The Kingdom ranked second in the first half of the year for overseas Vietnamese investments, receiving about $32 million of the total $263 million outflow from the eastern neighbour. The Vietnamese General Statistics Office (GSO) said from January to June this year, that country’s businesses <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdom-ranks-second-for-fdi-from-vn/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has published three documents in preparation for a review next month on the situation in Cambodia.​ The UNHRC is set to review the human rights situation in the Kingdom on January 30 during the 32nd Universal Periodic Review (UPR), <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unhrc-releases-documents-on-state-of-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National Election Committee (NEC) said on Monday that there were nearly 600,000 invalid ballots cast in Sunday’s national elections, adding that the issue was not unusual in a democracy. according to the preliminary results, voter turnout was 6,946,164, or 82.17 percent, of which 596,775 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nec-nearly-600000-invalid-votes-cast-in-polls/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Interior Minister Sar Kheng yesterday rebuked reports that the new Phnom Penh police chief Lieutenant General Sar Thet is his brother. Lieutenant General Sar Thet officially took over as Phnom Penh police chief on Tuesday, filling a void left by General Chuon Sovann, who took <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sar-kheng-slams-fake-news/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Defense Minister Tea Banh says Cambodia’s soldiers should have the right to support demonstrations.Speaking at the airport as he waited for Prime Minister Hun Sen to arrive from an official visit to France, Tea Banh said his troops have a right to “express their opinion.” <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/defense-minister-says-soldiers-can-take-part-in-demonstrations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen has warned opposition leaders they will face ruling party rallies at home if he is met with anti-government demonstrations during his high-profile trip to the US next month, a threat that raised the spectre of pro-government protests in October that ended <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/john-kerry-touches-down-in-kingdom/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian health officials say they remain on alert for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS. Cambodia has trained hundreds of health workers to respond to the disease, though no infections have yet been reported in Cambodia, Ly Sovann, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/health-authorities-remain-on-alert-for-mers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

AdvAnced BAnk of AsiA Limited (ABA BAnk of CAmbodiA) officiAlly unveiled A new logo yesterdAy, As it builds on its mAjority ownership by the NAtionAl BAnk of CAnAdA.The NAtionAl BAnk of CAnAdA integrAted the ABA BAnk As pArt of its group After becoming the mAjor <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/AbA-bAnk-gets-brAnd-revAmp/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Prime Minister Hun Sen has scorned a threat to suppress the CPP if the ruling party fails to accept the loss of power in national elections next year. Mr. Hun Sen warned anyone committing to the suppression plan before the election results are announced officially, saying <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-scorns-suppression-threat/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National Election Committee (NEC) has discovered more than 2,000 names missing from the voter registry, which officials have attributed to a technical glitch. NEC spokesman Hang Puthea told Khmer Times that after having verified 90 percent of the voter list, 2,318 eligible voters from 13 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/voter-registry-missing-2000-names/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The needs of disabled Cambodians have not been taken into account in the forthcoming local elections, a disabilities group has said. Ngin Saoroth, executive director of the Cambodian Disabled People’s Organization (CDPO), told reporters this week that politicians were not putting “the issue of the disabled <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/disabilities-group-urges-politicians-to-consider-their-needs-in-local-elections/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Khoung Sreng was sworn in as the new governor of Phnom Penh yesterday, wasting little time before sending a warning that he will act against “ill-intentioned” people in the city, with Interior Minister Sar Kheng pledging at the event that recent commune election successes of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/capitals-new-governor-arrives-swinging/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National Election Committee yesterday revealed locations in Phnom Penh that political parties will be banned from using for campaigning prior to the upcoming Senate election on February 25.The NEC has banned all political parties from campaigning on nine major boulevards in Phnom Penh, along <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nec-bans-senate-campaign-marching-on-main-roads/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The General Department of Prisons has dismissed a report made by rights group Licadho which claimed there are violations of basic human rights in the Kingdom’s prisons. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prison-department-dismisses-rights-violations-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A new system of regionAl AppeAl courts is moving closer to reAlity As the Ministry of Justice Attempts to resolve the bottleneck of AppeAls in the justice system, officiAls sAid yesterdAy. Currently, AppellAnts cAn wAit up to five yeArs or more to hAve their cAses heArd <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/regionAl-courts-of-AppeAl-on-horizon/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The number of construction permits issued by the Ministry of Land Management in the first quarter of this year came close to par for the same period last year, declining just 10 issuances to 489, according to ministry data released yesterday. Despite the slight drop, capital generated from those <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/construction-permits-down-but-revenues-up/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian Foreign affairs Minister Hor Namhong will conduct a one-day visit to Washington, at the behest of US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, where he will again lobby for US debt forgiveness. The one-day visit on Tuesday will also focus on strengthening bilateral ties between <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hor-namhong-to-talk-debt-in-us/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

British Foreign Minister for AsiAn AffAirs sAid thAt BritAin wAnted to see CAmbodiA’s two winning pArties returning to negotiAtion to end politicAl deAdlock in the country. Hugo Swire, who is on his two-dAy visit to CAmbodiA, mAde such comments during A meeting FridAy with Kem SokhA, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/britAin-urges-cpp-cnrp-to-turn-to-negotiAtion-tAble-to-end-politicAl-crisis/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Prince Norodom Ranariddh has officially registered his new political faction, the Community of Royalist People’s Party, as a contender in the next national elections in 2018. The party’s new chief of cabinet, Nop Sothearith, yesterday told the Post he submitted the application to run to the Ministry of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prince-to-run-ranariddhs-comeback-under-way/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The number of internet subscribers in Cambodia increased significantly last year, reaching a total of 5.02 million by December 2014, up 30 per cent from the end of 2013. In 2014 there were 1.16 million new internet subscribers, joining the 3.86 million existing subscribers at the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/internet-subscribers-rose-30-pct-last-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>