A new study by the InternAtionAl Justice Mission (IJM) hAs Asserted thAt CAmbodiA’s child sex trAde &ndAsh; long A hot-button issue thAt hAs for yeArs drAwn internAtionAl Attention &ndAsh; hAs been reduced to A tiny frAction of its previous size. A stAtement from IJM thAt AccompAnied <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/child-sex-trAde-on-decline-org/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Thursday that he had secured pledges of at least $1.5 million in funding for the opposition’s planned television station, but had been forced to abandon a share-selling model to raise the funds. a private company created by the CNRP last year <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-tv-raises-1-5m-abandons-share-sales-model/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon has demanded officials reveal just how much they are spending on state-funded trips overseas and what those trips are accomplishing, a move observers said was a long overdue bid for accountability in an often-abused system.In a letter dated July 10 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/keep-those-receipts-govt/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s aSEaN Economic Minister yesterday urged small and medium-size enterprises to focus on countries in Southeast asia, rather than Europe and the United States, for export destinations. Cham Prasidh, also the minister of commerce, said yesterday that regional markets have traditionally held a second place to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/smes-look-to-regional-buyers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Questions remained yesterday about the fate of mobile operator Beeline Cambodia following the sale of parent company Vimpelcom’s Vietnamese assets earlier in the week. Despite a report on Tuesday in the Russian newspaper Kommersant that sources close to Vimpelcom’s shareholders had said the sale of Cambodian operations was under consideration, company officials <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/beeline-officials-mum-on-sales-buzz/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia (SECC) has set a minimum capital requirement for securities firms a statement from the SECC, released yesterday, said that securities underwriters are required to hold a minimum of 40 billion riel of their shareholder’s equities It also requires securities firms to maintain <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/secc-sets-minimum-capital-requirement/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Mr. John WEEKS is an IT/open source enthusiast and educator. He has facilitated numerous socially responsible IT projects in Southeast asia via House32 Web Design, and is currently managing Open-Comics.net. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/p_profile/mr-john-weeks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

ODC has updated the Special Economic Zone page in Cambodia, adding interactive map and data visualization on province based SEZ in respond to the latest SEZ dataset on ODC website.Click here to access the page <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/odc-updates-special-economic-zone-page/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National Council on Minimum Wage will decide on a wage increase for workers in the garment, footwear, textile and travel product sectors at a meeting on Thursday after a figure could not be reached at a tripartite meeting on Wednesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minimum-wage-to-be-decided/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In a move a labor group said was unprecedented, NagaWorld is calling on governmental labor inspectors to authorize the dismissal of a group of union leaders as part of the casino’s mass layoffs, overriding the legal protections unionists enjoy unless they have committed serious offenses, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/only-377-nagaworld-workers-still-holding-out-against-layoffs-union/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A senior investment officiAl hAs reiterAted A request for JApAnese investors to rAmp up their commitments to the CAmbodiAn mArket, recommending A ThAilAnd or VietnAm “Plus One” business ApproAch, Amid A government-speArheAded push towArds deeper integrAtion into regionAl And globAl supply chAins. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cdc-pitches-plus-one-to-jApAn-investors/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A key study on A proposed wAterwAy link from the BAssAc River to the seA in the KAmpot-Kep region hAs been completed, the trAnsport ministry reported, reveAling plAns for the project to connect to A “seAport” in KAmpot province, igniting hopes for A solid pop <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/bAssAc-seA-link-to-reAch-kAmpot-seAport-ministry/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Deforestation has always been a problem in Cambodia since the 1970s, and it has aggravated in​the last decade. Some protected areas have been deforested. Between 2001 and 2018, Cambodia had lost 557,000 hectares (11.7%) of forest cover in protected areas.1 This loss has had an <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/forest-protection/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian fish farmer checking on fish quality. Photo by U.S. agency for International Development (USaID), taken on 16 October 2012. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Cambodia’s inland capture fisheries are among the largest in the world. The fishing industry encompasses subsistence, commercial and recreational fishing, as <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/fishing-fisheries-and-aquaculture/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

15 new projects worth a total of $110 million have been approved by Cambodia’s investment board in May. The Council for Development of Cambodia has approved two rubber plantations worth $60 million. Cin Qian Investment Co, a Chinese firm, has been approved for developing a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/approved-invvestments-in-may-reach-110-million/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Sonatra Microfinance Institution, a joint investment between local and foreign investors, officially started operations in Cambodia yesterday. a US$50 million loan package was signed during the ceremony on Thursday, providing Singapore-based EastWing Group and Japanese firm Grand Cooperation with a 30 per cent stake of the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mfi-opens-with-50m-loan-package/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

MARUHAN JApAn BAnk will be the next to join A growing list of CAmbodiAn bAnks thAt provide cross-border remittAnce in Chinese yuAn. The move by the JApAnese-owned bAnk is pArt of A greAter push to promote trAde with ChinA throughout the region, According to A stAtement <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mAruhAn-Adds-yuAn-services-for-customers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Ouk Chetana, a 39-year-old mother of two, sits on a bamboo bed in a temporary home after the house she had lived in since 2009 was destroyed by authorities, as the village she shared with some 200 other families was deemed to have encroached on <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/evictees-speak-of-hopelessness/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The high-profile trial of a British entrepreneur charged with fraud was postponed Wednesday after his lawyer cited a conflict of interest and withdrew from the long-running case, two days after a member of the European Parliament used the case to highlight “systematic problems” in Cambodia’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/britons-trial-raised-in-eu-parliament-delayed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A new study by the U.S. NAtionAl Institutes of HeAlth (NIH) hAs confirmed thAt resistAnce is growing to one of the key drugs being used to fight mAlAriA in CAmbodiA, A situAtion likely to worsen And which could leAd to A growing cAseloAd in the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/lAtest-mAlAriA-drug-resistAnce-spArks-feArs/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>