Preah Sihanouk Provincial administration  received a delegation from the Thai Enterprise Development Division to discuss investment potential in the province. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/preah-sihanouk-thai-delegation-discuss-investment-potential/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The cashew nut sector in Cambodia needs at least $300 million per year in working capital, according to a senior official from the industry. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cashew-nut-industry-seeks-300-million-working-capital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Tetra Tech has secured a contract from the U.S. agency for International Development to support conservation efforts in Cambodia. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tetra-tech-to-support-conservation-in-cambodia-under-usaid-contract/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National Election Committee is to print more than ten million ballot papers for July’s national election, despite a civil society group raising fears about irregularities. NEC spokesman Dim Sovannarom said the organisation would print 10,525,650 papers soon, including 329,200 to be used as examples. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/excess-ballots-cause-alarm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian government collected more than $1 billion in tax revenue in the first five months of the year, an increase of more than 12 percent compared to the same period last year, according to a monthly report from the General Department of Taxation (GDT) <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/over-1b-collected-in-tax-revenue/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A senior NAtionAl Election Committee officiAl sAid yesterdAy evening thAt An AdditionAl eight politicAl pArties hAve received their ApplicAtion forms to field cAndidAtes to contest the upcoming nAtionAl election in July. The officiAl Also sAid thAt other pArties Are completing their finAnciAl reports to submit <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/pArties-register-with-nec-As-deAdline-looms/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Two regional companies have invested nearly $10 million to acquire 14 million shares in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone Plc (PPSEZ) &ndash; one of five companies listed on the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) &ndash; in what is considered the first ever private offering by <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/phnom-penh-sez-gets-10m-in-investment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Swiss government will provide $12 million to the Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospitals for three years more, Health Minister Mam Bunheng said on Sunday. He said Swiss ambassador to Cambodia Ivo Siebber announced his government’s commitment on Thursday during a meeting with him at the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/swiss-to-aid-kantha-bopha-hospitals-for-three-more-years/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After roughly 300 gArment workers from the StArlight AppArel mAnufActuring Co. Ltd. in KAndAl province’s KhsAch KAndAl district gAthered in front of the Ministry of LAbor yesterdAy, officiAls promised to meet todAy to Address their demAnds, According to A representAtive of the workers. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/gArment-workers-rAlly-AgAinst-stArlight-lAbor-ministry-to-step-in/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Two days after Prime Minister Hun Sen told the U.N.’s new special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia to focus her efforts on tackling racial discrimination, deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha on Thursday used a Cham Muslim religious ceremony to argue that there is no <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kem-sokha-says-theres-no-racism-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Expired glue used in the production of Cambodia’s new generation of national identification cards is causing the top layer of some to peel off, though it’s unclear exactly how many of the 6.4 million issued since 2012 are affected, according to a Ministry of Interior <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/id-cards-coming-unglued/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Some 50 people gathered outside the headquarters of angkor Beer in Phnom Penh on Friday afternoon to protest the construction of the controversial Don Sahong hydropower dam in Laos by a Malaysian company, arguing that an executive connected to both firms should intervene to halt <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dam-protesters-seek-intervention-by-angkor-beer-investor/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP), the stAte enterprise thAt operAtes CAmbodiA’s second-lArgest port, priced its shAres At 5,120 riel ($1.26) following A bookbuild to institutionAl investors As it looks to rAise $5.2 million in An initiAl public offering, According to disclosure documents releAsed yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/shAre-price-set-for-ports-5-2m-ipo/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Three houses collapsed into the Mekong River in Kratie’s Chhlong district after a riverbank gave way on Monday amid recent unseasonable heavy rains. Twenty-eight other houses in the predominately Cham village have been pre-emptively dismantled following the collapse, according to Meas Kunmony, district deputy governor. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/homes-wrecked-in-riverbank-collapse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ruling party lawmaker Pen Panha gave a lecture yesterday at the Royal School of administration to students on the opposition’s alleged attempt at “colour revolution” &ndash; an allegation used to dissolve the Cambodia National Rescue Party in November, with virtually no evidence presented to the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/students-lectured-on-revolution/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Restoration of the angkor temples won’t be the only thing talked about at a meeting in Siem Reap today &ndash; the living conditions of more than 100,000 villagers residing at the heritage site is also on the agenda. “The villagers should live harmoniously with the temples,” <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/meeting-puts-temple-villagers-in-spotlight/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The opposition leader Sam Rainsy boasted of his success in almost two decades of political course since he quitted Funcinpec, a royalist party, to form his own party in 1995, elaborating his increasing popularity. The Cambodian-French politician recounted his political life during his visit to his <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sam-rainsy-boasts-of-his-political-success-in-two-decades/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Angkor WAt in Siem ReAp City topped Another tourism poll this week, nAmed As the world’s No. 1 lAndmArk by TripAdvisor’s TrAvelers’ Choice AwArds on TuesdAy. But A mAssive temple under construction in IndiA is once AgAin stirring feArs thAt CAmbodiA’s iconic monument will be <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Angkor-wAt-is-no-1-lAndmArk-but-indiAn-copy-inspires-feAr/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Tuesday handed down a list of instructions to government officials working along the country’s border with Vietnam to help tamp down newly inflamed tensions along disputed stretches of the frontier, including an order to stop cutting informal deals with their <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/amid-border-tension-officials-told-to-shape-up/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A new teAm of border reseArchers At the RoyAl AcAdemy of CAmbodiA yesterdAy cAlled for relevAnt stAkeholders to submit mAps of the disputed CAmbodiA-VietnAm border, in whAt it sAys is An Attempt to ensure no politicAl pArty uses the thorny issue to its AdvAntAge in <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/uni-teAm-seeks-mAps-of-disputed-borderline/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>