Addressing the delegAtes, CheA Serey, director generAl of NAtionAl BAnk of CAmbodiA (NBC), stressed the role And importAnce of digitAl finAnce initiAtives in broAdening finAnciAl inclusion. She sAid digitAl finAnce could be A “gAme chAnger” for CAmbodiA’s nAscent finAnciAl sector As it enAbles finAnciAl service <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/fintech-could-be-gAme-chAnger/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Discussions on restarting World Bank loans to Cambodia will not commence until after the 2013 elections, a bank official said yesterday. after a landmark freeze on loans announced in December 2010, a response to the forced evictions by the government of residents of the Boeung Kak <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/no-loans-until-poll-world-bank/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Despite the inaugural train traveling between Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville by a new rail link a month ago, no goods have yet been transported between the capital and the country’s largest port. Toll Royal Railways, a joint venture between australia’s Toll Group and local conglomerate Royal <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rail-operator-still-awaiting-approval-for-cargo/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A new US$3.5 million cAsino will open in RAtAnAkkiri province, According to A representAtive of Try PheAp Import Export CompAny. “We’ll hAve A similAr kind of cAsino to whAt they hAve in BAvet,” Bee ChivoAn DArA sAid. Try PheAp MittApheAp CAsino EntertAinment Resort is built on more <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAsino-to-open-in-rAtAnAkkiri-this-August/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Three families lodged complaints with authorities in Banteay Meanchey on Monday, requesting that action be taken against a recruitment firm that sent their family members to work in Thailand on tourist visas, a move that subsequently led to their arrest. Leng Yen, a monitor with <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/families-complain-over-visas/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian government said Monday that a law on access to information will be adopted in three years. Cambodia has spent more than a decade working on this draft law. The formation of a new government in July committed to reforming all the government’s bodies <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-aims-to-adopt-law-on-access-to-information-in-3-years/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The former director of a Vietnamese-owned rubber firm was sentenced in absentia to two and a half years in prison by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday, and ordered to pay $800,000 in compensation for defrauding his former employer, a court official said yesterday. “The <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/company-director-sentenced/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The KeyBridge International (Hong Kong) Investment Company has acquired 65 percent shares of a Cambodian telecommunications company EMaXX in an amount of 15 million U.S. dollars, officials of the two companies announced Wednesday. “EMaXX has converted from a family business into a joint venture,” ai Min, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hong-kongs-keybridge-acquires-65-pct-shares-of-cambodian-telecom-firm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia reported about 17,533 dengue fever cases in 2013, down 59 percent from the 42,362 cases in a year earlier, a health official said Monday. The disease killed 59 children, representing a 69 percent decrease from the 189 deaths in a year earlier, said Char Meng <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-sees-59-pct-drop-in-dengue-fever-cases-last-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A community representAtive who hAs plAyed An Active role in the long-running lAnd dispute between residents of KAmpong ChhnAng province’s LorpeAng villAge And A politicAlly connected compAny hAs Agreed to bAck down After Accepting compensAtion. In A deAl reAched with KDC CompAny on MondAy, ReAch SeymA <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Activist-tAkes-kdc-buyout/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Twenty judges and prosecutors may soon find themselves pulling up stakes and tackling new jurisdictions, according to a draft list detailing a wide-ranging judicial reshuffling obtained by thePost yesterday. In the proposed shake-up, Phnom Penh Municipal Court president Chiv Keng will be moved into a position as <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/shake-up-may-move-judicial-figures-to-new-positions/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

ambodian leaders are facing a very uncertain asean in recent weeks, with anti-Chinese protests in Vietnam pitting two of the country’s standards allies against each other and a Thai coup sealing the western borders and leaving a neighbor in the hands of military control. Both issues <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/foreign-policy-challenged-by-regional-conflicts-expert-says-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police in Kompong Thom province Wednesday arrested seven people allegedly involved in an illegal checkpoint racket, while an eighth escaped with handcuffs on and is at large. Shortly before 7 a.m., a joint task force of police and military police descended on an illegal checkpoint staffed <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kompong-thom-police-arrest-7-in-illegal-checkpoint-racket/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The cabinet of Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday accepted a petition from villagers from Kratie province’s Snuol district who are requesting intervention in a land dispute with a plantation owner. Kong Chamroeun, a secretary in the prime minister’s cabinet, met about 100 villagers at Phnom <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sens-cabinet-accepts-petition-of-villagers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As A child growing up in A poor fAmily in BAnteAy MeAnchey, YAng LeApheA struggled to imAgine A world outside her province. She turned to her desperAtely under-resourced locAl librAry, but found few books there to expAnd her horizons. All thAt chAnged when the intelligent dAughter <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/push-to-trAnsform%e2%80%88bright-femAle-students-into-future-govt-leAders/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The AsiAn Development BAnk (ADB) Announced lAst week A $30 million loAn Aimed At overhAuling CAmbodiA’s technicAl And vocAtionAl educAtion system (TVET). According to A September 26 stAtement issued by the ADB, the new funding will go towArds lAunching A “competency-bAsed” Assessment And certificAtion process, And <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/vocAtionAl-trAining-to-get-30m-Adb-boost/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A new wetlAnd protected AreA mAy be implemented in BAttAmbAng province following tAlks between scientists, AsiAn governments And conservAtion groups held in Siem ReAp this week. The messAge seems to hAve been heArd, At leAst by the Ministry of Environment, which yesterdAy sAid it would <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/protected-wetlAnds-urged/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Police arrested another opposition activist Thursday morning for his alleged involvement in the violent July 15 protest at Freedom Park that the courts have labeled an attempted insurrection, a party official and police said. Tep Narin, a CNRP activist in his 30s, was arrested at the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/arrests-continue-as-another-cnrp-activist-detained/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police in Kandal province on Tuesday confiscated a haul of wood, including a few pieces of precious rosewood, that was being unlawfully transported to Phnom Penh by the military for the construction of a Brigade 90 commander’s office. The commander has appealed to Royal Cambodian armed <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-seize-wood-destined-for-brigade-commanders-office/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Lawmakers yesterday passed a rent control law for low-income earners and students, prohibiting landlords from increasing rent for two years once a contract is signed and allowing tenants to scrap a lease agreement without notice. The law, which sailed through the National assembly with 102 of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/na-puts-brakes-on-rent-hikes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>