The seventh edition of the ‘Give A DAy’ meet, held in Phnom Penh recently, urged the CAmbodiAn government to step up investments in tech pArks for promoting the ecosystem for digitAl stArt-ups And Also to speed up the country’s mArch to become A digitAl economy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/govt-urged-to-step-up-investments-in-tech-pArks/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd. (CHEC) on Friday secured a contract from a Cambodian firm to construct a multi-purpose seaport in southwestern Cambodia’s Kampot province. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-firm-wins-deal-to-build-3rd-largest-port-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Laos has launched a 500-kilovolt power transmission line linking a power substation at a village in its southern Champasak province to the border area of Cambodia. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/laos-launches-500-kilovolt-power-transmission-line-reaching-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Senate convened a meeting to examine a draft environment and natural resources code on June 13. The code was approved unanimously, with a 60-0 vote. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/environmental-code-approved-60-0-by-senate/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

​Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet told a Vietnamese company yesterday that Cambodia is setting a goal to turn family farming into a strategic production for export. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/%e1%9e%80%e1%9e%98%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%96%e1%9e%bb%e1%9e%87%e1%9e%b6%e1%9e%93%e1%9e%b9%e1%9e%84%e1%9e%94%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%9a%e1%9f%82%e1%9e%80%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%9b%e1%9e%b6%e1%9e%99/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Preah Vihear province &ndash; The residents of this sleepy district, on the edge of the Boeng Per Wildlife Sanctuary, grow rice, cassava and cashew nuts. But in a few short years, Chinese investors envisage that Rovieng will be rapidly transformed into an industrial town. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-firms-foresee-industrial-hub-in-preah-vihear/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Since Prime Minister Hun Sen announced an ambitious new plan some 10 months ago to make nearly half a million families official land owners, hardly a week goes by that a rural community does not complain of local officials trying to scam the project. But when <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sens-land-titles-receive-rare-praise-from-germany/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Piles of garbage festered on the streets of Phnom Penh on Tuesday as hundreds of workers employed by the city’s refuse collection company, Cintri, continued to strike for higher wages and better working conditions. at the company’s truck depot in Dangkao district Tuesday morning, more than <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/phnom-penh-trash-collectors-dance-for-demands/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

At leAst six people were injured on FridAy when A smAll group of Borei KeilA villAgers were evicted from the grounds of An unfinished building in Phnom Penh thAt they begAn occupying this week in A bid to drAw Attention to A yeArs-long fight for <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/six-injured-As-police-borei-keilA-villAgers-clAsh/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Deep in Koh Kong’s forested district on Thursday, Chut Wutty, 46, the founder of the Natural Resource Protection Group, and In Rattana, 32, a military police officer, were shot dead. Chut Wutty, a forestry activist who has dedicated himself to preserving Cambodia’s disappearing forests since <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-cardamom-mountains-two-deaths-recounted/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia, a Southeast asian country with 15 million inhabitants, has begun to embrace intensive livestock production despite numerous obstacles. The industry heavily relies on the import of genetics, soybean meal, fish meal, additives, medicines and vaccines. a major constraint preventing producers from taking up intensive <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-embraces-intensive-livestock-production/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Early on Monday morning, at about 1am, two trucks carrying roughly 10 cubic metres of illegally felled timber were bouncing down the road between Oddar Meanchey and Siem Reap. Police stopped the trucks &ndash; one of which bore military plates &ndash; and seized the haul, but <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/little-won-in-logging-crackdown/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

King Norodom Sihamoni used a speech during celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of Cambodia’s independence from France on Saturday to call for unity amid growing concerns over the long-term harmony of the nation since July’s disputed national election. Government officials, military officers and foreign diplomats turned <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/on-independence-day-king-sihamoni-calls-for-unity/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thailand’s second-largest cement company has suspended a cement-plant project valued at about $200 million in Kampot province because of political uncertainty and better investment opportunities in Myanmar, according to a senior executive. Philippe arto, the managing director of Siam City Cement Public Company Limited (SCCC), said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thai-company-shelves-kampot-cement-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian and international rights groups have renewed their calls for the release of Phnom Penh housing rights campaigner campaigner Yorm Bopha one year after her arrest, urging the public and national leaders not to forget her during the country’s current political deadlock. Global watchdog amnesty International <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/calls-for-boeung-kak-activists-release-renewed-on-one-year-anniversary/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy, along with the rest of his party, condemned the opening of the National assembly yesterday, saying in a speech delivered in Siem Reap that the action violated the constitution and had reverted the country to “communist” rule. Even as rumours swirled about <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rainsy-calls-assembly-meeting-communist/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s Supreme Court ordered the release of two men Wednesday who were wrongly convicted and jailed for the 2004 murder of a prominent opposition activist. The court’s decision to drop all charges came amid renewed calls to free the men, whom leading international rights groups have <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-high-court-drops-case-against-men-wrongly-jailed-for-2004-murder-of-labor-activist/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

There were ugly scenes on Friday at Phnom Penh’s hill-temple Wat Phnom when district security guards scuffled, shouted abuse and punched a group of mostly women and monks who had gathered to hold a memorial ceremony for Mao Sok Chan&mdash;the 29-year-old man shot dead by <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/security-guards-disrupt-memorial-ceremony-for-slain-man/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo abe has pledged to help Cambodia with electoral reforms, following a request by Prime Minister Hun Sen to send experts to the country ahead of future polls and amid an ongoing dispute over national elections held more than three months ago. The <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japan-to-assist-cambodia-with-election-reform/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

BATI DISTRICT, TAkeo province &ndAsh; At A fArming school here lAst week, 150 poor AgriculturAl workers gAthered to celebrAte grAduAting A two-month trAining course. The new group of educAtors will now set out with their newly Acquired skills to help trAnsform the country’s poorest rurAl <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/project-Aims-to-mAke-subsistence-fArms-profitAble/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>