The AssociAtion of the SoutheAst AsiAn NAtions, known As ASEAN, hAs chosen 2015 As the yeAr to reAlize its economic integrAtion As the ASEAN Economic Community. Yet, there Are only severAl months left, ASEAN doesn’t seem​ to be reAdy. How cAn ASEAN reAlize this goAl? Although <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/how-cAn-AseAn-reAlize-its-economic-integrAtion-by-2015/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Ten years ago Wednesday, union leader Chea Vichea walked to his favorite newsstand in front of Wat Lanka to read the day’s headlines: Prime Minister Hun Sen had ordered spending cuts, health officials were trying to handle the first outbreak of bird flu in Southeast <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chea-vichea-remembered-10-years-after-slaying/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A CAmbodiA government-Appointed LAbour Advisory Committee (LAC) mAy decide on A new minimum monthly wAge for gArment sector workers when it meets next week, just-style hAs been told. The committee is due to meet on WednesdAy (12 November), when it will discuss whether to increAse the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-to-discuss-gArment-sector-wAges-next-week/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Bakan grassland in Pursat province has been designated as a national protected area, officially called the Bakan Protected Landscape.​​​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bakan-grassland-designated-as-natural-protected-area/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government is urging vegetable growers to reduce their reliance on pesticides and cut imports from neighboring countries to protect the health of consumers.​​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chemical-free-veggies/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s parliament on Friday approved a law providing financial guarantees for the developers of a planned hydropower dam on a Mekong River tributary, despite opposition from civil society groups seeking to delay the project. Villagers campaigning against the Lower Sesan 2 dam in northeastern Cambodia’s Stung <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sesan-dam-law-approved/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Deutsche Bank and the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) have poured millions of dollars into Vietnamese rubber companies operating in Cambodia that have engaged in illegal logging and forced evictions of local farmers, the environmental rights group Global Witness says in a new report <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/deutsche-bank-ifc-rubber-investments-questioned/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A highwAy operAtor’s spokesmAn sAid on WednesdAy thAt 2.53 million cArs hAve gone on the Phnom Penh-SihAnoukville FreewAy in the 200 dAys since it opened to the public in October lAst yeAr. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/2-53-mln-vehicles-trAvel-on-chinese-invested-expresswAy-in-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Trading company Galuh Prabu Trijaya is closing in on a deal with Cambodia that could boost sales of Indonesian fertilizer and agricultural machinery by $1.5 billion over five years. The deal would double Indonesia’s annual exports to the Mekong country, as the largest economy in Southeast <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/indonesian-trader-close-to-1-5b-cambodia-sales-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen has appealed for military cooperation between members of the association of Southeast asian Nations, a source said. Hun Sen was quoted as saying that regional military cooperation was needed as aSEaN countries would soon become one family. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-appeals-for-asean-military-cooperation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

One hot day in June, 2009, Ven Samin, a member of the ethnic Suoy minority in Kampong Speu province, grabbed her digital camera and headed out of the house. The 44-year-old arrived at a collection of damaged rice paddies in Oral district and began taking photos. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ethnic-groups-becoming-media-savvy/ ' 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>

Cambodia is preparing to conserve the capital’s disappearing cyclos or rickshaws, which used to be a popular means of transport during the French colonial rule about 80 years ago. Cyclo is a three-wheeled bicycle with the driver perched on high above the rear wheel, and the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-prepares-to-conserve-disappearing-cyclos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Koh Kong Provincial Court on Monday denied bail to three jailed activists from environmental NGO Mother Nature who were charged last mo nth with threatening to destroy barges operated by a sand dredging company, their lawyer said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-denies-bail-to-activists-as-more-protesters-head-to-koh-kong/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Despite the establishment of the Cambodian Clean Water Supplier association last week, the clean water sector still lacks sufficient investment to connect rural Cambodia. There is very little clean water in Cambodia and accelerating its supply requires the government, private sector and other development partners <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/water-sector-in-need-of-investment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia attracted fixed-asset investment of $4.92 billion in 2023, up 22 percent from $4.03 billion in a year earlier, the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) said in a news release on Wednesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-attracts-268-new-fdis-which-creates-more-than-307000-jobs-in-2023/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway will open as a toll road from November 1, with the company administering the highway &ndash; China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) &ndash; declaring a 20 per cent discount on all tolls for the first year of operations. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/capital-sihanoukville-expressway-tolls-discounted-20-for-first-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian Mine action and Victim assistance authority is seeking 2,000 army personnel to engage in demining so the Kingdom can to achieve its mine-free goal by 2025.​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cmaa-seeks-2000-soldiers-to-partake-in-mine-clearance/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 25 December 2020, Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) released a new Briefing Note on Business and Human Rights entitled “Corporate accountability in Land Rights Violations”. This Briefing Note examines the challenges in holding corporations accountable for land-related human rights violations in the Kingdom <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/cchr-releases-a-new-briefing-note-on-business-and-human-rights-corporate-accountability-in-land-rights-violations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Blackouts in Phnom Penh will no longer be a problem after an energy source near Sihanoukville starts providing an extra 50 megawatts of coal-fired power to the city next month, the director-general of Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) said. Keo Rottanak said by mid-June at the latest <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/blackouts-to-end-soon-edc/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>