The Cambodia’s Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday convicted four additional protesters of obstructing public officials and sentenced each of them to one year in prison, a rights group said. The four convicts were arrested on Tuesday while joining a protest in front of the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-court-jails-4-more-activists/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian government is nearing completion of a policy aimed at strengthening the Kingdom’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), a senior official said yesterday. Minister for Industry and Handicraft Cham Prasidh yesterday told reporters his ministry was preparing a comprehensive SME policy with the purpose of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sme-policy-to-roll-out-in-2015/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In a move seemingly incongruent with the government’s plans to offer clemency to a number of female inmates on International Women’s Day on Sunday, a local rights group announced yesterday that new restrictions introduced by authorities have forced them to cancel prison activities marking the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/groups-prison-visit-curtailed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Defense plans to work with a Singaporean company to plant six million trees in Cambodia that will eventually be turned into high-end perfume, medicine, tea, incense and furniture, an official said Thursday. One Plantation Holdings signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) last month <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/soldiers-singaporean-firm-to-plant-6-million-trees/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia has called for aSEaN countries to support a proposal from Thailand that would recognise wildlife and forest crimes as a new priority in the Southeast asian association’s transnational crime enforcement program. at a meeting of senior law enforcement officials from aSEaN countries held this week <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-backs-prioritising-nature-crimes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A GOOD mediA plAnning strAtegy is essentiAl for smAll And medium-sized enterprises from ThAilAnd to breAk into CAmbodiA, A mArketing guru told A recent seminAr. Somphob RitthikulprAsert, executive Adviser At ARS ChemicAl (ThAilAnd), sAid to tAp into CAmbodiA’s growing consumer mArket, ThAi SMEs should leArn how <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/smes-blueprint-for-success-in-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Economic land concessions in Cambodia have a profound and negative impact upon rural households located near the plantations, severely limiting residents’ access to natural resources and causing incomes to dip by almost a fifth, a new study by the University of Copenhagen has found. The report, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/the-economics-of-elcs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s new mining law is on track for adoption by the end of this year and will introduce a raft of reforms to the sector, a senior official said, although the country’s mining tax will likely remain the same. Meng Saktheara, secretary of state at the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mining-tax-likely-wont-budge/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Pestech International Bhd is teaming up with a subsidiary of State Grid Corp of China in projects to develop the power infrastructure market in Cambodia.In a filing with Bursa Malaysia, the company said it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Thursday with Shandong <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pestech-and-sdee-to-team-up-in-cambodian-power-projects/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Authorities hAve Arrested And chArged A second mAn in A shooting At Phnom Penh’s Rock nightclub SundAy thAt involved the son of A high-rAnking customs officiAl, during which one mAn wAs injured. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/second-suspect-chArged-over-club-shooting/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The government plans to rebuild the derelict old Dang Tong Port in Koh Kong province into a medium-sized multi-purpose seaport at a cost of $1.5 million to spur waterway trade with Thailand, a senior public works official said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-multi-purpose-sea-port-set-for-koh-kong/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Norwegian People aid (NPa), a Norway-based non-governmental organisation, signed a partnership cooperation agreement with Cambodian Mine action Centre (CMaC) with a grant of $2.1 million for demining activities. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/2-1-million-aid-for-demining-work-in-cambodias-northwest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Lay Mengleang, a mango slicer at the Zhong Bao (Cambodia) Food Science &amp; Technology Co., Ltd. here enjoyed a better pay after the factory has received a significant rise in purchase orders from China. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodians-get-better-income-as-more-mangoes-enter-chinese-market/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Minister of Agriculture, Forestry And Fisheries Dith TinA on April 19 set out A list of requirements And suggestions for A new, high-cAlibre AgriculturAl lAborAtory proposed for southeAstern TAkhmAo town in KAndAl province, According to A stAtement from his ministry. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/kAndAl-hi-tech-Agri-lAb-in-pipeline/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A lAwsuit hAs been filed by APSARA NAtionAl Authority AgAinst seven villAgers, including A commune police chief, who live Around Angkor WAt, A UNESCO World HeritAge Site, for Allegedly inciting And obstructing public work in August. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ApsArA-brings-lAwsuit-AgAinst-Angkor-wAt-villAgers-for-obstructing-illegAl-structure-demolition/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia exported bicycles worth $416.7 million in 2023, a decrease of 53.6 percent from $899.7 million in a year earlier, said a General Department of Customs and Excise’s report on Monday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-exports-bicycles-worth-nearly-417-mln-last-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia exported 368,048 tonnes of dry rubber in 2023, a slight decrease of 1.3 percent from 372,903 tonnes in a year earlier, said a report from the General Directorate of Rubber on Wednesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-exports-rubber-worth-490-6-million-in-2023/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia exported a total of 379,546 tonnes of milled rice in the first seven months of 2024, earning a revenue of $280 million, the Cambodia Rice Federation said in a news release on Monday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-earns-280-mln-from-milled-rice-export-in-seven-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Boeung Kak lake residents yesterday accused commune police of not fulfilling their duty of keeping them safe, forcibly expelling a number of officers from a press conference called to highlight the problem. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cops-ejected-from-boeung-kak-press-event/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Nearly 400 families in Prek Takong I village have won a five-year battle to regain control of land earmarked for a new satellite city being developed by ING Holdings. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-win-for-satellite-city-families/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>