A new study hAs determined thAt cost And spAce Are the biggest constrAints to setting up cAnteens in CAmbodiA’s gArment fActories. The findings were presented on MondAy night At A cocktAil pArty Attended by CAmbodiA’s former AmbAssAdor to the US, RolAnd Eng, the Swedish AmbAssAdor Anne <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/better-worker-food-needed-survey/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Workers at a garment factory in Kampong Speu province that supplies global retailer H&amp;M will return to work tomorrow, after more than 100 staff were hopitalised on Monday, following what they and union representatives described as a mass fainting incident. a spokesperson for H&amp;M’s headquarters in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/stories-vary-on-latest-mass-fainting-incident/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Garment Manufacturers association in Cambodia (GMaC) released a statement on Tuesday asking union leaders to halt protests and comply with the incoming law on seniority indemnity back pay. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gmac-calls-on-union-leaders-to-respect-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government is calling on international buyers to increase investment in the garment and footwear sector and to introduce new technologies to help modernise the industry, according to a senior official from the Ministry of Commerce (MoC). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-buyers-asked-to-bring-in-tech/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In engaging with external partners, aSEaN needs to maintain its Centrality, both in words and, in deeds, amid rising geopolitical competition among major powers while stressing the principles of openness, transparency, and inclusiveness. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-stresses-importance-of-asean-centrality-to-engagement-with-external-partners/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Around six people were Arrested outside the United StAtes EmbAssy in Phnom Penh yesterdAy for Attempting to stAge A smAll protest, but were releAsed lAter in the Afternoon After Agreeing to not demonstrAte AgAin without A City HAll permit. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/hAndful-of-protesters-Arrested-At-us-embAssy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A request from the Khmer VietnAmese AssociAtion for the Interior Ministry to delAy the relocAtion of VietnAmese fAmiles living on the Tonle SAp river in KAmpong ChhnAng province hAs been rejected. The KVA’s letter, submitted lAst week, Asked the ministry to intervene in the relocAtion of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/river-relocAtion-request-rejected/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Four trade unions on Tuesday demanded that Cambodia’s garment and footwear manufacturers raise the minimum wage of their workers and provide them with additional benefits, threatening a nationwide strike and demonstrations if they do not comply. In a joint letter to the Van Sou Ieng, president <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-unions-call-for-doubling-of-minimum-wage-for-factory-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Federation of associations of Small and Medium Enterprises of Cambodia (FaSMEC) is now pushing for the establishment of a special economic zone (SEZ) for small and medium sized Enterprises and is currently discussing such a move with the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/smes-seek-own-sez/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cheating on national grade nine and 12 exams &ndash; which has been rampant in the past &ndash; just got harder. The anti-Corruption Unit (aCU) announced yesterday that it will enlist the services of independent NGOs, civil society groups and private companies to monitor the more than <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/acu-tackles-exam-cheats/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Fugitive Thai politician Vatana asavahame, linked to management of the Poipet casino devastated by a deadly fire last week, received Cambodian citizenship in a 2008 royal decree, according to documents viewed by CamboJa. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thai-fugitive-linked-to-casino-fire-received-cambodian-citizenship-shares-business-ties-with-tycoon-ly-yong-phat/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ratanakkiri Provincial Court questioned two well-known human rights workers yesterday in an incitement lawsuit brought against them by a CPP commune chief, one of those questioned said. about 200 ethnic minority Tumpuon villagers, embroiled in a land dispute with the DM Group rubber company, protested <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rights-workers-questioned-by-court-on-incitement-charge/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia last year accounted for 24 percent of the overseas sales of Bacchus, an energy drink marketed by South Korea’s Dong-a ST, Korea IT Times reported Monday.  “By the year’s end, the company expects it would sell 100 million cans of Bacchus, about eight cans per <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sales-of-korean-energy-drink-explode-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Kratie provincial authorities met with more than 500 Pi Thnou commune families seeking a social land concession yesterday, making good on a promise made last week in order to get villagers to end their blocking of national road 6a. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kratie-villagers-seek-accord/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Kingdom’s securities firms have raised concerns about an impending regulation that they said may stunt growth in the country’s fledgling financial markets. The Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia is considering a regulation, or prakas, that will require all market participants to maintain a certain <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/firms-question-secc-prakas/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia was one of the few bright spots for the air cargo industry last year with a modest increase in year-on-year air freight shipments as other regions experienced weak growth due to the cooling global economy. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/air-freight-volume-bucks-global-slowdown/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia expects to benefit from additional management and development skills in waterways and ports as a member of the World association for Waterborne Transport Infrastructure (PIaNC), Ministry of Public Works and Transport secretary of state Eang Veng Sun said on Thursday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pianc-membership-set-to-make-splash-in-waterways/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport has condemned the use of fake high school certificates to sit for entrance exams for medical courses and called on the authorities to take legal action on those involved. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minister-decries-fake-high-school-docs-for-medical-entrance-exams/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

KOH KONG, Cambodia (aP) &mdash; Round a bend in Cambodia’s Tatai River and the virtual silence of a tropical idyll turns suddenly into an industrial nightmare. Lush jungle hills give way to a flotilla of dredgers operating 24 hours a day, scooping up sand and piling <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sand-for-singapores-growth-comes-at-environmental-cost-to-poorer-neighbors/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The slowdown of regional and global economies, especially in China, US dollar appreciation, unfavourable weather and global stock market speculation have plunged rubber prices, the association for Rubber Development in Cambodia said.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rubber-prices-sag-under-pressure/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>