The number of businesses that registered at the Ministry of Commerce during the first seven months of this year increased 34 percent compared to the same period last year, according to ministry figures released yesterday. according to the data, in the first seven months of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/business-registrations-up-34-this-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Bilateral trade between Cambodia and the United States was valued at 3.17 billion U.S. dollars in 2014, a 5 percent rise from 3.01 billion U.S. dollars in 2013, the figures of the U.S. Department of Commerce showed Friday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-sees-rise-in-trade-with-u-s/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In a single factory that supplies some of the biggest international brands, faintings occurred every day for five years, a new investigation by the Cambodian Legal Education Centre has found. Until just weeks ago, when the management installed new fans, three to four garments workers were <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-factorys-fainting-crisis/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In his talk at the aSEaN energy ministers meeting held in Phnom Penh last week, Prime Minister Hun Sen emphasized the need for the ten-member bloc to work together to bolster its regional energy connectivity to meet a rapidly growing demand for energy. He also <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/at-asean-energy-summit-green-energy-and-investment-were-in-focus-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The seventh Sea Festival will be held in Koh Kong province in December, serving as a platform from which to introduce local tourism products to domestic and international travellers. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sea-festival-to-take-place-in-koh-kong/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The use of short-term contracts by employers in the Kingdom’s garment industry is threatening workers’ rights and could lead to decreased productivity in the sector, researchers said at a meeting yesterday. Following the release of a report by Yale Law School last week based on <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/workers-face-contract-woes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A group of 17 union leAders will demAnd $179.60 when they sit down for the lAtest round of negotiAtions this week to determine the minimum wAge in the gArment sector, which employs more thAn 600,000 CAmbodiAns. The monthly minimum wAge is currently $140. The new figure <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/unions-will-negotiAte-for-A-180-minimum-wAge/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

For breakfast, it’s rice. For lunch, it’s rice again, and for dinner &ndash; rice. Sometimes, Cambodian Un Koy says, her mother will prepare some beans or carrots, and on very special days even fish or pork. across asia, rice is the most widely consumed staple. That’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-tests-super-rice-to-fortify-its-children/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two more Vietnamese banks have announced they will apply for licences to operate in Cambodia, according to media reports. If accepted, Maritime Bank and Saigon-Hanoi Commercial Bank (SHB) would bring the number of Vietnamese banks in Cambodia to six, National Bank of Cambodia officials said yesterday. Experts <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/foreign-banks-eye-kingdoms-prospects/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

​The Garment Manufacturers association in Cambodia has called on international buyers to continue ordering clothes and textile products made in the country over fears the US and the EU could halt preferential treatment for Cambodian exports.​ ​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/%e1%9e%93%e1%9e%b7%e1%9e%99%e1%9f%84%e1%9e%87%e1%9e%80-%e1%9e%80%e1%9e%bb%e1%9f%86%e1%9e%8a%e1%9e%b6%e1%9e%80%e1%9f%8b%e1%9e%91%e1%9e%8e%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%8c%e1%9e%80%e1%9e%98%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%98%e1%9e%99/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Setting a minimum price for paddy is one of the campaign promises that the Pheu Thai party made to its supporters during the recent election campaign in Thailand before it was elected to power. Now it’s a matter of waiting to find out whether this <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thai-rice-policy-wait-and-see/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Price levels picked up during the first half of 2012 but will likely cool down in the second half of the year due to changes in energy prices and major food related items. Therefore, the inflation rate has been upwardly adjusted by 30 basis points to 4.8 percent <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prices-and-monetary-developments/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Despite ongoing protests over the minimum wage in the garment industry and the political deadlock that lasted well in to July, Cambodia registered over 3,000 new businesses from January to September this year. The latest data from the Ministry of Commerce reveal there were 3,025 newly <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/steady-rise-for-business-registration-in-kingdom/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Free Trade Union (FTU) yesterday filed a complaint with Labor Minister Vong Sauth on behalf of nearly 4,000 garment workers in Kompong Chhnang province against Chinese-owned M&amp;V International Manufacturing Ltd, alleging that they had been forced to work on International Women’s Day, which is <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/laborers-forced-to-work-womens-day-union-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) will lAunch An investigAtion into corruption AllegAtions mAde by stAff At Telecom CAmbodiA AgAinst its director-generAl LAo SArouen, officiAls sAid yesterdAy. During A meeting with 295 Telecom CAmbodiA employees At the Ministry of Posts And TelecommunicAtions, ACU chAirmAn Om Yentieng told stAff <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Anti-corruption-unit-to-investigAte-telecom-cAmbodiA-chief/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Officials of NGOs Licadho and Sahmakum Teang Tnaut will attend a closed-door meeting at the Council of Ministers on Wednesday to explain the findings of their recent report claiming that increasing levels of debt at microfinance institutions (MFIs) has resulted in human rights violations. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngos-invited-to-discuss-mfi-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Vietnamese investors shied away from the Cambodian market during the first half of the year as the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) failed to register a single qualified investment project (QIP) from Vietnam during that period for the first time in its 22-year <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/investment-from-vietnam-hits-a-dry-patch-cdc/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The AssociAtion for Rubber Development in CAmbodiA will submit A letter to the government Asking it to suspend export tAxes on rubber due to the shArp decline in its price And to prevent more fArmers from going out of business, its secretAry generAl, Men SopheAk, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/rubber-AssociAtion-to-AppeAl-for-suspension-of-export-tAx/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control announced on Thursday that there has been a strange increase in the number of cases of paratyphoid a fever from travelers returning from Cambodia. Since March 2013, there have been 34 cases of paratyphoid a fever reported from <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ecdc-reports-increase-in-paratyphoid-a-fever-from-travelers-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The AssociAtion of BAnks in CAmbodiA (ABC) hAs committed to further increAse the usAge of riel through its members’ operAtions, As the locAl currency is now increAsingly used in cAsh And digitAl trAnsActions. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Abc-vows-to-increAse-riel-usAge/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>