Nearly two years have passed since the Cambodia-China Free Trade agreement (CCFTa) came into effect in early January 2022. This period has witnessed significant growth in bilateral trade, as well as a surge in Chinese investment in Cambodia. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-china-fta-brings-growth/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

New Minister of Interior Sar Sokha has requested that officials in his ministry examine the possibility of lowering the prices of Cambodian passports, noting that current prices are relatively high. Speaking to officials at the Ministry of Interior on September 4, Sokha said the move would <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sokha-calls-for-cheaper-passports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The effects of the ongoing global political and economic crisis has likely affected bilateral trade between Cambodia and Canada, as reflected by a 24.7 per cent year-on-year fall in trade value at $535 million in the first seven months of 2023, versus $711.1 million last <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-canada-trade-falls-25-jan-july-due-to-global-slowdown-gdce/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), fostering collaboration in agriculture and the advancement of micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-philippines-agree-on-private-sector-growth-strategy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Minister of Information Neth Pheaktra recently met with Japanese ambassador atsushi Ueno to explore ways to enhance media collaboration between the two countries. Pheaktra emphasised the need to combat fake news, stating at his September 6 meeting with Ueno that it poses a threat to society. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japan-collaboration-on-enhancing-media-eyed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Kristalina Georgieva urged aSEaN leaders to invest in international cooperation as well as growth-enhancing reforms to fully recover and continue on the pre-pandemic path to prosperity amid a global economic slowdown. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/imf-urge-cooperation-for-recovery/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Interior will not reissue registration documents to the Candlelight Party (CP). Following a September 21 meeting between ministry secretary of state Bun Honn and CP representatives, the ministry cited the fact that there is no relevant law which would authorise it to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cp-denied-registration-documents-by-ministry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia and australia inaugurated a new Food Innovation Partnership on September 22, aimed at assisting agri-food small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in developing products that meet food safety standards and broadening their market reach. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/australia-partners-agri-food-strategy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia has received $140 million in loans from the asian Development Bank (aDB) to boost labour development to transform the country into a technology-driven, knowledge-based industrial economy while enhancing public service delivery by local administrations through public finance and decentralisation reforms. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/adb-lends-140m-for-labour-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Environment, in collaboration with the Secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), is holding a four-day workshop from July 12-15. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-holds-climate-workshop/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

International fuel rates have started to fall back as India and Iran look to step up Russian crude imports, in a downward trend likely to be fuelled by cooperation between the trio of countries on reducing the pressure of the oil price crisis, economists have <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/local-fuel-prices-fall-10-amid-global-downticks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The construction of the 230kV Oddor Meanchey to East Siem Reap Grid Substation transmission line project worth $50 million has been completed over 95 percent as of the end of June of this year two years after novated to ODM Power Line Company Limited (OPL), <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/50m-oddor-meanchey-east-siem-reap-transmission-line-nears-completion/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

For Veng Bunheang, a 31-year-old master’s student at the Royal academy of Cambodia (RaC), Cambodia’s relations with China are at the best period in history, and that has brought substantial benefits to Cambodia’s development in various fields. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/close-ties-with-china-provide-enormous-benefits-to-cambodias-development-students-say/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Civil society organisations (CSOs) and hundreds of people from all walks of life met at a two-day “Cambodian citizens’ forum” in the capital to voice their concerns, hoping their issues will be addressed and included in national and regional policies. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hundreds-gather-for-two-day-citizens-forum/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As of October 22, A totAl of 9,065 fAmilies hAve Agreed to voluntArily leAve Angkor ArcheologicAl PArk And other AreAs under the control of ApsArA NAtionAl Authority for the Run TA Ek AreA in BAnteAy Srei district And PeAk Sneng in Angkor Thom district. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/pm-meets-with-3200-fAmilies-in-peAk-sneng/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodian experts, academia, government, civil society, private sector and youth discussed how aI and e-Government interact with the right to access Information, in a recent seminar organised by UNECO and the Cambodia academy of Digital Technology (CaDT). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/opportunity-of-ai-and-e-governance-to-advance-the-right-to-access-information-discussed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Public listed Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) recorded A 30 percent yeAr-on-yeAr jump in contAiner throughput At 329,043 TEUs (twenty-foot equivAlent unit) in the first nine months ended Sept 30, 2022 compAred to 256,407 TEUs. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/phnom-penh-port-sees-30-jump-in-jAn-sept-contAiner-throughput/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A totAl of 3,789 businesses were successfully registered on the Online Business RegistrAtion PlAtform, Also known As the “Single PortAl”, in the 125 dAys to October 17, bringing the cumulAtive figure to 18,465, According to the Online Business RegistrAtion Service, the competent government Agency. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/single-portAl-logs-3-8k-firms-in-125-dAys/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia is in the process of registering a unique national domain name (.kh) that is expected to add an additional $10 million in revenue annually to the nation’s coffers, according to the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPTC). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/national-domain-name-brings-10m-in-revenue/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>