A senior government officiAl hAs Accused Authorities involved in the construction And repAir of the nAtion’s roAds of embezzling A significAnt portion of the money budgeted to them. Nhim VAndA, the first vice president of the NAtionAl Committee for DisAster MAnAgement, on WednesdAy Added his voice <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cpp-officiAl-Alleges-embezzlement-of-roAds-budgets/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A new report &ndAsh; 10 YeArs of the Better FActories CAmbodiA Project: A criticAl evAluAtion &ndAsh; hAs been releAsed by CleAn Clothes CAmpAign And Community LegAl EducAtion Center. StArted in 2001, the goAl of the Better FActories progrAm is to improve the working conditions in <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/new-report-evAluAtes-decAde-of-better-fActories-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Cambodian government expects U.S. oil major Chevron Corp. CVX -0.53%to begin developing the country’s first offshore oil field early next year, and hopes the nation will become a regional hot spot for oil and gas investment, a government official said Wednesday Chevron discovered commercial resources <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-aims-for-offshore-production-next-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia angkor air will start a daily service between Phnom Penh and Bangkok, 1 February [sic]. The airline launched its first service to Thailand, 30 November [sic] from Siem Reap and is scheduled to start a service to Hanoi 7 January [sic]. The Bangkok-bound flight will <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-angkor-flies-to-bangkok/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

India-based Tata International Ltd announced yesterday that it would import and distribute its Farmtrac Tractors in Cambodia to profit from the country’s growing agricultural sector. Speaking at the launching ceremony at the Koh Pich exhibition centre, Jitendra Manghinani, country manager of Tata South East asia (Cambodia), <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tata-moves-in-on-agriculture/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As Chevron hAnds over its controlling stAke in the Kingdom’s most developed oil field to A new plAyer, industry experts sAy extrAction mAy still tAke time Industry insiders urged pAtience this week After news broke thAt energy giAnt Chevron hAd sold its controlling stAke in the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/new-chApter-in-seArch-for-blAck-gold/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Long a popular fixture of US TV and radio competitions, “Hands on a Hardbody,” a marathon endurance contest where participants vie to hold their palms against a car the longest in order to win it, has expanded to Cambodia. More than 80 participants took part <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hands-on-contest-a-hit-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Flag carrier Philippine airlines is eying flights to Kuwait, Turkey, and Cambodia starting next year amid its refleeting and expansion program, the Civil aeronautics Board said Wednesday. PaL has filed petitions with the industry regulator for flights to Istanbul in Turkey, Phnom Penh in Cambodia, and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pal-seeks-cab-green-light-for-flights-to-turkey-kuwait-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The owner of the under-construction 10-storey building located on the corner of Street 178 and Norodom Boulevard, who asked not to be identified, said the building will be used as office space and apartments. The three floors on the top of the building will be apartments <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-10-storey-office-building-on-norodom-boulevard-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Villagers in Kratie province have long feared the proposed Sambor hydroelectric dam and the impact it could have on their subsistence fishing and riverbank agriculture. according to Resilience on the Mekong: a Vulnerability and adaptation assessment in North-East Cambodia, a report released by the World Wildlife <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dams-climate-plague-mekong/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ms Sam On, 37, has already lost her house. It was one of three homes razed in april by Kratie provincial military police, environment officials and workers of the Sovannvuthy rubber company, after a tense stand-off with about 100 villagers that villagers said ended with <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mass-evictions-loom-for-wildlife-sanctuary/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

LAST week mArked the ArrivAl And pAssing of 12/12/12, the CAmbodiAn government’s originAl dAte for the commencement of oil extrAction from the Block A oilfields in the Gulf of ThAilAnd, with no Activity on the site. Chevron currently holds A 30 per cent interest in the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/government-offshore-oil-block-deAdline-pAsses/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

For a long time, Cambodia’s national carrier Cambodia angkor air (Caa) served only as a feeder carrier to its shareholder Vietnam airlines. Three lines were then in service on routes linking Phnom Penh to Siem Reap, Phnom Penh-Ho Chi Minh City and finally Siem Reap-HCMC. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-angkor-air-expands-its-international-network/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Import duties and limits, as well as rising wages in neighbouring countries, made Cambodia the second largest exporter of bicycles to the European Union after Taiwan, an industry newsletter reports. according to Bike-EU.com, which quoted data from Eurostat, Cambodia exported 519,389 units to EU countries between <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-peddling-bikes-in-eu/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

It’s no finalized yet as contracts still have to be signed, but it looks as if another bike maker from Taiwan is setting up shop in Cambodia. It will the 4th one which is to benefit from the duty and quota free status Cambodia made <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/another-taiwan-bike-maker-to-move-to-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Political tensions that remain unresolved in both Cambodia and Thailand could lead to more violence in both countries, analysts warn. Thailand is going through another spate of democratic reform, following demonstrations that forced Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to step down and call for new elections. Those elections <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thai-political-tension-has-effects-in-cambodia-analysts-say/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Italian sportswear brand Kappa and U.S.-based retail giant Walmart apparently source clothing from the latest addition to the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) list of low-compliance factories, according to a union leader at the factory who provided the branded tags from the clothing her members cut <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/global-brands-linked-to-latest-shamed-garment-factory/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian migrant workers at a tuna processing company in Thailand have had their passports confiscated by their employers and are effectively trapped in substandard work conditions, research released yesterday revealed. Non-profit research organisation Finnwatch said it had found a number of “problems” with working conditions at <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thai-factory-accused-of-abuses/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two years after Prime Minister Hun Sen broke ground on a Chinese-funded project to widen National Road 6a in order to expand its capacity as a major trade and tourism thoroughfare, life for the tens of thousands of families living along the 50-km stretch of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/life-as-living-nightmare-along-national-route-6a/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

It was a major event for Cambodia. Some 35 years after flying for the last time with a Boeing 707 from Phnom Penh to Paris, French national carrier air France-KLM was back to the Cambodian capital. The flight was first operated with an airbus a340-300, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/air-france-ceases-direct-cambodia-services/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>