The Chairman of the Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia, Van Sou Ieng, said that even if nutrition is an important factor in productivity, it should not the sole responsibility of the factory owner. “The deduction that the nutrition will automatically improve productivity is not necessarily true. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/third-party-canteens-favoured-by-gmac/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The United States and Cambodian governments on Tuesday released an educational guide that will help Cambodian schools improve the way their students learn, according to a media statement from the U.S. Embassy. The Life Skills Curriculum is the culmination of an extensive collaboration between the Cambodian Ministry of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/u-s-cambodia-release-life-skills-manuals-for-cambodian-schools/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The number of Chinese visitors to Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple, one of the World Heritage Sites, has reached 161,700 in the first six months of this year, a 17 percent rise over the same period last year, an official data showed Friday. The data from the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-tourists-to-cambodias-angkor-heritage-site-up-17-pct-in-first-half/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Thursday that he and his government have no rights to order the courts to arrest or release any suspects who have committed crimes. “I and the government have no rights to order the judiciary, the court to arrest anyone based href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-pm-says-govt-has-no-rights-to-control-judiciary/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

In a new report, U.K. environmental rights group Global Witness places Cambodian timber magnate Try Pheap at the heart of a vast illegal logging operation driving the country’s rarest tree species to the brink of extinction with the collusion of government and military officials. “The Cost href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/timber-trader-try-pheap-linked-to-logging-racket/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian people used banks less than any other country in the Asia-Pacific region last year in percentage terms of using financial services, recent data from the World Bank showed. The report, released this month, also pointed to high growth in the percentage of borrowers, which insiders href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodians-shun-banks-world-bank-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The director and employees of a maid recruitment agency were handed sentences of up to five years by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday and ordered to pay compensation for illegally detaining an under-aged girl. Presiding judge Duch Kimsorn said Century Manpower’s director Oung Sakirin, chief of administration href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/labour-firm-staff-sentenced/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Anti-Corruption Unit has set its sights on illegal fees paid at the commune level and intends to stamp out a decades-old culture of bribery within the next four months, ACU officials announced yesterday. At a press conference, acting ACU president Chhay Savuth said that 22 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/acu-takes-aim-at-bribes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian milled rice exports grew by only 0.52 per cent in the first 10 months of the year, compared to the same period last year, according to new figures from the government. Officials have expressed concern over Cambodia’s ability to reach its export target of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/officials-worry-over-tiny-rise-in-rice-exports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

More than enough vacant plots exist within Boeung Kak lake’s 12.44-hectare concession area to house those denied land permits, a new NGO report says. Sahmakum Teang Tnaut claims to have found “a viable and practical” solution for households excluded from the unmarked land the prime minister href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/viable-boeung-kak-option-floated/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

International market- research company TNS has announced the opening of the company’s first office in Cambodia, and has joined forces with MSD, a Cambodian market and social research firm that is a “long-standing partner”, an official company statement said. Ralf Matthaes has been appointed regional managing href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tns-launches-new-office-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) on Friday announced the recent fluctuation in international rice market prices and paddy prices in Cambodia. It revealed that overall prices have decreased slightly to between 1,090 and 1,250 riel per kilogram, depending on the type. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/farmers-profits-hit-by-further-drop-in-paddy-prices/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

At least 100,000 people have been forced to carry out online scams in Cambodia, according to a UN Human Rights report released Tuesday, but Cambodian government officials say they want to see more evidence for the estimate. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/un-estimates-100000-trafficked-into-cambodian-scam-operations-officials-ask-where-are-they/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The mother of a domestic maid allegedly stranded in Malaysia has become the latest Cambodian claimant to file an official complaint to the Ministry of Interior over labor abuse in the country. Em Sokhum said her 24-year-old daughter Chher Sophorn left to pursue work in Malaysia more than href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/maid-may-be-stuck-in-malaysia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Chased out of the house by her Malaysian employer, fresh-faced Tieng SaSa, 18, found shelter with an NGO, escaping alleged abuse at the hands of her employer that included binding her hands and beating her feet with a metal club until her bones broke. Three months href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/maids-seek-justice-in-malaysia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) did not take any sides in South China Sea disputes, but supported the settlement of the disputes based on international law and agreed documents, a senior Cambodian official said in Phnom Penh on Sunday. “ASEAN made the statement based on a principle that href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/asean-not-take-sides-in-south-china-sea-disputes-cambodian-official/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

More than 200 Cambodian garment workers have been hospitalized after episodes of mass fainting at three factories this week, highlighting problems within an industry that is critical to the kingdom’s fledgling economy. The plants all make clothes for brands such as sportswear giants Puma SE and Adidas. Both href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mass-faintings-in-cambodia-sicken-over-200-garment-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

One of Malaysia’s biggest investment banks, RHB Capital, announced it will acquire OSK Indochina Bank, via the transfer of 100 per cent of OSK Investment Bank shares from parent OSK Holdings, giving OSK Holdings a 10 per cent stake in the larger Malaysian RHB Capital href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/osk-indochina-bank-acquired-by-rhb-capital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

It’s been done numerous times, comparing the “China miracle” to its emerging and frontier neighbours as a benchmark for development. Cambodia might seem an ill-fitted student of the world’s second-biggest economy. But a recent report from the Cambodia Development Resource Institute pointed to some lessons the Kingdom href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/development-report-cites-china-as-growth-model/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Many groups, including the ruling party, would benefit from a proposed access to information law – which would provide transparency when it comes to the government’s development plans and spending – a Council of Ministers official said yesterday. Tuot Lux, a legal expert who has been href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/official-pushes-for-an-information-access-act/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...