When Khemarey Khoeun is sworn in as a park district commissioner in Skokie, Illinois, on May 16, she’ll be making history as the first Cambodian-american woman elected to public office at any level of government in the United States. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/victor-in-illinois-is-first-cambodian-american-woman-elected-to-us-public-office/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With the coronavirus pandemic sweeping through nations worldwide, the Kingdom has not been spared, reporting over 100 cases as of yesterday. as Cambodia scrambles to prevent another wave of infections, the government decided to shutter schools nationwide &ndash; a drastic measure that matches the scale <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/covid-19-remote-learning-hurdles-for-students-with-disabilities/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Newly appointed Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Chea Vandeth urged two Chinese telecom giants &ndash; China Communication Construction Co Ltd (CCCC) and Huawei Technologies Co Ltd &ndash; to further invest in the Kingdom’s telecommunications infrastructure in a move to bring Cambodia into the full realm <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minister-urges-china-telecoms-to-build-digital-infrastructure/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Nearly a year after being signed into law, Cambodia’s new traffic code is just weeks from finally being enforced.National Police chief Neth Savoeun yesterday said that drivers have had plenty of notice, and the time for implementation has come. as of January 1, fines for <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/traffic-fine-increase-gets-green-light/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodians at home and abroad yesterday mourned the passing of peacekeeper Im Sam, who was shot to death during a guerrilla ambush in Central african Republic. He was the Kingdom’s first peacekeeper to ever be killed in combat, officials said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/peacekeeper-killed-in-central-african-republic/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Talking up the risk of war during the coming election campaign can be expected to bring legal action from the National Election Committee (NEC), the body’s spokesman said yesterday, a day after the premier warned he feared conflict would ensue if his ruling Cambodian People’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nec-warns-against-use-of-war-rhetoric/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police have arrested at least five suspects over the past two days in connection to agrenade attack that rattled a Phnom Penh neighbourhood two weeks ago, injuring four people, but officials yesterday remained tight-lipped as to the suspects’ identities and motives. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/multiple-suspects-arrested-over-grenade-attack-but-police-offer-few-details/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National Election Committee (NEC) and all political parties should urge citizens &ndash; including those overseas &ndash; to register to vote, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday, even as a prominent opposition lawmaker accused the government of offering “nothing” to enfranchise Cambodia’s thousands of migrant workers. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-pushes-voter-registration-amid-claims-of-inaction/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia has recorded 341 measles cases in the first four months of this year, a significant increase from just 44 cases in the same period last year. The World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed the total on Monday and reported that 65 percent of those infected <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/measles-cases-rise-sharply/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Interior will hold a sixth meeting with civil society organisation representatives on July 6 to review and discuss amendments to the Law on association and Non-Governmental Organisations (Lango). The organisations are hopeful the points they have raised will be included in the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-and-ngos-set-to-discuss-proposed-amendments-to-lango/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Amid the outbreAk of the coronAvirus the government plAns to trim the 2021 stAte budget to Around $4 billion, Accounting for About A 50 percent drop from this yeAr’s stAte budget, including An 11.3 percent drop for sociAl AffAirs And 6.4 percent for generAl AdministrAtion. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/trimmer-2021-budget-government-plAns-50-percent-drop-in-spending/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

With its aim to expand solar energy investment by 12 percent by the end of this year and increase it up to 20 percent over the next three years, Cambodia has been facing challenges of transiting to clean energy development, according to a case study <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/clean-energy-development-presents-challenges/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia has exported nearly 1 million tonnes of milled rice as of the third quarter of 2020, and the figure could reach 1.2 million tonnes in a near future. The record was revealed on Tuesday by the Cambodia Rice Federation, underlining that the export followed <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nearly-1-million-tonnes-of-milled-rice-exported-to-china-by-q3/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 18 November 2020, Equitable Cambodia organization, Inclusive Development International, and the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICaDHO) issued a joint statement renewing their long-standing call for redress for the Cambodian communities who were forcibly displaced by the Thai sugar <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/joint-statement-on-the-ninth-session-of-the-united-nations-forum-on-business-and-human-rights-16-18-november-2020/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

BirdLife International Cambodia is testing a new buffalo breeding project by giving farmers female buffalo to breed as an alternative to hunting. The project aims to put an end to hunting in the Boeung Prek Lpov Protected Landscape in Takeo province’s Koh andet and Borei Cholsar <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/birdlife-pilots-buffalo-breeding-project-to-cut-down-on-hunting/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian Mine action and Victim assistance authority (CMaa) Secretary-General Prum Sopheak Mongkol said yesterday landmines have been cleared in a 687,706 square metre area where the dangerous legacy of the civil war lingered and is now finally free years after peace was achieved in late <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/landmines-cleared-in-banteay-srei/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Commerce’s General Department of Consumer Protection, Competition and Fraud Repression will send a case involving the parents of 24 infants who were allegedly affected by consuming the milk powder products of Nutrilatt Master LM Co, Ltd to court on November 14. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nutrilatt-parents-will-head-to-court-over-formula-effects/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Kampot province has becomes the home of a new $9 million brickworks that was officially inaugurated on November 22. Equipped with state-of-the-art technology and an automated production line, the factory will be able to turn out 800,000 bricks per day in its initial phase, Kampot <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-9m-brickworks-in-kampot/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Stung Treng provincial authorities will work with integrated food-distribution company Hun Ty Co Ltd to exploit the province’s potential for crop cultivation and potentially set up a processing plant for export down the line, provincial administration spokesman Men Kung told The Post on November 26. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/seeds-sown-for-stung-treng-agriculture-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The $180 million The Hyatt Regency Phnom Penh hotel is set to launch in January, marking the brand’s first venture into the Kingdom’s capital. Local conglomerate Chip Mong Group signed a management agreement with Chicago, US-based Hyatt Hotels Corp in September 2016 for the hotel, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hyatt-hotel-in-capital-set-for-january-2021-launch/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>