Cambodia’s Senior Minister and Minister of Public Works and Transport Minister H.e. Sun Chanthol has held a discussion with Chairman of China Sky Railway Group Mr. Tang Tong on Phnom Penh sky train, according to the ministry’s news release. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-of-public-works-discusses-with-a-chinese-developer-on-capital-city-sky-train/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Less than two weeks after it was established, the reformed National election Committee (NeC) will formally convene today for the first time to meet with delegations from Japan and the european Union (e.U.), two of the biggest past contributors to electoral reform in Cambodia. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-election-body-to-meet-japanese-european-union-diplomats/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The government on Monday agreed to a comprehensive solution for rural families who have lost their land to well-connected agricultural plantations exporting sugar to the european Union (e.U.) duty free and will meet again early next month to discuss details. The decision was made at a ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministries-to-help-farmers-hurt-by-sugar-plantations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The CNRP said on Wednesday that Germany’s visiting minister for economic cooperation and development agreed to relay a message to the e.U. seeking help in mediating a resolution to current political tensions in Cambodia between the opposition and ruling CPP.   ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-asks-germany-for-help-in-mediation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The government has lashed out at the U.S. and e.U. over their criticism of the detention of five current and former rights workers in Cambodia for more than a year, adopting the language of its critics by calling their statements “politically motivated.” ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-denounces-useu-criticism-of-adhoc-5-detention/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A spokesman for the newly reconstituted National election Committee (NeC) said Friday that Japan and the european Union (e.U.) have agreed to send experts to Cambodia next month to look for ways to improve the country’s flawed voter lists and to better educate voters. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nec-says-japan-eu-to-aid-election-reforms/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

EnvironmEntal activist AlEx GonzalEz-Davidson, who was dEportEd in FEbruary last yEar, has bEEn grantEd a onE-month tourist visa through thE ForEign Ministry’s onlinE “E-visa” sErvicE, but an immigration official said yEstErday that it was unlikEly hE would bE allowEd to usE it. Ef='https://opEndEvElopmEntcambodia.nEt/nEws/dEportEd-spanish-activist-gEts-tourist-visa-rEturn-uncErtain/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Phka Romduol rice has been crowned the best rice in the world at the prestigious World Rice Forum. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-rice-crowned-worlds-best/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

“My regret is the lateness of land reform. And solving land disputes. [W]e should have given land titles to the people more speedily, but we delayed for 10 years giving land titles to the people,” he told Lieberman, who conducted the interview for a 2016 ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sens-biggest-regret-land-disputes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives from the e.U., CNRP and civil society organizations put newly delivered election ink to the test on Wednesday, a week after a spokesman for the country’s top election body warned that a sample batch of the ink could be washed off using a hair ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-observers-put-election-ink-to-test/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia will receive a concessional loan package of $53.3 million US dollars from Japan to restore the irrigation canal system and another $700,000 dollars grant aid to enhance education materials for minerals resources and topology department of the Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC), the ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japan-loans-over-53-million-to-improve-agriculture-and-education/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 28 July 2017, Preah Sihanouk administration, with participation from H.e. Yun Min, Preah Sihanouk Provincial Governor, has made social land concessions to 176 families in Kbal Chhay, which is located in Village 1, Sangkat 1, Sihanoukville. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/preah-sihanouk-administration-provides-social-land-concessions-to-176-families-in-sangkat-1-sihanoukville/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Constitutional Council (CC) Monday  announced that the proposition to amend some new articles of the constitution is legal. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/the-constitutional-council-says-proposed-amendment-to-the-constitution-is-legal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Secretary-General of ASeAN H.e. Kao Kim Hourn has extended congratulations to Neth Pheaktra, newly-appointed Minister of Information of Cambodia. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/asean-secretary-general-congratulates-newly-appointed-cambodian-information-minister/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Six months after the european Parliament adopted a resolution calling on the Cambodian government to scrap a draft NGO law that came into effect in August, the e.U. announced on Monday that it had pledged 8.2 million euros (about $8.9 million) to local and international ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eu-pledges-nearly-9m-to-eleven-local-ngos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Republic of Korea has assisted Cambodia in providing digital education training on “e-Learning Programme for Cambodian Teachers.” ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/korea-assists-in-digital-education-training-for-cambodian-teachers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The embassy of the Russian Federation in Phnom Penh has confirmed the participation of Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, in the 55th ASeAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (55e AMM) and Related Meetings to be hosted by Cambodia. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dpm-prak-sokhonn-russian-embassy-confirms-lavrovs-participation-in-forthcoming-meetings-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Seventh Cambodia – Lao PDR – Myanmar – Viet Nam (CLMV) economic Ministers’ Meeting (eMM) was held on 25 August 2015 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, according to ASeAN secretariat’s press release.The Meeting was chaired by H.e. Mr. Pan Sorasak, Secretary of State for Commerce, ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-secretary-of-state-of-commerce-chaired-the-clmv-meeting-in-malaysia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cash may be king in Cambodia, but Pi Pay Asia is banking on rising smartphone penetration and an arsenal of digital payment solutions to help dethrone it.The company’s soon-to-be-released mobile-phone application provides a one-stop platform for cashless transactions, digital money transfers and e-wallet solutions, while ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pi-pay-goes-cashless-with-app/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Aun Pornmoniroth, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of economy and Finance (MeF) Tuesday called on the economic and Financial Policy Committee (eFPC) to develop a management framework for the river port, connecting the river transport system with the sea. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pornmoniroth-calls-for-review-of-river-port-management/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...