Heads of the national united fronts from three Indochina countries will meet in Vientiane on Wednesday for the Second Summit Meeting. The Lao Front for National Construction (LFNC) President, Dr Phanduangchit Vongsa, informed the media about the planned agenda last week. President of the Solidarity Front for <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-to-attend-clv-united-front-meeting-in-laos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Political instability has done little to dampen Vietnam’s appetite for investment in Cambodia, the latest figures revealed yesterday by Prime Minister Hun Sen show. Last year, Vietnamese investment reached $302 million, up 250 per cent from $86 million in 2012, according to the prime minister, who <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnams-investment-skyrockets/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s Minister of Commerce Sun Chanthol said Tuesday that the country is expected to achieve its goal of exporting one million tons of milled rice in 2015. “The country had exported more than 400,000 tons in 2013 and there is two years more toward the goal, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-rice-export-to-reach-1-mln-tons-in-2015-commerce-minister/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Say Sam al, Minister of Environment, on Thursday called for construction of plastic recycle plants in Bavet and Sihanoukville. Speaking at the meeting, the minister said that in the last 20 years Ministry of Environment as well as Cambodian government didn’t allow trash recycle in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minister-calls-for-construction-of-plastic-recycle-plants-in-bavet-sihanoukville/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The offices of commune officials along the Tonle Sap basin will soon be solar-powered as part of a poverty-reduction project backed by the asian Development Bank. Some 123 off-the-grid commune council offices in Banteay Meanchey, Siem Reap, Kampong Thom and Kampong Cham provinces will be fitted <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/solar-power-for-communes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam are among the world’s top ten performers in reducing the proportion of children out of school, according to a recent UNESCO report. The report, released in January and launched in Phnom Penh on Thursday, also showed that Thailand was among the world’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-among-best-performers-in-cutting-numbers-of-children-out-of-school/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Senior official from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party called on authorities to take action against CNRP senior member whose vehicles still use fourth mandate number plates, which are invalid. The National assembly was ready to deliver the new number plates to the CNRP’s elected lawmakers <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cpp-official-calls-on-authorities-to-seize-mps-number-plates-from-cnrp-lawmakers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday advised armed forces and local authorities along border with Thailand to keep calm. Cambodia and Thailand has had a bitter border dispute since July 2008 when the UNESCO added the Cambodia’s Preah Vihear temple to its World Heritage <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-pm-orders-troops-along-border-with-thailand-to-stay-calm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Government spending increased 32 per cent last year, while increases in both domestic revenue and foreign aid helped stabilise Cambodia’s budget deficit, according to budget statements from the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF). The consolidated financial records, which were released on May 8, show Cambodia’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-spending-foreign-aid-up-in-2013/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Representatives from some of the world’s largest fashion brands and the leader of one of the world’s biggest union organizations met this week with Cambodian officials and local clothing manufacturers to demand better treatment and improve workplace safety for the country’s estimated 600,000 garment workers. Garment <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/brands-international-unions-press-cambodian-government-on-labor-issues/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Surya Subedi, will visit the country next week to assess the government’s progress in improving human rights and democratic and land reforms, his office said Wednesday. During the 10-day fact-finding mission, beginning June <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/un-envoy-to-gauge-progress-of-rights-reforms-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The planned construction of 88 hydroelectric dams in the lower Mekong basin by 2030 will cause food security challenges in Cambodia, experts say. “Cambodia is going to pay the highest price for dam development basin-wide, to the point of affecting the food security of its 80 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/planned-dams-threaten-cambodias-food-security/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy and Prime Minister Hun Sen discussed the possibility of offering amnesty to senior government officials in order to allow for “an honourable exit of the leaders”, Rainsy was quoted as saying to the French newspaper La Lib&eacute;ration last week. Rainsy reportedly said in the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/amnesty-idea-floated-during-talks-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh official on Wednesday said that union leader Chea Mony violated the protest law and protest ban which was imposed by the government recently for the security concern. The Deputy Governor made the comment after Chea led march along the streets to mark the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-leader-violates-protest-law-phnom-penh-official/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A property expert And investor in the construction sector sAys thAt home prices hAve increAsed between 10 And 20 per cent so fAr this yeAr compAred to lAst yeAr. Kim HeAng, president of Khmer ReAl EstAte, sAys thAt demAnd for property in boreys is heAlthy. Most <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/residentiAl-property-prices-see-steAdy-growth/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A giAnt trAditionAl sticky rice cAke weighing two tons, the lArgest num Ansorm ever mAde, wAs unveiled At the Angkor WAt temple complex in Siem ReAp province yesterdAy As visitors flocked to the AreA to mArk Khmer New YeAr. Visitor numbers for the three-dAy holidAy <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/khmer-new-yeAr-tourism-up-in-siem-reAp/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

PAL Holdings Inc., the operAtor of flAg cArrier Philippine Airlines, sAid WednesdAy it will pursue the plAn to invest in CAmbodiA Airlines. The Airline operAtor sAid in A disclosure to the stock exchAnge the “ongoing prepArAtions for the completion of the contemplAted joint venture Agreement between <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/pAl-still-pursuing-cAmbodiA-venture/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Yin Vuth, one of hundreds of Cambodians who protested against the Don Sahong dam over the weekend, said that if construction on the project in Laos goes ahead, the fish will disappear, and once the fish disappear, the dolphins will be next. “all we will have <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hundreds-protest-laos-dam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday that secret talks with the country’s political opposition have resolved most of their differences, and the two sides may soon reach an agreement for the opposition to end its boycott of parliament. Hun Sen said that a single “small <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-pm-agreement-with-opposition-may-be-near/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After dAys of defiAnce from the opposition AgAinst A bAn on public Assembly, the government issued orders yesterdAy for opposition rAllies Across the country to be Allowed to go AheAd, officiAls sAid. Tep NythA, secretAry-generAl of the NAtionAl Election Committee (NEC), sAid the body And the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/govt-bAcktrAcks-on-rAlly-bAn/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>