The body overseeing the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) hAs mAde public internAl regulAtions thAt prohibit ACU personnel from receiving gifts worth more thAn $25 And require them to report business dinners in AdvAnce, while Also mAking rAre disclosures About the kinds of items proffered to the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Acu-lAys-out-rules-on-receiving-gifts/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia was the only country in the Greater Mekong subregion to have increased its rate of exports following the 2008 global financial crisis, thanks largely to garments accounting for the majority of its manufacturing exports, a new report has found. The Greater Mekong 5 &ndash; Cambodia, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-rides-out-recession-smoothly/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Beneath a tree in Phnom Penh’s remote Prey Speu Social affairs Centre &ndash; a de facto prison used to indefinitely incarcerate some of the capital’s most vulnerable citizens &ndash; a woman yesterday chanted loudly before bursting into tears and then laughter. Like many others at the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/horrific-state-of-p-speu-revealed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thousands of garment workers went on strike yesterday demanding higher wages, fees for transportation and housing, and in one case, the elimination of smelly odours caused by a fish farm near their factory. Workers burned tyres and one union leader was allegedly assaulted with an electric <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-leader-hurt-in-strike/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Preah Sihanouk provincial authority is to establish a master plan to develop the beach in the province, especially the new stretch of bays from Sihanoukville autonomous Port to a new area called “Chumteav Mao or Madam Mao Beach”, according to a senior tourism official of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/master-plan-to-develop-huge-sihanoukville-beach/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia ranked 157th in the world and last in Southeast asia, according to the report, released on Tuesday by NGO Open Data Watch, dropping four points since last year to a total score of 22 out of 100.​​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-scores-157th-in-world-for-open-data/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia will no doubt look to partners other than the US and the European Union to bolster its economic growth as those key export markets continue to struggle, a senior International Monetary Fund official says. One way in which Cambodia would forge new and growing relationships with higher-income <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-must-seek-new-trade-partners/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

While Cambodia in theory offers full citizenship to members of its Khmer Krom minority, in practise, many members of the community remain in a legal shadowland, unable to access a wide range of rights, a new report released yesterday shows. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/khmer-krom-ethnic-group-denied-many-rights-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Nine out of 10 LGBT students have experienced bullying in Cambodia’s schools, which hurts their future educational attainment and makes their lives harder, according to a report released yesterday by the Cambodian Center for Human Rights. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lgbt-bullying-endemic-report-finds/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia will receive a grant of US$3.3 million from the World Trade Organisation to support rice milling, silk production and development of the Department of International Cooperation, according to Heng Sovannarith, communication officer for Trade Wide Sector approach. Sovannarith said the Ministry of Commerce would receive the grant from <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-receives-3m-grant/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s first Marine Protection area will be established around two emerging tourist destinations, Koh Rong and Koh Rong Samloem islands, a British conservation group has announced. NGO Coral Cay Conservation said last week that it has been invited to map out a 300-square-kilometre MPa by the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/coral-reef-areas-to-gain-protection-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Information Ministry officials and state-affiliated Cambodian journalists will receive training from and pay visits to their Chinese counterparts under a new agreement signed by the two countries on Monday.  The announcement follows a forum hosted in October by a senior propaganda officer for the Communist <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-cambodian-journalists-strengthen-links-to-china/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A new long-term project Aims to boost fish stocks in rice fields. ThAt wAs not A typo. For yeArs, rice fArmers in CAmbodiA hAve swept up fish &ndAsh; As well As frogs, snAils And other AquAtic fAunA &ndAsh; thAt mAke their wAy from streAms, cAnAls And <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/fish-And-rice-together-At-lAst/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Land Management Minister Chea Sophara met with US ambassador William Heidt on Monday evening to discuss the progress of recently established land dispute working groups and to request funding for an initiative to incentivise the resolution of such disputes. a ministry press release said Sophara <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-seeks-funds-from-us-for-land-dispute-resolution/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thailand’s outgoing Energy Minister Sontirat Sontijirawong expects that there will be a resumption of talks to resolve the dispute of the offshore petroleum blocks in the overlapping maritime territories between Cambodia and Thailand after a delay of 20 years, according to a Bangkok Post report.​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/talks-to-resume-on-offshore-oil-and-gas/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Top Planning Japan Co Ltd is working with a local cashew nut processing business owner to set up a plant in Kampong Thom province’s southwestern Kampong Svay district in a bid to champion Cambodian finished products. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kampong-thom-gets-new-cashew-plant/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The ApsArA NAtionAl Authority (ANA) hAs releAsed A journAl entitled PreAh Nokor &ndAsh; A compilAtion of reseArch cArried out in the Angkor PArk AreA And is intended to be A storehouse of knowledge thAt CAmbodiAns studying Angkor cAn drAw on. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ApsArA-Authority-publishes-Angkor-journAl-preAh-nokor/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The rare Yellow-breasted Bunting (Emberiza aureola), a bird that is said to give a lot of positive and healing properties in Buddhist tradition, was confirmed on New Year’s Day as having returned to the Kingdom after a lapse of three years. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rare-yellow-breasted-bunting-spotted-on-new-years-day/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Conch KT Cement (Phnom Penh) Co Ltd plans to build a $263 million cement factory in Kampong Speu province with a two-million-tonne-a-year capacity, according to provincial governor Vei Samnang on March 18. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kampong-speu-could-get-cement-plant/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

New figures paint a poor picture of exports for Cambodia, highlighting the debilitating effects of COVID-19 on trade. One reason is a massive increase of up to five times in the cost of shipping combined with a shortage of available containers. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/first-quarter-food-exports-suffering/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>