The Neak Leung bridge, which spans the Mekong River on the border between Kandal and Prey Veng provinces, will officially open to traffic on april 1, ahead of the busy Khmer New Year holiday, officials confirmed yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/april-1-debut-set-for-new-bridge/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

“I confess that the ministry hasn’t been able to control and achieve transparency in the real estate sector, but I can say that this sector has yet to show any signs of trouble,” Ngoun Sokha, secretary of state for the Ministry of Economy and Finance, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mef-strengthens-property-data-to-analyse-the-development-sector/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Economy and Finance on February 14 allocated $100 million to two state-owned banks to provide additional support to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME), and the agriculture and agro-industry sectors.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-allocates-100m-to-prop-up-smes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Government denials over the rumored development of the Buddhist Institute have reached the highest levels, with the prime minister penning a letter to the king to assure him the land is not for sale. In a letter addressed to King Norodom Sihamoni dated October 6 and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-tells-king-buddhist-institutes-land-not-for-sale/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Social affairs on Friday established four sub-committees tasked with finding a new minimum wage for the country’s 300,000-plus garment factory workers, Minister Ith Sam Heng said on Friday. “The sub-committees have a limited time of five weeks for research before they have to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-to-consider-new-minimum-wage/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian government has budgeted $3.5 million for tourism-related advertising and promotions in 2014, Minister of Tourism Thong Khon said yesterday. “This year the budget has reached $3.5 million dollars, half of the total budget for the ministry as we will host PaTa Travel Mart 2014,” <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ad-spending-sees-hike-in-budget-for-tourism/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Chevron partner KrisEnergy Holding Company has secured $115 million for its projects in the offshore petroleum area known as Block a . Block a is leased by Chevron Overseas Petroleum Cambodia Limited with 30 percent interest, KrisEnergy Holding Company with 25 percent, Mitsui Oil Exploration <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/block-a-oil-partner-inks-finance-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A militAry generAl chArged in connection with A high-profile corruption scAndAl At the Phnom Penh MunicipAl Court, which led to the removAl of its top judge lAst month, on TuesdAy denied the AllegAtions AgAinst him After being questioned At the court. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/court-questions-generAl-chArged-in-corruption-cAse/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Foreign currency deposits grew briskly during the first four months of the year, a sign that public confidence in Cambodia’s financial institutions is high despite the uncertainty after last year’s disputed national election, bankers said this week. Cheam Teang, executive vice president of acleda Bank Plc., <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/foreign-currency-deposits-see-strong-growth/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

table { width: 100%; } table td { vertical-align: middle; } Cambodians gathering along the Chaktomuk riverside in Phnom Penh to watch boat racing during the Water Festival. Photo by Patrik M. Loeff, taken on 24 November 2007. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.PopulationProvisional results from <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/population-and-censuses/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Access to finAnce could reduce violence, empower the most vulnerAble in society And improve the livelihoods of CAmbodiA’s poorest people, A conference on community-led funding heArd on WednesdAy. SArAh Sitts, country mAnAger of the internAtionAl NGO PAct, introduced the funding model of sAvings-led micro-finAnce (SLMF). In <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/striving-to-mAke-finAnce-Accessible/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A new open-Air mAll sporting high-end luxury shops And restAurAnts in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kok district is the lAtest expAnsion of the suburbAn neighborhood, though widespreAd commerciAlizAtion of the AreA could still tAke yeArs, property executives sAid MondAy. The mAll, cAlled TK Avenue, opened FridAy At <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/new-tuol-kok-mAll-to-Add-to-districts-growth/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The recent testing of a new electronic voter registration system has fallen significantly short of expectations, with only about 50 per cent of the hoped-for registrations completed, according to officials.The National Election Committee (NEC), which is tasked with organising new voter lists for the 2017 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/early-issues-crop-up-in-voter-registration-test/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government has announced a new project to provide free technical and vocational training to about 1.5 million poor students a year.​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/disadvantaged-youth-to-benefit-from-governments-initiative/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The tonnage of Cambodia’s agricultural exports increased by over 20 per cent last year, led by a surge in shipments of dried cassava chips, according to the latest Ministry of agriculture data. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/agro-sector-on-a-growth-path/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Driven by garment and improved agricultural export markets, Cambodia has bucked the wider trend of slowing Southeast asian economies, according to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for asia and the Pacific (ESCaP). ESCaP’s semi-annual Economic and Social Survey of asia and the Pacific, published <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-economy-bucks-regional-trend/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A senior member of the GArment MAnufActurer’s AssociAtion in CAmbodiA (GMAC) on SundAy endorsed the use of deAdly force by militAry police AgAinst striking gArment workers, which left five deAd And more thAn 20 with gunshot wounds. “GMAC condemns the use of violence, period,” he <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/gmAc-defends-use-of-force-AgAinst-striking-workers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

In the latest twist in a long-running dispute over a protected community forest in Battambang province, villagers disgusted by rampant land grabbing have begun scrambling for a piece of the action. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-forest-disappears-in-the-scramble-for-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Chinese doctors have performed more than 10,000 free surgeries on cataract patients in Cambodia and Laos, as reported by Xinhua News agency, a partner of TV BRICS. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-doctors-step-up-solidarity-programme-in-cambodia-and-laos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>