The Free Trade Union expects thousands of workers from across the country to join FTU president Chea Mony in paying respects to the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk on Tuesday.   To make up for the lost day of work, workers will instead work on October <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/strikes-put-on-pause-for-king-father/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Seventy percent of all outbound parcels leaving Cambodia via the state-owned postal service contain local food products that are delivered to Cambodians living abroad, an official at Cambodia Post said yesterday. Ork Bora, general director of Cambodia Post, said that of the total 26,678 packages, not <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/majority-of-packages-sent-abroad-contain-local-delicacies/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Workers applying for jobs at a fertilizer factory in Kandal province claim they were passed over in favour of applicants who were members of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP). Prey Treng II village chief Hang Suon and two job applicants told the Post yesterday that Five <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fertilizer-factory-wont-hire-non-cpp-members-workers-claim/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia is predicted to greet 4 million foreign visitors this year, an expected 12 percent rise year-on-year, Tourism Minister Thong Khon said Monday. “Last year, we received 3.58 million foreign tourists, up 24 percent year-on-year, and generated total revenue of about 2.2 billion U.S. dollars,” he <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-forecasts-4-mln-foreign-tourists-in-2013-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Military police in Preah Sihanouk province said yesterday that they impounded four trucks carrying retail goods worth about $1 million that a lieutenant general in the Royal Cambodian armed Forces had imported from Thailand without paying tax duty. The unpaid import duty amounted to about <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/general-accused-of-smuggling-1m-in-goods/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia would have to give two villages to Vietnam if it wanted to retain another two deemed the territory of the Kingdom’s eastern neighbour by the former French Indochina colonial administration, a government minister said yesterday. Last year, the Cambodian government announced it was speeding up <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-to-cede-two-villages-to-vietnam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 250 families ordered to leave their homes next to Phnom Penh International airport to make way for expansion plans yesterday with City Hall to fight the eviction. The 256 families living in three villages in Pur Senchey district’s Choam Chao commune are demanding compensation <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-fight-evictions-near-intl-airport/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police and Phnom Penh municipality officials yesterday halted construction on a seven-story high-end apartment complex on Street 240 in Daun Penh district. Phnom Penh Municipal Governor Kep Chuktema was accompanied by police officials who entered the 240 apartment complex, which has been under construction for several <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/officials-halt-construction-on-240-apartment-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three families were evicted and their houses torn down by authorities in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district yesterday after officials claimed that residents there were polluting a canal with rubbish. The authorities last week warned that families living inside 38 houses in Niroth commune were illegally occupying <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/families-evicted-from-canal-as-part-of-clean-up-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Trade between Cambodia and Thailand increased by about 40 per cent to US$3 billion in the first nine months of this year in comparison with the same period last year, according to figures provided by the Royal Embassy of Thailand in Cambodia. according to Nat Vimonchandra, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/trade-with-thailand-increases/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Some 140 Japanese investors arrived in Cambodia yesterday to meet with local government leaders and other stakeholders in an effort to boost economic cooperation between the two countries. according to the Japanese Embassy in Cambodia, the delegation arrived in the country yesterday afternoon, following a visit <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japanese-delegation-seeks-business-options/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia imported almost 10 times as many used clothes as new ones in the first 11 months of last year, according to statistics from the Ministry of Economy and Finance. Some 79,217 tonnes of used garments worth $61.5 million were brought in during that period, compared <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/second-hand-first-in-imports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Bank of China is going to expand its business operations in Cambodia after it was launched here two years ago and seen rapid business growth, Zhu Shuming, visiting deputy governor of Bank of China, said Friday. Speaking at a meeting with Chea Chanto, governor of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bank-of-china-to-raise-business-operations-in-cambodia-deputy-governor/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

CONSTRUCTION is progressing on a $1.5 million baby-products factory that will be among the largest in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ). Combi (Cambodia), which owns the factory, announced the plans for its new facility in an online job listing yesterday. The five-hectare factory was scheduled <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/combi-plans-1-5m-factory-for-baby-goods/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Violence broke out twice yesterday at the Maru Chuen garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district &ndash; first, between police and strikers, and later, between strikers and employees who remained at work. In the morning, seven workers and one police officer were injured after police intervened <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/workers-cop-injured-as-strike-turns-violent/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The US embassy in Phnom Penh intends to hold a webinar on doing business in Cambodia, providing information on the benefits and challenges of working in the country for US firms. “This is the first webinar that will focus on investment opportunities and an overview of  <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-embassy-to-hold-investment-webinar/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The French and German chambers of commerce have both merged into the larger European Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia in order to gain combined strength and be more effective as an interface between European business and the Cambodian government. The agreement is set to be formalised <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/business-chambers-merge-with-eurocham/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Forty-four Number One and OK condom packers, out of work since their contracts ended on Sunday, protested outside the office of health NGO Population Services Khmer (PSK) in Phnom Penh yesterday, demanding “unpaid” seniority bonuses. Representative So Nita said the workers, four of whom have physical <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/condom-packers-seek-unpaid-bonuses/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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Newly established Wat Phnom airlines completed its maiden flight to Taiwan’s Taoyuan International airport on July 10. But its predecessor, grounded Tonlesap airlines, is said to owe the same airport more than $50,000 in landing fees. The local chartered carrier “is officially in business after it <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chartered-carrier-takes-off/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>