Nearly a year after being signed into law, Cambodia’s new traffic code is just weeks from finally being enforced.National Police chief Neth Savoeun yesterday said that drivers have had plenty of notice, and the time for implementation has come. As of January 1, fines for href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/traffic-fine-increase-gets-green-light/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodians at home and abroad yesterday mourned the passing of peacekeeper Im Sam, who was shot to death during a guerrilla ambush in Central African Republic. He was the Kingdom’s first peacekeeper to ever be killed in combat, officials said. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/peacekeeper-killed-in-central-african-republic/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Talking up the risk of war during the coming election campaign can be expected to bring legal action from the National Election Committee (NEC), the body’s spokesman said yesterday, a day after the premier warned he feared conflict would ensue if his ruling Cambodian People’s href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nec-warns-against-use-of-war-rhetoric/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Police have arrested at least five suspects over the past two days in connection to agrenade attack that rattled a Phnom Penh neighbourhood two weeks ago, injuring four people, but officials yesterday remained tight-lipped as to the suspects’ identities and motives. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/multiple-suspects-arrested-over-grenade-attack-but-police-offer-few-details/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee (NEC) and all political parties should urge citizens – including those overseas – to register to vote, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday, even as a prominent opposition lawmaker accused the government of offering “nothing” to enfranchise Cambodia’s thousands of migrant workers. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-pushes-voter-registration-amid-claims-of-inaction/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has recorded 341 measles cases in the first four months of this year, a significant increase from just 44 cases in the same period last year. The World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed the total on Monday and reported that 65 percent of those infected href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/measles-cases-rise-sharply/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Interior will hold a sixth meeting with civil society organisation representatives on July 6 to review and discuss amendments to the Law on Association and Non-Governmental Organisations (Lango). The organisations are hopeful the points they have raised will be included in the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-and-ngos-set-to-discuss-proposed-amendments-to-lango/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Amid the outbreak of the coronavirus the government plans to trim the 2021 state budget to around $4 billion, accounting for about a 50 percent drop from this year’s state budget, including an 11.3 percent drop for social affairs and 6.4 percent for general administration. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/trimmer-2021-budget-government-plans-50-percent-drop-in-spending/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has exported nearly 1 million tonnes of milled rice as of the third quarter of 2020, and the figure could reach 1.2 million tonnes in a near future. The record was revealed on Tuesday by the Cambodia Rice Federation, underlining that the export followed href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nearly-1-million-tonnes-of-milled-rice-exported-to-china-by-q3/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 18 November 2020, Equitable Cambodia organization, Inclusive Development International, and the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO) issued a joint statement renewing their long-standing call for redress for the Cambodian communities who were forcibly displaced by the Thai sugar href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/joint-statement-on-the-ninth-session-of-the-united-nations-forum-on-business-and-human-rights-16-18-november-2020/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

BirdLife International Cambodia is testing a new buffalo breeding project by giving farmers female buffalo to breed as an alternative to hunting. The project aims to put an end to hunting in the Boeung Prek Lpov Protected Landscape in Takeo province’s Koh Andet and Borei Cholsar href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/birdlife-pilots-buffalo-breeding-project-to-cut-down-on-hunting/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) Secretary-General Prum Sopheak Mongkol said yesterday landmines have been cleared in a 687,706 square metre area where the dangerous legacy of the civil war lingered and is now finally free years after peace was achieved in late href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/landmines-cleared-in-banteay-srei/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Commerce’s General Department of Consumer Protection, Competition and Fraud Repression will send a case involving the parents of 24 infants who were allegedly affected by consuming the milk powder products of Nutrilatt Master LM Co, Ltd to court on November 14. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nutrilatt-parents-will-head-to-court-over-formula-effects/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Kampot province has becomes the home of a new $9 million brickworks that was officially inaugurated on November 22. Equipped with state-of-the-art technology and an automated production line, the factory will be able to turn out 800,000 bricks per day in its initial phase, Kampot href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-9m-brickworks-in-kampot/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Stung Treng provincial authorities will work with integrated food-distribution company Hun Ty Co Ltd to exploit the province’s potential for crop cultivation and potentially set up a processing plant for export down the line, provincial administration spokesman Men Kung told The Post on November 26. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/seeds-sown-for-stung-treng-agriculture-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The $180 million The Hyatt Regency Phnom Penh hotel is set to launch in January, marking the brand’s first venture into the Kingdom’s capital. Local conglomerate Chip Mong Group signed a management agreement with Chicago, US-based Hyatt Hotels Corp in September 2016 for the hotel, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hyatt-hotel-in-capital-set-for-january-2021-launch/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Today, USAID launched telephone and social media tools that will provide Cambodian citizens clear, transparent information on public services available to them through the Royal Cambodian Government’s One Window Service Offices (OWSO). The tools were developed by the USAID funded One Window for Citizens (OW4C) href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/usaid-one-window-for-citizen-project-launches-civic-tech-tools-connecting-citizens-to-information-on-one-window-services/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia will mostly rely on agricultural products for trade with partners around the globe, a move that requires the sector to be more developed and productivity increased, insiders say. It follows news that the bilateral free-trade agreement (FTA) between the Kingdom and China has just href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hygiene-standards-may-hold-up-food-export-deals/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Tourism marketing plan 2020-2024 is on its way to transform the coastal Kep province into an attractive high-end leisure destination in Cambodia. The optimism was floated following a meeting held in the provincial city yesterday to review the long-term marketing plan chaired by Som Piseth, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/keps-tourism-marketing-plan-on-its-way/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Three children and an adult were seriously injured on Wednesday when a mine they were playing with exploded in Thma Da commune, in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mine-explosions-kill-two-men-injure-four-in-pursats-veal-veng/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...