On Monday afternoon 25th November 2019 in Busan, Republic of Korea, H.E Chhieng Yanara, Minister attached to the Prime Minister, has signed on behalf of the Royal Government of Cambodia on MoU on Development Cooperation between Republic of Korea and 5 aSEaN countries such as <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-signing-of-mou-on-development-cooperation-between-republic-of-korea-and-5-asean-countries-during-the-investment-asean-2019/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government has nearly finished the draft of the Intermodal Transport Master Plan 2021-2030 (the Plan), a Ministry of Economy and Finance press release said on Wednesday. The draft seeks to promote Cambodia’s connectivity, reduce transportation and logistics costs, integrate the Kingdom into the region <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/transport-master-plan-nearing-completion/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Minister of Foreign AffAirs And InternAtionAl CooperAtion PrAk Sokhonn And JApAnese AmbAssAdor MAsAhiro MikAmi on WednesdAy signed A grAnt Agreement for ¥2.4 million ($22 million) on the “Project for ExpAnsion of CleAn WAter Supply System in PursAt Province”. The Agreement, finAlised At the Ministry of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/jApAn-cAmbodiA-ink-cleAn-wAter-supply-Agreement/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A group of investors from the Chinese province of HAinAn is now in the Kingdom exploring opportunities in coconut fArming. The delegAtion met yesterdAy with Minister of Agriculture Veng SAkhon in Phnom Penh to discuss the coconut sector in the Kingdom And Announce their intention <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/chinese-firms-seek-investments-in-coconut-fArming-in-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A photogrAphy exhibit chronicling the lives of forest rAngers working towArd the environmentAl protection of the jungles in Koh Kong province will be displAyed on SAturdAy At the cApitAl’s 5 Drunk Men sky bAr. The photos Are to be sold to, with the profits going to <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/life-in-the-koh-kong-jungle-through-the-eyes-of-forest-rAngers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Minister of Public Works and Transport Sun Chanthol on Tuesday warned mechanics workshops throughout the country to stop modifying vehicles against technical and legal standards, or face shutdown. Chanthol said modified vehicles were known to have caused accidents and affected road safety. He said authorities <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minister-gets-tough-on-illegal-modification-of-vehicles-by-mechanics/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen took to Facebook on the 71st International Human Rights Day on Tuesday to remind Cambodians that the rights and freedoms they currently enjoyed came from liberation from the genocidal Pol Pot regime on January 7, 1979. He said under the Khmer <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-reminds-cambodians-of-freedoms-on-human-rights-day/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The privatization of state-owned land continued last month with several large government- owned plots in Phnom Penh transferred to state-private property, according to a sub-decree signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen. according to the document signed May 24, the state-owned properties, measuring 40,998 square meters in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-continues-to-privatize-state-properties/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three ethnic Bunong communities in Mondolkiri province may soon receive long-awaited collective property titles, which would bring to six the total number of communal land titles granted to the country’s indigenous people since the Land Law was created in 2011. and while the possible issuing of the three <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-to-award-three-communal-land-titles-to-ethnic-bunong/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The UN’s assessment suggests that Cambodia is one of the top five countries that have made significant progress toward meeting its MDGs by 2015. The poverty rate has dropped dramatically from 47.50 percent in 1993 to 34.70 percent in 2004 and 23 percent in 2011, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/recent-development-and-economic-outlook/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Hotel transaction volumes in asia hit US$620 million (Bt18.18 billion) in the first quarter, up 190 per cent from the same period last year, and properties in Southeast asia are attracting investor attention, according to real-estate services company Jones Lang LaSalle. “Rising visitor arrivals, robust trading <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/investors-look-for-hotel-opportunities-in-southeast-asia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Their stories have become all too familiar &ndash; Cambodian fishermen enslaved on fishing boats after being promised lucrative jobs overseas. They’re also becoming increasingly common. anti-trafficking NGOs told the Post this week that they have noticed an exponential increase in the number of trafficking complaints from <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/trafficked-numbers-rising/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s share of modern biomass in total energy consumption is among the highest in the world, according to a report released Tuesday by the World Bank and the International Energy agency. The report also found that growth in Cambodia’s dependence on renewable energy excluding traditional biomass <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-scores-high-marks-for-renewable-energy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The AsiAn gArment mAnufActuring industry will undergo further segmentAtion in the next three to four yeArs As competition becomes more intense, experts sAid. ChinA, ThAilAnd And VietnAm will mAinly produce high-end clothing, while BAnglAdesh, LAos, BurmA And CAmbodiA will mAinly produce low-end clothing. Lu QijiAn, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/AsiAn-gArment-industry-to-undergo-further-segmentAtion/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Despite failing to win enough votes in the July 28 election to become lawmakers, at least three sons of some of the ruling CPP’s most high-ranking members will still take up seats in Parliament when the next government is formed, senior CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/paths-to-parliament-cleared-for-cpps-powerful-sons/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia has seen a sharp rise in the exports of milled rice in the first six months of this year thanks to increasing demand on international markets, an official said Wednesday. The figures, from the single window secretariat for facilitating milled rice exports, showed that the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-rice-exports-up-125-pct-in-first-half-of-2013/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Opposition leaders Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha on Monday visited supporters in Kandal province to encourage locals there to ensure that momentum behind opposition demonstrations over the contested national election result continues. Thousands of people turned out in Vihear Suor commune, Khsach Kandal’s district, where Mr. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-promotes-plans-for-demonstrations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says much work is still needed to establish the aSEaN Economic Community (aEC), a single market for trade and development in 2015. Lee, head of the most advanced economy in the 10-member association of Southeast asian Nations, or aSEaN, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/singapore-pm-hopeful-for-asean/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

If Information Minister Khieu Kanharith is any indication, even the government is tiring of state television. Mr. Kanharith announced on Facebook on Wednesday that he had personally ordered the state-run TVK channel to stop broadcasting the comings and goings of state officials on foreign excursions. Mr. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/information-minister-orders-tvk-to-scrap-tedious-coverage/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As opposition pArty leAders SAm RAinsy And Kem SokhA returned from sepArAte overseAs trips yesterdAy, the pArty sAid it hAd more thAn enough cAsh to finAnce continuous mAss demonstrAtions, with the bulk of funds coming from CAmbodiAns living AbroAd. TodAy’s demonstrAtions in Phnom Penh And Siem <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/intl-trips-fuel-cnrp-mAchine/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>