Five retired officials from the Ministry of Social affairs could face legal action if they fail to declare their assets, the anti-Corruption Unit has warned. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/officials-in-hot-seat-over-assets-silence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National assembly (Na) has passed a draft law on the management of the State Secretariat of Civil aviation (SSCa). It replaced a previous law, in a bid to ensure that civil aviation legislation aligns with the Kingdom’s current development. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/assembly-passes-aviation-bill/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The imprisoned mother of jailed tycoon Thong Sarath has been questioned at Phnom Penh Municipal Court over an alleged bribe she and her husband paid to recently arrested ex-court chief ang Maltey to secure their release on bail, a court official said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tycoons-mother-questioned-about-alleged-bribe/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An NGO hAs filed A complAint with the Anti-Corruption Unit AgAinst senior NAtionAl Election Committee members for “colluding to commit corruption inside An independent institution”, relAting to A trAnsfer of the body’s employees from independent contrActors to government officiAls. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ngo-files-complAint-AgAinst-nec/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The threats posed by landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW) are more complex than they might appear at first glance, as they leave people with crippling injuries, suffering, trauma and in mourning while also disrupting development of the land they infest, said a senior <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/phnom-penh-declared-mine-free-within-municipality/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On the back of a quest for high-rolling Chinese clients, NagaWorld’s gross gaming revenue soared 17 per cent in 2014, although profits were slightly down due to rising costs and lower profit margins from VIP customers. Gross gaming revenue clocked in at $381.4 million for 2014, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nagaworld-posts-136m-profit/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A MAlAysiAn-flAgged oil tAnker thAt wAs hijAcked by pirAtes lAst week wAs spotted in CAmbodiAn wAters by the AustrAliAn Air force ThursdAy, According to MAlAysiAn stAte mediA. CAmbodiAn Defense Minister TeA BAnh, however, sAid the vessel never pAssed through the country’s territoriAl seA. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/hijAcked-tAnker-did-not-enter-cAmbodiAn-wAters-officiAls-sAy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The story of Cambodia’s microfinance sector has been one of successful evolution, evidenced by the growing number of lenders and their continual development. Many microfinance institutions (MFIs) started as NGO-like entities, but the industry has come a long way. Today, there are 32 MFIs licensed <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/microfinance-an-insiders-view/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian garment manufacturers and the association that governs them are failing to meet the standards set by the U.N.’s Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, as evidenced by lethal violence against workers during garment strikes in January, when five people were shot dead and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-report-says-garment-sector-fails-to-meet-un-standards/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Labour has played down reports it is close to sending domestic workers to Singapore, a country that has only recently granted foreign maids a weekly day off. The two countries’ governments had been in talks with Singapore’s association of Employment agencies about placing <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/maid-talk-premature-ministry/ ' 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>

AustrAliA’s speciAl envoy for SoutheAst AsiA NicholAs Moore sAid his nAtion hAs A lot to offer CAmbodiA And the region where it sees itself As A trusted And reliAble pArtner, According to A stAtement releAsed by the AustrAliAn EmbAssy in CAmbodiA FridAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/how-cAn-we-help-grow-your-economy-AustrAliA-Asks-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Despite recent high-profile cases of monastic child sex abuse, the organisers of a national conference for monks have left the issue off of the agenda, a move met with criticism yesterday by child protection advocates.at a press conference to launch the 24th congress of Buddhist <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/monk-congress-wont-tackle-child-abuse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A DAk LAk province business forum lAte lAst week discussed meAsures to further promote investment in the CAmbodiA-LAos-VietnAm Development TriAngle. About 300 delegAtes And guests from the three countries Attended the forum, orgAnised by the VietnAm’s Ministry of PlAnning And Investment (MPI), in pArtnership with VietnAm’s <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/forum-tAlks-up-clv-development-triAngle/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

On 12 March 2020, the Ministry of Environment (MoE) released a public announcement on dissemination​ of​ the updated​ documents​ for​ environmental​ and​ social​ safety in the implementation of the project “Sustainable Landscape and Ecotourism in Cambodia”, in the purpose to increase public awareness and getting <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/moe-notice%e2%80%8b-on-dissemination%e2%80%8b-of%e2%80%8b-the-updated%e2%80%8b-documents%e2%80%8b-for%e2%80%8b-environmental%e2%80%8b-and%e2%80%8b-social%e2%80%8b-safety/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The single-party National assembly sat for the second day of its third plenary session Wednesday, discussing two of eight chapters of the draft law on the Organization and Functioning of the Courts. The CPP-only parliament&mdash;minus 55 boycotting opposition CNRP lawmakers-elect&mdash;convened to discuss the first of three <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cpp-lawmakers-lash-out-at-critics-of-one-party-assembly/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Chinese Ministry of National Defence has provided medical equipment to its Cambodian counterpart to be used to test samples for Covid-19.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-gives-covid-19-testing-equipment-to-defence-ministry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Rights groups have called on the government to increase tax rates for logging companies amid the latest domestic revenue figures. according to the Ministry for agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, timber exports produced $9.4 million in government tax revenue during the first half of the year, up <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/forestry-revenues-falling-short/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Five men in Koh Kong province could be prosecuted for stealing from a construction crew after the group allegedly seized tools in January, preventing the construction team from building fences in their village. Police summonsed the villagers from Kiri Sakor district’s Prek Khsach commune for questioning <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-questioned-over-land-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 600 workers have fainted on factory floors so far this year, compared with about 800 such incidents over the whole of 2013, a Labour Ministry official said yesterday. Pok Vanthat, deputy director of the ministry’s labour health department and head of a committee that <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/factory-faintings-back-on-rise/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>