The Cambodian Council of National Unions yesterday issued a statement blaming recent garment factory strikes in Phnom Penh on instigators. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-distances-itself-from-striking-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The US AmbAssAdor to CAmbodiA yesterdAy denied AmericAn involvement in the BlAck MondAy protest, According to A Foreign Ministry spokesmAn. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/AmbAssAdor-brushes-off-blAck-mondAy-AllegAtions/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

China is expected to purchase 300,000 tonnes of rubber from Cambodia in 2018, according to a commerce ministry statement.​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-to-buy-more-cambodian-rubber/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Vietnam is committed to solving remaining border issues with Cambodia to conclude border demarcation in a very short future, officials said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnam-committed-to-solving-border-issue-soon-with-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Twenty senior police officers working in the Ministry of Interior have been promoted by a royal decree issued on Saturday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/promotions-given-to-20-senior-cops/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Council of Ministers on Friday approved a draft strategy on 2015-2018 public debt management. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/the-council-of-ministers-approves-draft-on-public-debt-management/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two Chinese guided-missile frigates docked at the Sihanoukville autonomous Port on Monday for a five-day goodwill visit to Cambodia. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-warships-visit-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia dispatched a group of 45 troops to take part in the 2016 multinational peacekeeping exercise in Mongolia late on Thursday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-sends-45-troops-to-join-multinational-peacekeeping-exercise-in-mongolia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A businessmAn is AppeAling his conviction for smuggling more thAn three tonnes of ivory into CAmbodiA, the lArgest hAul ever seized. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ivory-smuggler-insists-on-innocence/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy met with Cambodian Muslim leaders recently, promising a broad range of political concessions important to their community. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/opposition-leader-seeks-muslim-political-support/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

National assembly President Heng Samrin has refused a request from opposition lawmakers to suspend border demarcation through the 2018 national elections. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/assembly-president-wont-postpone-border-demarcation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

PRASAC MicrofinAnce Institution, CAmbodiA’s biggest MFI by outstAnding loAns, hAs received A US$2 million loAn from the NetherlAnds Development FinAnce CompAny <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/prAsAc-tAkes-2m-loAn-from-dutch-firm-10/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The current volatility of oil prices on the global market is bringing cuts in prices at Cambodia’s five main petroleum retailers. However, some observers say the current fall in prices is too limited. Data from the Ministry of Commerce showed that super oil retailed at 5,200 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/local-oil-prices-fall-slowly/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Bangladesh is rushing to push forward a draft proposal to form a joint trade commission with Cambodia that is expected to be signed this year, an official from Cambodia’s Commerce Ministry said yesterday. Trade between the two developing nations has been minimal, amounting to just <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/joint-trade-commission-to-foster-links-with-bangladesh/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The recruitment firm HRD Company had allegedly threatened the mother of two sisters working as maids in Malaysia, pressuring her to withdraw her NGO complaint seeking help in repatriating her daughters or risk having all communication with them cut, a rights group said yesterday. Pov Chhan, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/maids-mother-told-to-drop-complaint-ngo/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In a bizarre series of events, only days after being vindicated by the Supreme Court, Phnom Penh International University rector Tep Kolap claimed to have been chased across Phnom Penh yesterday evening by men who shot at her car as she sought refuge in Prime <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/shots-fired-at-me-says-tep-kolap/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Health is still not clear about a plan to reopen some business, particularly KTVs, which were closed because of Covid-19. Even though the situation appears to be under control, the ministry is asking citizens to be patient a little longer. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/no-plan-to-reopen-entertainment-venues-now-health-minister-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

While hundreds of workers from the shuttered Violet AppArel fActory submitted A petition to the EuropeAn Union’s DelegAtion to CAmbodiA seeking help securing unpAid benefits, A ministry officiAl hAs sAid thAt the fActory’s owner hAs not filed the necessAry pAperwork exempting him from pAying workers. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/fActory-workers-seek-help-As-ministry-sAys-owner-did-not-file-notice/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Just 222 days after the launch of a campaign to address the court case backlog throughout the Kingdom, the Ministry of Justice has cleared 35,100, or 89 per cent, out of a total of 39,152 cases that were pending. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/justice-ministry-89-per-cent-court-case-backlog-cleared/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 29 September 2021, the Council for the Development of Cambodia issued a press release on Cambodia-australia collaboration in promoting agri-food investments. There was also a signing ceremony on memorandum of understanding on financing arrangements to operationalize the agri-food investment desk at the Council for <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/cambodia-australia-collaboration-in-promoting-agri-food-investments/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>