Mam Sonando, director of Beehive radio will re-establish his Beehive Democratic Society party for the 6th legislature mandate in 2018. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mam-sonando-to-re-establish-a-political-party/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The labor minister said Tuesday there were so few underage workers in the garment industry that “we can count them on our fingers,” but a unionist and an NGO countered that child labor was still rife in the country’s smaller garment factories. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/child-garment-workers-not-a-problem-minister-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian-american businessman Richer San, one of four men accused of defrauding a Phnom Penh dentist of $1 million, sat alone at the stand in the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday as lawyers delivered their closing arguments. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/agriculture-firm-fraud-case-draws-to-a-close/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Thursday that he will be more able to fight the recent imprisonment of CNRP activists from abroad, while a prominent member of the opposition said the jailings could be a sign of worse things to come before the next elections. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/france-a-better-place-to-fight-convictions-rainsy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Alcohol consumption in CAmbodiA is high enough thAt Authorities Are now drAfting legislAtion for A drinking Age. But As the country And its economy develop, mAny here sAy it hAs become An essentiAl pArt of their sociAl&mdAsh;And professionAl&mdAsh;lives. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/for-mAny-Alcohol-hAs-become-A-communicAtion-tool/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Sok Ren lives in a tiny room in a rented house in Phnom Penh. She has not been home in two years, having decided to leave a child behind and find work in the city’s garment sector.  Unions say workers need at least $177 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/factory-wages-remain-a-potential-flashpoint-for-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

China’s tumbling stock market may impact tourism to Cambodia, but it is not likely to reduce Chinese investment in the Kingdom, analysts and executives say. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinas-woes-a-mixed-bag-for-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Dr. Thearith helps thousands of women in Kampong Chhnang province care for their babies. He provides them with advice about how to breastfeed, how to keep their infants from contracting malaria, and how to avoid infections. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mobile-voice-messages-a-hit-with-new-moms/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A low-pressure system over BurmA will bring heAvy rAin And widespreAd flooding to CAmbodiA in A week’s time, According to A stAtement releAsed by the Ministry of WAter Resources And Meteorology on MondAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/more-rAin-widespreAd-flooding-expected-in-A-week/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

“Turn the lights off soon, or people will see us,” the young fisherman said in a muted voice that was barely audible, even in the pre-dawn quiet. The fact that fishermen are resorting to sneaking into the lake’s protected areas speaks of an alarming <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-fishy-situation-in-cambodias-biggest-lake/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of the National assembly-Senate Relation and Inspection today held a meeting at Cambodiana hotel, discussing on a new draft law on inspection before sending to the Council of Ministers. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/inter-ministries-discuss-a-draft-law-on-inspection/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Operating from a modest tin shack he shares with his wife and children near the Mekong River in Kandal province, 34-year-old Seurn Sokheang treats his neighbors for a wide range of ailments. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unlicensed-clinics-prove-a-tough-issue-to-treat/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With the launch of daily scheduled services, Qatar airways becomes the only Middle Eastern airline flying to the South East asian nation &ndash; and destination number 125 served worldwide. Guests gathered at Phonm Penh International airport in celebration of the new air link, connecting Cambodia <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/qatar-airways-touches-down-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

October marks the start of the main rice harvest in Thailand, the world’s largest exporter of the grain. Traders are waiting to see the full impact of flooding on the crop, but it’s already clear that output across Southeast asia will fall substantially. The U.N.’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rice-crops-take-a-pounding-from-southeast-asian-floods/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Government officials did not, and Lao students could not, attend yesterday’s asean Peoples’ Forum in Phnom Penh, where more than 1,500 members of civil society groups discussed the region’s most pressing issues, including human rights, poverty, land usurping and domestic violence. The three-day forum, which is not <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-one-city-a-tale-of-two-asean-forums/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Government spokesman Phay Siphan said on Monday that Preah Sihanouk province will become a second Singapore, as authorities were warned that its development, fuelled largely by Chinese investment, was coming at a cost to locals. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/phay-siphan-preah-sihanouk-will-become-a-second-singapore/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Speaking to the United Nations General assembly (UNGa) on Friday, Hun Sen defended July’s national elections and hit out at criticism from certain unnamed countries, calling them a “serious insult” to the will of the Cambodian people that showed “the ambition to interfere” in the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/poll-criticism-a-serious-insult-pm-tells-the-un/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The process of obtaining geographical indication (GI) status for Kampong Speu palm sugar in the European Union suffered a setback this week after a company asked for revisions to the wording of the product’s guidebook, according to a producers association. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/palm-sugar-gi-status-in-eu-hits-a-glitch/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Over100 indigenous groups from eight of the Kingdom’s provinces asked the government on Thursday to grant them land concessions instead of forcing their relocation. Celebrating the 24th International Day of Indigenous People, the groups gathered under the banner of the Indigenous People’s Migration and Movement. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/indigenous-groups-call-for-a-halt-to-forced-relocations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In 2009 the Royal Government of Cambodia signed a Concession agreement with Toll from australia the biggest Logistics company in australia at the time to be the Operator and Maintainer of the North and South Line. Soon after Toll signed it joined with Neat Oknha <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/royal-railway-takes-extra-measures-for-a-smooth-ride/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>