Tourists heading for angkor Wat will have to watch what they wear from next month onwards, the apsara authority announced yesterday.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/angkor-wat-tourists-have-new-dress-code/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s total exports to the United States declined last year compared with 2015, due to uncertainties in the US presidential race and rising exports from Vietnam and new market player Myanmar. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-exports-to-us-down/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Textile, AppArel, TrAvel Goods AssociAtion of CAmbodiA (TAFTAC) hAs Asked its members to Avoid And reduce the effect resulting from the unsustAinAble use of wood And chArcoAl, Acknowledging its impAct on the environment. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/tAftAc-cAlls-for-end-to-unsustAinAble-wood-used-to-power-industry/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

As CAmbodiA’s busy tourism seAson ApproAches, domestic And regionAl Airlines Are scrAmbling to offer Siem ReAp routes in A bid to cApitAlise on the growing number of visitors to the Angkor WAt gAtewAy. In the pAst severAl months, plAyers hAve entered the frAy At A <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/the-scrAmble-to-siem-reAp/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The building that housed USa Fully Field Garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district stands empty now. The grounds are littered with garbage and boxes full of dusty brand labels that were stitched onto clothes by almost 400 workers before the factory owner fled in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/linking-the-worst-factories-with-the-labels/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Insurance sales have grown by 37 percent in the first half of the year, totaling $56 million, the Insurance association of Cambodia (IaC) announced in a report Tuesday.  The increase, up from $40.9 million for the same period last year, has been driven by a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/insurance-continues-to-grow/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Newbustar (Cambodia) Tire Co Ltd, a member of the Chinese state-owned Doublestar Group, is investing some $138 million in a tyre factory in Kratie province’s southeast to tap into the domestic market. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-owned-kratie-tyre-plant-gets-cdcs-nod/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

ASEAN foreign ministers hAve expressed deep concern over the Armed conflict between RussiA And UkrAine And urged All pArties to show the utmost restrAint in order to prevent the situAtion from escAlAting.   <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/AseAn-urge-peAce-in-ukrAine/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The United States, one of the Cambodia’s key trading partners, is going to assess sanitary and phyto-sanitary standards in Cambodia, opening up the opportunity for Cambodian agricultural products to be exported to the US. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-examines-food-standards/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia Mine action authority (CMaa) plans to soon declare villages in Koh Kong province no longer threatened by landmines. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/koh-kong-province-to-be-declared-landmine-free-soon/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The U.N.’s human rights envoy to Cambodia met with local rights advocates on Monday as she began her second fact-finding mission to the country, one of the meeting’s attendees said.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/un-envoy-meets-with-rights-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The garment sector should digitise and automate to improve productivity and boost production, while reskilling and upskilling its workforce, said Garment Manufacturers association in Cambodia (GMaC) executive committee member John Cha on Sunday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gmac-automate-and-digitise-to-grow-thrive/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Legrand, a French manufacturer of electrical equipment, entered into an agreement on Friday with local company BMSC to distribute uninterruptible power supply (UPS) devices in the Cambodian market.​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-partnership-to-light-up-electronics-sector-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three more unionists have been suspended as a result of the violent strikes at a Kampong Speu garment factory in May and June, a Free Trade Union official said yesterday. Sabrina (Cambodia) Garment Manufacturing factory’s FTU president Sun Vanny, vice-president Sem Sopheak and general secretary Chi <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ban-for-three-more-unionists/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Deputy Prime Minister Sok An requested yesterdAy thAt the Ministry of EducAtion, Youth And Sports collAborAte with the Ministry of LAbour to creAte A vocAtionAl “bridge” progrAm to enAble students without high school degrees to hAve Access to trAde-bAsed, university-level coursework. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ministry-eyes-bridge-to-vocAtionAl-trAining-2/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Prime Minister Hun Sen warned the media yesterday that he was determined to maintain social order, citing US President Donald Trump’s exclusion of some news outlets from a White House briefing. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-warns-of-media-anarchy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 2,000 workers at King Maker Footwear Co continued protesting for a fourth day on Wednesday, as they demanded that 50 per cent of their salary be paid, after their jobs were suspended by the factory for a month due to a lack of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/footwear-protests-continue-into-fourth-day/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) last week approved two Chinese-invested hotel projects in Sihanoukville worth $379 million, it said in a Facebook post. The two five-star hotels by Xigang V-Continent International Investment Co Ltd and Hai Gang Grand hotel Co Ltd have <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cdc-okays-two-sville-hotels/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The agriculture ministry has urged longan growers and relevant private sector companies to register their plantations and packaging plants “as soon as possible” to be able to export the fruit to China, as negotiations on the export process reach their final stages. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/longan-exports-to-china-soon/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>