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. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-hopes-for-increased-rubber-exports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnam-plans-to-add-border-gates-along-border-with-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nec-stops-investigating-election-irregularities/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/three-new-districts-in-phnom-penh-approved/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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—the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-calls-for-paris-peace-agreement-signatories-to-intervene/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-rural-communities-to-get-sustainable-energy-access/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/microsoft-decries-pirated-software/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sick-children-swamp-hospital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/siem-reap-sees-property-gains-fuelled-by-tourism-economic-integration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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—or 76.4 percent—of the 3,324 positions that were available across the country. The figures are almost identical to the figures released href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nec-releases-official-council-election-results/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Mak Sambath, deputy chairman of the government’s Human Rights Committee, came under fire Monday from activists who accused him of lying to the U.N. in Geneva regarding land issues and the displacement of affected people. The criticism of Mr. Sambath’s report to the U.N.’s Human Rights href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/activists-say-human-rights-delegate-lied-to-united-nations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Three investment projects worth more than $11 million were approved by the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) this week, a CDC press release said on Wednesday.​ CDC approved the establishment of the SWJ (Cambodia) Garment Co, Ltd, in Kampong Speu province’s Chbar Mon href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cdc-approves-three-projects-worth-11m/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Public Works and Transport has generated some $2 million from the sale of personalised number plates since it launched the service last month. From January 7 to February 4, the ministry had sold 468 such plates to vehicle owners throughout the country, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/transport-ministry-reaps-benefits-of-personal-plates/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training has warned that some garment factories in Cambodia may be forced to shut down temporarily or lay off workers next month due to a shortage of raw materials. As the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) continues to spread across href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/coronavirus-likely-to-result-in-lay-offs-as-china-factories-close/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh Municipal Council chairman Pa Socheatvong said the Municipal Hall has decided to temporarily suspend administrative action against eight families involved in a land dispute at the Russey Keo development area. Officials will be sent to investigate whether demolishing the houses of the eight href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/families-evictions-to-be-reviewed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A National Police report for 2019 said that of the 4,121 traffic accidents that occurred throughout last year, 1,981 people – including 330 females and 1,651 males – had died. Another 3,919 were seriously injured and 2,222 suffered minor injuries. The report said traffic accidents href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/accidents-claimed-1981-lives-last-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A prominent forest activist in Kampong Speu province said he would ask the provincial Department of Environment on Wednesday to investigate land encroachment in the Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary. Chea Hean, the director of the Natural Resources and Wildlife Preservation Organisation, alleged that nearly 100ha href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/activist-urges-investigation-of-sanctuary-encroachment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

With the new coronavirus claiming its 17th life in China, the Cambodian Ministry of Health on Thursday said it is taking measures to ensure the disease does not enter the Kingdom, including inspecting all flights from Wuhan City, the outbreak’s epicentre. Ministry secretary of state href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-ups-security-to-block-virus/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

In the wake of concerns about the detrimental impact of the European Commission’s partial EBA withdrawal on Cambodia’s rice export industry, there is positive news. As the country’s most important crop, around 600,000 tonnes of jasmine and fragrant rice are exported every year, according to the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/future-is-bright-for-nations-rice-farmers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...