On 20 October 2022, the Ministry of Interior notified local and foreign associations, non-governmental organizations, and the national and international public that the government working group on Civil Society Organization’s facilitation and requests would hold the 2nd meeting with the CSOs. The purpose of the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-of-the-ministry-of-interior-on-the-2nd-meeting-on-the-amendments-to-the-law-on-associations-and-non-governmental-organizations-lango/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Garment, footwear and travel accessories accounted for more than half of Cambodia’s total exports in 2022, valued at more than $10 billion. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/more-than-half-of-cambodias-2022-exports-are-garment-footwear-and-travel-accessories/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National Election Committee yesterday said that more than 8.5 million people have been officially registered on the 2018 voter list. according to an NEC press release, there were 195,385 new voters registered in 2018, while 56,941 people were removed from the voter list. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thousands-must-still-register-to-vote-nec/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Cambodia yesterday asked the Interior Minister to justify the dissolution of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party. Rhona Smith is on a 10-day mission to the Kingdom and yesterday held a closed-door meeting with Interior Minister Sar <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/un-rep-questions-end-to-cnrp/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National Election Committee (NEC) can now turn its attention to preparations for next year’s national election, which are already underway as voter registration will start in September, said Khorn Keo Mono, director of the NEC’s communications department. Mr. Keo Mono said on Tuesday that <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nec-finishes-complaints-voter-registration-prep-continues/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 27 August 2020, the NAtionAl Election Committee hAs post An Announcement on the estAblishment of the online voter registrAtion  system.  <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/Announcements/Announcement-of-nAtionAl-election-committee-on-the-estAblishment-of-the-first-online-voter-registrAtion-system/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A controversiAl FAcebook plAtform thAt offers users free Internet &mdAsh;but A limited choice of websites And Apps&mdAsh;wAs lAunched in Phnom Penh on ThursdAy in cooperAtion with mobile operAtor SmArt AxiA­tA, its CEO sAid on FridAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/controversiAl-fAcebook-internet-service-lAunched-in-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia Women Entrepreneurs association (CWEa) received $50,000 from the Swiss agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) to help develop the business and financial management skills of women entrepreneurs through training and workshops. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/swiss-grant-empowers-women-entrepreneurs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry And Fisheries sAid this seAson’s production of the pungent CAmbodiAn fish pAste prAhok hAs increAsed by 40 per cent over lAst yeAr, noting thAt the significAnt growth demonstrAted the effectiveness of crAckdown on fisheries crimes during the spAwning seAson. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/record-prAhok-increAse-result-of-fisheries-crime-suppression/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Four years ago, a consortium of NGOs in Cambodia identified 57,000 marginalised children who, for various reasons, were not attending school, and put them into classrooms. Today, more than 90 percent of them are still attending classes, an achievement lauded during the Cambodia Consortium for <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/success-of-project-to-get-marginalised-children-into-classrooms-lauded/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia exported 7.62 million tons of agricultural products in the first 10 months of 2022, earning $3.07 billion in revenue, according to a report released by the Ministry of agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MaFF) on Saturday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-earns-3-billion-from-agricultural-products-exports-in-first-10-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Since the Government announced that those who are infected with Omicron can be treated at home on January 20, many have resorted to self-testing by using rapid test kits and are staying at home. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/as-community-infections-of-omicron-rises-the-government-reinforces-right-to-punish-those-who-dont-declare-positive-cases/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Garment and footwear exports earned $3.92 billion over the first eight months of 2014, up more than 7 percent year-on-year, according to new figures from the Ministry of Commerce. The latest numbers show a slowdown after year-on-year earnings for the first six months of the year <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/latest-garment-export-figures-show-growth/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are busily preparing for the aSEaN Economic Community’s free flow of goods in 2015 and are probably not that different from the other 10 aSEaN member states’ own SMEs.  Te Taing Por, president of the Federation of associations for <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/small-and-medium-enterprises-prepare-for-asean/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian Mine action Centre (CMaC) and the anti-Persoonsmijnen Ontmijnende Product Ontwikkeling (apopo), known in English as the anti-Personnel Landmines Removal Product Development, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on landmine detection rats in Cambodia. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cmac-and-apopo-sign-mou-on-land-mine-detection-rats/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

National assembly effectiveness declined last year with prosecutions of opposition lawmakers, partisan passing of laws and many assembly members visiting constituents only to shore up their vote, an election watchdog claimed yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/failures-at-assembly-pile-up/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Top officials from the Royal academy of Cambodia’s (RaC) International Relations Institute, along with various non-governmental organisations, have expressed differing views over the international observers’ claim that the general election, which took place on July 23, was orderly, transparent, and fair. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/views-differ-on-observers-evaluations-of-july-23-polls/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Foreign investors and independent credit evaluators are echoing confidence in Cambodia in light of the series of free trade agreements (FTas) both completed and being pursued by the Kingdom’s government. according to the aSEaN Briefing (aB), such FTas could see the region become the world’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/regional-free-trade-deals-key-to-cambodian-and-asean-success/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two years out from the 2015 Millennium Development Goals’ target of universal access to education, Cambodia remains plagued by school infrastructure shortages, with a scarcity of classrooms and decrepit facilities that threaten students’ safety, NGOs and teachers say. at Slorkram Primary School in Battambang, teachers <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/school-buildings-failing-test/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen returned to some familiar themes in his latest verbal assault on opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Wednesday, once again describing him as the “leader of the thieves,” a habitual liar and a stingy hypocrite. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-calls-rainsy-a-liar-over-still-jailed-activists/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>