Ang MeAlAtey, the former president of BAnteAy MeAnchey ProvinciAl Court, wAs Appointed president of the Phnom Penh MunicipAl Court on MondAy, ending the eight-yeAr tenure of Chiv Keng. Justice Minister Ang Vong VAthAnA And Supreme Court President Dith Munty presided over the ceremony of Around 100 <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/b-meAnchey-court-chief-moved-to-phnom-penh/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Mondolkiri provincial villagers on Tuesday accused authorities there of colluding with a development company involved in serious deforestation. The Phnong minority villagers say the wife of the deputy provincial governor owns the company, Villas Development, which is allegedly involved in illegal logging. The activists spoke Tuesday <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-accuse-mondolkiri-company-of-major-deforestation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

AheAd of todAy’s heAring on CAmbodiA’s record At the UN HumAn Rights Council in GenevA, opposition figures And AnAlysts sAid the ruling CAmbodiAn People’s PArty hAs reverted to fAmiliAr tActics of post-election suppression. AnAlysts yesterdAy sAid thAt the breAking up of CAmbodiA NAtionAl Rescue PArty-led protests <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/new-deAdlock-but-old-tActics-AnAlysts-sAy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

With momentum gathering behind a movement to renovate rather than raze Phnom Penh’s famous White Building, City Hall on Thursday backtracked on its assertion earlier this week that the building was destined for demolition. On Tuesday, Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong said the iconic apartment block <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/city-hall-backtracks-amid-white-building-outcry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Turkish investors have expressed interest in seeking investment partners in Cambodia in the electricity production and electronics sectors. Guven Uckan, the head of the Electrical Electronics and Services Exporters’ association (EESEa), said Cambodia had great potential for investment, with a number of Turkish investors currently doing <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/turkish-investors-eye-electronics-electricity-production-in-kingdom/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Bilateral trade between Cambodia and South Korea has topped more than $657 million for the first nine months of this year. according to Ministry of Commerce data obtained by The Post on Monday, the figure is a little more than $100 million shy of the $769 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bilateral-trade-with-south-korea-tops-657m/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Land Management Ministry has announced it has officially registered thousands of hectares of land for scores of ethnic minority communities across the Kingdom.​ In a statement issued after the meeting, the ministry said so far it has registered 28,522 hectares of indigenous land to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-highlights-work-to-register-indigenous-lands/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Japan’s aeon Mall Co is to spend more than $200 million building its third shopping mall in Phnom Penh as the firm eyes the Kingdom’s burgeoning middle-class. Construction on aeon Mall 3 in the capital’s Meanchey district is to begin early next year as a result <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/council-approves-aeon-3-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Conservationists have found more than 400 eggs of the asian Giant Softshell Turtle along the Mekong River in Kratie province since the beginning of November. a Wildlife Conservation Society statement yesterday said that the conservationists from Community Fisheries, Fisheries administration and WCS found 13 nests <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/more-than-400-endangered-turtle-eggs-found-in-kratie/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Stung Treng provincial police on Sunday sent one of seven men detained over the transportation of illegal timber to court. Provincial police chief Mao Dara said the Vietnamese man was sent to the provincial court after being accused of transporting nearly 200 pieces of beng timber <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/courts-charge-s-treng-men-for-transporting-illegal-timber/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Japanese International Cooperation agency (Jica) representatives have sought support from Siem Reap’s apsara National authority (aNa) to transform the ancient capital into a smart city. The call was made in February last year after the government approved three cities to join the asean Smart Cities <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/jica-seeks-to-turn-pp-towns-into-smart-cities/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two separate complaints were filed at the Mondulkiri Provincial Court against four people including the first deputy chief of Bou Sra commune, in Pech Chreada district, and a provincial deputy governor. The case concerned the issuance of land titles on forest land and secretly digging <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lawsuit-filed-against-local-mondulkiri-leaders/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After imposing A bAn on ArrivAls of citizens from US, GermAny, FrAnce, SpAin, ItAly And IrAn SAturdAy, Prime Minister Hun Sen hAs issued An order lAte yesterdAy,  urging CAmbodiAns to refrAin from trAvelling to Europe, the United StAtes, And IrAn to Avoid Covid-19 pAndemic. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-bAns-All-citizens-of-country-from-trAvelling-to-eu-us-And-irAn-in-move-to-curb-covid-19-spreAd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

On Monday, March 31, 2020, at the Peace Palace of the Council of Ministers, a new mandate meeting of the Permanent Council of Ministers was presided over by Samdech akka Moha Sena Padei Techo HUN SEN, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia to review <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/announcement-on-the-result-of-the-new-mandate-meeting-of-the-permanent-council-of-ministers-dated-on-31-march-2020/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has predicted Cambodia’s 2020 Gross Domestic Product will contract by -1.7 percent this year in line with a global contraction of -3.0 percent. The reduction in GDP represents an economic downturn the world has not seen since the Great Depression, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/economy-to-contract-for-the-first-time-since-conflict-ended/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Following a bruising first quarter, the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) index has picked up over the last few days after acleda Bank Plc’s (aBC’s) initial public offering (IPO).​ at Thursday’s close, the index ended 7.25 per cent higher at 793.59 points. Trading volume reached 280,791 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/csx-index-up-7-25-per-cent-1-25-million-in-shares-traded/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 20 May 2020, Ministry of Health has issued an announcement relating to the inter-ministerial committee to combat COVID-19’s measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. according to the announcement, the inter-ministerial committee to fight against COVID-19 has amended a number of measures to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/announcement-of-the-inter-ministerial-committee-to-fight-against-covid-19/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Capital Market saw a 22 per cent drop capitalisation in the first quarter of the year, bringing the market capitalisation to around $544million, compared with the fourth quarter of 2019. From January to March in 2020, the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSP)’s share <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/market-capitalisation-fell-by-22-percent-in-q1-2020/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three of the refugees AustrAliA is holding At A detention center on the South PAcific islAnd nAtion of NAuru Agreed to meet with CAmbodiAn officiAls who trAveled there lAst week to Assess the possibility of resettling some of the Asylum seekers in CAmbodiA, Interior Minister <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/three-refugees-met-with-delegAtion-minister-sAys/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Latest figures show the total value of approved investment in the Kingdom declined by more than 70 per cent in the first half of this year compared to the equivalent period a year before. Economists and officials are unconcerned, however, saying that some big projects during <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/approved-investment-drops/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>