An AseAn speciAl summit with AustrAliA wrApped up on SundAy, with regionAl leAders declAring A “new erA” of increAsingly close relAtions, following two dAys of protests in Sydney AgAinst the rule of Prime Minister Hun Sen. An estimAted 300 protesters gAthered on FridAy, the mAjority <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/rights-protests-At-AseAn-AustrAliA-summit-As-leAders-discuss-cooperAtion/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

More than 5,000 workers went on strike in Kandal province’s ang Snuol district yesterday after discovering the owners had changed the name of their factory almost two years ago, a union representative said. Concerned that the name change from Tai Yeng to Tai Nan in 2010 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/factory-name-change-fires-up-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday reiterated that he would not step down as demanded by the country’s main opposition party since the contested election last July. “No need to speak much. I will not step down,” he said during the groundbreaking ceremony for a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-pm-vows-not-to-step-down-as-demanded-by-main-opposition/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong flew to New York on Sunday evening to attend the 69th Session of the United Nations General assembly, which is slated to be held from Sept. 24 to Oct. 1. The minister will deliver a speech at the U.N. session on <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-fm-departs-for-u-n-session-in-new-york/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A government ministry hAs reAssured the public thAt there is no need to pAnic over potentiAl food shortAges Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pAndemic. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/plenty-of-food-for-cAmbodiAns-during-uncertAin-covid-times/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) last week approved a $160.6 million brewery in Chhak Chhoeu Neang commune’s Trapaing Veng village in Kandal province’s ang Snuol district. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/green-light-for-161m-kandal-brewery/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Five more investment projects worth $174.8 million have been approved, according to a press release of the Council for the Development of Cambodia issued on May 22. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nearly-175-million-in-new-investments-flow-in-but-cant-keep-pace-with-increasing-unemployment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Information issued a statement yesterday to address the concerns of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) regarding press freedom in Cambodia, saying they are trying to mislead the public. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-rejects-ngos-claim-of-media-oppression/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian government has granted a 600-hectare concession to the family of notorious tycoon Ly Yong Phat, whose sugarcane concessions have been at the center of human rights violations. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/senator-ly-yong-phats-family-given-preah-sihanouk-state-land-for-tourism-development-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The head of Kandal provincial health department Kuy Bunthoeun said that 298 people have fallen ill in a suspected outbreak of Chikungunya in the province.​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/more-than-90-villagers-contract-chikungunya-in-kandal-province/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian government has plans to build an expressway from Phnom Penh to Svay Rieng province’s Bavet city, said the Office of the Council of Ministers in a statement released today. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-expressway-capital-to-bavet-city/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Royal Government of Cambodia collected $2,956 billion as revenue from all sources of taxes, a slight decrease of 0.7 percent compared to the same period last year. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-collects-2-95-billion-as-fiscal-revenue-in-first-half-of-2020/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia performs better at global commitment to reduce inequality, despite COVID-19, according to a report on Oxfam in Cambodia Policy. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdom-cuts-inequality-says-oxfam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Government of Japan has provided more than $3 million to UNICEF Cambodia to launch a new project aimed at ending violence against children in the Kingdom. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japan-funds-project-to-end-violence-against-children-amid-c-19/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The February 20 Community Incident continues to plague the Kingdom with a woman linked to it, becoming the country’s first factory worker to be infected with COVID-19. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/feb-20-incident-c-19-scourge-spreads-to-factory/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A totAl of 102 live pigs imported from neigbouring countries were culled yesterdAy, After they were found infected with AfricAn Swine Flu (ASF). <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/live-pigs-with-AfricAn-swine-flu-culled/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

By the morning of Jan. 18, 2021, a total of 59 sarus crane arrived anlung Pring Protected Landscape in Kampong Trach, Kampot, according to BirdLife International Cambodia Programme. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-sarus-cranes-number-declining/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

During COVID-19 crisis in 2020, Cambodia received only 1.31 million foreign tourists, showing a fall of 80 percent compared to 2019. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/only-1-31-million-foreign-tourists-visited-cambodia-in-2020/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Hun Manet, deputy commander of the Royal Cambodian armed Forces, has been leading a working group to set up another Covid-19 treatment site for minor cases.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/more-covid-19-treatment-sites-set-up-as-cases-soar/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district arrested four men yesterday, accused of transporting nearly 400 kilogrammes of rosewood from a protected forest area without permission. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/four-arrested-for-illegal-rosewood/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>