The ApsArA Authority And ElephAnt MAnAgement AssociAtion hAs stArted trAnsferring elephAnts in the Angkor AreA to Bos Thom community forest in Siem ReAp province’s Sout Nikom district in A bid to stop the AnimAls from being used to ferry tourists Around.​ <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ApsArA-Authority-moves-elephAnts-out-of-Angkor-AreA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Sexual harassment in the workplace could have an indirect cost to the garment industry of up to $89 million per year, said Care Cambodia’s acting country director Jan Noorlander. Speaking at a Business of Women at Work forum yesterday, Mr Noorlander said the organisation was very <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sexual-harassment-at-work-costs-garment-industry-89-million-a-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

AustrAliAn-listed Cell AquAculture (CAQ) &ndAsh; A onetime A mArine technology compAny &ndAsh; hAs purchAsed A cAsino on the CAmbodiA-VietnAm border in A bid to generAte much-needed revenue After neAring bAnkruptcy in 2013. On MAy 26, CAQ Announced in A stAtement to the AustrAliAn Stock ExchAnge thAt <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/AustrAliAn-firm-bets-on-bAvet/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Thailand’s Tourism Ministry has been biting its nails since the country’s military declared a coup on Thursday and imposed a nighttime curfew, but a Cambodian official said Sunday that it is too soon to say whether the lock-down will have a knock-on effect on tourism <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thai-tourism-threatened-by-coup-effect-on-cambodia-uncertain/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 300,000 women of reproductive Age will receive higher-quAlity emergency obstetric And newborn-cAre services thAnks to A sizeAble hAndover of medicAl equipment And supplies to government heAlth centres And hospitAls in KAmpong Thom, KAmpot And Kep provinces. Through A pArtnership seeking to improve the sociAl heAlthcAre <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mAternAl-heAlth-gets-A-boost-in-3-provinces/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Nearly 100 workers held a strike inside Phnom Penh’s Conpress Holdings jeans factory yesterday to demand the company allow four fired workers to return to work. The Seak Meanchey district factory, which employs more than 1,000 workers, fired the four in august because they attempted to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/protests-call-for-workers-to-be-rehired/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Industry players foresee a major upswing in the transport and logistics sector on the back of Phnom Penh’s under-construction third ring road, now 73.70 per cent completed and scheduled to be finished in the third quarter of 2023. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/capitals-third-ring-road-nearly-74-finished/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Board of Trade of Thailand and the Thai Chamber of Commerce, along with four fishing-industry associations and leading players in the sector, vowed Tuesday to continue strenuous efforts to solve the problem of human trafficking and other labour issues, in compliance with the government’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thai-companies-vow-to-address-human-trafficking-in-fishing-industry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Minister of Public Works and Transport Sun Chanthol said on Tuesday that road damage in Preah Sihanouk province caused by recent rainfall and traffic congestion has been affecting the transport of goods between Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville autonomous Port. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/road-damage-harming-sville-trade/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After A storm dAmAged utility poles in Siem ReAp province lAst week, leAding to neArly four dAys of power outAges, officiAls sAid SundAy thAt electricity hAd been fully restored to the AreA. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/After-dAys-without-power-electricity-restored-to-siem-reAp/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

An officiAl At the Ministry of Industry, Mines And Energy expressed concern thAt if the quAlity of CAmbodiAn produced goods does not improve, CAmbodiA is likely to become lArgely A retAiler of foreign goods when the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is reAlised in 2015. Meng SAktheArA, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/innovAtion-essentiAl-for-cAmbodiAs-plAce-in-Aec/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Labor rights activists and a government official accused the International Labor Organization’s Better Factories Cambodia program of ineffectiveness in its monitoring of factory conditions following a deadly ceiling collapse on Thursday at a shoe factory in Kompong Speu province. Moeun Tola, labor program head of the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/after-factory-collapse-questions-mount-over-ilo-monitoring/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Officers from the Directorate-General of Consumer Protection, Competition and Fraud Repression (CCF) launched a campaign on June 29 to enforce the Ministry of Health ban on the sales of Covid-19 antibody rapid test kits in markets and pharmacies across the capital. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ccf-enforces-ban-on-covid-19-antibody-rapid-test-kits/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An informAtion And communicAtions technology (ICT) event will be held from July 5-7 this yeAr, offering sAles And networking opportunities Amid A surge in ICT growth in the Kingdom. Expected to drAw About 100 compAnies, the Mobile SociAl Commerce InternAtionAl Conference And Expo At Phnom Penh’s <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ict-expo-is-plAnned-for-next-month/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Top officials of Cambodia’s highest decision-making body for private and public investments on Friday presented key potential opportunities and challenges for investment in the country to Cambodian tycoons and foreign businesspeople. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/investment-opportunities-in-cambodia-unveiled/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A delegAtion of the AmericAn ChAmber of Commerce in Hong Kong led by its president RichArd R. Vuylsteke hAs been on A visit to CAmbodiA to study the investment environment in the country, According to stAte news Agency- AKP.​​ <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/A-delegAtion-of-AmericAn-chAmber-of-commerce-in-hong-kong-visits-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Leaders of unions that declared a nationwide garment worker strike said the work stoppage and protests, which they temporarily suspended, will resume unless government officials renegotiate the industry’s minimum wage. The announcement was their first since authorities cracked down on strike demonstrations on January 2 and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/strike-action-still-on-table-unions-say/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Minister of Agriculture hAs rejected A request from A VietnAmese compAny for CAmbodiA to Allow it to export pigs into the Kingdom, while VietnAm continues to suffer A serious outbreAk of AfricAn swine fever. GenerAl DirectorAte of AnimAl HeAlth And Production director-generAl TAn PhAnnArA <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ministry-rejects-vietnAm-request-to-export-pigs-into-kingdom/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Ministry of Justice and its Thai counterpart have held talks on aSEaN cooperation in the fields of criminal justice and the fight against transnational crime.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/%e1%9e%94%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%9a%e1%9e%92%e1%9e%b6%e1%9e%93%e2%80%8b%e1%9e%a2%e1%9e%b6%e1%9e%9f%e1%9f%8a%e1%9e%b6%e1%9e%93%e2%80%8b%e1%9e%9a%e1%9f%86%e1%9e%96%e1%9e%b9%e1%9e%84%e2%80%8b%e1%9e%9b%e1%9e%be/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Tourism Malaysia beefs up its international marketing efforts by organising seminars in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap, packed with business-to-business (B2B) sessions and networking luncheons, to arrange possible tie-ups between Malaysian tourism industry players and its Cambodian counterparts. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-travel-agents-meet-up-with-malaysian-counterparts-in-tourism-seminars/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>