The national flag carrier, Cambodia angkor air (Caa), added a new passenger plane on Sunday in order to expand new flight destinations to countries in the region, said a senior government official. “The new airbus 321 plane is leased from an airbus manufacturer in France,” Tek <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-national-carrier-adds-new-aircraft-targeting-singapore-china/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Democratic Kampuchea’s commerce committee was under the leadership of co-accused Khieu Samphan and Ieng Sary, testimony by former national bank deputy director Sar Kimlomouth revealed yesterday at the Khmer Rouge tribunal. although the Khmer Rouge regime had eliminated currency and attempted to turn the nation into <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kr-commerce-scrutinized/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia and Thailand are poised for a boost in trade and tourism following a new agreement taking effect today that simplifies procedures at a key border crossing between the two nations. “The ability to move people, goods, and vehicles across borders efficiently and responsibly is at the heart of regional economic integration,” said Craig Steffensen, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/trade-tourism-to-get-boost-along-phnom-penh-bangkok-route/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A decision on whether to build the XAyAburi dAm on the Mekong River in northern LAos is A life And deAth one thAt will Affect CAmbodiAns downstreAm, According to Foreign Minister Hor NAmhong. SpeAking to reporters on FridAy, NAmhong sAid the controversiAl 1,260-megAwAtt hydropower dAm hAs <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/questions-over-lAos-dAm/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cassava plantings in Battambang province dropped more than 18 per cent in the first half of the year compared to the same period in 2011, according to agriculture officials. The decease is a result of that previous year’s yield fetching a low price and farmers <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cassava-plantings-decrease/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A NEW report from the OrgAnisAtion for Economic Co-operAtion And Development (OECD) sAys GDP growth in CAmbodiA over the next five yeArs is likely to hit 6.9 per cent, the highest of Any ASEAN country ApArt from LAos. However, the report wArns thAt CAmbodiA needs to <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/heAlthy-growth-for-cAmbodiAs-economy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Seven representatives of 415 families entangled in an unresolved land dispute with a deputy commander of the Royal Cambodian armed Forces have received a second summons to appear in Battambang Provincial Court to clarify accusations that they had vandalized the commander’s property, “They not only <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-dispute-back-in-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian Center for Human Rights says that a company with a controversial economic land concession in Koh Kong province banned the centre’s officers from photographing the area and ordered police to grab their cameras. Officers from CCHR traveled to Sre ambel district on December 14 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cameras-blocked-by-cops-cchr/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s inflation rate decelerated to 3 percent last year, down from 4.9 percent in a year earlier, Governor of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) Chea Chanto said Saturday. “This is a remarkable drop and the 3-percent rate last year is low and controllable,” he said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-inflation-stands-at-3-pct-last-year-central-bank-governor/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia will construct a Chinese-language website and post Chinese-language signs at local hotels to cater to the growing numbers of Chinese nationals visiting the country, Minister of Tourism Thong Khon announced yesterday. “We will create a website in the Chinese language and also have additional signs <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-of-tourism-to-target-chinese-visitors/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three days after it went out, power had yet to be restored to large parts of Siem Reap province yesterday, badly impacting local businesses in the popular tourist hub of Siem Reap City and seeing a rush of people to buy generators. The power failure followed <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/siem-reap-power-cut-hurts-tourism-industry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Land Management Minister Im Chum Lim awarded a community of ethnic minority Banong in Mondolkiri province a communal land tile to their ancestral land last week, only the eighth communal land title to be handed out since the 2001 Land Law made them available. The title <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eighth-communal-land-title-awarded-in-mondolkiri/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Conservation officials have confiscated a truck containing 20 cubic metres of illegally cut, luxury-grade timber from an economic land concession owned by the firm TTY Corporation, a district official said yesterday. Kratie provincial officials seized the logs, along with two trucks and two cars on Monday <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/illegal-logs-found-in-tty-truck/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Nearly a tonne of rosewood was uncovered in a raid yesterday in Kampong Speu in which the suspect successfully fled after injuring an officer, police officials said. “according to the quality assessment, I can say a rough value of that rosewood is $300,000,” he [Keo <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-seize-illegal-rosewood-suspect-escapes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A 34-yeAr-old VietnAmese mAn wAs Arrested And put into pre-triAl detention on MondAy in RAtAnAkkiri province for Allegedly putting A veritAble menAgerie on the blAck mArket. Prom Nol, Forestry AdministrAtion chief officer with Wildlife AlliAnce’s Wildlife RApid Rescue TeAm, sAid yesterdAy thAt the rAid on the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/illegAl-wildlife-deAler-cAught-in-rescue-rAid/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A potAto fArmer who uneArthed old bullets As he ploughed his field on FridAy in OddAr MeAnchey province discovered more thAn 500 pieces of unexploded ordnAnce, Anti-mine officiAls sAid yesterdAy. FArmer Hun Kren, 29, Alerted Authorities to the discovery in BAnteAy Ampil district, where CAmbodiAn Mine <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/huge-uxo-stAsh-found-by-fArmer/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung arrived for an official three-day visit Sunday, during which he is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Hun Sen as well as inaugurate a new Vietnamese-funded hospital and attend a groundbreaking ceremony for a bridge linking the two countries. Tran <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnamese-prime-minister-arrives-for-three-day-state-visit/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 1,000 workers At one of AsiA’s lArgest gArment-processing fActories hAve joined more thAn 4,000 who begAn A strike lAst week, As union workers demAnded the compAny meet nine conditions, including severing ties with A shAreholder. Employees At the SL2 fActory of SL GArment Processing (CAmbodiA) <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/strike-grows-As-Another-fActory-wAlks/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Sok Sokan, son of Deputy Prime Minister Sok an, has been officially named deputy secretary general within the Council of Ministers &ndash; a rank equal to secretary of state &ndash; according to November’s Royal affairs publication released last month. Ek Tha, a spokesman for the Council <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sok-ans-son-joins-government-ranks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian police fired smoke bombs to disperse hundred protesters at the capital on Monday. Mam Sonando, owner of the opposition-aligned Beehive Radio station, defied a government ban on public gathering and led about 200 protesters to rally in front of the Ministry of Information against the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-police-fire-smoke-bombs-to-disperse-protesters-in-capital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>