The minimum wage for workers in Cambodia’s billion-dollar garment sector will rise to $200 a month next year, a $6 raise that unions said was insufficient while employers raised concerns about profits and regional competitiveness. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-sector-minimum-wage-to-rise-to-200-a-month-in-2023/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

 Some 200 unions and federations have accused two prominent independent labor organizations of inciting its members to leave and establish a new union. The claim was denied by one of organizations, which said it has never trained members of any of the signatories — many ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/with-vague-details-pro-government-unions-accuse-labor-groups-of-inciting-members-to-form-new-union/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

NagaWorld union leader Chhim Sithar and eight co-defendants appeared for their first day of trial in Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday. Sithar and all her colleagues, except for one, denied the incitement charges against them. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/incitement-trial-begins-for-nagaworld-union-leader-and-eight-strikers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

 Ex-opposition lEadEr KEm Sokha plans to submit an appEal this wEEk against his trEason conviction and thE Phnom PEnh Municipal Court 27 yEar homE confinEmEnt sEntEncE, according to his lawyErs. Ef='https://opEndEvElopmEntcambodia.nEt/nEws/kEm-sokha-to-appEal-this-wEEk-against-trEason-conviction/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

 A new LICADHO report detailing the murders of 26 women and five children between January 2020 and June 2022 by current or former intimate partners reveals the persistence of domestic violence and flaws in law enforcement. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/report-points-to-inadequate-enforcement-legal-flaws-as-reasons-for-entrenched-domestic-violence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday threatened to sue the opposition Candlelight party after its leaders accused the ruling CPP of political persecution in the run-up to the July 23 national elections. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/candlelight-leaders-decry-persecution-as-hun-sen-threatens-another-lawsuit/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Around 100 villagers representing thousands of families from seven Siem Reap communities facing land conflicts delivered petitions to relevant ministries in Phnom Penh, requesting land titles and solutions from provincial and national authorities this week. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/siem-reap-villagers-protest-apsara-authority-restrictions-seek-land-titles/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

 Living in a small concrete house with his wife and two young children, one kilometer away from Takhmao Bridge, ex-Giant Ibis Transportation employee Or Chanthy, 45, contemplates life’s challenges. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/giant-ibis-unions-fight-remains-as-the-company-goes-back-on-promise/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

 A report by NGO Sahmakum Teang Tnaut Organization (STT) revealed that people who are forcibly evicted from their homes without proper resettlement are burdened with debt, have low access to food, while children experience disruptive education and are subject to child labor. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/stt-report-forced-evictions-in-phnom-penh-kandal-takeo-pushed-people-into-debt-crisis/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Senate President Hun Sen proposed drafting a law against people who claim that Cambodia did not experience a genocide and wanted to start a “color revolution”. A political analyst has said the law would further shrink citizens’ freedom of expression in relation to historical events. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-proposes-law-to-punish-anyone-denying-cambodias-genocidal-past/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

For nearly three years, about 300 local workers, 50% of them women, worked in a Vietnamese banana plantation belonging to Hoang Anh Gia Lai Joint Stock Co (HAGL), covering 245 hectares in Talao commune, Andong Meas district in Ratanakiri province. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/workers-of-vietnamese-owned-hoang-anh-gia-lai-still-suffer-years-after-plantation-closes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

U.N. representatives from Japan, the european Union and Australia called on Cambodia to heed recommendations made in a report on human rights and economic land concessions by the U.N.’s envoy Surya Subedi at the Human Rights Council in Geneva Tuesday. While the e.U. commended Cambodia ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/un-delegates-call-on-cambodia-to-heed-envoys-remarks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

King Norodom Sihamoni has issued a royal decree ordering the opening of three regional appeal courts in Preah Sihanouk, Battambang and Tbong Khmum provinces.   ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/regional-appeal-courts-set-in-motion/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Swisscontact, on behalf of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation (GATF), on February 8 launched a new e-trade portal project in partnership with two Cambodian government institutions – the General Department of Customs and excise (GDCe) and Cambodia Post. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/digital-link-between-post-customs-launched/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 13 September 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on Cambodia, ADB highly appreciated close cooperation partnership.During the courtesy call, H.e. Deputy Prime Minister extended his warm welcome and congratulation to Ms. Jyotsana VARMA for her appointment. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-on-cambodia-adb-highly-appreciated-close-cooperation-partnership/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The newly appointed governor of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), H.e Dr. Chea Serey, gave an in-depth interview to Khmer Times on the Bank’s as well as her priorities in her role as the Governor. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nbc-is-determined-to-strengthen-the-resilience-and-supervision-of-the-financial-sector-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen at a bilateral meeting. Photo by U.S. embassy Phnom Penh, taken on 06 January 2016. Licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0.Cambodia is a lower middle-income country with a fast-growing economy that has sustained a ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/trade/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On Friday 23 September 2016, in response to a request from the Royal Government of Cambodia and the World Food Programme (hereinafter referred as “WFP”), the Government of Japan has agreed to extend a Grant Assistance of two hundred and twenty million Japanese Yen (¥220,000,000), ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/exchange-of-notes-for-japans-grant-assistance/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The commerce minister yesterday urged european businesspeople in Phnom Penh to invest more in Cambodia and not to envy the Chinese firms now dominating the foreign investment scene. Speaking at the gathering of the european Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia, Minister of Trade and Commerce Cham ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dont-envy-the-chinese-govt-tells-europe/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Rice farmers in Italy plan to block four major grain exchanges in the country this week over what they say is the european Union’s failure to keep Italian rice competitive against that of cheaper Asian rivals including Cambodia, which is given duty-free access to european ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/italy-steps-up-fight-against-cambodian-rice/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...