Preah Sihanouk province reigns supreme among domestic tourists as the industry undertakes a strategic pivot towards locals. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/preah-sihanouk-province-tops-domestic-tourism-destinations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A NAtionAl Committee for the Development of Community-BAsed Ecotourism (NCDCBE) will be set up to boost the tourism sector. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/govt-orders-formAtion-of-ncdcbe-to-boost-tourism-sector/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia has registered a total of 9,710,645 eligible voters, of them 5,161,906 are women. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-sees-9-7-million-people-registered-on-voter-list/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Lao Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone has sent a congratulatory message to Cambodia’s new Prime Minister Hun Manet. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lao-pm-extends-congratulations-to-cambodias-new-pm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Japanese Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi sent a congratulatory message to Prime Minister Hun Sen on the great success of the 7th aSEaN-Japan Informal Meeting of Defence Ministers. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japanese-defence-minister-congratulates-pm-on-success-of-7th-asean-japan-informal-meeting-of-defence-ministers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen led a high-level delegation to pay his last respects to late former Prime Minister of Japan HE aBE Shinzo, at the Embassy of Japan in Phnom Penh yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-high-level-delegation-pays-homage-to-late-shinzo-abe/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Health said yesterday it has discovered for the first time in nearly 10 years a fatal case caused by avian influenza H5N1, also known as bird flu. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/first-bird-flu-death-since-2014/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Coalition of Cambodian Farmer Community (CCFC), led by Theng Savoeun, has received permission from the Ministry of Interior to resume temporary operations, pending a court decision to restore full legal rights. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ccfc-resumes-work-amid-legal-proceedings/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s French community is organizing a series of special events to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Cambodia’s independence. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/france-marks-70th-anniversary-of-cambodias-independence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Tuesday that a meeting with Japanese Foreign affairs Minister Taro Kono next week would not include discussions of the dissolved CNRP, affirming his commitment to holding this year’s elections while rejecting the possibility of negotiations or pardons for the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-says-cambodia-wont-discuss-cnrp-with-japan/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia started the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), otherwise known as the Global Goals, with the aim of driving more action into critically important areas in the country. The country has set targets for 109 SDGs out of a total of 169 goals identified under the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/despite-moderate-progress-most-sdg-targets-addressed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Royal academy of Cambodia scholar Sok Touch said Wednesday that his border research team has started inspecting markers planted along the 1,228-km frontier with Vietnam, visiting six colonial-era posts since last week as part of a process that he says will take two years. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/scholars-border-research-underway/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Suon Sambo, 32, was hospitalized in Senegal earlier this month, but he succumbed to the disease on Monday, officials said. Last year, one member of a force of 300 Cambodian peacekeepers in Mali died of food poisoning. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-peacekeeper-in-mali-dead-from-malaria/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On the eve of the UN Climate Talks in Paris (COP 21), several hundred people are expected to attend “Together for Climate”, a rally coordinated by the Cambodia Climate Change Network (CCCN), on Sunday at the Cambodia-Japan Cooperation Centre at Royal University of Phnom Penh. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rally-to-push-climate-issue-ahead-of-cop-21/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government will consider suspending its $50 per ton export duty on rubber following lobbying by local producers who say they are operating at a loss due to the sharp fall in global prices for the commodity, agriculture Ministry secretary of state Eang Sophalleth said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-mulls-suspending-duty-on-rubber-exports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy held a Pchum Ben ceremony yesterday for the spirits of those killed in the still-unsolved 1997 grenade attack on an opposition rally, promising attendees that should his party win in 2018, he would “rearrange” the country’s government to ensure institutions’ independence. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rainsy-to-rearrange-kingdom/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Highland De’ Canal project on the northern outskirts of the capital has launched its land sales on its 100 hectare side, with the first phase of sales offering 36 hectares at $80 to $90 per square meter, Khing Vannak, a major shareholder in the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/highland-project-launches-land-sales/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen appointed the former director of Phnom Penh’s health department to a new position at the Ministry of Health on Monday, two days after he stripped the official of his erstwhile position during an on-air call to the popular aBC radio station. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-gives-ousted-director-new-ministry-job/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The 529 families who in 2010 traded their homes inside a $3.8 billion Chinese development project in Koh Kong province for land about 20 km away have petitioned local authorities to double the size of their replacement plots, officials said on Wednesday.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/%e1%9e%81%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%98%e1%9f%82%e1%9e%9a-returned-udg-evictees-want-double-the-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Community forest monitors in Preah Vihear province who seized more than 20 chainsaws over the course of a recent weeklong patrol of the Preah Roka forest now plan to ask local officials to join them in publicly setting the confiscated equipment ablaze, according to community <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chainsaws-to-be-set-ablaze/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>