Population depends on agriculture 2014 :  73%(Source: The World Bank)Total rice production 2009 &ndash; 2012:  7.58 &ndash; 9.29 million tons(Source: NSDP, 2014-2081)Total fish catchment 2013:  718,000 tonnes* 73% fresh water* 14% the sea(Source: The Phnom Penh Post, 2014)   Rice farmers working in the field, Kandal province, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/agriculture-and-fishing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Kingdom’s securities firms have raised concerns about an impending regulation that they said may stunt growth in the country’s fledgling financial markets. The Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia is considering a regulation, or prakas, that will require all market participants to maintain a certain <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/firms-question-secc-prakas/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In a sign of “improving” relations between Cambodia and the United States, the Kingdom will host US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this year, officials confirmed yesterday. The visit would be the first by a sitting US president. Joseph Yun, the US <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/obama-clinton-visits-set/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Less than a week after banning commercial fishing in Tonle Sap Lake, Prime Minister Hun Sen issued a sub-decree on Monday extending the ban to four provinces along the Mekong River. according to the sub-decree, signed March 5 and released publicly yesterday, commercial fishing will be <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/net-widens-on-fishing-trap-ban/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Bavet city officials ordered a deputy village chief to offer two victims of the Feb. 20 shooting in Svay Rieng province cash or a motorcycle in return for them not filing a court complaint against the man who shot them inside a special economic zone. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/motorcycles-money-offered-to-sez-victims/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s first initial public offering is fast approaching, and demand is expected to be robust. Bookbuilding, the process during which bids are taken and a price set for shares, ended last Wednesday for Phnom Penh Water Supply authority (PPWSa). The final offering price will be announced <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-first-ipo-nears/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Hybrid rice producer SL Agritech Corp. plAns to set up A plAntAtion in CAmbodiA viA A joint venture insteAd of shipping out produce from its Philippine fArms, A rAnking officiAl sAid lAst week. “We Are looking At stArting the shipment of seeds to CAmbodiA And to <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/rice-grower-to-set-up-fArms-in-cAmbodiA-And-myAnmAr/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Kampong Chhnang Provincial Court has summonsed Free Trade Union president Chea Mony and two of his officers to answer incitement charges at the court tomorrow relating to his alleged involvement in a mass strike at a garment factory last year, officials said yesterday. M&amp;V garment factory <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chea-mony-sued-over-strike/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As expected, the book-building phAse for Phnom Penh WAter Supply Authority’s initiAl public offering wAs significAntly oversubscribed, the estimAte being 17 times. Interested investors hAd the opportunity to bid At A price  no lower thAn 4,050 riel A shAre, And At A mAximum of 6,350 riel <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ppwsA-edges-closer-to-ipo/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Duong Tech, the owner of an import-export company, spent $150,000 on his chrome-rimmed Cadillac Escalade SUV. Then he shelled out an additional $10,000 at the Phnom Penh municipal transportation department for a license plate ending with the numbers “9999.” In Phnom Penh, custom-numbered license plates <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/wealthy-splurge-on-lucky-license-plates-phone-numbers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Independent radio station owner Mam Sonando mounted a spirited defense during the third and last day of testimony at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday in his trial for allegedly leading a secessionist group. at time raising his voice, waving his arms and grabbing his head <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/focus-on-secession-trial-shifts-back-to-mam-sonando/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The executive committee of the AlliAnce of Rice Producers And Exporters of CAmbodiA, ARPEC, decided eArlier this month to set up A commerciAl Arm to help members get finAncing for A vAriety of rice-relAted Activities. According to ARPEC secretAry-generAl Hun LAk And deputy secretAry-generAl DAvid VAn, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/AlliAnce-An-AdvocAte-for-industry/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Cambodian National Rescue Party is making a strategic shift in its bid to win the next election: focusing less on traditional hot-button issues like government corruption and territorial disputes, and instead offering voters a series of concrete new policy initiatives. This required clear and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/shift-in-cnrps-political-strategy-to-win-elections/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian officials in provinces bordering Thailand said the price of Cambodian corn would increase as a result of a reduced supply and a new Thai government policy of importing more corn for animal processing. The Bangkok Post reported on Tuesday that the Thai cabinet approved the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/corn-prices-to-rise-with-new-thai-policy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The “company” that military police have declined to identify but said sent staff to confront activist Chut Wutty shortly before he was shot last Thursday is Timbergreen, a firm the slain activist had attempted to expose for illegal logging. Documents obtained by the Post yesterday and sources have <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/timbergreen-official-questioned-in-chut-wutty-shooting/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The South East asian business elite and 16 Heads of States and Governments will meet in Phnom Penh when the 9. aSEaN Business &amp; Investment Summit will be held as an official side event to the aSEN Leaders Summit and the aSEN Leaders Summit (EaS) “Interest <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/record-number-of-participants-for-the-9th-asean-business-investment-summit/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday sentenced 28 people &ndash; including several government officials &ndash; to between two and five years in jail on charges of clearing state-protected flooded mangrove forest in Kampong Thom province in July of 2012. Presiding Judge Keo Mony said that Cheath Sivutha, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dozens-sentenced-in-forest-clearing-ring/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday implicated Mam Sonando, owner of the independent Beehive Radio station, in an alleged secessionist movement in Kratie province and announced the government’s intentions to arrest him. “Now, we compete with the ringleader of the Democrats association, which created the state <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/radio-station-owner-implicated-in-secessionist-movement/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

U.S. fast-food chain Burger King said yesterday that no one holds the rights to open a branch of its restaurant in Cambodia, despite job advertisements appearing online featuring the company’s logo. . “Currently, we do not have any established franchisee in Cambodia,” Tan Ching Ee, marketing <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/burger-king-says-no-plans-to-open-in-country/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Representatives of 44 families embroiled in a violent land dispute in Banteay Meanchey province say they are living like squatters and haven’t been granted long-promised property in the area. Kao Ty, a defence lawyer for the families, said that his clients are among the more than <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/families-cling-to-hope-for-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>