In a move to bolster foreign investment, the Cambodian Chamber of Commerce (CCC) has announced plans to establish additional liaisons abroad, with a particular focus on the European Union. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ccc-plans-to-establish-eu-liaisons/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Amid regional and global economic uncertainties, the World Bank is set to approve the Country Partnership Framework (CPF) 2025-2029 to support the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) in achieving its long-term vision of becoming a middle-income country by 2030 and a high-income country by 2050. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/world-bank-backs-cambodias-long-term-economic-vision/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

During her visit to Cambodia, Samantha Power,the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) said that in the past 20 years, Cambodia has cut the rate of tuberculosis in this country by almost half, and is no longer on the World Health href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/usaid-lauds-cambodias-20-year-effort-in-combatting-tb/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

In a significant move towards advancing telecommunications in Cambodia, Japanese giants NTT Docomo and Nippon Electric Company (NEE) have initiated a groundbreaking partnership to establish a wireless network in the Southeast Asian nation, laying the groundwork for future 5G implementation, according to a story published href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japanese-it-giants-to-lay-5g-network-expansion-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy over the weekend again raised the prospect that a future CNRP government may oversee forced redistributions of land from the rich to the poor in order to correct cases of land-grabbing under Prime Minister Hun Sen’s reign.Mr. Hun Sen last week href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/despite-pms-attack-rainsy-pushes-plan-to-seize-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Former Khmer Rouge cadres who in return for laying down their weapons and swearing allegiance to the Cambodian government were granted plots of land in what is now Kampot province say local authorities aren’t respecting the deal. Representatives of 80 families in the province’s Chhouk district told the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-title-deals-for-former-khmer-rouge-in-question/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Garment factory workers who set tyres ablaze during a strike on Friday claimed yesterday they were burned when police pushed them into their own fire. Snguon Vannary was one of several workers who said his feet had been burned when police broke up the strike at href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tae-young-strikers-claim-police-abuse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Time is running out to rid the proposed ASEAN Human Rights Declaration of clauses that would restrict peoples’ rights rather than protect and enhance them, civil society groups said yesterday. Nay Vanda, deputy head of the monitoring section of rights group Adhoc, said civil society groups needed more href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/window-closing-on-ahrd-ngos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Bankers have raised no concerns over the National Bank of Cambodia’s increase to the reserve requirement rate in order to maintain the stabilization of cash flow and inflation during a time of global financial difficulty. The increase, from 12 to 12.5 per cent, issued late last month, was href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/reserve-rate-doesnt-worry-local-banks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The government on Friday pledged a 20 per cent increase to the base salary of civil servants year-on-year in a move one government official insisted was based on economics, not politics. The announcement was made in a statement released over the weekend outlining government spending for href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-pledges-pay-boost/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A group representing public-sector workers has called on the country’s civil servants to follow in the footsteps of teachers and begin a peaceful strike to demand higher salaries. A statement disseminated Thursday by the Cambodian Independent Civil Servants Association (CICA), which claims to have 1,530 members, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/civil-servants-urged-to-strike-for-higher-pay/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Republic of Korea has pledged to increase the quota for Cambodian workers in the country to more than 10,000 this year, and the figure will further rise in the following years. The pledge was made by Dr Uh Soobong, Chairman of Human Resource Development href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/south-korea-to-increase-quota-for-cambodian-workers-to-over-10000-in-2023/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 19 June 2024, the Ministry of Interior issued an announcement on additional services on passport issuance on their official social media site. The Ministry of Interior has informed the public about additional services on the provision of passports in order to increase the efficiency href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/announcement-on-additional-services-on-passport-issuance/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Senior Minister Ieng Mouly, Chair of the National AIDS Authority (NAA), said during a workshop held at the Phnom Penh Hotel on Thursday with media groups on the situation in responding to HIV and AIDS in Cambodia that Cambodia may have difficulties in reducing the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-may-face-difficulties-in-reducing-hiv-infection-rates/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The US presidential election on November 5 is watched closely by policymakers, economic commentators and business people across the Southeast Asia region, including Cambodia given the potential impact of the poll results on the region’s trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) prospects, as well as href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-election-results-likely-to-impact-cambodias-economy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Neak Leung bridge, which spans the Mekong River on the border between Kandal and Prey Veng provinces, will officially open to traffic on April 1, ahead of the busy Khmer New Year holiday, officials confirmed yesterday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/april-1-debut-set-for-new-bridge/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 30 July 2021, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training issued a notification on cooperation to suspend travel or mobility from the accommodation of Cambodian workers who are staying and working in Thailand to the Cambodian-Thai border for 14 days.The Ministry informs Cambodian workers href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/notification-on-cooperation-to-suspend-travel-or-mobility-from-the-accommodation-of-cambodian-workers-who-are-staying-and-working-in-thailand-to-the-cambodian-thai-border-for-14-days/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Mr Il Oeur, director of Analysing Development Issues Centre (ADIC), a domestic NGO and WorldFish partner in Cambodia, leads a local dialogue session. Photo by WorldFish, taken on 27 June 2013. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Multilateral aid is funding that is funneled between more than href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/multilateral-development-assistance/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Residents of Kratie province had an education in conservation yesterday as the government and outside partners reiterated a September sub-decree banning gill nets on a sizable stretch of the Mekong in a bid to protect the badly endangered Mekong River dolphin. Touch Seang Tana, head of the Commission href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kratie-meet-pushes-dolphin-protection/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

In a rare intervention, the Thai Labor Ministry has stepped in to stop the exploitation of migrant workers from Cambodia and Myanmar at a seafood factory in the country’s south, correspondence obtained by the Post reveals. The ministry found the Phatthana Seafood factory, in Songkhla province, which employs href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thailand-cracks-down-on-exploitative-factory/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...