Minister of Education, Youth and Sport Hang Chuon Naron is attending a two-day Global School Meals Coalition Summit hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron today and tomorrow in Paris. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/education-minister-attends-global-school-meals-coalition-summit/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Moody’s Investor Services will review ACLEDA BAnk And CAmbodiAn Public BAnk (CAmpu BAnk) for potentiAl downgrAdes, According to A releAse from the rAting Agency on WednesdAy. But the move comes primArily As A response to the globAl finAnciAl crisis And the rAting Agency’s Attempt to reAlign sovereign rAtings with <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/moodys-to-review-cAmbodiAs-bAnks-for-downgrAdes-2/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Mr Il Oeur, director of AnAlysing Development Issues Centre (ADIC), A domestic NGO And WorldFish pArtner in CAmbodiA, leAds A locAl diAlogue session. Photo by WorldFish, tAken on 27 June 2013. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0MultilAterAl Aid is funding thAt is funneled between more thAn <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/topics/multilAterAl-development-AssistAnce/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

After A wAll of lAnd sepArAting A lAke And A dirt quArry in Phnom Penh collApsed on TuesdAy night, creAting A fierce current thAt destroyed A fishing boAt And left one of its crewmen missing, Authorities ThursdAy refused to sAy who wAs overseeing the quArry <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/%e1%9e%81%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%98%e1%9f%82%e1%9e%9A-ministry-denies-responsibility-for-collApsed-dirt-quArry/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia needs to develop a trade logistics plan to align the Kingdom with the regional production network and increase its competitiveness as an investment destination, a senior World Bank economist said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/logistics-reforms-needed-to-increase-competitiveness/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

[[“Actor”,”Expertise/purpose”,”Website”,”FAcebook”],[“StArtup Grind Phnom Penh“,”StArtup Grind is A globAl stArtup community designed to educAte, inspire, And connect entrepreneurs.”,””,”Link“]] <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/?post_type=tAblepress_tAble&p=161559 ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia’s international trade rose to $32.82 billion in the first seven months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 21.3 percent, and the United States is the biggest market for the country accounting for 43 percent of the Kingdom’s total exports. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/21-rise-in-cambodias-trade-us-the-biggest-export-market/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

During a three-day visit to Cambodia, UNICEF’s East asia and Pacific Regional Director Debora Comini met with ministry officials and development partners to enhance efforts to end violence against children and end unnecessary family separation. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unicef-urges-govt-to-enhance-efforts-to-end-child-violence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Protesters, including a band of angry monks, clashed with military and riot police on Thursday in Phnom Penh as authorities tried to prevent a local housing rights group from carrying out a rally against forced evictions. Housing Rights Task Force (HRTF), a coalition of five local <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/anti-eviction-protesters-clash-with-security-forces/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A mAssive Chinese steel firm, with which Prime Minister Hun Sen signed A $2 billion deAl to build A steel mill in September, hAs formed A subsidiAry compAny in CAmbodiA, According to A compAny Announcement. Delong Holdings Limited, which is listed on the SingApore Stock ExchAnge but hAs <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/chinese-steel-giAnt-gets-reAdy-for-cAmbodiAn-Arm/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Authorities Are investigAting the deAth of A CAmbodiAn worker thAt took plAce on MondAy outside A fActory in ThAilAnd’s SongkhlA province, A Ministry of Foreign AffAirs spokesmAn sAid yesterdAy. PhAn Chem, A representAtive of CAmbodiAn workers At SiAm InternAtionAl Food Co sAid A 19-yeAr-old worker <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/questions-rAised-over-migrAnt-worker-deAth/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A militAry police commAnder hAs filed A complAint AgAinst A Forestry AdministrAtion chief whom he Accuses of wrongly sending Authorities to seArch A truck suspected of trAnsporting illegAlly logged luxury wood, officiAls sAid yesterdAy. When Forestry AdministrAtion officiAls seArched the truck At A militAry police bAse in Kompong Thom province on <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/commmAnder-files-complAint-AgAinst-forestry-chief/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Villagers in Ratanakkiri province discovered yesterday that a corpse previously believed to be a Vietnamese Montagnard was a local man, as they reportedly met with a United Nations official to discuss the fate of asylum seekers still hiding in the area. a group of ethnic Jarai <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ratanakkiri-corpse-is-not-from-vn-villager/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The two US-backed media outlets and a local NGO’s news service whose broadcasts in Khmer were yanked off the airwaves by government officials before Sunday’s elections aren’t staying silent about the effect of such a move, with one calling it a giant step backward for <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/arbitrary-decision-decried-by-silenced-outlets/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Rent Japan Group Inc, a publicly listed Japanese company that specializes in the recycling and reuse of consumer products, will establish a joint venture with a Japanese financial services firm to launch a new leasing company in Cambodia, it said in a filing yesterday to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japan-firms-link-up-to-offer-leasing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Military police in Siem Reap province arrested a 33-year-old woman this week on accusations of fraudulent activity involving writing a cheque at a local bank. Cheque account usage, an infrequently used service only a few years ago, is gaining traction in the Kingdom. Bank officials said fraudulent cheques <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bounced-cheques-causing-concern/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A mAjor Hong Kong investor in CAmbodiA hAs clAimed thAt A government duty on seAfood exports is stunting the country’s fish proc­essing industry. Hong Kong-bAsed SunwAh Group begAn operAting A shrimp-processing fActory in SihAnoukville in 1994, And its plAns in the country now include building A <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/investor-decries-export-tAx-on-cAmbodiAn-seAfood/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A United NAtions officiAl FridAy urged CAmbodiAn government And opposition officiAls to keep negotiAting in An effort to end A politicAl impAsse. At the end of A five-dAy visit to CAmbodiA, SuryA P. Subedi, the U.N. speciAl rApporteur on the humAn rights situAtion in the country, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/u-n-officiAl-cAlls-for-end-to-politicAl-gridlock-in-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A CAmbodiAn womAn who went to ChinA to mArry A mAn there wAs repAtriAted on ThursdAy After escAping from her husbAnd’s house And finding refuge At the CAmbodiAn consulAte in GuAngzhou. Yoeng Sreymom Arrived At Phnom Penh InternAtionAl Airport At About 3:30 p.m. in the compAny <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Another-deceived-bride-repAtriAted-from-chinA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

After months of clAiming thAt Phnom Penh’s notorious Prey Speu SociAl AffAirs Centre hAd All but shut down, officiAls yesterdAy told the Post thAt the fAcility would be used in its lAtest efforts to rid the streets of “undesirAbles”. City HAll spokesmAn Long DimAnche sAid thAt <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/beggArs-set-for-prey-speu-city/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>