Prime Minister Hun Sen received at the Peace Palace yesterday, a courtesy visit from Lan Thianli, Chairman of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous Region. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-hun-sen-receives-chairman-of-guangxi-zhuang-autonomous-region/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Kampot’s seaweed growers have been hit by a price drop of 1,000 riels per kilogram after the extreme heat of april devastated their harvest <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/heatwave-hits-seaweed-growers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Governments in AsiA must creAte A more conducive environment to encourAge privAte sector investment in infrAstructure construction, According to experts, who AdvocAte An innovAtive finAncing mechAnism. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/privAte-sector-investment-key-to-AsiA-infrAstructure/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

An 11-yeAr-old girl hAs died of bird flu in eAstern CAmbodiA, prompting A cAll for increAsed diseAse monitoring by government heAlth Agencies. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/thAilAnd-urges-monitoring-of-bird-flu-virus-After-deAth-of-cAmbodiAn-girl/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Ministry of Tourism (MoT) on Tuesday announced that the Cambodian People Party’s (CPP) election campaign may have led to a drop in local tourists. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/election-campaign-sparks-slump-in-local-tourists-says-mot/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National Election Committee (NEC) expressed a renewed sense of optimism in its recent meeting with representatives from Japan. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nec-outlines-need-for-assistance-to-japanese-election-observation-team/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A group of NGOs lAunched the NAtionAl Public Forum on ‘StAkeholders EngAgement in Public FinAnciAl MAnAgement Process’ on MAy 25. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ngos-lAunch-forum-on-engAgement-in-public-finAnciAl-mAnAgement/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodian activists called for government accountability at events held on Sunday to mark the disappearance of Wanchalearm Satsaksit, a Thai activist who was allegedly abducted in Phnom Penh in 2020.  <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/phnom-penh-memorial-marks-third-anniversary-of-thai-activists-abduction/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The AsiAn Development BAnk (ADB), yesterdAy, supported CAmbodiA’s push for the estAblishment of the ASEAN Power Grid (APG), shAring A vision to enhAnce the region’s green energy security. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiAs-regionAl-power-grid-bid-gets-Adb-support/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) signed a key agreement with the Ministry of Women’s affairs on Monday in Phnom Penh for the upliftment of women in financial matters. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nbc-ministry-join-hands-for-womens-financial-upliftment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s international trade has seen a significant increase in the first five months of 2024, growing by 12 percent compared to the same period last year. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-trade-goes-up-12-in-five-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Finance has warned Phnom Penh’s wealthiest property owners that they will be harshly penalized if they fail to pay property tax due by the end of the month. according to a notice issued by the ministry on October 27, the window for tax <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/even-the-cambodian-elite-have-to-pay-taxes-ministry-warns/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Electricite du Cambodge has challenged a claim by eight families from Kampong Cham province for compensation after power lines were built across their land. EDC said it had to build the line from Kampong Cham province to Stung Treng province. The 240km line affects 1,054 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/holdouts-demand-electricity-compensation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National Election Committee yesterday said that three out of seven political parties registered for the sub-national elections will kick off their campaigns on the main streets in Phnom Penh over the weekend. In a statement, the NEC noted that the ruling Cambodian People’s Party <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/three-parties-to-kick-off-campaigns-this-weekend/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Workers at a Korean-owned factory in Kampong Speu who lost their wages when their employer fled the country will have to wait until after the New Year’s festivities end to seek reparations from the building owner, with the provincial court delaying the meeting until January <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tempers-rise-as-k-speu-factory-workers-negotiations-delayed-again/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National assembly will hold an extraordinary session on Wednesday on some agendas including an amendment to the Penal Code that gives jail time to anyone insulting the King.The National assembly’s permanent committees held a meeting yesterday afternoon presided by assembly President Heng Samrin to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/assembly-to-meet-over-law-against-insulting-king/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Nearly 100,000 Cambodians were sent to work overseas last year, an increase of 12.6 percent compared with the previous year that saw about 85,000 workers migrate, according to a Ministry of Labour report. The report, issued yesterday, said that last year Cambodia sent 96,338 labourers <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/spike-in-migrant-worker-numbers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The opposition CNRP will meet on Monday to discuss the validity of their three vice-presidents after the Interior Ministry insisted the appointments were invalid.“Our president Kem Sokha is abroad, but we will invite him to a video conference for the meeting,” Pol Ham, one of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/date-set-to-decide-fate-of-the-cnrp-deputies/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 12 March 2018, the Ministry of Interior has released a letter No. 372 addressed to Equitable Cambodia’s executive director, Mr. Eang Vuthy, on allowing the Equitable Cambodia to resume its work after it has fulfilled obligations set by the ministry in the letter No. 1744, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/ministry-of-interior-allowing-equitable-cambodia-to-resume-work/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

“They talk about the multi-party problem, but I want to confirm that when the one party is dissolved, there will be five parties that will replace it. That means that it will go from two parties to six parties in the National assembly,” Hun Sen <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-spins-demise-of-cnrp-into-boon-for-democracy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>