On 23 December 2021, the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training issued a notification on the opening of allowances (76th) under social protection program in Cambodia.The government will open the allowances (76th) under social protection program to a total of 3,409 workers in 46 factories href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/opening-of-allowances-76th-under-social-protection-program/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 23 December 2021, the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training issued a press release on the outcome of the meeting on 23 December 2021 to resolve labor disputes of Naga World Limited. The Ministry encourages union workers as well as employers to continue to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/outcome-of-the-meeting-to-resolve-labor-disputes-of-naga-world-limited-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 04 February 2022, the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training issued a notification on the opening of allowances (78th) under social protection program in Cambodia.The government will open the allowances (78th) under social protection program to a total of 5 576 workers in 42 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/opening-of-allowances-78th-under-social-protection-program/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 21 January 2022, the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training issued a notification on the opening of allowances (77th) under social protection program in Cambodia.The government will open the allowances (77th) under social protection program to a total of 14 142 workers in 84 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/opening-of-allowances-77th-under-social-protection-program/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A lawyer for six women accused of trafficking young women to China conceded his clients’ guilt during their trial at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday but asked for leniency because of their modest education. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lawyer-calls-for-leniency-for-trafficking-suspects/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Oil prices in Cambodia hit the highest of all time on Friday, with a liter of premium gasoline going for 1.45 U.S. dollars at all petrol stations in the capital. The price is the highest ever if compared with the peak price of 1.41 U.S. dollars href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/oil-prices-hit-all-time-high-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A delegation comprised of Japan’s top business leaders, known as Keidanren, began a six-day trip to Myanmar and Cambodia Monday, seeking new business and investment opportunities there. Hiromasa Yonekura, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, is leading the delegation and said he hopes that meetings with href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japans-businessmen-visit-myanmar-cambodia-for-investment-opportunities/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

More than 1,300 people and 250 students in Kampong Speu are set to benefit from a $25,000 donation to WaterAid Cambodia, which will be used to improve access to clean water. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/25000-donation-to-promote-clean-water-in-kampong-speu/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Department of Civil Society, NGOs and Human Rights, of the Office of the Council of Ministers, invites the executive director of Cooperation Committee for Cambodia (CCC) to meet and discuss about “challenges, coordination mechanisms and strengthening cooperation between civil society organizations and Royal Government of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/invitation-letter-from-council-of-ministers-to-civil-society-groups-17_02_2016/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Child rights groups Action Pour Les Enfants and International Justice Mission have said they carried out a “detailed and impartial” investigation into claims of sexual abuse before removing six young boys from their families against their parents’ wishes last week.  In a statement defending their work href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/aple-defends-work-on-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

National Assembly President Heng Samrin has given himself the power to deny access to the assembly compound, including the offices of all lawmakers, to anyone not employed by the government and has barred all private citizens from testifying before—or sitting in on—assembly commission meetings. In href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rule-changes-give-assembly-president-broad-new%e2%80%88powers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 16 March 2020, the Ministry of Health issued an announcement on the finding of 12 new positive COVID-19 cases. The cases is as follow:1. In Banteay Meanchey province: Two cases of Khmer Muslim man and one Cambodian from Thailand 2. In Phnom Penh: 2 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/announcement-on-the-11-new-positive-covid-19-cases-of-cambodian-muslim-who-has-traveled-to-attend-religious-ceremony-in-malaysia-and-1-new-positive-case-of-cambodia-man-who-traveled-to-thailand/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Officials are attempting to se­cure the release of two Cambo­dian men who were sentenced to three months in a Thai prison on Thursday after being summarily convicted of at­tacking government inspectors at a market in Sa Kaeo province the day before, ac­cording to the Ministry href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/two-cambodians-convicted-following-thailand-market-melee/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

When 112 families gathered to demonstrate for four hours in front of the Ratanakkiri provincial court last Wednesday, most of their invective was directed toward the court itself, and toward someone they termed “a rich man from Phnom Penh,” a Mr. Heang Socheat, whom, they href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ratanakkiri-land-dispute-takes-diamond-twist/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Nobody here seems to know much about Company 72.Locals know they are living on land the company cultivates under a government-granted economic land concession (ELC)—some have tak­en menial jobs tending the crops, all have seen lush forests decimated to make way for them—but beyond that, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/grand-concessions/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Thai soldiers arrested four Cambodian youths on Saturday for allegedly logging rosewood in Thailand’s Trat province, near the border with Battambang province, officials said on Sunday. “Thai soldiers in black uniforms arrested the four Khmer youths because they crossed the border illegally in an attempt to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thai-soldiers-arrest-youths-for-logging-across-border/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The government’s anti-logging task force on Monday confiscated nearly 3,000 logs stashed in a forest clearing in Mondolkiri province, officials said on Tuesday. The owner of the 2,949 pieces of second-grade timber—Khlong, Tbeng and Trach—is unknown, said Eng Hy, spokesman for the National Military Police, which href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/who-owns-the-2949-logs-found-by-a-government-task-force/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Tuesday donated 100 tons of milled rice to Cambodia as humanitarian aid. Hun Sen expressed gratitude to China’s Guangxi, saying that Cambodia and China’s Guangxi have seen growing relations and cooperation in agriculture. He asked Zhang to encourage more href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinas-guangxi-donates-100-tons-milled-rice-to-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

One of five villagers arrested in a land dispute with politically connected company KDC International told the Post after their release on Friday that he would keep protesting “until our community obtains a resolution from the government”. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kdc-protests-to-go-on/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

California-based real estate firm Century 21 enters the emerging Cambodian property market with today’s formal opening of its local operations in the country. According to Goos, the local franchise of Century 21 would concentrate on foreign buyers, especially on selling new condominiums, to avoid competing href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-real-estate-giant-century-21-opens-cambodia-office/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...