The Ministry of Public Works and Transport has announced plans to implement an online-only electronic data exchange system in Cambodia’s ports in august to facilitate a more efficient management of ship transport and transfer activity. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/electronic-port-data-exchange-system-set-for-august/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A $15 million USAID-funded initiAtive to give young CAmbodiAns the skills to compete in the digitAl economy wAs lAunched on Feb. 23 by US AmbAssAdor W. PAtrick Murphy And EducAtion Minister HAng Chuon NAron. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/usAid-boosts-digitAl-trAining-for-young/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Koh Kong provincial governor Mithona Phuthong was the first woman to ever have been appointed to the top job in any province back in 2017. She is the daughter of a veteran politician who fought to liberate the country and extinguish the flames of war <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/koh-kong-governor-mithona-phuthong-on-her-building-boom-and-famous-grandfather/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia will donate 10 vaccination vehicles to Laos in a handover ceremony slated to take place on March 12 at the Trapeang Kriel International Border checkpoint in Stung Treng province, bordering Laos’ Champasak province. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdom-donates-extra-vaccination-trucks-to-help-neighbouring-laos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen inaugurated a 134km stretch of National Road 3 from Phnom Penh to Kampot town on March 2 after 34 months of construction with over $200 million in funding from China. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/capital-kampot-national-road-3-inaugurated/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

ASEAN foreign ministers hAve issued A joint stAtement cAlling for An immediAte ceAsefire in UkrAine, As CAmbodiA joined 140 countries And seven bloc members to vote in fAvour of the UN resolution censuring RussiA on its militAry offensive in the embAttled nAtion. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ceAsefire-in-ukrAine-now-AseAn/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Chinese President Xi Jinping has pledged to increase the country’s imports of milled rice from Cambodia and indicated its willingness to purchase other agricultural products from the Kingdom after a free trade agreement (FTa) came into force. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-pledges-to-purchase-more-rice/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia does not discriminate among the different makes of Covid-19 vaccines or bring politics into its fight against the novel coronavirus, which includes jabs that originate from a variety of countries, Prime Minister Hun Sen said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdom-open-to-who-approved-covid-jabs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Japan has continued its support for the sustainable supply of electricity to remote rural areas of Cambodia through a new partnership with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Ministry of Mines and Energy that will provide electricity to 1,300 households in seven provinces.​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rural-cambodia-gets-powered-up-by-japan-undp/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National Election Committee (NEC) has disqualified from the upcoming commune council election 20 Candlelight Party candidates who were discovered to be illiterate, according to a notice dated March 18. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nec-bans-candidates-illiterate-in-khmer/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A new $25 million U.S. government-funded educAtion progrAm thAt will improve the reAding And leArning experience for CAmbodiAn primAry schoolchildren wAs lAunched in Phnom Penh yesterdAy At An event jointly presided over by Dr. HAng Chuon NAron, Minister of EducAtion, Youth And Sports; U.S. AmbAssAdor <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/u-s-embAssy-in-cAmbodiA-lAunches-25-million-inclusive-primAry-educAtion-Activity-ipeA-progrAmme/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The 10 vaccination vehicles donated by the Cambodian government to Laos were delivered to the country on March 12. The vehicles will provide a boost to the neighbouring nation’s vaccination drive as well as bilateral relations between the two countries. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdoms-donation-of-vaccine-vehicles-delivered-to-laos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The special envoy of the association of Southeast asian Nations chair on Myanmar is looking forward to more exchanges and a joint consultative gathering later, after his first visit to Myanmar was generally considered positive. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-asean-envoy-visit-key-step-to-settle-myanmar-issue/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Minister of Public Works and Transport Sun Chanthol has warned that a South Korean company that was awarded the contracts to construct stretches of National Roads 2 and 22 may be blacklisted from operating in the Kingdom after the ministry determined it had worked too <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minister-mulls-blacklisting-firm-over-national-road-2-22/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen announced that despite the difficulties caused by the spread of Covid-19, the fight against malaria had continued efficiently and made a significant contribution to the achievement of Cambodia’s sustainable development goals 2016-2030. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/zero-malaria-deaths-since-2018/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen asked Japan to continue supporting Cambodia on irrigation and clean water systems, in a bilateral meeting with his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida on april 23 on the sidelines of the 4th asia-Pacific Water Summit in Japan. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-japans-kishida-meet-at-water-summit/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Bilateral trade between Cambodia and Vietnam totalled $1.72205 billion in the first quarter of 2022, representing a 13.6 per cent increase from the $1.5153 billion recorded in the corresponding period last year, according to Customs. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-vietnam-trade-grows-13-6-in-q1/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In just over a single day, from april 25 to early on april 26, the Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital treated more than 2,300 sick children, an unprecedented figure even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kantha-bopha-treated-over-2300-children-in-24-hour-period-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Foreign minister Prak Sokhonn, who also serves as the aSEaN special envoy on Myanmar, voiced optimism on May 27 that his second trip to the predominantly Buddhist country in June would produce positive outcomes and that he would be able to meet with a broader <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/asean-envoy-briefs-unsc-on-myanmar-state-of-affairs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

China has topped the list of buyers of Cambodian milled rice for the first five months of 2022, accounting for more than half of the Kingdom’s total exports of the commodity, which has seen a nearly 22 per cent year-on-year surge overall. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-cambodias-largest-milled-rice-buyer-in-5-months-with-52-69-share/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>