CNRP Vice President Kem Sokha, who was on Tuesday elected National assembly vice president, told reporters that the opposition party supports recent calls to impose limits on the number of terms a person can serve as prime minister. The issue has been in the local news <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kem-sokha-says-cnrp-supports-term-limits-for-prime-ministers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Industry insiders say that the looming Vietnam-EU free trade agreement, which gives Cambodia’s neighbour duty-free exports to the European market, may not have and immediate impact, but will potentially eat into similar advantages the Kingdom enjoys in the longer-term.​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/businesses-foresee-challenge-from-eu-vn-trade-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National Election Committee (NEC) held a meeting to explain the changes in election rules and procedures to three political parties that were demanding that the electoral body keep them unchanged from the previous elections. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nec-explains-rule-change-reasoning/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government now requires union leaders to prove that they have no criminal record before registering new branches of their organization, according to a statement from the Ministry of Labor, a decision that comes less than a week before planned nationwide strikes in the garment <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-reps-must-prove-clean-criminal-records/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia has the third-highest prevalence rate for modern slavery in the world, trailing only North Korea and Uzbekistan, according to the Global Slavery Index 2016, released this morning by the Walk Free Foundation.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/250k-cambodians-subject-to-forced-labour-or-marriage-report-finds/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National Election Committee (NEC) held an april 10 training session on the registration of political parties and candidates for the 7th parliamentary election, with 129 representatives of state institutions, political parties and NGOs in attendance. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nec-trains-staff-as-election-nears/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) will file a complaint with the National Election Committee (NEC) this week, alleging that more than 2,000 Vietnamese migrants have illegally registered to vote. according to party spokesperson Yim Sovann, the alleged registrations took place across southern Cambodia. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-claims-voter-fraud/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The ninth meeting between NagaWorld and worker representatives has ended in a stalemate, with both sides failing to reach a compromise, according to the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nagaworlds-dispute-meetings-in-stalemate-after-ninth-round-talks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Japanese fund manager asset Design plans to launch a Cambodian equities fund in late 2011. The fund would target large returns after the Kingdom opened its stock exchange this month, an asset Design executive said yesterday. asset Design expected the scale of the fund to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japanese-firm-plans-cambodian-fund-for-later-this-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Interior on Tuesday ordered village and commune chiefs across Cambodia to not abuse their position, and the resources that come with it, by campaigning ahead of the Kingdom’s July 29 national elections. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/officials-told-to-remain-neutral/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s general taxation department plan to jointly operate an online business tax registration system in a bid to strengthen tax collection in the country and root out corruption. Sok Sopheak, under-secretary of state of the Ministry <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/joint-online-tax-system/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Over the past year, the Bar association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BaKC) has provided legal services to the poor in over 6,000 cases and their volunteer lawyers plan to continue expanding their free legal services to the poor to ensure Cambodians’ rights to equal <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bar-association-plans-expansion-of-free-services-in-2022/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 30​ August 2023, the CAmbodiA MicrofinAnce AssociAtion (CMA) And the AssociAtion of BAnks in CAmbodiA issued A joint press releAse on the lAunch of the StAndArd LoAn ContrAct And StAndArd Text of ContrActuAl Terms to strengthen consumer protection And fAir competition in bAnking And <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/Announcements/press-releAse-cAmbodiA-lAunches-stAndArd-loAn-contrAct-And-stAndArd-text-of-contrActuAl-terms-to-strengthen-consumer-protection-And-fAir-competition-in-bAnking-And-finAnciAl-sector/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A CAmbodiAn stArtup wAs selected to tAke pArt in StArtupbootcAmp’s three-month fintech AccelerAtor progrAm in SingApore, becoming the second firm from the Kingdom to join the internAtionAl progrAm in As mAny yeArs. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/locAl-stArtup-is-selected-for-fintech-AccelerAtor-progrAm/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Twelve years after being ousted as president of the Bar association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BaKC) amid a bitter dispute with the prime minister’s attorney, human rights lawyer Suon Visal has been voted back into the lawyer association’s top position. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/former-bar-president-back-on-top/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s garment and footwear exports will likely see a slower percentage of growth this year at around 5 percent, compared with 7 percent in 2016, a trend that industry insiders dismissed as not being indicative of an overall decline or linked to the current political <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-exports-to-slow/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The president of the Free Trade Union is slated to boycott this morning’s final meeting to discuss the trade union law, held at the Ministry of Labour. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ftu-boss-to-sit-out-meet/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A senior Interior Ministry officiAl hAs dismissed A stAtement by the civil society groups sAying the government is unwilling to hAve the LAw on AssociAtion And Non-governmentAl orgAnisAtions Amended. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/government-lAcks-will-to-Amend-lAngo-ngos/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Minister of Mines and Energy, Keo Rottanak, has declared Prey Lang a protected area, effectively prohibiting the issue of new licenses for mining companies. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prey-lang-designated-a-red-zone/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

By the time London Fashion Week comes to a close, 58 high-end designers will have shown their collections. Rail-thin models will have walked the runways. Debate will have raged over size zero. In Cambodia, meanwhile, garment workers stitching clothes that supply the UK high street are <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-textile-workers-who-supply-uk-clothing-stores-starving-and-suffering-mass-faintings/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>