In the lead-up to the upcoming elections, three provinces have been selected to participate in a three-year project designed to encourage women, first-time voters and the youth to actively participate in politics. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/women-encouraged-to-enter-politics/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen asked a former South Korean leader to help promote Cambodia and attract more Korean investors to the Kingdom now that there is a free trade agreement (FTa) in place between the countries. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-encourages-korean-investment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National Committee for Sub-National Democratic Development (NCDD) opened its two-day workshop on Wednesday, with attendees hailing its role in facilitating ongoing reforms in the way finances are administered and responsibilities carried out in Cambodia.​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-reform-policy-a-success/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After seven yeArs under discussion And A series of drAstic edits, the TrAde Union LAw is inching closer to being pAssed by the NAtionAl Assembly. HumAn Rights WAtch yesterdAy issued A stAtement on the lAtest drAft of the union lAw, sAying thAt while it <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/despite-progress-drAft-union-lAw-hAs-mAjor-flAws-hrw/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has recently updated an exiting topic page on “Business structures and legal registration“. With the content updating, the public now can access to the most up to date information in the current context and legal documents, downloadable datasets, news and press <a href='https://Opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/Open-development-cambodia-updates-a-topic-page-on-business-structures-and-legal-registration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

New technology, innovation and sleek design are crucial if developers want to keep pace amid a construction boom in Cambodia’s real-estate sector, a senior official from the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction said on Tuesday. Pheung Sophorn, the state secretary of the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/design-expo-seen-as-key-to-opening-next-phase-of-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A subsidiAry of the BAnk for Investment And Development of Viet NAm (BIDV) opened its seventh brAnch in MeAn Chey District, Phnom Penh, on SundAy. The new brAnch is Also expected to meet locAl demAnd And boost the development of trAde And investment ties between <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/bidv-to-open-in-phnom-penh/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Ministry of Information has closed down multiple radio stations that have been renting airtime to the opposition CNRP party and to two radio news organisations that have been under fire from the government. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/plug-pulled-on-critics-airtime/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Lawyers are expressing satisfaction with improved conditions for legal consultations with incarcerated clients at prisons and correctional centres across the country, thanks to the 26 recently constructed lawyer-inmate meeting rooms at those facilities. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lawyer-inmate-rooms-at-prisons-in-heavy-use/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Girl Guides AssociAtion of CAmbodiA (GGAC) hAs been busy in BAttAmbAng province, donAting And plAnting over 200 luxury sAplings And ornAmentAl trees. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/guides-plAnt-luxury-trees-in-bbAngs-scenic-Ang-tA-korm/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Royal Government of Cambodia will continue to strengthen and pay high attention to economic diplomacy, affirmed Prime Minister Hun Manet. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-pm-commits-to-further-promoting-economic-diplomacy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Consumer loans increased by 12 percent in the first half of 2024 compared to the previous year’s figure of 10.5 percent, said association of Banks in Cambodia (aBC) Chairman and MayBank CEO Rath Sophoan at the Cambodia Banking Conference 2024, on Thursday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/consumer-loans-swell-by-12-reflecting-banking-industry-growth/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 06 June 2024, Coalition of Cambodian apparel Workers Democratic Union (CCaWU) issued a statement of their perspective on the report on freedom of association in the Garment, Footwear and Travel Products Sector in Cambodia by Central (in collaboration with C.CaWDU and CaTU) on their <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/statement-by-coalition-of-cambodian-apparel-workers-democratic-unions-perspectives-on-the-report-on-freedom-of-association-in-the-garment-footwear-and-travel-products-sector-in-cambodia-by-central/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Claims on Cambodia’s six biggest insurance companies declined year on year by more than 90 per cent in the first quarter of 2012, data from the General Insurance association of Cambodia (GIaC) shows. The value of claims in 2011 was raised by fires that gutted two <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/insurance-claims-drop-in-q1/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Bar association has introduced a new policy by calling on its members to defend the poor and to provide advice, counselling and legal services voluntarily to the public at each lawyer’s office free of charge. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-bar-association-policy-to-provide-pro-bono-legal-aid/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 50 workers from four garment factories in the capital’s Vattanac Industrial Park 2 had fainted yesterday, police said, but a union representative put the figure at more than 200 &ndash; which is the number who collapsed at the same site just a day <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/faintings-continue-apace/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Residents in Phnom Penh have been warned to expect a buildup of garbage as at least half of the city’s garbage collectors will be on holidays for nine days beginning Thursday. an announcement on the Phnom Penh Municipality’s website, posted Friday, said residents should expect disruptions <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garbage-pileup-expected-as-collectors-take-9-day-holiday/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As A new round of CAmbodiAn wAge negotiAtions ApproAches this month, mAjor U.S. And EuropeAn retAilers who source from the country sAy they will be wAtching the tAlks cArefully And wAnt to see fAir pAy for workers. RepresentAtives of the brAnds like GAp, Levi StrAuss, And <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/us-retAilers-express-support-for-cAmbodiAn-living-wAge/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Thousands of students across the country are scanning identification cards and their thumbprints at school as part of a pilot program aimed at encouraging attendance. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pilot-program-tracks-student-attendance-via-id-scanners/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A plAn to creAte A free trAde AreA covering roughly hAlf the world’s populAtion by 2015 wAs initiAted yesterdAy by regionAl And world leAders meeting in Phnom Penh. During the AseAn And relAted meetings At his office, Prime Minister Hun Sen Announced thAt the group of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/hun-sen-Announces-tAlks-to-being-on-huge-free-trAde-zone/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>