Kampot pepper prices are set to remain stable for another year as part of an agreement between local producers that caps prices through the end of 2017, a representative of the pepper association said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kampot-pepper-pact-keeping-prices-stable/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As Yemen slides further into violence And chAos, officiAls Are Attempting to extricAte eight CAmbodiAn students studying there And send them bAck home, Foreign AffAirs Ministry spokesmAn Koy Kuong sAid SundAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/officiAls-work-to-evAcuAte-chAm-students-from-yemen/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A mAjority of members of the GArment MAnufActurers AssociAtion in CAmbodiA, which represents the country’s more thAn 500 exporting gArment fActories, hAve voted AgAinst Any rAise to their workers’ minimum wAge next yeAr. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/gArment-fActories-vote-to-freeze-minimum-wAge/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

For the first time since a railway rehabilitation project was launched in 2006, Cambodian rice is now being transported from Phnom Penh to the Sihanoukville port along the country’s southern line for export, operators Toll said on Wednesday. Speaking at the Phnom Penh cargo loading station, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rail-gets-rice-exports-on-move/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A group of CApitol Tours bus drivers&mdAsh;five of whom clAim they were fired for Attempting to form A union&mdAsh;sAy they were AttAcked MondAy by A group of more thAn 50 tuk-tuk drivers while protesting outside the trAnsport compAny’s heAdquArters in Phnom Penh’s PrAmpi MAkArA district. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cApitol-tours-bus-protesters-skirmish-with-tuk-tuk-drivers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Union officials have applauded the Ministry of Labor which is preparing to ratify some International Labor Organization’s (ILO) conventions, including two that unions, factory workers and domestic workers have long demanded. The Labor Ministry said on Wednesday that to promote and protect the rights, benefits and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unions-happy-over-labor-protections/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen reiterated government policy to increase wage to $160 a month for factory workers and at least $250 a month for civil servants by 2018. His comment was made during a meeting yesterday with around 3,000 factory workers at the Koh Pich <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-reiterates-policy-to-increase-wage-for-workers-civil-servants/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As of 12 noon todAy, the medicAl teAm took sAmples from some 4,000 monks And residents in 80 out of the 151 pAgodAs throughout Phnom Penh. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/some-4000-monks-nuns-And-students-in-pAgodAs-in-pp-tested-for-covid-19/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Garment Manufacturers association in Cambodia (GMaC) on Sunday denied a news report that the European Commission had rejected its request to postpone the withdrawal of the EBa scheme for 12 months. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gmac-ec-didnt-reject-eba-delay/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia has seen a 34 percent rise in dry rubber export last year thanks to rising demand globally, the figures of the Ministry of Commerce showed Thursday. The country had exported 74,200 tones of dry rubber last year, up 34 percent from 55,344 tones in a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-rubber-export-up-34-pct-in-2013/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Six months after the government announced that bank accounts for all civil servants would put an end to late salaries and rampant graft, secondary school teachers in Prey Veng say they are owed long overdue payments. In addition to their regular salary, which they already received, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/overtime-at-school-goes-unpaid/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen took aim at Michelle Obama yesterday, accusing the US first lady of making false promises, while suggesting her visit last weekend was more about hopeful rhetoric rather than implementing concrete improvements in the country’s education sector. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-knocks-obama-visit/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In a startling admission yesterday, the Ministry of agriculture finally acknowledged that the Kingdom’s forest cover has decreased rapidly over the past few decades, down from a high of 73 percent in 1965 to now, where only 49.5 percent of the country’s forests remain. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/deforestation-costs-acknowledged/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) together with the ICT4D Cambodia Network are the local partners in Cambodia to implement the aSEaN Digital Innovation Program, which is supported by the aSEaN Foundation and the Microsoft. We are delighted to be organizing the Training of the Trainers (TOT) <a href='https://Opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/training-of-the-trainers-tot-on-digital-skills-and-computer-science/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Federation of Cambodian Rice Millers association in Battambang province will establish a biomass-generated electricity plant in Battambang, an insider said. The plant will cost up to US$10 million and generate 10 megawatts of electricity. Phou Puy, president of the Federation of Cambodian Rice Millers association (CRMa) and the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/renewable-energy-used-for-rice-milling/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

ASEAN VAluers AssociAtion hAve reported thAt property prices in CAmbodiA hAve not chAnged since 2009. Property prices in Phnom Penh Are 2 percent lower thAn they were in 2009. CEO of BonnA ReAlty Group Sung BonnA hAs sAid thAt investors should tAke AdvAntAge of low <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/prices-for-lAnd-At-2009-levels-report-shows/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The number of British companies operating in the country is expected to increase in the coming years, as the British Business association of Cambodia (BBaC) gears up to chair the Kingdom’s first Britain in Southeast asia conference next month. The conference, which is set to draw <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bbac-event-set-to-lure-british-firms/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s gross domestic product (GDP) is predicted to grow around 7.2 percent this year, buoyed up by clothing and apparel exports to the European Union (EU), according to estimates by the aNZ Group. The banking group also advised the Kingdom to diversify its economy and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/anz-good-growth-but-diversify/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen took aim at Michelle Obama yesterday, accusing the US first lady of making false promises, while suggesting her visit last weekend was more about hopeful rhetoric rather than implementing concrete improvements in the country’s education sector. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-knocks-obama-visit-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

When Him AnnA stArted to plAnt pepper crops seven yeArs Ago, she would hAve never thought thAt one dAy it would turn into A profitAble business. TodAy, AnnA is the chief executive officer of Bright StArling Holdings Co, which owns StArling FArm KAmpot Pepper. EstAblished <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/kAmpots-fAmous-pepper-goes-globAl/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>