Cambodia, along with six other asean member countries, reached an agreement to form an alliance of sugar-producing countries ‒ or so the called asean Sugar alliance (aSa) ‒ to promote and support the regional sugar industry and make it more competitive globally. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/asean-forms-sugar-alliance/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two former Radio Free asia reporters arrested on Tuesday night remained in detention at Phnom Penh Municipal Police headquarters yesterday evening, with authorities confirming that the pair were under investigation for allegedly sending news reports to the radio broadcaster. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ex-rfa-reporters-detained-in-capital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Commerce and the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Phnom Penh on Thursday co-organised a workshop on dissemination of the benefits and export procedures to local exporters under the Cambodia-Korea Free Trade agreement (CKFTa). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-korea-fta-to-come-into-force-next-month/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The UN Food and agriculture Organisation (FaO) is forecasting that 44 percent of Cambodia’s total rice exports will be smuggled out of the country through informal channels this year, a persistent problem that weighs down profits and threatens to cripple the industry. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/un-data-show-nearly-half-of-kingdoms-rice-exports-undocumented/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

China is an increasingly important export destination for Cambodia’s agricultural commodities, thanks to the Cambodia-China Free Trade agreement (CCFTa), which went into effect on January 1, 2022. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-agricultural-commodities-target-china-as-a-key-export-destination/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The central bank announced on Friday that it has fined an unnamed microfinance institution (MFI) $100,000 for engaging in non-transparent lending practices. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/central-bank-fines-mfi-for-shady-lending/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Chea Vandeth requested a Japanese association to open a digital technology training school in Cambodia for highly skilled Cambodians to work in Japan and participate in national development. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/%e1%9e%9a%e1%9e%8a%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%8b%e1%9e%98%e1%9e%93%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%8f%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%9a%e1%9e%b8%e1%9e%94%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%9a%e1%9f%83%e1%9e%9f%e1%9e%8e%e1%9e%b8%e1%9e%99%e1%9f%8d/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC) and China Foreign Trade Center on Tuesday signed a cooperation agreement with the aim of exchanging business and investment information between the two countries. CCC director-general Nguon Meng Tech told Khmer Times yesterday after the agreement signing that both sides <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cooperation-agreement-with-china/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Council for the Development of Cambodia’s (CDC) two regular notices issued month-to-date reveal that the government body has approved registration certificates for nine new private investment projects &ndash; all in manufacturing &ndash; valued at a total of $77.4 million and set to deliver an <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nine-new-investments-worth-77m-to-deliver-17k-jobs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Plans to rebuild Phsar Kandal have struck fear into the market’s community of longtime vendors, who gathered on Monday over concerns they will become the latest victims of Phnom Penh’s surging inner-city development boom.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/phsar-kandal-vendors-concerned-over-development-talks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Labour has issued a prakas urging employers to follow existing regulations in the Labour Law that limit foreign workers to 10 per cent of the total workforce at any one company. It has warned that failure to stay within this limit &ndash; or <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/labours-10-per-cent-rule/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The private sector will meet with Prime Minister Hun Sen in april for the 19th Government-Private Sector Forum, which aims to address issues being faced by the business community. Lim Heng, vice-president of the Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC) and director of coordination for the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/private-sector-leaders-to-meet-with-hun-sen/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Heng Chheang, former deputy general director of the anco Brothers Company, was brought by prison security guards yesterday for questioning to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court over fresh allegations of defamation and fraud filed by Senator Kok an last year, officials said. “although I have already <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kok-an-case-back-in-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The representatives of the Cambodian Livestock Raisers association said that if we use the $ 1 billion to raise pigs and poultry locally, we could generate more jobs for the people in the country and they do not need to migrate to work in a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-spent-nearly-1-billion-on-import-pigs-and-poultries-each-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As sAlt fArmers in Kep And KAmpot provinces prepAre for the upcoming sAlt seAson, they hAve expressed concerns thAt unstAble weAther conditions could cAuse A supply shortAge on the growing domestic mArket. SAlt production in CAmbodiA usuAlly stArts in eArly JAnuAry And ends in lAte <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/sAlt-fArmers-feAr-little-output-due-to-rAinfAll/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A lingering odour in A Sixplus Industry gArment fActory is AggrAvAting the AlreAdy-frAgile heAlth of its workers, 100 of whom fAinted lAst weekend, And hAs forced the fActory to send mAny of them bAck to heAlth centres. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/workers-ill-After-fAinting-At-fActory/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Hang Chuon Naron, Minister of Education, Youth and Sport, said that the government is planning to expand mental health services nationwide to reduce deaths caused by mental illness. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-to-promote-mental-health-services-nationwide/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The AssociAtion of BAnks in CAmbodiA (ABC) And the CAmbodiA MicrofinAnce AssociAtion (CMA) Are working together with members over the AllegAtion on suicides And Attempted suicides due to over-Aggressive hAndling by loAn officers in RAtAnAkkiri recently. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/probe-lAunched-into-debt-relAted-suicides/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia will export 1,000 crocodile skins to France next month in a pilot project that, if successful, will look to increase the sale of skins to the EU, according to a Siem Reap crocodile farmers association representative. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdom-to-export-crocodile-skins/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Motivated to build a green industrial zone in Cambodia, the newly-established NGO Environmental Protection Industry associations of Cambodia (Epiac) will work with Chinese-owned industrial park developer and operator QiLu (Cambodia) Special Economic Zone Co Ltd to set a new precedent for environmentally-friendly design and construction. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngo-embarks-on-mission-for-green-sezs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>