The Ministry of Economy and Finance has awarded a master plan consultancy contract to top Chinese institute for the development and transformation of Preah Sihanouk province into a “Model Multi-Purpose Special Economic Zone”, Southeast asia’s next logistics and resort hub and innovation centre. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sville-set-to-turn-into-second-shenzhen/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Seng Takakneary started her business in a one-room shop with two sewing machines in 2004. Today, Ms. Takakneary’s Sentosa Silk employs about 100 staff in Phnom Penh who produce a range of fine Cambodian silk items, including pillows, curtains, bedspreads, dresses, shirts and bags. Since <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-female-entrepeneur-remains-strong-as-silk/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

From Cape Town to Helsinki, between Wellington and Sao Paulo: Some 400 events took place during this year’s Open Data Day. Of course, Open Development Cambodia was part of the global event. For the Cambodian edition of the annual celebration of the international Open data, <a href='https://Opendevelopmentcambodia.net/Open-data-day-2018-Open-contracting-for-sustainable-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Fisheries AdministrAtion (FiA) hAs Announced the confiscAtion And destruction of pirAnhAs, A notorious species of cArnivorous fish with rAzor-shArp teeth, thAt it sAid hAd been smuggled into CAmbodiA. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/fiA-clAmp-down-on-pirAnhA-importAtion-And-online-mArketing/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Singapore-based firm KrisEnergy Ltd, which operates Cambodia’s offshore Block a, claims it will be able to meet its schedule to extract its first drop of oil late this year. The firm has actively prepared all necessary facilities for the production, Ministry of Mines and Energy <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/krisenergy-set-to-draw-first-drop-of-oil-this-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Singapore’s KrisEnergy, the operator of Cambodia’s offshore Block a in the Gulf of Thailand, announced on Friday that in 24 months the Kingdom will be an oil producing nation after the firm made its final investment decision that day for extraction in the apsara oil <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kris-says-oil-field-tapped-by-2020/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Singapore’s KrisEnergy, the operator of Cambodia’s offshore Block a in the Gulf of Thailand, announced late last week that it has submitted documentation to the Ministry of Environment for a proposed 1,200-square-kilometre 3D seismic survey of its offshore tenement next year. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/krisenergy-seeks-nod-for-3d-survey-of-block-a/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Singaporean oil and gas company KrisEnergy has decided to give up one of its oil exploration blocks in Vietnam to focus on its operations in Cambodia. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/krisenergy-to-sell-vietnam-oil-block-and-focus-on-diversion-to-cambodia-field/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Following last year’s success, in the early morning of 07 March 2020, the 6th annual Open Data Day was held. around 60 participants from different occupations and diverse backgrounds such as students, journalists and the government sectors attended the event at Diakonia Center. Following the <a href='https://Opendevelopmentcambodia.net/Open-data-day-2020-Open-data-for-equal-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s next elections for commune officials will take place in February 2017, Interior Minister Sar Kheng has confirmed. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/election-registration-experiment-starts-in-september/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Since the 1990s, the Cambodian economy has recorded a substantial expansion led by the tourism, manufacturing and construction sectors. One of the highest economic growth rates in the world allowed Cambodia to become a lower-middle-income country in 2015 1The country has a strategic position in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/business-structures-and-legal-registration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

AllegAtions thAt Acetic Acid imported from ThAilAnd is being used in recipes to replAce lemon juice in BAnteAy MeAnchey And BAttAmbAng provinces hAs cAused An outcry on sociAl mediA. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/outcry-over-Acid-use-in-food/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Demanding that 20 metres of a median on National Road 6a in the capital be removed to ease commutes to and from their villages, about 45 people protested outside the Ministry of Public Works and Transport yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-request-for-crossing-rebuffed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Food and agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FaO) is teaming up with Cambodia’s Fisheries administration (Fia) to strengthen the country’s efforts against illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/%e1%9e%80%e1%9e%98%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%96%e1%9e%bb%e1%9e%87%e1%9e%b6%e1%9e%85%e1%9e%b6%e1%9e%8f%e1%9f%8b%e1%9e%9c%e1%9e%b7%e1%9e%92%e1%9e%b6%e1%9e%93%e1%9e%80%e1%9e%b6%e1%9e%9a/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 22 June 2023, the Ministry of Economy and Finance has posted a press release on the official launch of the e-business registration platform through single portal phase 3 on their official social media site.according to the press release, the e-business registration platform is one <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-on-the-official-launch-of-e-business-registration-platform-through-single-portal-phase-3/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodia-Japan association for Business and Investment (CJBI) was officially launched yesterday in order to bring the business groups between the two countries together. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-cambodia-japan-business-group/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On the morning of 2 March 2024, the Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) organized and celebrated Open Data Day 2024 (ODD 2024) in Phnom Penh with the support of the australian Department of Foreign affairs and Trade through The asia Foundation’s Ponlok Chomnes: Data and <a href='https://Opendevelopmentcambodia.net/Open-data-day-2024-Open-data-for-sustainable-and-inclusive-development-for-all/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Hundreds of registered voters are being called in to a tribunal set up at the Interior Ministry compound in Phnom Penh this week to face questioning about whether they are Cambodian enough to participate in upcoming elections. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hundreds-called-in-to-defend-voting-rights/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Officials from the Cambodian Mine action and Victim assistance authority (CMaa) reported that in the first nine months of the year, nearly 30 people were victims of unexploded ordnance (UXO), a reduction of around one third on the same period last year. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/uxo-casualties-down-one-third-to-date-in-2023/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 4 August 2023, the Ministry of Commerce issued An Announcement on the entry into force of the sub-decree on requirements And procedures for business combinAtions.The sub-decree on requirements And procedures for business combinAtions hAs been Approved by the RoyAl Government of CAmbodiA on 6th <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/Announcements/Announcement-on-the-entry-into-force-of-the-sub-decree-on-requirements-And-procedures-for-business-combinAtions/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>