The Swiss Agency for Development And CooperAtion (SDC) yesterdAy pledged $4.6 million over three yeArs for phAse two of An Agriculture AssistAnce progrAm thAt is intended to help smAll-scAle CAmbodiAn fArmers in four northern provinces. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/swiss-Aid-gives-4-6m-for-fArmers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

His Majesty Preah Bat Samdech Preah Boromneath Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia, personally joined in the togetherness in Cambodia by coming out on February 4 to greet the tourism and culture ministers who were in Cambodia for the first ever UNWTO and UNESCO World Conference <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/king-of-cambodia-meets-with-ministers-attending-tourism-and-culture-meeting-in-siem-reap-province/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Council for Agriculture And RurAl Development And RehAbilitAtion encourAges people And stAkeholders to promote livestock husbAndry more widely At the grAssroots level to improve the nutritionAl And food security in CAmbodiA. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/people-urged-to-reAr-livestock-for-food-security/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The exports of garments, footwear and travel goods (GFT) rose by 20.69 percent in the first five months of this year, compared to the same period last year, earning the Kingdom $4.89 billion, according to the trade data released by the General Department of Customs <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-gft-exports-jump-20-69-percent/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s exports of garments, footwear and travel goods (GFT) increased by 16.89 percent in the first half of this year, compared to the same period last year, earning the country $6.15 billion, according to the trade data released by the General Department of Customs and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gft-exports-rise-17-percent-in-first-half-of-2024/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Broadcasting Board of Governors, an independent US agency that oversees government-sponsored stations Radio Free asia and Voice of america, has hit back after the Cambodian government accused the broadcasters of being tools of the opposition. In a statement released Thursday, BBG chair Jeffrey Shell rejected <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rfa-voa-agency-fires-back/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

AgriculturAl And RurAl Development BAnk (ARDB) And AsiA-PAcific RurAl And AgriculturAl Credit AssociAtion (APRACA) ThursdAy signed A MemorAndum of UnderstAnding (MoU) to creAte the Center of Excellence (CoE) to conduct reseArch on green finAncing in Agriculture in CAmbodiA. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Ardb-AprAcA-sign-mou-to-creAte-coe-on-green-finAncing/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

As villAgers in Koh Kong province’s Areng VAlley continue to block Sinohydro Corp employees from entering the AreA where the Stung CheAy Areng dAm is plAnned, conservAtionists And rights workers hAve spoken of the hAvoc it will wreAk if it goes AheAd. In terms of the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/dAm-critics-outline-litAny-of-risks/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

More than 100,000 hectares of forest have been replanted across the country since 2008, according to a government report &ndash; but about 90 per cent of that amount can be chalked up to private plantations. Produced by the Ministry of agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the report, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/companies-regrow-forests/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Deputy Prime Minister and head of the Cambodian National Petroleum association Sok an has called for the resumption of talks with Thailand over the disputed overlapping claims area in the Gulf of Thailand, believed to be rich in oil and natural-gas reserves. The oil industry had <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/yingluck-adds-fuel-to-gas-talks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A dAy before Prime Minister Hun Sen publicly cAlled for the Arrest of MAm SonAndo, the Beehive RAdio stAtion director hosted A fiery broAdcAst from The HAgue, where lAwyers were trying to lAunch A cAse AgAinst the premier in the InternAtionAl CriminAl Court. Just under three <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/sonAndo-broAdcAst-tArgeted-pm/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

With Khmer New Year arriving next week, Prime Minister Hun Sen has warned tourism-related businesses against increasing service prices during the three-day holiday. Speaking at a graduation ceremony for students at Vanda Institute of accounting in Koh Pich yesterday, the prime minister appealed to hotels, guesthouses, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/businesses-warned-not-to-increase-holiday-rate/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia rejected a report of the US State Department, which attacked the government of Prime Minister Hen Sen for widespread abuse against human rights. The 31-page report highlighted a flawed and poorly managed electoral process in July’s general election process. The report raised a number of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-rejects-us-report-on-human-rights-abuse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Unrest in the garment sector spread yesterday, as hundreds of workers from Kandal province demonstrated outside their factory. The 700 workers at Unity Fashion factory walked off the job after managers said they would dock wages of workers who did not show up on april 17, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/strikes-still-on-in-some-provinces/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia saw a one per cent rise in inflation in april compared with the same month last year, according to the latest data from the National Institute of Statistics (NIS). Sim Ly, an official at the NIS said there was a slight increase in food and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/food-prices-up-1-6-pct-in-april/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian mobile operators added more than 1 million new subscribers between May and July, with Smart Mobile seeing the largest percentage increase for the period, according to Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications figures obtained by the Post. Marc Einstein, a Tokyo-based analyst at research and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mobile-market-still-growing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s Foreign Minister Hor Namhong will attend aSEaN meetings next week in Nay Pyi Taw of Myanmar, according to a statement issued Friday by Ministry of Foreign affairs and International Cooperation. The statement said the meetings to be held from 8 to 10 august, 2014 include <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hor-namhong-to-attend-asean-meetings-next-week-in-myanmar/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Singapore’s decades-long effort to reclaim land from the ocean has expanded the nation’s coastline and fueled its building boom. But it has also depleted its supply of sand.  In recent years, the massive sand shortage has been worsened by export bans by neighboring countries, driving <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/3638/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Maruhan Japan Bank and Seilanithih microfinance institution announced this month they are forming a business alliance through which they will work together for mutual benefit and to provide banking opportunities for Cambodia “By joining forces with us, Seilanithih will be able to expand the size of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japanese-bank-and-cambodian-mfi-join-forces/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Anti-competitive behAviour in CAmbodiA’s domestic Airline industry is limiting its growth, with the relevAnt Authorities “reluctAnt” to open the domestic mArket up to competition, An AviAtion report found. Monopolising this mArket currently is the country’s flAgship cArrier, CAmbodiA Angkor Air, According to A Centre for AviAtion <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Anti-competitive-behAviour-limits-cAmbodiAs-domestic-Airline-industry/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>