Every week, dozens of diabetics gather at a home in the Boeng Kak lake neighborhood to have their weight, blood sugar levels and blood pressure checked. They are among 12,000 impoverished people across the country taking part in the NGO MoPoTsyo’s peer support program, which allows <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/life-saving-diabetes-program-in-limbo-as-state-funds%e2%80%88fall-through/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

While Cambodia’s garment sector exhibited solid growth last year, employment levels declined, raising concerns about a potential rise in unregulated subcontracting, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in a report released yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/questions-raised-over-garment-statistics/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Authorities in CAmbodiA on ThursdAy briefly detAined three Activists who protested in front of pArliAment, And A locAl rights group officiAl who monitored the demonstrAtion, cAlling on the government to stop A VietnAmese sAnd dredging compAny from polluting the environment in Koh Kong province. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiAn-police-detAin-Activists-rights-monitor-At-sAnd-dredging-protest/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The United Nations‘ Food and agriculture Organisation (FaO) predicts the paddy output in Cambodia this year will decline, according to its Rice Market Monitor (RMM) issued on Monday. Paddy output in asia is forecast at 661 million tonnes, or 441 million tonnes on a milled basis, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-rice-output-tipped-to-fall-fao/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government has failed to improve transparency of its finances, according to a global report released yesterday, which ranks Cambodia among the worst countries in the world for openness over budgets. The Washington-based International Budget Partnership’s open Budget Survey 2012- conducted in Cambodia by NGO Forum- <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/survey-says-cambodia-lacks-fiscal-transparency/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As the price of nAturAl rubber tumbles due to A slowdown in the globAl economy And fAlling demAnd for the commodity, the Kingdom’s hArd hit rubber industry investors Are now cAlling on the government to revise export tAxes. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAll-to-revise-rubber-tAx/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A million fish formed the front line of the conservAtion fight yesterdAy, when Agriculture, Forestry And Fisheries officiAls releAsed them in KAmpong Thom provinciAl wAters, celebrAting the lAunching of A nAtionAl AquAculture institute. YesterdAy’s celebrAtion of NAtionAl Fish DAy in BArAy district mArks the officiAl stArt <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/fish-tAle-A-million-releAsed/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Seventeen young people were charged by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court and released on bail yesterday after they were caught allegedly falsifying documents while taking a Korean language test administered as a precursor to working in South Korea, police said.​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/korea-test-cheaters-arrested/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The number of road fatalities in Cambodia rose to 576 in the first three months of the year, up from three percent over the same period last year. Preap Chan Vibol, director of Transport Department at the Public Work and Transportation Ministry, attributed the high <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/road-accidents-claim-576-lives-in-cambodia-in-first-3-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia will benefit through reforms and investments in technical and vocational education and training (TVET) combined with private sector participation with a new $100 million loan from the asian Development Bank (aDB). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/adb-loan-for-tvet-to-boost-skilled-workforce-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two of Cambodia’s largest financial service providers have reported declines in transactions stemming from key Thai border provinces as thousands of undocumented migrant workers continue to exit the neighbouring country. Third-party payments and remittance service Wing has seen a 3 per cent decline in the amount <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/remittances-dip-on-exodus/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Following a long delay due to a dispute between the Royal acad­e­my for Judicial Profes­sion­als and the anti-Corruption Unit (aCU), the annual exam for pros­pective judges has been rescheduled for next month, officials said on Tuesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/after-dispute-acu-to-monitor-judicial-exams/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister-designate Hun Sen on Thursday urged the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) to work with all microfinance institutions (MFIs) to find ways to ease debt burdens on those displaced from flooding in the Kingdom. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-ease-debt-load-on-flood-victims/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued warning letters to mobile operators Beeline and Smart over their recent advertisement, stating it violates the Inter-Ministerial Prakas, or edict, signed in 2009. The separate letters, obtained by the Post last week, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-tells-telcos-off/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s insurance industry earned a total premium of $36 million last year, a 21 percent rise year-on-year, according to the industry’s report on Monday. The main sectors of the premium are from fire insurance of 28 percent, motor insurance of 19 percent, personal accident insurance of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-insurance-industry-grows-by-21-pct-in-2012/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia spent more than $1.6 billion importing fuel oil and petrol last year, a figure 14.3 per cent higher than for 2011, the Ministry of Commerce said yesterday. The money spent on importing 1.6 million tonnes of petrol and fuel oil &ndash; 100,000 tonnes more than <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-fuel-needs-increased-in-2012/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After two yeArs of Assembling HyundAi vehicles in CAmbodiA for the domestic mArket, South KoreA-bAsed HyundAi Motor CompAny is increAsing its production to meet rising demAnd, Aiming to reAch 800 units in 2013, A compAny’s representAtive sAid. LocAted in the Koh Kong SpeciAl Economic Zone, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/hyundAis-cAmbodiA-plAns/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodian farmers are looking toward a new organization to help them get the best prices for their rice, but many are skeptical disparities between farmers and traders can be overcome. The Cambodian Rice Federation was started in May, bringing together disparate companies, associations and farmers in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-association-seeks-to-improve-rice-market/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training has urged young people to promptly register for courses at technical institutes throughout the country. The move follows the government’s official announcement of a national programme on technical and vocational training for 1.5 million young individuals from impoverished <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/calls-out-for-vocational-programme-enrollments/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Bar association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BaKC) has announced new requirements for professional foreign lawyers who are working at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) to register with the BaKC for certificates authorising them to practice law in the kingdom, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/foreign-lawyers-told-to-register-with-bakc/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>