Cambodia yesterday signed deals for about US$430 million in loans from China, the latest in a number of high-profile borrowing deals with its northern neighbour. The bulk of the loans, from Export-Import Bank of China, would go towards two national road projects and a multipurpose dam <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-takes-430m-china-loan/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As lAwyers for 21 defendAnts denied bAil by the Court of AppeAl lAst week wAit for the Supreme Court to respond to their AppeAls, the most high-profile of the detAinees is speAking out viA sociAl mediA. On FridAy night, PrAk SovAnnAry, wife of Vorn Pov &ndAsh; <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/detAinee-speAks-out-online/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Concerned about ongoing protests in Cambodia which have virtually shut down the garment industry, the United Nations labor agency has called for an end to violence and destruction of property, as well as the swift reopening of the factories. “The risks arising out of the current <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ilo-urges-cambodias-garment-unions-manufacturers-to-resolve-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A higher minimum sAlAry for CAmbodiA’s gArment And footweAr worker is still not within sight After tAlks broke down TuesdAy between unions representing the workers And their employers, officiAls sAid. The gArment And footweAr workers unions proposed to neArly double the current minimum monthly wAge of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/wide-gAp-hAmpers-cAmbodiAn-wAge-tAlks/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia needs to focus on solidifying its national grid and shoring up its energy efficiency and transmission lines before expanding into more costly renewable technology, a visiting executive of German engineering giant Siemens said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/siemens-urges-govt-to-boost-power-grid/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As the new public school yeAr gets under wAy this week, grAde 12 students reeling from en mAsse fAilure At the nAtionAl exAm hAve A choice to mAke: repeAt their grAde or forfeit their diplomA. In totAl, just 33,997 test-sitters, or 40.6 per cent of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/fAiled-students-weigh-future/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

On 14 August 2023, Open Development CAmbodiA (ODC) Announced for dAtA visuAlizAtion in journAlism trAining.The purpose of dAtA visuAlizAtion in journAlism trAining is to equip journAlists with the skills to integrAte visuAl elements into their storytelling, enAbling them to convey informAtion, engAge Audiences, And unveil <A href='https://OpendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/Announcements/dAtA-visuAlizAtion-in-journAlism-trAining/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Grand Twins International, the second firm to list on the Cambodian Securities Exchange, reported $13.27 million in revenues during the last three months of 2014, down 28.6 per cent from its figures reported in 2013. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gti-sees-its-revenues-drop-in-fourth-quarter-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Grand Twins International, the second firm to list on the Cambodian Securities Exchange, reported $13.27 million in revenues during the last three months of 2014, down 28.6 per cent from its figures reported in 2013. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gti-sees-its-revenues-drop-in-fourth-quarter/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

This dataset contains information on the land titles of the indigenous communities registered and issued by the Ministry of Land Management Urban Planing and Construction, from 2009 to 2018. Located in Mondulkiri, Ratanakiri and Kratie, the communal land titles were delivered to Kreung, Tumpoun, Mel, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/layers/registered-communal-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Kratie Provincial Court questioned five ethnic Phnong villagers yesterday following a complaint by a Vietnamese rubber company that they had taken land granted by its concession. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kratie-court-questions-phnong/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than a dozen journalism and hu­man rights groups have called on Cambodia’s political forces to protect journalists and guarantee citizens’ access to an open and unobstructed press during the current political unrest. In a statement released Wednesday, the Cambodian Center for Independent Media, along with <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/media-groups-call-on-political-elite-to-protect-reporters/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Geopacific Resources (aSX: GPR) is in pre-open following the aSX granting the company a trading halt, pending an announcement regarding a proposed capital raising in the form of a placement to sophisticated investors. Geopacific is focused on the highly prospective Kou Sa copper project in Cambodia, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/geopacific-resources-to-update-capital-raising-for-copper-project-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A Stung Treng province district officiAl on SundAy contrAdicted clAims thAt logging in the AreA designAted for the SesAn 2 dAm hAd ceAsed A month Ago, sAying thAt it hAd only stopped lAst week After direct orders from the government to do so. On ThursdAy, Ministry <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/officiAl-disputeswhen-dAm-cleAring-ceAsed/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia’s Tourism Ministry said about 231,000 Chinese visited Cambodia in the first six months of the year, up 55 percent over the previous year. Cambodia received 334,000 Chinese visitors in 2012, up 35 percent year-on-year, Xinhua news agency quoted the ministry saying in a report. Kong Sopheareak, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-arrivals-to-cambodia-continue-to-grow/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian workers will be the ultimate victims if minority and violent unions continue to put the garment and shoe industries under the state of uncertainty and unpredictability by continuing to demand for further wage hikes that the industry cannot afford, an employers’ association said in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-workers-to-be-hardest-hit-victims-of-wage-unrest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen advised the country’s newest crop of teachers not to feel down about their poor salaries, recalling that were they embarking on their careers in the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime their pay would be a few bags of rice each <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/be-glad-youre-not-paid-in-rice-prime-minister-tells-teachers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Rann Boroth, the only man convicted in the double killing six months ago of the country’s leading environmental activist, Chut Wutty, and military police officer, walked free from prison on Friday after the Koh Kong Provincial Court issued an order for his release. On October <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/killer-in-chut-wutty-case-walks-free-six-months-later/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian People’s Party spokesman Chhim Phal Virun was questioned Tuesday morning as a witness in the “treason” charges brought against former opposition leader Kem Sokha, his former colleague at the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cpp-spokesman-and-former-kem-sokha-colleague-questioned/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Victory Intelligent Standard association issued an apology on Wednesday to the National Election Committee for accusing the body’s senior staffers of corruption during the transfer of its employees from independent contractors to the government’s fold. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngo-head-apologises-to-nec/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>