Adorned in new military uniforms, about 400 more young volunteers who have been enlisted into Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ambitious national land-titling scheme departed from Diamond Island yesterday armed with measuring tapes, computers and GPS units. The budding surveyors are the latest group of some 2,000 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pms-land-titling-scheme-full-of-ambiguity/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

It’s been marked by violence, fervent protests and a stream of recriminations, but now bureaucracy is hampering efforts to resolve the seven-week-long strike at the Tai Yang and Camwell factories, which supply Levi’s and Gap, a trade-union advocate said yesterday. Dave Welsh, country director of the American href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/letter-holds-key-for-tai-yang/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Southeast Asian nations displayed a rare show of unity on Sunday against China’s sweeping maritime claims, calling for the first formal talks with Beijing over a sea dispute that has raised tensions and exposed deep divisions in the region. As Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrived in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/southeast-asia-calls-for-talks-with-china-on-sea-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Farmers in provinces across the Kingdom are feeling the effects of drought after a month of dry weather in which an estimated 10,000 hectares of rice seedlings were destroyed and 135,000 hectares left at risk, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. A report from href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/drought-continues-to-hurt-rice-farmers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

PHNOM PENH: Malaysia expects to minimise its dependence on imports of animal feed and lessen the impact of the global food crisis by 2020 under the reciprocal investment policy, Agriculture and Agro-based Minister Datuk Seri Noh Omar said. One such initiative under the policy was the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/halim-in-cambodia-rm2bil-agriculture-joint-venture/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Rice exports this year had been flat compared to last year because of the many challenges growers were facing, insiders said this week. The data shows exports were no better than last year for the same period, as exports for the first eight months of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/drought-hits-rice-exports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A company linked to tycoon Khun Sear, TP Moral Group, received 1,247 hectares of coastal waters in Kep province to develop a new satellite city and “special tourism zone” according to a March 6 sub-decree signed by former Prime Minister Hun Sen and publicized in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tycoons-company-receives-1267-hectares-along-kep-coastal-waters-for-satellite-city-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The National Committee for Disaster Management was preparing to ensure end-of-season floods did not compound the woes caused by months of drought, officials said yesterday. To minimise the effects of flooding, the NCDM had sent a request to the Council of Ministers for 16,000 tonnes of food and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/disaster-management-officials-prep-for-floods/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The next two stocks to be listed on the Cambodia Securities Exchange will probably be Taiwan-owned garment factories, according to market insiders. The news comes as the lone listed stock on the Cambodia Securities Exchange declined slightly in value during the past month, dropping from an href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/two-factories-hope-to-list-on-csx/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A large North American union has called on US retail giant Walmart to take immediate action against one of its seafood suppliers in Thailand accused of holding Cambodian workers in debt bondage while barely providing them with enough money to eat. The United Food and Commercial Workers href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/walmart-intervention-sought-at-thai-factory/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The number of foreign owners of houses in Cambodia has soared in recent years after the government permitted foreigners to have rights over owning real estate in the Kingdom, according to officials of the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction. Speaking at the opening of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/foreigners-entering-the-condo-market-in-phnom-penh/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Despite interest in participating in the stock market, confusion as to how and where to invest in the Cambodia Securities Exchange still persists among many Cambodians without close ties to or backgrounds in trading. After the much-anticipated and long-delayed launch of CSX trading last week, Soun Sokret, an href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/stocks-still-an-unknown-for-many-cambodians/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Am Phalla sits outside the factory gates of apparel maker Shen Zhou (Cambodia) Co. Ltd., sharing a lunch of rice, vegetables and fried fish with coworkers. She has been sewing clothes at Shen Zhou for a little less than a year, but is unaware that the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-is-adidas-exploiting-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The value of deposits with Cambodia’s 31 microfinance institutions grew more than 96 per cent in the first nine months of the year compared to last year, a rise industry experts say is due to the political stability and economic growth of the Kingdom. Official data href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mfi-deposits-seen-growing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s nephew Hun To has emphatically denied all allegations published by Australian newspaper The Age about his involvement in a heroin-trafficking and money-laundering syndicate targeting Australia. Hun To, whose wife and children reside in Melbourne, Australia, told the Post yesterday that he plans href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/drug-connection-denied/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia representative for the world’s largest shipping company said exports from Cambodia to Europe grew by more than 60 per cent during 2011, but have since weakened. “Rice exports grew a lot during 2011 and a lot of it went to Poland and France,” href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/maersk-sees-a-slowing-eu/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Major hotels are under the microscope after a labour rights group found that some have been failing to pass their entire service charge on to their staff, a violation of the Labour Law. Dave Welsh, country manager of the American Center for International Labor Solidarity(ACILS), said yesterday href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/scrutiny-over-hotel-service-fees-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Sen will be opening the 44th ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting and related meetings will kick off August 27 in Siem Reap, the centre of Khmer culture and civilization in Cambodia, and will run to September 1, according to the Ministry of Commerce. The meeting href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/growth-to-be-focus-of-asean-economic-summit/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Danish brewer Carlsberg has vowed to improve the working conditions of Angkor and Carlsberg beer promoters in Cambodia as it tries to stamp out coerced workplace drinking. The company announced late last week it had joined forces with the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/carlsberg-promises-support/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Prey Lang Community Network, which works to protect Cambodian forests, has been selected by UNDP for an Equator Prize, for outstanding community organizing. In an interview with VOA Khmer, the group’s spokesman, Seng Sok Heng, says the government is “inactive” in protecting Cambodian forests, some href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/environmental-group-says-inactive-government-has-failed-its-forests/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...