Almost 100 kilogrAmmes of nArcotics And other illegAl substAnces were burned by the NAtionAl Anti-Drug Authority (NACD) And vArious provinciAl Authorities lAst week, in A series of ceremonies held to mArk the June 26 InternAtionAl DAy AgAinst Drug Abuse And Illicit TrAfficking. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Anti-drug-Abuse-trAfficking-dAy-mArked-with-incinerAtions/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updates an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” by adding three new map features on the cutting of 3 areas with a total area of ​​133,729 m2 (one hundred and thirty-three thousand seven hundred and twenty-nine square meters) located in Sangkat <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-updates-an-existing-dataset-on-state-land-reclassification-6/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After sudden increAse in price to KHR 6, 600 (US$ 1.62) on July 25, over the next week the price rose for A couple of dAys before eventuAlly chAnging direction, fAlling to 6,400 (US$1.57) on August 1. TrAding volumes were lArger compAred to the week <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/the-week-At-the-csx/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Election monitors said Monday that irregularities at polling stations during Sunday’s vote were widespread, and preliminary results released by the government do not necessarily reflect the true will of the electorate. at a press conference in Phnom Penh, Transparency International (T.I.) executive director Preap Kol said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/independent-monitors-say-election-beset-with-irregularities/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

2012 has been an impressive year for Cambodia’s economic resilience. among the many sectors that had positively grown are the construction and property development [sic] and they are expected to be among the highest growth achievers in the current year as well. In 2012, the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/better-recovery-for-construction-and-real-estate-sector/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The governments of AustrAliA And FrAnce hAve congrAtulAted Prime Minister Hun Sen on his election victory, becoming the first key Western donors to do so since the officiAl election results were releAsed on September 8. UN SecretAry-GenerAl BAn Ki-moon Also offered his congrAtulAtions to Hun Sen <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/key-donors-endorse-election/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia lost more than 7 percent of its forest cover over the past 12 years&mdash;the fifth fastest rate in the world&mdash;according to a new study of global forest cover change that sharply contradicts the government’s own rosier figures. Published Friday in the journal Science and led <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/loss-of-forest-in-cambodia-among-worst-in-the-world/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With the ruling CPP having voted in its National assembly leadership and government ministers on Tuesday, officials from the CNRP said opposition lawmakers would not take their seats in parliament unless the party is guaranteed control over the National assembly. “I think that the two-day meeting <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-wants-presidency-of-assembly-before-taking-seats/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday announced his new government’s five-year strategy, vowing to deepen reforms in all fields to ensure sustainable growth and poverty reduction. “Reforms are the top priority for Cambodia and the country will continue deepening reforms in all fields in order <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-pm-unveils-5-year-strategy-vowing-deep-reforms/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As the director of one of CAm­bodiA’s lArgest breweries, MAlAy­siAn businessmAn Goh NAn Kioh hAs mAde millions selling Angkor Beer to CAmbodiAns. But now his lAtest business venture, A controversiAl mAinstreAm Mekong dAm in LAos, is drAwing the ire of environmentAlists who believe thAt it will <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Angkor-beer-chief-behind-controversiAl-lAos-border-dAm/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

This year, the Cambodian people celebrate their 60th National Day as well as the birthday of the Cambodia Kingdom’s royal army under the bright leadership of King Norodom Sihanouk, who relentlessly struggled against the French colonialists to gain independence (09-11-1953 &ndash; 09-11-2013). In 2010, Father <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-ambassador-speaks-highly-of-mutual-exchanges-with-vietnam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With a major opposition rally planned for this afternoon in Phnom Penh, City Hall and Ministry of Interior officials were at odds with CNRP leaders on Sunday over how many people would be allowed to attend the event. Though the Interior Ministry has said only 6,000 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-says-rallys-size-could-exceed-governments-demands/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Chinese New Year is coming and crowds of uniformed police, military police, soldiers and even the stony-faced troops of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Bodyguard Unit will be queuing with expectation at the gates of the rich and powerful to receive their annual “ang pao” envelopes. In <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/security-forces-get-in-line-for-chinese-new-year-ang-pao-cash/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

General Neang Phat has become the second senior military official to wade into the current political impasse between Prime Minister Hun Sen’s CPP government and the CNRP, accusing the opposition party of trying to destabilize the country, according to a local media report. Gen. Phat, who <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/another-military-official-accuses-opposition-party-of-causing-chaos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday sentenced three men of six suspects to prison terms for their role in the September 15 clashes on Monivong Bridge between police and stone throwing youths, during which a man was killed and several were wounded by police <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/three-convicted-over-clash-with-police-on-monivong-bridge/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Centre for AsiA PAcific AviAtion sAys CAmbodiA’s AviAtion mArket grew briskly for the second consecutive yeAr As nAtionAl And foreign Airlines Added routes to ChinA Amid A surge in Chinese nAtionAls visiting the country. The centre reported CAmbodiA hAs emerged As one of the fAstest <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/chinA-fuels-cAmbodiAs-Airline-growth/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

More than 180,000 hectares on 28 of Cambodia’s 64 islands were reclassified as state private property for 31 companies seeking land concessions between 2008 and 2010, government sub-decrees reveal. The reclassification sub-decrees, compiled by investigators at the rights group adhoc, pave the way for firms to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/islands-up-for-grabs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 09 June 2020, the Council for the Development of Cambodia issued a joint press announcement on the signing on Cambodia-Germany Technical Cooperation agreement 2019. The signed agreement on Technical Cooperation provided a total amount of 13.5 million EUR, equivalent to 14.6 million USD, in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/joint-press-announcement-the-signing-on-cambodia-germany-technical-cooperation-agreement-2019/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 16 August 2021, the Ministry of HeAlth issued A press releAse on nAtionAl cAmpAign under the theme “Jointly responsible for preventing the trAnsmission of COVID-19”.The sub-committee on educAtion, trAining And public relAtions of the inter-ministeriAl commission for the fight AgAinst COVID-19 hAs lAunched A <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/Announcements/nAtionAl-cAmpAign-under-the-theme-jointly-responsible-for-preventing-the-trAnsmission-of-covid-19/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>