Cambodians can expect up to 14,000 tons of fish caught from the Tonle Sap, Mekong and Bassac rivers this year, a 5,000 ton increase compared with last year, which will be sufficient to meet all local demand, said the Ministry of agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/2017-a-good-year-for-fish/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As CAmbodiA prepAres to host the World Economic Forum on AseAn in MAy, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterdAy mAde A globAl cAll for more investment flows into the region thAt he sAid wAs sAfe And secure for investors, And fAst becoming A mAnufActuring powerhouse in <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/hun-sen-issues-A-clArion-cAll/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

During the inauguration of a pagoda in Prey Veng on Friday, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced he will send several advisers to Myanmar to share lessons from his “Win-Win” policy, which he credits with ending Cambodia’s civil war. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-offers-myanmar-a-win-win/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Several international and local coffee industry representatives gathered yesterday for the start of a three-day event promoting partnerships and franchising opportunities to satisfy Cambodia’s growing coffee cravings. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/local-coffee-sector-gets-a-jolt/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cassava prices in Cambodia experienced a sharp drop this month leading to heavy losses for smallholder farmers unable to quickly switch to more profitable crops and recoup their mounting losses, a provincial agriculture official said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cassava-prices-hit-a-new-low/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With the aim of attracting 25 million international visitors from 2013 to 2015 to Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CVLM) the respective ministers of tourism pushed for greater cooperation in developing the region’s tourism sector on Friday,  according to the Vietnamese Communist Party official news <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-new-push-for-tourism-cooperation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh said foreign investors with production bases in Thailand ought to consider Cambodia for future expansion because of the Kingdom’s greater resistance to floods. Speaking at Phnom Penh Honda’s 20th anniversary yesterday, the Commerce minister said that while Cambodia faces floods each <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/looking-for-a-flood-of-investment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Impoverished countries hoping to strike it rich by developing their limited oil and gas reserves are being urged to move quickly or risk having their expectations clipped by fracking, which is depressing market prices while adding life to fields once thought exhausted. The <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fracking-a-problem-for-se-asia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Despite offering an uplifting outlook for Cambodia’s economy this year, economists at the World Bank said yesterday that it could still succumb to volatile commodities prices, particularly food and gas. Speaking to journalists after the release the bank’s East asia and Pacific Economic Update for 2012, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/commodities-prices-a-risk-bank-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prasac, a leading micro-finance institution in Cambodia, had increased its registered capital from US$3.8 million to $20 million in preparation for its transformation into a commercial bank by 2014, the institution said yesterday. “The registration requirement of $37.5 million is a very small amount to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prasac-moves-towards-becoming-a-bank/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Officials confirmed there were more than 20,000 participants at the job fair on Saturday organised by the National Employment agency of the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training, which was held in an effort to educate job seekers about current opportunities. Sokkhon David, acting director of information <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/job-fair-attracts-a-big-crowd/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A lAck of legAl protections, insufficient commitment from the MAlAysiAn government And An overworked, understAffed embAssy Are Among the mAjor obstAcles to lifting the mAid bAn, According to An internAl government report obtAined yesterdAy. Penned by the Ministry of Interior, the 12-pAge brief detAils A <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/lifting-mAid-bAn-proving-A-chAllenge/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia milled rice exports reached 49,815 tonnes in the first two months of this year, an increase of 106 per cent from the same period last year. Jasmine rice was the biggest part of the exports, followed by long grain white rice, data from the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rice-exports-at-a-flying-pace/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian Center for Study and Development in agriculture (Cedac) said yesterday that it was undertaking measures to change its status from an NGO to a cooperative, a move that will ease the organization of donor money and push it to become more profit orientated <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/agricultural-ngo-to-become-a-cooperative/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Companies and individuals need to do more than just create technology. They need to optimise the services and goods they provide, especially when introducing new concepts to developing markets such as Cambodia. That was the message from one presenter at last weekend’s T3CON12-aSIa conference in Phnom <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/focusing-on-a-good-user-experience/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

It has been more than two years since the Cambodian government issued a rice export policy in June 2010, aiming to export a million tonnes of milled rice by 2015. However, a shortage of capital to buy unmilled rice, known as “paddy”, together with high <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/million-tonne-goal-still-a-challenge/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Kheng Chen had her hair cut in January and sold it to a broker for just under US$8. She isn’t happy with the close-cropped style because it makes her look older than her 48 years. But when Kheng Chen grows her hair back in a few <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/long-hair-a-luxury-for-evictees/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Yong Yim’s voice rises to a high-pitched quiver when she talks about a planned dam in the areng Valley that would inundate land her family has inhabited for hundreds of years to form what amounts to a giant battery. Now they are staring at <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/last-days-of-a-valley-damned/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Growing cyber attacks on government institutions and infrastructure could pose a threat to Cambodia’s vulnerable banking sector, officials with the National Cambodia Computer Emergency Response Team (CamCert) said yesterday. Speaking at the fifth annual Banking and Microfinance Conference at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh yesterday, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/web-hacks-a-risk-for-banks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian officials say they will focus on nine different sectors in a bid to diversify and ensure continued national economic growth. among the nine priorities, rubber will play a crucial role in Cambodia’s trade integration strategy. after opening a workshop on Cambodia’s trade strategy for the coming <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rubber-to-give-economy-a-bounce/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>