Cambodia’s embassy in Malaysia yesterday denied pressuring domestic workers from the Kingdom into renewing their visas, after rights groups told the Post last week that the embassy exploited a legal loophole to keep maids in the country. The statement came as a Malaysian employers association, which has observed the drafting href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/embassy-defends-handling-of-maids/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The number of ships coming through the port rose 17 percent year to year, and cruise ships rose from 25 to 36. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/exports-through-port-rise-nearly-10-percent-from-2014/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Election observers are urging the National Election Committee to move quickly on updates to the voter registry, as commune elections in 2017 approach. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/election-monitors-say-voter-registry-is-an-urgent-priority/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Rice millers in Battambang province are seeing red due to an erratic power supply affecting their production and causing them to lose money. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/erratic-power-supply-irks-millers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

In a joint statement, civil society and labor leaders urged the government to accept changes to the law as they continue to discuss it. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/labor-leaders-call-for-more-discussion-on-union-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The vice president of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari will pay an official three-day visit to Cambodia next week. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vice-president-of-india-to-pay-official-visit-next-week/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Insurance industry insiders are urging the government and development partners to set up and support a policy of subsidising insurance in the agricultural sector. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/push-on-for-farm-insurance/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Thousands of employees from two Taiwanese-owned factories continued striking for better working conditions yesterday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/protests-in-city-province-keep-going/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

 A Cambodian court charged two men for trying to smuggle 23 people into Thailand to work, a report said Monday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/2-charged-for-trafficking-cambodians/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday that the government is studying the possibility to purchase petroleum for a stockpile as global oil price is going down. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-weighs-oil-stockpile-as-global-price-nosedives-pm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Mobile payment company Wing was in talks on partnering with a US technology firm that plans to assemble Android tablets in Cambodia, in what could be another step away from the country’s staple manufactured good – garments. Although a final partnership agreement had yet to made href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/talks-on-for-cambodian-tablet/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Some questions remain about whether hydro dams on the upper Mekong River in China exacerbated conditions during Cambodia’s devastating drought of 2010, environmental groups say, as China’s dam program powers ahead. When the first power-generating unit was switched on last month at China’s giant 262-metre tall href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/questions-over-china-dams/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia must tackle the skills gap to boost the productivity of its labor force in order to grow its economy, according to the latest report. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/skills-gap-remains-an-impediment-to-growth-new-report-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Justice Minister has urged court officials to work independently, responsibly and ethically to strengthen the judicial system and improve public trust of the judiciary. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minister-seeks-courts-reform/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Eighteen Cambodian migrant workers were repatriated from Malaysia this week after being cheated by brokers to work abroad illegally, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said yesterday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/workers-repatriated-from-malaysia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) will open a museum on finance and monetary matters in January 2018, a representative of the central bank has announced. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nbcs-currency-museum-to-launch-in-january/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A senior Australian military official yesterday said he was hopeful that counter-terrorism exercises would resume with Cambodia next year, after they were cancelled this year. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/australia-confident-military-exercises-to-resume/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia and China on Monday signed an agreement toward establishing a Cambodia- China Technology Transfer Center, aiming to utilize science and technology for socio-economic development, officials said. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-china-to-jointly-establish-technology-transfer-center/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh City Hall has set its sights on the many pawn shops in the city, ordering police to check that each shop has proper registration papers. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pawn-shops-face-crackdown/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of unexploded landmines and cluster munitions were found in Battambang and Kampong Cham provinces on Monday, according to an official from the Cambodian Mine Action Centre. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/double-trove-of-wartime-explosives-unearthed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...