With the price of oil in the international market on the rise, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday announced he will unveil a new policy to deal with the impact of more expensive crude on the 28th of this month. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prime-minister-to-reveal-new-oil-policy-next-week/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The first deliveries of salt from China arrived on Tuesday at Sihanoukville port after an agreement for a 30,000-tonne import was inked last month, said Bun Baraing, the co-president of the Salt Producers Community of Kampot-Kep (SPCKK). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdom-set-to-bring-in-chinese-salt/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Grassroots Democratic Party (GDP) has included 100 farmers as parliamentary candidates in its list of 275 to compete in the July 29 elections. It says the move is a step to connect politicians with the people if they are elected. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gdp-backs-farmer-candidates/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Some 80 villagers embroiled in a long-running land dispute vowed on Tuesday to continue to protest outside the Banteay Meanchey Provincial Court until the release of their community representative, who was arrested on Monday for allegedly “affecting private ownership”. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-continue-land-protest-in-banteay-meanchey/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Chinese-owned company Union Development Group has transported hundreds of posts to a disputed area it plans to develop in Botum Sakor district in Koh Kong province, exacerbating fears among villagers that the company will demarcate land they claim is theirs. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/udg-appears-ready-to-measure-disputed-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The General Department of Taxation (GDT) collected more than $2 billion in revenue during the first 11 months of the year, an increase of 12.48 per cent compared to the same period last year, a Tuesday departmental report said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/general-department-of-taxation-collects-2b/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Local conglomerate Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) will invest $60 million in the construction of Olympia Plaza, a seven-storey shopping mall being built inside the company’s mixed-use Olympia City project in central Phnom Penh, the company confirmed yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/olympia-plaza-to-rise-on-60m-investment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A group of 16 MontAgnArd Asylum-seekers who fled to CAmbodiA from VietnAm over the pAst two yeArs returned to their home country on TuesdAy After fAiling to secure refugee stAtus in Phnom Penh, An Interior Ministry officiAl sAid on WednesdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/with-Asylum-hope-over-16-montAgnArds-return-to-vietnAm/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

After more thAn two yeArs of deniAls from Prime Minister Hun Sen thAt A FAcebook fAn pAge beAring his nAme reAlly belongs to him, the premier’s cAbinet hAs Acknowledged thAt it does&mdAsh;shortly After the pAge gArnered its one-millionth “like.” <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/with-1m-likes-pm-sAys-fAcebook-pAge-is-his/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodians will mark the third-year anniversary of the death of their former king, Norodom Sihanouk, on Thursday, in a somber occasion marking his legacy.Norodom Sihanouk was revered by many Cambodians before his passing, in Beijing in 2012. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-prepares-for-third-year-anniversary-of-kings-death/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who went into exile after a warrant for his arrest was handed down last month, said on Friday that he would return to Cambodia before the next national election in July 2018. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rainsy-pledges-to-return-home-before-2018-national-election/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday rebuked those who have labeled the current political situation a “crisis,” urging his audience of young garment workers to be glad they did not have to live through the horrors of the Khmer Rouge. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-vows-to-preserve-peace-rejects-talk-of-political-crisis/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A group of privAte sector rubber producers hAve petitioned the government to drop export tAxes on rubber products, Arguing thAt by scrApping the tAx the sector would AttrAct foreign investment into processing fActories. ក្រុមអ្នកផលិតកៅស៊ូចង់នាំឱ្យពន្ធនាំចេញត្រូវលុបចោលក្រុមអ្នកផលិតកៅស៊ូឯកជនមួយបានដាក់ញ្ញត្តិទៅរដ្ឋាភិបាលដើម្បីទម្លាក់ចោលពន្ធនាំចេញផលិតផលកៅស៊ូ ដែលលើកឡើងថា ការមិនយកពន្ធនាំចេញនៃវិស័យនេះអាចនឹងទាក់ទាញវិនិយោគិនបរទេសមកដំឡើងរោងចក្រកែច្នៃ។ <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/rubber-producers-wAnt-export-tAxes-scrApped/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

At leAst nine police checkpoints on the mAjor entry points into Phnom Penh hAve been set up AheAd of todAy’s triAl of Acting CNRP president Kem SokhA, with the opposition clAiming supporters were being hindered from Attending A pArty rAlly. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/nine-entry-points-into-city-cut-off-AheAd-of-kem-sokhAs-heAring/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

In an effort to prepare more students for aSEaN integration, the Education Ministry plans to set up a program to give high school students access to student loans so they can continue their studies at university. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/education-ministry-planning-student-loans-fund-for-university/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen will attempt to renegotiate the $1.5 billion of Soviet-era debt Cambodia accrued during the 1980s when he visits Russia in May, according to a post on the premier’s Facebook page.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/old-debt-on-agenda-for-pms-russia-visit/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Kampong Cham may no longer be the quiet city it is today if its purported economic potential continues to be realised. Local developers have already taken a keen interest in the town with the development of the first borey underway. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kampong-cham-piques-the-interest-of-developers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The large-scale rubber plantations that arrived in force in Cambodia a decade ago as global rubber prices moved to historic peaks are facing sober prospects as trees they planted before the commodity’s prices headed south begin to reach maturity. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/waiting-to-tap-rubbers-rebound/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

So Sophort, deputy secretary-general of the Cambodia National Mekong Committee, said Cambodia would attend the meeting of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) in Vientiane, which is part of a six month prior consultation process for the 921-megawatt dam. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-says-laos-lacks-documents-on-transboundary-impacts-of-proposed-pak-beng-dam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two new life insurance companies will launch operations in Cambodia by the end of this week, aiming to grab hold of a market that has seen rapid expansion in recent years while also creating stronger competition in the emerging industry. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/life-insurance-market-grows/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>