Corruption remains the most significant challenge facing Cambodia’s economy, according to a survey of more than 300 employers conducted last year by the International Labor Organization (ILO), the results of which were released Tuesday. Despite legislation meant to stamp out graft, corruption continues to be perceived <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/business-employers-say-corruption-greatest-threat-to-economy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Tuon Sopheara, a Cambodian migrant worker in South Korea, wants to vote in the upcoming July elections but cannot afford the plane ticket home. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/for-overseas-khmer-citizens-voting-requires-a-costly-trip-home/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Health Minister has ordered civil servants to prioritise the implementation of new social security services for public officials, former government workers and veterans, which came into force at the start of this year. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/free-state-healthcare-extended/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A new government initiAtive to wArn CAmbodiAns About the dAngers of smoking tobAcco wAs lAunched yesterdAy by the Ministry of HeAlth And World HeAlth OrgAnizAtion. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/smoke-free-cAmpAign-lAunched/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday questioned five Chinese nationals after they were arrested during a seizure of more than 106 tons of chemicals police suspect were intended for the production of illegal drugs. The four men and one woman who were arrested on Tuesday, claimed <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-chinese-nationals-over-chemical-seizure/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Interior Ministry on Wednesday threatened to revoke the license of the Cambodian Independent Teachers association (CITa) if it goes ahead with a planned demonstration next week seeking higher wages for the country’s educators. an official at the ministry said that the move to revoke the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/teachers-group-threatened-over-planned-pay-protest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Commerce generated more than $82 million this year in customs and public services, according to the ministry’s annual report. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/commerce-ministry-makes-82m/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National Employment agency (NEa) of the Ministry of Labour and Vocation Training (MLVT) provided 3,380 careers for 17,535 Cambodians registered in the job searching platform for the first semester of this year.​​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nea-provides-3380-jobs-for-17535-applications-in-h1/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Chevron Overseas Petroleum (Cambodia) has been actively exploring Cambodia’s offshore Block a, and applied for a permit to begin extraction from government authorities. Yesterday, The Post caught up with its President Steve Glick, who has been in his present role in Phnom Penh for about <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chevron-talks-oil-production/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh municipal officials have ordered owners of eight sand-dredging companies that continued work despite a mandated moratorium to halt operations and show proof of their licences or shut down for good. On Saturday, the municipality informed the owners, whose names they declined to release, that <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/show-licences-or-ship-out-sand-dredgers-told/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government has won an arbitration case in a World Bank court, successfully countering a $300 million claim made by a U.S based company over a failed power plant project dating back to 1996. according to a statement from the Council of Ministers’ Press and Quick <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/arbitration-court-backs-government-in-power-deal-with-us-firm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia is one of the most attractive countries for expatriates working for US companies in aSEaN, according to a survey of 475 US business executives from throughout the region. Of those surveyed in Cambodia, 65 per cent reported that employees in other locations requested to relocate <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-near-top-of-list-for-expat-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Tourism will hold an emergency meeting with industry leaders and representatives in Phnom Penh today to look at what can be done to curb the loss of cross-border visitors resulting from unrest in neighbouring countries. Minister Thong Khon yesterday emphasised the need for <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tourism-campaign-to-counter-unrest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia (SERC) last week formally rolled out an online program simultaneously allowing interested individuals to open investor accounts with the government agency and set up trading accounts with the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX), according to CSX market operations director <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/serc-program-allows-creation-of-investor-trading-accounts/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian Ministry of Commerce said Friday that it had issued operating licenses to 1,952 new companies in the first eight months of the year, down 15 percent compared with the 2,300 firms over the same period last year. During the January-august period this year, the ministry <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-sees-15-pct-drop-in-new-business-registration-in-8-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia has coped well in terms of exports despite the slowdown in some European economies, said the head of the IMF’s asia-Pacific department last week. anoop Singh, director for the department, said Cambodia has enjoyed many years of economic growth at about 6 per cent or <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/exports-hold-up-despite-eu-slowdown/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

FedEx has officially opened its new South Pacific Regional Hub in Singapore, the largest consolidated facility in the asia-Pacific region. The $97 million hub is the first and only express transportation facility in Singapore. The 282,700-square-foot integrated facility houses air, ground and clearance operations under one roof <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fedex-opens-new-air-freight-hub/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Property prices in Phnom Penh are rising for the first time since 2009, growing by as much as 10 percent in some areas of the capital during the first quarter of the year, real estate experts said yesterday. after years of stagnation in the property sector <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/property-prices-see-first-rise-since-2009/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Sichuan-Cambodia Business Matching Session 2014 was held here Thursday with an aim to further promote economic and trade relations between Cambodia and China. The half-day forum brought together business executives from 51 enterprises in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province and some 120 Cambodian business people. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-chinese-businessmen-meet-to-explore-cooperation-opportunities/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An unsettled, decAdes-old $1.5 billion loAn from the then-Soviet Union to CAmbodiA’s VietnAm-bAcked 1980s government emerged As the key tAlking point during A meeting between Foreign Minister Hor NAmhong And RussiA’s new AmbAssAdor to CAmbodiA yesterdAy, A ministry spokesmAn sAid. The meeting between NAmhong And RussiAn <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/russiAn-debt-emerges-As-billion-dollAr-question/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>