Lao National assembly and the National assembly of Cambodia have vowed to continue the exchange and mutual support between the two legislative bodies. The vow was made at a meeting held in Vientiane between the high-level parliamentary delegations led by the Lao National assembly President Ms <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/laos-cambodia-enhance-legislative-cooperation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Garment and footwear industry, Cambodia’s largest income earner, reported a 12.6 percent rise in exports in the first seven months of 2014, according to the data of the Ministry of Commerce on Thursday. The country exported apparel and footwear products worth 3.47 billion U.S. dollars during <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-garment-footwear-exports-up-12-6-pct-in-7-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A torrentiAl downpour thAt lAsted over three hours yesterdAy morning hAs left mAny in the cApitAl struggling with flooded houses, businesses And trAvel conditions, spArking outcry thAt Authorities hAve not done enough to mAnAge the rAin’s effects. Flooding took plAce in virtuAlly every district in <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/floods-swAmp-cApitAl/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Hundreds of demonstrators marched through central Phnom Penh yesterday morning calling for a controversial refugee resettlement deal between australia and Cambodia to be scrapped. While the protesters echoed human rights concerns that have been repeatedly made about the scheme, an undercurrent of xenophobia was also present. after <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/anti-refugee-protest-dogged-by-xenophobia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 155,000 people in Cambodia are living as modern “slaves”, according to a global index released this week. The Global Slavery Index 2014, released on Monday by australia-based NGO Walk Free Foundation (WFF), ranks Cambodia 14th out of 167 countries for the prevalence of slavery, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-ranks-14th-in-prevalence-of-slavery-index/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The International Republican Institute is urging the ruling party and opposition work toward political reform. Jessica Keegan, the group’s Cambodia country director, told VOa Khmer in an interview in Washington that the ruling Cambodian People’s Party and the Cambodia National Rescue Party should seek common ground <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-group-urges-political-reform/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Japanese regional bank Shiga Bank said that it will join hands with major Cambodian bank Canadia Bank Plc by the end of the month to gain access to economic information in the Southeast asian country to provide to Japanese companies. It will be the first partnership <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japan-bank-to-join-hands-with-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Interior Minister Sar Kheng has agreed to answer questions about last year’s fatal crackdown on striking garment workers but has called on opposition and NGO leaders who “incited” the violence to do the same. Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak said yesterday that Kheng was willing to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sar-kheng-agrees-to-questioning/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

National Military Police Commander Sao Sokha hit out for the first time yesterday at reports that he claims to draw inspiration from Nazi dictator adolf Hitler, arguing that his comments were misinterpreted. During an annual meeting of Phnom Penh’s military police on Thursday, local media reported <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hitler-remarks-misread-military-police-chief/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

CNRP Vice President Kem Sokha on Sunday assured supporters that the opposition party is still working to oust Prime Minister Hun Sen from power, claiming that no other Cambodian leader has overseen the level of environmental destruction that has taken place during his time in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kem-sokha-blasts-hun-sens-era-of-destruction/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Gender equality is “humanity’s biggest project,” Lakshmi Puri told the U.N. this past week. Puri, the deputy executive director of U.N. Women, wants to achieve “Planet 50-50” by 2030. When it comes to the workplace, equal employment opportunities aren’t just a benefit to women. Several new <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/keeping-women-out-of-the-work-force-is-economic-nonsense/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The barren land near Cambodian villager Ren Meas’ home used to yield cashew nut and root vegetable crops. Now the vast expanse lies bare and dry, levelled by bulldozers and set to become yet another rubber tree plantation. australians are helping to combat the so-called land <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-in-cambodia-taught-to-fight-back-against-land-grabs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Some 500 ethnic minority Khmer Krom monks and activists concluded Wednesday their three-day protest against a Vietnamese diplomat, who reportedly said that South Vietnam, or former Kampuchea Krom provinces, belonged to Vietnam prior to France’s official transfer of the land in 1949. The protest ended without <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-ethnic-khmer-krom-ends-3-day-protest-against-vietnamese-diplomat/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

China’s Shandong airlines is planning to launch direct flights between Shandong province and Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodia’s State Secretariat for Civil aviation spokesman, Sin Chansereyvutha, told local media that the flights are pending approval from the SSCa. If approval is granted in time, the airline will link <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/shangdong-air-expands-to-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The number of people killed in traffic accidents during this year’s Pchum Ben holiday and preceding two days increased by nearly 50 percent over the same period last year, a senior police official said on Thursday. From Saturday through Wednesday, there were 49 fatalities, compared to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/holiday-traffic-deaths-up-nearly-50-percent/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodians have experienced one of the largest drops in the rate of hunger in the world over the past quarter century, though the situation in the country still remains “serious,” according to a new report by three international NGOs. Cambodia cut its score in the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodians-rated-as-hungry-drop-in-new-global-index/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 1 million hectares of forest terrain and land leased by private companies has been put under government control since Prime Minister Hun Sen initiated a moratorium on new economic land concessions (ELCs) in May 2012, the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/one-million-hectares-reclassified-govt-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 8,000 professionAl And AmAteur Athletes from 78 countries And regions took pArt in the 19th Angkor WAt InternAtionAl HAlf MArAthon on SundAy At the complex of Angkor WAt Temple, A world heritAge site. CAmbodiAn Tourism Minister Thong Khon, president of the NAtionAl Olympic Committee, sAid <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-hosts-intl-hAlf-mArAthon-At-Angkor-world-heritAge-site/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Kratie Provincial Court has freed on bail two of three men arrested for the October slaying of 49-year-old reporter Taing Try after the third man told the court that he carried out the murder on his own, the court’s chief prosecutor said Sunday. Taing Try, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kratie-court-frees-two-men-accused-of-killing-reporter/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s natural silk industry is on the verge of extinction due to the widespread use of pesticides that have severely damaged the health of silkworms, leading producers to rely on imported synthetic fibers to meet demand, experts say. Men Sinoeun, executive director of the artisan’s association <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/local-silk-production-nearly-extinct/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>