Cambodia’s embassy in Malaysia yesterday denied pressuring domestic workers from the Kingdom into renewing their visas, after rights groups told the Post last week that the embassy exploited a legal loophole to keep maids in the country. The statement came as a Malaysian employers association, which has observed the drafting href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/embassy-defends-handling-of-maids/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The number of ships coming through the port rose 17 percent year to year, and cruise ships rose from 25 to 36. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/exports-through-port-rise-nearly-10-percent-from-2014/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 03 March 2020, Forestry Administration has released an announcement on the dismissal of false information and to response to the accuse that the Ministry of Agriculture has colluded with TSM company in the auction of forestry crime exhibit. According to the announcement, the auction href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/announcement-of-the-forestry-administration-on-the-dismissal-of-false-information-accuse-that-ministry-of-agriculture-colludes-with-tms-company-in-the-auction-of-forestry-crime-exhibit/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 17 March 2022, the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training issued a notification on the progress of joint labor dispute resolution at NagaWorld as of 17 March 2022.The ministry invited the representatives of workers and employers to continue the dispute resolution meeting at the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/progress-of-joint-labor-dispute-resolution-at-nagaworld-as-of-17-march-2022/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 14 October 2021, the Department of Tourism Vocational Training issued a notification on the reopening of tourism vocational education and training institutions, tourism vocational training schools and assessment centers under the Ministry of Tourism of Capital-Provinces with low risk of COVID-19 outbreak.Tourism Vocational Training href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/reopening-of-tourism-vocational-education-and-training-institutions-tourism-vocational-training-schools-and-assessment-centers-under-the-ministry-of-tourism-of-capital-provinces-with-low-risk-of-covi/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 25 October 2021, the Ministry of Tourism issued a notification on the recruitment of candidates who are working in the spa industry in hotels and spa businesses to attend training courses on upskill spa professionals in Cambodia. To contribute to the implementation of the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/recruitment-of-candidates-who-are-working-in-the-spa-industry-in-hotels-and-spa-businesses-to-attend-training-courses-on-upskill-spa-professionals-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 25 November, the Open Development Cambodia (ODC) team conducted a presentation at the seventh Civic Tech Meetup in Kampong Chhnang city, Kampong Chhnang province. The series of meetups were challenged by Covid-19, but have recently resumed limited in-person meetings. During this all-day hybrid virtual href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/social-accountability-page-was-presented-at-civic-tech-meetup/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Election observers are urging the National Election Committee to move quickly on updates to the voter registry, as commune elections in 2017 approach. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/election-monitors-say-voter-registry-is-an-urgent-priority/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Rice millers in Battambang province are seeing red due to an erratic power supply affecting their production and causing them to lose money. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/erratic-power-supply-irks-millers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Open Development Cambodia (ODC) team was delighted to host the recent board meeting at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Phnom Penh on 10 October 2021. It was the first time the board members and the ODC management team had a physical gathering since the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/a-fruitful-board-meeting-for-open-development-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

In a joint statement, civil society and labor leaders urged the government to accept changes to the law as they continue to discuss it. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/labor-leaders-call-for-more-discussion-on-union-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The vice president of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari will pay an official three-day visit to Cambodia next week. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vice-president-of-india-to-pay-official-visit-next-week/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Insurance industry insiders are urging the government and development partners to set up and support a policy of subsidising insurance in the agricultural sector. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/push-on-for-farm-insurance/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Thousands of employees from two Taiwanese-owned factories continued striking for better working conditions yesterday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/protests-in-city-province-keep-going/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

 A Cambodian court charged two men for trying to smuggle 23 people into Thailand to work, a report said Monday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/2-charged-for-trafficking-cambodians/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday that the government is studying the possibility to purchase petroleum for a stockpile as global oil price is going down. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-weighs-oil-stockpile-as-global-price-nosedives-pm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Mobile payment company Wing was in talks on partnering with a US technology firm that plans to assemble Android tablets in Cambodia, in what could be another step away from the country’s staple manufactured good – garments. Although a final partnership agreement had yet to made href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/talks-on-for-cambodian-tablet/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On September 29, 2021, the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts issued a press release on the return of lost Khmer cultural objects to the Kingdom of Cambodia.More than 100 stone and bronze Khmer antiquities which will be returned to Cambodia. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/the-return-of-lost-khmer-cultural-objects-to-the-kingdom-of-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Some questions remain about whether hydro dams on the upper Mekong River in China exacerbated conditions during Cambodia’s devastating drought of 2010, environmental groups say, as China’s dam program powers ahead. When the first power-generating unit was switched on last month at China’s giant 262-metre tall href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/questions-over-china-dams/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia must tackle the skills gap to boost the productivity of its labor force in order to grow its economy, according to the latest report. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/skills-gap-remains-an-impediment-to-growth-new-report-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...