Though it has refused calls to open new channels for migrant workers to vote in upcoming elections, the National Election Committee (NEC) has sent a letter to all Cambodian embassies appealing for citizens living abroad to return home to register for next year’s polls. But as href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nec-tells-migrants-to-come-home-and-vote/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Labor passed all responsibility for foreign work permits today to E-Solutions (Cambodia) Co., leaving a multitude of unanswered questions about the private company that will process, produce and distribute the permits online. Ministry spokesman Heng Sour declined to answer questions about the company, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/private-firm-takes-over-responsibility-for-work-permits/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday he decided to choose environment protection, not to choose 30 billion U.S. dollar expected revenues from the exploitation of titanium ore in Southwestern Cambodia. “According to a feasibility study, titanium ore deposit in Chhiphat district in Koh Kong province href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-pm-vows-to-protect-environment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

About 3,000 Chinese in Huang clan from around the globe gathered here Wednesday to bridge closer ties among Huang families and to visit Cambodia’s attractive tourism destinations. Speaking at the opening of the 11th World Huang Clan Convention 2nd Session, Cambodian Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/11th-world-huang-clan-convention-held-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Ol Sok Hour, a keen and promising student, had his life turned upside down two years ago when his parents died of AIDS. Yesterday, the NGO celebrated the launch of its Graduation House, a facility that will offer accommodation and support for orphaned tertiary students. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/university-dorm-for-orphans/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Council of Ministers this week announced two new spans across the Mekong River in the vicinity of the capital, one connecting the Chroy Changvar peninsula to Kandal’s Khsach Kandal district and another connecting Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district with Kandal’s Lvea Em. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-mekong-bridges-slated-for-phnom-penh/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Scientists warn that plans to build dams across Tonlé Sap, south-east Asia’s greatest lake, could be an ecological timebomb threatening the food security of millions. In a few months’ time, monsoon rains will more than quadruple the size of Cambodia’s Tonlé Sap, south-east Asia’s greatest lake href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/wonder-of-the-aquatic-world-under-threat-from-plans-for-mekong-dams/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

An Indian company planning to extract 500 tons of rock per day from beneath Pheak village in O Yadauv, Ratanakiri this year has promised locals, again, that their digging will have little effect on the mine’s surrounding forest and homes, and that they will replace href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-worry-despite-mining-company-promises/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

China Duty Free Group (CDFG) announced Monday that it has invested in a downtown duty free store in Cambodia’s cultural Siem Reap City and the store will be launched in December. “CDFG’s Cambodian subsidiary will firstly start its downtown duty free store of 4,500 square meters href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-firm-to-open-1st-duty-free-store-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has approved 211 Japanese investment projects worth about $3.14 billion to invest in Cambodia as of July 2021, according to a CDC’s press release. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/council-for-the-development-of-cambodia-approves-211-japanese-investment-projects/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Approximately 49 families living in Chamrang point, Keo Phos commune, Preah Sihanouk province, who have land dispute with Mr. Cheam Phen, the owner of Leo Beer again continue to call on Prime Minister Hun Sen to urge his subordinates to cut 352 hectares of farmland href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/49-families-in-land-dispute-with-cheam-phen-continue-to-ask-for-the-intervention-of-the-prime-minister/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) projected that Cambodia will have a very low inflationary rate to 3.5 per cent this year, which is 0.1 per cent below the goverment’s new revision but 0.5 per cent higher than the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Cambodia’s government in August also revised inflation href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/inflation-low-in-2012-imf/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The World Bank on Monday stuck to its prediction made in April that the country’s economy would continue to cool off slowly over the next few years and said China’s own slowdown would send only modest ripples through Cambodia.     href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/world-bank-says-cambodia-will-weather-china-slowdown/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s economy is expected to grow by 6.7 percent in 2013 thanks to anticipating increases in agriculture, foreign direct investment (FDI) and tourism, the World Bank said in its latest outlook Wednesday. “The growth is based on achieving the dividends from focus on higher rice href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-economy-to-grow-by-6-7-this-year-wb/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and visiting U.S. President Barack Obama met here on Monday to discuss a number of issues including old debt, human rights, democracy and forced evictions in Cambodia, a senior Cambodian official said. Hun Sen also raised the issue of old href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-u-s-leaders-hold-talks-on-old-debt-human-rights/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A giant traditional sticky rice cake weighing two tons, the largest num ansorm ever made, was unveiled at the Angkor Wat temple complex in Siem Reap province yesterday as visitors flocked to the area to mark Khmer New Year. Visitor numbers for the three-day holiday href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/khmer-new-year-tourism-up-in-siem-reap/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

National police officials yesterday said that all vehicle owners will soon be required to purchase insurance for their vehicles. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/motorists-face-insurance-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Retail prices for gasoline have gradually increased by approximately 5 percent since December last year, raising concern from motorists. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gasoline-retail-prices-creep-up-in-country/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s family has amassed a “vast fortune”, with stakes in at least 114 domestic companies spanning most of the Kingdom’s key sectors, including major energy, telecoms, mining and trading firms, according to an investigation by Global Witness, which accuses the Hun href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/inside-the-hun-familys-business-empire/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Public Relations Department of Thailand is developing cooperation with Cambodia in exchanging news and information. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/public-relations-department-thailand-cooperating-with-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...