More than two-thirds of senior officials at the General Command Headquarters of the Royal Cambodian armed Forces (RCaF) have decided to relinquish their oknha titles to maintain their roles in the armed forces, an RCaF official said. Of 61 senior officials, 45 relinquished their title <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rcaf-officials-forced-to-pick-oknha-title-or-their-position/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With an opposition figure having announced his return to the Kingdom next month to “arrest” the prime minister and major tariff-free export agreements under consideration, opinions are divided on the current political situation in Cambodia. Government spokesperson Phay Siphan said on Thursday that Cambodia was <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/opinion-divided-on-current-political-situation-in-kingdom/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Unions are preparing to meet with Labour Ministry officials later this month to discuss the minimum wage in the garment sector for 2020. Last month, unions, Labour Ministry officials and the Garment Manufacturers association in Cambodia held individual meetings on the minimum wage. On august 29, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unions-prepare-to-negotiate-minimum-wage/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called on garment factory workers to understand why the hike in the minimum wage next year is not as high as previous raises. The government has increased the wage for next year by $8, a decrease of $4 when compared to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-defends-lower-minimum-wage-hike/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Senators yesterday unanimously agreed to pass the National Strategic Development Plan of 2019-2023 worth $57.7 billion in capital. In order for the budget plan to be finalised, it will need to be reviewed by the Constitutional Council and approved by the King. The vote was held <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/senators-approve-2019-2023-development-plan-power-projects/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Rhona Smith, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia on Friday issued a statement expressing “grave concerns” over the “heightened political crackdown across Cambodia”. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/smith-expresses-concerns-over-cambodian-situation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The ApsArA Authority And ElephAnt MAnAgement AssociAtion hAs stArted trAnsferring elephAnts in the Angkor AreA to Bos Thom community forest in Siem ReAp province’s Sout Nikom district in A bid to stop the AnimAls from being used to ferry tourists Around.​ <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ApsArA-Authority-moves-elephAnts-out-of-Angkor-AreA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Monday night saw the first foray of World Innovations Forum Foundation in Phnom Penh, gathering an eclectic group of local and international entrepreneurs as part of their Seeding Innovation 2020 programme &ndash; a bid to change the way international development is done. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/world-innovations-forum-holds-first-meet-up-in-the-kingdom/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Bit Traing commune chief Mach Chan on Tuesday appealed to Okhna Lanh Pheara and 77 families and urged them to find an acceptable solution to a land dispute, saying he had received requests from both sides since early October to intervene. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bit-traing-chief-calls-for-talks-in-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government collected $2.40 billion in revenue from taxation during the first 10 months of this year &ndash; up 28.31 per cent year-on-year from $1.873 billion &ndash; a report from the General Department of Taxation (GDT) said on Monday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gdt-collects-2-4b-in-revenue-from-taxation-in-first-10-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia exported more than $7.97 billion worth of garment, textile and footwear (GTF) products in the first nine months of this year, up 13.18 per cent year-on-year from $7.044 billion, a report from the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s General Department of Customs and Excise <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-textile-footwear-exports-nearly-8b-in-q1-q3/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) signed a five-year partnership agreement on Wednesday for collaboration on crisis management and disaster risk reduction in Cambodia at the Peace Palace. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/un-world-food-programme-helps-kingdom-in-disaster-management/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 20 child laborers were rescued in Phnom Penh on Tuesday after anti-human trafficking authorities arrested a couple who had forced the children to work as fruit sellers in exchange for payments made to their families, according to police.Officers from the Interior Ministry’s anti-human <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/over-20-child-street-sellers-rescued-in-raid/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government will scrap its poorly regulated and grossly inefficient estimated-tax regime, which covers mostly small enterprises, and bring all businesses in the Kingdom into the fold of its more-stringent “real” tax regime, leaked documents show.In an unpublished addendum to the 2016 national budget obtained <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-to-revamp-porous-tax-code/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Concerns are that, while the middle class is growing, Cambodia’s consumer base is not yet able to support premium retailersThe throngs of Cambodian families streaming into aeon Mall over the Water Festival holiday made it clear that Phnom Penh’s poshest mall has successfully positioned itself <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/shift-in-aeon-tenant-mix-as-high-end-brands-replaced-by-cheaper-options/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen has called environmental activists objecting to the construction of hydropower dams in Cambodia “extreme” insisting that such developments would benefit millions of people.His remarks came on Wednesday during the inauguration of a dam located on the Tatay river in Koh Kong <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-slams-activists-opposing-hydropower-dams/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In recent months Prime Minister Hun Sen has made an effort to show that the government has a handle on the voracious deforestation that has ravaged the country’s forests over the years. Yet his speeches and decrees have done little to slow down, much less stop, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-tries-again-on-deforestation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The owners of vehicles sporting police number plates must pay vehicle taxes by the end of the month or face having their vehicles impounded, according to the Ministry of Economy and Finance. In a letter to Interior Minister Sar Kheng, Economy and Finance Minister aun Ponmoniroth <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-asked-to-pay-vehicle-tax/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn defended the government before the U.N. General assembly in New York on Saturday, saying that the ruling party was being held to unrealistic expectations of a “perfect democracy” while the opposition was “committing very serious crimes.” Delivering his first major address to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minister-tells-un-perfect-democracy-not-realistic/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Authority for the Protection And MAnAgement of Angkor And the Region of Siem ReAp (APSARA) hAs set A time schedule for the visit of tourists in the Angkor ArcheologicAl PArk, reported the stAte news Agency-AKP.The new time schedule, tAking effect from JAn. 1, 2016, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/time-schedule-for-visit-of-Angkor-temples-from-jAnuAry-2016/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>