The government last week approved the construction of a hydroelectric dam and supplemental solar power stations with a total electrical capacity of 220MW, as the Kingdom continues battling a national electricity shortage. according to Prime Minister Hun Sen, Cambodia is currently facing a 400MW power <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hydrodam-solar-power-stations-are-approved/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After the Ministry of LAbour denied A food service union officiAl registrAtion, A union officiAl is crying foul, Asserting thAt Authorities Are discriminAting AgAinst her group &ndAsh; A chArge the government denies. The CAmbodiAn Food And Service Worker FederAtion (CFSWF), A 4,000-member union representing workers in <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/no-union-for-workers-in-food-biz/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A new report on illegAl logging in CAmbodiA’s northeAstern forests portrAys A single compAny with essentiAlly A monopoly on the illicit trAde. Tek VAnnArA, executive director of NGO Forum, sAid the report could be A tool to find A solution to combAt deforestAtion. “We <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/in-northeAst-one-compAny-controls-neArly-All-illegAl-logging-report/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A blAze Authorities hAve Attributed to A forest fire ripped through A neArly 4,000-cubic-metre timber stockpile on A sociAl lAnd concession in PreAh ViheAr’s Kulen district on the weekend, Although the compAny yesterdAy sAid it suspected A cAse of Arson. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/preAh-viheAr-blAze-rAzes-timber/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Shanghai-listed Guangzhou Yuetai Group will purchase $49.2 million in assets in Cambodia by buying a 45 percent stake in a local property development firm and a 19 percent stake in a Cambodian import-export company, the company said in a filing yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-firm-snaps-up-49-2m-in-local-assets/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A five-month protest Aimed At A Phnom Penh bus compAny cAme to An end on ThursdAy when SoryA TrAnsportAtion CompAny reinstAted three of 17 drivers it fired in April. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/soryA-bus-hullAbAloo-At-An-end/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A group of nine MontAgnArd Asylum seekers hiding out in RAtAnAkkiri province hAd A close brush with lAw enforcement officiAls yesterdAy, even As A new group of the VietnAmese ethnic minority crossed the border into CAmbodiA, A rights group And A villAger helping the hiding <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/montAgnArds-flee-rkiri-police-sAid/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A defrocked monk who wAs hAnded A one-yeAr jAil sentence for obstructing officiAls during A wAve of Arrests of Activists And opposition figures in Phnom Penh lAst yeAr wAs on WednesdAy questioned over An AdditionAl chArge of “joining A criminAl AssociAtion,” A humAn rights monitor <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/jAiled-ex-monk-questioned-over-third-chArge/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

With the province being the second largest economic hub in Cambodia, the Preah Sihanouk Provincial administration has put in place a number of plans to support the socio-economic and tourism sectors for quality and sustainable growth. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/preah-sihanouk-provincial-administration-to-support-sustainable-growth-of-various-sectors/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The remote village of Sre Veal Koet, Cambodia, lies at the end of a dusty road 36 kilometers (approx. 22 miles) from the nearest health center. The road isn’t always dusty; in the rainy season, it becomes deep mud. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/traditional-birth-attendants-watch-over-mothers-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Minister of Education, Youth and Sport Hang Chuon Naron is attending a two-day Global School Meals Coalition Summit hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron today and tomorrow in Paris. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/education-minister-attends-global-school-meals-coalition-summit/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Moody’s Investor Services will review ACLEDA BAnk And CAmbodiAn Public BAnk (CAmpu BAnk) for potentiAl downgrAdes, According to A releAse from the rAting Agency on WednesdAy. But the move comes primArily As A response to the globAl finAnciAl crisis And the rAting Agency’s Attempt to reAlign sovereign rAtings with <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/moodys-to-review-cAmbodiAs-bAnks-for-downgrAdes-2/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

After A wAll of lAnd sepArAting A lAke And A dirt quArry in Phnom Penh collApsed on TuesdAy night, creAting A fierce current thAt destroyed A fishing boAt And left one of its crewmen missing, Authorities ThursdAy refused to sAy who wAs overseeing the quArry <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/%e1%9e%81%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%98%e1%9f%82%e1%9e%9A-ministry-denies-responsibility-for-collApsed-dirt-quArry/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia needs to develop a trade logistics plan to align the Kingdom with the regional production network and increase its competitiveness as an investment destination, a senior World Bank economist said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/logistics-reforms-needed-to-increase-competitiveness/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s international trade rose to $32.82 billion in the first seven months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 21.3 percent, and the United States is the biggest market for the country accounting for 43 percent of the Kingdom’s total exports. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/21-rise-in-cambodias-trade-us-the-biggest-export-market/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

During a three-day visit to Cambodia, UNICEF’s East asia and Pacific Regional Director Debora Comini met with ministry officials and development partners to enhance efforts to end violence against children and end unnecessary family separation. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unicef-urges-govt-to-enhance-efforts-to-end-child-violence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Protesters, including a band of angry monks, clashed with military and riot police on Thursday in Phnom Penh as authorities tried to prevent a local housing rights group from carrying out a rally against forced evictions. Housing Rights Task Force (HRTF), a coalition of five local <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/anti-eviction-protesters-clash-with-security-forces/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A mAssive Chinese steel firm, with which Prime Minister Hun Sen signed A $2 billion deAl to build A steel mill in September, hAs formed A subsidiAry compAny in CAmbodiA, According to A compAny Announcement. Delong Holdings Limited, which is listed on the SingApore Stock ExchAnge but hAs <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/chinese-steel-giAnt-gets-reAdy-for-cAmbodiAn-Arm/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Authorities Are investigAting the deAth of A CAmbodiAn worker thAt took plAce on MondAy outside A fActory in ThAilAnd’s SongkhlA province, A Ministry of Foreign AffAirs spokesmAn sAid yesterdAy. PhAn Chem, A representAtive of CAmbodiAn workers At SiAm InternAtionAl Food Co sAid A 19-yeAr-old worker <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/questions-rAised-over-migrAnt-worker-deAth/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A militAry police commAnder hAs filed A complAint AgAinst A Forestry AdministrAtion chief whom he Accuses of wrongly sending Authorities to seArch A truck suspected of trAnsporting illegAlly logged luxury wood, officiAls sAid yesterdAy. When Forestry AdministrAtion officiAls seArched the truck At A militAry police bAse in Kompong Thom province on <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/commmAnder-files-complAint-AgAinst-forestry-chief/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>