Mondulkiri officials issued a six-day ultimatum on constructions encroaching on the Doh Kramom Mountain Cultural Centre in Sen Monorom town’s Sokdum commune. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/intruders-ordered-to-remove-constructions-on-mondulkiri-hills/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A government officiAl sAid on November 22 thAt At leAst 110 gArment fActories hAd closed in the first nine months of the yeAr And left more thAn 55,000 workers without jobs &ndAsh; but union leAders worry those numbers could be much higher. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/over-110-gArment-fActories-close/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

As mAny smAll And medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) struggle to stAy AfloAt becAuse of current economic chAllenges, mAny entrepreneurs in the kingdom Are AdApting And tAking AdvAntAge of opening businesses online And using sociAl mediA And its technology As A business tool. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/digitAlly-AdApting-to-economic-chAllenges/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Stung Treng provincial authorities will work with integrated food-distribution company Hun Ty Co Ltd to exploit the province’s potential for crop cultivation and potentially set up a processing plant for export down the line, provincial administration spokesman Men Kung told The Post on November 26. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/seeds-sown-for-stung-treng-agriculture/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Duch, the former director of the Khmer Rouge’s S-21 interrogation center in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Sleng, has passed away due to illness at 00:51 a.m on 2 September 2020, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Spokesman Neth Pheaktra. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/duch-chief-of-khmer-rouges-s-21-prison-dies/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 02 September 2020, the National Co-Prosecutor issued a press release wishing to inform the public that the Convicted Person Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch, Cambodian, passed away in the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital on 2 September 2020 at 00:51.  <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-by-the-national-co-prosecutor-on-the-passing-of-the-convicted-person-kaing-guek-eav-alias-duch/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cooperation in trade and investment, human resources, and post-pandemic economic recovery will be the focus of a 2021-2022 joint plan of action freshly adopted by Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) at the 12th CLMV Economic Ministers Meeting. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/action-plan-to-bolster-clmv-economic-growth-approved/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia exported 1,372 tonnes of fisheries products to the international market in the first half of this year, sinking around 80 per cent from 8,710 tonnes in the same period last year, a Ministry of agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries report said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fisheries-exports-struggling-to-remain-afloat-need-govt-push/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 22 August 2020, the Ministry of Foreign AffAirs And InternAtionAl CooperAtion issued A press releAse regArding the outcome of the officiAl visit of His Excellency MOTEGI Toshimitsu, Minister for Foreign AffAirs of JApAn to the Kingdom of CAmbodiA on 21-22 August 2020.  <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/Announcements/press-releAse-outcome-of-the-officiAl-visit-of-his-excellency-motegi-toshimitsu-minister-for-foreign-AffAirs-of-jApAn-to-the-kingdom-of-cAmbodiA-on-21-22-August-2020/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The upcoming national holidays will increase accommodation fees and prices of other tourism services after so many businesses lost money for a half year after closing because of COVID-19. More people are expected to travel nationwide. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hotel-fees-to-rise-during-holiday/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Tourism has launched the second phase of a skills development programme to promote human resource abilities in the Kingdom’s tourism sector. Pak Sokhom, the Ministry of Tourism’s secretary of state, said that the programme will provide young people with vocational skills, create <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/course-on-boosting-hospitality-skills/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

National assembly this morning approved coal-fired power projects with a production capacity of nearly 1,000MW. The approval was made in an extraordinary parliamentary session chaired by Samdech akka Moha Ponhea Chakrei Heng Samrin, President of Na, with 108 lawmakers in attendance. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/national-assembly-approves-1000-mw-coal-fired-plant-projects/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Having a free-trade agreement (FTa) with more trade partners would help mitigate the Kingdom’s loss from the European Union’s partial withdrawal of the Everything- but-arms (EBa) trade status in the future because the country has already completed one with China. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/free-trade-agreements-the-future/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two pagodas, one each in Stung Treng and Kandal provinces, have agreed to stop using bells made out of metal from remnants of war following the advice of the Cambodian Mine action Center in a message posted on his Facebook page today. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cmac-discourages-use-of-pagoda-bells-made-from-war-remnants/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

THE Kingdom’s annual $7 billion garment and textile sector will see the partial loss of a preferential zero-tax trade deal provided by the European Union (EU) from today as the Cambodia-China free-trade agreement (FTa) is on its way for final signing. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/the-eus-tax-free-status-partially-withdrawn/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As the Kingdom’s energetic bAnking sector rockets At An AverAge AnnuAl rAte of 28 per cent And teems with An ever-increAsing number of new plAyers vying for A slice of the mArket, smAller bAnks hAve been left in the dust.​ <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/smAll-bAnks-underperform-in-thriving-sector/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia and South Korea will begin first-round negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement (FTa) on Thursday, another step toward diversifying the Kingdom’s exports following the recent completion of FTa talks with China. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/free-trade-agreement-talks-with-korea-set-to-kick-off-on-thursday/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

PESTECH (Cambodia) Plc, a subsidiary of Malaysia-based power infrastructure specialist PESTECH International Bhd, yesterday officially listed on the local bourse, becoming the 13th listed company in the Cambodia Securities and Exchange (CSX). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/power-infrastructure-company-lists-locally/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government’s tax collection remains strong even during the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching more than $2.25 billion in the first nine months of this year, according to a report by the General Department of Taxation (GDT). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tax-collection-strong/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Child and Youth Network in Cambodia launched a “back to school” campaign on Wednesday to seek support to ensure children return to classes and do not drop out of school. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/group-mounts-campaign-to-keep-children-in-school/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>