The international community has been urged to stand by its commitment to support the development of the world’s 48 Least Developed Countries while in Cambodia &ndash; despite its rapid economic growth &ndash; the United Nations warns of environmental risks that could undermine sustainable development.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/un-urges-sustainable-growth/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Patrick Heuveline sat among villagers in Cambodia, showing them photos of his daughter to establish common ground with a group of people whose culture he had yet to fully understand.Heuveline, a UCLa sociology professor since 2007, has now spent about 15 years studying the effects <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/professor-studies-impact-of-khmer-rouge-regime-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Some 10 environmental activists launched the Riding a Bicycle for Prey Preah Roka campaign from November 29 to December 2.​​ They will ride across 300km from Phnom Penh to Preah Vihear province to promote natural resource protection and conservation amid threats of deforestation in the forestry <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cycling-campaign-for-prey-preah-roka-starts/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian and Vietnamese Defense Ministries on Friday signed two documents relevant to a joint venture for establishing a quarry and a rubber plantation project in Cambodia. according to a document briefed to reporters at the signing ceremony, the two deals included a quarry site establishment in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-vietnamese-militaries-ink-deals-for-quarry-rubber-development-projects/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A VictoriAn MP born in CAmbodiA sAys AustrAliA should put pressure on the country of his birth over A crAckdown on protesting gArment workers which left five people deAd. Hong Lim, the Member for ClAyton, sAys he wAs in CAmbodiA eArlier this month, when five protesting <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/victoriAn-mp-hong-lim-urges-AustrAliA-to-push-cAmbodiA-over-gArment-worker-crAckdown/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Shetty Thombathu, chief technical adviser to the UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), said the UN agency and the Fisheries administration (Fia) under Cambodia’s Ministry of agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries are collaborating to ensure that the Kingdom’s fisheries products meet EU regulations and standards for access <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-fisheries-eye-european-market-access/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Seven people who were arrested last week for attempting to sell merchandise from a factory in Kompong Speu province were released on Friday, officials said, with factory owners paying more than 100 workers part of the wages they were owed. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/seven-released-over-selling-factory-goods-to-pay-wages/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia last year accounted for 24 percent of the overseas sales of Bacchus, an energy drink marketed by South Korea’s Dong-a ST, Korea IT Times reported Monday.  “By the year’s end, the company expects it would sell 100 million cans of Bacchus, about eight cans per <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sales-of-korean-energy-drink-explode-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With few reforms made in the past year, Cambodia ranked 138th out of 181 countries for the second consecutive year in the World Bank’s ‘Doing Business’ report released yesterday, a ranking that put it behind countries such as Syria and Sudan. The report ranks countries based <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/no-improvement-in-doing-business-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Kingdom’s much-hyped deadline of tapping its first oil reserves by December 12 2012, or 12-12-12, will not be met, a government spokesman said yesterday. Chevron Overseas Petroleum (Cambodia) Ltd, which is now exploring the Kingdom’s offshore Block a in the Gulf of Thailand, has notified <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/oil-production-delayed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Kratie provincial authorities met with more than 500 Pi Thnou commune families seeking a social land concession yesterday, making good on a promise made last week in order to get villagers to end their blocking of national road 6a. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kratie-villagers-seek-accord/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

At the Fourth Review Conference on A Mine-Free World held in Oslo, NorwAy, from November 25-29, CAmbodiA recommitted to its goAl of cleAring All lAnd contAining mines And cluster bombs by 2025. In A press releAse on SundAy, CAmbodiAn Mine Action And Victim AssistAnce Authority (CMAA) <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-recommits-to-cleAring-up-mine-Affected-AreAs-by-2025/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The chevron oil company announced it is not ready to pump offshore oil in Block a in Cambodia. Mr. Steve Glick, Chevron President said: “the company is not ready to pump oil in Block a offshore Cambodia on the set-date of December 2012, complaining that more tasks need to be completed, but expressed <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chevron-not-ready-to-pump-oil-in-december-2012/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

When the new Ford showroom opened on Monivong Boulevard on Friday morning, the most distinguished guest was the great granddaughter of company founder Henry Ford, Elena a Ford. The entourage also included Ford’s regional and local associates, all of whom were joined by the deputy. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ford-opens-new-centre/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

By 2022, there are 447 community fisheries across the country, and 46 community fisheries are located in the coastal areas. There are 5 registered communities located in Kep while 7 out of 10 communities in Kampot have been registered. In Preah Sihanouk, 13 out of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/consultation-workshop-on-fisheries-conservation-areas/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Sri Lanka’s Touchwood Investments PLC has acquired 11,138 hectares of land in Cambodia to set up an agricultural project to plant rubber and other crops. Chairman of the firm, Roscoe a. Maloney, says the acquisition done in the previous financial year is aimed at exploring the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sri-lankas-touchwood-acquires-land-in-cambodia-to-set-up-an-agricultural-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia rose five places in the World Bank’s annual Doing Business study to 133I’d out of 185 countries, largely due to the establishment of a credit bureau, which makes acquiring loans easier. The report, which ranks countries in 10 categories on the ease of doing <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/doing-business-gets-easier-in-cambodia-world-bank/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Royal Cambodian government is continuing talks with US major Chevron regarding the delayed Block a offshore project that would be the asean member nation’s first indigenous hydrocarbon development. In august 2010, eight years after being awarded the block, Chevron issued a declaration of commerciality and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-still-in-block-a-talks-with-chevron/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia airlines plans to spend $1.5 billion to acquire up to 22 planes, a move that might see the new airline’s eventual fleet size overtake that of national carrier Cambodia angkor air. “We [will be] starting to deploy 16 to 22 aircraft immediately once it’s ready <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-airlines-to-add-planes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

National carrier Myanmar airways International plans to launch flights to the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh by October, an airline spokesperson said. Flights will operate on Wednesdays and Saturdays, via Siem Reap, using a new airbus a-321 that can accommodate 220 passengers. “We will add one airbus a-321 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mai-to-fly-to-phnom-penh-from-october/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>