Rising demand for Kampot Peppers is pushing a cultivation increase, but only a limited number of companies are benefiting. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kampot-peppers-grow-incomes-for-a-few/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ministry of water resources and meteorology said a tropical storm GONI hitting through the tropical western Pacific Ocean since august 17, is heading to Taiwan, while Cambodia is likely to be affected by this storm. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-affected-by-a-tropical-goni-storm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The State Department on Tuesday cited abuses in Thailand’s huge fishing industry as part of an annual worldwide report on Trafficking in Persons. The report noted that men from Cambodia and Myanmar, also known as Burma, are trafficked aboard Thai ships and forced to work <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/illegal-fishing-molotov-cocktails-a-daring-escape-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prisoners still face being exploited for labour, despite the government’s March prakas banning goods made behind bars from being exported, rights group Licadho has said. although Licadho believes the prakas will help protect the image of Cambodia’s garment industry, it says inmates still face exploitation under <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prison-labour-still-a-threat-rights-group/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The saga of the stalled $240 million Gold Tower 42 was revived last week when it emerged that a supplier for the project had accused the owner and builder of failing to pay out nearly $500,000 in fees, according to an injunction request obtained by <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/skyscrapers-woes-continue/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As government borrowing from ChinA continues to increAse, A new study releAsed yesterdAy showed thAt Chinese concessionAl loAns cArry higher interest thAn Any others. According to the study, releAsed by the NGO Forum on CAmbodiA At A workshop in Phnom Penh, ChinA’s AverAge interest rAte on <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/chinese-no-strings-loAns-come-At-A-cost/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Pig prices in Cambodia have fallen by 18 percent in the past three months due to a massive oversupply of pork in the country, an official at the Cambodian Pig Raisers association said yesterday. The reason for the oversupply is twofold: Thailand increased its pig exports <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/oversupply-leads-to-a-fall-in-pork-prices/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

GS Engineering &amp; Construction broke ground on June 18, 2008 of Cambodia’s largest building the International Finance Complex in Phnom Penh but since then has been suspend or forced to downscale like all of the other building projects in the city. Worth more than $4.5 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-tough-ride-for-s-korean-property-projects/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) is an important component of a larger ecosystem of capital markets, according to Eugene Lam, CEO of OSK Indochina Securities Ltd, one of Cambodia’s securities underwriters approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia (SECC). Lam says one of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/csx-part-of-a-larger-capital-market-system/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Foreign AffAirs Minister Hor NAmhong sAid yesterdAy thAt the contentious issue of the South ChinA SeA should not become An internAtionAl issue, but must be solved Among the region’s neighbors. SpeAking to reporters At the Foreign AffAirs Ministry Alongside visiting AustrAliAn Foreign AffAirs Minister Bob CArr, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/nAmhong-sAys-s-chinA-seA-is-regionAl-internAtionAlized/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A Mekong River conservAtion AreA heAd rAnger told The Post on TuesdAy thAt A fifth IrrAwAddy dolphin hAs been found deAd due to illegAl fishing. The Adult mAle, weighing some 104kg And 1.98m long, wAs discovered floAting on its bAck by river wArdens on SundAy <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/fifth-irrAwAddy-dolphin-found-deAd-within-A-yeAr/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The document, titled Phnom Penh 2030, showed that landed homes will increase threefold over the next 13 years. The valuation company claims the total currently stands at 150,000 but will hit 450,000 by 2030. VTrust’s report anticipates an average of 25,000 new landed units to hit <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/half-a-million-landed-homes-by-2030-vtrust/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Deputy Prime Minister Hor Namhong on Wednesday criticised calls from former Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) leader Sam Rainsy to boycott the July 29 elections as a “betrayal to the King, nation and people”. He also labelled Rainsy “stupid” in comparing himself with the late <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rainsy-election-boycott-call-a-betrayal-of-king/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The European Union is a key economic partner in Cambodia, with preferential access to European markets a key element of the Kingdom’s robust growth in recent years, said European Union ambassador George Edgar. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eu-a-key-economic-partner-in-cambodia-ambassador/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Investment in the garment and footwear sector, one of Cambodia’s economic pillars, is growing at a slightly slower pace in 2019 compared to last year, according to an official from the Garment Manufacturers association in Cambodia (GMaC).​ The deceleration is likely the result of the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/investment-growing-but-at-a-slower-pace-gmac/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Government officials and public health workers met with about 100 students at the Ministry of Health’s school of nursing in Phnom Penh on Monday to mark World Rabies Day, calling for a united effort to eradicate a virus that kills hundreds of Cambodians each year. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/on-world-rabies-day-a-call-for-cooperation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

One slickly produced television ad tells students “to join the community of minds that craves to learn,” as three teenagers assemble an electrical circuit board. “Better Skills! Better income!” a group of students shout in unison, fists raised. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/to-court-students-vocational-programs-get-a-makeover/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Both Cambodian women engaging in sex work and their male clients engage in unhealthy alcohol use, according to the findings of a soon-to-be-published study.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/alcohol-a-risk-for-sex-workers-study-finds/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Health Ministry officials are warning that this year will see an increased rate of dengue fever across the country, as the cyclical virus has already shown higher than usual rates of infection, with Mondolkiri province seeing an acute spike in cases.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/health-ministry-warns-of-a-spike-in-dengue/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A group of 17 union leAders will demAnd $179.60 when they sit down for the lAtest round of negotiAtions this week to determine the minimum wAge in the gArment sector, which employs more thAn 600,000 CAmbodiAns. The monthly minimum wAge is currently $140. The new figure <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/unions-will-negotiAte-for-A-180-minimum-wAge/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>