A group of union leaders, factory owners and government representatives set up to negotiate a recommendation for a new minimum wage in the garment sector is due to meet Wednesday for a vote on a final figure, according to those involved in the talks. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/working-group-minimum-wage-vote-due-wednesday/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Two protesters and three factory officials were injured in a clash at a garment factory in Kampong Speu province yesterday as a report revealed that more than 60 unionists and workers were injured in such incidents in 2012. Vann Bun, a Free Trade Union activist, said href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/factory-clash-has-familiar-feel/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Australian green energy company Star 8 has designed a solar-powered tuk-tuk and is in the process of building a factory in Cambodia to make the vehicles, according to a report in Australian newspaper The Age. The vehicles’ makers said the tuk-tuks will cost between A$2,000 (US$1,865) href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tuk-tuks-to-be-solar-powered/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A Phnom Penh municipal judge is expected to announce a verdict this morning for six people arrested in connection with a September clash at the Kbal Thnal overpass, a week after the verdict was originally expected. Authorities took the six men into custody at the overpass href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/verdict-due-today-for-kbal-thnal-six/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) held its first consultation meeting with the private sector on Friday over a proposed new anti-corruption guidebook, encouraging firms to police themselves in the absence of any official regulation. According to Om Yentieng, head of the ACU, the new Guide on Anti href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/biz-guided-to-end-corruption/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia Bayon Airlines will soon import two Modern Ark 60 aircrafts from the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), with plans to begin domestic flights before the end of the year, a company representative said yesterday. Bayon will sign an agreement with AVIC on Thursday href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-airline-gets-closer-to-launch/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The body of a 100-kilogram Irrawaddy dolphin from Cambodia was found dead in Vietnamese territory and repatriated to its home waters yesterday, officials said. Im Phat, deputy chief of the Fishery Administration in Takeo province’s Angkor Borei district, said two endangered freshwater Irrawaddy dolphins – fewer href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dolphin-found-dead-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh government is planning to take action against illegal petrol stations around the city, and has counted 205 of them so far. Chreang Sophan, Phnom Penh deputy governor, said at the opening of a Total station in Tuol Kork district on Monday that the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/city-hits-brakes-on-illegal-gas/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

After winning the World’s Best Rice Award for two years running at the World Rice Conference, Cambodia has been selected to host this year’s annual event. The World Rice Conference is a networking event that brings together rice industry professionals from all over the world. Initiated href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-to-host-rice-event/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Information Minister Khieu Kanharith this week launched a marketing campaign titled “Get Your Sexy Back,” aimed at promoting a culture of moderate alcohol consumption among young people by linking excessive drinking to a loss of sexual attractiveness. Launched on Monday and presided over by the long-serving href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/information-minister-launches-get-your-sexy-back-campaign/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The names of lawmakers selected to head five new opposition-led commissions in the National Assembly have been officially announced to Cambodia National Rescue Party members, a senior party official told the Post yesterday. According to the CNRP official, who asked to remain anonymous, of the five href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/opposition-commission-heads-leaked/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Driven by garment and improved agricultural export markets, Cambodia has bucked the wider trend of slowing Southeast Asian economies, according to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). ESCAP’s semi-annual Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific, published href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-economy-bucks-regional-trend/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

With security footage of elephants, clouded leopards and other wildlife caught on hidden cameras in Cambodia’s Eastern Plains flashing on a TV screen, Toby Eastoe of Conservation International noted that their cameras also catch other activity. Presenters ranging from anti-corruption advocates to health service workers href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/civil-society-tech-team-up/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Hidden at the end of a pathway that breaks off from Mao Tse Tung Boulevard in Phnom Penh is a temple of a different kind, where seances are sacrosant and French writer Victor Hugo – author of Les Miserables – is considered a saint. Worshippers there practise Caodaism, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sanctuary-from-the-storm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A group of NGOs yesterday called for more detailed information on national budgets to be made public before their approval, maintaining that the public had a right to know about and comment on the expenditures that would ultimately affect their day-to-day lives. Tek Vannara, director of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngos-call-for-open-budget-process/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Military police in Mondolkiri province say they are searching for a guard working for a local rubber company who allegedly injured three villagers Saturday when he fired a bullet in their direction that ricocheted off a rock, prompting questions about the firm’s use of armed href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rubber-firm-guard-sought-over-shooting/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Four Cambodian garment workers were slightly injured on Tuesday after part of the floor in a garment factory collapsed into a pond built underneath, a local police chief confirmed. The incident occurred at 10:00 a.m. (local time) at Nishiku Enterprise in Bati district of southern Takeo href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-factory-floor-collapse-injures-4-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Forestry Administration said yesterday that forestry crime, mostly timber and wildlife, has increased 19 percent in 2020 compared to the same period in 2019. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/slight-increase-in-2020-forest-crime-cases/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The crisis in Myanmar has proven beneficial for Kampong Speu as at least 20 entities have relocated to this province. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/up-to-20-myanmar-enterprises-are-reportedly-relocating-to-kampong-speu-province/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Floods over the past four months in the Kingdom affected more than 45,000 families across 17 provinces, the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) said. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/floods-affected-45000-families-in-17-provinces/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...