The Cambodian Confederation of Unions (CCU) is distributing 10,000 leaflets to garment workers across Phnom Penh, urging them to join a strike on Sunday, CCU officials said yesterday. “We would like to invite them to join us to demand for an increase if the base <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-delivers-leaflets-urging-garment-worker-strike/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia will spend about 21 million U.S. dollars to cover for the [sic] proceedings of the general elections on July 28, a senior official at the National Election Committee (NEC) said Friday. “The budget for the forthcoming elections is about 21 million U.S. dollars, up from <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-to-spend-21-mln-usd-for-july-general-election/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday said his party will stand firm on its position that a simple majority vote in parliament be used to select members of the National Election Committee. His Cambodian People’s Party is in negotiations for electoral reform with the opposition, which <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-firm-on-election-reform-negotiations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodia’s anti-Corruption Unit (aCU) had received 728 corruption-related complaints in the first nine months of this year, down 16 percent from the same period last year, the agency said in a statement on Sunday. “From January to September 2014, the aCU had received a total <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-anti-graft-agency-receives-728-complaints-in-9-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Shortly after a speech in New York by US President Barack Obama, in which he applauded the efforts of human rights defenders, Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong says his country is making progress. Obama acknowledged the work of two Cambodian rights activist during a speech at <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/foreign-minister-defends-cambodias-rights-record/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prince Norodom Ranariddh on Saturday appealed to deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha to return to the Funcinpec party, before issuing a warning to women not to trust the prince due to the “danger” that he would present to them. Speaking at a special meeting of Funcinpec <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ranariddh-invites-sokha-back-to-funcinpec-boasts%e2%80%88of-virility/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian government yesterday produced some of the maps it has been using to demarcate the eastern frontier, stressing that they match the constitutionally mandated map despite having been developed in Vietnam. at a press conference at the Council of Ministers, the government’s senior official on <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/putting-border-issue-on-the-map/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

At A consultAtive meeting with the Prey Veng provinciAl AdministrAtion on ThursdAy, the Ministry of Environment expressed support for its initiAtive to turn the wetlAnds At Boeung SnAe lAke, in BA Phnom district’s BAtheAy commune, into A protected AreA. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ministry-throws-weight-behind-wetlAnds-plAn/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Nearly a hundred employees of Sihanoukville’s Yaduoli Casino yesterday staged a protest over outstanding wages after the company failed to pay them. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/casino-workers-protest-unpaid-wages/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Health announced that a 50-year-old Cambodian man died of COVID-19 yesterday, as a result of the February 20 Community Incident, marking Cambodia’s first recorded death.  <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/first-covid-19-death-in-cambodia-after-feb-20-incident/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A digitAl government cooperAtion centre is in the works to help CAmbodiA reform its public service delivery As well As to revolutionise its AdministrAtion system As A whole with AssistAnce from the South KoreAn government. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/s-koreA-Assists-to-build-digitAl-govt-co-op-centre/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Prime Minister Hun Sen said the prolonged Covid-19 pandemic over the past two years had been a challenging period for the Cambodian government as well as the rest of aSEaN &ndash; but one that he felt was nearing its end soon because aSEaN’s feet were <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/asean-feet-firmly-on-path-to-post-covid-recovery-era-pm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen said that December 29 should be listed in a Cambodian calendar in a bid to celebrate the government’s win-win policy when years of armed conflicts came to an end. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/december-29-should-be-listed-in-the-calendar-to-mark-the-governments-win-win-policy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Seven new Cambodian ambassadors paid a courtesy call on the National assembly President Khuon Sudary at the National assembly on Monday before embarking on their diplomatic mission to a variety of countries. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/seven-new-cambodian-ambassadors-meet-sudary-before-starting-mission/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s UN mission in Geneva has “squarely dismissed” the contents of a June 29 joint press release issued by three UN special rapporteurs regarding a recent trial in the Kingdom, calling their findings “politically motivated”. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-un-mission-declares-rapporteurs-findings-one-sided/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Nhem Sarom, the newly-elected Candlelight Party commune chief in Kampong Thom who was arrested Tuesday for a robbery allegedly carried out 20 years ago was released on bail Wednesday. Speaking to CamboJa a day after his release, Sarom called the arrest politically motivated. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/after-release-on-bail-candlelight-party-commune-chief-remains-in-limbo/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) on april 17 announced that it approved five new investment projects with a cumulative capital commitment of $103.3 million, which are expected to generate a total of 1,168 jobs. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cdc-okays-103-3m-in-new-projects/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A “well-known” but unnAmed internAtionAl brAnd hAs chosen CAmbodiA As the locAtion to set up A new export-oriented jewellery fActory, reveAling plAns to stArt investment operAtions in eArly 2024, the Council for the Development of CAmbodiA (CDC) reported. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/internAtionAl-brAnd-plAns-locAl-jewellery-fActory/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The arrest of a Candlelight Party member in Bangkok last Friday was related to his activism against the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), a National Police spokesperson said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/national-police-political-activism-led-to-candlelight-party-members-arrest-in-thailand/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia attracted some 5.43 million international tourists in 2023, a sharp increase of 139 percent from 2.27 million in 2022, the Ministry of Tourism pointed out in a report on Friday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-welcomes-5-4-million-foreign-tourists-in-2023/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>