Cambodia imported about 5,000 tonnes of salt from India amid a shortage of stock, Salt Producers Community of Kampot-Kep (SPCKK) co-president Bun Baraing said on Sunday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-imports-5000-tonnes-of-indian-salt/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Changes to unfair wages for garment sector workers has to start at the top, with global brands paying higher prices for clothes, said leaders of an international labor organization at a meeting yesterday. IndustriaLL is pushing for this through its aCT program. If successful, it <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/international-union-urges-brands-to-lead-on-pay-rises/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The head of Cambodia’s anti-Corruption Unit (aCU), Om Yentieng, has apologised for suggesting that the Kingdom’s traffic police might be corrupt.Yentieng’s about-face came yesterday at a public meeting about the new Traffic Law &ndash; which goes into effect today &ndash; attended by Deputy Prime Minister <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/acu-chief-yentieng-sorry-for-jab-at-cops/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday signed a sub-decree to create “biodiversity conservation corridors”&mdash;patches of land connecting Cambodia’s protected areas&mdash;putting an additional 1.4 million hectares under the management of the Environment Ministry.This brings Cambodia’s protected areas overseen by the ministry to more than 40 percent <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/environment-ministry-now-controls-40-percent-of-cambodias-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thousands of workers from factories owned by Tai Yang Enterprise in Kandal province’s ang Snuol district blocked National Road 4 for more than seven hours yesterday to push the company to meet their demands. May Sopheaktra said workers decided to block the road after the companytried <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/road-blocked-as-strike-escalates/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia on Monday broke ground for the construction of a 19-million-U.S.-dollar flyover in Phnom Penh’s southwestern part to meet the growing number of vehicles. Prime Minister Hun Sen said it will take 28 months to complete the construction of the 429-meter flyover. “The sky bridge will not <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-breaks-ground-for-3rd-flyover-in-capital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Soldiers stationed around the Preah Vihear temple on the Thai-Cambodian border on Election Day won’t have to forgo the opportunity to vote, military officials in Preah Vihear province said. Men Sophea, a military official posted at Phnom Trop, several kilometres away from the temple complex, said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/polling-stations-set-for-soldiers-at-preah-vihear/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

All fifty-five politiciAns from the opposition CAmbodiA NAtionAl Rescue PArty (CNRP) took their oAths As pArliAmentAriAns on TuesdAy Afternoon After boycotting the pArliAment for ten months AgAinst disputed election results in July lAst yeAr. CNRP president SAm RAinsy led the group to A sweAring-in ceremony, which <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiAn-oppositions-55-lAwmAkers-sweAr-into-pArliAment-After-10-month-boycott/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Grand Twins International launched its IPO one year ago to much fanfare, but a dwindling stock price has failed to generate much confidence in Cambodia’s fledgling bourse Despite the initial fanfare at the Cambodia Securities Exchange over the listing of Grand Twins International 12 months ago, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rough-start-for-csxs-second-listing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Damnak Chang’aeur district Unified Command Committee on Tuesday demolished a concrete fence that was illegally built to encroach on flooded forest land in angkorl commune’s angkorl village in Kep province. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kep-officials-demolish-illegal-land-grab-fence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government announced on Tuesday a measure to assist minimum wage workers employed in the tourism sector amid COVID-19 fears. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/measure-to-offset-tourism-sector-wages-amid-virus-government/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Interior Minister Sar Kheng has ordered all governors of provinces bordering Thailand to prevent migrant workers from sneaking into Thailand in a move to curb the coronavirus. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sar-kheng-asks-provincial-governors-to-stem-illegal-border-crossings/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Some 99.7 percent of the total 10 million workforces in Cambodia have jobs, according to a message of Prime Minister Hun Sen on the 134th International Labour Day. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unemployment-rate-in-cambodia-at-0-3-percent/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thai Fermentation Industry Co Ltd which produces Rachachuros Genuine MSG, donated $155,000 to the Ministry of Foreign affairs in a bid to support the Cambodia government to combat the COVID-19. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thai-company-donates-covid-19-aid-to-the-kingdom/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In a bid to assist the Cambodian government in the fight against Covid-19, the Indian embassy in Phnom Penh on Monday donated protective supplies to the Chey Chumneas Referral Hospital in Kandal province. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/india-aids-kingdoms-fight-against-covid-19/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh municipal governor Khuong Sreng said on Monday that the capital will boast a total of 27 pedestrian overpasses if the public approves the five now in the trial phase. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/capital-to-construct-27-overpasses/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Health announced yesterday that in the first nine months of this year, there has been a 70 percent decrease in malaria cases when compared to the same period last year. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/70-percent-decline-in-malaria-cases/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The AsiAn Development BAnk (ADB) hAs Approved A $70 million in loAn to improve the cApAcity of Agribusinesses in six provinces Across CAmbodiA to process key AgriculturAl products. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Adb-Approves-loAns-worth-70-million-for-cAmbodiAs-Agriculture/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Fish production during the first half of this year reached close to one billion, marking a nearly one percent rise from figures recorded in the same period last year. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/first-half-year-figures-see-rise-in-fish-breeding/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Health has claimed that as many as 10 to 15 per cent of recovered Covid-19 patients could potentially suffer a spontaneous relapse which would again render the virus communicable. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/recovered-covid-patients-may-relapse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>