Religious ceremonies and gatherings allowed to resume in Cambodia
The Ministry of Cults and Religious affairs has authorised the resumption of all religious ceremonies and gatherings in Cambodia <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/religious-ceremonies-and-gatherings-allowed-to-resume-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50969229/religious-ceremonies-and-gatherings-allowed-to-resume-in-cambodia/
Thailand seeks to reopen Tha Sen and Ban Nong Ian border checkpoints to boost trade with Cambodia
Thailand’s Commerce Ministry is aiming to speed up talks with Cambodia to reopen additional checkpoints with neighbouring Cambodia to boost trade between the two nations. . <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thailand-seeks-to-reopen-tha-sen-and-ban-nong-ian-border-checkpoints-to-boost-trade-with-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50971487/thailand-seeks-to-reopen-tha-sen-and-ban-nong-ian-border-checkpoints-to-boost-trade-with-cambodia/
Labour Ministry settles over 500 worker disputes
The Ministry of Labour reported that it has settled more than 800 labour disputes last year and more than 60 strikes across the country. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/labour-ministry-settles-over-500-worker-disputes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Taing Rinith
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501032621/labour-ministry-settles-over-500-worker-disputes/
Cambodia, US vow to expand cooperation to boost trade and investment
Cambodia and the United States are committed to further strengthening and expanding cooperation to increase trade and investment. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-us-vow-to-expand-cooperation-to-boost-trade-and-investment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501320028/cambodia-us-vow-to-expand-cooperation-to-boost-trade-and-investment/
Germany pledges over $60 million for economic development in Cambodia
The Federal Republic of Germany has pledged to provide approximately $66 million to Cambodia to support projects on socio-economic development. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/%e1%9e%a2%e1%9e%b6%e1%9e%9b%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%9b%e1%9e%ba%e1%9e%98%e1%9f%89%e1%9e%84%e1%9f%8b%e1%9e%9f%e1%9e%93%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%99%e1%9e%b6%e1%9e%95/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501379768/germany-pledges-over-60-million-for-economic-development-in-cambodia/
In China, nowhere to run
In yet another case of Cambodian women facing abuse in China, a 19-year-old told the Post yesterday that she has taken to living on the streets after the consulate in Shanghai refused to pay for her repatriation. Kim Sophea*, who claims she has been forced into marriage in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-china-nowhere-to-run/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sen David and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/china-nowhere-run
Cambodia attracts $1.39 bln investment in first 2 months of 2024
Cambodia approved fixed-asset investment projects worth $1.39 billion in the first two months of 2024, a significant rise of about 500 percent compared to the same period last year, a Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC)’s report said on Sunday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-attracts-1-39-bln-investment-in-first-2-months-of-2024/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501454423/cambodia-attracts-1-39-bln-investment-in-first-2-months-of-2024/
SEZ Shooting Victims Called for Questioning
The Svay Rieng Provincial Court has issued summonses to question three women who were allegedly shot by a government official during a protest at a special economic zone (SEZ) in February, a court official and the plaintiffs said yesterday. about 20 eyewitnesses have already been questioned <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sez-shooting-victims-called-for-questioning/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Russia pledges duty-free trade
Russia is set to approve duty- and quota-free imports for up to 3,000 Cambodian agricultural products, according to local government officials. a statement issued by Cambodia’s Ministry of Commerce on Friday states that Russia’s Minister for Economic Development, alexey Ulyukaev, agreed in principal to increase the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/russia-pledges-duty-free-trade-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Chan Muyhong and Charles Rollet
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/russia-pledges-duty-free-trade
Rules enforced: Municipality cracks down on public ads
Businesses in Phnom Penh have been ordered to dismantle signs and advertisements erected on public property without the permission of City Hall. In a letter sent to businesses on Wednesday and published on the city’s website yesterday, City Hall said companies found to have been flouting <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rules-enforced-municipality-cracks-down-on-public-ads/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rules-enforced-municipality-cracks-down-public-ads
More than 140 unexploded mortar rounds found at Pursat school
A fArmer prepAring A plot of lAnd for A vegetAble gArden found A cAche of unexploded 60mm mortAr rounds from the 1970s on the cAmpus of A secondAry school in PursAt province’s KAndieng district over the weekend. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/more-thAn-140-unexploded-mortAr-rounds-found-At-pursAt-school/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-140-unexploded-mortar-rounds-found-pursat-school
China dam discharges in Mekong
A lArge-scAle hydropower dAm in ChinA begAn releAsing A deluge of wAter from its overfilling reservoir on FridAy, leAving downstreAm neighbours to feAr imminent inundAtion. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/chinA-dAm-dischArges-in-mekong/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/china-dam-discharges-mekong
Civil and commercial litigation
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Since 1993, the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) has been working to reform the country’s legal framework, and in particular the application of justice, to provide a clear and fixed procedural system to ensure respect for individual rights and equality before the courts.1 In theory, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/civil-and-commercial-litigation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Journo, forest official allegedly beat logger
A locAl journAlist And A forestry officiAl were Arrested by militAry police in KrAtie province’s SAmbo district on FridAy night for Allegedly dischArging A weApon into the Air And beAting A mAn with A boAt oAr in An extortion bid gone Awry. According to district militAry <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/journo-forest-officiAl-Allegedly-beAt-logger/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
About 1,500 given jabs so far
Just under 1,500 people received the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine in Cambodia between Wednesday and Friday last week, according to a three-day report from the Ministry of Health. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/about-1500-given-jabs-so-far/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50813938/about-1500-given-jabs-so-far/
Workers to get gov’t subsidy
The government has opened its first phase of providing a subsidy to 275,747 workers from 513 factories involved in the manufacturing of garments, footwear and bags in Phnom Penh, Kandal province and Sihanoukville. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/workers-to-get-govt-subsidy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50879368/workers-to-get-govt-subsidy/
Cambodia’s total trade up 9% to $52 billion in 2022
Cambodia’s international trade in 2022 totalled more than $52 billion, a 9.2 percent year-on-year increase, while Cambodia’s exports jumped more than 16 percent. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-total-trade-up-9-to-52-billion-in-2022/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501217283/cambodias-total-trade-up-9-to-52-billion-in-2022/
Over 12 million domestic tourists recorded in first seven months
Cambodia has registered more than 12 million domestic tourists in the first seven months of this year, according to a report of the Ministry of Tourism released on Sunday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/over-12-million-domestic-tourists-recorded-in-first-seven-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501338834/over-12-million-domestic-tourists-recorded-in-first-seven-months/
Social accountability
![social-accountability-page](https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/SA-Slide-Slow-1-1-150x150.png)
Access to informAtion And open budgets plAy A cruciAl role in promoting good governAnce And sociAl AccountAbility in CAmbodiA. SociAl AccountAbility profile pAge wAs designed to provide informAtion on budget At the sub-nAtionAl level, sub-nAtionAl AdministrAtive, educAtion, And heAlthcAre services. ReAd more <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/fA_slide/hAppy-pchum-ben-dAy-2018/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Cambodia eyes science, engineering to achieve high-income status
Cambodia aims to achieve high-income status by 2050 through a rapid shift from traditional to more inclusive and sustainable growth, using science and engineering. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-eyes-science-engineering-to-achieve-high-income-status/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Adur Pradeep
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501288913/cambodia-eyes-science-engineering-to-achieve-high-income-status/