India’s ambassador to Cambodia, Dinesh Patnaik, said yesterday that his government will pay outstanding benefits to about 30 restoration workers who lost their jobs at Siem Reap province’s Ta Prohm temple in February &ndash; but will not reinstate them. The entire restoration team &ndash; more than <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/workers-get-benefits-not-jobs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Aeon InsurAnce Service (ThAilAnd), the insurAnce broker of Aeon ThAnA SinsAp (ThAilAnd), will study doing business in CAmbodiA As pArt of its synergy with Aeon Group, which is constructing its first mAll in Phnom Penh. MAnAging director SAkArAbhop DhivArAkArA sAid yesterdAy thAt even though there were <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Aeon-insurAnce-eyes-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cross&ndash;border commodity exchange between Vietnam and Cambodia is thriving thanks to 1,270km of shared border, 10 international gates, 37 main and auxiliary border gates, and nine border economic zones. The southern province of an Giang, which lies on the Cambodian frontier, has two international and two <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/business-in-brief-268-cross-border-trade-with-cambodia-on-the-rise/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Garment industry, Cambodia’s largest foreign currency earner, reported a 22 percent surge in exports in the first 11 months of 2013, according to figures from the Ministry of Commerce on Thursday. The Southeast asian nation exported apparel products in equivalent to 5.07 billion U.S. dollars during <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-sees-22-pct-rise-in-garment-export-in-11-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Families driven from their homes in Banteay Meanchey province by flooding can now receive nearby healthcare, after a clinic opened near an evacuation area over the weekend. The makeshift clinic, set up by the provincial government, makes available medicine and care to about 100 families living <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/clinic-aids-families-cut-off-by-flooding/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Fauna and Flora International says its has found three previously unknown populations of the endangered Indochinese hog deer in Cambodia. “This is a remarkable discovery given not only the species’ vulnerability to hunting, but also because all of the sites were outside the existing protected area <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/three-more-populations-of-indochinese-hog-deer-found-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia could soon get its first Chinese-run digital television station, the latest local project hailing from a country that represents one of the Kingdom’s largest foreign investors. Yu Hua, deputy director of Yunnan Mobile Digital TV Corporation, based in China’s Yunnan province, met with Cambodia’s Minister <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-tv-station-to-launch/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian Interior Ministry has allowed the opposition party to hold a rally at the Freedom Park in the capital Phnom Penh to mark the International Human Rights Day on Tuesday, but march was not permitted. The CNRP announced Thursday to stage mass rallies in both <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-bans-march-in-celebration-of-intl-human-rights-day/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In the first six months of 2013, the total amount of government-approved investment in Cambodia jumped more than 200 per cent year-on-year, according to the most recent statistics from the Ministry of Economy and Finance. Released on Friday, the numbers show that $2.3 billion was earmarked <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/approved-investment-triples/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An eight-yeAr-old girl from CAmbodiA’s eAstern KAmpong Thom province hAs been confirmed for the H5N1 virus, bringing the number of the cAses to 21 so fAr this yeAr, A joint stAtement by the World HeAlth OrgAnizAtion And the CAmbodiAn HeAlth Ministry sAid TuesdAy. The little girl <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-reports-21st-bird-flu-cAse-in-2013/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Security guards that have forcibly detained protesters in the capital in recent weeks include large numbers of men who have received no government security training, Phnom Penh municipal spokesman Long Dimanche said yesterday. In an effort to recruit civilian “public order” officers, Dimanche told the Post, the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/untrained-guards-rule-at-protests/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia is making steady headway towards its goal of providing universal clean-water access. “The 2013 population census shows that the percentage of people who now have clean water sources has climbed to 49 per cent. We will be able to achieve the 2015 Millennium Development Goal <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/clean-water-access-improves/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Demand for office space in Phnom Penh in the fourth quarter of 2013 grew by five per cent over the previous quarter, according to research by local property services provider VTrust Property Company. VTrust deputy director Chrek Soknim said that growth in Q4 of last year <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/office-space-demand-up-slightly-in-q4-2013/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two civil society organisations are calling on Prime Minister Hun Sen to publish three long-gestating draft laws on judicial reform to allow ample time for “genuine, inclusive and meaningful participation in the drafting process”. Hun Sen said in a speech last Wednesday that the three laws <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/judicial-draft-laws-still-unseen-rights-groups/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Corruption remains the most significant challenge facing Cambodia’s economy, according to a survey of more than 300 employers conducted last year by the International Labor Organization (ILO), the results of which were released Tuesday. Despite legislation meant to stamp out graft, corruption continues to be perceived <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/business-employers-say-corruption-greatest-threat-to-economy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 100 representatives of Mekong River Commission (MRC) member countries, development partners, international NGOs, and Lao and foreign media yesterday visited the site of the planned Don Sahong hydropower project. The two-day site visit provided an opportunity for participants to learn from experts how fish <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/laos-promises-transparency-over-don-sahong-dam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Crediting sound macro-economic performance, the Ministry of Commerce reported a more than 24 per cent increase in the number of firms registering with it in the first 11 months of this year on the same period last year. according to the ministry, business registration increased <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/local-business-registration-up-sound-macro-economic-performance-cited/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Following the collapse of two buildings some seven months apart, Prime Minister Hun Sen has reminded all government institutions of their obligation to create special secretariats for disaster management. In a circular issued on Tuesday, the prime minister noted that only some government bodies had <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/create-special-secretariats-for-disaster-management-says-pm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Minister of Environment Say Sam al on Tuesday welcomed Malaysian ambassador to Cambodia Eldeen Husaini Mohd Hashim and encouraged Malaysians to invest in the Kingdom’s waste management sector. The Ministry of Environment said in a Facebook post: “Say Sam al encouraged and warmly welcomed cooperation <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/malaysia-urged-to-invest-in-waste-management/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The share of riel in circulation in the Kingdom grew by about 33 per cent year-on-year by last year’s end as deposits in riel increased by 37 per cent, said the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) 2019 Review and 2020 Outlook report. The report noted <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/circulation-of-riel-rises-33/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>