With the number of tourists visiting the country increasing rapidly, hotels are coming under strain due to lack of skilled chefs and waiters in the industry, according to hotel managers. In the first six months of 2012, international visitors reached 1.75 million, a 26.8 percent <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/tourism-sector-faces-dearth-of-skilled-labor/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen made a bold pledge to the hundreds of thousands of Cambodian villagers fighting companies for their homes yesterday, ordering that in every economic land concession across the country, space must be provided for those they would displace. But last month’s royal book <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/critics-dismiss-hun-sens-pledge-as-empty-promises/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The homes of nearly 200 families living in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district were demolished yesterday and Monday after officials accused the residents of being involved in a secessionist plot, local officials and villagers said. District governor Chhe Chhiv said that authorities had demolished 191 homes <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/homes-razed-to-stop-secession-officials-say/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian governemnt is lobbying the tourism sector to focus more on using local foods, which it says could generate millions of dollars in revenue a year. But hotels and restaurants say quality standards and supplies of local products are often not adequate and businesses <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/eating-locally/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A single visA for ThAilAnd And CAmbodiA is reAdy for lAunch 27 December At All of the countries’ consulAtes And embAssies. It is A test phAse of A wider project cAlled ACMECS Single VisA (AyeyAwAdy-ChAo PhrAyA-Mekong Economic CooperAtion StrAtegy) involving ThAilAnd, LAos, VietnAm, CAmbodiA, And <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/single-visA-test-run/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Hana Microelectronics Plc is investing 1.5 billion baht to build a new factory in Lamphun and another in Koh Kong, the latter marking a plunge into the Cambodian market. Chief executive Richard Han also hinted yesterday that the SET-listed electronic-parts maker could relocate some production from <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/hana-plugs-into-cambodian-market/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 200 fArmers protested in front of the Ministry of Agriculture on FridAy And submitted A petition requesting chAnges to A drAft lAw on the mAnAgement of AgriculturAl lAnd, which rights groups hAve sAid could effectively legAlize lAnd grAbs from poor fArmers. The government sAys the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/fArmers-petition-to-chAnge-AgriculturAl-drAft-lAw/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Despite facing a rampant graft problem that has seen Cambodians paying bribes far more often than their regional neighbors, they have growing faith in the government’s ability to fight it, a Transparency International survey has found. TI’s 2013 Global Corruption Barometer, which measures perceptions of corruption <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/bribes-remain-rampant-ti/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The dining hall of a garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district that supplies clothes to U.S. brand Gap collapsed into a pond Monday, injuring more than 20 workers who were eating lunch, workers and officials said. The hall, which is part of Top World Garment <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/factory-dining-hall-collapses-in-phnom-penh-23-injured/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The largest complex of sugarcane, ethanol and thermal power plants in Cambodia was inaugurated in Okrieng commune, Sombour district, Kratie province on May 26. addressing the ceremony, Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister Yim Chay Ly emphasized that the complex inauguration in Kratie was the outcome of the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/vietnam-invests-in-largest-sugar-project-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The expanding banking sector and the spread of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in rural areas have failed to elbow informal, unlicensed money lending out of the market, industry experts say. Fast and easy access to money &ndash; as well as the fear of “losing face” by borrowing <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/informal-lending-still-thriving/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Amid swirling rumors thAt Prime Minister Hun Sen hAd left the country After his CAmbodiAn People’s PArty (CPP) suffered A lArge loss of NAtionAl Assembly seAts in SundAy’s election, the CPP releAsed A stAtement TuesdAy insisting he wAs still in CAmbodiA And on the job. “Recently <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/cpp-sAys-hun-sen-remAins-in-role-As-prime-minister/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Court of AppeAl will heAr the cAse of former BAvet City governor Chhouk Bundith, who wAs convicted for shooting And injuring three gArment workers but remAins At lArge, At the end of this month, A court officiAl sAid WednesdAy. Although the SvAy Rieng Pro­vinciAl Court <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/court-to-heAr-bundith-cAse-lAter-this-month/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Global Fund to Fight aIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria on Thursday denied reports that its suspension of all contracts with two major mosquito net suppliers found to have bribed Cambodian officials would cause a shortage in the worldwide supply of the critical malaria deterrent, but <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/global-fund-says-world-mosquito-net-supplies-not-jeopardized/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Sorry, this entry is only available in អង់គ្លេស (ស.រ.អ). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/south-korean-embassy-denies-role-in-strike-suppression/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Nine garment workers and two Chinese managers were injured on Friday in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district after a riot broke out among 300 workers protesting for higher wages and improved working conditions, officials said Sunday. Commune police chief Mao Sovann said workers at the SL Garment <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/riot-at-garment-factory-leaves-11-injured/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ratanakkiri Provincial Court has dismissed two complaints submitted by two local human rights groups, adhoc and the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), against local officials who they alleged had de­famed and intimidated their staff, court officials said Friday. adhoc filed a complaint against Pheng <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/court-dismisses-rights-groups-complaints/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An expAtriAte living in Phnom Penh hAs set up A fund to rAise $3,000 over the next month to help pAy the medicAl expenses of A student shot in the spine by A police officer At the SL GArment FActory workers’ protest lAst month. Hoeurn ChAnn, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/fund-set-up-to-rAise-money-for-victim-of-police-shooting/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Flooding across the country has now killed seven people, including four children, since water reached emergency levels in some areas on Friday, the National Disaster Management Committee (NDMC) said Monday. Flooding is affecting a total of seven provinces and authorities have already evacuated hundreds of families <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/flooding-kills-7-spreads-to-kandal-province/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In a bid to make Cambodia more business-friendly, the government will cut back on red tape and reduce industry membership costs, Sun Chanthol, the new minister of commerce, said yesterday. Speaking to representatives from the private sector at a conference at the InterContinental Hotel in Phnom <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/govt-pledges-to-cut-red-tape/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>