The EU handed over a patrol boat to help boost fisheries crimes suppression, as the authorities continue to crackdown on the illegal activities. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eu-lends-a-hand-in-fight-against-fisheries-crimes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

IPEF is created to encourage regional economies to “decouple” from the Chinese market by leading them to alternative supply chains, a step that Washington believes will help exclude China from the regional trading and supply systems. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/indo-pacific-economic-framework-not-a-blessing-to-asia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Sam Sak stands amidst a landscape of cleared earth, surrounded by cassava stems planted like flags to claim their place inside the Kulen Promtep Wildlife Sanctuary. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/the-cassava-boom-undermining-a-leading-conservation-program/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Kingdom’s coastal Sihanoukville, where Chinese nationals national dominated nearly a half of businesses  before the COVID-19 outbreak, is seeing economic activity gradually rebound after   Middle Kingdom’s investors and workers started to return to the province as pandemic fears ease.​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sihanoukville-returning-chinese-mark-a-sign-of-a-business-rebound/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 200 people from Memot and Tambor districts, Tbong Khmum province have filed a petition at Tbong Khmum Provincial Hall and appealed to the Court of appeal to intervene in the years-long land dispute which makes their lives more difficult. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/citizens-from-two-districts-in-tbong-khmum-province-have-submitted-a-petition-to-the-relevant-authorities-to-help-resolve-a-long-running-land-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen is scheduled to meet with high school students who passed the Grade 12 exam with an “a” grade following the announcement of the results by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport on January 14, indicating a nearly four-fold increase in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/number-of-a-grade-earners-on-diploma-exam-quadruples/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s Industrial Transformation Map for Textile and apparel Industry 2023-2027 (T&amp;a ITM) sees a need for the sector to align its product mix as per global sourcing trends, integrate backwards to reduce dependence on imports and diversify its market mix. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-ta-industry-needs-to-align-product-mix-as-per-global-trends/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An officiAl of the Ministry of Economy And FinAnce sAid thAt the lAck of skills is A bArrier to CAmbodiA becoming A high middle-income country, According to the vision of the RoyAl Government. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/lAck-of-skills-is-A-bArrier-to-cAmbodiA-becoming-A-high-middle-income-country/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

More than one million vehicles had travelled on Cambodia’s first-ever expressway connecting the capital Phnom Penh and the deep-sea port province of Preah Sihanouk in the first three months since its inauguration on October 1 last year. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/building-a-china-cambodia-community-with-a-shared-future-at-the-start-of-spring/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The executive director at the Financial Institute of Cambodia (FIC) says 726 students have completed courses so far at FIC since it opened in early 2011. Tith Seyla, who earned his bachelor’s degree from the Royal University of Law and Economics followed by a master’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/financial-institute-of-cambodia-prepares-people-for-a-career-in-the-stock-exchange/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Speaking at the event on the capital’s Chroy Changvar peninsula, Hun Sen appealed to both the “greatest power country” and democratic nations to avoid making such mistakes in the future. The prime minister did not mention any state by name, referring only to the “greatest power <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-calls-on-west-to-learn-from-past-and-avoid-a-third-mistake/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National assembly will hold a plenary meeting on October 20th to vote for a draft-amended law on Commune/Sangkat Election. CPP wants the electoral campaign period shall be 10 days, while CNRP demands for 15-day, CPP spokesman said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/the-national-assembly-to-approve-a-draft-amended-commune-election-law-next-month-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National assembly will hold a plenary meeting on October 20th to vote for a draft-amended law on Commune/Sangkat Election. CPP wants the electoral campaign period shall be 10 days, while CNRP demands for 15-day, CPP spokesman said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/the-national-assembly-to-approve-a-draft-amended-commune-election-law-next-month/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Dozen hundred protesters from across Phnom Penh Municipality staged a protest in front of the National assembly this morning, demanding the Na’s current first deputy president Kem Sokha, to step down from his position. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-protest-stages-to-oust-kem-sokha-from-position-at-the-national-assembly/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Labor Ministry on Tuesday warned unions that if they failed to reach a consensus on a new minimum wage for the garment sector ahead of Friday’s Labor advisory Committee meeting on the issue, the committee would not consider any proposal from the unions at <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-tells-unions-to-pick-a-minimum-wage-or-lose-their-say/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The ApsArA Authority in cooperAtion with the PreAh ViheAr provinciAl Authorities will estAblish A joint-committee to combAt illegAl logging And lAnd encroAchments within conservAtion site in Koh Ker temple. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/A-joint-committee-will-estAblish-to-combAt-illegAl-logging-At-koh-ker-temple/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Importers can expect a substantial increase in the “specific tax” component of certain products, especially automobiles and auto spare parts, according to a sub-decree by the Customs and Excise Department released yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdoms-auto-importers-cast-a-wary-eye-on-govt-tax-decree/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government yesterday significantly upped the garment and footwear sector’s minimum wage to $170 a month, from $153, the highest increase in wages in the past two years and one that comes ahead of a crucial national election next July. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/big-boost-for-garment-sector-minimum-wage-though-some-see-a-political-motive/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Global payments giant Visa is the first international financial firm to announce the roll out of a payment solution in Cambodia for quick response codes, or QR codes, those pixelated black and white squares designed to be read by a smartphone camera that have begun <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/qr-codes-could-prove-to-be-a-digital-alternative-to-cash-for-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two newly elected opposition commune chiefs in Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville are struggling to dislodge their Cambodian People’s Party predecessors following their recent swearing in to office. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/old-cpp-chiefs-a-bane-for-new-cnrp-ones-in-phnom-penh-sihanoukville/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>