Police in Ratanakkiri deported two more Vietnamese nationals living illegally in the northern province last week, bringing the number of expulsions to 14 as the Ministry of Interior’s census of foreigners continues, police said. This year’s census—which is now complete in Ratanakkiri, according to officials href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/two-vietnamese-deported-as-census-continues/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Taiwan’s outbound property investments are likely to increase significantly in 2015 amid growing interest in overseas markets and a slowdown in the domestic market, an investment consulting firm in Taipei said Saturday. Taiwan’s property investors are also looking at opportunities in emerging markets, including Vietnam href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/taiwans-2015-overseas-property-investments-likely-to-grow-sharply/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The General Department of Taxation (GDT) will continue collecting the annual road tax on vehicles due at the end of last month until the end of the year, but will start cracking down on late payments on January 1, it announced. The taxes can be href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-to-crack-down-on-overdue-road-tax/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A Toyota SUV and the load of illegally logged luxury wood found inside it on Monday belong to the wife of a district police chief in Tbong Khmum province, according to local officials, who say they have no intention of taking action against the couple. “We href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-chief-admits-wife-is-timber-smuggler/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has not seen any case of H7N9 bird flu virus and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus, a senior health official said Monday. Speaking at a seminar on the awareness of H7N9 and MERS coronavirus, Dr. Ly Sovann, director of the health ministry’s communicable href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/no-signs-of-h7n9-flu-mers-coronavirus-identified-in-cambodia-health-official/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The new investment law will be more attractive and provide the Kingdom with better options to navigate the constantly evolving regional and global investment climate, according to Senate Third Committee chairman Mong Reththy.​ href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/senate-committee-passes-investment-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

KEAN SVAY, KANDAL PROVINCE, CAMBODIA — Five years ago, Lun Sam Ath took out a $12,000 loan to build a new wooden house and repay a previous loan that she had used to buy a motorbike. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodians-face-mounting-pain-from-microfinance-debt/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A group of 17 union leaders will demand $179.60 when they sit down for the latest round of negotiations this week to determine the minimum wage in the garment sector, which employs more than 600,000 Cambodians. The monthly minimum wage is currently $140. The new figure href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unions-will-negotiate-for-a-180-minimum-wage/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) has restarted a long-dormant dog breeding program it hopes will replenish its stock of explosive-sniffing canines as well as its dwindling coffers by selling them to others, including riot police. The first litter of six Malinois, a type of Belgian href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mine-action-center-resumes-breeding-dogs-as-fundraiser/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The third round of negotiation between Cambodia’s garment and footwear manufacturers and representatives of trade unions on minimum wage increase ended without result on Monday. The talk between the employers represented by Nang Sothy, co- chair of the Government-Private Working Group on Industrial Relations, and Ken href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-employers-trade-unions-fail-to-reach-agreement-on-pay-rise/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Lao National Assembly and the National Assembly of Cambodia have vowed to continue the exchange and mutual support between the two legislative bodies. The vow was made at a meeting held in Vientiane between the high-level parliamentary delegations led by the Lao National Assembly President Ms href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/laos-cambodia-enhance-legislative-cooperation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s northern railway line has been linked to Thailand at the border in Poipet City, officials said at a ceremony on Monday—although sections of track in Cambodia still need to be finished before trains can start running between the two countries. At a ceremony marking a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unfinished-railway-connected-to-thailand/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Mines and Energy is set to issue the country’s first commercial underground mining license to Indian company Mesco Gold in two weeks, despite opposition by residents of two villages concerned about compensation and environmental damage. The company plans to break ground on its href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/indian-mining-firm-prepares-to-dig-deep-in-ratanakiri/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The three-month voter registration period opened on Thursday, with Prime Minister Hun Sen telling reporters after enrolling at his local commune office that he hopes the new voter registry will put an end to post-election protests. After the July 2013 national election, the CNRP refused to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-hopes-days-of-post-election-protests-are-finished/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The government will meet this month to begin addressing concerns that the lack of regulation for the surrogacy trade could lead to a proliferation of brokers working in Cambodia and foreign couples traveling to the country to take advantage of their services. The Ministry of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/as-surrogacy-trade-grows-government-charts-course/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian labor unions this week lowered their demands for a 60 percent increase to the country’s $100 minimum wage, as talks loom next month on setting a new wage.Unions agreed to call for $150 a month during a meeting with officials from the Garment Manufacturers’ href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-labor-unions-lower-minimum-wage-demands/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Satellite images suggest tropical forests from the Amazon to the Philippines are disappearing at a far more rapid pace than previously thought, a University of Maryland team of forest researchers say. Tropical Asia showed the second largest increase in deforestation with 0.8 million hectares (about href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/satellite-data-suggests-forest-loss-is-accelerating/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

With security footage of elephants, clouded leopards and other wildlife caught on hidden cameras in Cambodia’s Eastern Plains flashing on a TV screen, Toby Eastoe of Conservation International noted that their cameras also catch other activity. Presenters ranging from anti-corruption advocates to health service workers href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/civil-society-tech-team-up/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Quarantine period has been extended to 21 days for Delta and Delta Plus variants, stressed Prime Minister Hun Sen in his statement on the current COVID-19 situation in Cambodia this morning. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/quarantine-period-to-be-extended-for-one-week-for-delta-variant/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...