Members of Cambodia’s apex bodies of the banking and microfinance industries have agreed to ease restrictions on loan repayments, reduce interest rates, as well as restructure loans for customers deemed to be significantly affected by the heavy rains and floods that have swept the Kingdom <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/key-lenders-agree-to-ease-loan-terms-for-flood-victims/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s garment industry continued to perform “solidly” through the first half of the year, allaying fears that recent minimum wage increases would cripple one of the country’s main economic engines, according to the latest figures released by the International Labor Organization (ILO). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-exports-still-solid-amid-raises-ilo/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

President of the Cambodian aquaculturist association (Caa) has requested that relevant ministries find a solution to the more than 20,000 tonnes of aquaculture fish left unsold as imports flood the market. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/20k-tonnes-of-fish-left-unsold/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Bar association of the Kingdom of Cambodia on Tuesday wrote to local rights group adhoc accusing its head of monitoring, Ny Chakrya, of flouting legal practice by ordering the NGO’s lawyers to hand over for examination all documents relating to cases they defend. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bar-association-accuses-rights-monitor-of-legal-interference/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The head of the National assembly’s legislation commission said he hoped to have a controversial draft union law passed “very soon” after the latest round of feedback from unions and employers during a public workshop at Parliament on Wednesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/controversial-union-law-set-for-final-review/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

reah Sihanouk provincial authorities have ordered a casino that operated in Sihanoukville shut down after it failed to renew its operating licence, local media reported yesterday.​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sihanoukville-casino-gambled-with-an-expired-licence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Garment Manufacturers association in Cambodia (GMaC) on april 19 urged buyers and stakeholders not to penalise its members for failing to honour pre-agreed delivery commitments during the ongoing lockdown measures imposed by the government. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-lobby-calls-for-understanding-as-lockdown-halts-production/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 23 April 2021, the AssociAtion of BAnks in CAmbodiA releAsed An Announcement on the normAl operAtion of bAnking And microfinAnce services in the Kingdom of CAmbodiA. Some microfinAnces And bAnking Agents in the lockdown AreAs Are Also in the operAtion of providing finAnciAl services <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/Announcements/Announcement-normAl-operAtion-of-bAnking-And-microfinAnce-services-in-the-kingdom-of-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade pact and the Cambodia-China Free Trade agreement (CCFTa) have given a boost to development of the fledgling e-commerce industry in Cambodia, experts said on Monday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rcep-ccfta-give-boost-to-e-commerce-development-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three free smartphone applications designed by Cambodian women to help reduce gender-based violence in the country were launched by The asia Foundation on Monday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/activists-launch-smartphone-apps-to-protect-women/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Commerce (MoC) encouraged investors and businessmen to invest in car factories, especially the electric vehicles (EVs) and reap benefits from the FTas that Cambodia has with many partners and the preferential tariffs received from developed countries. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-asks-investors-to-build-ev-production-plants/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Large payouts last year by local insurance companies to two garment factory owners and regional natural catastrophes have resulted in a huge hike in the cost of fire insurance for commercial premises in Cambodia, brokers said. Cambodia’s insurance industry paid out some $24 million in fire <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fire-insurance-costs-soar-for-garment-sector/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Recruitment agencies are pressing for an MoU on Cambodian domestic maids to be approved, saying it had been stuck at the Malaysian side for several months. They said the Cambodian government was ready to lift the ban imposed in 2011, but lamented that Malaysian authorities were <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/maid-agencies-want-deal-with-cambodia-approved/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Commerce is urging local and foreign businesses to register their trademarks in Cambodia via a new online system.Commerce Minister Pan Sorasak said the system will serve both the public and private sector and make it easier for organisations to protect their intellectual <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/online-trademarks-go-live/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Drought in many parts of Southeast asia may become even more frequent and intense if action is not taken now to build resilience, according to the latest joint study by the UN Economic and Social Commission for asia and the Pacific (Escap) and the association <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/un-asean-drought-in-region-may-intensify/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s strategic plan on garment, footwear and travel goods development 2021-2024 will attract more investment and contribute to sustainable development in the sector, Ith Samheng, minister for labour and vocational training, told Okhna Kong Sang, president of Garment Manufacturers association in Cambodia (GMaC) in Phnom <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-garments-footwear-and-travel-goods-strategic-plan-to-entice-investors-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A sAcked union officiAl At the TropicAnA CAsino And Resort in BeAnteAy MeAnchey province’s Poipet town sAid yesterdAy hundreds of workers would strike AgAin if he And A colleAgue were not reinstAted After negotiAtions on SundAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/strikes-could-resume-sAys-union-officiAl/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The government’s strategic measures and reforms helped Cambodia register remarkable export growth, the Ministry of Commerce said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-exports-surge-16-to-22-4b/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The President of the Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC), a leading organization representing the private sector in the Kingdom, has urged Malaysian investors and businessmen to invest in and do business with Cambodia to forge a stronger relationship between the two asean states. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/malaysian-businessmen-urged-to-invest-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Tuk-tuk, motorbike and taxi drivers were among hundreds of workers from Cambodia’s “informal economy” who called on the government yesterday to cap fuel prices at 4,000 riel ($1) per litre, amid claims that the current 5,000 riel price leaves them unable to cover any more <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/protesters-take-aim-at-prices/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>