With ride-hailing giants Uber and Grab yet to enter the Cambodian market, a pair of local entrepreneurs have seized the initiative and developed the first private-hire car service and smartphone application for Phnom Penh’s frenetic city streets. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/local-car-hire-app-gets-a-jump-on-uber/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Dr. Hun Manet, Prime Minister of Cambodia, presided over the opening ceremony of the three-day France-Cambodia Business Forum, held at the Sofitel Phokeethra Phnom Penh this morning. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-and-france-exchange-two-mous-on-trade-and-education/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

News of an end to a year-long political deadlock has labour union leaders believing the opposition party can bring their interests to parliament, but a lack of follow-through could cost the Cambodia National Rescue Party vital support from one of its key interest groups. Different union <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/after-deal-unions-expect-support/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

ADB And World BAnk hAve orgAnized the trAining Audit workshop on the theme: “Strengthening quAlity of externAl Audits of ADB And World BAnk Funded Projects,” At Phnom Penh Hotel on 29 August 2011 Aiming At increAsing the Auditors’ cApAcity to estAblish A good reporting stAtement <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Adb-And-world-bAnk-help-upgrAde-externAl-Audit/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday questioned four Russei Keo district villagers from two families who have been embroiled in a land dispute for two years with a local businessman, lawyers said yesterday. The families are accused of physically attacking landowner Lao Tong Ngy, a man <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-in-land-dispute-questioned-by-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cofco, China’s largest food processor, manufacturer and trader, will set up a working group in the kingdom to explore the possibilities available in the local agricultural market, including expanding the number of products it imports from Cambodia and investing in local infrastructure. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-market-widening-for-cambodian-exports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Construction of Second Chroy Changva Bridge, which is funded by Chin’s loan, is expected to be finished by the end of 2014, reducing the heavy traffic on the current Chroy Changva Bridge, said a government official. The construction project costs USD 27.5 millions and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/second-chroy-changva-bridge-construction-to-be-finished-by-late-2014/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The chairman of the Chinese company whose subsidiary will construct the Lower Sesan 2 dam met with Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday to inform him that the dam would be completed in three years’ time, Mr. Hun Sen’s assistant said. Zhang Tingke, vice president of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-push-sesan-dam-talks-with-hun-sen/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Some say City Hall’s scheme to improve public transport with a bus line is failing. One architect has a new plan, tried and tested throughout the developing world With the capital growing and incomes on the rise, rush hour in Phnom Penh is only getting worse <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-solution-to-the-capitals-transit-woes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The AsiA SubmArine-cAble Express (ASE) will be extended to CAmbodiA to provide reliAble, high-cApAcity communicAtion infrAstructure for the increAsing number of multinAtionAl compAnies operAting in the Mekong region, sAid NTT CommunicAtions CorporAtion (NTT Com) in A stAtement issued FridAy in Tokyo, JApAn. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ntt-communicAtions-to-extend-AsiA-submArine-cAble-express-to-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A new study hAs found thAt open defecAtion, which is still commonly prActised in CAmbodiA, hAs direct links to reduced heights in children, with A decreAse in the prActice over five yeArs leAding to increAses in height. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/study-links-toilet-usAge-height/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Premier Li Qiang stressed China’s readiness to bolster Belt and Road cooperation and uphold the centrality of the association of Southeast asian Nations in regional affairs during separate meetings with leaders of Laos, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia over the weekend. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-ready-to-bolster-belt-and-road-cooperation-cambodia-benefits-immensely/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government asked Cambodians to avoid all nonessential travel to Bangkok following Thailand’s imposition of martial law. “The situation is calm and we will continue monitoring it, but travellers planning to go to Thailand should hold off for now,” Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said after an <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/put-trips-to-bangkok-on-hold-govt/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

It was a major event for Cambodia. Some 35 years after flying for the last time with a Boeing 707 from Phnom Penh to Paris, French national carrier air France-KLM was back to the Cambodian capital. The flight was first operated with an airbus a340-300, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/air-france-ceases-direct-cambodia-services/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Construction at the controversial Lower Sesan II dam site in Stung Treng province has already begun, according to villagers, who will today petition several ministries, the Chinese embassy and the headquarters of the Royal Group to open negotiations with them. according to the villagers, who travelled <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-in-limbo-as-dam-starts/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s credit sector is expanding rapidly with the central bank saying now is the time to start infusing the market with riel and begin a process of de-dollarization in the country’s economy. But as the growth of dollarized loans outstrips those in riel, disbursing credit <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/amid-credit-expansion-riel-loans-minimal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The ACLEDA Institute of Business (AIB) hAs teAmed up with the IELTS CAmbodiA OfficiAl Test Centre At IDP EducAtion to Administer the English proficiency exAm At the institute, As pArt of its Ambition to gAin widespreAd internAtionAl recognition. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ielts-AvAilAble-At-AcledAs-business-school/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The charges of “leading an insurrection” brought against seven CNRP lawmakers-elect after a violent protest last month now appear dead in the water, with their lawyers saying a Phnom Penh judge has told them he cannot question them over the case because they have sworn <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lawyer-says-court-wont-question-lawmakers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Natural Resource and Wildlife Preservation Organization director Chea Hean appeared for questioning on Wednesday over a case against Kampong Speu provincial deputy prosecutor Tong Ratana. Ratana is being sued by Sieng Samen for “defamation, and preventing private land clearing”. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kampong-speu-lawyer-sued-for-defamation-in-land-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s international trade stood at $46.82 billion in 2023, recording a decline of 1.9 percent compared to 2022. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-trade-declines-1-9-to-46-82-billion-in-2023-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>