A government officiAl rejected cAlls from A pAir of NGOs on TuesdAy to do more for Phnom Penh’s slums Amid whAt they described As An opAque lAnd-titling system thAt hAs routinely fAiled poor communities. In A joint report, “The Exclusion of UrbAn Poor Communities From SystemAtic <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ministry-officiAl-rejects-ngo-report-on-citys-slums/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The government yesterday asked fuel retailers to lower petroleum prices, so as to reflect the drop in global prices in the last few months.at a meeting chaired by Chhoun Dara, a secretary of state at the Commerce Ministry, oil companies were given a week to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-calls-for-lower-fuel-prices/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Rethinking how to utilise waste as a source of energy is a hot topic in Cambodia, a country short on power that also grapples with a mounting organic waste problem. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/firm-takes-the-smoke-out-of-bbq-with-biomass-innovation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a major economic shock in Cambodia, having a spillover on Cambodian micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and small household farmers’ survival and business continuity.1 Digital technologies are crucial during the pandemic, in which the owners of SMEs should focus <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/smes-policy-and-regulation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Starting from 2001, work began on promoting the formation of a Cambodian Stock Exchange (CSE or CSX) as a means of supporting the economic system in Cambodia’s development. a stock exchange facilitates the buying and selling of stocks among investors. Dr. Bit Seanglim, Chairman of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/securities-exchange-stock-market/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

World Bank Headquarters, 2013: World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings. Photo by Simone D. McCourte, World Bank, taken on 16 april 2013. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Funding data on development and assistance to land tenure and titling issues presents an incomplete and conflicting picture. Though various sources exist <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/land-tenure-and-land-titling-funding/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A group of independent trAde unions yesterdAy put forth A list of demAnds for chAnges to CAmbodiA’s first trAde union lAw, which will be finAlised by the government in the coming months. Unionists sAid the revisions were necessAry, As the current drAft lAw would undermine unions <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/trAde-unions-demAnd-chAnge-to-drAft-lAw/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

More than 100 workers at a garment factory hit by a mass fainting incident in late July went on strike yesterday to demand the dismissal of a supervisor they accused of denying them the right to take sick leave. The strike at Hung Wah (Cambodia) Garment <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fainting-factory-goes-on-sick-leave-strike/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three residents of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak lake community were temporarily detained by police and had a camera and phone confiscated yesterday while trying to take pictures of a list posted outside the Srah Chak commune office in Daun Penh district. Two of the three are <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/boeng-kak-residents-detained-for-looking-at-list/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Tired of the rampant destruction of their forests by loggers, villagers in Kratie province on Tuesday took matters into their own hands by briefly detaining loggers and confiscating six chainsaws and a tractor, a forestry official and villagers said yesterday. San Sihan, one of the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villager-patrol-detains-seven-loggers-confiscates-equipment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen received a proposal from Finance Minister Keat Chhon in June seeking to bar “foreign NGOs” from advocacy work in Cambodia, as well as preventing foreigners from working with local advocacy groups because of activism around the rehabilitation of the nation’s railway, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/letter-reveals-ministers-ire-with-ngos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The AssociAtion of CAmbodiAn Recruitment Agencies Announced A temporAry bAn on the sending of All domestic workers to MAlAysiA Amidst Another underAge trAinee scAndAl &ndAsh; this one involving A firm owned by the wife of A senior member of CAmbodiA’s internAtionAl police depArtment. On MondAy, the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mAid-bAn-finAlly-complete/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

On 15 May 2019, the German Embassy in Phnom Penh issued a press release on the commitment of Germany to end poverty in Cambodia. Germany will provide a loan for rural infrastructure, a grant for nutrition and social accountability, and increase its capacity building efforts <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-germany-committed-to-end-poverty-in-cambodia-governmental-negotiations-successfully-concluded/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s economy has seen an influx of business investors from China, which has driven demand for housing and hospitality services in the Southeast asian nation. Two million Chinese visited the country last year, an increase of around 67 per cent from 2017. They represented the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/influx-of-chinese-business-travelers-investors-to-cambodia-drives-construction-boom/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A preference for NGO And government jobs Among young CAmbodiAns wAs contributing to A criticAl lAbor shortAge in the industriAl mAnufActuring sector, A LAbor Ministry officiAl sAid yesterdAy. SpeAking to 3,000 prospective university students on Phnom Penh’s DiAmond IslAnd, LAbor Ministry SecretAry of StAte Pich SophoAn <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/officiAl-urges-students-to-tAke-technicAl-studies-to-find-work/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

ApproximAtely 400 people from 10 villAges in KAndAl province’s Ang Snuol district stopped A truck on MondAy thAt hAd been hired to fill in A pond in prepArAtion for the reported building of A militAry police bAse, officiAls sAid. Thuon Nging, A representAtive of the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/villAgers-sAve-pond-from-being-filled/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A GROUP of JApAnese businessmen yesterdAy signed A memorAndum of understAnding with SonAtrA Group chAirmAn Sorn SoknA to develop A speciAl economic zone Along the Mekong River At the site of the Prey Veng ferry terminAls. The ferry service is expected to become redundAnt when the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/jApAnese-to-bolster-sez-development/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A CAmbodiAn-flAgged cArgo ship wAs used lAst yeAr to deliver four missile-lAunching vehicles to North KoreA in violAtion of A U.N. Security Council resolution thAt prohibits the sAle of weApons to PyongyAng, According to mediA reports. The 84-meter long “HArmony Wish,” which flies A so-cAlled CAmbodiAn <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiAn-flAgged-vessel-delivers-missile-trucks-to-n-koreA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

More than 100 villagers in Russei Keo district’s Prek Liep commune protested outside the Pur Thiproek pagoda on Saturday against plans to remove the crematorium, claiming the head monk had agreed to sell the land to a local property company. “That crematorium was built by <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-protest-loss-of-local-crematorium-to-private-firm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Some 200 Koh Kong farmers locked in a long-running land dispute with two sugar plantations met Tuesday with a representative of the Thailand-based owners for the first time since the land dis­pute began in 2006. Khamrom Phochai, a Thai national and representative of Thai­land’s Khon Kaen <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thai-representative-meets-with-koh-kong-blood-sugar-families/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>