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'>...

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'>...

US and Cambodian governments have presented a united front calling for the country’s agriculture industry to diversify, modernise and commercialise. US ambassador William e Todd and the Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Council for Agricultural and Rural Development Yim Chhay Ly led an ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/farmers-weigh-up-us-technology/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The enactment of the new investment law, along with the success of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign, is creating an ever-growing pool of rewarding investment opportunities in the Kingdom, according to Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) secretary-general Sok Chenda Sophea. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdom-e-timor-plan-to-forge-ties/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Some 200 Koh Kong farmers locked in a long-running land dispute with two sugar plantations met Tuesday with a representative of the Thailand-based owners for the first time since the land dis­pute began in 2006. Khamrom Phochai, a Thai national and representative of Thai­land’s Khon Kaen ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thai-representative-meets-with-koh-kong-blood-sugar-families/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

In its first official response to a highly critical resolution on Cambodia from the european Parliament, the government has rejected all criticism and instead accused the Parliament in Brussels of playing politics and interfering in Phnom Penh’s affairs. In its resolution approved October 26, the european ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-accuses-europe-of-interference/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Women entrepreneurs Association (CWeA) said that e-Commerce in Cambodia is set to grow rapidly with the ease of doing business in the Kingdom. entrepreneurs explained that the e-commerce sector has boomed in the country in recent years thanks to the rapid development of ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/e-commerce-market-critical-to-cambodia-cwea-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...