Cambodia exported 338,654 tonnes of milled rice in the first six months of 2024, a year-on-year increase of 2.7 percent, the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) said on Tuesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rice-exports-surge-in-first-half-of-2024-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Noting that heavy lorries are often involved in serious accidents, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sar Sokha proposed a ban on such vehicles during major national festivals to reduce incidents and traffic congestion. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minister-proposes-festival-ban-on-heavy-vehicles-to-reduce-accidents/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As of the end of July 2024, the construction project of Techo InternAtionAl Airport hAs Achieved more thAn 80% with A totAl cost of About 1.2 billion dollArs And is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2024. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/techo-internAtionAl-Airport-reAdy-to-be-lAunched-in-mid-2025/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Commercial banks are providing more loans for vehicle purchases, leading to a jump in car sales this year, according to dealers. While the improved domestic economy and effects of the March disasters in Japan on its competitors had improved sales figures of Great Wall vehicles, increased <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/growth-in-vehicle-sales-fuelled-by-bank-loans-dealers-say/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

According to diplomAtic cAbles releAsed by WikiLeAks US officiAls in BAngkok believed thAt Prime Minister Hun Sen’s decision to nAme former ThAi premier ThAksin ShinAwAtrA As An economic Adviser in 2009 bAckfired After it increAsed support of the opposition. The Premier At the time of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAbles-from-bAngkok-phnom-penh-show-vArying-AnAlyses/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Villagers on Koh Kyong island in Preah Sihanouk province are preparing a complaint over more than 300 allegedly unlicensed fishermen who they say are illegally operating in local waters. Loung Bunny, chief of the association for Natural Protection in Ochroy commune, said yesterday  that fishermen from <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fears-over-island-fish-stocks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 400 chickens suspected of being infected with bird flu were culled FridAy in BAnteAy MeAnchey province’s Monkol Borei district After A died of the virus less thAn two weeks Ago, officiAls sAid. MeAnwhile, lAst week the Agriculture Ministry reported thAt H5N1, or AviAn influenzA, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/About-400-chickens-inspected-for-bird-flu/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

About 60 people representing 1,850 fAmilies from seven villAges in BAttAmbAng province’s SAmpov Loun district yesterdAy petitioned Interior Minister SAr Kheng And Prime Minister Hun Sen for intervention in A lAnd dispute.  VillAgers clAim thAt district Authorities leAsed 4,095 hectAres of their lAnd in Chrey <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/more-thAn-1800-fAmilies-seek-help/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Another gArment fActory within the InternAtionAl LAbour OrgAnisAtion’s Better FActories progrAm wAs hit by A mAss fAinting incident yesterdAy.  More thAn 50 employees of HeArt Enterprise (CAmbodiA) Co Ltd begAn collApsing soon After stArting their shift At the fAcility, in Phnom Penh’s DAngkor district. An <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/fAinting-fActory-told-to-Act/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Continuing the spate of mass fainting at Phnom Penh garment factories, 24 workers fainted at the Heart Enterprise factory on Friday, prompting the factory to shut down for the second time in a week, officials said. The Dangkao district garment factory had reopened on Friday <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/24-more-faint-at-dangkao-district-garment-factory/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government has dropped controversial criminal penalties targeting unionists in its latest draft of the union law, Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh said yesterday. addressing a meeting of representatives of international apparel brands, including Nike, adidas and PUMa, unions, government officials and the International Labour Organisation, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/labour-draft-law-revamped/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia expects to almost double the amount of land used to cultivate rubber between now and 2020, a move that rights groups say could result in more evictions across Cambodia. Ly Phalla, director general of General Directorate of Rubber Plantations, said yesterday that there are <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-for-rubber-farms-to-nearly-double-by-2020/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Kingdom’s total trade with Singapore soared 148 percent in the first half of the year, while exports to Hong Kong increased 80 percent in the same period, according to Ministry of Commerce figures. The data showed that Cambodia’s exports to Hong Kong totalled in excess <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/trade-with-singapore-soars/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

City Hall coordinated the release of 120 tons of rice in cooperation with the state-run Rural Development Bank yesterday to keep prices in the city stable amid reports that vendors were using the current floods to gouge customers. Last week, Prime Minister Hun Sen said the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/phnom-penh-orders-rice-sell-off-to-fight-price-gouges/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Trade between Cambodia and Vietnam surpassed a US$2 billion trade target for 2011 in just the first nine months of the year, according to the Vietnam Trade Office in Phnom Penh. Trade between the two countries hit the higher-than-projected $2.07 billion in September, up from about <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnam-trade-passes-2bn/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The AsiAn Development BAnk (ADB) met yesterdAy with the representAtives of fAmilies evicted or fAcing eviction to mAke wAy for An ADB-funded rAilwAy project, And defended itself AgAinst complAints thAt the project wAs pushing some of them deeper into poverty. The ADB hAs billed the $142 <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/regionAl-bAnk-meets-with-evicted-rAilwAy-fAmilies/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Three Oddar Meanchey province villagers were shot to death on Monday while logging on the Thai-Cambodian border, officials said yesterday, bringing the total number of border killings so far this year to 14 and drawing concern from human rights groups over the continuing bloodshed around <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/three-more-shot-dead-logging-on-border/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The AsiAn Development BAnk (ADB) hAs not mAde public the lAst two quArterly reports on the impAct of resettling fAmilies who Are being evicted for A $142 million rAilwAy rehAbilitAtion project. The reports, which Are required under An ADM loAn Agreement with the government, hAven’t been <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/rAilwAy-impAct-reports-nowhere-to-be-seen/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The director of TTY rubber company, whose guards shot four land protestors in Kratie province last week, said he will give land back to the protesting villagers, backtracking on his vow Friday not to give up any of the land granted to him by the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/company-backtracks-says-villagers-will-now-get-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on microfinance institutions to reduce interest rates and expand repayment periods for the tens of thousands of families affected by last year’s devastating floods. addressing microfinance institutions (MFIs) on Tuesday during a conference at the Ministry of Rural Development, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ease-flood-victims-debts-hun-sen-tells-mfis/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>