The Mekong Tourism Festival, with the Mekong Food Tourism Summit as one of the highlights, starts today in the Kingdom’s tourist haven of Sihanoukville. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mekong-tourism-fest-opens/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Despite presenting no hard evidence against defendants throughout the two trials of 23 men arrested during a strike that turned deadly in early January, a prosecutor used his closing statement yesterday to up the charges against union leader Vorn Pov. The final day of two trials <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-charges-as-trial-wraps/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Factory workers should get a reduction or exemption from paying income tax as the deductions are forcing them into poverty, the Free Trade Union (FTU) wrote in a letter to Finance Minister Keat Chon. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-seeks-tax-reduction-for-garment-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A lAbour union representing A minority of workers who hAve been striking At SL GArment Processing (CAmbodiA) Ltd for neArly three months releAsed A stAtement yesterdAy, cAlling the strike bAd for the industry’s reputAtion. Without specificAlly mentioning the CoAlition of CAmbodiAn AppArel Workers’ DemocrAtic Union (C.CAWDU) <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/sl-strike-bAd-for-industrys-rep-sAys-union/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A group of union leAders, fActory owners And government representAtives set up to negotiAte A recommendAtion for A new minimum wAge in the gArment sector is due to meet WednesdAy for A vote on A finAl figure, According to those involved in the tAlks. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/working-group-minimum-wAge-vote-due-wednesdAy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Experts yesterday urged the Ministry of Labor to extend the latest draft of a forthcoming trade union law to include civil servants, who are currently shut out of the law in contravention of international conventions Rong Chhun, president of both the Cambodian Confederation of Unions and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/observers-call-for-the-inclusion-of-civil-servants-in-union-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Nearly 400 workers at the Zhen Yun factory in the capital’s Russei Keo district went on strike yesterday after not receiving annual bonuses or appropriate overtime pay. The workers also said they were poorly treated by management While the factory workers were striking, a Free Trade <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-workers-cant-go-on-like-this/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A meeting between fActory mAnAgement And representAtives of more thAn 5,000 striking workers At one of AsiA’s lArgest gArment-processing fActories yielded no progress. Ken Loo, secretAry-generAl of the GArment MAnufActurers AssociAtion in CAmbodiA, hAs cAlled the strike illegAl becAuse workers fAiled to notify the compAny <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/lAbour-negotiAtions-begin-At-sl-gArment-fActoy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

On 20 September 2021, the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training issued a notification on the national online job and productivity fair 2021.The national online job and productivity fair 2021 will run for 2 days, November 4-5, 2021. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/national-online-job-and-productivity-fair-2021/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

When union leader Vorn Pov was finally allowed to give testimony yesterday on the third day of the trial of 23 men arrested during a garment strike in January, he found himself cut off by an attorney ordering him to answer only the exact question <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/defendants-cut-off-as-23s-trial-goes-on/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Newly-appointed Minister of Tourism Huot Hak, who until recently served as Minister of Inspections, has called the Kingdom’s citizens and international guests to play their part in promoting Cambodia as a tourist destination, while assuring the public that the tourism ministry is actively working with <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tourism-minister-lays-out-plans-to-attract-chinese-visitors/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Siam Kubota Corporation (SKC), a leading farm truck maker, has partnered with Group Lease to enter the agriculture machine market in Cambodia. Mitsuji Konoshita, chief executive of Group Lease, said the partnership with SKC is a bid to extend leasing service to Kubota’s clients in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kubota-enters-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 03 May 2022, the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training issued a notification on the organization of the 5th National Technical and Vocational and Education Training Day 2022 under the theme “TVET increases productivity and high competitiveness”.The Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training organizes <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/organization-of-the-5th-national-technical-and-vocational-education-and-training-day-2022-under-the-theme-tvet-increases-productivity-and-high-competitiveness/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Minister of Commerce Pan Sorasak on Thursday expressed his optimism that garment, textile, footwear and travel goods exports will continue to enjoy strong growth over the next few years. He cited better working conditions and labour compliance as the main drivers of the Kingdom’s industrial <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-travel-goods-exports-will-stay-strong-says-minister/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 600 villages, home to more than half a million people, have been declared “open-defecation free” as a result of a major program aimed at boosting the number of Cambodians who have access to hygienic toilets, according to Plan International. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/no2-priority-shows-results/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Eight unionists locked in prison in Kampong Speu province since violent clashes at the Sabrina Garment factory in May and June were released on bail yesterday, court and union officials said. Cheum Rithy, a provincial judge, said he had decided to release the eight Free Trade <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sabrina-workers-out-after-months-in-jail/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

ambodia’s 700,000 garment workers are among those most affected by exchange-rate costs. Their monthly salaries are paid in US dollars, but most of their daily transactions are in riels. Moreover, because they send &ndash; on average &ndash; about 30 percent of their salaries back to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/transaction-costs-saving-time-and-money/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Tourism minister Thong Khon has asked Indonesia to push for the resumption of direct flights to Cambodia as soon as possible to build up bilateral tourism flows, the tourism ministry said, after Indonesian arrivals to the Kingdom ballooned by nearly 600 per cent year-on-year in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/indonesia-flights-set-for-return/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Delegates from the Cambodia Young Entrepreneurs association for Development (CYEaD) on Friday meet with senior officials of the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) in Phnom Penh to explore investment opportunities. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cdc-cyead-discuss-investment-opportunities/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Microsoft Cambodia has appointed Thakral Cambodia Industries Limited as its second authorised software distributor in the country, a move intended to help the computer giant’s local operation combat the rampant use of pirated software. Thakral, one of the largest distributors of IT products in Cambodia (its <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/software-giant-targets-piracy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>