Representatives of 17 tourism- related companies from southeast Guangdong province of China on Friday met with their Cambodian counterparts in order to seek possibilities for tourism cooperation. The Chinese delegation was led by Zhao Yufang, Vice-Governor of Guangdong Province, while Cambodian side was headed by Pak href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-chinas-guangdong-look-to-boost-tourism-cooperation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Transparency International Cambodia (TIC) said it could not vouch for the official outcome of July’s national election because of the large number of ballots cast by people without proper paperwork or forms in lieu of official identification, yet another independent report casting doubts on the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/another-election-monitors-report-finds-irregularities-with-vote/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Security guards, police in plainclothes and riot police, armed with batons and metal pipes, on Saturday forcibly cleared hundreds of pro-opposition’s demonstrators from the capital Phnom Penh’ s Freedom Park, where they have been protesting for three straight weeks against Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government. National href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-security-forces-clear-opposition-protesters-from-capitals-freedom-park/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Workers at two different garment factories say that managers locked them inside their workplaces last week when they tried to participate in a boycott of overtime. Union representatives and rank-and-file employees at Kampong Speu province’s Complete Honour Footwear Industrial Cambodia Co, Ltd and Dai Yi Fashion href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/workers-locked-inside-during-overtime-strike/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The CPP could win 37 more commune councilor positions than it would have done before the creation of three new districts in Phnom Penh last year, and the opposition CNRP could gain 14, if the city’s 810 councilors vote along party lines in elections set href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cpp-could-benefit-from-newly-created-phnom-penh-districts/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

About 100 monks, activists and workers returned on Saturday evening to the Canadia Industrial Park, where garment workers clashed with military police on January 3, to pray for the five protesters who were shot dead in the violence and call for the release of 23 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/monks-workers-hold-vigil-for-slain-protesters/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Council of Ministers’ Press and Quick Reaction Unit (PQRU) on Friday published an extended criticism of a speech made by opposition leader Sam Rainsy last week in which he promised his supporters that the political change that swept Ukraine’s president from power​​ would soon href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-responds-to-rainsys-cambodia-ukraine-comparison/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Belgian demining NGO APOPO, which is pioneering the use of mine-detecting rats in the former battlefields of Cambodia, has received funding from the German government to expand its mine-clearance work in the country. In November, the government gave the green light for APOPO to begin href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/funding-boost-for-cambodias-hero-mine-detecting-rats-ngo/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

An increasing number of NGOs in Cambodia are facing the prospect of budget cuts, with money from foreign donors decreasing as a political deadlock continues. Cambodia’s robust civil society relies on donor countries, but some have postponed funding while the country’s two rival political parties remain href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/as-political-impasse-continues-some-donors-hold-on-to-funding/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in Kratie province on Saturday night discovered nearly 90 pieces of luxury-grade wood stockpiled just outside the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) headquarters in Chhlong district, where they believe the timber was being staged for transport to Tbong Khmum province to the south, officials href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/luxury-wood-seized-from-kratie-military-base/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Electricite du Cambodge director Keo Rattanak said on Saturday that the stalled Chinese-backed hydropower project in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley has set back Cambodia’s plans to become energy self-sufficient. Rattanak, who was speaking at a gathering for soldiers in the Odar Meanchey province, singled out href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/derailed-dam-angers-edc-boss/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The export of yellow bananas to international markets last year reached 157,812 tonnes, most of which was exported to China and the rest to Vietnam and Japan, a Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries report showed. There is no data on 2018 banana exports to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdom-exports-157k-tonnes-of-bananas/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The treason trial of Supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) president Kem Sokha began at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday with the presentation of a two-minute video clip. The footage, which was the basis of the charge against him, was dismissed by href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sokhas-treason-trial-begins/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Grab, Southeast Asia’s leading ride-hailing app, announced yesterday the launch of two new initiatives in Cambodia under its ‘Grab for Good’ social impact programme. A company-wide commitment by Grab to create positive social and economic impact through technology.​ The two new initiatives are Break the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/grab-to-employ-deaf-drivers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court on Saturday charged four men and three women over an attempt to grab land in Ream National Park which resulted in officers being injured during a clash.​ Court spokesman Lim Bun Heng said the seven people were clearing state forest land in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/group-charged-over-violent-land-grab/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Two men, including a village chief, were arrested on Friday for allegedly grabbing and clearing 10ha of forest land in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district. Krasaing Pnov village chief Penh Sarorn, 49, and Vong Phalla, 50, were arrested on the orders of Pursat provincial governor href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/two-nabbed-for-grabbing-and-clearing-land-in-pursat/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

n a request signed by more than 500 organisations, civil society representatives on Monday petitioned the government to amend three laws on the judiciary. During the 4th Government-CSOs Partnership Forum, civil society organisations (CSOs) requested changes to improve the efficacy of the legal system and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/civil-society-submits-petition-for-politically-neutral-judges/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Preah Sihanouk provincial administration has recommended those whose houses were torn down for encroaching on canals to seek social land concessions from the authorities. Provincial deputy governor Cheav Vichheak told The Post on Tuesday that Sihanoukville has five main canals with a cumulative length href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/social-land-concessions-floated-for-residents-hit-by-work-on-sihanoukville-canals/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Floods and droughts destroyed some 67,000ha of paddy fields in the Kingdom last year, resulting in minimal declines to yields and land available for cultivation, the Ministry of Agriculture reported on Monday. Ministry spokesman Srey Vuthy joined a government press unit briefing on Monday to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-reports-damage-from-droughts-and-floods/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministries of Economy and Finance; and Education, Youth and Sport, will implement a food programme for 50,000 children in 205 target schools using community products. An announcement issued on January 23 and obtained by The Post on Monday said the two ministries would implement href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-to-aid-students-facing-food-insecurity/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...