The $100 million Sokha Hotel and Residence on Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva peninsula will be ready to receive its first guest by September, and recruitment is under way for more than 1,000 employees, the Hotel’s owner said Monday. “We plan to open in September as a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sokha-Hotel-expected-to-open-by-september/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The apex body for the nation’s microfinance industry announced yesterday that the central bank had tentatively agreed to a number of measures it had requested to ease the burden on microfinance lenders following last week’s unilateral decision to cap annual interest rates at 18 percent <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mfis-seek-regulators-support/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Sales of Cambodia’s World Trade Organization-certified pepper from Kampot province fell to 21 tonnes at the end of this year’s harvest season, a slight decline from 22 tonnes after the end of last year’s season. Nguon Lay, president of the Kampot Pepper association, said fast-changing <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kampot-pepper-demand-dips/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A quicker diAgnosis And A shorter And cheAper course of treAtment for multidrug-resistAnt TB pAtients in CAmbodiA could soon be on the horizon.   <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/who-eyes-new-tb-test-regime-for-kingdom/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

As gArment workers continued to return to their fActories WednesdAy After severAl dAys of strikes thAt turned deAdly lAst week, some of their employers hAve wAsted no time in suing the unions behind the strikes, demAnding compensAtion. Phnom Penh MunicipAl Court chief clerk PrAk SAvouth sAid <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/As-strikers-return-to-work-fActories-sue-gArment-unions/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Federation of associations of Small and Medium Enterprises of Cambodia (FaSMEC) is expected to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) today to strengthen the co-operation on human resource training and quality control, an insider said. The Sokha, deputy director <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mou-to-strengthen-co-operation-between-cambodia-and-india/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Qatar airways will add a stop in Phnom Penh on it [sic] Doha-Ho Chi Minh City route, 20 February, while air France announced it will pull its Phnom Penh service in March. Qatar airways will operate a daily service between Doha-Phnom Penh via Ho Chi Minh <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/qatar-airways-to-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodians can expect up to 14,000 tons of fish caught from the Tonle Sap, Mekong and Bassac rivers this year, a 5,000 ton increase compared with last year, which will be sufficient to meet all local demand, said the Ministry of agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/2017-a-good-year-for-fish/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

PRIME Minister Julia Gillard is aiming for an ambitious trade agreement that not only covers aSEaN and its neighbours but leaves the door open for other entrants. Ms Gillard arrived in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh on Monday for the East asia Summit, which is set <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gillard-talks-trade-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Kingdom’s only deep-sea port, operated by state-owned Sihanoukville autonomous Port (PaS), will launch a new multipurpose terminal on June 25, to accommodate larger vessels with heavy loads, it said on Wednesday. PaS Chairman and CEO Lou Kim Chhun said the inauguration of the multipurpose <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-terminal-to-allow-sihanoukville-port-to-process-bigger-loads/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s small family-run pig farming businesses seem to be roughing it out in an unpredictable market with fluctuating pork prices while facing stiff competition from the illegal flood of cheap imported live pigs from neighboring countries. To add salt to their wounds, the high price <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/small-pig-farmers-edged-out/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An internAtionAl construction And property exhibition kicked off here, in the cApitAl city of CAmbodiA, on WednesdAy As the country’s construction continued enjoying strong growth, officiAls sAid. Andrew Siow, chief executive officer of AMB Event-CAmbodiA, which orgAnized the expo At the cApitAl’s DiAmond IslAnd Exhibition Center, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-holds-construction-property-expo-As-construction-sector-booms/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Transparency International has pledged a rapid assessment of potential irregularities in Sunday’s commune elections by sending 1,100 observers across Cambodia&mdash;including, if needed, by boat and helicopter. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/election-monitor-sample-based-observation-most-effective/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Total loans and deposits at the Kingdom’s microfinance institutions jumped in the first quarter of 2012 despite what is typically a slow season for the industry, insiders said yesterday. Loans outstanding reached US$708 million for the period ending on March 31, climbing 9.8 per cent from <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mfis-defy-typically-slow-first-quarter-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia on Wednesday raised the controversial monthly minimum wage for garment workers by 28 percent, a decision likely to infuriate unions seeking a higher increase and revive calls for strike action. Sixteen members of the Labour Ministry’s Labour advisory Committee voted for the government-proposed minimum <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-raises-garment-wage-but-unions-say-not-enough/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian Construction association yesterday urged authorities to plan and develop more satellite cities as the population in the capital increases rapidly, straining services and infrastructure. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/crowded-capital-badly-needs-more-satellite-cities/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A teAm of five Architecture students from two different universities in Phnom Penh won the rooftop cAfeteriA design competition orgAnised by the UN Food And Agriculture OrgAnisAtion (FAO) in CAmbodiA, with the results Announced on InternAtionAl Youth DAy (IYD). <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/fAo-Announces-winners-of-green-Architecture-contest/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia urged the EU and its partners to boost cooperation with Southeast asian countries to help them enlarge their strategic autonomy through efforts based on mutual respect and trust in order to maintain peace and stability.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sokhonn-calls-on-asean-to-operationalise-aoip-policies/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A CAmbodiAn mediA delegAtion led by KAo ImrAn, HeAd of ArAbic News At the Ministry of InformAtion, together with their counterpArts from the Gulf CooperAtion Council (GCC) And ASEAN member countries yesterdAy visited the SAudi StAte History Exhibition, held At the heAdquArters of the SAudi <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/gcc-AseAn-mediA-delegAtion-visits-sAudi-stAte-history-exhibition/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Ministry of Commerce is undergoing an internal shake-up to better position itself for the opening up of trade across the region. Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol told the Post yesterday that ahead of asean Economic Community (aEC) integration in 2015, new divisions were being established and others realigned <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-shake-up-as-aec-integration-looms/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>