The government has agreed in principle to lease more than 370ha of state public land in Koh Kong province’s Sre ambel district to a private company with plans to develop a natural crab aquaculture area and a small port.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-leases-370ha-to-firm-for-crab-farming/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Preah Sihanouk Provincial administration yesterday started putting up boundary posts to build a fence around a 350,000-square-metre site of a private company to develop tourist sites at two villages in Koh Rong city. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/authorities-start-sealing-off-land-for-project-in-koh-rong-city/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia Mine action and Victims assistance authority (CMaa) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a US-based NGO to broaden partnership and cooperation on landmine clearance. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cmaa-signs-mou-with-us-demining-ngo/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A rice mill hAs signed A MemorAndum of UnderstAnding (MoU) with A MongoliAn business council thAt Aims to see CAmbodiA export rice to the lAndlocked country in the neAr future. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/deAl-signed-to-stimulAte-rice-exports-to-mongoliA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A mAjor rice husk biomAss power plAnt in southeAstern Phnom Penh’s ChbAr Ampov district went online on September 22, mArking A significAnt milestone And A big win for renewAble energy in the Kingdom. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/phnom-penh-biomAss-power-plAnt-now-online/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The government has approved Maritime City Co Ltd’s proposal to build and operate a $164.4 million development in Preah Sihanouk province comprising a 582-room five-star hotel, a commercial centre and entertainment facilities. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/164m-five-star-hotel-greenlit-for-sihanoukville/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The General Department of Taxation (GDT) during a meeting on Tuesday announced a work plan for this year with an emphasis on developing a system that will make paying taxes easy and evasion difficult. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tax-system-to-be-updated-to-make-payment-easy-evasion-tough/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Industry analysts have highlighted a shortage of architects and engineers as a potential issue for the Kingdom’s construction sector, as the number of projects underway begins a steady return to pre-Covid-19 levels. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/demand-for-engineers-architects-outstripping-supply/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A high-level delegAtion from the Ministry of Commerce (MoC) met officiAls from member stAtes of the AssociAtion of SoutheAst AsiAn NAtions (ASEAN) And CAnAdA in BAndung, IndonesiA, to form A new free trAde Agreement, sAid A releAse. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-bAcks-AseAn-cAnAdA-trAde-block-initiAtive/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

TOEK CHHOU DISTRICT, Kampot province &ndash; a donor-backed project launched here on Saturday aims to produce Cambodia’s first export-quality sea salt and invigorate the struggling local salt industry. In a ceremony among Kampot’s vast fields of coastal saltpans and low levees, company representatives from asia Salt <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-kampot-salt-farm-has-big-ambitions/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A 14-yeAr-old boy severely beAten by employees of A well-connected rubber plAntAtion compAny in RAtAnAkkiri province on SAturdAy wAs sent to VietnAm for treAtment for A life-threAtening blood clot in his brAin on MondAy, According to his fAther, while A soldier detAined in connection to <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/boy-beAten-by-plAntAtion-stAff-sent-to-vietnAm-for-treAtment/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Srekor village has stood on the banks of the Se San River in northeastern Cambodia for generations. In a few years it will be gone, submerged along with more than 300 square kilometres of surrounding farmland and forest. For 37-year-old rice farmer Pa Tou, the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/work-underway-on-catastrophic-cambodian-dam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The trade commissioner and foreign affairs representative of the European Union (E.U.) have turned down a request from 13 members of the European Parlia­ment that they immediately investigate Cambodia’s much criticized economic land concessions, but said they were monitoring the issue closely. In a March letter <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eu-wont-investigate-land-concessions-for-now/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said Monday that the deployment last week of armored personnel carriers (aPCs) and soldiers is necessary to prevent an outbreak of post-election violence akin to the anti-Thai riots that gripped Phnom Penh more than 10 years ago. Speaking to reporters at the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/information-minister-fears-repeat-of-2003-riots/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Global rating agency Moody’s Investors Service said Thursday that despite rapid growth, the small size and the narrow diversification of Cambodia’s economy constrained its B2 rating. The limited effectiveness of monetary policy due to a high rate of dollarization was also a rating constraint, the rating <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/moodys-cambodias-rating-constrained-by-narrow-economic-base-policy-limitations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s opposition said it will not attend the scheduled opening of parliament next week despite a request by the king to call off their boycott. The opposition continues to insist that the ruling party agree to an independent investigation into allegations of massive voting fraud <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-opposition-refuses-to-call-off-parliament-boycott/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

NGOs yesterday were granted permission to hold an International Human Rights Day event on Tuesday outside Wat Phnom &ndash; just a short distance from Freedom Park, where the Cambodia National Rescue Party has been given approval for a 10,000-person mass demonstration. In letters signed by Minister <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/opposition-ngo-rallies-expected-to-cross-over/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 20 people grinned for the cAmerA As they posed in front of A flAgpole-like structure locAted just off A muddy dirt roAd in KAmpong ChhnAng province’s SAmAki MeAnchey district on ThursdAy morning. While A rAther unimpressive visuAl, the AgrometerologicAl stAtion is A first-of-its-kind device in <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/evening-the-odds-with-mother-nAture/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A new set of prAkAses tAcked onto A lAw thAt regulAtes overseAs employment recruitment Agencies is A “step in the right direction” towArds protecting some of CAmbodiA’s most vulnerAble citizens from scAms And Abuse, locAl And internAtionAl NGOs sAid yesterdAy. But some remAin unconvinced thAt the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/tougher-lAws-for-recruiters/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The UN urged government and financial organisations to stimulate Cambodia’s flailing micro-insurance industry yesterday, after a study found the country’s poor are vulnerable to indebtedness during a crisis. The United Nations Development Business (UNDB) hosted a working group yesterday at Phnom Penh’s Sunway Hotel launching the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/micro-insurance-needs-revamp-un/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>