During a cabinet meeting on Friday, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced a “vision” to shrink the country’s cabinet by excluding secretaries and undersecretaries of state from the body, and to be given the right to bypass the National assembly by appointing them directly, according to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sens-vision-would-see-him-bypass-national-assembly-shrink-cabinet/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A 55-yeAr-old VietnAmese mAn wAs chArged by KAmpong Thom ProvinciAl Court yesterdAy for illegAlly cleAring more thAn six hectAres of lAnd in A protected forest. ProvinciAl militAry police officer Keo SAvoeun identified the suspect As Nguyen Duc NhAn, An excAvAtor driver for A VietnAmese rubber plAntAtion <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/court-chArges-vietnAmese-mAn-for-cleAring-forest-lAnd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Ministry of Health has warned that dengue fever cases could spike this year after a fall in cases in 2017 when compared to 2016. a report from the ministry said that in the first three weeks of 2018, there was a 130 percent spike in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/health-ministry-issues-dengue-fever-warning/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Environment and Japan will today sign a $600,000 agreement on forest conservation for a period of three years in the Prey Lang forest, which spans four provinces. The project will focus on forest conservation, legal strengthening and community forestry development, according to a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japan-to-aid-prey-lang-forest-protection/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Sean Pengse, a former government minister under the Lon Nol regime and an outspoken critic on Cambodia’s border issues with Vietnam, has died in France at 82. Pengse passed away after a long illness in the early hours of Tuesday morning, according to a statement issued <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sean-pengse-former-minister-and-fierce-critic-of-cambodias-border-disputes-with-vietnam-dies-at-82/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three women have been granted awards for their contributions to the technology sector in Cambodia. Fat Si Em, a transport and planning manager at a telecomm company, won the ICT Engineer award; Long Leakhena, a businesswoman, won the Woman ICT Entrepreneur award; and Chan Penh <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/three-tech-savvy-women-granted-awards-for-innovation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia fell four spots in a 2016 ranking of internet freedom across the world released yesterday, with the organization behind it tying the drop to a spate of arrests for nothing more than Facebook posts and a much-maligned telecommunications law that critics say gives the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/internet-freedom-ranking-slips/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s order for the capital’s water supplier to lower its rates and compensate customers for charges incurred under a new payment scheme introduced in May will not have a significant impact on the company’s revenue or growth plans, a finance officer at <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/water-utility-says-order-to-drop-rates-will-not-dilute-its-revenues/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Kry Lay lined up in early June to vote for the party he wanted to run Kampong Cham province’s Srak commune in the eastern part of the country. a former Sam Rainsy Party commune, the locale’s electorate delivered what Lay, a local farmer, wanted &ndash; <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/former-local-cnrp-officials-who-defected-to-cpp-met-with-distrust/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian government recently laid out the framework for the creation of a National Council of Logistics, a specialised interministerial team designed to tackle the high costs of the Kingdom’s logistics sector to promote the efficient flow of exports, according to a royal decree issued <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-creates-logistics-council-to-help-sector-stay-competitive-in-the-region/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A deAdline for A group of Borei KeilA residents to Accept compensAtion or leAve their homes with nothing pAssed on FridAy, with none of the residents Agreeing to move to A resettlement site, And Authorities sAying they hAve no right to remAin, but with no <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/As-deAdline-pAsses-borei-keilA-residents-reject-finAl-offer/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia, with over 400 garment and footwear factories, has become an asian clothes manufacturing center, and hugely profitable for the factory owners They have rejected a demand by the Cambodian Confederation of Unions to double the minimum monthly wage of factory workers from $61. The <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/demand-for-wage-increases-rejected/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A “public morAlity” clAuse in the drAft ASEAN DeclArAtion on HumAn Rights threAtens the most bAsic rights of women And sexuAl minorities And should be scrApped, A coAlition of women’s groups sAid in A stAtement releAsed yesterdAy. Civil society groups met with foreign ministers At the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/womens-rights-group-troubled-by-Adhr-drAft/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Almost $500 million A yeAr wAs tAken out of CAmbodiA in “illicit finAnciAl flows” between 2001 And 2010, A report releAsed yesterdAy in the U.S. clAims. People in the CAmbodiAn finAnce sector, however, expressed doubts About the AccurAcy of the figure, which AppeArs in A report <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/500m-leAves-cAmbodiA-illegAlly-eAch-yeAr/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A conclusive settlement hAs been reAched in the long-running dispute between A ThAi seAfood fActory And its CAmbodiAn employees, CAmbodiAn AmbAssAdor to ThAilAnd You Ay sAid yesterdAy. Rights groups And workers At the PhAtthAnA SeAfood fActory in ThAilAnd’s SongkhlA province, which employs 1,050 CAmbodiAns, hAve Accused <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Agreement-reAched-At-thAi-seAfood-fActory/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday charged six people, including a provincial director of water resources and a commune chief, for their involvement in creating illegal fishing reservoirs in Kompong Thom province. “They were charged with clearing a flooded forest for encroachment and illegally constructing <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/six-charged-for-making-illegal-fishing-reservoirs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A government officiAl hAs hArshly criticised A prominent silk promotion project, implemented lAst yeAr by the InternAtionAl TrAde Center (ITC), sAying it hAs not been fruitful. MAo ThorA, secretAry of stAte for the Ministry of Commerce, mAde his comments during A seminAr on export diversificAtion At <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/secretAry-of-stAte-hits-out-At-silk-scheme/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

As the rAiny seAson ApproAches, CedAc, A CAmbodiAn AgriculturAl orgAnisAtion, is AppeAling to fArmers this week to increAse their rice yields, According to A CedAc report directed towArd growers. The report estAblished A six-step order of operAtions thAt would ensure increAsed output during the most intense growing <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cedAc-report-to-help-fArmers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia is preparing to conserve the capital’s disappearing cyclos or rickshaws, which used to be a popular means of transport during the French colonial rule about 80 years ago. Cyclo is a three-wheeled bicycle with the driver perched on high above the rear wheel, and the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-prepares-to-conserve-disappearing-cyclos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A 15-month-old toddler who represented the 18th confirmed cAse of AviAn influenzA in CAmbodiA this yeAr hAs recovered And wAs releAsed from KAnthA BophA hospitAl on FridAy. The little boy from Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district developed A fever on August 16, And wAs trAnsferred A <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/young-child-mAkes-bird-flu-recovery/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>