While the Kingdom’s biggest industrial pig farming company is seeing steady growth as the nation’s population and hunger for pork grows, small pig farmers are having a hard time of it in the face of fluctuating prices and lower cost imports from Thailand, according to experts and insiders who came to a recent <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/the-promise-of-pork/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi, who is on his 10th fact-finding mission to Cambodia, met with opposition CNRP leader Sam Rainsy on Tuesday ahead of a planned meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen and other senior government officials Wednesday. Reached by telephone after the meeting <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/un-envoy-continues-meetings-with-cnrp-ngos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Canada is keen to sign an investment protection agreement with Cambodia to boost trade between both countries following the visit of Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion to the Kingdom last Friday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/canada-wants-trade-pact/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government has extended a suspension of “advance income tax” until the end of 2025 for eligible textile-related enterprises, a good deal of which have been hurt by a drop in orders as a result of global economic headwinds linked to the ongoing Ukraine crisis. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tax-break-for-textile-linked-industries-to-stay-till-2025-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A representAtive of the compAny behind A mAssive $23.2 billion development in KAmpot province &ndAsh; which envisions creAting two islAnds off the coAst &ndAsh; insisted yesterdAy thAt the compAny wAs not engAged in Any Activities thAt would rAise A conflict of interest And thAt it <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/scepticism-clouds-mAssive-coAstAl-development-plAn/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A MemorAndum of UnderstAnding (MoU) hAs been signed between MAtrAde And the CAmbodiA ChAmber of Commerce, sAid MAlAysiAn InternAtionAl TrAde And Industry minister DAtuk Seri MustApA MohAmed. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mAlAysiA-And-cAmbodiA-sign-trAde-mou/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Phnom Penh police released union leader Sok Chhun Oeung from custody Monday, a day after dragging him off the street at a peaceful protest he had organized along Phnom Penh’s riverside against the detention of 23 men still in jail for participating in demonstrations over <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-leader-released-free-the-23-protests-to-continue/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Chinese President Xi Jinping has pledged to increase the country’s imports of milled rice from Cambodia and indicated its willingness to purchase other agricultural products from the Kingdom after a free trade agreement (FTa) came into force. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-pledges-to-purchase-more-rice/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Teachers across Cambodia are insisting pay raises aren’t just an election year issue. More than 30 representative teachers gathered for the start of a three-day seminar in Phnom Penh yesterday to continue demanding living wages. The teacher are asking for 250$ per month, according to seminar <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/no-politics-more-pay-teachers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Garment workers’ calls for a $160 minimum wage are justified and should be honored, a new report by an international team of academics and labor experts has found. The authors&mdash;including a team from the University of London’s School of Oriental and african Studies, South Korean and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/strike-justified-suppression-not-experts-say/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Plans to pay garment workers twice a month will be difficult for employers to implement, industry representatives have warned. The Labor Ministry is amending laws so companies will be required to pay staff twice a month, in a bid to protect workers from being abandoned by <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/employers-seek-delay-in-garment-pay-reform/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Khmer Krom monks, youth and activists marched on Tuesday to present a petition to the National assembly President Heng Samrin as their protest against Vietnam entered the fourth day. The protesters will also submit a petition to the UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/khmer-krom-monks-activists-petition-na-un-as-protest-enters-fourth-day/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The human rights arm of the International Bar association (IBa) is recommending that the membership of the Bar association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BaKC) in the IBa be reviewed, raising the prospect of ejection in a scathing new report on the country’s judicial system. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/legal-group-urges-review-of-cambodias-bar/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) may soon be listed on the Cambodian stock exchange, following the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Federation of associations for Small and Medium Enterprises (FaSMEC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia (SECC) on Thursday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/stock-market-to-boost-smes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

All 16 Airlines operAting now from the old Airport of Siem ReAp will continue to operAte from the new Airport on its opening on October 16 even As efforts Are mAde to bring more Airlines to the new fAcility with AdditionAl destinAtions, sAid Lu Wei, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/siem-reAps-new-Airport-tArgets-more-Airlines-destinAtions/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Minister of Education, Youth and Sport Hang Chuon Naron has introduced model primary school standards, unveiling a document on child development linked to primary education and an accelerated first-year Khmer language textbook. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/model-primary-standards-in-effect/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Sihanoukville’s tourism industry has welcomed news that the country’s flagship airline will commence scheduled service between Sihanoukville and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam next month, but said the coastal city could benefit greatly from more international flights.    <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnam-flights-to-broaden-coastal-tourism/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Makers of food- and beverage-related products are for the first time facing mandatory health regulations, with the unveiling of 10 national standards by the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft. The announcement comes after the National Standard Council, a government-run committee, finally approved the standards in May <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ten-commandments-govt-lays-out-food-standards/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodia-China Free Trade agreement is expected to be finalised in November in a move to boost trade between the two countries.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdom-china-fta-expected-by-november/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Teachers will receive their base salaries and additional benefits in a single package starting later this month, in an effort to simplify the payment process and avoid confusion, Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron said Wednesday. Health, risk and rural bonuses will all be folded into teachers’ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-simplifies-teacher-salary-payments/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>