The US remained the biggest market for Cambodia with a share of 34.4 percent even though the Kingdom’s exports to the country decreased by 20.2 percent to reach $1.12 billion in the first two months of the year compared to the same period in 2022, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-remains-cambodias-biggest-market-despite-declining-exports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Social affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation (MOSVY) has released more than $1 billion in payouts to Cambodian poor and vulnerable households during Covid-19 in 13 rounds that are divided into 35 times as of Wednesday this week. The 13th round began its <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-releases-1b-pay-out-to-poor-vulnerable-households/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Construction of the Stung Bot border checkpoint in Banteay Meanchey province and a service road which will connect it to National Road 5 is now 80 per cent complete. Experts in the travel sector expect that when the new checkpoint begins operating, it will stimulate <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/stung-bot-checkpoint-80-done/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In 2023, Cambodia exported more than 656,000 tons of milled rice worth $466 million​, marking a three percent growth in volume and 13 percent in value compared with 2022, according to Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/milled-rice-exports-increase-3-in-2023/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian Mine action Centre (CMaC) successfully neutralised a large US air-dropped bomb in Kampong Cham province on February 27. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cmac-defuse-monster-340kg-us-bomb-in-kampong-cham-village/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Defense Minister Tea Banh on Thursday said that truckloads of tanks and mounted rocket launchers seen by witnesses leaving the Sihanoukville autonomous Port in the direction of Phnom Penh would be used to protect the country in the case that someone “tries to destroy the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tanks-rocket-launchers-seen-leaving-sihanoukville/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia has met 70 per cent of the basic requirements needed to join the aSEaN Economic Community (aEC), Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday, referring to a recently updated report issued by the economic block. The Kingdom ranked third in preparedness among the 10 aSEaN member <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdom-nears-asean-needs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 160 villAgers from KrAtie province’s MeAnchey villAge cAncelled plAns to block NAtionAl RoAd 7 yesterdAy After provinciAl Authorities And A VietnAmese rubber compAny Agreed to their requests regArding An ongoing lAnd dispute, but some expressed skepticism thAt the Agreement would lAst. VillAge representAtive SAren <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/doubt-lingers-despite-krAtie-dispute-Accord/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have inked the agreements to expand bilateral trade, technologies, agriculture, industry, investment and the health sector, and both sides also are trying to boost close ties for mutual benefits while both nations’ trading has been reported to be <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-north-korea-update-bilateral-agreements/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Agreements for two JApAnese officiAl development AssistAnce (ODA) projects for CAmbodiA were recently signed At two sepArAte ceremonies One ODA project Amounts to US $53.3 million loAn for the West Tonle SAp IrrigAtion And DrAinAge RehAbilitAtion And Improvement Project. The other project involves A US $700,000 <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/odA-projects-signed-with-jApAn/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Police and military officials were searching for six missing Cambodians yesterday who villagers believe were shot dead by Thai soldiers on Saturday night after entering the Khun Han district of Thailand’s Si Saket province in search of luxury timber. Neth Hing, who lives in Oddar Meanchey’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/six-missing-after-border-shooting/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Local stock-exchange staff will be trained by foreign experts Overseas experts will play an important role in the start-up of the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX), says Larry Ng of Cana Securities. “Foreign investors will lead the CSX and securities market at the beginning because they have the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodians-form-backbone-of-securities-market/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Svay Rieng Provincial Prosecutor Hing Bunchea said yesterday that he had summoned two of the three women shot at a Bavet City special economic zone (SEZ) for questioning next week, and denied accusations that investigators were dragging their feet on the case. Rights groups continued to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-sets-date-for-questioning-bavet-victims/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian alliance of Trade Unions (CaTU) sent a letter to the Ministry of Labor yesterday requesting that all of the country’s factory owners pay workers their salary earlier than usual ahead of Khmer New Year. Workers are normally paid on the fifth to the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-wants-early-pay-for-workers-ahead-of-new-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A new report hAs found thAt 28.1 per cent of CAmbodiAns borrow money to pAy for heAlthcAre, with microfinAnce insiders clAiming it does not reflect the reAlity in the finAnciAl sector. The University of New South WAles (UNSW) surveyed 5,000 households Across CAmbodiA And found <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/report-28-1-of-cAmbodiAns-tAke-out-loAns-for-heAlthcAre/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Thai firm B Grimm Power Pcl has invested in a 30MW solar project in Cambodia, Ministry of Mines and Energy spokesman Victor Jona said on Wednesday. Jona, who is the director-general of the ministry’s General Department of Energy, told The Post that he welcomed the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/solar-energy-will-fill-shortages-says-jona/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) approved three investment projects in the bags and garment sector with a total capital investment of $8.8 million, it said on Monday. The projects approved are bag factory Quan Ming Handbag (Cambodia) Industrial Co Ltd, the bag and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cdc-approves-projects-worth-8-8m/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The secong Cambodia International Textile and Garment Exhibition from august 17 to 20 aimed to boost the Kingdom’s all-important garment sector by highlighting high-tech machinery which could boost factories’ productivity and bottom lines. Over 2,700 square meters at the Diamond Island Convention and Exhibition Center, the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/money-machines/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Rocket Internet, the successful German-based internet copycat, says that despite its interest in Cambodia’s e-commerce market, tax issues in the Kingdom had forced it to “reposition” its projects. In July, the company launched an online retail site, saying it planned to invest millions in the country’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rocket-internet-blames-poor-tax-compliance-for-pullout/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Kampong Thom’s provincial governor wrote to Prime Minister Hun Sen last month to apologize and explain why district and fisheries officials were involved in clearing an area of protected flooded forest, according to a copy of his letter obtained yesterday. In the July 9 letter, written <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/provincial-governor-seeks-hun-sens-forgiveness/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>