A sound understAnding of double tAxAtion AvoidAnce Agreements (DTAs) between CAmbodiA And other countries is cruciAl to lower bArriers to promote cross-border investments And boost trAde And economic flows between the Kingdom And its pArtner countries, sAid the president of the CAmbodiA ChAmber of Commerce <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/leArn-dtAs-sAys-kith-meng/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

To boost Chinese investment in Cambodian garment industry, the Textile Enterprise association of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce also know as TEaC has been officially launched in Phnom Penh.​Enjoy Ho, chairman of TEaC said that they will represent the interests of Chinese textile Enterprises in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/teac-officially-launched-in-cambodian-to-boost-chinese-producers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Government officials on Monday hit back at UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) criticisms expressed ahead of the UN’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) scheduled for next month.​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-responds-to-un-human-rights-concerns/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Major global brands that source from Cambodia welcome the recent rise in the basic minimum wage for the country’s more than 700,000 garment workers, representatives of three brands told Khmer Times yesterday. They have no plans to shift sourcing to other countries where wages are <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/global-brands-welcome-wage-rise/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prominent NGOs yesterday said they are trying to comply with the new law on organisations and will meet the Interior Ministry’s deadline to submit reports by the end of September. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngos-to-meet-deadline/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Japan’s swelling ranks of elderly citizens could soon be receiving care from Cambodians if one NGO’s plan comes to fruition. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japan-caregiver-centre-to-train-young-recruits/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

One of the country’s largest unions on Sunday came out in favor of a new minimum wage for garment workers far lower than what many of its counterparts have been agitating for over the past several months, bolstering prospects for a compromise with factories. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/free-trade-union-proposes-130-garment-worker-minimum-wage/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Koh Kong provincial authorities have chosen four key locations where they will erect billboards explaining the idea of “Plastic-free Zones” to educate the public on the prevention and reduction of plastic use. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/koh-kong-plastic-free-campaign-underway/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Increasing orders for footwear and travel goods from international markets and the opening of new factories in the Kingdom have contributed to labour shortages in the sector, according to Cambodia Footwear association (CFa) president Ly Kunthai. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/labour-shortages-in-footwear-travel-goods-association/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Banking sector leaders have expressed concern over a new government decree that places additional fees on financial services, warning that the costs of what some have described as an “impractical and inefficient” tax would likely be passed along to consumers. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bank-services-vat-seen-as-inefficient/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Education Ministry’s crusade to clean up the national high school exam continued Wednesday, with the anti-Corruption Unit (aCU) releasing a statement inviting concerned parties to monitor exams in august and warning that cheats would be failed and effectively banned from sitting again for two <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-acu-continue-campaign-for-clean-high-school-exam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The number of new businesses registering in Cambodia continued to plummet through the third quarter of this year amid tightened rules for start-ups and waning investor confidence following the still-unresolved national elections. Data from the Ministry of Commerce yesterday showed that 853 new businesses registered with <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-fees-political-crisis-mean-fewer-businesses/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Vattanac Capital Tower, a long-anticipated gleaming tower that dominates the city’s skyline from Monivong Boulevard, continues to attract tenants to its commercial office space. The most recent tenants to occupy the building are Qatar airways and investment company One asia Capital, with Qatar occupying 180 square <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tenants-begin-occupation-of-phnom-penhs-tower-of-glass/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

United Nations human rights expert Maina Kiai on Wednesday urged Cambodia to reject a draft law that would allow authorities to shut down and criminalize any group advocating for human rights, basic freedoms and good governance, saying it is not too late to reverse the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-un-expert-urges-authorities-to-reject-bill-that-threatens-free-society/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia has been asked to accelerate the final negotiations for a bilateral investment treaty with the United States to pave the way for more american investment in the Kingdom. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-ambassador-urges-investment-treaty/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Conservationist working groups have urged participation in protecting and conserving important coral habitats following the first-ever observation of coral reef spawning in Cambodian seawaters. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/coral-spawning-observed-in-cambodian-waters/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With the start of the dry harvest season for cassava kicking off, farmers are calling for the government to support the struggling sector with initiatives to address recurring capital shortages and market volatility. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cassava-industry-left-out-to-dry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s garment industry, the country’s biggest income earner, recorded 2.06 billion U.S. dollars in export value in the first five months of this year, up 22 percent on the same period last year, a Commerce Ministry’s report showed Tuesday. Garment export accounts for more than 80 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-garment-exports-up-22-pct-in-5-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Foreign minister Prak Sokhonn urged international NGOs to respect Cambodia’s Law on accounting and auditing, noting that less than 50 per cent of them have submitted their required annual financial reports. While presiding over the opening of the third round of consultative meetings with foreign NGOs <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fm-to-ngos-submit-financials/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Chongqing and Phnom Penh will become sister cities, after which it will be more convenient for those Chongqing enterprises to invest in Cambodia. Cambodia is an important trading partner for Chongqing and it has become one of the major countries for the development strategy of “going <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/easier-to-invest-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>