On​ 22​ March​ 2018,​ the​ Ministry​ of​ Mines​ and​ Energy​​ of​ the​ Kingdom​ of​ Cambodia​ issued​ a​ press​ release​ on the​​ launching of​ four​ mining​ concession​ areas​ for​ domestic​ and​ foreign​ mineral​ companies​ to​ apply​ for​ a​ mineral exploration​ license​ as​ indicated​ in​ the​ “map​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-on-the-launching-of-four-mining-concession-areas-for-submitting-a-mineral-exploration-license/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s rubber exports increased 23 per cent in the first quarter of this year on the same period last year, while rubber prices continue to decrease, according to figures from the General Directorate of Rubber under the Ministry of agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The data <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-rubber-exports-show-23-increase-but-prices-decline/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National assembly’s Commission on Economy on Wednesday rejected the opposition- proposed draft law on minimum wages for garment and state workers. The opposition group proposed the National assembly to make a law to limit a monthly minimum wage of 150 U.S. dollars for garment <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-parliament-rejects-opposition-proposed-draft-law-on-minimum-wages-for-civil-servants-garment-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Hundreds of Police and Military Police cracked down on protesters, led by Mam Sonando, the director of Beehive Radio Station, at the Ministry of Information. a reporter of the Cambodia Herald, who is at the scene, reported that several protesters were injured in the crackdown. and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/update-mam-sonandos-protest-dispersed-several-protesters-injured/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Unions decided to lower their demand for $179.60 per month as the new minimum wage for the garment, footwear and textile industries in 2017, telling employers yesterday that they were dropping the figure by $2 &ndash; matching the $2 employers added to their figure earlier <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unions-budge-from-180-wage/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

China International Travel Service Group (CITS) will open a duty-free shop (DFS) in Cambodia next month, the first non-airport DFS in the country, it announced on Sunday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cits-to-open-cambodias-first-non-airport-duty-free-shop/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A defrocked monk who wAs hAnded A one-yeAr jAil sentence for obstructing officiAls during A wAve of Arrests of Activists And opposition figures in Phnom Penh lAst yeAr wAs on WednesdAy questioned over An AdditionAl chArge of “joining A criminAl AssociAtion,” A humAn rights monitor <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/jAiled-ex-monk-questioned-over-third-chArge/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Chinese embassy in Phnom Penh has introduced a short video competition commemorating the 65th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two nations, as well as the China-Cambodia Friendship Year. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-video-contest-celebrates-milestone/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The 43rd AnnuAl Conference of the InternAtionAl AssociAtion for ImpAct Assessment (IAIA) discussed the impAct Assessment for A just trAnsformAtion. StrAtegic EnvironmentAl Assessment (SEA) is A systemAtic method for evAluAting the possible effects of proposed policies, plAns, And progrAms (PPPs). It provides A complete view <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/journey-of-the-strAtegic-environmentAl-Assessment-seA-implementAtion/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The U.N.’s envoy for freedom of as­sembly on Tuesday presented a report to the U.N. General assem­bly that calls for an approach to election monitoring that looks be­yond polling day to assess wheth­er elections in countries such as Cambodia are “free and fair.” The report, compiled <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/democracy-about-more-than-polling-day/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Kandal Provincial Court yesterday questioned labor leader Rong Chhun over allegations he incited garment factory workers to stage an illegal strike, a court official said. a director at the Tai Yang garment factory in ang Snuol district- which supplies apparel to U.S. brands Levi Strauss, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-questions-unionist-on-incitement-charges/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Representatives of nearly 200 ethnic Kreung families living in Ra­tanakkiri province’s O’Chum district on Tuesday filed a complaint with local rights group adhoc, accusing a Vietnamese rubber company of clearing their ancestral land, local officials and a rights worker said. Chhay Thy, provincial investigator for adhoc, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rubber-firm-clears-kreung-land-sparking-latest-complaint/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Kep will become the first Cambodian province without mine by this year, according to the provincial administration. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kep-to-become-first-mine-free-province-this-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A dAy After union leAder Vorn Pov wAs violently Arrested during gArment strikes in eArly JAnuAry, he wAs driven to An unknown locAtion And told by Armed officers to get out of the vehicle. The union leAder sAid his group of co-Accused shAre A cell <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/like-AnimAls-in-A-cAge/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The government has assigned designated management zones in Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary in Mondulkiri province to make the protected forest more manageable in the wake of a forest ranger being shot. Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday signed a sub-decree designating 372,971 hectares of the forest into <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/srepok-management-zones-designated/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Mountain View, Calif &mdash; PureWave Networks, Inc. announced today that it has been selected by EMaXX Telecom (Cambodia) Limited as the operator’s 4G infrastructure vendor. EMaXX Telecom expects to expand its mobile WiMaX network, already commercially operating in the cities of Phnom Penh and Sean <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/emaxx-telecom-commercially-launches-4g-network-selects-purewave-as-infrastructure-partner/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Initially a status reserved for a privileged few, the number of businesspeople bearing the honorific “oknha” has ballooned from an estimated 20 individuals in 2004 to some 200 in 2008 and more than 700 today. Traditionally a title of nobility bestowed by the king to honor <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/as-oknha-ranks-grow-honorific-loses-meaning/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Four former workers at the angkor Villa Hotel and Resort appeared in the appeal Court yesterday for questioning in relation to allegations that they ransacked the Hotel during a strike last year. Korng Kimlean, union president of the Cambodian Tourism and Service Workers’ Federation and the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/alleged-Hotel-ransacking-probed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian Tourism Ministry statistics showed an increase in international tourists arriving in the country for the first nine months of the year, again bolstered by Chinese tourist arrivals in the Kingdom. The statistics show that nearly 4.8 million tourists arrived in the country from January <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tourist-arrivals-continue-to-rise-buoyed-by-chinese-tourists/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prosecutors yesterday recommended that the Ratanakkiri Provincial Court drop charges against two human rights activists and a radio reporter accused in 2009 of inciting villagers involved in a land dispute against agro-business firm DM Group. Deputy prosecutor Ros Saram told the Post that because he <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prosecutors-tell-court-to-drop-charge-in-land-dispute-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>