Prime Minister Hun Sen has urged the relevant institutions to improve the living standards of disabled persons in line with the national economy. In a message to commemorate the 21st Day of Cambodian Persons with Disabilities and the 37th International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-improve-lives-of-disabled/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training is preparing to send officials to check on whether the second phase of seniority payments will be provided to garment factory workers at the end of the year, said ministry spokesman Heng Sour. Last year, the ministry announced <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/labour-ministry-to-check-provision-of-seniority-payments/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

International tourist arrivals into Cambodia have soared in the past year, with arrivals into Siem Reap up 30 per cent in the first eight months of 2012 over the same period the previous year. The tourist industry was hit hard by the global economic crisis in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-resorts-on-the-increase/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

South Korea replaced the UK as the largest investor in Cambodia last year, with about $287 million injected, 12.5 per cent of the total foreign direct investment, according to data from the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). This represents 33 per cent <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/south-korea-leads-asias-big-three-as-cambodias-leading-investor/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government has failed to improve transparency of its finances, according to a global report released yesterday, which ranks Cambodia among the worst countries in the world for openness over budgets. The Washington-based International Budget Partnership’s Open Budget Survey 2012- conducted in Cambodia by NGO Forum- <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/survey-says-cambodia-lacks-fiscal-transparency/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

PHNOM PENH &ndash; Cambodia imports all of its fuel from abroad, but little regulation in the sector means everyday Cambodians see all kinds of prices at the pumps. Prices are high in Phnom Penh, while sometimes cheaper on the outskirts of the capital and even <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/at-fuel-pumps-price-and-quality-are-anybodys-guess/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Authorities in BAttAmbAng province on SAturdAy summoned two villAgers from SAlmot district’s TA SAnh commune After they refused to hAnd over money to officiAls Asking for donAtions to feed students working in the AreA As pArt of the government’s nAtionwide lAnd titling project. Heng <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/men-questioned-After-refusing-to-hAnd-over-student-donAtion/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism on Wednesday finalized its 5-year strategic plan to attract at least 1.3 million Chinese visitors by 2018. Speaking at a seminar on Cambodia tourism marketing strategy targeting China, So Visothy, director of the Tourism Ministry’s Marketing and Promotion Department, said that currently <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-unveils-strategy-to-attract-chinese-tourists/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Nearly all of Phnom Penh’s communes have voter registration rates in excess of 100 per cent, amounting to more than 145,000 additional names, with one commune topping the 200 per cent mark, an analysis of previously unseen government population data reveals. Further analysis of the already <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/giving-more-than-100/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Major financial institutions show more trust in providing loans to the agricultural sector, evidenced by increasing agricultural loan disbursement, thanks to potential growth in the sector and better preparation of financial report among borrowers, according to industry insiders. acleda Bank, Cambodia’s largest domestically owned bank, has <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/major-banks-show-more-agricultural-sector-trust/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday that he hoped land being registered to rural families as part of the government’s nationwide land-titling program would be used to cultivate rubber trees in order to help the country compete with Vietnam as the world’s third-largest rubber exporter. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-hopes-for-increased-rubber-exports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Vietnam plans to build 13 new border gates along the boundary line with Cambodia to help boost trade that has already been growing between the two Southeast asian nations. Vietnam and Cambodia will work out plans to add 13 new border gates over the next seven <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnam-plans-to-add-border-gates-along-border-with-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National Election Committee (NEC) said Sunday that it is no longer involved in mediating the dispute between the ruling CPP and opposition CNRP over the results of last month’s national election. The announcement came after the NEC over the weekend rejected 17 complaints related to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nec-stops-investigating-election-irregularities/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Interior has approved the creation of three new districts in Phnom Penh following a proposal from City Hall to create five new districts before district and city council elections are held in May. Sak Setha, secretary of state at the Ministry of Interior, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/three-new-districts-in-phnom-penh-approved/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

CNRP vice president Kem Sokha on Thursday renewed the opposition party’s calls for the 18 signatories of the 1991 Paris Peace agreement to intervene in Cambodia, saying that the more than two-decades-old agreement had still not been properly implemented. The opposition has announced that October 23&mdash;the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-calls-for-paris-peace-agreement-signatories-to-intervene/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The AsiAn Development BAnk (ADB) And Government of AustrAliA Are expAnding Access to economicAl And reliAble energy for rurAl CAmbodiAn households, including through the promotion of cookstoves in SvAy Rieng And KAmpong ChAm provinces. A $6.1 million AustrAliAn Aid grAnt, Administered by ADB, will finAnce <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiAs-rurAl-communities-to-get-sustAinAble-energy-Access/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Microsoft Cambodia has found that an overwhelming majority of computer retailers surveyed earlier this year failed to offer customers the option to purchase licensed, as opposed to pirated, software. Out of the 54 Cambodian computer retailers included in the May survey, the results of which were <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/microsoft-decries-pirated-software/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As flood victims surge to the cApitAl to receive medicAl treAtment, doctors At Phnom Penh’s KAnthA BophA Children’s HospitAl sAy they’ve never seen such overcrowding. PArents holding their sick children And infAnts line the perimeter of the complex, spending up to seven hours crouched on hot <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/sick-children-swAmp-hospitAl/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Siem Reap city land prices have continued to increase year-on-year since 2008, despite the impact of the global economic crisis elsewhere. Sorn Seap, general manager of KEY Real Estate, said that land prices in Siem Reap city in early 2014 saw an increase of 15 per <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/siem-reap-sees-property-gains-fuelled-by-tourism-economic-integration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National Election Committee last night released the official results of the May 18 district, provincial and municipal council elections, with the ruling CPP winning 2,540&mdash;or 76.4 percent&mdash;of the 3,324 positions that were available across the country. The figures are almost identical to the figures released <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nec-releases-official-council-election-results/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>