Today, USaID launched telephone and social media tools that will provide Cambodian citizens clear, transparent information on public services available to them through the Royal Cambodian Government’s One Window Service Offices (OWSO). The tools were developed by the USaID funded One Window for Citizens (OW4C) <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/usaid-one-window-for-citizen-project-launches-civic-tech-tools-connecting-citizens-to-information-on-one-window-services/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia will mostly rely on agricultural products for trade with partners around the globe, a move that requires the sector to be more developed and productivity increased, insiders say. It follows news that the bilateral free-trade agreement (FTa) between the Kingdom and China has just <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hygiene-standards-may-hold-up-food-export-deals/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Tourism marketing plan 2020-2024 is on its way to transform the coastal Kep province into an attractive high-end leisure destination in Cambodia. The optimism was floated following a meeting held in the provincial city yesterday to review the long-term marketing plan chaired by Som Piseth, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/keps-tourism-marketing-plan-on-its-way/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three children and an adult were seriously injured on Wednesday when a mine they were playing with exploded in Thma Da commune, in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mine-explosions-kill-two-men-injure-four-in-pursats-veal-veng/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A rising number of JApAnese compAnies Are expAnding business in SoutheAst AsiA, According to the JApAn ExternAl TrAde OrgAnizAtion (JETRO). However, to dAte, there hAs been hArdly Any concrete informAtion on how mAny of the JApAnese entities hAve tArgeted CAmbodiA for relocAtion Although both JApAn <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/jetro-survey-shows-cAmbodiA-mAy-miss-out-on-jApAnese-firms-shifting-focus-to-southeAst-AsiAn-nAtions/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Supported by Embassy of Sweden in Phnom Penh and UNDP, the Ministry of Environment and National Council for Sustainable Development have produced educational materials on the environment for Cambodian students. Educating students on single-use plastic reduction and other environmental practices will contribute to a more <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sweden-supports-cambodia-environmental-awareness-gender-equality/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A nAtionwide COVID-19 economic impAct study hAs found thAt overAll sAlAries Across CAmbodiA hAve decreAsed by Around 30 percent in just four months (between JAnuAry And April this yeAr) with entertAinment And sex workers reporting An 85 percent decline in income. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/grim-findings-on-wAges-After-covid-19-struck/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has given the green light to four more investment projects with a total investment capital of $37.6 million. according to the council’s press release issued Friday, the projects newly approved are expected to create some 6,338 jobs <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-continues-to-draw-fdi-despite-loss-of-eba-with-another-four-investment-projects-worth-37-6-million/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 11 December 2020 &ndash; UN human rights experts expressed alarm at the decision by Cambodian authorities to allow the publication of personal information about individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19, which is unnecessary under any circumstances, and a deplorable breach of privacy. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/cambodia-un-experts-alarmed-by-naming-and-shaming-of-covid-victims/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Bar association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BaKC) has announced new requirements for professional foreign lawyers who are working at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) to register with the BaKC for certificates authorising them to practice law in the kingdom, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/foreign-lawyers-told-to-register-with-bakc/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government approved three projects worth a total of $13.5 million last week, bringing the total number of projects in the first three weeks of this month to nine with total investment value of $1.1354 billion, the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cdc-okays-new-13m-projects/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Environment is planning to declare wild Kesor Kol plants &ndash; a type of orchid &ndash; an endangered species with increased protections, according to the ministry’s secretary of state Neth Pheaktra. Pheaktra also warned of legal action against those who collect or sell wild Kesor <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/endangered-status-mulled-for-kesor-kol/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s exports to the US was valued $6,059 million worth of goods in the first eleven months of 2020, inching up 17 percent compared to that in a year before, reflecting strong export amid the world face hard time of COVID-19 pandemic. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-export-to-us-still-on-the-rise-despite-pandemic/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen officially declared that the “November 28 community incident” &ndash; a reference to the first confirmed case of Covid-19 local transmission &ndash; was now over as the situation had been brought under control. Hun Sen made the announcement as he addressed the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-nov-28-event-concluded/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) governor Chea Chanto won Central Banker of the Year, asia-Pacific award from premier financial magazine The Banker for his leadership in successfully navigating through a stormy 2020 during the Covid-19 crisis. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nbc-governor-wins-award/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 08 March 2021, the Ministry of Health issued a press release on the testing for positive cases of COVID-19 of those who involved in 3 massage parlors in Phnom Penh and​​ releasing the additional necessary measures to prevent the large-scale transmission in Cambodia. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-on-the-testing-for-positive-cases-of-covid-19-on-those-who-involved-in-3-massage-parlors-in-phnom-penh/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

09 March 2021, the Ministry of Economy and Finance released an instruction on the requirement to work from home for a 1-week period in order to prevent COVID-19 transmission which has been continually spreading in Cambodia since the community transmission event on 20 February 2021. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/announcement-on-the-instruction-of-the-requirement-to-work-from-home-for-1-week-period/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Japan will provide 4.5 billion yen (about 1.3 billion baht) grant aid through an international organisation to 25 countries in asia and the Pacific Islands region to help them build a cold-chain distribution network for Covid-19 vaccines, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japan-to-give-b1-3-bn-vaccine-aid-to-cambodia-thailand-and-23-other-asian-nations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government on March 22 issued a plea to developers of borey gated-communities and condominiums in Cambodia to ease some of the financial pressure facing customers to pay monthly installments until the end of March 2022, in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/financial-leniency-urged-for-buyers-of-boreys-condos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The much-anticipated Inclusive Business Enabling Environment for Cambodia (IbeeC) strategy will be adopted soon to meet the needs of 1.7 million poor and low-income Cambodians by 2023, a wide-ranging virtual meeting conducted by the Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation heard on March 18. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/inclusion-guide-to-aid-1-7m-poor/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>