Laos Urges Cambodian Businesspeople to Invest More
President of Laos National assembly, Her Excellency Pany Yathotou, on September 1st arrived here for the four-day official visit in order to strengthen bilateral cooperation between the neighboring countries “Both sides will exchange visits of the officials and lawmakers of National assemblies to strengthen bonds and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/laos-urges-cambodian-businesspeople-to-invest-more/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sold
Last year saw a record increase in economic land concessions and the area controlled by agro-industrial companies jumped to more than 2 million hectares nationwide, according to human rights groups who track such projects. Mining companies are also flocking to Cambodia and those already have <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sold/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.camnet.com.kh/cambodia.daily/selected_features/Carving%20Up%20Cambodia.pdf
Statement of the Royal Government of Cambodia in response to the European Commission’s decision to launch the formal procedure for the temporary withdrawal of the Everything But Arms (EBA) preferences for Cambodia
On 12 February 2019, the Royal Government of Cambodia issued a statement that express its deep regret over the European Commission’s decision on 11 February 2019 to launch the formal procedure for the temporary withdrawal of the Everything But arms (EBa) preference for Cambodia. The RGC considered <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/statement-of-the-royal-government-of-cambodia-in-response-to-the-european-commissions-decision-to-launch-the-formal-procedure-for-the-temporary-withdrawal-of-the-everything-but-arms-eba-pre/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Press release on signing ceremony and launching the grant for the project of improving school environment and providing educational facilities between government of Cambodia and People's Republic of China
On 19 June 2018 Her Excellency Gao Yan, Deputy of Commerce of People’s Republic of China and His Excellency Nat Bunroeun announced the official opening of the grant from China for improving the school environment and educational facilities through the construction of 26 building for high <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-on-signature-ceremony-and-launching-the-grant-for-the-project-of-improving-school-environment-and-providing-educational-facilities-between-government-of-cambodia-and-peoples-repub/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ministry of Commerce
Tourist arrivals continue to rise, buoyed by Chinese tourists
Cambodian Tourism Ministry statistics showed an increase in international tourists arriving in the country for the first nine months of the year, again bolstered by Chinese tourist arrivals in the Kingdom. The statistics show that nearly 4.8 million tourists arrived in the country from January <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tourist-arrivals-continue-to-rise-buoyed-by-chinese-tourists/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Nem Sopheakpanha
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/tourist-arrivals-continue-to-rise-buoyed-by-Chinese-tourists/5173741.html
Signing ceremony on the exchange of notes and record of discussions on grant aid and loan for 4 projects between Royal Government of Cambodia and Japan
On 30 March 2017 at 16:00, at the Ministry of Foreign affairs and International Cooperation,H.E Prak Sokhonn, Senior Minister, Minister of Foreign affairs and International Cooperation, and H.E HORINOUCHI Hidehisa, ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Cambodia, signed on the exchange of notes and record of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/signing-ceremony-on-the-exchange-of-notes-and-record-of-discussions-on-grant-aid-and-loan-for-4-projects-between-royal-government-of-cambodia-and-japan/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Letter of the Ministry of Information on health- and agriculture-related product advertising
On 21 August 2017, in order to Avoid Any misconduct And infringement of the lAw, the Ministry of InformAtion issued A finAl letter of recommendAtions to owners of rAdio stAtions, television stAtions, newspApers, mAgAzines And newsletters As follows:All heAlth-relAted product Advertisements shAll be Authorized by <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/Announcements/letter-of-the-ministry-of-informAtion-on-heAlth-And-Agriculture-relAted-product-Advertising/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Ministry of Information
Press release on the outcome of the dispute resolution between the concessions sugar cane exporters and citizens in Preah Vihear
On 29 December 2017, the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction has released a press release on the outcome of the dispute resolution between the concessions sugar cane exporters and citizens in Preah Vihear. From 04 September to 03 October 2017, the Ministry <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-on-the-result-of-the-land-concession-dispute-resolution/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction
PM: Improve lives of disabled
Prime Minister Hun Sen has urged the relevant institutions to improve the living standards of disabled persons in line with the national economy. In a message to commemorate the 21st Day of Cambodian Persons with Disabilities and the 37th International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-improve-lives-of-disabled/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-improve-lives-disabled
Labour ministry to check provision of seniority payments
The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training is preparing to send officials to check on whether the second phase of seniority payments will be provided to garment factory workers at the end of the year, said ministry spokesman Heng Sour. Last year, the ministry announced <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/labour-ministry-to-check-provision-of-seniority-payments/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/labour-ministry-check-provision-seniority-payments
Cambodian Resorts on the Increase
International tourist arrivals into Cambodia have soared in the past year, with arrivals into Siem Reap up 30 per cent in the first eight months of 2012 over the same period the previous year. The tourist industry was hit hard by the global economic crisis in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-resorts-on-the-increase/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/Real-Estate/cambodian-resorts-on-the-increase.html
South Korea leads Asia’s big three as Cambodia’s leading investor
South Korea replaced the UK as the largest investor in Cambodia last year, with about $287 million injected, 12.5 per cent of the total foreign direct investment, according to data from the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). This represents 33 per cent <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/south-korea-leads-asias-big-three-as-cambodias-leading-investor/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Survey Says Cambodia Lacks Fiscal Transparency
The government has failed to improve transparency of its finances, according to a global report released yesterday, which ranks Cambodia among the worst countries in the world for openness over budgets. The Washington-based International Budget Partnership’s Open Budget Survey 2012- conducted in Cambodia by NGO Forum- <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/survey-says-cambodia-lacks-fiscal-transparency/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
At Fuel Pumps, Price and Quality Are Anybody’s Guess
PHNOM PENH – Cambodia imports all of its fuel from abroad, but little regulation in the sector means everyday Cambodians see all kinds of prices at the pumps. Prices are high in Phnom Penh, while sometimes cheaper on the outskirts of the capital and even <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/at-fuel-pumps-price-and-quality-are-anybodys-guess/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/at-fuel-pumps-price-and-quality-are-anybody-guess/1619374.html
Men Questioned After refusing To Hand Over Student Donation
Authorities in BAttAmbAng province on SAturdAy summoned two villAgers from SAlmot district’s TA SAnh commune After they refused to hAnd over money to officiAls Asking for donAtions to feed students working in the AreA As pArt of the government’s nAtionwide lAnd titling project. Heng <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/men-questioned-After-refusing-to-hAnd-over-student-donAtion/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Cambodia unveils strategy to attract Chinese tourists
Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism on Wednesday finalized its 5-year strategic plan to attract at least 1.3 million Chinese visitors by 2018. Speaking at a seminar on Cambodia tourism marketing strategy targeting China, So Visothy, director of the Tourism Ministry’s Marketing and Promotion Department, said that currently <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-unveils-strategy-to-attract-chinese-tourists/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-06/19/c_132467692.htm
Giving more than 100%
Nearly all of Phnom Penh’s communes have voter registration rates in excess of 100 per cent, amounting to more than 145,000 additional names, with one commune topping the 200 per cent mark, an analysis of previously unseen government population data reveals. Further analysis of the already <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/giving-more-than-100/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Major banks show more agricultural sector trust
Major financial institutions show more trust in providing loans to the agricultural sector, evidenced by increasing agricultural loan disbursement, thanks to potential growth in the sector and better preparation of financial report among borrowers, according to industry insiders. acleda Bank, Cambodia’s largest domestically owned bank, has <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/major-banks-show-more-agricultural-sector-trust/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hun Sen Hopes for Increased Rubber Exports
Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday that he hoped land being registered to rural families as part of the government’s nationwide land-titling program would be used to cultivate rubber trees in order to help the country compete with Vietnam as the world’s third-largest rubber exporter. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-hopes-for-increased-rubber-exports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-hopes-for-increased-rubber-exports-24502/
Vietnam Plans to Add Border Gates Along Border With Cambodia
Vietnam plans to build 13 new border gates along the boundary line with Cambodia to help boost trade that has already been growing between the two Southeast asian nations. Vietnam and Cambodia will work out plans to add 13 new border gates over the next seven <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnam-plans-to-add-border-gates-along-border-with-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Nguyen Pham Muoi
http://blogs.wsj.com/searealtime/2013/08/29/vietnam-plans-to-add-border-gates-along-border-with-cambodia/