Around 1,000 garment workers from a factory producing jeans in Bith Trang Special Economic Zone in Prey Nop district went on strike to protest against administration chief in their factory.   They also demanded the annual leave of 18-21 days per years, which were rejected by href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/workers-on-strike-to-demand-annual-leave-administrator-be-ousted/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s opposition leader Sam Rainsy is appealing to the New Zealand Government to join calls for a re-run of last year’s elections in Cambodia, which he claims were rigged. “We are very grateful to the people and to the Government of New Zealand for their href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-opposition-seeks-nz-support/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Grand Twins International, Cambodia’s second stock exchange listing, will list at the lower end of its expected buy-in range, an announcement on the Phnom Penh Securities (PPS) website said yesterday. GTI is to begin trading on May 29 with nine million shares at $2.41 each, according href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-maker-to-list-at-2-41-per-share/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) on Wednesday issued a notice warning private companies and state institutions to pay their 2013 fees for using the country suffix .kh on their websites. “TRC would like to invite excellencies and okhnas that use websites with .kh to communicate href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-wants-money-for-use-of-kh-suffix/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Some asylum seekers at the Australian-run immigration processing centre on Nauru have been advised they will be sent to Cambodia if they are found to be refugees. The advice preempts the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Australia and Cambodia. The ABC understands some family href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nauru-detainees-informed-about-refugee-resettlement-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prince Norodom Ranariddh, son of the beloved late monarch Norodom Sihanouk, officially inaugurated a newly-formed royalist party on Friday in order to prepare for the contest in the 2018’s general election. The inauguration of the Community of Royalist People Party ( CRPP) was held at href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-prince-ranariddh-launches-newly-formed-royalist-party/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Private equity firm Leopard Capital announced Monday that it is putting its controlling interest in Cambodian beer company Kingdom Breweries up for sale as part of the fund’s requirement to exit its investments before a 2016 expiry. Leopard Cambodia Fund, an investment fund managed by Leopard href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdom-breweries-up-for-sale/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Military police joined forces with the Fisheries Administration in Kompong Thom province on Friday to arrest six men and confiscate four bulldozers being used to clear protected flooded forest in Stong district’s fisheries conservation area, officials said Sunday. District military police commander Khun Bunho said that href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/six-arrested-for-bulldozing-flooded-forest-area/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

About 200 villagers and monks marched to the Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court on Tuesday to call for the release from jail of two villagers and protest the summoning of eight more to appear before the provincial court. The villagers are embroiled in a long-running land dispute href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-take-kdc-protest-to-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A national seminar on youth and cultural development was held here Monday with an aim to encourage young people to help safeguard, preserve and develop national culture, officials said. The two-day event brought together 700 participants, including culture officials, artists, archeologists, historians, and youths, said Culture href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-youths-urged-to-help-preserve-culture/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A new U.S. government program, NOURISH, will combat malnutrition among Cambodian children. On September 8, Deputy Prime Minister Yim Chhayly jointly with Denise Rollins, Acting Assistant Administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Bureau for Asia, announced the launch of USAID’s five-year, $16.25 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/usaid-launches-integrated-nutrition-sanitation-and-hygiene-nourish-project-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in western Cambodia have detained 11 activists after they tried to stop further studies for a planned Chinese-built dam. About 30 local villagers and environmental activists in the Areng Valley went to the area Monday to protect barricades they had erected earlier this year to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-arrests-11-in-china-dam-protest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Amid a recent spate of riverbank collapses in Kampong Cham province that have so far damaged three properties, authorities are advising the owners of nearly 40 houses to move their structures. Yesterday’s collapse in the province’s Kampong Cham commune destroyed the Khyol Tonle restaurant in front href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/riverbanks-falling-in-k-cham/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is one of only two economies worldwide to have declined in global value chain (GVC) participation since 1995, according to the World Trade Organization’s latest study. The WTO’s World Trade Report 2014, released Monday, shows Cambodia’s overall percentage of GVC participation – one country’s contribution href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/value-chain-in-decline-wto/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The heaps of fly-covered refuse known to accumulate around the capital are set to grow a whole lot worse as millions of visitors arrive for the upcoming Water Festival and tax the city’s overburdened trash collector. More than two million additional people are expected to crowd href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/trash-to-double-over-festival/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen met with his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Tan Dung and the two leaders vowed to further enhance relations and cooperation for mutual benefits, a senior Cambodian official said Tuesday. For the investment side, Dung said there have been 134 Vietnamese investment href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-vietnamese-pms-vow-to-deepen-ties-cooperation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

About 2,000 workers from the Ghim Li garment factory blocked traffic Monday on National Road 4 in Phnom Penh’s Pur Senchey district, demanding the Singaporean-owned factory raise their bonuses and reinstate an employee the workers say was improperly sacked. The workers said they plan to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/workers-block-road-in%e2%80%88protest-over-bonuses/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s trade volume with foreign countries rose by 16 percent year on year in the first eleven months of 2014, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce on Tuesday. The country exported products in equivalent to 7.05 billion U.S. dollars, up 12 percent year-on-year href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-trade-volume-exceeds-16-bln-usd-in-11-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian authorities have put into protective custody an unlicensed health worker who villagers are threatening to kill, believing he used contaminated needles that spread HIV to more than 100 people. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen called for calm on Thursday in Roka, a remote village in western href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-villagers-want-to-kill-medical-practitioner-who-allegedly-spread-hiv-with-infected-needles/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Pilot tests for Cambodia’s new computerised voter registration system are off to a rough start after one commune refused yesterday to participate in the trials. The $17 million system, which uses computers to record voters’ thumbprints and photos, and issues voter card printouts, was slated to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/digital-voter-registry-hits-snags/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...