Cambodia’s apparel exports increased by 16.56 per cent year-on-year to $8.366 billion during January-November 2022. This constituted 40.89 per cent of Cambodia’s total foreign income of $20.457 billion during the period under review, according to data from the general department of customs and excise under <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-apparel-exports-up-16-56-pct-to-8-366-bn-in-jan-nov-2022/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia Mine action authority (CMaa) has declared Kampong Speu a landmine-free province on October 30 with a celebration marked by the inauguration of an administrative building by Prime Minister Hun Manet. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kampong-speu-cambodias-13th-province-to-be-free-of-landmines/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia duty-free rice exports to the European Union have this week come under fresh attack from producers in Italy, who say the beneficial treatment is restricting the potential of Italian rice exports. an Italian agriculture collective of farmers, which includes representatives from the Italian association of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/italy-millers-slam-unfair-eba/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The newly-signed Action PlAn on TrAde And Economic CooperAtion 2023-2024 is expected to promote the utilisAtion of the preferentiAl ArrAngements thAt Are grAnted by free trAde Agreements (FTA) And similAr regionAl treAties, to boost trAde And investment between CAmbodiA And ChinA. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-chinA-Action-plAn-expected-to-boost-ftA-benefits/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Fewer and fewer primary schoolteachers are willing to cope with poor pay and the worst student-to-teacher ratio outside of africa, government data shows. annual reports released by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport reveal that despite fervent recruitment efforts, every year since 2005 &ndash; when <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nations-youngest-lack-teachers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia could lose its competitive advantage in bicycle manufacturing and assembly, an industry source says. In a report from the Taipei Cycle Show late Wednesday, the US-based Bicycle Retailer and Industry News said Cambodia had used low wages and zero tariffs in the European Union to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-could-lose-competitive-edge-in-bicycles-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As LAos pushes towArd its goAl of becoming the “bAttery of AsiA” through hydropower, its newfound clAim thAt the locAtion for the proposed Don SAhong dAm is not on the Mekong River’s mAin streAm is provoking incredulity from some observers. Less thAn two kilometres north of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/dAm-chAnnels-clAssificAtion-hotly-debAted/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Ministry of Foreign AffAirs And InternAtionAl CooperAtion of the Kingdom of CAmbodiA wishes to inform All foreign nAtionAls, who wish to enter CAmbodiA, of the new e-VisA fee. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/Announcements/press-releAse-on-e-visA-fee/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Dotted with rice fields flanked by palm trees, Cambodia’s southeastern province of Kampong Speu is nothing short of picturesque. But behind the idyllic exterior is an on-going struggle to turn this region’s natural beauty into a global attraction and improve the lot of poor local farmers, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sugar-playing-catch-up-with-spice/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia is importing hundreds of tons of silk from China and Vietnam to compensate for a fast-declining domestic industry, which is suffering due to producers opting to grow other crops instead or raising silk worms, according to silk producers. Men Sinoeun, director of the artisans’ association <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/imports-fill-the-gap-as-domestic-silk-production-dwindles/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The ArbitrAtion Council FoundAtion, credited with helping resolve About 1,700 industriAl disputes, hAs reAched verbAl Agreement with A Swedish Aid Agency to receive funding until the end of 2016, A spokesmAn sAid yesterdAy. But members of the lAbour-dispute resolution body desire A more permAnent solution thAt <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ArbitrAtions-cost-And-vAlue/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Some 900 plaintiffs have joined a class action suit against investment company Empire Big Capital, which is estimated to have defrauded tens of thousands of Cambodians out of up to $400 million, with more complainants expected to join the legal case in the coming weeks. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/number-of-plaintiffs-in-empire-big-capital-fraud-suit-up-to-900/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Representatives from the E.U., CNRP and civil society organizations put newly delivered election ink to the test on Wednesday, a week after a spokesman for the country’s top election body warned that a sample batch of the ink could be washed off using a hair <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-observers-put-election-ink-to-test/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The president of a tuk-tuk and motodop drivers’ association, whose members were recorded on video brutally beating protesting bus drivers over the weekend, said he would file complaints against prominent union and civil society leaders for sparking the violence his own group was accused of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/alleged-attackers-at-capitol-protest-to-sue/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s trade volume with asean member states reached US$4.16 billion last year, up 12 percent from US$3.71 billion in 2012, Xinhua news agency reported. In the Commerce Ministry’s report released Wednesday, Cambodia exported products equivalent to US$482 million to the association of Southeast asian Nations (asean) <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-trade-with-asean-hit-us4-16-billion-last-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Last year across Cambodia’s cities, more and more people decided to take the plunge and invest in housing. This should be obvious to anyone who lived in Cambodia last year. The sounds of construction or renovation were more noticeable than before in cities across the Kingdom. Data <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/housing-loans-up-in-2013-growth-expected-to-continue-in-14/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The presidents of three unions have appealed to the Garment Manufacturing association of Cambodia to improve the “miserable” living conditions of its workers by providing higher wages and better benefits, a letter received by the Post yesterday shows. The letter is dated March 2 and signed <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-factories-minimum-wage-raise-scrutinised/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cracks-put-future-of-historic-buildings-in-doubt/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) and the Non-Timber Forest Products Exchange Programme (NTFP-EP Cambodia) jointly hosted the first training workshop on Strategic Environment assessment (SEa) under the Shared Resources Joint Solutions (SRJS) program supported by the Netherlands Committee for IUCN. The two-day training was held on <a href='https://Opendevelopmentcambodia.net/first-training-workshop-on-strategic-environment-assessment-sea/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Donica Pattie, Canada’s ambassador to Thailand, Cambodia and Laos, on Friday lauded Cambodia’s recent advancements in factory labour conditions, which she said might prompt Canada to increase purchases from Cambodian textile manufacturers, according to a high-ranking Cambodian official. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/canada-praises-progress-in-factory-labour-conditions/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>