-80-done/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>