Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday shut down the border with Vietnam amid COVID-19 fears. “We will be closing down the border [today],” Mr Hun Sen said. “This is not a response to Vietnam’s closure of its border with us.” <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdom-closes-border-with-vietnam-over-outbreak/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has given the green light to three new investment projects with a total investment capital of $246.1 million. according to the council, the newly approved projects are expected to create some 1,547 jobs for the locals. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/three-investment-projects-worth-246-million-approved-to-create-1500-jobs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Sixteen local NGOs released a joint statement Thursday calling on Prime Minister Hun Sen to publicly repudiate National Military Police Commander Sao Sokha’s January 15 speech in which he said he learned strategy from adolf Hitler. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngos-call-on-hun-sen-to-shun-hitler-comments/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ta Siem, a remote commune in Siem Reap province, yesterday changed hands from the opposition to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party after several hundred soldiers were trucked there from another province to vote. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/soldiers-appear-to-have-swung-seats/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A 35 yeAr old AmericAn femAle becAme CAmbodiA’s 301st COVID-19 positive victim. She wAs found to be infected After Arriving from the United StAtes viA Seoul, South KoreA on WednesdAy, 4 November. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-registers-its-301st-covid-19-positive-cAse/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Mondulkiri officials issued a six-day ultimatum on constructions encroaching on the Doh Kramom Mountain Cultural Centre in Sen Monorom town’s Sokdum commune. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/intruders-ordered-to-remove-constructions-on-mondulkiri-hills/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

National assembly this morning approved coal-fired power projects with a production capacity of nearly 1,000MW. The approval was made in an extraordinary parliamentary session chaired by Samdech akka Moha Ponhea Chakrei Heng Samrin, President of Na, with 108 lawmakers in attendance. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/national-assembly-approves-1000-mw-coal-fired-plant-projects/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The United States, through the U.S. agency for International Development (USaID), is providing $100,000 in immediate humanitarian aid to support response efforts to severe flooding in Cambodia, according to a news release of the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/u-s-provides-100000-to-support-cambodias-flood-response-efforts/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian Keo Romiet mangoes remain on target to be directly exported to the Chinese market from early next year after the economic powerhouse penned an agreement in June that set up a 500,000 tonne quota for the Kingdom’s widely-available fruit. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/exporters-poised-to-ship-fresh-mangoes-to-china-in-early-2021/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A 39MW solAr power plAnt in fAr northwestern CAmbodiA’s BAnteAy MeAnchey province hAs been successfully brought to the nAtionAl grid, Shenzhen-listed solAr development compAny JA SolAr Technology Co Ltd sAid in press releAse on MArch 10. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/bAnteAy-meAnchey-solAr-fArm-Adds-39mw-to-nAtionAl-grid/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Kratie provincial authority in collaboration with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-Cambodia) is preparing to build a guard post in the anlong Kampi area of the Mekong River in Chitr Borei district’s Sambok commune to watch for illegal fishing activities that may affect <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/floating-guard-post-to-protect-irawaddy-dolphins-in-mekong/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Municipal administration issued a set of detailed guidelines for the seven days to May 12 after the capital emerges from lockdown at the onset of May 6.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/phnom-penh-unveils-rules-for-post-lockdown-transition/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen has set a goal of vaccinating about 13 million people, or over 80 per cent of the population, against Covid-19.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-targets-13m-people-vaccinated-for-covid-19/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After the government imposed nAtionwide Covid-19 restrictions to stem the new coronAvirus DeltA vAriAnt, Tbong Khmum province hAs begun enforcing them with A night-time curfew effective through August 12. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/tbong-khmum-enforces-curfew/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Even as the government lifted Covid-19 restrictions in most parts of the country on august 19, at least four provinces have decided to extend the measures for another week in a bid to contain the highly contagious coronavirus Delta variant. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/four-provinces-extend-restriction-against-the-delta-variant/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Municipal administration calls on residents in the capital’s 14 districts who have received their second dose of Covid-19 vaccine to get their booster shot after a four-month interval. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/phnom-penh-to-kick-off-covid-booster-shot-campaign-oct-11/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A senior Ministry of HeAlth officiAl sAid most Covid-19 pAtients who hAd died were unvAccinAted, while the deAth of vAccinAted people wAs cAused by underlying heAlth problems. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/unvAccinAted-people-the-mAjority-of-covid-fAtAlities/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Kamrieng district police in Battambang province are searching for a suspected people broker who fled after 38 individuals were arrested while attempting to illegally cross the border into Thailand on the night of august 21 near the Ou Chamlang Bridge in Ou Chamlang village of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/38-heading-to-thailand-busted-hopping-border/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen blasted unnamed analysts for statements indicating their desire to bring the Paris Peace agreements back into force somehow. He said that calling for a reversion to that agreement was tantamount to calling for foreigners to take control of the country again. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-blasts-analysts-for-untac-era-nostalgia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Covid-19 pandemic brought high-rise building construction in Preah Sihanouk province to a halt when it began, resulting in several business disputes that four real estate companies are now working together to solve, according to provincial governor Kuch Chamroeun. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/firms-seek-to-resume-high-rise-construction-in-sihanoukville/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>