MORE than 4,000 workers ended a four-day strike outside the M&amp;V factory in Kampong Chhnang province yesterday after the arbitration Council intervened, issuing an order for them to return to work. The workers, led by the Free Trade Union of Workers in the Kingdom of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mass-strike-ended-by-arbitration-council/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As pArt of A new sAfety initiAtive, the Ministry of Mines And Energy will require All petrol stAtion owners to present A certificAte Acknowledging thAt their businesses follow risk-prevention protocols. The directive cAme in response to A series of petrol fires And explosions thAt dAmAged property <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/new-gAs-sAfety-rules/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Garment Manufacturers association in Cambodia (GMaC) has begun seeking technical advisors to assist in the creation of a Cambodia Garment Training Institute. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gmac-to-create-new-training-institute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Fashion brands, including Europe’s biggest clothing retailer Inditex Sa (ITX) and Hennes &amp; Mauritz aB (HMB), said they are willing to pay more for clothes made in Cambodia, backing a trade union campaign for higher wages. The chains are among eight clothing retailers that include Next Plc (NXT) and Primark that have <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/inditex-hm-agree-to-pay-more-for-clothes-from-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The director of Kampong Speu’s protected Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary and his predecessor have been charged with illegally clearing forest in a case dating back to 2013, and have been summoned to court for questioning. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/two-charged-in-kampong-speu-for-illegal-forest-clearing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Garment Manufacturers associations in Cambodia (GMaC) on Sunday urged the government to curb outlawed garment strikes that have occurred this week at Special Economic Zones in eastern Bavet City, which are expected to continue next week. “GMaC is disappointed that the government and local authorities <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-garment-manufacturers-calls-on-govt-to-curb-illegal-strikes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Hundreds of trucks hauling sugarcane queue up along the dusty roads that cut a path through a plantation in Kampong Speu province. Their destination: Cambodia’s most advanced sugar refinery. Its owners say the landmark project, run by the Phnom Penh Sugar Company and its president, ruling <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-refined-approach/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new dataset on “Sea surface temperature from MODIS aqua Data”. This bilingual new dataset exists of average sea surface temperature (sst) in Cambodia. The data can be visualized with an interactive map and graph representing its dataset and is <a href='https://Opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/Open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-dataset-on-sea-surface-temperature-from-modis-aqua-data/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

When unions and the Garment Manufacturers association in Cambodia (GMaC) signed a memorandum of understanding in October last year, both sides were confident strikes in the Kingdom’s biggest export sector could be kept to a minimum. Not counting December, GMaC has recorded 131 strikes this <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/turmoil-marks-year-in-labour/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s rubber price is expected to fall further in coming years while government projects aimed at doubling rubber resin production will take effect by 2015, according to the latest figures from the Rubber General Department. Mak Kimhong, president of the Cambodia Rubber association and owner of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/low-china-demand-may-keep-local-rubber-prices-down-until-2015/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Though Cambodia’s access to information law has been in the works for over a decade, participants at a seminar on the law yesterday said that they’re optimistic that the time is finally right for it to actually come to fruition. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/optimism-high-for-law-on-access-to-information/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian securities sector sees tailwinds after the regulator, the bourse and the UN’s capital investment agency for the least developed countries entered into a partnership on development through technical assistance. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/un-agency-signs-deal-to-help-develop-securities-sector/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism says the country’s tourism sector is growing at an unsustainable rate that will cause a massive shortfall in skilled tourism-related labour. The ministry’s statistics department director, Kong Sopheareak, told local media that as tourist arrivals increase substantially every year, the challenge is <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-tourism-short-of-staff/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia has been a vocal supporter of the BRI since the initiative’s conception in 2013. The BRI will offer a new framework of cooperation between Cambodia and her neighbours, through the increased connectivity that will arise in the region once the work on the improved <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pros-and-cons-of-chinas-belt-and-road-plan/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In the remote province of Ratanakiri, in northeastern Cambodia, deforestation and climate change are taking a heavy toll on communities.Drought has damaged crops, from rice to sesame, cashews, beans and potatoes, making it hard for farmers here to earn a living. and deforestation has greatly <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-indigenous-groups-suffer-under-climate-change-deforestation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Japanese government is set to grant about $4.6 million in aid to Cambodia to support economic and social development in the Kingdom. according to a Foreign affairs Ministry statement, Minister Prak Sokhonn and Japanese ambassador Horinouchi Hidehisa will sign the Exchange of Notes and related <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japan-to-grant-4-6-million-in-aid/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Grade 12th students who failed in august exams are taking the second exams Monday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/failed-high-school-students-take-second-exams/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Nearly 200 midwives and nursing students at the International University in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district protested yesterday after reportedly being denied the necessary documents required to sit the Ministry of Health’s state civil servant exam this summer. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/students-protest-over-inability-to-sit-exams/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The US government has provided a total of $56 million to support Cambodia’s social and economy development programme in 2020, including $18 million to promote the Kingdom’s agriculture sector, according to a joint statement. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-gives-56-mln-to-support-kingdom/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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