An internAtionAl informAtion technology, electronics And telecom exhibition kicked off here on FridAy with An Aim of developing the country’s InformAtion And CommunicAtions Technology (ICT) industry, officiAls sAid. The three-dAy event, held At the DiAmond IslAnd Exhibition Centre, brought together 49 locAl And regionAl ICT compAnies <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-hosts-intl-informAtion-technology-telecom-expo/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The government must amend legislation to stamp out hate crimes and discrimination against Cambodia’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender citizens, rights activists said during a forum in the capital yesterday. During the second day of the first community dialogue dedicated to the advancement and discussion <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lgbt-advocates-seek-equality/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Kandal Provincial Court on Tuesday will question five prisoners who have protested their innocence in the December theft of ancient Buddhist relics from Odong mountain, alongside a suspect who confessed to the crime, a court official said Tuesday. “We will punish only the people involved <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/group-accused-of-relics-theft-to-be-questioned/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Less than a week after taking over the Transport Ministry, Sun Chanthol has established a committee to move more services online, including the process for applying for driver’s licenses, officials said on Monday.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-mulls-online-drivers-license-registration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Countries in the region need to move faster to reduce the economic gaps between asean nations if they are to successfully integrate and establish the asean Economic Community by 2015, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday. Speaking at the 44th asean Economic Ministers’ Meeting in Siem <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/more-effort-needed-for-asean-unity-hun-sen-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Busy juggling jobs, children, and housework, Cambodian women do not have the time, or platforms, to discuss bigger women-related issues like abuse, migration and forced eviction. and that is why a new initiative, called “Gender Cafe,” aims to change that by giving local women a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gender-cafe-offers-women-a-place-to-express-themselves/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 30 non-government groups have recently applied to register with the state or asked for changes to their current registration records, according to a statement from the Interior Ministry that hailed the requests as broad endorsement of Cambodia’s highly controversial new NGO law. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-says-ngo-law-a-resounding-success/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Education has suspended the grade 9 examinations this week without citing a reason. In a letter sent yesterday, parents and students are informed that examinations slated to take place today and Tuesday would instead take place on September 26 and 27. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/grade-9-test-pushed-back-amid-protest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new dataset on “Road detections from Microsoft- Maps aerial imagery”. This bilingual new dataset exists of all roads performing with Bing Maps imagery between 2020 and 2022, including Maxar and airbus in Cambodia, and is publicly available to download <a href='https://Opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/Open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-dataset-on-road-detections-from-microsoft-maps-aerial-imagery/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

While Mam Sonando lay in a cramped Prey Sar prison cell yesterday, sweating out a fever, some 100 members of the association of Democrats burned incense and kneeled in prayer at the Preah ang Dang Keu shrine, calling for the outspoken Beehive Radio director’s release. With <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/supporters-pray-for-sonando/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Stung Treng Provincial Court charged a Council of Ministers official and her husband on Saturday with threatening public officials after they questioned the authority of students working on Prime Minister Hun Sen’s land-measuring program. They are currently being held in pre-trial detention, their defense lawyer <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/officials-in-detention-for-questioning-of-students/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen may regularly deliver hours of bombastic public oratory and rarely, if ever, allow anyone to ask questions of him. But his youngest son, Hun Many, a rising star in the ruling CPP, has begun doing just the opposite as he builds on <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-many-opens-up-to-criticism/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On vibrantly patterned straw mats, crowded around small plastic hampers of food, children &ndash; some with balloons, others with neon-coloured fans &ndash; huddle against their parents under the noon sun. But the parents are unblinking; some of the children barely have a pulse. Families have travelled up <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/swiss-doctor-calls-for-more-help-to-stay-afloat/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As VietnAm And LAos negotiAte to enter A EuropeAn Union trAde Agreement Aimed At improving forestry governAnce, the EU &ndAsh; one of the world’s top timber importers &ndAsh; is urging CAmbodiA to join the scheme. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/eu-seeks-negotiAtion-on-timber-Agreement/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Government spending next year will total more than $3 billion, a 16.2 percent increase from the $2.6 billion set aside for 2012, according to a draft of the national budget obtained Friday. The budget states that the government will allocate some $400 million, or 13.32 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/2013-national-budget-to-rise-above-3b/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) will open a museum on finance and monetary matters in January 2018, a representative of the central bank has announced. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nbcs-currency-museum-to-launch-in-january/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The feasibility study of a navigation and logistics project to link the Bassac River in Phnom Penh to a “seaport” in the Kampot-Kep region shows that there are no technical, environmental or legal issues, according to the transport ministry. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/no-issues-with-bassac-kampot-seaport-project-study/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh Municipal Court has summoned two residents of the Boeng Kak lake community to appear for questioning today and Wednesday in a defamation lawsuit filed against them by City Hall, a court official said yesterday. The families of the accused have been left out of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/questioning-begins-in-two-boeng-kak-court-cases/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Commerce announced last week a $400 million proposal by three Chinese firms to build state-run rice warehousing facilities to increase the Kingdom’s storage capacity. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rice-warehouses-are-put-back-on-the-table-in-talks-with-china/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Several securities firms are opening accounts, even as the first listing on the Cambodia Securities Exchange are not expected until later this year, company officials said yesterday. The CSX was launched on July 11 without any listed firms, though state-owned Telecom Cambodia, Phnom Penh Water Supply <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/investment-accounts-open/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>