A new real estate joint venture between local Sonatra Group and Japan’s Grand Corp launched a $6.5 million condominium project in BKK1 yesterday. The 26-storey tower, with 50 units, will be built with high-quality, energy-saving Japanese equipment, according to the new firm’s chief executive, Jun Takeguchi. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-condominium-launched/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

With momentum gathering behind a movement to renovate rather than raze Phnom Penh’s famous White Building, City Hall on Thursday backtracked on its assertion earlier this week that the building was destined for demolition. On Tuesday, Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong said the iconic apartment block href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/city-hall-backtracks-amid-white-building-outcry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The number of Cambodian women caught in abusive marriages in China is increasing dramatically, according to rights groups, which last year helped repatriate nearly 50 brides who had been either trafficked abroad or lured by the promise of a better life. Local rights groups Adhoc and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nearly-50-abused-brides-repatriated-last-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

 National Assembly (NA) Chairman, Nguyen Sinh Hung, and his Cambodian counterpart, Heng Samrin, met in Ha Noi yesterday where the former described the latter’s visit as an important milestone in bilateral ties between the two parliaments, contributing to the Viet Nam-Cambodia friendship and solidarity. Chairman Hung href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/relationship-with-cambodia-going-strong-na-leader/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The construction of Cambodia’s new international airport has been on track on its construction progress, according to government officials and will soon be 50 percent completed. State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA) spokesman and undersecretary of state Sin Chansereyvutha spoke to local news and gave href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/techo-international-airport-construction-progress-on-track/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Taking advantage of the 45th Session of the World Heritage Committee in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Dr. Hang Peou, Director General of APSARA National Authority, Phan Nadi, together with the Permanent Scientific Secretary of the ICC-Angkor and Sambo Prei Kuk met with Lazare Eloundou Assomo, President href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/the-4th-inter-governmental-conference-on-angkor-and-sambo-prei-kuk-to-be-held-at-unesco-headquarters/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The financial standing of Cambodian borrowers has seen improvement over the years in many cases, as per data with the Cambodian Microfinance Association (CMA). href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/more-cambodian-borrowers-of-mfis-are-buying-land-than-selling/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

In a move to bolster foreign investment, the Cambodian Chamber of Commerce (CCC) has announced plans to establish additional liaisons abroad, with a particular focus on the European Union. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ccc-plans-to-establish-eu-liaisons/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The U.N.’s efforts to locate a group of Montagnards hiding in Ratanakkiri province continued to be hindered Monday as the provincial governor was yet again unavailable to meet its delegation, four days after it traveled to the northeastern province. Despite the delegation’s expectation that it would href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/governor-continues-to-delay-un-meeting-with-montagnards-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy over the weekend again raised the prospect that a future CNRP government may oversee forced redistributions of land from the rich to the poor in order to correct cases of land-grabbing under Prime Minister Hun Sen’s reign.Mr. Hun Sen last week href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/despite-pms-attack-rainsy-pushes-plan-to-seize-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Former Khmer Rouge cadres who in return for laying down their weapons and swearing allegiance to the Cambodian government were granted plots of land in what is now Kampot province say local authorities aren’t respecting the deal. Representatives of 80 families in the province’s Chhouk district told the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-title-deals-for-former-khmer-rouge-in-question/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Garment factory workers who set tyres ablaze during a strike on Friday claimed yesterday they were burned when police pushed them into their own fire. Snguon Vannary was one of several workers who said his feet had been burned when police broke up the strike at href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tae-young-strikers-claim-police-abuse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Time is running out to rid the proposed ASEAN Human Rights Declaration of clauses that would restrict peoples’ rights rather than protect and enhance them, civil society groups said yesterday. Nay Vanda, deputy head of the monitoring section of rights group Adhoc, said civil society groups needed more href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/window-closing-on-ahrd-ngos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Bankers have raised no concerns over the National Bank of Cambodia’s increase to the reserve requirement rate in order to maintain the stabilization of cash flow and inflation during a time of global financial difficulty. The increase, from 12 to 12.5 per cent, issued late last month, was href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/reserve-rate-doesnt-worry-local-banks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The government on Friday pledged a 20 per cent increase to the base salary of civil servants year-on-year in a move one government official insisted was based on economics, not politics. The announcement was made in a statement released over the weekend outlining government spending for href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-pledges-pay-boost/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A group representing public-sector workers has called on the country’s civil servants to follow in the footsteps of teachers and begin a peaceful strike to demand higher salaries. A statement disseminated Thursday by the Cambodian Independent Civil Servants Association (CICA), which claims to have 1,530 members, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/civil-servants-urged-to-strike-for-higher-pay/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Republic of Korea has pledged to increase the quota for Cambodian workers in the country to more than 10,000 this year, and the figure will further rise in the following years. The pledge was made by Dr Uh Soobong, Chairman of Human Resource Development href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/south-korea-to-increase-quota-for-cambodian-workers-to-over-10000-in-2023/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Neak Leung bridge, which spans the Mekong River on the border between Kandal and Prey Veng provinces, will officially open to traffic on April 1, ahead of the busy Khmer New Year holiday, officials confirmed yesterday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/april-1-debut-set-for-new-bridge/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Residents of Kratie province had an education in conservation yesterday as the government and outside partners reiterated a September sub-decree banning gill nets on a sizable stretch of the Mekong in a bid to protect the badly endangered Mekong River dolphin. Touch Seang Tana, head of the Commission href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kratie-meet-pushes-dolphin-protection/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

In a rare intervention, the Thai Labor Ministry has stepped in to stop the exploitation of migrant workers from Cambodia and Myanmar at a seafood factory in the country’s south, correspondence obtained by the Post reveals. The ministry found the Phatthana Seafood factory, in Songkhla province, which employs href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thailand-cracks-down-on-exploitative-factory/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...