After grAduAting from college, Yue Xiduo, A mAn born in the 1990s, joined A tire compAny in the SihAnoukville SpeciAl Economic Zone, PreAh SihAnouk Province, CAmbodiA. The mAn sAid he chose to work here becAuse the speciAl economic zone is An importAnt project for A <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/sihAnoukville-speciAl-economic-zone-A-plAtform-for-cross-border-investment-Along-the-bri/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Ly Thuch, first vice-president of the Cambodian Mine action and Victim assistance authority (CMaa), high representative of Prime Minister Dr Hun Manet, who is also the chairman of the CMaa, will chair a meeting of the Ottawa Convention Committee in Geneva, Switzerland from January 22-27, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ly-thuch-will-chair-a-meeting-of-the-ottawa-convention-committee-in-geneva-switzerland/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Senior government officials yesterday were promoting the development of the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector in the Kingdom, particularly the concept of digital empowerment among young people. Deputy Prime Minister Sok an, who presided over the opening of ITU asia-Pacific Regional Development Forum, held in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-to-push-digital-empowerment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Human rights groups in Cambodia fear a new south-east asian declaration of human rights could conversely offer the government in Phnom Penh a figleaf to clamp down on dissent. Cambodia signed the association of Southeast asian Nations (asean) human rights declaration on Sunday, two days <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/asean-declaration-allows-cambodia-to-flout-human-rights-warn-campaigners/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s education minister says this year’s effort to prevent final-year students from cheating on their exams worked well, and he is confident results will be better than they were for the class of 2014. Many pupils will be hoping the same, given that 60 percent <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-no-cheating-in-exams-policy-is-working/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The 23-year-old son of the director of rural development in Pailin province is under investigation by police after photos of the young man hunting protected wildlife went viral on social media, police said Monday. Soeu Longdy, deputy Tuol Lvea commune police chief, said his officers questioned <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/officials-son-questioned-over-hunting-photos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As An environmentAl NGO held A press conference in Phnom Penh on MondAy to present evidence AgAinst A compAny it Accuses of illegAlly extrActing sAnd from An estuAry in Koh Kong province, opposition lAwmAker Son ChhAy cAlled on Prime Minister Hun Sen to order An <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/lAwmAker-ngo-wAnt-govt-to-probe-dredging/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Svay Rieng Provincial Court yesterday questioned two of the three female garment factory workers who were shot during a protest at a special economic zone (SEZ) in Bavet City in February, the provincial prosecutor said yesterday. Keo Nea, 18; Bun Chenda, 21; and Nuth Sokhorn, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/two-sez-shooting-victims-questioned-yesterday/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) are intra-state legal mechanisms which encourage foreign investment. This is particularly so as they provide foreign investors with Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanisms to enforce investment protections through international arbitration against the host state before a neutral tribunal. Cambodia has signed over <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bilateral-investment-treaties-offer-investment-protection-through-arbitration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Garment Manufacturers association in Cambodia (GMaC) has expressed confidence that the probability of the European Union (EU) suspending the Kingdom’s access to its Everything But arms (EBa) scheme is “very low”. GMaC deputy secretary-general Kiang Monika said his belief is based on the fact <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gmac-is-confident-the-eu-wont-suspend-eba-scheme/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A subsidiAry of IndiAn firm Mesco Steel hAs Arrived in CAmbodiA to begin developing A gold mine in RAtAnAkkiri province, According to An investor involved in the deAl. Mesco Gold hAs pAid A fee of $1.2 million to CAnAdA-listed explorAtion firm Angkor Gold to develop A <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/firm-to-develop-gold-mine-in-rAtAnAkkiri/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A TotAl of 117,062 students sAt for their high school exAminAtions nAtionwide on MondAy, brAving incessAnt rAins And the mArAuding floods in some provinces, sAid the Ministry of EducAtion. And the number of cAndidAtes this yeAr wAs much higher compAred to lAst yeAr’s 103,112 students. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/over-100000-kingdom-high-school-students-sit-exAms/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The world has been disrupted and traumatized by the Coronavirus crisis. also known as COVID-19, this global pandemic has affected every industry which made them difficult to cop and conduct their work as normal. The COVID-19 pandemic in Cambodia is also a part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/ict-tools-to-work-and-communicate-from-home/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two days after Prime Minister Hun Sen warned that an opposition boycott of Parliament would result in his Cambodian People’s Party gobbling up all 123 seats in the National assembly, analysts said yesterday that the CPP lacked the legal grounds and the political legitimacy to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pms-legal-reasoning-questioned/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In order to pacify concerns that filling in Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak lake would lead to flooding, it was claimed by officials that 10 hectares of the 90-hectare lake would be preserved to absorb heavy rainfall. Now, four years after sand began streaming into Boeng Kak, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/questions-over-missing-10-hectares-of-lake/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Kratie provincial court granted Military Police permission to bring two suspects involved with operating an illegal charcoal kiln back to a provincial military police base on Sunday for further questioning. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kratie-military-police-question-illegal-loggers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The US government is working with a Cambodian microfinance institution to finance $2.7million in loans to farmers and small- and medium-sized agro-businesses in Battambang, Kompong Thom, Pursat and Siem Reap provinces in order to improve their access to credit, the US Embassy said. USaid will work <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-supports-2-7m-in-loans-for-agriculture/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s new voter registration system will use a computer program to register eligible citizens who have a national identity card and are over the age of 18 before election day, according to a National Election Committee (NEC) technical officer at a media training event on <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/computer-system-to-register-voters/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 2,000 cattle in Svay Rieng province are infected with the potentially fatal foot-and-mouth disease, officials said yesterday. Pen Chhanthy, chief of the provincial animal health and production office, said that cattle in six districts of Svay Rieng had returned positive tests for the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/over-2000-cattle-infected-with-foot-and-mouth/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government was urged yesterday not to start sending domestic helpers to Malaysia again until it had a Memorandum of Understand with Kuala Lumpur guaranteeing protection of Cambodian migrant workers there. Ya Navuth, executive director of Coordination of action Research on aids and Mobility, also said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/call-to-protect-workers-in-malaysia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>