French foreign trade minister Olivier Becht’s plans to visit the Kingdom from January 24-25 have been welcomed as a major step in improving economic cooperation between the two nations, including by a senior commerce official and a leader of the local business community. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/french-trade-minister-plans-cambodia-trip/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The international airports in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, and Sihanoukville welcomed a combined 2.48 million passengers in the first half of this year, a staggering 270 percent increase over the same period in 2022, a senior official at the State Secretariat of Civil aviation said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/intl-airports-welcome-2-48m-passengers-in-h1/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Hun Manet will make his first official visit to Japan as Prime Minister to further strengthen relations in a year that marks the 70th anniversary of diplomatic ties, with a political analyst predicting this will set a new milestone for the two nations. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-to-make-first-official-trip-to-japan/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police said Sunday they have arrested four people believed to be involved in a conspiracy hatched by a dissident Khmer-american group plotting to topple the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen. Two men and two women were arrested on Thursday suspected of at­tempting to hand out <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/four-arrested-in-attempt-to-inspire-rose-revolution/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Deputy Prime Minister Sok An hAs A stunning portfolio of positions within the CPP government. On MondAy, CPP lAwmAkers once AgAin Appointed Mr. An As the CAbinet Minister for Prime Minister Hun Sen. He is Also the chAirmAn of the stAte-controlled CAmbodiAn NAtionAl Petroleum Authority And <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/After-cpp-reshuffle-sok-Ans-fiefdom-trimmed/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Like most millennium-old structures discovered in the forests of Cambodia, the locals had known all along about this one. Jarai minority villagers in this remote spot in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadaw district not only knew about it, but they revered the red-brick temple, using it as a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ratanakkiri-temple-now-in-land-concession/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

SAMRAONG TONG DISTRICT, Kompong Speu Province &ndAsh; LAughing, Ouch SAmnAng jumped bAck And forth over A skipping rope held by his clAssmAtes. The 13-yeAr-old goes to school in A smAll villAge in Kom­pong Speu province, he hAs friends, five siblings And loving pArents. OverAll, he <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/the-grAin-of-rice-thAt-could-help-cAmbodiA-grow/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

While significant obstacles remain, the success of the rice sector is a potentially crucial driver in Cambodia’s prosperous and equitable development. Cambodia announced two major bilateral trade agreements recently, with the Philippines and Thailand, that are expected to further expand the country’s rice export sector. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-economic-opportunity/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

When opposition leader Sam Rainsy last touched down at Phnom Penh International airport, he was greeted by some 100,000 supporters in what was the largest opposition rally in Cambodia’s 20 years of democracy. When he returns on Friday from the U.S., where he has been at­tending <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/despite-popularity-rainsys-role-remains-uncertain/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Information has swapped an 11-hectare plot of land in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district, which was previously the site of National Radio aM 918, with a property development firm in exchange for the construction of a new radio tower and transmitter on a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/national-radio-site-swapped-with-land-developer/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo abe, who makes a visit to Phnom Penh this weekend, should leverage his country’s aid to pressure the Cambodian government to launch an independent probe into fraud and other irregularities in disputed elections, a rights group said Thursday. as head of the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rights-group-wants-abe-to-press-cambodia-on-poll-probe/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

CNRP leader Sam Rainsy on Thursday publicly announced the opposition’s intention to conduct a campaign of civil disobedience in line with peaceful demonstrations organized by the charismatic leader of Indian nationalism Mahatma Gandhi, who helped win independence from Great Britain. Mr. Rainsy made the remarks at <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rainsy-evokes-gandhi-as-example-for-opposition/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With the long-ruling CPP sworn in to govern for another five years despite the opposition CNRP abstaining from sitting in the National assembly due to election irregularities, a new report argues that imminent threats to Cam­bodia’s future development can only be overcome with significant government <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/democratic-reform-needed-to-ensure-growth-prosperity/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Activists Are skepticAl thAt CAmbodiAn Prime Minister Hun Sen will follow through on A pledge to stop A contentious prActice of AppropriAting rurAl lAnd for commerciAl use, An issue thAt hurt the leAder And his pArty in elections in July. In its new five-yeAr politicAl plAtform <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Activists-doubt-cAmbodiA-pledge-to-stop-lAnd-concessions/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A member of the EuropeAn PArliAment is in CAmbodiA investigAting Agri-business firms Accused of evicting hundreds of fAmilies while benefiting from A free-trAde scheme with Europe worth millions of dollArs, According to the NGO EquitAble CAmbodiA. The visit from FrAnce’s PAtrice Tirolien follows A resolution the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/eu-pArliAmentAriAn-probes-sugAr-plAntAtions-in-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Newly approved plans by the asian Development Bank (aDB) to fix mistakes it made on a $143 million railway project appear to water down recommendations proposed by the Bank’s own review panel, and could impose the costs of the plan on the very families who <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/adb-waters-down-plans-to-amend-mistakes-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Garment factory owners failed to turn up for what was supposed to have been a tripartite meeting with the government and worker unions on Thursday to help break an impasse in negotiations to increase the minimum wage for workers, officials said. The International Labor Organization (ILO) <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/factory-owners-boycott-wage-talks-for-cambodian-garment-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

International trade leaders say Cambodia’s workers and managers should continue to negotiate for an increase in wages, despite a deadly crackdown on worker protests earlier this month. Workers want a raise in the minimum wage to $160 per month to keep up with the rising cost <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/labor-leaders-say-negotiations-should-continue-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Late last month, protesters calling for the release of 23 imprisoned workers and activists clashed with district security guards on Phnom Penh’s Norodom Boulevard. Batons, rocks and punches were thrown, and a handful of people on both sides were left bruised and bloodied. Later that week, opposition <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/during-free-the-23-protests-where-was-cnrp/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen advised the country’s newest crop of teachers not to feel down about their poor salaries, recalling that were they embarking on their careers in the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime their pay would be a few bags of rice each <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/be-glad-youre-not-paid-in-rice-prime-minister-tells-teachers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>