Developing economies in AsiA And the PAcific this yeAr Are projected to see better performAnces thAn in 2022 As the continued eAsing of pAndemic restrictions boosts consumption, tourism And investment, the AsiAn Development BAnk (ADB) hAs sAid, highlighting “ChinA’s reopening is the mAin fActor brightening <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/AsiA-pAcific-growth-poised-to-quicken-with-chinese-economy-At-fAster-pAce/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Ministry of Foreign AffAirs And InternAtionAl CooperAtion. Photo tAken from the ministry’s FAcebook PAge, tAken on 23 August 2023.EstAblishmentUnder RoyAl Decree No. NS/RKM/0196/10, the Ministry of Foreign AffAirs And InternAtionAl CooperAtion (MFAIC) wAs formAlly estAblished on 24 JAnuAry 1996. The ministry hAs A totAl of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/topics/ministry-of-foreign-AffAirs-And-internAtionAl-cooperAtion/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A group of five unions plAns to send A petition to the Ministry of LAbor on FridAy requesting A number of chAnges in the controversiAl drAft union lAw. SpeAking At A conference in Phnom Penh yesterdAy, CAmbodiAn ConfederAtion of Unions President Rong Chhun detAiled the requests <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/unions-to-request-litAny-of-chAnges-to-drAft-lAw/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Money laundering and drug-related crimes continue to be a major challenge in Cambodia due to a lack of enforceable legislation, endemic corruption and limited resources, according a new report by the US State Department. according to the 2012 International Narcotics Strategy Report, Cambodia continues to be <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-says-money-laundering-drugs-still-major-challenges/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The first round of a tripartite meeting to negotiate a new minimum wage for garment and footwear workers ended in a deadlock on Monday. Trade unions, employers, and the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training officials tried to hammer out a new wage scheme for <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/deadlock-over-wage-talks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Hun Manith, the son of Prime Minister Hun Sen, has been “promoted” as a board member and adviser of the Cambodian Mine action Centre (CMaC) &ndash; a position equal to a cabinet minister. a royal decree, signed by the King on November 2 and obtained <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/son-of-pm-appointed-as-cmacs-board-member/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Eleven people at the centre of a case involving seven indigenous Bunong villages in Mondulkiri province pursuing legal action in France have expressed disappointment after the French embassy in Phnom Penh denied their visa applications to attend court. a press release said the 11 included <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ethnic-group-disappointed-to-be-denied-french-visas-to-attend-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With domesticated elephants in Cambodia decreasing drastically, a domesticated elephant protection group in Siem Reap province will set up a breeding centre to restore their numbers. Oan Kiry of The angkor Elephant Group Committee in Siem Reap city said his group had found a location <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/breeding-centre-for-domestic-elephants-to-be-established/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia will embark on developing a billion-dollar eco-tourism park on a 114-hectare land in Preah Vihear. It will use Japanese technology. The Royal academy Cambodia (RaC) inked a deal with Japanese company BM Nature Safari Co Ltd on Saturday to develop the RaC Techo Sen <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/deal-inked-for-safari-park/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ecosystems play an important role in sustaining not only plants and animals, but also humans. But as demands for development continue, a balance between investments and sustainability remains elusive in Ream National Park. a forest ranger is geared with a bag behind his back and a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/development-challenges-in-ream-national-park/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Chinese firms have proposed a new hydroelectric power project on Koh Kong’s Tatay river. Chint Group and Sinomach-HE recently asked the Ministry of Mines and Energy for permission to begin a feasibility study on a project to build a 150-megawatt hydropower dam on the Tatay river, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-firms-propose-150-mw-hydropower-dam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Villagers in a land dispute with companies producing sugar in Koh Kong province gathered again at the Land Ministry yesterday afternoon, demanding the ministry resolve their land disputes as soon as possible. More than 70 people from Sre ambel and Botum Sakor districts are facing difficulties <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/koh-kong-protesters-return-to-land-ministry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A tAsk force mAde up of PreAh ViheAr provinciAl And district officiAls is set to begin A five-dAy investigAtion todAy into A slew of sAwmills thought to be illegAlly milling And trAnsporting timber from the protected PreAh RokA forest After villAgers And NGOs Accused locAl <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/preAh-viheAr-sets-up-timber-trAfficking-probe-pAnel/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia’s garment factories face a shortage of workers, because of migration, more job opportunities in different sectors and poor labour conditions, industry experts said. according to Ken Loo, secretary general of the Garment Manufacturer’s association in Cambodia, there is a definite shortage of labour in Phnom <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/labour-shortage-in-cambodias-garment-industry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Fears of theft are on the rise among market vendors in a tourist district in Cambodia’s Siem Reap province, the gateway to the world-renowned angkor archeological site. Vendors at a market in Puok district said they had lost a lot of money following a slew of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/siem-reap-theft-fears-rise/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Four Cambodian women working at a garment factory in Dongguan, China returned home yesterday after a nine-month ordeal during which they found themselves sick, overworked and trapped without passports in a foreign country. Yin Sophy, 27, Sok Kunthea, 25, Non Sopheap, 21, and Yin Sophea, 20, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-factory-ordeal-over-for-khmer-quartet/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Municipality issued a statement yesterday accusing the Cambodian alliance of Trade Unions of violating their agreement when a garment workers’ protest on July 11 turned violent. Some 20 garment factory workers from the Tai Yang factory had marched to submit a petition to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/municipality-blames-trade-union-for-violent-protest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As the ASEAN summit turns Phnom Penh into A buzz of diplomAtic Activity, the chAnce to send A well-timed messAge hAs not been lost on the locAl community. Fifteen representAtives of the evicted fAmilies of Borei KeilA yesterdAy filed A petition Asking US SecretAry of StAte <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/borei-keilA-evictees-turn-to-clinton/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A locAl PursAt province journAlist filed A lAwsuit yesterdAy AgAinst A group of wood trAders who he Alleges beAt him up on TuesdAy. According to [Krouch] Non [SAntre commune police chief], Nhok Yern, A reporter for Prum BAyon newspAper, And Another journAlist confronted men trAfficking wood by cArt. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/journAlist-clAims-he-wAs-beAten/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Twelve representatives of 50 families in Preah Vihear’s Kulen district are seeking aid from a rights group after being summonsed to court last week over a land dispute with a Malaysian company. The villagers gathered in adhoc’s provincial office in Srayong commune yesterday to draft and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/intervention-sought-in-land-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>