A new inter-ministry prakas is planned that controls and ensures the safety of bus passengers using the Kingdom’s growing bus network, and may include monitoring the behaviour of drivers and companies prior to granting licences, Cambodian officials said. Bus companies are now controlled by Ministry of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-moves-to-create-bus-monitoring-prakas/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Toll Royal Railway signed an agreement yesterday afternoon with companies that will supply locomotives and parts for Cambodia’s railway network. As a result of the agreement, international tenders will be called in the coming months for the procurement of up to four new 2,000-horsepower locomotives and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/train-supply-agreement-signed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia could benefit more from trade in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) by implementing time and cost, cutting measures and removing constraints on exports, according to a new book by the Asian Development Bank. During a media briefing yesterday, Brimble [senior country economist and author of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/possible-benefits-for-cambodia-in-mekong-region-trade/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia entrepreneurs faced considerable problems when it came to obeying tax laws and other regulations, officials at a seminar about that very subject said yesterday. The VDB Loi company organised the seminar on “New Practices and Preferential Trade Rules” with the co-operation of the General Department of Customs and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/businesses-know-little-of-the-letter-of-the-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 NGOs and human rights groups yesterday urged foreign donors to flag issues regarding land policies, democratic processes and human rights during today’s Government-Development Partner Coordinating Committee (GDCC) meeting.   Intended as a preparatory meeting for Cambodia’s main government and donor summit, the GDCC is generally href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ahead-of-aid-meet-ngos-urge-reform/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Protests over construction of the controversial Xayaburi hydro dam project in northern Laos could spread from Thailand to Cambodia as communities along the Mekong River begin to feel its negative effects, an International Rivers programme director said yesterday. About 70 Thai villagers who rely on the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thai-protesters-rally-against-xayaburi-dam-construction/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A company owned by a board member of the Cambodian Chamber of Commerce has been accused of illegally destroying more than 80 houses in Kampot province’s Chhouk district, a claim vigorously denied by the firm and local authorities. Chan Pheng, a villager from Chi Bak village href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/destroyed-houses-spark-debate-in-kampot/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Nautisco Seafood Manufacturing, once Cambodia’s premier seafood-processing company, will not undergo government-brokered restructuring after a Cambodian appeals court yesterday declared the company solvent. The ruling was a first test for the law on corporate restructuring and insolvency. The decision sounds positive for the company. But now the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-rules-nautisco-solvent/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia vehemently denied that it has supported Japan‘s plan to enhance its military role, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday. “The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation wishes to strongly reject the recent publications of Kyodo href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-denies-backing-japans-plan-to-enhance-military-role/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A waterfall has been blasted less than two kilometres from the Cambodian-Lao border, beginning work on another unapproved hydroelectric dam on the Mekong river, environmental group International Rivers claimed yesterday. Pianporn Deetes, the Thailand campaign coordinator for International Rivers, said she had learned of the excavation work, near href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lao-dam-breaks-ground/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia needed to invest in women to aid its development and integration into the ASEAN economic community, United Nations Under Secretary-General Noeleen Heyzer said yesterday. Heyzer, executive secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific(ESCAP), met with Minister of Women’s Affairs Ing Kantha href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/un-invest-in-women/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Workers who have been told they have been sacked for striking at the co-owned Tai Yang and Camwell factories will forget about their seniority bonuses – for now – if they are reinstated, unions and an advocacy group said yesterday. In an attempt to end one href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/strike-may-end-if-deal-holds-union/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Southeast Asia is showing stronger signs of resilience to global turbulence than the rest of Asia as buoyant domestic spending offsets struggling exports, while low debt levels give governments more room than their cash-strapped counterparts in the West to deliver stimulus. On Thursday, the Philippines became href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/southeast-asias-solid-economic-growth-rides-over-global-woes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Thousands of government and opposition supporters have hit the streets in Cambodia to drum up last minute support ahead of this Sunday’s election. Election monitors are fanning out across the country to ensure a free and fair vote. Koul Panha, Director of Comfrel Cambodia’s Committee for Free href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-weekend-elections-will-be-the-least-fair-in-history/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Outspoken female MP takes battle to Hun Sen’s ruling party as Cambodia goes to the polls. She is brave, eloquent and defiant in a country where government critics have been detained, imprisoned and sometimes killed for speaking out. Now Mu Sochua, Cambodia‘s leading female opposition MP, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-opposition-power-figure-mu-sochua-relishes-election-fight/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The setting is familiar – a garment factory in Kandal province that supplies Levi’s and Gap – and so is the number of people involved, but a strike that has raged at Yung Wah Industrial II factory since Monday has a twist: it’s worker versus worker and union versus href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unions-skirmish-using-factory-as-battleground/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A new study has determined that cost and space are the biggest constraints to setting up canteens in Cambodia’s garment factories. The findings were presented on Monday night at a cocktail party attended by Cambodia’s former ambassador to the US, Roland Eng, the Swedish Ambassador Anne href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/better-worker-food-needed-survey/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s economic productivity is in trouble, struggling with an inability to turn a youthful population into a skilled workforce and stunted by an over-reliance on agriculture, according to a new World Bank report. In Cambodia and Vietnam, diversification of labour from the farming sector contributed to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/farmings-primacy-hinders/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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About 200 farmers protested in front of the Ministry of Agriculture on Friday and submitted a petition requesting changes to a draft law on the management of agricultural land, which rights groups have said could effectively legalize land grabs from poor farmers. The government says the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/farmers-petition-to-change-agricultural-draft-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...