Exports of fresh fish and fish products fell significantly during the first nine months of the year, raising concerns about businesses and families operating in the Kingdom’s fisheries sector.Fresh and frozen fish export shipments fell 21 per cent during the first nine months of the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/yields-from-fishing-take-a-dive/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

National Police anti-drug chief Mok Chito yesterday said his officers need to begin inserting themselves into a stage of investigations until now the sole domain of the judiciary &ndash; drug testing.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/testing-drugs-a-cop-job-chito/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh SEZ Plc, which operates a 357-hectare industrial park on the outskirts of the capital, held a bookbuild last month to determine the share price for its upcoming initial public offering on the Cambodian stock market. The private company aims to raise between $8.1 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/an-ipo-with-a-value-approach/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Construction on a $3 billion oil refining plant, the Kingdom’s first, will start in October this year and is expected to be finished by the end of 2018, according to a senior executive at the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/first-oil-refinery-a-step-closer/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh Municipal Court deputy prosecutor Meas Chan Piseth will next week replace Banteay Meanchey Provincial Prosecutor Phan Vannarath, who is taking a position in the Ministry of Justice at the end of a nearly five-year term in office.     <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-new-prosecutor-for-banteay-meanchey/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Palm sugar producers in Kampong Speu province say they are ready to scale up and meet demand as global consumer goods giant Unilever looks to source palm sugar for its products from the Cambodian market. Prak Sereywath, president of the Cambodia Institute for Research and Rural <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/palm-farmers-eye-a-sweet-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 50 protesting villAgers in SihAnoukville’s Mouy commune blocked NAtionAl RoAd 4 yesterdAy for About one hour in An effort to stop Authorities from demolishing their houses illegAlly built in the KbAl ChhAy protected forest. Heng Sokhom, A representAtive of the group, Acknowledged thAt their houses <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/lAnd-dispute-closes-A-nAtionAl-roAd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Viet Nam was among Cambodia’s top five investors as of last april with US$3.2 billion in 171 projects.It is also Cambodia’s third largest trade partner with bilateral trade topping $3.3 billion as of 2015, Vietnamese Commercial Counselor Nguyen Bao said, noting the two countries are <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vn-a-top-investor-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Sihanoukville has long been a part of the government’s plan to develop the Southern coast as Cambodia’s next tourism hotspot after Siem Reap, and if recent arrival numbers are anything to go by it seems to be growing in appeal. However, as new property developers <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sihanoukville-gets-a-wake-up-call/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A mining explorAtion firm working in the remote jungles of northeAstern CAmbodiA is using termites in its seArch for goldDeep in the heArt of RAtAnAkkiri province, the eArthen mounds thAt pepper the forest floor provide clues As to the minerAl weAlth thAt lies below. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/A-nest-of-little-gold-diggers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The tonnage of Cambodia’s agricultural exports increased by over 20 per cent last year, led by a surge in shipments of dried cassava chips, according to the latest Ministry of agriculture data. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/agro-sector-on-a-growth-path/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian and australian officials on Sunday denied claims made by a Rohingya refugee from Burma over the weekend that he was being poorly treated in Phnom Penh, with the Interior Ministry’s refugee director calling the man “a liar.” <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-calls-rohingya-refugee-a-liar/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Although dAtA for first four months of this yeAr hAve shown A slight rise in rice exports, millers And exporters continue to rAise concerns on the bAck of April’s rApid decline. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/rice-sector-predicts-A-worrying-trend/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

For years, archaeologists excavating pre-angkorian sites in Banteay Meanchey province unsuccessfully attempted to stop the looting of the area’s temples and buried treasures.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/children-a-new-defense-against-looting/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A stunning rise in the vAlue of construction projects Approved by the government in the first hAlf of the yeAr could be A sign thAt developers hAve found A willing Ally in the newly Appointed minister of lAnd mAnAgement, who hAs pushed through hundreds of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/A-boom-yeAr-for-building-projects/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia marginally improved its global competitive ranking this year, moving up five spots to place 90th out of 144 nations surveyed, with weak public institutions and lack of innovation continuing to affect its economic progress, according to a newly released World Economic Forum report.The Global <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/potholes-on-a-path-to-progress/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh authorities yesterday offered an economic argument for ministries, motorists and citizens to respect traffic laws, claiming that congestion-related costs in the capital were setting the country back about $6 million per month. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/congestion-costing-6-million-a-month/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

LGBT Cambodians face a formidable level of prejudice and discrimination, which for many means a life lived in secrecy and isolation, a major new study of attitudes has revealed.The survey of almost 1,600 people, straight and LGBT, across seven provinces, published yesterday, found that a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/for-many-lgbts-a-secret-life/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The province of Banteay Meanchey will build a new market for vendors displaced from the Long Keur market on the Thai side of the Poipet border, a provincial official said yesterday, adding that vendors will be allowed to continue selling their counterfeit goods at the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/knock-offs-find-a-new-home/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Sathapana Microfinance Plc, one of the largest in Cambodia, will officially transform itself into a commercial bank late next month, a move in line with Japanese-owned Maruhan Bank acquiring a 95.1 percent stake in 2012. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sathapana-to-become-a-commercial-bank/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>