Canadian-owned company EnerCam Resources Co Ltd (EnerCam) is studying the possibility of investing in oil extraction from Cambodia’s offshore Block a after the government terminated an agreement with Singapore-based KrisEnergy Ltd, after the oil and gas exploration company went bankrupt last year. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/canada-firm-mulls-offshore-oil-extraction-in-kingdoms-block-a/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A resurgent economy And efforts to crAck down on smuggling hAve led to A lArge increAse in petroleum imports, According to experts. CAmbodiA hAs imported 756,139 tonnes worth US$692 million in the first hAlf of the yeAr, from 440,607 tonnes worth $296 million in the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/petroleum-imports-surge-on-economic-growth/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Tiffany &amp; Company is quietly building a diamond-polishing factory in Cambodia, a country popularly associated more with killing fields and land mines than baubles. Some of Japan’s biggest manufacturers are also rushing to set up operations in Phnom Penh to make wiring harnesses for cars and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/wary-of-china-companies-head-to-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The AsiAn Development BAnk hAs renewed the push for CAmbodiA And the AsiAn region to refocus its efforts AwAy from the current “OceAn Economy” And towArds A new, more sustAinAble “Blue Economy”, As yesterdAy mArked World OceAns DAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/world-oceAns-dAy-prompts-re-think-A-push-towArds-A-blue-economy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Airline pAssengers who Are diplomAts And officiAls of internAtionAl orgAnisAtions holding Type A And B visAs for trAvel to CAmbodiA Are exempted from pAying Covid-19 testing fees, sAid the Ministry of HeAlth in its lAtest Adjustment of rules on WednesdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/govt-exempts-visA-A-And-b-holders-from-covid-fees/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

“COVID-19 vaccines are a very powerful tool, but not a silver bullet to end the pandemic,” reiterated the World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative Office for Cambodia in a statement on aug. 12, warning people of vaccine optimism. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/who-cambodia-covid-19-vaccines-are-a-very-powerful-tool-but-not-a-silver-bullet-to-end-the-pandemic/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen will meet with the talented students who received a Grade a in the recent high school diploma exams &ndash; also known as baccalaureate II, or Bacc II’ &ndash; in an event to be held in Phnom Penh on February 28. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/grade-a-students-reach-record-set-to-meet-pm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Rounding off a week that included two violent clashes with police and the charging and release of four protesters, Boeng Kak lake villagers yesterday daubed paper sheets with their blood in a symbolic call to end what they consider judicial intimidation. about 50 villagers gathered at <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-a-call-to-find-justice-boeng-kak-lake-villagers-draw-blood/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

CSX chief executive Hong Sok Hour explains how the exchange will function on its first day of trading and into the future. The way to begin trading on the CSX is to open an account with any one of a dozen securities firms which are licensed <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/open-an-account-at-a-securities-firm-and-get-ready-to-trade/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Chinese company Jiangsu Lianfa Textile Co Ltd plans to invest in cotton in Pursat province to process fabrics and supply the Kingdom’s garment factories, according to the Ministry of agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-firm-plans-to-invest-in-cotton-if-second-test-a-success/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With the countries aiming to achieve $6 billion in bilateral trade by 2020, China on Tuesday said Cambodia’s low sanitary and phytosanitary standards stand in the way of achieving their mutual trade goals, particularly when it comes to agricultural goods. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-says-low-sanitary-standards-in-cambodia-a-barrier-to-more-trade/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday told Sar Kheng and other government officials not to respond to an unnamed group who he said had urged the Minister of Interior to stage a coup against the leader of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP). He said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prime-minister-ignore-groups-calls-to-stage-a-coup-detat/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

While some Cambodian migrant workers in South Korea are happy to have relieved family debt burden at home, others are working in “not-good” conditions and without clear objectives. at around 6pm, 21 workers leave a reservoir construction site in the city of Gimpo, around 15km <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lack-of-future-plans-a-concern-for-migrant-workers-in-south-korea/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian government will hold a meeting with gasoline companies on October 1st aiming to ask those companies to reduce the price of gasoline.​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-of-commerce-to-hold-a-meeting-with-gasoline-companies%e2%80%8b-next-month/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Drivers on Cambodia’s chaotic streets are often quick to criticize the traffic police, who seem unable to bring things under control. However, the drivers themselves forget that poor driving and the ignoring of traffic laws lead to so many snarls. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/quick-to-criticize-drivers-forget-they-have-a-role-in-snarled-traffic/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As the CAmbodiAn government moves forwArd with the creAtion of A lAw to regulAte cyber-security, experts sAy Any legislAtion should include cleAr lAnguAge to prevent Abuse of the lAw And restrictions to online freedoms.A drAft of the lAw from July obtAined by VOA Khmer sAys <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mediA-experts-wArn-AgAinst-A-cyber-crime-lAw-thAt-hurts-online-freedom/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

An officiAl At the Council for the Development of CAmbodiA confessed during his triAl on MondAy to soliciting bribes from A gArment fActory to process its import ApplicAtions, but sAid he did not believe At the time thAt he wAs committing A crime. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/government-officiAl-tells-court-he-didnt-know-bribe-wAs-A-crime/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The government’s anti-logging task force on Monday confiscated nearly 3,000 logs stashed in a forest clearing in Mondolkiri province, officials said on Tuesday. The owner of the 2,949 pieces of second-grade timber&mdash;Khlong, Tbeng and Trach&mdash;is unknown, said Eng Hy, spokesman for the National Military Police, which <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/who-owns-the-2949-logs-found-by-a-government-task-force/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering won a $120 million deal from a Japanese retail giant aeon Co. to build a shopping mall in the Kingdom of Cambodia, a deal that is expected to help the Korean engineering company that has been focusing on plant construction diversify <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hyundai-engineering-wins-120mn-order-to-build-a-mall-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia angkor air, the Kingdom’s flag carrier, inked an agreement with Singapore-based aircraft leasing company BOC aviation Ltd yesterday to dry lease two airbus a320s, with the new planes scheduled for delivery by the end of the year. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/flag-carrier-to-expand-fleet-with-two-dry-leased-a320s/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>