Prime Minister Hun Sen has issued an appeal for government officials to strengthen cooperation to prevent and combat the rampant smuggling of goods in and out of the country, causing the loss of much-needed tax revenue.   href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-orders-government-to-raise-efforts-in-fighting-smuggling/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Sustainability Finance Real Economies SICAV – SIF (SFRE, pronounced Sapphire) has made an investment totalling USD 4 million in PRASAC (Cambodia) a microfinance institution, in line with its strategy of advancing social, environmental and economic development by providing capital to banks. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-investment-by-fund-with-1-billion-ambition-to-increase-sustainability-focused-banking/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A new centre will launch in April 2018 to train Cambodian migrant workers to work with elderly people in Japan. On Tuesday, Minister of Labour Ith Samheng said the Japanese company Procast Asia would establish the centre. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japan-to-open-elder-care-training-centre/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 28 July 2017, Preah Sihanouk administration, with participation from H.E. Yun Min, Preah Sihanouk Provincial Governor, has made social land concessions to 176 families in Kbal Chhay, which is located in Village 1, Sangkat 1, Sihanoukville. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/preah-sihanouk-administration-provides-social-land-concessions-to-176-families-in-sangkat-1-sihanoukville/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has received 230,100 Chinese tourists in the first six months of 2014, an increase of 19 percent over the same period last year, according to a tourism report released on Wednesday. The report shows that China is the second largest source of tourists to Cambodia href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-attracts-230100-chinese-visitors-in-h1-up-19-pct/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Another Mekong dolphin calf of less than a week-old was spotted on Monday, swimming alongside nine adult dolphins at the Kampi pool in Kampi Dolphin Canyon in Sambok commune, Chit Borey district, Kratie province. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/another-dolphin-calf-spotted-in-kratie/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

About 100 residents of Preah Vihear province’s Choam Ksan district gathered at Phnom Penh’s restive Samakki Raingsey pagoda on Wednesday ahead of a planned march calling for justice in their long-running land dispute.    href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/aggrieved-villagers-come-to-phnom-penh-for-protest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Interior Ministry will send a delegation to Nauru Island this month to interview another four asylum seekers who are considering resettling in Cambodia, a spokesman for the ministry said yesterday.   href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/four-more-nauru-refugees-may-be-on-the-way/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s State Secretary of Civil Aviation (SSCA) says it is ready to comply with an audit from the United Nations’ International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) after having fared poorly during the last two inspections in 2007 and 2009.    href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-ready-for-aviation-audit/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The construction of a new container terminal as part of an expansion project of the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAS) will start by early 2019 after Japan signed an agreement to provide a low-interest loan of about $209 million. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-container-terminal-okayed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The future of the government’s Labour Advisory Committee is hanging in the balance as the country’s first draft law on the national minimum wage is set to come into force by the end of the year.   href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/wage-law-change-threatens-labour-advisory-committee/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian and Indian senior diplomats on Wednesday discussed ways to strengthen and expand bilateral relations and cooperation for mutual benefits of the two countries and peoples. The talk was made between Cambodian deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong and Indian Ministry of External Affairs href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-india-discuss-ways-to-promote-bilateral-ties/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

When Defense Minister Tea Banh addressed graduates last month at Cambodia’s prestigious Army Institute, he directed his thanks to the guests who made it all possible: a group of crisply dressed officers from China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA). href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-influence-in-cambodia-grows-with-army-school-aid/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

National Assembly spokesman Chheang Vun again went on the attack Friday against CNRP lawmaker Um Sam An, who has been at the fore of the opposition’s recent campaign to highlight Vietnam’s alleged incursions into Cambodia. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/assembly-members-quarrel-over-border-letter/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh City Hall has rejected a request for two large-scale Labor Day marches on Sunday, but the unionists who have organized the demonstrations say they will proceed as planned.     href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/labor-day-marches-planned-despite-ban-from-city-hall/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The draft law on e-commerce is set to be completed and enacted by the end of this year, ahead of the launch of the Asean Economic Community (AEC), which begins at the end of the year, commerce officials said yesterday.    href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/e-commerce-law-to-debut-by-end-of-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Yang Sang Koma has announced that he will step down as president of the Cambodia Center for Study and Development of Agriculture (CEDAC) after his term finishes this year to focus his attention on the Grassroots Democracy Party (GDP).    href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cedac-president-steps-down-to-focus-on-political-party/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Civil society organizations yesterday expressed concern about the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations last month, which they said would be hard to achieve under the new Law on Associations and NGOs (LANGO).   ​ href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngo-law-obstacle-to-development-goals/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The directive banning the screening of foreign films during the prime-time slot at Cambodia-based television stations will move ahead and be more strictly enforced from January 1, according to the Information Ministry. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prime-time-ban-on-foreign-productions-from-new-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR) has called on schools to adopt a flexible school uniform policy to help transgender students and for the government to introduce(CCHR) anti-discrimination laws, in partnership with a USAID program worth almost $300,000.   href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-lgbt-policies-necessary-cchr/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...