President of Laos National Assembly, Her excellency Pany Yathotou, on September 1st arrived here for the four-day official visit in order to strengthen bilateral cooperation between the neighboring countries “Both sides will exchange visits of the officials and lawmakers of National Assemblies to strengthen bonds and ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/laos-urges-cambodian-businesspeople-to-invest-more/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Although US businesses across ASeAN have expressed a positive investment outlook towards Cambodia and the other members of the regional group, they are unsure of how to take advantage of the free-trade agreement with China, insiders said at the first-ever ASeAN-US Business Summit, which kicked ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-firms-suggest-asean-improve-financial-services/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Vietnam Dairy Products Joint-Stock Co., the nation’s largest dairy producer, is building a milk factory in Cambodia as it plans a global expansion to more than double annual revenue to $3 billion by 2017. The company known as Vinamilk is opening a plant in the capital ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vinamilk-sees-revenue-doubling-in-overseas-expansion-push/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

In the strongest international reaction to the contested result of July’s national election yet, the european Parliament passed a resolution on Thursday calling on Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government to conduct an independent, internationally led investigation of the election and the killing of five garment ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eu-calls-for-international-probe-into-election/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The NGO ChildFund has announced its strategic plan for 2022-2025 as well as a brand-new online safety project “Swipe Safe” to protect children from online abuse of all kinds. ChildFund said in its press release on November 2 that the ChildFund-initiated project, “Swipe Safe” will begin ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/childfund-debuts-swipe-safe-plans/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Two weeks after the Kraol indigenous community set fire to an environment Ministry station in Kratie, the ministry invited local authorities and indigenous people to a meeting on Wednesday and requested that the indigenous community apologize. Only one indigenous person invited attended. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/environment-ministry-asks-kraol-indigenous-people-to-apologize-for-burning-down-building/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

 On the second day of trial for nine NagaWorld union members accused of incitement, the Phnom Penh municipal court prosecutor claimed union leader Chhim Sithar had been directing an illegal protest while Sithar maintained she was merely participating in a legal strike aligned with labor ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nagaworld-union-leader-defends-strikes-legality-on-day-two-of-trial/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia, on Saturday, hosted the 7th Asia economic Forum ( AeF) under theme of “The Asian Century in the Making: Achievements, Challenges and Future Trends” while highlighting the majority of the region’s demonstrated remarkable resilience against the global economic and financial crises, while major superpowers ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-hosted-7th-asia-economic-forum/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Constructors Association (C.A.) was officially formed on October 7th with an aim to develop the country’s construction and real estate sector. The C.A. launching ceremony was presided over by Senior Minister and Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction H.e. Im Chhun Lim. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-establishes-constructors-association/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government on Monday issued a statement, warning foreign diplomats against interfering in the country’s internal affairs over the contested July 28 election that handed victory to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling party. “Cambodia does not need to resort to laws from other countries. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-govt-warns-foreign-diplomats-not-to-interfer-in-internal-affairs-over-election-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia (GMAC) on Thursday asked all its members to temporarily stop production operations this week due to concerns over security and safety after thousands of workers walked out of work in protest against the 19 percent wage hike in the ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-gmac-tells-all-factories-to-stop-production-amid-strike/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

 In mid-August, Chhoeun Daravy and eight others found themselves negotiating with police over the wording of a handwritten contract. Officers initially wanted the agreement to say that the nine had “illegally” entered a “prohibited area” in the recently logged Phnom Tamao forest and flew a ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/for-arrested-activists-thumbprints-on-police-contracts-are-often-the-cost-of-freedom/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

ADB and World Bank have organized the training Audit workshop on the theme: “Strengthening quality of external audits of ADB and World Bank Funded Projects,” at Phnom Penh Hotel on 29 August 2011 aiming at increasing the auditors’ capacity to establish a good reporting statement ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/adb-and-world-bank-help-upgrade-external-audit/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Though the Ministry of Information has repeatedly rejected independent radio station owner Mam Sonando’s requests to obtain a television station license and a radio relay station, saying that there was “no space” for him, the government has approved at least three new TV licenses and ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sonando-continues-to-seek-tv-license-radio-relay-station/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

According to the [inter]national Monetary Fund (IMF), at the end of 2011, the stock of Cambodia’s external public debt, including arrears, stood at around US 3.8 billion or 30 percent of GDP (24 percent in NPV terms). China remains the largest bilateral creditor, contributing to ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-public-debt/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The government has informed foreign embassies in the country that the opposition’s threatened demonstrations over the election results are intended to illegally overthrow the elected CPP-led government, a ministry spokesman said Wednesday. Lieutenant General Khieu Sopheak, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, said that letters were ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/embassies-warned-cnrp-wants-coup/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The relations between People’s Republic of China and Cambodia have become closer in the way of culture, in which China is the most important strategic development partner in improving Cambodia’s economic growth through both financial and technical grant aids,” Mr. eang Sophalet, assistant to Samdech ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-cambodia-ink-29-agreements-for-economic-and-trade-ties/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of environment, the Ministry of economy and Finance and United Nations Development Program (UNDP) collaborated to launch the 2011 Cambodia Human Development Report (CHDR) on August 30th which identifies climate change as a threat to human development gains and a source of increasing ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/climate-change-affects-on-livelihoods-for-rural-people/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Singapore Banking Corporation Ltd. (SBC Bank), a leading commercial bank in Cambodia, signed a memorandum of understanding with JCB International Co., Ltd. (JCBI), the international operations subsidiary of JCB, for the issuance of JCB cards in Cambodia. A ceremony to commemorate the milestone moment was held ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sbc-bank-signs-jcb-card-issuance-mou-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A member of the european Parliament is in Cambodia investigating agri-business firms accused of evicting hundreds of families while benefiting from a free-trade scheme with europe worth millions of dollars, according to the NGO equitable Cambodia. The visit from France’s Patrice Tirolien follows a resolution the ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eu-parliamentarian-probes-sugar-plantations-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...