Maybank will bet on what it said was Cambodia’s low bank-penetration rate for future growth as it transitions from a branch of its Malaysian parent into a locally incorporated subsidiary. With 34 licenced banks operating in a market with US$4.07 billion in loans in 2011, analysts <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/maybank-steers-for-untapped-markets/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government plans to create a commission to review the national qualifications framework in order to improve the quality of education in the Kingdom. The establishment of the commission followed a request by Heng Vanda, Chairman of Cambodian Higher Education association, during a meeting with <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/commission-to-review-education-sub-decree/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Villagers from Preah Vihear province’s Rovieng district have accused Try Pheap Engineering &amp; Construction Co Ltd of clearing the remaining 10ha of community land in Romny commune’s O’por village, which was reserved for building a school, a hospital and a pagoda. The local authorities said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rubber-firm-accused-of-clearing-10ha/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Kratie Provincial Hall yesterday said that the water level of the Mekong river has risen after authorities in a neighbouring country opened the floodgates of a hydropower dam. Pen Lynath, provincial deputy governor, yesterday said that according to the Water Resources Department, the floodgates were <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/river-level-rises-in-kratie-province/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Khmer Will Party (KWP), led by Kong Monkia, the son of a former Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) official, and the Motherland Party, led by Chann Bunhorn, in a statement distanced themselves from Rainsy, who has been a vocal opponent of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minor-opposition-parties-divided-ahead-of-election/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In less than four weeks, millions of Cambodians will head to the polling stations to exercise their democratic right to shape their country’s future. It will be the country’s biggest festival of democracy as 20 political parties are taking part despite a call for a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-voters-to-choose-between-economic-development-and-democracy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Seven gold mine shafts in Kratie province’s Sambo district were dismantled and filled completely on Wednesday following a complaint from a Chinese-owned mining company. Provincial mines and energy department director Sok Kiriroth said the shafts in Kbal Domrey commune legally belong to Xing Yuan Kanng <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kratie-bans-mining-operation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Four ethnic Kuoy villagers appeared in Preah Vihear provincial court on Wednesday for allegedly seizing two bulldozers from a Chinese-owned company in a December 2014 dispute that saw a group of locals attempt to prevent the firm from clearing their rice fields. The four were <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kuoy-villagers-in-court-over-alleged-seizure-of-bulldozers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A yeAr After the dissolution of the CAmbodiA NAtionAl Rescue PArty (CNRP), the fAte of the former mAin opposition pArty remAins uncleAr. While its senior officiAls clAim the Supreme Court-dissolution of their pArty is A “deAth knell for democrAcy” in CAmbodiA, Council of Ministers spokesmAn <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/one-yeAr-on-cnrp-fAte-uncleAr/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A Mondulkiri provinciAl committee hAs discovered six forest locAtions totAlling more thAn 10hA in A protected AreA of Pech ChreAdA district’s Bou SrA commune thAt hAs been cleAred for fArming. SeverAl people hAve been detAined but Authorities Are looking to find lAnd for them in <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mondulkiri-committee-finds-more-thAn-10hA-of-protected-forest-cleAred/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

New Preah Sihanouk provincial governor Kuoch Chamroeun will launch a campaign to improve sanitation and keep the environment clean in Sihanoukville. a one-day event has been scheduled for Saturday to conduct a major clean-up and stress the importance of the issue to civil servants, the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-preah-sihanouk-governor-to-launch-environment-campaign/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh City Hall has rejected a request for two large-scale Labor Day marches on Sunday, but the unionists who have organized the demonstrations say they will proceed as planned.     <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/labor-day-marches-planned-despite-ban-from-city-hall/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The two-day official state visit to the Kingdom, that started yesterday, by Vietnam’s new President Tran Dai Quang marks a new milestone for bilateral trade and investment between the two close neighbors that would also have a multiplier effect of attracting overseas capital into the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-milestone-for-cambodia-and-vietnam-bilateral-trade/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An industry AnAlyst hAs issued A dire forecAst for CAmbodiA’s rice sector, clAiming the long-grAin “white gold” thAt hAs been credited with lifting millions of CAmbodiA’s fArmers out of Abject poverty, And which seems A nAturAl fit for the Kingdom’s AgrAriAn workforce, is on A <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/gloomy-forecAst-for-cAmbodiAs-rice-sector/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

More than 300 former workers at the Win Shingtex (Cambodia) factory, a supplier for US retail giant JC Penny, filed a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s cabinet yesterday morning asking the government to intervene after the workers had their wages and benefits cut as <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cabinet-accepts-win-shingtex-workers-petition/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ruling party lawmakers unanimously passed a law regulating how human cells, tissue and organs can be donated or used in the country during a session on Thursday at the National assembly, with the CNRP continuing its boycott of parliament in protest of a legal assault <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-passes-law-to-regulate-organ-donation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The World Bank’s board of directors could vote today to renew a project for landless families in Cambodia that has run into major problems, a move that would effectively lift a five-year freeze on lending its own money to the country in protest over forced <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/world-bank-to-vote-on-ending-punitive-5-year-funding-freeze/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Legal timber exports to Vietnam &ndash; the bulk of them rosewood &ndash; soared between 2013 and 2015, with the volume of logs exported increasing by a factor of 142 and seven times as much sawn wood passing across the border, according to a report by <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/timber-exports-to-vn-way-up/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Hong Kong-based developer Eastland Development (HK) Ltd has expressed interest in listing on Cambodia’s stock exchange within a year.Sam Yang, the company’s chief executive, said during a recent company promotional event that Eastland is working with a local underwriter to prepare to float shares on <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-firm-intends-to-list-on-csx-in-2016/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After seven yeArs under discussion And A series of drAstic edits, the TrAde Union LAw is inching closer to being pAssed by the NAtionAl Assembly. HumAn Rights WAtch yesterdAy issued A stAtement on the lAtest drAft of the union lAw, sAying thAt while it <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/despite-progress-drAft-union-lAw-hAs-mAjor-flAws-hrw/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>