Cambodia had granted operating licenses to 606 new companies in the first quarter of this year, a 33 percent decrease compared with the 904 firms at the same period last year, the Commerce Ministry’s report showed Tuesday. Yim Rom, an official at the ministry’s statistics <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/606-new-companies-opened-in-cambodia-in-q1-down-33-pct/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Along Phnom Penh’s industry-heAvy Veng Sreng Street on WednesdAy, gArment fActories lAy idle in observAnce of Khmer New YeAr. The dorms Around them were empty, sAve for the few workers who could not Afford the bus ticket home for the holidAy, which ended WednesdAy. Eight unions <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/predictions-mixed-for-post-new-yeAr-gArment-strike/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia’s business sector is exploring ways to mitigate any fallout from a possible loss of access to the EU’s Everything But arms (EBa) agreement as talks continue before the 28-member bloc makes a final decision. The EU monitoring process is set to conclude in mid-august, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/life-goes-on-if-cambodia-loses-everything-but-arms/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A group of 26 locAl NGOs submitted A letter to King Norodom SihAmoni on ThursdAy cAlling on him to refuse to sign off on A controversiAl lAw regulAting non-governmentAl groups in the country. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ngos-Ask-king-not-to-sign-ngo-lAw/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The exploitation of women who work as beer promoters is soon to be exposed in a report that is going to be released by Care Cambodia and the Solidarity association of Beer Promoters in Cambodia. The report will include first had accounts and interviews of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/beer-girl-exploitation-revealed-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thong Mengdavid, a research associate of the Mekong Center for Strategic Studies at the asian Vision Institute, a think tank in Phnom Penh, said China has committed to many regional development projects under the Belt and Road Initiative and the LMC. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bonds-in-subregion-show-strength-cambodia-gains/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday announced that about 200 public buses will be provided for people to use for free during Pchum Ben in October. Mr Hun Sen made the announcement during a meeting with reps from trade unions and education associations, along with CPP <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/free-buses-for-pchum-ben/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Officials have said that four facilities designed to prevent waste water from reaching the sea in Preah Sihanouk province would be ready for testing on Monday, as engineers readied to complete the projects before deadline. Yos Chorm Narady, under-secretary of state at the Ministry of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sihanoukville-water-treatment-plants-set-for-testing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Doha-based Qatar airways will operate its daily flights from Doha to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, from Tuesday, Cambodia’s tourism minister Thong Khon said Monday. “Tomorrow (Tuesday), the airline will launch daily flights from Doha to Phnom Penh via Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam,” <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/qatar-airways-ready-to-launch-daily-flights-to-cambodias-capital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two financing agreements, implemented by the French Development agency, were signed on 12 July 2012 at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, in the presence of the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economy and Finance, H.E.M. Keat Chhon, to support two key sectors for economic and rural development of Cambodia. a financing agreement of 800,000 Euros (1 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/france-helps-microfinance-and-hevea-sector/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government issued a sub-decree on registering identification for SIM cards to prevent and reduce the use of SIMs that are stolen or smuggled and especially to protect the health, safety and rights of mobile phone users. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sub-decree-mandates-implementation-of-mobile-sim-registration-system/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s waterways are significantly under-used for the transport of commodities such as rice, and enhanced infrastructure and a review of government fees is needed at the Kingdom’s ports to make exports more competitive, industry experts say. according to figures from the alliance of Rice Producers and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/waterways-may-reduce-export-costs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Manufacturers in Cambodia yesterday agreed to increase the monthly wage of garment workers by $7 per month by providing them with additional allowances for transportation and housing, bringing the minimum wage packet taken home every month to $73. The raise occurred as the number of strikes <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/manufacturers-raise-garment-workers-pay/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian education ministry announced Friday that 10,871 applicants, or 17.94 percent, of the total 60,611 candidates passed the second and final high school graduation exam for 2014. The ministry organized the second test after only 25.72 percent of the total 89,937 high school students <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/only-17-pct-pass-second-high-school-exam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s pig farmers created a new taskforce yesterday to combat pig smuggling along Cambodia’s borders that is leading to falling prices for domestic producers. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pig-farmers-form-taskforce-to-curb-illicit-smuggling/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 24 November 2022, Open Development Cambodia (ODC), in collaboration with actionaid Cambodia and the Children and Women Development Center in Cambodia &ndash; CWDCC, held a Dissemination Workshop on Data and Updated Information on Community Fisheries in Kampot and Kep Province on the ODC website, <a href='https://Opendevelopmentcambodia.net/dissemination-workshop-on-data-and-updated-information-of-community-fisheries-in-kampot-and-kep-provinces/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The tax department issued a notice yesterday extending the deadline for businesses to finish their tax registration until May 31, the latest in a long string of delays that followed the introduction of strict new rules on tax registration in 2014.​​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tax-registration-deadline-pushed-back/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen last week issued a directive ordering all government bodies to hold off on new hires for the rest of the year except to fill existing positions being vacated, in an apparent bid to keep spending in line with the current state <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-slaps-freeze-on-new-govt-positions-departments/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National assembly’s (Na) Second Commission on Economics, Finance, Banking and auditing yesterday asked the European Union (EU) to increase rice and clothing import quotas from Cambodia, after a discussion on EU subsidies to the Kingdom. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eu-asked-to-increase-imports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Farmers of Kampot pepper have had a rough planting season due to climate change, but the decrease in production is unlikely to seriously affect the market, according to the head of the Kampot Pepper Promotion association (KPPa). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hong-kong-economic-delegation-visits-kingdom/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>