Cambodia has one of the youngest and fastest-growing populations in Southeast Asia, with a population of approximately 16 million in 2019.1 According to the World Bank, the country’s birth rate per 1,000 people decreased slightly, from 25.5 in 2010 to 22.4 in 2018.2 With economic growth href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/profiles/access-to-public-service/civil-status/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Civil StatusCambodia has one of the youngest and fastest-growing populations in Southeast Asia, with a population of approximately 16 million in 2019.17 According to the World Bank, the country’s birth rate per 1,000 people decreased slightly, from 25.5 in 2010 to 22.4 in 2018.18 With economic href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/social-accountability/civil-status/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The National Committee for Disaster Management was preparing to ensure end-of-season floods did not compound the woes caused by months of drought, officials said yesterday. To minimise the effects of flooding, the NCDM had sent a request to the Council of Ministers for 16,000 tonnes of food and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/disaster-management-officials-prep-for-floods/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The next two stocks to be listed on the Cambodia Securities Exchange will probably be Taiwan-owned garment factories, according to market insiders. The news comes as the lone listed stock on the Cambodia Securities Exchange declined slightly in value during the past month, dropping from an href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/two-factories-hope-to-list-on-csx/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A large North American union has called on US retail giant Walmart to take immediate action against one of its seafood suppliers in Thailand accused of holding Cambodian workers in debt bondage while barely providing them with enough money to eat. The United Food and Commercial Workers href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/walmart-intervention-sought-at-thai-factory/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The number of foreign owners of houses in Cambodia has soared in recent years after the government permitted foreigners to have rights over owning real estate in the Kingdom, according to officials of the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction. Speaking at the opening of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/foreigners-entering-the-condo-market-in-phnom-penh/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Despite interest in participating in the stock market, confusion as to how and where to invest in the Cambodia Securities Exchange still persists among many Cambodians without close ties to or backgrounds in trading. After the much-anticipated and long-delayed launch of CSX trading last week, Soun Sokret, an href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/stocks-still-an-unknown-for-many-cambodians/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Am Phalla sits outside the factory gates of apparel maker Shen Zhou (Cambodia) Co. Ltd., sharing a lunch of rice, vegetables and fried fish with coworkers. She has been sewing clothes at Shen Zhou for a little less than a year, but is unaware that the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-is-adidas-exploiting-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The value of deposits with Cambodia’s 31 microfinance institutions grew more than 96 per cent in the first nine months of the year compared to last year, a rise industry experts say is due to the political stability and economic growth of the Kingdom. Official data href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mfi-deposits-seen-growing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s nephew Hun To has emphatically denied all allegations published by Australian newspaper The Age about his involvement in a heroin-trafficking and money-laundering syndicate targeting Australia. Hun To, whose wife and children reside in Melbourne, Australia, told the Post yesterday that he plans href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/drug-connection-denied/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia representative for the world’s largest shipping company said exports from Cambodia to Europe grew by more than 60 per cent during 2011, but have since weakened. “Rice exports grew a lot during 2011 and a lot of it went to Poland and France,” href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/maersk-sees-a-slowing-eu/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Major hotels are under the microscope after a labour rights group found that some have been failing to pass their entire service charge on to their staff, a violation of the Labour Law. Dave Welsh, country manager of the American Center for International Labor Solidarity(ACILS), said yesterday href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/scrutiny-over-hotel-service-fees-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Sen will be opening the 44th ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting and related meetings will kick off August 27 in Siem Reap, the centre of Khmer culture and civilization in Cambodia, and will run to September 1, according to the Ministry of Commerce. The meeting href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/growth-to-be-focus-of-asean-economic-summit/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Danish brewer Carlsberg has vowed to improve the working conditions of Angkor and Carlsberg beer promoters in Cambodia as it tries to stamp out coerced workplace drinking. The company announced late last week it had joined forces with the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/carlsberg-promises-support/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Prey Lang Community Network, which works to protect Cambodian forests, has been selected by UNDP for an Equator Prize, for outstanding community organizing. In an interview with VOA Khmer, the group’s spokesman, Seng Sok Heng, says the government is “inactive” in protecting Cambodian forests, some href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/environmental-group-says-inactive-government-has-failed-its-forests/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A new inter-ministry prakas is planned that controls and ensures the safety of bus passengers using the Kingdom’s growing bus network, and may include monitoring the behaviour of drivers and companies prior to granting licences, Cambodian officials said. Bus companies are now controlled by Ministry of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-moves-to-create-bus-monitoring-prakas/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Toll Royal Railway signed an agreement yesterday afternoon with companies that will supply locomotives and parts for Cambodia’s railway network. As a result of the agreement, international tenders will be called in the coming months for the procurement of up to four new 2,000-horsepower locomotives and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/train-supply-agreement-signed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia could benefit more from trade in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) by implementing time and cost, cutting measures and removing constraints on exports, according to a new book by the Asian Development Bank. During a media briefing yesterday, Brimble [senior country economist and author of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/possible-benefits-for-cambodia-in-mekong-region-trade/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia entrepreneurs faced considerable problems when it came to obeying tax laws and other regulations, officials at a seminar about that very subject said yesterday. The VDB Loi company organised the seminar on “New Practices and Preferential Trade Rules” with the co-operation of the General Department of Customs and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/businesses-know-little-of-the-letter-of-the-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 NGOs and human rights groups yesterday urged foreign donors to flag issues regarding land policies, democratic processes and human rights during today’s Government-Development Partner Coordinating Committee (GDCC) meeting.   Intended as a preparatory meeting for Cambodia’s main government and donor summit, the GDCC is generally href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ahead-of-aid-meet-ngos-urge-reform/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...