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>

Farmers hit by drought in Battambang this year are already benefitting from a new crop insurance product for rice farmers introduced by Forte Insurance, with at least 60 families in two districts of the country’s main rice-growing province collecting payments so far. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-insurance-product-gives-rice-farmers-a-break/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In the latest twist in a long-running dispute over a protected community forest in Battambang province, villagers disgusted by rampant land grabbing have begun scrambling for a piece of the action. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-forest-disappears-in-the-scramble-for-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 6,400 residents of Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia have signed and thumb-printed a statement on the Don Sahong Dam project, airing concerns ranging from the river’s diminishing fish stocks to the lack of transparency of the Mekong River Commission. The statement, presented last week <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mekong-locals-seek-a-voice-on-don-sahong/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The falling price of rice in asia due to the slowing global economy and intensifying regional competition is taking a toll on Cambodian exporters and farmers even though exports jumped more than 20 percent last month compared to January last year, executives said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/falling-rice-price-taking-a-toll-on-exporters/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A new species of Ant hAs been discovered in CAmbodiA by reseArchers from JApAn. Its nAme is CremAtogAster indosinensis, And it is described in AnnAls of the EntomologicAl Society of AmericA. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/A-new-species-of-Ant-found-in-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Vietnamese investors shied away from the Cambodian market during the first half of the year as the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) failed to register a single qualified investment project (QIP) from Vietnam during that period for the first time in its 22-year <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/investment-from-vietnam-hits-a-dry-patch-cdc/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In Cambodia, as credit becomes increasingly available, more people are taking loans from microfinance institutions to help with migration.as of June 2015, microfinance institutions lent more than $2 billion, compared to $1.6 billion dollars in 2014, according to the Cambodia Microfinance association. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/microcredit-a-double-edged-sword-strategy-for-migration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>