In the first three months of this year, the Ministry of Public Works and Transport has implemented the Procurement agreement on Bridge and Road repairs by allocating financial credits from last year for 12 projects at a cost of 50 billion riel ($12.4 million). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/five-road-and-bridge-projects-get-approval/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

At A meeting At the Ministry of Justice on TuesdAy, Minister Koeut Rith And JApAnese AmbAssAdor to CAmbodiA MAsAhiro MikAmi Agreed to work together to develop humAn resources in CAmbodiA And strengthen the country’s judiciAl system, sAid the ministry. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/jApAn-And-cAmbodiA-vow-to-improve-judiciAl-system/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The government plans to establish a national digital television platform and will release the 700MHz band to the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications to help it develop the 5G network. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdom-prepared-for-digital-economy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia is closer to inking trade deals with developed economies despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Seang Thay, a spokesperson at the Ministry of Commerce, told Khmer Times yesterday that the free-trade agreement (FTa) negotiations between Cambodia, South Korea, China and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/free-trade-talks-continue-despite-the-pandemic/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Environment said a standardised training programme for Cambodian rangers in collaboration with the US Department of State, US agency for International Development (USaID) and the US Forest Service (USFS) has been postponed amid the Covid-19 pandemic. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-training-for-rangers-postponed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Forest activists conducted a 10-day forest crimes investigation in the Prey Lang region and claimed to have found more than 200 workers camping in five different locations cutting down about 2,000 trees. authorities have denied the claim. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/officials-deny-forest-cutting-claims/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ta Siem, a remote commune in Siem Reap province, yesterday changed hands from the opposition to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party after several hundred soldiers were trucked there from another province to vote. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/soldiers-appear-to-have-swung-seats/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forests And Fisheries on MondAy signed off on A list of seven meAsures intended to guArd AgAinst forest fires, Although detAils on implementAtion remAined scArce yesterdAy And observers sAid they expected little to come of the new document. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ministry-issues-meAsures-meAnt-to-counter-wildfires/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Organisers expect the Industry Handicraft Fair 2013, with the theme “Excellence of Cambodia Goods and Services”, to attract about 200,000 people. The fair, to be held at the Koh Pich Exhibition Center over three days at the end of March, will have 460 booths exhibiting 100 per <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/industry-handicraft-fair-to-feature-cambodian-made-goods/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A 150-megAwAtt hydro power project hAs been proposed to be developed upstreAm of the TAtAy River, locAted in Koh Kong province’s ThmAr BAing district, As the investor is proceeding with the environment And sociAl Assessment Aspects At the sub-nAtionAl level. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Another-150-megAwAtt-hydro-power-project-proposed-upstreAm-of-tAtAy-river/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A free trAde Agreement negotiAtion between CAmbodiA And the Republic of KoreA hAs been scheduled to kick-stArt shortly. This wAs sAid by PAn SorAsAk, Minister of Commerce when meeting PArk Heung-Kyeong, AmbAssAdor of S. KoreA to CAmbodiA, At the ministry office. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/After-ftA-with-chinA-s-koreA-next-in-line-to-negotiAte-free-trAde-Agreement/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

State-owned utility Phnom Penh Water Supply authority (PWSa), the first Cambodian Securities Exchange-listed company, aims to collect substantially more revenue in 2020 after a sharp drop in total revenue last year, according the result of its eighth annual general shareholders’ meeting. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/water-company-expects-big-revenue-rise-after-2019-loss/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In the light of COVID-19, however, the sector is estimated to have suffered negative rate growth of 5.3 percent in 2020 and is expected to hit a growth rate of 3.3 per cent next year, according to an updated report by the Ministry of Economy <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/construction-suffers-from-low-growth/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two men were killed on Sunday in separate cases of landmine and unexploded ordnance explosion in the provinces of Kandal and Battambang. Colonel Duong Teng, Kandal province’s Ponhea Leu district police chief, said 51-year-old scrap metal buyer Y Sarin was killed Sunday afternoon after a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mine-and-uxo-explosions-kill-two-as-this-years-mine-related-casualties-decline/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Kingdom’s annual $7 billion garment and textile sector, which has already been hard hit by the Coronavirus pandemic, is still struggling to make up for its partial loss of a preferential zero-tax trade deal provided by the European Union due to end in august. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-sector-struggles-to-maintain-eu-trade-agreement/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

AustrAliA is interested in investing in renewAble energy in CAmbodiA such As hydropower And solAr power. The interest wAs highlighted here yesterdAy by newly Appointed AustrAliAn AmbAssAdor to CAmbodiA, PAblo Chiho KAng, during A meeting with OknhA Kith Meng, president of the CAmbodiA ChAmber of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/AustrAliA-keen-on-investing-in-renewAble-energy-in-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Securities Exchange Commission of Cambodia (SECC) has responded to concerns that a lack of licensed auditors may be affecting listed companies’ ability to submit interim financial results in full and on time to the market regulator. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/securities-exchange-commission-says-there-is-no-lack-of-auditors/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 290,000 hectares of paddy fields were inundated and over 87,000 hectare of paddy fields were damaged across the country as of Oct 27 because of flash flooding, according to a  report from the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/figures-on-flood-damaged-paddies-across-nation-released/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Bank of Cambodia will commence banking operations today. The bank has a mission to provide financing and commercial banking services in an effective and sustainable manner to support local small and medium enterprises with an objective to increase economic <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sme-bank-of-cambodia-open-for-business/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A 35 yeAr old AmericAn femAle becAme CAmbodiA’s 301st COVID-19 positive victim. She wAs found to be infected After Arriving from the United StAtes viA Seoul, South KoreA on WednesdAy, 4 November. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-registers-its-301st-covid-19-positive-cAse/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>