The W&amp;D garment factory in the capital’s Meanchey district has reported a loss of more than $1 million since its workers started their protests in December. The factory owner said it has also lost up to three major buyers out of its 10 overseas ones <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/wd-garment-factory-records-1m-loss-since-workers-began-protesting/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia intends to submit a petition to the United States government to extend the duty-free privileges of its Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) scheme to include footwear, giving local manufacturers a competitive advantage in the world’s biggest consumer market. But hopes are dimming as the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-has-sole-objective-for-us/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The opposition CNRP plans to screen the banned documentary film “Who Killed Chea Vichea?” this week to mark the 11th anniversary of the Free Trade Union (FTU) leader’s assassination in front of a newspaper stall in Phnom Penh on January 22, 2004. CNRP public affairs director <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-to-screen-banned-film-on-slain-union-leader-chea-vichea/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

While rising inflation poses some financial challenges for rural farmers, it generally isn’t preventing them from paying off loans from microfinance institutions (MFIs). Farmers tend to be able to pay their loans off even though higher prices of food, fuel, fertilizer, pesticides, labor, and some <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/microcredit-repayments/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The number of microfinance institutions has been growing steadily over the past decade and this has contributed rising living standards in the Kingdom, according to the Cambodian Microfinance association (CMa). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mfi-growth-still-healthy-after-10-years/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prey Veng is now the second province to be declared landmine free &ndash; after Kep &ndash; though some undiscovered munitions and cluster bombs as well as other unexploded ordnance (UXO) remain to be cleared, according to Ly Thuch, first vice-president of the Cambodian Mine action <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prey-veng-declared-kingdoms-second-mine-free-province/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Women’s AffAirs Minister Ing KAnthA PhAvi sAid yesterdAy thAt comments she mAde in A rAdio broAdcAst lAst week, in which she AppeAred to blAme femAle Boeng KAk protesters for bringing police violence on themselves, were tAken out of context from A rAdio interview given some <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/quote-out-of-context-sAys-womens-minister/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A new microfinAnce institution (MFI), ORO FinAncecorp Plc, is set to open in CAmbodiA, According to the director-generAl of the NAtionAl BAnk of CAmbodiA (NBC). CAmbodiA AlreAdy hAs 35 registered MFIs, According to A recent report by the CAmbodiA MicrofinAnce AssociAtion (CMA). LAst week, the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/new-mfi-to-lAunch-operAtions/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

ASEAN PArliAmentAriAns for HumAn Rights (APHR) todAy cAlled on the CAmbodiAn government to AbAndon its proposed LAw on AssociAtions And Non-governmentAl OrgAnizAtions (LANGO), Arguing thAt the ruling pArty hAs pursued A fundAmentAlly undemocrAtic course in Attempting to secure the pAssAge of A lAw thAt threAtens <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/AseAn-pArliAmentAriAns-cAll-on-cAmbodiA-to-AbAndon-restrictive-undemocrAtic-ngo-lAw/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A RAdio Free AsiA (RFA) reporter in RAtAnAkkiri province will be questioned At the provinciAl court todAy in relAtion to clAims thAt he incited villAgers to commit crimes AgAinst A rubber compAny thAt they hAve been locked in A lAnd dispute with since 2004. Lim ChAnlydA, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/rAdio-Free-AsiA-reporter-to-fAce-judge/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia on Friday afternoon issued a statement to reject a news report that the country had given approval to China’s Taiwan to open a trade center in its territory. according to the statement posted on its website, the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign affairs and International Cooperation <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-denies-allowing-chinas-taiwan-to-open-representative-office/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

AnAlysis of gonorrheA sAmples in CAmbodiA found sustAined trAnsmission of ceftriAxone-resistAnt strAins And A threefold jump in extensively drug-resistAnt (XDR) isolAtes, reseArchers reported this week in Emerging Infectious DiseAses <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/AnAlysis-finds-jump-in-extensively-drug-resistAnt-gonorrheA-in-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia’s national corruption watchdog has added two more firms to its list of private sector companies committed to stamping out corruption, a government news source said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/more-firms-sign-on-to-anti-corruption-pact/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Chinese investment in the Kingdom’s agricultural sector has boosted the national economy and created jobs for local people, said an expert from the Chinese Cambodian Evolution Researcher association. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-investment-in-agricultural-sector-gives-fillip-to-economy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thailand’s second-largest insurer is looking to enter the Cambodian market by next year, local Thai media reported yesterday. Dhipaya Insurance announced it has applied for a licence to operate in the Kingdom and is the latest international insurance company planning to offer services in Cambodia’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dhipaya-insurance-set-to-open-here-next-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government yesterday confirmed four changes to the controversial NGO law in response to widespread criticism; opponents, however, say the edits are insignificant and the legislation remains a “severe violation” of Cambodia’s constitution. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lango-changes-too-little/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Workers deemed at risk of fainting were sent home yesterday morning after arriving at the gates of Sabrina (Cambodia) Manufacturing in Kampong Speu province, following two mass fainting incidents at the facility last week, union officials said. Ouk Lina, an administrative officer at the Free Trade <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/firm-cautious-after-faintings/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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>

Prime Minister Hun Manet will join other aSEaN Heads of State / Government at the Summit between aSEaN and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Riyadh, Saudi arabia, this week. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-pm-to-attend-asean-gcc-summit-in-riyadh-this-week/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Neth Pheaktra, Minister of Information, met with Soy Sopheap, President of the Cambodian-Chinese Journalists association (CJCa), and his colleagues on March 5, 2024, at the Ministry of Information in Phnom Penh. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minister-of-information-collaborates-with-cambodian-chinese-journalists-to-combat-misinformation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>