Fish farmers who had ceased operations in april due to plummeting fish prices have now resumed their activities, encouraged by the recent upturn in the market, according to the Cambodian aquaculturist association (Caa). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fish-farming-resumes-amid-market-uptick-price-surges/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s insurance business is continuing to make strides, with the total value of engineering insurance reaching approximately $4 million in 2013, a significant increase compared to 2012. according to data recently released by the Insurance association of Cambodia, the value of engineering insurance purchased in 2013 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/insurance-investment-in-construction-and-property-see-year-on-year-increases/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) free trade pact and bilateral free trade agreements (FTas) have provided more favorable trade and investment opportunities for investors in Cambodia, a senior commerce ministry official said on Saturday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rcep-ftas-create-more-favorable-trade-investment-opportunities-for-investors-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The US sent its first shipment of food-grade soybeans to Cambodia last week, exporting a total of 14 tonnes to both Cambodia and Myanmar to be processed in the receiving countries, according to US media reports. The shipments were sent to soy milk and tofu <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-sends-first-soybean-shipment-to-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The number of incoming business people from Wenzhou, a Chinese coastal city of three million known for manufacturing, has grown markedly in recent years. So much, in fact, that Wezhou opened an official chamber of commerce in Phnom Penh last week. Labour and land costs on China’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/wenzhou-business-grows-in-phnom-penh/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Exports of fresh fish and fish products fell significantly during the first nine months of the year, raising concerns about businesses and families operating in the Kingdom’s fisheries sector.Fresh and frozen fish export shipments fell 21 per cent during the first nine months of the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/yields-from-fishing-take-a-dive/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia must accelerate economic reform and develop a sense of “urgency” if it wishes to continue to attract american investment amid growing regional competition, the head of the US-aSEaN Business Council said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-delegation-urges-govt-to-speed-up-reform/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodia Microfinance association (CMa) has announced that it will establish a staff development fund to stem the tide of cross-institutional recruitment in the competitive microfinance institution (MFI) sector. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cma-launches-fund-to-strengthen-mfi-staffing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

King Norodom Sihamoni and Queen Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk granted an audience for a group of nearly 200 tycoons led by Ly Yong Phat, president of the Cambodian Oknha association on Saturday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/king-queen-mother-grant-audience-to-oknha-association-delegation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

THE ten-member AssociAtion of South-EAst AsiAn NAtions (ASEAN) is used to fending off “interference” by the West in the internAl AffAirs of some of its members. In recent yeArs the humAn-rights record of the regime in MyAnmAr hAs been the tenderest of these sore spots. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-drops-A-spot-in-AseAn-As-burmA-reforms/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia has pinned hopes on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement and bilateral Free Trade agreements (FTas) to boost its exports of garment, footwear and travel (GFT) goods. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-hopes-rcep-bilateral-ftas-to-boost-exports-of-garment-footwear-travel-goods-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The World Bank is considering yet another internally funded project in Cambodia that, if approved, would lift the organization’s four-year-old freeze on new lending to the country. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/world-bank-readies-another-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Better branding of Cambodian products is essential as major global brands inundate the domestic market and local producers look to compete in international markets, panellists said Wednesday evening during an industry forum in Phnom Penh. Var Roth San, an adviser to the Ministry of Commerce, said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-producers-urged-to-build-effective-brands/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 22 September 2021, the Ministry of Commerce issued a press release on Engineering Export Promotion Council of Indian (EEPC) is organizing “Builder Hardware Expo” in the virtual format.Engineering Export Promotion Council of Indian (EEPC) is organizing “Builder Hardware Expo” from 05th -08th October, 2021 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/engineering-export-promotion-council-of-indian-eepc-is-organizing-builder-hardware-expo-in-the-virtual-format/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia is exploring the possibility of establishing a Free Trade agreement with Japan. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-to-explore-fta-with-japan/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Labour instructed factories and enterprises in the Kingdom to give workers three days off in order to cast their ballots in the July 29 national elections, stating that salaries and bonuses should remain unaffected. The move raised eyebrows with a former opposition <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/workers-to-get-three-days-off-for-polls/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia has reported a significant decline in the imports of plastic bags in the first quarter of 2024, thanks to an ongoing plastics-free campaign, said the Environment Ministry’s news release on april 10, 2024. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-plastic-bag-imports-down-74-6-pct-in-q1/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Restructured loans at member institutions of the Cambodia Microfinance association (CMa) totalled about $1.5 billion as of april, according to the organisation. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cma-loan-restructures-increasing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 300 workers from the Tropicana Casino and resort in Banteay Meanchey provinces’s Poipet town obeyed a court order to end striking and return to work yesterday and official said. Hong Prakorb, a provincial official for the Labour Ministry said more than 200 workers <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/strikers-know-when-to-fold-em/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Garment Manufacturers association of Cambodia says it appreciates and supports government action to enforce the union registration provision of the Cambodian Labor Law. In a statement released Friday, GMaC noted that article 269 of the law stipulated that administrators and managers of professional organizations had <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gmac-welcomes-government-commitment-to-labor-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>