A U.S. bAsed Agriculture consultAncy firm hAs urged CAmbodiA rice exporters to focus on promoting their exports to the Chinese mArket As it hAs A huge untApped potentiAl for more imports in the future, According to locAl sources. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-cAn-gAin-A-decent-shAre-in-chinese-rice-import-mArket-sAy-experts/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Ministry of Interior received a letter Monday from Sourn Serey Ratha who is seeking permission to form ‘Khmer People Power Party’. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/interior-ministry-receives-sourn-serey-rathas-letter-seeking-to-establish-a-political-party/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 16 February 2015, Phnom Penh Capital Hall issued a notification on the prohibition of using of a drone in the geography of Phnom Penh city to ensure respect for citizen’s rights and maintain security, safety and public order. In case of necessity, a user <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/notification-on-the-prohibition-of-using-of-a-drone-in-phnom-penh-city/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday delayed the trial of a woman whose family has been locked in a lengthy land dispute with real estate tycoon Khun Sear because the air conditioning in the courtroom was not working, a decision that was followed by <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-delays-trial-due-to-lack-of-ac-denies-bail-to-woman/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s National Election Committee (NEC) will make the disabled a top priority in political participation and include related policy in the country’s new election law to ensure them equality in the next nationwide elections, an agency official said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-election-body-to-make-the-disabled-a-priority-in-next-elections/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Multilateralism is a very important tool to solve challenges being faced by the world, mainly the least developed countries (LDCs). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/multilateralism-a-key-tool-for-current-global-issues/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The new Taxation Law encompassing the earlier provisions of the taxation law (1997), annual budget laws of the Kingdom of Cambodia time and decrees and codes of the People’s Republic of Kampuchea (PRK) and the State of Cambodia (SOC) is seen as  simple, flexible and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-taxation-law-a-shot-in-the-arm-for-taxpayers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sport said the more than 1,000 students who earned a grades in last year’s high school examinations are set for their February 2 meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-grade-grads-meeting-pm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government, through a sub-decree, cut off 67 hectares of Boeung Ta Mok in Phnom Penh to a businessman who have ties to Prim Minister Hun Sen’s daughter. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-cuts-67-hectares-of-boeung-ta-mok-to-a-director-of-a-real-estate-company/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen has announced the postponement of  his planned get-together with the 1,753 students who have got their baccalaureate with grade a, due to the fast spreading Omicron variant. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/omicron-spread-forces-pm-hun-sen-to-postpone-meeting-with-grade-a-students/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 06 November 2018, Ministry of Environment issued a press release announcing to the public that Stung Sen, which is the tallest and pristine seasonally flooded freshwater swamp forest of the Tonle Sap Great Lake, has been designated as a Wetland of International Importance (also known <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-stung-sen-was-internationally-recognized-as-a-fifth-ramsar-site-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ever since the dissolution of the main opposition, the Cambodia National Rescue Party, the progressive Grassroots Democracy Party has found itself between a rock and a hard place. Many have called for them to boycott an election that is no longer fully democratic. as one <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/middle-way-outside-shot-gdp-members-see-victory-in-july-election-as-a-possibility/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 6 March 2019, the Ministry of Mines and Energy published an press release on a news article of Phnom Penh Post on “Ethnic cultural centre in land dispute” which posted on page 8, released on Wednesday, 06 March 2019. In the news article, quoted <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-related-to-a-news-article-on-ethnic-cultural-centre-in-land-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new topic page on​ “SDG 14 Life below water”, which is one of the 17 goals of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in both Khmer and English languages. Through ODC’s new topic page on SDG 14, you will <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-topic-page-on-sdg-14-life-below-water/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s democracy has been in increasing trouble in recent months, with Prime Minister Hun Sen dissolving the main opposition party and cracking down on independent media. Now there’s a sign that the U.S. government is paying attention. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/as-cambodian-democracy-weakens-u-s-imposes-sanctions-on-a-high-ranking-cambodian-official/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

His Majesty, King Norodom Sihamoni of the Kingdom of Cambodia, departed this morning for a 3-day official visit to Laos PDR at the invitation of Lao President Choummaly Sayasone. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/king-norodom-sihamoni-departs-this-morning-for-a-3-day-visit-in-lao-pdr/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

High-rise apartments are springing up across Cambodia’s capital, part of a property boom led by expat demand, while developers are also betting the country’s growing middle class will shed a traditional distaste for “living on top of each other”. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/condo-boom-in-cambodias-capital-driven-by-expat-demand-and-a-leap-of-faith/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ten union representatives were yesterday suspended from the Southland garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district after more than a thousand workers went on strike to protest the factory’s decisions about time taken off for voting in Sunday’s commune elections. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-reps-suspended-after-more-than-a-thousand-strike-in-election-day-pay-row/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s Senior Minister and Minister of Public Works and Transport Minister H.E. Sun Chanthol has held a discussion with Chairman of China Sky Railway Group Mr. Tang Tong on Phnom Penh sky train, according to the ministry’s news release. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-of-public-works-discusses-with-a-chinese-developer-on-capital-city-sky-train/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The seemingly impending demise of Cambodia’s main opposition, and the snap draft laws put in motion to replace them in parliament, threatens to throw a handful of obscure parties into the political arena at the highest level. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/as-cnrps-dissolution-looms-small-parties-look-set-to-enter-a-big-stage/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>