Two years ago, a ceremony was held in Rovieng district, a remote area in the northern province of Banteay Meanchey, to herald the construction of a major steel plant here. The much-touted plant would make use of iron ore found here. It was to be a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-remote-rovieng-a-much-touted-steel-plant-has-not-been-built/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On the morning of Monday, 13 November 2023, Samdech Moha Bovorthipadi Hun Manet, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, led the 19th Government-Private Sector Forum at the Peace Palace, Office of the Council of Ministers. The forum was attended by the management teams <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-outcomes-of-the-19th-government-private-sector-forum-on-november-13-2023-by-the-cambodia-government-spokesperson-unit/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 140 NGOs have called on the Mekong River Commission to freeze all hydropower damn construction in the Lower Mekong River. “The degration of fish production in the river can’t be replaced and the blockage of sediment will affect the fisheries resources in the river’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/halt-building-of-dams-on-lower-mekong-ngos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The executive committee of the AlliAnce of Rice Producers And Exporters of CAmbodiA, ARPEC, decided eArlier this month to set up A commerciAl Arm to help members get finAncing for A vAriety of rice-relAted Activities. According to ARPEC secretAry-generAl Hun LAk And deputy secretAry-generAl DAvid VAn, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/AlliAnce-An-AdvocAte-for-industry/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

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Unions are still seething at the new minimum wage figure for garment and footwear industry workers &ndash; which the government decided to raise by only $13 per month last Thursday &ndash; but stopped short of saying they would organize protests out of a fear for <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unions-decry-minimum-wage-rise-of-13/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police at border checkpoints have in the past weeks stopped more than 2,200 people in Banteay Meanchey province from crossing into Thailand to look for better paid work, officials said yesterday. The focus on Cambodian workers migrating to Thailand-many illegally-comes amid a shortage of labor at <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/more-workers-stopped-from-entering-thailand/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian Mine action and Victim assistance authority (CMaa) has asked the Norwegian People’s aid (NPa) to do more to help Cambodia become mine-free by 2025. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/npa-urged-to-help-cambodia-reach-2025-mine-free-target/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Microsoft Cambodia has found that an overwhelming majority of computer retailers surveyed earlier this year failed to offer customers the option to purchase licensed, as opposed to pirated, software. Out of the 54 Cambodian computer retailers included in the May survey, the results of which were <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/microsoft-decries-pirated-software/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Garment Manufacturer’s association in Cambodia (GMaC) signed a $3.5 million loan agreement with French international development agency agence Francaise de Development (aFD) yesterday to build Cambodia’s first garment sector training school. The school will train Cambodia’s unskilled garment workers and other Cambodians who wish to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/loan-agreement-inked-for-cambodias-first-garment-training-school/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia expects to gain money from carbon credit next year and it will take their money to develop forest community to support sustainable development, officials said this week. an environmental officials said: Cambodia will likely get money from carbon credit through selling carbon credit to foreign <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-expects-to-gain-carbon-credit-for-forest-community-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Amid complAints from union And lAbour rights officiAls of illegAl firings over the yeArs, CAmbodiA’s gArment fActory AssociAtion is holding A course on the terminAtion process in PreAh SihAnouk province todAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/gmAc-to-hold-clAss-on-firing/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

During his second day under questioning on charges of inciting violence and property damage at a January 2 protest, union leader Vorn Pao was presented with photographs showing his tuk-tuk packed with rocks, and a video of him calling on low-ranking police to turn their <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-leader-rejects-video-photo-evidence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National assembly of Cambodia on Thursday ratified a protocol on the investment promotion and protection agreement between the governments of Cambodia and Vietnam. all 64 lawmakers of the ruling party, who were present at the parliamentary session, unanimously approved the protocol as the opposition party’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-parliament-ratifies-protocol-on-cambodia-vietnam-investment-agreement/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Better Factories Cambodia programme has been renewed after a new, three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was agreed. The new agreement, aimed at furthering the initiative’s mission to improve working conditions in Cambodian garment factories, was signed by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Cambodian Ministry <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-better-factories-programme-renewed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia earned $385 million from the exports of rubber and rubber articles in the first seven months of the year, recording an increase of 43 percent compared to the same period last year, showed the latest trade data of the General Department of Customs and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rubber-article-exports-go-up-by-43/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s electricity regulator is set to roll out seven new plans designed to reduce electricity fees beginning in april and through 2020, with some fees dropping as low as 480 riel per kilowatt hour. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/electric-proposal-usage-based-plan-to-lower-power-rates/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A decision on whether to build the XAyAburi dAm on the Mekong River in northern LAos is A life And deAth one thAt will Affect CAmbodiAns downstreAm, According to Foreign Minister Hor NAmhong. SpeAking to reporters on FridAy, NAmhong sAid the controversiAl 1,260-megAwAtt hydropower dAm hAs <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/questions-over-lAos-dAm/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

In an effort to digitalize its public services, the Ministry of Public Works and Transport announced yesterday that registration of vehicles and payments for drivers’ licenses can now be made online by the end of the year. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/online-vehicle-registration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The exports of garments and textiles from Cambodia have grown by 17.5 percent year-on-year to reach US$ 1.34 billion during the first three months of the current year, data released by the Ministry of Commerce shows. Last year, Cambodia exported apparels worth US$ 4.61 billion, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-garment-exports-grow-17-5-in-jan-march13/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>