Cambodia received and operated 494 flights per week at its three airports in the first three months of this year, according to the preliminary data from the State Secretariat of Civil aviation (SSCa)&mdash;Cambodia’s regulatory and development agency for civil aviation activity and infrastructure. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-operates-494-flights-a-week/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Local authorities and indigenous villagers in a commune in Ratanakiri are gravely concerned over the high percentage of their children being involved in drugs, with the propensity of becoming worse with time. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/forty-percent-of-indigenous-children-in-a-ratanakiri-commune-addicted-to-drugs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Twenty five families in Prek Takong 1 village of Chak angreleu commune are concerned about losing their plots of land, which were rented out to the Meanchey district authority to build a temporary sewage canal. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prek-takong-villagers-fear-losing-land-following-expiration-of-a-land-lease-contract/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Heng Sour, Minister of Labour and Vocational Training, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Fukuhara Koji, President of the Japanese Business association of Cambodia (JBaC), on July 9 to promote internship cooperation in order to support technical and vocational skills training. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-of-labour-and-jbac-sign-a-memorandum-of-understanding-on-internships/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia, with a total population of 14,952,665 as of July 2010, is located in Southeastern asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand, between Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos. The country mostly has a tropical climate and covers a total area of 181,035 km2 Cambodia’s key natural resources include <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-mineral-metal-and-fuel-resources/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s transformation from war-torn basket-case to one of asia’s most promising emerging economies is being overshadowed by a backwards lurch in human rights and land policies that critics say are entrenching poverty. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/insight-land-conflict-impunity-dims-cambodias-awakening/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s ranking has slightly improved in this year’s global index of emerging logistics markets, rising one notch compared with the same survey last year from 42 to 41 among 50 countries included in the study. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-ranking-as-a-logistics-hub-remains-stable/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Some foreign garment buyers have notified garment factories in Cambodia for a suspension on the shipment of garment exports from Cambodia to European and US markets due to the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak. The statement comes after the recent arrival of raw materials from <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/%e2%80%8b%e1%9e%a2%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%93%e1%9e%80%e1%9e%93%e1%9e%b6%e1%9f%86%e1%9e%96%e1%9e%b6%e1%9e%80%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%99%e2%80%8b-gmac%e1%9f%96%e2%80%8b-%e1%9e%91%e1%9e%b8%e1%9e%95%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%9f/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed australia is working on an agreement with Cambodia that would see refugees currently on Nauru resettled there. But Human rights lawyer David Manne, who launched a successful High Court challenge to the former government’s proposal to resettle refugees in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/is-cambodia-engulfed-in-a-human-rights-crisis/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A $20 million government AgriculturAl initiAtive Achieved remArkAble results in its three yeArs of operAtion but still fell fAr short of its tArget, the GenerAl DirectorAte of Agriculture reported. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/govt-produce-plAn-A-relAtive-success/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry And Fisheries (MAFF) hAs been working with the privAte sector And development pArtners to integrAte the use of AgriculturAl mAchinery into middle-clAss fArming communities to respond to the current And future decline in the AgriculturAl workforce. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mAchinery-A-growing-feAture-of-fArming/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Ministry of Education is cooperating with the International Centre for Higher Education Innovation of Unesco (Unesco-ICHEI) to diversify higher education with more digital-focussed programmes <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/digital-education-will-continue-to-be-a-priority/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Agence FrAncAise de Developpement (AFD) hAs grAnted €300,000 to the Kingdom of CAmbodiA to drAw up A model of energy-trAnsition scenArios to 2050, the French development Agency reveAled in A stAtement published on April 1. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Afd-lends-A-hAnd-in-energy-trAnsition/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Japan’s assistance to Cambodia in the decade’s long battle to clear vast areas of landmines in the country would perhaps be close to taking yet another step forward, going by the words of Japan’s Minister for Foreign affairs, Hayashi Yoshimasa. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japan-to-assist-cambodia-to-become-a-landmine-free-nation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s income tax revenue has grown to $250 million a month as the private sector continues to grow, according to Prime Minister Hun Sen. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/income-tax-revenue-hits-250m-a-month/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Environmental activists submitted a petition to the Ministry of Environment on august 23 requesting the ministry to designate Koh Kong Krao as a marine national park after the government granted rights to  Ly Yong Phat’s Koh Kong SEZ. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/environmental-activists-petition-the-ministry-of-environment-to-designate-koh-kong-krao-as-a-marine-national-park/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

China is considering the construction of a technical university of science in Cambodia. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-to-construct-a-technical-university-of-science-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport has released the overall results of this year’s grade 12 high school examinations and announced that nearly 100,000 candidates have passed the exam, or about 72 per cent of the total number of candidates. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/72-pass-national-exams-over-1600-a-grade-students/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

If Cambodia’s oil and gas sector is well managed, and transparent, it could provide the country a golden opportunity for investment, development and poverty reduction, said independent economist Chan Sophal, who spoke at a recent gathering looking at the economies of oil-producing countries. Chan Sophal said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/benefits-from-black-gold-revenue-from-cambodian-oil-fields-could-provide-a-big-boost-to-development-if-its-done-right/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Beijing is spreading its influence by stumping up the cash to build desperately needed infrastructure throughout asia, but with little consideration for communities or the level of corruption. “Without infrastructure, you can’t revive,” said Cambodia’s Commerce Minister, Sun Chanthol. “We have been blamed for always <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinas-financial-power-play-how-a-530m-dam-in-cambodia-symbolises-the-growing-sometimes-ruthless-influence-of-beijing-across-asia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>