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>

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>