The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has partnered with the Cambodian commerce ministry and the enhanced Integrated Framework (eIF) to support development of the country’s e-commerce ecosystem through the ‘e-commerce Acceleration Programme’ (Go4eCAM). ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/undp-to-support-development-of-cambodias-e-com-ecosystem/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The National election Committee yesterday kicked off the 15-day trial of its new electronic voting registration system at 25 stations throughout the country.NeC spokesman Hang Puthea said that the registration test plans to enrol about 30,000 people, though those people will have to register again ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nec-kicks-off-e-voting-registration-test/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Testing of a new electronic voter registration system is “running smoothly”, with more than 14,000 people registered across 24 provinces since the pilot project began on November 1, the National election Committee announced yesterday. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/voter-e-registration-test-run-going-smoothly/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Running down the middle of Mak Sitha’s newly renovated fashion boutique in Phnom Penh is a crack that is splitting her floor tiles in two. Yesterday, part of the floor at Lady Penh Designs began to cave into the ground. Like several other business and ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cracks-put-future-of-historic-buildings-in-doubt/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

More than a thousand garment workers went on strike yesterday morning to demand a minimum wage increase and better working conditions, following the failure of minimum wage negotiations between unions and employers on Monday. Some 600 workers in Kandal province yesterday protested in front of ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/wage-demands-workers-hit-streets-in-bid-for-pay-rise/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Negotiations surrounding the minimum wage for workers in the textile, apparel, footwear and travel goods sector have started, with employee representatives proposing a $14 increase while employer representatives put forward $1. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/apparel-workers-demand-14-vs-1-employer-offer-in-wage-negotiations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

In a bid to modernise its offer of services, Cambodia Post, the state agency responsible for providing postal service in the Kingdom, on Friday unveiled a new application that enables electronic payments for a range of services as well as money transfers. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-post-launches-e-payment-money-transfer-app/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Acleda Bank Plc., the country’s largest commercial bank by branches, has seen rapid growth in online transactions – now about $500,000 a month – since it launched its e-commerce payment gateway late last year, a senior executive at the bank said yesterday. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/acleda-e-commerce-hits-500000-a-month/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A draft law on e-commerce that would regulate electronic trade in Cambodia will arrive at the Council of Ministers in August, following revision by two other state institutions, officials at the Ministry of Commerce said Wednesday. Orm Dararith, director of the Ministry of Commerce’s legal department, ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/e-commerce-law-goes-ahead-with-wb-funding/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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The biggest US trade delegation to Cambodia in decades joined Secretary of State Hillary Clinton here as the two countries look to expand their economic relationship beyond exports of cheaply produced garments. “On the economic front, there is much more room for us to grow ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-looks-beyond-garments-to-deepen-cambodia-trade/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The draft law on e-commerce is set to be completed and enacted by the end of this year, ahead of the launch of the Asean economic Community (AeC), which begins at the end of the year, commerce officials said yesterday.    ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/e-commerce-law-to-debut-by-end-of-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Ministry of Information is planning to create an e-archive in early 2016 with an estimated cost of some US$5 million, according to the State News Agency-AKP. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-of-information-to-establish-e-archive-next-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Less than a week after a government minister said he could not say when long-awaited restrictions on smoking in public places would come into effect, one health official expressed confusion at the seemingly stalled progress, especially as compared to an overnight ban placed last year ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tobacco-regulations-progress-sluggish-compared-to-e-cig-ban/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia on Wednesday continued distributing China-donated relief items to some 3,088 families, who are victims of last year’s flood, HIV/ AIDS patients, disabled people and orphans. Cambodian Red Cross president Bun Rany, the wife of Prime Minister Hun Sen, and Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-humanitarian-aid-reaches-cambodian-people-in-e-province/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Taiwan-based Shanghai Commercial & Savings Bank Ltd plans to open a representative office in Cambodia, joining an increasing number of Taiwanese banks and garment industry investors in the Kingdom. Shanghai Commercial & Savings would enter a crowded sector, behind other Taiwanese-based financial intuitions [sic]. Hua ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bank-to-join-growing-group-from-taiwan/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Companies and organizations from six countries along the Mekong River have established a business alliance, with a view to build a platform for cross-border e-commerce. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/business-alliance-eyes-cross-border-e-commerce-along-mekong-river/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Police arrested five activists from labour-rights group Clean Clothes Campaign yesterday outside the e Garment factory in Kandal province. Neuv Sakhan, deputy director of the Kandal provincial immigration police, told the Post four women and one man, from Norway, Belgium, england and Austria, had been taken ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/foreign-activists-detained/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Investors have turned their eyes to the e-commerce sector in Cambodia as more people in the Southeast Asian nation have access to the Internet, businessmen and commerce officials say.​ ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-seeing-e-commerce-grow-due-to-more-access-to-internet/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has no control over Cambodian-flagged ships complicit in illegal activities on the high seas as the government sold the authority to register ocean-going vessels, under Cambodia’s national flag, to a company in South Korea for $6 million, a Council of Ministers official claimed Thursday. On ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-sold%e2%80%88national-ship-registry-rights/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...