Around A thousAnd people from CAmbodiAn government institutions, experts And Aid workers As well As community members gAthered SundAy to shine A light on A vAriety of issues fAced by the country’s indigenous peoples &mdAsh; including Access to modern heAlth cAre. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiAs-indigenous-people-discuss-heAlth-cAre-issues/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The sidewalk near Wat Phnom resembles the line outside a popular amusement park. Toy sellers walk by hawking plastic helicopters and rattles, as a line of more than a hundred parents and children sit and wait for the gates to open, cooling themselves with plastic <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/after-two-year-lull-dengue-fever-bites/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Young workers employed in Phnom Penh’s expansive informal economy may find it easy to get a job, but they face a high likelihood of labor abuses and receive significantly less pay than their peers in the formal sector, according to a study released over the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/informal-workers-find-jobs-easy-conditions-poor/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Opposition lawmaker Um Sam an on Tuesday denied claims by the government that he was inciting instability in a Facebook post last week in which he boasted about finding a copy of a map of Cambodia’s border with Vietnam at the U.S. Library of Congress. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-lawmaker-denies-border-incitement-predicts-arrest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Women’s AffAirs yesterdAy sAid it is studying A LicAdho report thAt found thAt neArly one in three cAses of rApe or Attempted rApe of A womAn were perpetrAted by A relAtive of the victim. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ministry-to-study-licAdho-report-on-rApe-by-relAtives-cAses/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A trAck of lAnd once fArmed by 1,000 fAmilies in KrAtie province &mdAsh; fAmilies violently evicted Amid clAims they were pArt of A sepArAtist movement &mdAsh; is now home to A militAry bAse. Unit 9 RoyAl CAmbodiAn Armed Forces bAse, which will be finished lAter this <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/sepArAtist-fArms-replAced-by-rcAf-bAse/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

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Tokyo: The International Monetary Fund has upgraded its outlook on Cambodian GDP growth in 2011 from 6.5 per cent to 6.7 per cent just days after government officials announced a full percentage-point reduction in economic expectations. Stabilisation in the real estate sector, as well as strong increases <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/imf%e2%80%99s-cambodia-outlook-upbeat/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As Mekong River Commission (MRC) countries prepAre for A cruciAl meeting next week to debAte LAos’ proposAl to build the first Lower Mekong River dAm, the US SenAte Foreign RelAtions Committee hAs cAlled for A delAy of the controversiAl project. The US SenAte’s concern wAs echoed <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/us-senAte-cAlls-for-delAy-of-mekong-dAms/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A ThAi CompAny is conducting A feAsibility study to build A coAl-fired power plAnt in Koh Kong province And hAs AlreAdy invested in A locAl firm with permission to develop the plAnt, According to officiAls And the compAny. In An Announcement to the ThAi Stock <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/thAi-firm-moves-in-to-build-koh-kong-power-plAnt/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday blamed illegal immigration for contributing to a current shortage in the Cambodian labor market but said workers could benefit from rising wages as a result of the demand for workers. Mr. Hun Sen said the shortage was hitting the agriculture sector <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-blames-migration-for-labor-shortage-in-agriculture/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The AsiAn Development BAnk (ADB) is tAking over from the World BAnk As leAd foreign donor in CAmbodiA following the depArture of the World BAnk’s country mAnAger, the ADB sAid yesterdAy. The switch followed A yeAr in which the World BAnk imposed A funding freeze <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/AsiAn-development-bAnk-tAkes-over-leAd-foreign-donor-role/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

On  13 September 2016, the Royal Government of Cambodia has decided to establish three new Natural Protected areas with a total land area of 27 941.06 hectares to be under the management and conservation of Ministry of Environment. Those three Natural Protected areas include of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/three-new-natural-protected-areas-established-to-be-under-the-management-and-conservation-of-ministry-of-environment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With the deadline for a second review by a global task force of the government’s efforts to combat money laundering and terrorism financing fast approaching, the Kingdom’s central bank yesterday conducted a workshop with banks, financial institutions and state agencies to flesh out a strategy <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/anti-money-laundering-plan/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A femAle gArment worker died And 24 other workers were injured when the truck in which they were trAveling cAreened into A pond in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district WednesdAy morning, police sAid. More thAn 30 gArment workers were on boArd A smAll, open-bAcked truck in Prek <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/one-gArment-worker-killed-24-injured-in-truck-Accident/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Eating rat is a common phenomenon over the border in Vietnam, but increasing numbers of Cambodians in nearby villages are adopting rodent cuisine with relish. as many as three tonnes of rats are caught every day in Cambodia and exported to Vietnam to feed a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rat-meat-on-the-menu-at-the-vietnamese-border/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Fifty Boeng Kak and Borei Keila residents rallied outside the Ministry of Justice yesterday and submitted a petition demanding the release of two anti-eviction activists they say have been jailed on trumped-up charges. Four representatives from the two groups were allowed to enter the ministry yesterday, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/protesters-demand-anti-eviction-activists-release/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Customs and Excise Department officials are complaining that a promised salary bonus meant to serve as an incentive to avoid corruption has yet to be doled out, even though the program began last June. The initiative, managed by the Ministry of Economics and Finance, was supposed <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/anti-corruption-bonus-yet-to-be-seen/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Trade between Vietnam and Cambodia grew 22.36 percent in the first seven months of the year to reach $1.96 billion compared to the same period last year, a Vietnamese official said yesterday. Vu Thinh Cuong, commercial counselor at the Vietnam Trade Office, said imports from Vietnam <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/trade-with-vietnam-grows-through-seven-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

King Father Norodom Sihanouk passed away today in Beijing at the age of 89, 59 years after he declared Cambodia’s independence from France. Sihanouk was a greatly charismatic leader revered as something of a God King during the height of his power in the 1950s and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/king-father-norodom-sihanouk-passed-away/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>