The Ministry of Labour met with unions on Friday to gather input on a universal minimum wage law currently being drafted, union representatives and ministry officials confirmed yesterday. “The meeting is a forum for each party to review the draft and provide comments so the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unions-government-consult-on-new-min-wage-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Soeun Phal, a 27-year-old security guard, and Kong Phanny, a 61-year-old cleaner, died when a wood-fired steam generator exploded. The guard, who did not know how to operate the machine, had been seen adding more wood to the generator’s fire before the explosion, authorities and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-says-factory-was-operating-illegally/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Construction crews will break ground this weekend on a new walkway overpass alongside Olympic Stadium as part of the Olympia City development project. The Overseas Cambodian Investment Corporation (OCIC) and a municipal crew will begin work on the walkway, which will be at a five-way <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/olympic-size-walkway/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The shuttered Cambodia Daily announced late on Tuesday night that it has “relaunched” as a noncommercial publication. On its Facebook page, the Daily announced the re-opening as “a digital only, non-commercial publication based off shore”. Several items &ndash; including an aggregated news round-up and a “Timeline <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-daily-brings-out-online-only-platform/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The coastal city of Sihanoukville is undergoing a massive transformation. Once perceived as a seedy haunt for lethargic backpackers and expats, a flood of Chinese tourists and investors has begun to alter the landscape by setting up everything from gaudy casinos to towering luxury resorts <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/big-trouble-in-little-china-exploring-chinese-investment-in-sihanoukville/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Yet again, the Kingdom this year burns brighter than its neighbours, with fires in Cambodia being detected from space at a much higher rate than any other country in the region, according to a NaSa report published last week. It’s likely a product of both <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-tops-region-for-fires-detected-from-space/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 10 villAgers from Chroy ChAngvAr district’s Prek TAsek commune stopped workers of A development firm from cleAring their lAnd to build A fence demArcAting A plAnned sAtellite city. Commune resident Chheng HeAk sAid six workers from the OverseAs CAmbodiA Investment CorporAtion (OCIC), which is developing <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/chroy-chAngvAr-residents-stop-ocic-fence-lAyers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Taiwanese-owner garment manufacturer Grand Twins International (GTI), which posted a 44 percent surge in revenue and a massive 390 percent in net profit last year, attributed the surge to an increase in orders and the decrease of raw material costs, administration costs and total commissions, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gti-growth-from-higher-orders-and-lower-costs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A fArmer died After being struck by lightning on SundAy evening while herding his cAttle home in KAndAl province’s KhsAch KAndAl district.​ According to A report by the NAtionAl Committee for DisAster MAnAgement, the number of deAths cAused by lightning this yeAr hAs risen to <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/lightning-clAims-39th-victim-of-yeAr/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A representAtive of the compAny behind A mAssive $23.2 billion development in KAmpot province &ndAsh; which envisions creAting two islAnds off the coAst &ndAsh; insisted yesterdAy thAt the compAny wAs not engAged in Any Activities thAt would rAise A conflict of interest And thAt it <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/scepticism-clouds-mAssive-coAstAl-development-plAn/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Police yesterday confronted more than 200 villagers in Svay Rieng province as they tried to occupy land at the centre of a long-running dispute with a development company. The villagers are unhappy because the government granted NK Venture special permission to build a sugar plantation on <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-occupy-land-in-stand-off/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two police officials &ndash; one the deputy police chief of Kandal’s Takhmao town and the son of Provincial Police Chief Eav Chamroeun &ndash; are the subject of a complaint filed with the Ministry of Interior by three people who allege they might have colluded to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-collusion-complaint-filed-against-kandal-cops/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s fisheries sector that plays a vital role in food security and improving nutrition, generated a slightly improved income of more than $275,000 in the first half of the year, according to a report released by the Ministry of agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fisheries-earnings-on-the-rise/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Japanese company asian Gateway (Cambodia) will soon conduct a pilot project with a hydroponic farm in Cambodia. It will be tested at the Royal University of agriculture (Chamkar Dong campus) in the first stage and after that will be used as a model for farmers and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hydroponic-farming-to-be-tested-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian and Vietnamese officials agreed Thursday to details of a proposed cross-border project to improve fisheries management between Prey Veng Province and Dong Thap Province in Vietnam. The agreement came during a two-day meeting chaired by So Sophort, deputy secretary general of the Cambodian National Mekong <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-vietnam-agree-to-details-of-cross-border-fisheries-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 700,000 workers at private companies and factories across 19 provinces have registered to join a nationwide pension scheme that goes into effect in 2015, Labour Ministry officials told the Post yesterday. a branch of the National Social Security Fund (NSFF), the pension scheme was <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pension-scheme-ramps-up/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A dispute over the sAcking of 67 workers from the Angkor VillAge Hotel And Resort in Siem ReAp in August looks set for court AgAin, but A lAbour rights AdvocAte believes justice is no closer for workers. DAve WelshsAid even if A court AgAin ruled in <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/sAcked-hotel-workers-heAded-bAck-to-court/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

There are a number of Cambodian families employed to be leech catchers in Sor Yeav commune of Kampong Thorn province The villager Sin Ro Kar of Steung Sen district became a leech catcher and a Chinese company bought leeches from his villagers. “We do not know the reason of buying leeches and we <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-company-buy-leech-from-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

While the scores of new condominium properties appearing in Phnom Penh are selling well, their buyers are mainly speculators hoping to make quick profits, a leading property firm said. a report by international realty group CB Richard Ellis (CBRE), distributed Wednesday, says that the city’s property market in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/investors-speculating-on-phnom-penh-condos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian Center for Study and Development in agriculture (Cedac) said yesterday it would begin exporting organic rice to Europe in June for the first time as part of a one-year agreement with a German-based equitable trade organization. “We’re looking to break more into the international <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cedac-to-export-rice-to-germany-next-month/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>