The government was unaware of about half of the residential child care centers operating in four provinces and Phnom Penh prior to a study conducted last year, according to a report released on Thursday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-unaware-of-at-least-128-orphanages-report-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Two weeks after Bangladesh and Cambodia signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Phnom Penh to purchase rice from Cambodia, on Monday of this week Bangladesh signed a deal to buy 250,000 tonnes of milled rice from Cambodia. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bangladesh-signs-big-rice-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A senior Vietnamese leader has met with Cambodia’s National Assembly to request the continued acknowledgement of Cambodian-born Vietnamese, Vietnamese investors and to request that young Vietnamese born in the country be allowed to study in Cambodian public schools. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-born-vietnamese-deserve-better-visiting-official/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

“Vietnam strongly protests the fact that Khmer Kampuchea Krom activists held an illegal protest and set a Vietnamese flag on fire in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh on Tuesday,” said Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) spokesperson Le Hai Binh on Wednesday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnam-strongly-protests-khmer-kampuchea-krom-activists-setting-vietnamese-flag-on-fire/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Bilateral trade between Cambodia and Vietnam fell marginally by 6 per cent in the first half of this year largely due to a slump in Vietnamese exports, according to data from the Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnam-exports-fall-as-thai-trust-rises/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A senior Thai military official is visiting Cambodia with plans to meet Prime Minister Hun Sen and possibly discuss the two countries’ military standoff near the border-hugging Preah Vihear temple, according to Thai media. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/preah-vihear-on-the-agenda-for-visiting-thai-general/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Information is planning to begin regulating the Internet in the country to prevent offensive content from being posted online, ostensibly to prevent defamation and provocations to violence, according to a ministry official. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-plans-to-regulate-online-content/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A five-month protest aimed at a Phnom Penh bus company came to an end on Thursday when Sorya Transportation Company reinstated three of 17 drivers it fired in April. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sorya-bus-hullabaloo-at-an-end/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Former bus drivers are set to stage a protest today outside Phnom Penh Sorya Transportation Company in the capital’s Daun Penh district, calling on its management to respect an arbitration ruling to reinstate most of them.   href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bus-drivers-want-ruling-respected/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Kompong Chhnang provincial authorities on Thursday urged villagers locked in a land dispute with KDC International to accept compensation from the development firm, promising to request that a social land concession be granted to them. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-pushed-to-accept-land-deal-from-kdc/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

About 50 villagers living along the Mekong River in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district protested outside their local pagoda Sunday to demand that authorities take action against a company illegally dredging sand from the riverbed. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-say-dredging-a-danger-disturbance/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Heng Samrin, president of the National Assembly of Cambodia, will make an official visit to Laos from September 13-17 to advance bilateral ties and cooperation, the legislative body said in a statement on Monday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-parliament-chief-to-visit-laos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Six Cambodian women trafficked to China to become brides and seven Cambodian victims of labor exploitation in Saudi Arabia will be repatriated by the end of the month, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Monday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/six-cambodian-women-to-be-returned-from-china/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Domestic salt production can supply domestic demand this year, relieving Cambodia of the need to engage in imports according to Kampot province’s department of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdoms-2021-salt-production-will-meet-domestic-demand/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has designed strategies to give the Riel  a boost  to reduce dollarization, which represents about 80 percent of currencies circulated in the country, the Central Bank’s senior officials said Tuesday.   href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-aims-to-reduce-dollarization-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Trade between Cambodia and Thailand increased by about 10 percent in the first half of the year to $2.9 billion, up from $2.6 billion in the same period last year, according to figures released by the Thai embassy yesterday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thai-cambodia-trade-on-the-rise/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The second Greater Mekong Subregion Agriculture Ministers Meeting will be held in Siem Reap province early next month, with agro-food products, exploring new markets for agricultural products and solving issues in the sector expected to be high on the agenda. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gms-ministers-to-meet-in-siem-reap/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

While industry, particularly the textile, travel bag and footwear sectors, is diversifying to high value added products, upgrading of high technology and modern machinery is needed for all factories, a senior official at the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) said. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/technology-push-for-productivity/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers caught in a land dispute with a minister’s wife gathered outside Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court for a third consecutive day on Thursday, demanding the release of two men jailed over a clash with workers from the well-connected agriculture firm KDC. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/k-chhnang-villagers-protest-arrests-for-3rd-day/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly yesterday agreed to forward to the Ministry of Interior a request from five Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmakers to visit the five Lorpeang villagers jailed over their involvement in their ongoing land dispute with KDC International. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-seeks-prison-visit/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...